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First of all, let me seek the
permission of my readers to invent a new word. The word certificateless does
not exist on the English dictionary. I invented it due to the peculiar
situation we find ourselves in in Nigeria.
The word is created to be a noun
which simply means the absence of a certificate in a situation where a
certificate is required. For instance, both President Muhammadu Buhari and the
20,000 Kaduna state teachers in the midst of Nasir El-Rufai’s brouhaha are
certificateless.
I will state this saga with a
true story.
In Edo history, there existed a
particular Oba who lived for a very long time. Now his edaiken (first son and
heir apparent) was growing tired of waiting for the throne, so he sent his
father a calabash with ash in it. His father got the message and sent back the
calabash but this time, he mixed the ash with honey, indicating to his son that
life was still sweet ave he was not ready to quit the scene.
I am a deep political animal. I
do not believe that local Kaduna issues are all that has led to the brouhaha of
El-Rufai’s threat to sack 20,000 teachers that failed a primary four test and
are thus certificateless.
I think that El-Rufai, who has
styled himself as magajin Buhari sees himself as something like an edaiken.
You may ask, what type of
subliminal message is Nasir El-Rufai passing to Muhammadu Buhari by threatening
to sack 20,000 teachers without CERTIFICATES?
Think about it! If a teacher
cannot teach without certificate, is it a President that can preside without
certificate?
The threat is El-Rufai’s calabash
of ash to Buhari and Nigerians in the know are waiting for Buhari’s response.
Be that as it may, The 13 SANs
defending President Buhari in his certificate issue should be prevailed upon to
also defend the 20,000 Kaduna teachers facing sack. After all, their cases are
the same!
And on Monday the 13th of
November 2017, the Presidency released a statement declaring that President
Buhari supports El-Rufai’s plans to sack the certificateless teachers.
The only difference between
President Buhari and the 20,000 Kaduna teachers whose sack he endorsed is that
the Kaduna teachers don’t have the money to hire 13 SANs. What is the
difference between Buhari and those teachers? Who has a certificate between
them? Do these people have any shame at all?
How can Nigeria progress when we
sack teachers for not having certificates and install Presidents who don’t have
certificates?
It is rather like a company
saying a messenger without WASSCE is unqualified meanwhile its MD is in the
same boat. How will the company be profitable? You cannot fight
certificatelessness in primary school teachers and promote certificatelessness
for a second term. Make up your mind. It is either you are fine with
certificatelessness or you are not!
Certificateless teachers teach
kaduna children and you are not surprised when they fail. Certificateless
President runs your economy and you are surprised when it fails? Can zero plus
zero ever equal more than zero?
And the President’s
certificatelessness has reverberated beyond Nigeria. He is not considered as
someone to be reckoned with in Nigeria by his peers on the continent.
African leaders even respect
Rochas Okorocha more than President Muhammadu Buhari. They fly into Nigeria, go
straight to Imo to see Rochas and check out without ever going to Abuja. Could
such a thing have happened under Presidents Obasanjo, Yar’Adua or Jonathan?
That is how irrelevant President Buhari has become even in his own country.
And why will they not think that
the President is a joke? A man without certificate who is so backward in his
thinking that after former President Jonathan opened the floodgates for women
combatants to join the Nigerian Army, this Stone Age despot that we fall a
President unilaterally overturned the policy ostensibly because Northern Muslim
leaders are opposed to women serving in the military.
Can we be surprised about this
action from a man who believes women belong in the other room?
And that rightly named Lai
Mohammed had the guts to say that President Buhari is cleaning up the Peoples
Democratic Party’s Augean Stable. Really?
Which mess PDP is President
Buhari cleaning exactly?
* Cleaning ?87 fuel for ?145 fuel
* Cleaning ?199 to 1$ for ?375
for $1
* Cleaning ?8k bag of rice for
?18k bag
* Cleaning ?1 bag of cement for
?4k bag of cement
* Cleaning women combatants from
army?
I mean the facts speak for
themselves.
And in the midst of the economic
chaos that President Muhammadu Buhari has unleashed on Nigeria, his number one
priority is not finding out why the United Nations has projected that Nigeria
will have more people in extreme poverty than India by February of 2018 even
though India has eight times our population.
The President is in re-election
mode and has shifted focus from governance (not that he was ever focused on
that account).
His latest re-election gimmick is
to visit a Southeast that he had never once visited before as President. But
the President is making a big miscalculation if he thinks he can buy the
support of the Igbos for his re-election.
What the Igbos need is not a
Presidential visit. They need to be included in government. There isn’t a
single Igbo man heading any of the military or paramilitary forces in Nigeria. They
are all headed by Northern Muslim men, except one (Navy) headed by a
SouthSoutherner.
The Army, Air Force, Police,
Customs, Immigration and Prisons are led by Northern Muslim men. Only the Navy
is led by a Southerner. That is why the policy allowing women combatants was
almost scrapped by Armed Forces Council but for the mass protest it prompted,
because the North opposes it and the South, which supports it, is
underrepresented.
The Buhari administration is a
thoroughly discredited government whose focus should be to help the President
pack his load and move back to Daura to tend to his cows that never increase in
number rather than this focus on his re-election.
This is why I was rather
surprised at the surprise of the Ikoyi whistleblower that he had not been paid.
That Ikoyi whistleblower should
have known better than to expect the Buhari administration to keep their
promise to him. Have they kept their promise to Nigerians? If they can’t keep
that one is it his they will keep?
In fact, some of the mad people
you see on the streets may just be whistleblowers who blew the whistle for the
EFCC. You never know. You just never know!
Now I understand why The Buhari
administration has refused to fulfill its campaign promises. It is not their
fault. Just like the Ikoyi whistleblower, they do not want us to get mad if we
see too many fulfilled promises. For example, PDP fulfilled too many promises
and we got mad and voted for APC! President Buhari is preparing for re-election
and does not want that type of madness again!
And as the 75 year old President
Buhari surreptitiously kicks off his re-election campaign, he should not test
the Nigerian people, who have borne the weight of his unprecedented misrule,
too much.
What we want from him, even if he
intends to run in 2019, is a free and fair election.
Already, we are seeing the
business interests of likely rivals being dealt a massive blow. If their
contracts with the Federal Government are not being illegally canceled then
expatriate quotas are being revoked. This in a country screaming that it wants
foreign investments.
Saudi Arabia has a 32 year old
Crown Prince who is fighting corruption, growing the economy and has now
allowed women to drive while Nigeria has a 75 year old (allegedly) President
who has ruined the economy while pretending to fight corruption and has no
single youth in his cabinet! Different strokes for different folks!
Reno’s Nuggets
When European Christian
missionaries came to Africa, they built schools that our parents and
grandparents attended for free. When today’s churches build schools, even their
own church members, whose offerings built the schools, can’t afford to send
their children there. My own father, who was not a Catholic, was educated by
Irish Catholic priests FOR FREE at their school. Come on people. Let us get
back to that old time Christianity that was first about service to God and
humanity. Church schools may not be free, but they should be affordable for
believers #RenosNuggets
One Other Thing
I may not be a Catholic, but I
commend @Pontifex Pope Francis, for donating the $200k Euro Lamborghini he was
blessed with to charity. Can other spiritual leaders take a cue from this?
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