Solomon Dalung, former minister
of youths and sports development, says many people have issues with the way he
dresses.
The former minister often wears
khaki with a red beret. In an interview with PUNCH, he said he could not change
the way he appears because he belongs to a “school of moral philosophy called
hedonism.”
The ex-minister said he does not
wear suits because any time he put on one, he gets embarrassed but that khaki
gives him peace of mind.
“I think the problem has to do
with my dressing. So many people hate my dressing. It is not about my person.
It is about my dress,” he said.
“People want me to maybe change
it but I am a hedonist. I belong to a school of moral philosophy called
hedonism. We, hedonists, believe in something that gives us pleasure and
refrain from something that gives us pains.
“So, that what I am doing doesn’t
suit you is not my business.”
“Why I don’t wear suits is that
if I wear it, I am always embarrassed. ‘Oh! You look sweet, you look good’ are
comments that I hear when I wear suits,” he said.
“Whereas, when I wear my khaki
nobody even says good morning. And I have my peace.”
Dalung said he managed the crisis
in the sports sector well.
“I effectively did. One thing
about my personality is that anything that is injustice, I won’t associate with
it. I don’t deal with a person because of who he is. I deal with issues,” he
said.
“When the issue of the AFN vice
president doping crisis came up and it was politicised, I told the VP that it
was not about him being liked by someone or not. The allegation raised is
weighty.
“Let the process exonerate you,
submit yourself for investigation. People will always expect you to manage
crisis based on their sentiments but I won’t do that. Issues with legal flavour
must go by the law. In all these crisis, my name was sung as the second
national anthem.”
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