Much ado about Ifeanyi Okowa’s critics (II)
Continued from last Friday
OKOWA’S predecessor gave many air-conditioned buses and cars to transporters across the state but some politicians hijacked them for personal use. It is a financial burden if these beneficiaries are not paying back as stipulated. If they fail to pay, it is a disaster because you cannot run government on charity. There are many ailing state industries that are comatose in place of elephantic projects that have no economic relevance, there are many projects undone in place of few showcased ones, hence Okowa should be supported in his determination to restore values. When Alhaji Ibrahim Waziri of Great Nigerian People’s Party (GNPP) in the second republic preached the gospel of “politics without bitterness” he never knew he had Okowa’s Delta in mind, political contest or disagreements are not warfare.
We should move from this impotent barrenness to fertile womb where our diversity becomes our strength. Many strive on treachery and blackmail, Okowa cannot please these robotic goons at the expense of the people, we cannot live under ethnic clowns and chameleonic sycophants that Okowa’s critics employ. Few days as Governor, he made the executive office property of Deltans who can assess; communicate with him as when it was before he became Governor, this was rare. Okowa inherited many problems and as a woman hides her grey hair under artificial weaves, lipstick on lips, artificial finger nails, eye latches and lens to improve beauty, surgery on hips, while there is rot within, Okowa’s critics want him to continue in this deception that leads nowhere and blame him later for incompetence. His body language shows redemption, service and what we can give to our state rather than what we can get.
Corruption is endemic in our society; it is contagious because we deify it. Some traditional rulers scorn men of virtue to confer chieftaincy titles on political and social infidels for material rewards. Some preachers prefer prosperity in filth to poverty in clean hands, to build cathedrals that lack spirituality. The judiciary is infected with judges without conscience, as some olicemen are known for extortion and compromising investigations.
From the mothers that encourage their daughters to hawk their anatomic features to a political greedy pig is the chain of stench that drains our existence. We are all contaminated that Okowa must fumigate the state. The state belongs to all its sections; we should understand our differences to move on. This is how to create prosperity for our people in unity, identity of purpose.
•Concluded
•Abugo wrote from Uzere, Isoko South Local Council of Delta State.
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2 Comments
Thanks Mr. Abugo; but a bigger thanks to The Guardian and its editors for publishing the truth which some influential persons won’t like to hear or read.
Former Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State would have been a role model in administration and governance if he did not compromise dishonesty, laxity and ethnicity exhibited by most of his advisers and cabinet members. Perhaps, the state has the largest number of ghost workers in the country, largely encouraged by the system; a state where most of the out-gone commissioners spend major parts of their working hours in London, Abuja and Lagos as encouraged by the system; a place where uncompleted projects are certified done by project supervisors also as encouraged by the system; a place where public employments are for sale. No one who knew the system quite well expected Governor Okowa to continue such rot.
But attacking him for stating the obvious in his Brief to the State’s House of Assembly must not be allowed to intimidate the focused governor. Delta State has three senatorial districts, all blessed with skilled and talented human resources. Governor Okowa is expected to harness such economic resources across the entire state. He is expected to discontinue the ethnicity which he inherited, block all the created economic frauds. Those who continue to remind him of the election case in the Tribunal must not be allowed to destroy the state and its enviable place in the economy of the country. well meaning Deltans expect that ‘Delta Beyond Oil’, which the saboteurs stopped Dr. Uduaghan from executing, must be pursued with vigour.
Thanks Mr. Abugo; but a bigger thanks to The Guardian and its editors
for publishing the truth which some influential persons won’t like to
hear or read.
Former Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State would
have been a role model in administration and governance if he did not
compromise dishonesty, laxity and ethnicity exhibited by most of his
advisers and cabinet members. Perhaps, the state has the largest number
of ghost workers in the country, largely encouraged by the system; a
state where most of the out-gone commissioners spent major parts of
their working hours in London, Abuja and Lagos as encouraged by the
system; a place where uncompleted projects are certified done by project
supervisors also as encouraged by the system; a place where public
employments are for sale. No one who knew the system quite well expected
Governor Okowa to continue such rot.
But attacking him for stating
the obvious in his Brief to the State’s House of Assembly must not be
allowed to intimidate the focused governor. Delta State has three
senatorial districts, all blessed with skilled and talented human
resources. Governor Okowa is expected to harness such economic resources
across the entire state. He is expected to discontinue the ethnicity
which he inherited, block all the created economic frauds. Those who
continue to remind him of the election case in the Tribunal must not be
allowed to destroy the state and its enviable place in the economy of
the country. Well meaning Deltans expect that ‘Delta Beyond Oil’, which
the saboteurs stopped Dr. Uduaghan from executing, must be pursued with
vigour.
We will review and take appropriate action.