Nigeria: Goodbye to Decency?
by Blessed Isi Momodu
The enclave
called Nigeria has become a wonderland of sort. A lot of strange
happenings occur that make one questions the humanity of the present
gang of looters led by Obasanjo. On the 6th of September,
IBB used his so called daughter’s wedding to launch his political
campaign. All his errand boys both military and civilian were fighting
to be noticed by this unfortunate human being. A show of shame called
Award of national honours to well known looters of Nigerian oil money
including Mr. Babangida, Tafa Balogun, Tony Anenih etc on the 16th of
December betray how mentally deranged Obasanjo and his henchmen have
become. I would not have questioned OBJ’s mental fitness to preside
over Nigerian affairs if the award ceremony had been truly christened
A REWARD ceremony for the various roles played by these known leeches
in bringing and sustaining him in power.
After OBJ was
released from prison, the military establishment after due
consultation with their backers in London and Washington sent IBB to
persuade OBJ to hold Nigeria in tact for them. This he did but not
without striking a deal that he would like to come back again. IBB
soon deployed part of his looted money to impose OBJ on us all. The
rest is now history. Obasanjo using the name of Nigeria deceitfully to
reward his mentor called IBB not only insults our collective
sensibility but on one hand, it shows OBJ’s open anointment of
Babangida as his next successor honouring his openly secret part of
the deal and on the other hand the reward ceremony confirms the long
known Babangida’s doctrine of military rogues calling the shorts in
Nigeria. I refer readers to my article:
IBB’s Agenda for Nigeria.
I feel really
sad that this man called Obasanjo was allowed deliberately or
inadvertently by the masses of Nigeria to manage the product of our
collective struggle against military dictatorship. How come Babangida,
a coup plotter whose regime via a parcel bomb killed renowned
Journalist Dele Giwa, who defiantly insulted Nigerians by his refusal
to appear before Oputa panel, the man who ran the Nigerian economy
aground via IMF/World Bank policies of structural adjustment programme
SAP, the man whose only credit it was to democratise the collective
looting of Nigerian oil money amongst his class allies is rewarded by
Obasanjo whose pretence as a Christian has long been exposed several
times?
Adding insult
to injury as the old saying goes, Tafa Balogun, the current chairman
of police looting department, whose penchant for corrupt practices was
chronicled by a Nigerian newspaper much to the chagrin of Nigerians
was rewarded for changing electoral results in the massively rigged
2003 (s)election process.
My heart
bleeds for Nigeria because it is my motherland. I have no other place
I am so used to as Nigeria. I might be thousands of kilometers away
but electronic democracy called internet keeps me abreadst with
happenings both in my immediate family and the larger society almost
on a daily basis. This brings me to the man called Anenih who
coincidentally is also an Esan man. Ordnarily, Tony Anenih is not
qualified for any decent award but he has been rewarded several times
for being a good errand boy for the military establishment as a
political Thug. He took this thuggery to the Presidency as seen by the
many battles between OBJ, Atiku and Na Aba’s house of representative.
His closeness to the military establishment gives him undue advantage
in stealing ballot boxes or changing electoral figures. In the second
republic when the political climate was a little beat more decent,
Tony Anenih could not enter Esan land without police escort based on
his nauseating antipeople’s politics. His dismal failure as minister
of Works was even confirmed by his boss OBJ. In a free and fair
electoral contest, starting from Esan, Tony Anenih can not defeat
Anthony Enahoro whose track record of decent and people oriented
politics is as bright as the noon day. His act of political thuggery
and intimidation is currently tearing the Edo State House of Assembly
apart. Let me also use this opportunity to air my view on another
irritating character called Stella Obasanjo. If I had not known the
father, a well respected Esan man, a former chairman of UAC nig ltd, I
would have thought that she has some Asian and not even European blood
in her. I have nothing against her wish to Michael Jackson herself if
she were a private, obscured Nigerian but that she is supposedly
married to alleged Christian President and being paraded in her
bleached colour on television screens and in the churches as First
lady and role model shows that decency in Nigeria has been thrown to
the dogs. The health hazards of such beauty operations are often
concealed from Patients. Currently, in Germany, some women who
enlarged their breast with hitherto unknown carcinogenic substance are
being called to come and remove these enlargements free of charge.
This is a warning to those Africans who are lured by the likes of
Stella into europeanising themselves.
The Nigerian
military has imposed a social system on us which they called democracy
to operate on a federal basis hence they often say, Federal republic
of Nigeria, Haba! What kind of deception is this? Is it not a unitary
system of government they are operating with a constitution to match?
The military and their selected civilian counterpart craftily wrote
rules and regulations for looting Nigerian oil money and christened it
a constitution with an obnoxious preamble “….we the people of
Nigeria…”.
A sovereign
national conference is a desideratum to restructuring the Nigerian
entity to avert a future cataclysm that will have profound
consequences for the sub Saharan region. Until this is done, in the
contemporary Nigeria, it is Good Bye to Decency. . [back
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