THESE ABSURDITIES CALLED PERFORMANCE - 1

It has been said that “when real initiatives are not present, politicians result to absurdities.” It is a common practice that when an individual has been long in an ailment, any drug brought to such is quickly taken with the highest hope of getting relieves from such. It is also not uncommon that when an individual has been hard hit by poverty, the least monetary note or even coin given comes as a saviour even if such can not provide one decent meal. Likewise, when a people had witnessed years of deprivation and impoverishments, their rights are quickly turned to privileges by any unthinking moron-turned hero.

By the way, I think the problem with governance really is the fact that governance is being reduced to the level of politics. The people in government need to know that governance is service. Governance is not gerrymandering. Politics should stop as soon as elections are won, and the elected need to busy themselves with services to the electorate (within and outside their parties). Invariably, it is the service or lack of it that will determine whether the people in power deserved to continue in power or whether they should be changed.

The above scenarios are not untrue of the past thirty-nine months of Dr. John Kayode Fayemi’s administration in Ekiti State. They have been months of intelligentsia absurdities by which the Doctor of war and his team have repeatedly insulted the intelligence of the people of the “Fountain of Wisdom.” Painfully, these affronts have gone unchallenged by the people of the state. Let us look at each of these absurdities, one after the other, that ignorant people celebrate as achievements, most of which were designed to hoodwink the populace.

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EMPLOYMENT

The outgoing administration boasts of having created thirty-eight thousand employment opportunities since its inception. The question is: what sort of employments? How gainful, reliable and dependable are the said employments? It is unfortunate that in a state that boasts of the best brains among the most populous African nation, Nigeria, an executive will make people redundant, whilst paying them, and call that employment.

What we have seen so far is duplicity of the Federal government establishments such the Traffic wardens (popularly known in Ekiti state as “Dagrin”), the Nigerian Police Force, and so on. Graduates who are engaged by the state government to control traffics and those enlisted into their “Peace Corps”, an unrecognized replica of the Nigerian Police, are being paid #10,000 a month. It must be on record that none of the said employments have any securities because (1) they have not been gazette by the state government and (2) none of the "employed" has been given any letter of appointment; hence, any successive government can easily do away with them. 

These were perfectly done while the state government converted the age-long Textile Industry into lock-up shops, most of which are not being presently used by anybody. Conversely, if the thinking of the government had been right, and the Textile Industry revived, it could have employed close to three thousand graduates if not more. Governor Aregbesola of the state of Osun never inherited any Textile Industry, but today, Osun has a functional garment factory that has absorbed about three thousand of their unemployed youths. Let me add that the Osun garment factory was coincidentally commissioned on the day Dr. Fayemi of Ekiti state distributed vehicles worth over One Billion naira (#1Bn) to Obas (traditional rulers) in Ekiti state while the youth remained unemployed or at best, frivolously employed.

Let it be known that this is the first government in Ekiti state that collected one thousand naira (#1,000) from her unemployed youths in order to employ them into the Civil service. It must be noted that out of almost eight thousand (8,000) eligible applicants, only seven hundred and fifty (750) were called for oral interview. As at the time this piece is being written, none has been given the said employment.

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ROAD CONSTRUCTION

Much of the noise of this administration has been about roads. It needs to be clarified that these roads are just being re-surfaced by this administration. It must be said that Fayemi’s administration, since inception, has not constructed any road in Ekiti State (save a 1.2 km road from Old garage through Ojumose to Atikankan in Ado Ekiti). All the roads being deceitfully exhibited on television stations by Fayemi and his cronies are roads constructed by the duo of Ayo Fayose and Segun Oni’s administrations respectively. In fact, the credit of opening up Ekiti state in terms of road projects must go to Ayo Fayose. It is not wrong to build on past administration’s achievements because government is continuous. However, it becomes an absurd when other people’s achievements are over-flogged as one’s. All the dual carriages within Ado Ekiti, the state capital were constructed by the Ayo Fayose’s administration.

Part of the absurdities is the Oye – Otun road - as a case study. No part of the road which is being celebrated by Mr. Governor and his boys has a sustainable drainage system save the few meters’ drainage within Iye; even, Isan, the governor’s town has no drainage, and sound is taking over parts of the road; thereby causing accidents. While I will not mention that the narrow bridge over River Ero (just after Ikun) was left unattended to, some parts of this road are already sinking (just three years on), and the part left undone at the boundary of Oye and Ilejemeje local governments has become the den of armed robbers. Apart from this boundary between Oye and Ilejemeje local governments, a very good part of the road remain as they were before Fayemi’s administration. I implore the public to travel through the road for more instructions.

Still on road construction, questions need to be asked on how much was expended on how many kilometers of road. A situation whereby, for example, a 1.2 kilometer road costs over a billion naira is highly questionable. It must be borne in mind that what we are looking at is road resurfacing, not construction.

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To be continued tomorrow. . . 

DO YOU KNOW MICHAEL OPEYEMI BAMIDELE (MOB)? - 2

MOB

How did the once upon a time a beautiful bride of Ekiti politics, Honourable Michael Opeyemi Bamidele, MOB, suddenly become a “traitor” and a bad person? How did a true “omo-oko” suddenly become a typical “omo-ale”? Is it because he asked for what rightfully belongs to us all? I have read many beautifully crafted lies about MOB; many of which I found so hard to swallow. Like I said before, it is a personal tragedy to attempt to define somebody when one can not even identify oneself, albeit properly.

Do you know MOB? I’m afraid many Ekiti people will answer this question in the affirmative, but if asked to exemplify their claims, they would falter, no doubt. Let me say, like I said in the part one of this piece that the name, Michael Opeyemi Bamidele, and the face can be duplicated and carried by many people, thereby, giving a false impression of who MOB really is. For this reason therefore, I have chosen to know the man, Michael Opeyemi Bamidele, through his deeds (which can not be replicated, but built upon) during his sojourn in Lagos State administration.

It is only a snake that passes over a rock and leaves no traces. MOB went outside this state to the commercial nerve-centre of Nigeria and proved himself. My dearest brothers and sisters of Ekiti descent, I didn’t know MOB until I went to watch an FA Cup final between Heartland FC and Eyimba FC at the long-abandoned and derelict Teslim Balogun Stadium located at Surulere, Lagos. The magical turn-around of the abandoned edifice, the installation of the state-of-the-art sporting equipments and facilities and the beautification of the entire stadium are second-to-none. The derelict-turned edifice is what Lagos state government will guide jealously for generations to come. For this, MOB received a number of accolades. The most outstanding of these accolades and awards was the award given him by the family of Teslim “Thunder” Balogun in May 2007 as an “appreciation award for your ceaseless efforts in the completion of Teslim Balogun Stadium.”

                                                                        

Besides, MOB’s contributions to sports development in Lagos state by way of resuscitating grassroots sports, innovation and stimulation of private sector participation in sports sponsorship, establishments of coaching clinics for coaches and secondary schools’ games’ masters and the rejuvenation of Lagos state sports festival are just a few of MOB’s monumental achievements which will be the benchmark for people that would occupy the office of the Commissioner for Youth, Sports and Social Development in the future in Lagos state.

 I do not have the telephone number of any of the present Ekiti state executive council members, not even the commissioner from my noble town, but I have all of those of Lagos state. That is an innovation of MOB to re-define governance and give it a human face. With this innovation, Lagosians are able to reach their representatives, even the state governor; at any time they so choose, thus making the government really closer to the people.

It was during MOB’s era that Lagos State Television went on DSTV and the Radio Lagos launched on cyberspace, heralding the possibility of a worldwide audience.  Unlike our own EKTV whose signal is not received in most part of Ekiti state, these innovation ensures that both Radio Lagos and the age-long LTV are received in all parts of Lagos state as well as outside the state and even outside the shores of Nigeria. This kind of intellectual innovation, apart from ensuring that vital information reaches the people and contribute to in no small measure to the development of the entertainment industry which provided employment for thousands of youth, it also has its own way of immensely impacting positively on the social and economic well-being of the state; thus contributing to the financial fortunes of both the state and her inhabitants.

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Before the coming of Opeyemi Bamidele, Lagosians just go out in the morning not knowing where there was heavy traffic or not. It was MOB who established a dedicated Lagos Traffic Radio which gives the traffic report and situation all over Lagos state, every minute. With that innovation, the days of unnecessarily running into heavy traffic, either in the morning or evening has become a thing of the past except if one chooses to.

In Lagos state today, one does not need to search for ages before one could get information of whatever kind about the state. This has been facilitated by the establishment of Lagos State Records and Archives Bureau (LASRAB). LASRAB house is in Magodo, Lagos state. The essence of this kind of an innovation is seen in the gargantuan service it portends to render to researchers from any part of the world that may require one information or the other about the state. Likewise, this kind of a work ensures that the state’s history can not be lost. For this project, my people, MOB was recognized via an award called LASRAB AWARD in 2011 “in recognition of his contributions to the development of records and archives in Lagos state.”

                                                                           

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All these and many more that ‘am not able to mention here for space and time are what MOB did even as the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, during which he also functioned as the Chief Image-maker of the state.

There are too many things to say about this enigma. In fact, twenty episodes of this kind of a write-up will never be enough to chronicle his past numerous achievements. Ekiti needs a thinking, God-fearing workaholic, industrious and sincere person to captain the ship of this state.

                                                           
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DO YOU KNOW HON. MICHAEL OPEYEMI BAMIDELE (MOB)?

It is a tragic irony that people who do not even know their own stories will attempt to tell another person’s. Such dastardly acts results in nothing but a gross and regrettable misrepresentation of the personality being discussed. This has been the anomaly that had pervaded the Ekiti political atmosphere since Honourable Michael Opeyemi Bamidele declared his avowed intention to run for the highest political office in Ekiti state.

The workers of mischief, the scoundrels of the blackest dye, behind the political orchestra trying to malign MOB’S image are doing so for no other reason, but because the enigma, MOB, demanded true internal democratic cultures within the echelons of the APC which the handlers of the party did not want. So, they set their boys to ensure the bastardization of MOB’s personality. However, who will be against him, with whom the Lord had pitched His tent with?

                                                 HON. MICHAEL OPEYEMI BAMIDELE

Every human on earth is easily identified using three distinct parameters: name, face and deeds (personal or deeds done by the individual in collaboration with others). Talking about individual names, the fact is obvious that scores of people (even from different ethnic origins) could bear same name without any difference. Human faces are not different as many people have the same face and resemble one another. It therefore holds that these two parameters, name and face, are just not enough to identify individuals. Unfortunately, most analysts, since the MOB/JKF saga, have been using these two to tell MOB’s story.

It is tragically unfortunate that Ekiti is characterized with the inability to appreciate their own. Rather, we are very apt at derogating, denigrating and condemning our own at the slightest opportunity. MOB’s personality has been variously smeared and disparaged even by scoundrels of the darkest dye. It is saddening that a man who helped build Lagos during both Tinubu and Fashola’s administration to the extent that the state won various international accolades could be so hated by a section of his own people to the extent that even the people of that state can not but wonder what the matter is with us, the Ekitis.

I may not be able to say, but I wouldn’t know if there is any among all the four contenders to the governorship seat of Ekiti state that has MOB’s credentials before getting to or aspiring to get to the seat. Let us therefore, identify a dynamic and resourceful achiever, who has been severally celebrated outside the shores of Ekiti state.

I will not speak about MOB’s days both as the PRO of the “GREAT IFE” Students’ Union Government and his exploits as the National President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) during which he led the entire Nigerian students to fight to a standstill, the draconian military government of that era. I will not mention also, MOB’s activities in the NADECO days in Nigeria’s quest for the democracy which we are now all enjoying. It is on record that MOB was unjustly incarcerated, and without trial because of his activities in various pro-democracy groups by the military juntas. Telling all these will only help us to appreciate the fact that the man, MOB, had contributed immensely not only to the actualization of democracy, but also to the socio-political emancipation of this entity, called Nigeria. MOB has therefore paid his dues as a TRUE DEMOCRAT AND A SOCIAL CRUSADER AND ENGINEER OF NO LITTLE MIEN.

EKITI KETE O, “ka a ao ba ki un ni, i i, se la ki i un ao pada.” Meet me in the part two to this piece that endeavours to chronicle MOB’s achievements in his political journey so far.

Alale Ekiti a gbe a kete. Ase.

Let's meet tomorrow as we continue to chronicle the past achievements of MOB in our bid to know him, whom God has chosen, to lead Ekiti to the next level.

WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA?

As we celebrate our centenary birthday as a nation, I consider it highly expedient that we reflect on our national life in this one hundred years’ journey as a country. After one hundred years, no water, no light, no good hospitals, no good roads, no work, no good schools, in fact, with the recent condemnable dastardly actions of the Boko Haram insurgents, the country is almost non-existent! While many people had because of all these said that Nigeria is moving towards the status of a failed state, many others had concluded that Nigeria is already, a failed state.

Nigeria, the most populous of the black nations has gone through much turbulence since her independence on October 1^st, 1960. Arguably the most blessed of all African nations by whatever measure, no aspect of her national life has justified the Mother Nature's benevolence to her by bequeathing her with more than abundant natural blessings. From human capital development to infrastructural provisions, the national impropriety is too transparent to be hidden from even the blindest man on the street.

I have read and listened to many commentators and their commentaries by which they blame the British for our national woes. The argument had always been that the amalgamation of the Southern and Northern Protectorates done in 1914 was the genesis of Nigerian calamities. Those who belong to this school of thought argued that Lord Luggard and his wife, by that arrangement had encouraged an “unholy marriage”, and that is why Nigeria is not settled. They argued further that by that “marriage”, the British successfully imposed the Northerners on the other parts of the country.

People who argued along this line strongly believed that the northerners are the most backward of all the regions in the country. It is therefore argued that there is no way the Northerners could be the ones dictating the pace of events in the land. The Southerners, especially the South-westerners who are generally adjudged the most advanced in almost all areas of human endeavours do found it a bitter pill to swallow for them to depend on or take orders from the Northerners. The power tussle has been hellish, and during most general elections, hell was let loose because of either perceived or real malpractice by any section of the country to favour a particular party which does not enjoy much patronage in that part of the country. The mayhems of the ‘60s and early ‘80s are living testimonies.

Another school of thought that dwelt on why Nigeria is fraught with so much national upheavals opined that Nigeria is too big to be only one country. They argued that ordinarily, and even according to the map of Nigeria, there are three distinct countries in this only one called, Nigeria. People of this school of thought are always very quick to conclude that until Nigeria makes way for, at least, three different smaller nations, which they considered more homogeneous, there would be neither peace nor national growth or development in the country.

The people of this latter school of thought believed that the reason the country is having difficulties is managerial inefficiency. They strongly believed that the country is too large to manage; it must therefore break up into smaller units which they consider manageable.

The external orientation of what the British did or did not do has continued to generate controversies that have hampered national development in no small measure. South Africa, a country that got their independence from the same British, thirty years (1990) after Nigeria got hers is today recognized as the most advanced of all African countries. Ghana, another African country that was also a British colony is not also doing badly, though after some problems, too. Power failure is almost non-existent now in Ghana, unlike Nigeria, where it had remained a daily dosage which many parts of the country can not do without. Of these two countries in question, none is as naturally endowed as Nigeria.

As a person, I have failed to see the evil in the 1914 amalgamation. My position really is hinged on the fact that both South Africa and Ghana mentioned above have almost the same national characteristic as Nigeria. They are multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-religious, and multi-whatever you can think of. For example, the language in South Africa is so diverse to the extent that they have seven official languages.

To the proponents and students of the second school of thought, I have been very quick to point out and mention a few countries that are much larger than Nigeria, and despite both their population and or land mass, are making serious progress in their national lives. Examples of such countries include India, China, the United States of America, to mention but a few.

So, what is the problem with Nigeria?