RE: Stop this Death Penalty Talk - Osamede Edosomwan
Dr. Valentine Ojo
"If you are really serious about fixing Nigeria then let all the successful Nigerians in Diaspora go back home right now with a determined self appropriated mandate to fix the country and I guarantee you that it will be fixed faster than you can say “Let’s get it done.” However the fact remains that while a bunch of us are willing to talk the talk we are not on the other hand ready or willing to walk the walk." - Osamede Edosomwan osamedee...@yahoo.com
Mr. Osamede Edosomwan:
Easier said than done!
For one thing, many of us did just that in the 70's into the 80's, when we all still had some hope in Nigeria.
Most of us are back out again!
And things were still realtively sane then too.
Today:
1. Do you have jobs wating for the returnees?
2. For those who can self establish, how easy is the bureaucracy to do so?
3. Do you have decent affordable schools waiting for their children?
4. Do you have jobs waiting for their spouses?
5. Do you have affordable housing to accomodate them?
7. Do you have public transport for them to be able to move around?
8. Do you have steady electricity and portable water?
9. Do you guarantee relative security at home and on the road?
10. Do you have any health delivery...?
These and many more are among the important pragmatic things that factor into a decision of any sane human being, to move, or not to move - and not mere empty exhortations to a non-existent sense of patriotism or belonging.
"Imagine if you will; a country like England, Japan, France, Italy, Germany, India, Canada, or China for that matter",if they DID NOT have all of the above BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE in place, if their respective leaders merely LOOTED the national treasury to enrich themselves and their cronies rather than put those infrstructures in place, they too would "all be bereft of their brightest and biggest intellectual minds as functioning components of the everyday workings of their societies!"
And they coul indeed conceivably "be worse off than Nigeria currently is" today!
And that explains why, when it comes to Nigeria, "A vast majority of the biggest and the brightest minds of the Nigerian citizenry are currently not in the country and at the same time the remaining majority of the intellectual minds currently in the country are incessantly and vigorously trying to get out!"
Having said that, why don't you yourself lead by example, sir, and get on the plane tomorrow to join "people like [your] junior brother (Charles Uwensuyi-Edosomwan) and thousands of others like him who are currently in Nigeria at the moment keeping up the good fight and trying to fix the country even though they could be living in West like the rest of us, like philosophers in caves?"
Who or what is stopping you?
And will your return PUT AN END to the LOOTING?
Dr.Valentine Ojo
Tall Timbers, MD
On Sun 11/22/09 4:59 PM , Osamede Edosomwan osamedee...@yahoo.com sent:
Stop this Death Penalty Talk
This talk about a death penalty for the looting of the public treasury as a way of fixing the economic and social problems in Nigeria has to stop. It’s pepper soup bar pontification on matters that demand a more incisive and serious deliberation and delineation of thought. If I remember correctly there was a death penalty for armed robbery in Nigeria when I was a young lad growing in Benin City Nigeria and it didn’t corral the criminals perpetuating these heinous crimes on its citizens from doing so. I remember going back to Nigeria to visit in the late eighties after having been away from home for a long time and there was a death penalty for drug smuggling and it didn’t stop desperate Nigerians from still engaging in these criminal activities. If we really want to fix what is wrong with Nigeria, let’s all put our money where our mouth is. The fact is a great majority of us myself included do not want to do that. This is the reason that I admire people like my junior brother (Charles Uwensuyi-Edosomwan) and thousands of others like him who are currently in Nigeria at the moment keeping up the good fight and trying to fix the country even though they could be living in West like the rest of us, like philosophers in caves.
If you are really serious about fixing Nigeria then let all the successful Nigerians in Diaspora go back home right now with a determined self appropriated mandate to fix the country and I guarantee you that it will be fixed faster than you can say “Let’s get it done.” However the fact remains that while a bunch of us are willing to talk the talk we are not on the other hand ready or willing to walk the walk. The problem with Nigeria is a matter of intellectual and moral bankruptcy. The intellectual presence is more pervasive because were it to exert its self on the society, the moral inadequacies will disappear in submission to the dominance of its superior intellectual counterpart. A vast majority of the biggest and the brightest minds of the Nigerian citizenry are currently not in the country and at the same time the remaining majority of the intellectual minds currently in the country are incessantly and vigorously trying to get out. That in my humble opinion is the problem with Nigeria in a nutshell.
The problem with Nigeria cannot be fixed by executing criminals or corrupt bureaucrats and politicians. It can only be fixed by the dawning of an age of enlightenment just like the one that happened in Europe hundreds of years ago which subsequently took it out of its dark ages and brought it into global world dominance. It is only in an event of the profuse occurrence of this guise of enlightenment; which can only be possible at the return to function of the full intellectual peak capacity of its esteemed citizenry, can the problem with Nigeria be fixed. Until then, Nigeria will continue to be a rudderless ship adrift in a vast ocean on its journey into the abyss. Imagine if you will; a country like England, Japan, France, Italy, Germany, India, Canada, or China for that matter, all bereft of their brightest and biggest intellectual minds as functioning components of the everyday workings of their societies, then tell me where they will be. I guarantee you that they will all be worse off than Nigeria currently is. This in my humble opinion is the current problem with Nigeria and executing criminals or corrupt bureaucrats and politicians is not going to fix it.
Osamede Uwensuyi-Edosomwan
Los Angeles, California
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Subject: Edo-ciao RE: [NaijaPolitics] Reps blast Ekaette, Orubebe over rot in N' Delta Ministry
Let's hope this news is not true! I am personally miffed and frustrated by the lack of credibility, commitment or purposefulness in any of the efforts (local and national) that Nigeria has so far mustered to develop the Niger Delta. The NDDC was a catastrophic failure, with the Chairman spending the funds on voodoo stuffs; the recently formed Ministry of the Niger Delta, which we all hailed because a seasoned Civil Servant was in charge, appears to be faltering. It appears any one given an assignment for the development of the Niger Delta sees it as an opportunity to loot the public treasury. THIS HAS TO STOP!A death penalty for corruption and misuse of public funds will be the only solution to fix Nigeria at this point. Joe Igietseme
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Subject: [NaijaPolitics] Reps blast Ekaette, Orubebe over rot in N’ Delta Ministry
eRGReps blast Ekaette, Orubebe over rot in N’ Delta Ministry
National News Nov 20, 2009…seek dissolution of the ministry
By Tordue Salem
ABUJA—A miffed House of Representatives yesterday described the Minister of Niger Delta, Mr. Ufot Ekaette as a failure and promptly dismissed as a fraud, his report on contracts paid for, consultancy payments and the percentage of work completed on projects in the Niger Delta regionThe House Committee on Niger Delta led by Rep. Olaka Nwogu (PDP/Delta), took turns yesterday to castigate Ufot Ekaette and Elder Godsday Orubebe for failing to implement a single project in the Niger Delta region since the Ministry was created last year, but feeding consultants fat on over N207billion, more that N48billion voted for the region in the 2009 budget.
“The figures that you have in your report cannot be defended in every sense of responsibility. Therefore we are going to request that on Tuesday next week you provide us with details on the profile of consultants, the money paid them, and the projects executed”, Nwogu said.
Majority of the Committee members at yesterday’s meeting with the ministry officials even sought an outright dissolution of the Ministry, which one of them, the Chairman of the Committee on Business and Rules, Rep. Ita Enang (PDP/Itu-Akwa Ibom) described as “a diplomatic deceit”, created by President Umaru Yar’Adua to pull the wool over the eyes of the long-suffering peoples of the Niger Delta region.
“The creation of the Niger Delta Ministry and what is done there is a diplomatic deceit, and this document is nothing but an attempt to deceive this Committee. According to this document, (the Minister’s report) nothing has been done except consultancy payments”, Enang said.
The Chairman of the House Committee on Gas Resources, Rep. Igo Aguma (PDP/Port Harcourt/Rivers) and a member of the Committee, in his response to Elder Orubebe’s position on constraints on due process, described the Bureau for Public Procurement as presently constituted and headed by Engineer Emeka Ezeh as “illegal” and of no consequence as regards the vetting of projects”.
He recalled that the “House has passed a resolution declaring the Due Process Office that has Engineer Emeka Ezeh as DG as illegal and of no consequence”, warning that any Ministry using that office as an excuse to delay projects risked the wrath of the National Assembly.
The Committee pre-dominated by Lawmakers from the Niger Delta region burnt with anger as they tore apart the report presented to them by the Ministers.
Nigeria
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