Gentlemen, Another cerebral Nigerian, Gimba Kakanda took Mr Navigator OBJ to the slaughter slab and slit his throat.
ITS A MUST READ!!!
An Appeal to Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, By Gimba Kakanda
January 23, 2015
Dear Sir,
I don’t know where, and how really, to begin this without coming out as yet another cultural dissident.
For once, perhaps because of my recognition of your heightened illusion of patriotism, the temptation to ask an elder to shut up, is no longer resistible.
I want, dear Sir, for the sake of everything sane, and also for the sake of your old age, to beg you to desist from ridiculing the intelligence the pawns of this political chessboard we call a nation.
This country may be a haven of chastised criminals, with too many boisterous opportunists, emergency heroes, uncomplicated underclass and sycophantic middle-class, but we’re not entirely stupid.
I follow your self-initiated deification these days, and how an amnesic nation embraces yours as expressions of genuine intention, but memories of your days in power persist:
We have not forgotten the electoral malpractices that returned you to power in 2003,
And, having failed in your Third Term bid, you prevailed in bringing the late Umaru Musa Yar’adua to power in 2007;
We have not forgotten the failed promises that characterised your administration, including giving up a false hope of redeeming our power problem, especially with that unnecessary gimmick of $16 Billion electricity scheme;
We have not forgotten, also, the Halliburton scandals which really indicts,
The PTDF and Transcorp scams,
And all the dubious economic reforms and privatisations designed to loot the nation.
Can you, my dear sir, explain now how Abacha’s recovered loots were expended for the development of this nation? And how much, exactly, was recovered?
There was neither transparency nor evidence that Abacha’s billions were judiciously used.
Also, what did you do in reforming the Ministry of Petroleum Resources and related agencies, in which the biggest of the nation’s Oil scams continue to be carried out?
Too many questions, and these are just from a single citizen. Others may have more to ask!
ITS A MUST READ!!!
An Appeal to Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, By Gimba Kakanda
January 23, 2015
Dear Sir,
I don’t know where, and how really, to begin this without coming out as yet another cultural dissident.
For once, perhaps because of my recognition of your heightened illusion of patriotism, the temptation to ask an elder to shut up, is no longer resistible.
I want, dear Sir, for the sake of everything sane, and also for the sake of your old age, to beg you to desist from ridiculing the intelligence the pawns of this political chessboard we call a nation.
This country may be a haven of chastised criminals, with too many boisterous opportunists, emergency heroes, uncomplicated underclass and sycophantic middle-class, but we’re not entirely stupid.
I follow your self-initiated deification these days, and how an amnesic nation embraces yours as expressions of genuine intention, but memories of your days in power persist:
We have not forgotten the electoral malpractices that returned you to power in 2003,
And, having failed in your Third Term bid, you prevailed in bringing the late Umaru Musa Yar’adua to power in 2007;
We have not forgotten the failed promises that characterised your administration, including giving up a false hope of redeeming our power problem, especially with that unnecessary gimmick of $16 Billion electricity scheme;
We have not forgotten, also, the Halliburton scandals which really indicts,
The PTDF and Transcorp scams,
And all the dubious economic reforms and privatisations designed to loot the nation.
Can you, my dear sir, explain now how Abacha’s recovered loots were expended for the development of this nation? And how much, exactly, was recovered?
There was neither transparency nor evidence that Abacha’s billions were judiciously used.
Also, what did you do in reforming the Ministry of Petroleum Resources and related agencies, in which the biggest of the nation’s Oil scams continue to be carried out?
Too many questions, and these are just from a single citizen. Others may have more to ask!
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