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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
her 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.
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