Afrigather On 29/5/23, our pricey PMB bowed out with fanfare and returned to his beloved cows in Daura, that are extra OBIdient than Nigerians however are actually regrettably, fewer in quantity. He additionally warned that if we ‘disturbed’ him, he would Andrew-Out to Niger Republic, the place the federal government and folks await him.
In fact, ‘I’ll go to Niger’ is amongst his latest quotable quotes within the within the class of ‘lazy youths’, ‘Dot folks’, ‘ze oza room’ et al. Every week to that his disengagement, Martins Oloja, a cerebral journalist, who says it as it’s had this to write down about his exit report card.
‘Within the final eight years, one of the best women and men for many jobs in all of the strategic sectors, will not be solely from the North, they’re Muslims… The ministers of Police Affairs, Protection, Aviation, Transportation( after Amaechi), Petroleum Assets, Communications, Energy and FCT; The Inspector Common of Police, the Chairman and Secretary of Police Belief Fund, The Chief of Military Workers, the DGs of SSS , NIA, NITDA, NCAA, FAN, Monetary Intelligence Unit and NIMASA, Chief of Navy, the CGs of Customs Service, Immigration and Prisons Service, the Vice Chairman/CEO of NCC, MD of NPA, Group CEO of NNPC, Legal professional Common, Chairman of EFCC, Government Secretary of the FCDA and greater than 90% of Heads of Departments and CEOs of FCT businesses, Chairman and Secretary of the FCC, CEO of TCN The Chairman and the MD of Rural Electrification Company are all Muslims from the North. (NASS Management; Who’s on Nigeria’s aspect? Martins Oloja, Sunday Guardian, 21/5/23, Again Web page).
I’ll nonetheless write in regards to the 8 years of PMB, certainly one of nowadays however in the present day, I simply wish to pay a deserving tribute to him. And my finest tribute is to breed an article printed within the Guardian of 31/5/17. That was 6 years in the past, after we had been nonetheless having a very good time below the taciturn former normal. By that point, the Niger Republic dimension and the Kastinarisation of all the things had not gotten to the worrisome dimension. Right here is the 2017 article.
If I had been round about 70 years in the past when George Orwell wrote the Animal Farm, I might have suggested him to title it: ‘The change that was not’! Most of us find out about George Orwell’s animals and their utopian farm and so, a short overview would do.
It was all a couple of grand plan by animals to eliminate parasitic people and handle their farm for their very own profit and thus making a world that may be higher in all dimensions. They succeeded in taking on the possession and administration of the farm based mostly on seven inviolable rules bordering on their distinctiveness, hatred for all the things human, and equality of all.
Nonetheless, issues acquired worse moderately than higher as a brand new set of overlords emerged from amongst them, subjected them to overbearing dictatorship, denied them of their liberty and left them hungry, indignant, pauperized, unvoiced and ultimately discarded all of the sacred rules of the revolution.
The animal farm was charaterised by the next figures and realities: Squealer was the Minister of Data; propaganda, confusion and the one fact from him might most likely be his title (did I point out anyone’s title?). His areas of experience had been rumour-mongering, creating one thing out of nothing and deliberate obfuscation of the reality.
Scapegoatism was elevated to a basic coverage of state and all the things was blamed on Snowball a long time after he had left the farm. There was hero-worshipping by which Napoleon awarded all honours to himself, the place all the things was because of his ingenuity and he was supported by attack-dogs implementing authorities insurance policies, which made it inconceivable to say fact to energy.
Conferences and discussions had been banned; the ignorance and gullibility of the folks had been manipulated and the federal government went again to insurance policies, which it had stoutly resisted, and there was a mischievous deconstruction of the previous
One other key difficulty within the farm was the manipulation of all the foundations to go well with the needs of the egocentric management. Thus, to the precept ‘that no animal shall kill one other’ was added and not using a purpose; and to the opposite that ‘animal shall stay awake in beds’ was added with bedsheets and so forth.
However the final straw that broke the camel’s again was when their basic precept that every one animals are equal was modified to learn ‘all animals are equal however some are extra equal than others’. That was the tip of the farm because it was designed.
The utopian republic ended and that was the tip of the ebook. I’ve learn the Animal farm a number of occasions and each time I learn it, I acquired an increasing number of in love with it, particularly with the author’s capability to see and create the long run.
At his inauguration, PMB made one resounding assertion, which was the one quotable quote from that ceremony: ‘I belong to no one and I belong to all people’. I interpreted that assertion to be the equal to the ‘all animals are equal’ declaration and I anticipated that the period of the brazen lopsided actions, insurance policies and programmes was over. I had thought that PMB had repented from his days at PTF, when the North, and significantly his political zone, cornered nearly all the things. Two years down the road, I don’t consider so once more.
Let’s begin from two latest associated occasions that had been handled in another way by the federal government, which belongs to nobody. The Islamic Motion of Nigeria has been boldly protesting the continued detention of their chief (El Zakzaky) for the previous 17 months.
In addition they protested final week and all was nicely; nothing occurred. IPOB additionally protested the identical final week and hell was let unfastened as truckloads of them had been arrested throughout the nation. Is the liberty of meeting and expression of opinion for all of us or is it for a few of us?
I began from there as a result of that is one thing that simply occurred. Everyone is conscious of the lopsided nature of PMBs safety and strategic appointments since 2015 and the structure of his kitchen cupboard the place the nationwide dishes are ready and shared. This time, it was not only a Northern affair, it was not even a Kastina affair; it was about Daura and all kinds of blood relationships.
In fact, it was deceptive for our president to say that he belonged (s) to nobody when he’s the grand-patron of the Myetti-Allah Cattle Breeders Affiliation of Nigeria. I consider that he’s even a member (straight or by proxy) as a result of the important thing belongings he declared had been cattle.
That’s the reason previously two years, there was a declaration, extra in motion than phrases, that cows are extra vital than people in Nigeria and that the breeders have energy of life and dying over different Nigerians. One solely must undergo the information to see how herdsmen overtly wreck havoc within the South, East and West and non-core North (Benue et al).
All we’ve got heard are very humorous tales together with that the herdsmen terrorists are overseas invaders, how an offence in opposition to any Fulani is a debt that should be repaid, and the way a few of them had been sought exterior our shores and paid/begged to kill no extra.
Whether or not it was in Agatu or Nimbo, the safety outfits simply acted as if nothing occurred and our PMB who belonged to all people couldn’t utter any phrase although he would shortly commiserate with different Nations even when two chickens died in a highway accident!
With regards to cattle hustlers, the case is completely different. The motion is decisive and scientific and but we’re instructed that every one males are equal. The opposite day, the Niger police command recovered 28 cows from Kamache Village forest and on. On 4/5/17, Justice Majebi ofKogi Excessive Courtroom sentenced two murderous cattle rustlers (Jauro and Sanni), to dying by hanging. That was ok however what number of herdsmen have been arrested and tried, not to think about being punished?
What you see is a moderately a really laughable scenario by which Benue State CP, Bashir Makama, who watched whereas Fulani terrorists masquerading as herdsmen turned Benue folks into refugees in their very own land, had the boldness to declare that the governor Samuel Ortom couldn’t banish Fulani herdsmen from the state, and that was simply after one other bout of herdsmen brutality in a state the place herdsmen now management 12 of the 23 LGAs.
Our folks say that the individual oppressing a widow does so boldly as a result of he is aware of the place the husband has gone and that an individual despatched to steal by his father does so with all boldness. The herdsmen are behaving with the impudence of an individual coping with the widow or the son stealing together with his father’s backing!
However even when we depart the herdsmen out of this nauseating equation, there are thousand and one variables forcing us to wonder if certainly all Nigerians are equal. Within the final police recruitment, Kano State had a haul of 396 constables whereas Bayelsa was fortunate to get 72; the identical Bayelsa that regardless of the extant provisions has solely seven LGAs.
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Within the final DSS recruitment, North West acquired 165, (whereas PMBs Kastina State had 51) your complete Southeast had 44 slots and South-South, 42. The cut-off marks for the so known as unity faculties this 12 months’s was 139 for Anambra, 131 for Ogun and 42 for Zamfara.
And these candidates who will write the identical WASC/JAMB and face the identical labour market. I additionally keep in mind the latest Ife crises, a transparent case of ‘two-fighting’ by which just one was arrested and the swiftness with which the arrests had been concluded and the IGP declaration that crime has no tribe.
In impact, when PMB declared that he belonged to no one, he raised my hopes and expectations. Sadly, inside the first day in workplace, he had rubbished that declaration.
The top of Animal Farm got here when Napoleon and his cohorts overtly declared that some are extra equal than others. It has been arrogantly proven to us that some Nigerians are extra equal than others; that even the cattle are extra vital that the folks. I hope that doesn’t mark the tip of the real-life Nigerian farm.
