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Open Letter to President Goodluck Jonathan
Mr President, I want to start by thanking you for rescinding your decision to ban the
Super Eagles for Two Year. I understand that your reconsideration was sequel to the
comments of concerned citizens on your facebook page – this is encouraging.
However, Mr President, Sir, I want to further judge the Super Eagles’ performance in
South Africa 2010 from an allegorical perspective, as it concerns our Fatherland,
Nigeria, and with specific reference to the ill-conduct of one Sani Kaita that brought
dishonour to an entire country.
Playing football goes beyond scoring goals, to something called Sportsmanship, which
describes the gracious conduction of any Sportsman. Indeed, Sani Kaita may have
been good in running round the field, chasing and kicking the ball, but savagery has
evidently, the better of him, and that factor of savagery cost Nigeria the match we have
already secured.
Hence, may I ask:
- Does Sani Kaita understand that each time he wears the Green and traps the
football, the destiny of an entire nation is on him and at his discretion?
- Does he understand that his conduct is a constituent of our football history, and
can form a basis of adjudging our social character as a Nation?
- Does he know what it means to represent one’s country, or have any iota of
patriotism?
We cannot blame Sani Kaita who is a mere pawn in the spectrum of the Sports
Administration in Nigeria, more than we blame the visionless larcenous administrators.
Neither can we blame the administrators to the exclusion of the Government that
composed them in tandem with social, sectarian and regional, instead of professional
considerations. Sani Kaita is only an aspect of our multilateral misnomer. It is my
suggestion that the composition and criteria for NFF membership be limited to Ex-
footballers and Ex-Coaches.
By this, our retired footballers will be busy as administrators and mentors to the up-
coming ones. It will also prodigiously eliminate corruption.
Mr President, kindly click below or visit the website and watch with the world, an
analogue of Sani Kaita in the House of Representatives and the above questions would
be answered:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeS102JrTvA
Because of protracted military rule, many Nigerians, to your obvious exclusion, have
become militarized and confrontational. You are obviously a man of quiescent
demeanour. Fools mistake your personality for weakness and underestimate you at
their own peril. I have people around me who have known you very closely, even from
your university days, so I am well abreast with your rectitude, right sense of judgement,
firmness and realism.
My impression of you was affirmed by your facebook activities, which are constant
reality checks on your part. It keeps you in direct touch with the people you govern. To
imagine that you spend time to read people’s comments and make decisions based on
your consideration of public opinion, and also invite people whom you have never
known, only because they appear to have solutions to the Nigerian problem, gives us
much encouragement.
Quite a number of other elective government officials are also on facebook, but unlike
your page, theirs are full of sycophants who praise them for phantom achievements
and caress their sense of narcissism.
An example is Hon. Dimeji Bankole, who removed Gbola X and me from his facebook
friends list because our views were antithetic to his. I believe you would remember the
PDP campaign in Ekiti State, where Hon. Bankole who is a Federal Lawmaker, against
the Constitutional backdrop, proposed military deployment in a Law Enforcement
Capacity. This, I considered to be a demonstration of abysmal ineptitude and flagrant
disregard for our embryonic Constitutional Democracy.
Mr President, another issues I wish to bring to your attention is the rehabilitation of
repentant militants.
In October 2004, when Former President Olusegun Obasanjo invited militants and
armed agitators, there were fundamentally, two factions: Asari and Ateke, but with the
arrest of Dokubo Asari and the wrong approach of the then government, today, we are
talking about over fifty so-called militant Generals and leaders, who are individually as
armed as Asari and Ateke were in 2004.
This tells us one thing: there are far more Potential Militants than Militant or Repentant
Militants and they way the whole rehabilitation brouhaha is handled will to a large
extent, determine the next phase or social state of affairs in the Niger Delta, and Nigeria
at large.
Without preaching, let me make an inference from a Biblical perspective; in the Old
Testament, the Priest normally offers sacrifice to God on behalf of people. Before going
into the Holy of Holies, he first makes sacrifice for the atonement of his own sins, then
ties a rope round his waist with which he would be pulled out in the event that his
personal sacrifice was unacceptable to God and he should die because of sin. This is
because a man with sin cannot go before God to atone for the sins of others.
What am I saying?
In order for the whole rehab process to have meaning and the participants to have faith
in the process, the integrity of the administrator is vital. We do not need people whose
source of wealth cannot be explained, or people of highly questionable character in the
helm of such affairs.
Mr President, for your information, most of the senior militants now lead an
unsustainable lifestyle of living in Five Star Hotels, driving rays of luxury cars, etc.
These senior militants send their so-called boys for rehabilitation while they themselves
do not participate, because they believe that their money has diminished their
rehabilitation necessities. The appointment of questionable characters to pilot the
rehab process gives credence to this toxic mindset.
Sir, this is an indication that we have failed even before starting. Rehabilitation is not
primarily about money. It is a process of creating a mindset with which a person can be
reintegrated into an ideal and functional society.
The question of rehabilitation gives us as a region, a unique opportunity of
psychosocial re-orientation, on a mass scale and beyond ex-militants. After due re-
orientation programs, we have initiatives that could transform the youth-sphere of the
Niger Delta from the Local Government level and multi-dimensionally, create
employment for both the youth and old-aged. This will also yield tremendous revenue
for the LGAs, but it too could be a mirage because of endemically corrupt and plebeian
leadership at the State and LGA levels.
Presently, the only language these so-called repentant militants hear and understand
is money, money and money, just like their mentors in government. I assure you that
they are looking forward to the end of the rehab program in anticipation of staggering
financial settlements, which if achieved, will create much bigger problems in multilateral
dimensions. More so, nothing meaningful can be achieved with the level of corruption
at the State and LGA level.
Presently, the militants are already demonstrating in Abuja for money related reasons
and their distrust for the rehabilitation program leadership.
Sir, if we politicise the rehab issue, we may end up losing an entire generation to
brigandage, and whatever name by which we may choose to call them, they would be
creations of the State. These same people will then stand firm and claim mutual
ownership of this country with us and with our children.
According to a Sahara Reporters publication, expatriates are employed to teach them
peace. If there is an iota of truth in this, then we are in trouble in this nation.
What is Peace?
Peace is an end, and not a process. It is not a means of achieving something, but an
achievement itself. An example is the Middle East crisis with specific reference to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Both sides want peace, but on certain conditions.
Teaching the militants peace is an insult on their intelligence. Should they keep quite
while criminals, adorned in State robes and apparels, plunder the resources meant for
their wellbeing?
Furthermore, should a society in which the national legislators allocate ungodly and
unearned allowances to themselves, while the masses are suffering anticipate peace?
According to a Point Blank News publication, the Governor of Abia State, Theodore
Orji, voted the sum of N700m for his personal security out of the N3b monthly
allocation. Would peace be a fare and realistic expectation of the people of Abia State?
They say a hungry man is an angry man. Nigerians are dying of hunger both literarily
and metaphorically. The Murtala Mohammed International Airport, as a port of exit, is a
citadel of national indictment, as it daily witnesses the exodus of dozens of Nigerians.
Men and Women are fleeing the country of their birth in search of a better land, where
their dreams and those of their children may be lived.
Does this form part of our 50 years testimony and factors that necessitates conviviality
instead of introspective re-examination?
A rehab program for repentant militant should have different stages;
Stage 1: Psychosocial re-orientation - self discovery and idealism.
This forms the needed strength of character that could withstand social and economic
stains.
Stage 2: Leadership Training and The Concept of Governance.
The leadership training gives them a sense of responsibility to themselves and society,
reinforced by self-realization and idealism. The concept of governance teaches them
what governance should be; defines their expectations of government and how to hold
government accountable through peaceful means, as well as how to be involved in
governance without being an elective office holder.
Stage 3: Business Development/Accountability and Modesty. Let me first say this; even
if we are materially rich, as leaders, modesty is a quality we should exhibit, in order for
our followers and protégés to learn contentment. This promotes an ideologically
informed lifestyle, devoid of avarice and cupidity.
Stage 4: Acumen Funding. At this stage, they are ready for economic empowerment.
Now government should be in a position to give grants or guarantee loans for
businesses to be set-up. Here we still give them mentors to monitor their business
practices in order to guarantee success.
Mr President, I can name Twenty Nigerians for each of the above stages, who are more
than capable to achieve the desired result. We cannot accept further ineptitude. If Timi
Alaibe does not know what to do, please give the responsibility to someone else. Lives
and destinies are at stake here. The above process should take 6 month to 1 year,
then a new society is born.
First, the militants need a man of flawless integrity, a person they can trust;
- A man whose purpose transcends the acquisition of wealth
- A man of higher value
- A man whose confidence is not in money
- A man whose virtue and personality is engaging
Lastly, I wish to say that a Politician in the right sense, is like an academician. Men who
have acquired so much knowledge but dedicated their lives for the advancement of
their societies. This is why you see men like Vice President Joe Biden, who was a
Senator for more that 30yrs. When in advent of the Presidential election, Obama seem
to be lacking experience in foreign policy, he got nominated to serve his country with
his experience in foreign policy, in the capacity of Vice President.
Mr President, in a facebook message I sent to you when you assumed office as
President and Commander in Chief, I advised you to be more constitutionally than
politically motivated in your considerations and decisions making processes. This
amongst others is because your presidency is a product of the Constitution and not
politics. Actually, politics and politicians failed you as they failed Nigeria.
Sir, you have been an academician, today you are a prime politician with the character
and qualification to lead. It is my prayer that God guide and guard you, give you
required the wisdom and courage to redefine politics in Nigerian.
Politics is not a game of interest, but a game of sacrifice; for true politicians are men of
high value and idealism.
History has it; Providence guarantees but only the moment and not even the next hour
is ours for to boast, so be compelled with knowledge and understanding to maximize
the moment and achieve the Nigerian dream.
God Bless You
Douglas Waserite Dodiyi-Manuel
Pretoria, South Africa
Mr President, I want to start by thanking you for rescinding your decision to ban the
Super Eagles for Two Year. I understand that your reconsideration was sequel to the
comments of concerned citizens on your facebook page – this is encouraging.
However, Mr President, Sir, I want to further judge the Super Eagles’ performance in
South Africa 2010 from an allegorical perspective, as it concerns our Fatherland,
Nigeria, and with specific reference to the ill-conduct of one Sani Kaita that brought
dishonour to an entire country.
Playing football goes beyond scoring goals, to something called Sportsmanship, which
describes the gracious conduction of any Sportsman. Indeed, Sani Kaita may have
been good in running round the field, chasing and kicking the ball, but savagery has
evidently, the better of him, and that factor of savagery cost Nigeria the match we have
already secured.
Hence, may I ask:
- Does Sani Kaita understand that each time he wears the Green and traps the
football, the destiny of an entire nation is on him and at his discretion?
- Does he understand that his conduct is a constituent of our football history, and
can form a basis of adjudging our social character as a Nation?
- Does he know what it means to represent one’s country, or have any iota of
patriotism?
We cannot blame Sani Kaita who is a mere pawn in the spectrum of the Sports
Administration in Nigeria, more than we blame the visionless larcenous administrators.
Neither can we blame the administrators to the exclusion of the Government that
composed them in tandem with social, sectarian and regional, instead of professional
considerations. Sani Kaita is only an aspect of our multilateral misnomer. It is my
suggestion that the composition and criteria for NFF membership be limited to Ex-
footballers and Ex-Coaches.
By this, our retired footballers will be busy as administrators and mentors to the up-
coming ones. It will also prodigiously eliminate corruption.
Mr President, kindly click below or visit the website and watch with the world, an
analogue of Sani Kaita in the House of Representatives and the above questions would
be answered:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeS102JrTvA
Because of protracted military rule, many Nigerians, to your obvious exclusion, have
become militarized and confrontational. You are obviously a man of quiescent
demeanour. Fools mistake your personality for weakness and underestimate you at
their own peril. I have people around me who have known you very closely, even from
your university days, so I am well abreast with your rectitude, right sense of judgement,
firmness and realism.
My impression of you was affirmed by your facebook activities, which are constant
reality checks on your part. It keeps you in direct touch with the people you govern. To
imagine that you spend time to read people’s comments and make decisions based on
your consideration of public opinion, and also invite people whom you have never
known, only because they appear to have solutions to the Nigerian problem, gives us
much encouragement.
Quite a number of other elective government officials are also on facebook, but unlike
your page, theirs are full of sycophants who praise them for phantom achievements
and caress their sense of narcissism.
An example is Hon. Dimeji Bankole, who removed Gbola X and me from his facebook
friends list because our views were antithetic to his. I believe you would remember the
PDP campaign in Ekiti State, where Hon. Bankole who is a Federal Lawmaker, against
the Constitutional backdrop, proposed military deployment in a Law Enforcement
Capacity. This, I considered to be a demonstration of abysmal ineptitude and flagrant
disregard for our embryonic Constitutional Democracy.
Mr President, another issues I wish to bring to your attention is the rehabilitation of
repentant militants.
In October 2004, when Former President Olusegun Obasanjo invited militants and
armed agitators, there were fundamentally, two factions: Asari and Ateke, but with the
arrest of Dokubo Asari and the wrong approach of the then government, today, we are
talking about over fifty so-called militant Generals and leaders, who are individually as
armed as Asari and Ateke were in 2004.
This tells us one thing: there are far more Potential Militants than Militant or Repentant
Militants and they way the whole rehabilitation brouhaha is handled will to a large
extent, determine the next phase or social state of affairs in the Niger Delta, and Nigeria
at large.
Without preaching, let me make an inference from a Biblical perspective; in the Old
Testament, the Priest normally offers sacrifice to God on behalf of people. Before going
into the Holy of Holies, he first makes sacrifice for the atonement of his own sins, then
ties a rope round his waist with which he would be pulled out in the event that his
personal sacrifice was unacceptable to God and he should die because of sin. This is
because a man with sin cannot go before God to atone for the sins of others.
What am I saying?
In order for the whole rehab process to have meaning and the participants to have faith
in the process, the integrity of the administrator is vital. We do not need people whose
source of wealth cannot be explained, or people of highly questionable character in the
helm of such affairs.
Mr President, for your information, most of the senior militants now lead an
unsustainable lifestyle of living in Five Star Hotels, driving rays of luxury cars, etc.
These senior militants send their so-called boys for rehabilitation while they themselves
do not participate, because they believe that their money has diminished their
rehabilitation necessities. The appointment of questionable characters to pilot the
rehab process gives credence to this toxic mindset.
Sir, this is an indication that we have failed even before starting. Rehabilitation is not
primarily about money. It is a process of creating a mindset with which a person can be
reintegrated into an ideal and functional society.
The question of rehabilitation gives us as a region, a unique opportunity of
psychosocial re-orientation, on a mass scale and beyond ex-militants. After due re-
orientation programs, we have initiatives that could transform the youth-sphere of the
Niger Delta from the Local Government level and multi-dimensionally, create
employment for both the youth and old-aged. This will also yield tremendous revenue
for the LGAs, but it too could be a mirage because of endemically corrupt and plebeian
leadership at the State and LGA levels.
Presently, the only language these so-called repentant militants hear and understand
is money, money and money, just like their mentors in government. I assure you that
they are looking forward to the end of the rehab program in anticipation of staggering
financial settlements, which if achieved, will create much bigger problems in multilateral
dimensions. More so, nothing meaningful can be achieved with the level of corruption
at the State and LGA level.
Presently, the militants are already demonstrating in Abuja for money related reasons
and their distrust for the rehabilitation program leadership.
Sir, if we politicise the rehab issue, we may end up losing an entire generation to
brigandage, and whatever name by which we may choose to call them, they would be
creations of the State. These same people will then stand firm and claim mutual
ownership of this country with us and with our children.
According to a Sahara Reporters publication, expatriates are employed to teach them
peace. If there is an iota of truth in this, then we are in trouble in this nation.
What is Peace?
Peace is an end, and not a process. It is not a means of achieving something, but an
achievement itself. An example is the Middle East crisis with specific reference to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Both sides want peace, but on certain conditions.
Teaching the militants peace is an insult on their intelligence. Should they keep quite
while criminals, adorned in State robes and apparels, plunder the resources meant for
their wellbeing?
Furthermore, should a society in which the national legislators allocate ungodly and
unearned allowances to themselves, while the masses are suffering anticipate peace?
According to a Point Blank News publication, the Governor of Abia State, Theodore
Orji, voted the sum of N700m for his personal security out of the N3b monthly
allocation. Would peace be a fare and realistic expectation of the people of Abia State?
They say a hungry man is an angry man. Nigerians are dying of hunger both literarily
and metaphorically. The Murtala Mohammed International Airport, as a port of exit, is a
citadel of national indictment, as it daily witnesses the exodus of dozens of Nigerians.
Men and Women are fleeing the country of their birth in search of a better land, where
their dreams and those of their children may be lived.
Does this form part of our 50 years testimony and factors that necessitates conviviality
instead of introspective re-examination?
A rehab program for repentant militant should have different stages;
Stage 1: Psychosocial re-orientation - self discovery and idealism.
This forms the needed strength of character that could withstand social and economic
stains.
Stage 2: Leadership Training and The Concept of Governance.
The leadership training gives them a sense of responsibility to themselves and society,
reinforced by self-realization and idealism. The concept of governance teaches them
what governance should be; defines their expectations of government and how to hold
government accountable through peaceful means, as well as how to be involved in
governance without being an elective office holder.
Stage 3: Business Development/Accountability and Modesty. Let me first say this; even
if we are materially rich, as leaders, modesty is a quality we should exhibit, in order for
our followers and protégés to learn contentment. This promotes an ideologically
informed lifestyle, devoid of avarice and cupidity.
Stage 4: Acumen Funding. At this stage, they are ready for economic empowerment.
Now government should be in a position to give grants or guarantee loans for
businesses to be set-up. Here we still give them mentors to monitor their business
practices in order to guarantee success.
Mr President, I can name Twenty Nigerians for each of the above stages, who are more
than capable to achieve the desired result. We cannot accept further ineptitude. If Timi
Alaibe does not know what to do, please give the responsibility to someone else. Lives
and destinies are at stake here. The above process should take 6 month to 1 year,
then a new society is born.
First, the militants need a man of flawless integrity, a person they can trust;
- A man whose purpose transcends the acquisition of wealth
- A man of higher value
- A man whose confidence is not in money
- A man whose virtue and personality is engaging
Lastly, I wish to say that a Politician in the right sense, is like an academician. Men who
have acquired so much knowledge but dedicated their lives for the advancement of
their societies. This is why you see men like Vice President Joe Biden, who was a
Senator for more that 30yrs. When in advent of the Presidential election, Obama seem
to be lacking experience in foreign policy, he got nominated to serve his country with
his experience in foreign policy, in the capacity of Vice President.
Mr President, in a facebook message I sent to you when you assumed office as
President and Commander in Chief, I advised you to be more constitutionally than
politically motivated in your considerations and decisions making processes. This
amongst others is because your presidency is a product of the Constitution and not
politics. Actually, politics and politicians failed you as they failed Nigeria.
Sir, you have been an academician, today you are a prime politician with the character
and qualification to lead. It is my prayer that God guide and guard you, give you
required the wisdom and courage to redefine politics in Nigerian.
Politics is not a game of interest, but a game of sacrifice; for true politicians are men of
high value and idealism.
History has it; Providence guarantees but only the moment and not even the next hour
is ours for to boast, so be compelled with knowledge and understanding to maximize
the moment and achieve the Nigerian dream.
God Bless You
Douglas Waserite Dodiyi-Manuel
Pretoria, South Africa
Comments
ELEKIMA MONIMA ABIYE-SUKU, PORT HARCOURT
HIS GOD GIVEN WISDOM IN NOT HAVING DECLARED IF HE IS CONTESTING
2011 OR NOT HAS KEPT NIGERIA IN FOCUS. 'WHEN THE RIGHTEOUS RULE
THE PEOPLE...'
ELEKIMA MONIMA ABIYE-SUKU, PORT HARCOURT
HIS GOD GIVEN WISDOM IN NOT HAVING DECLARED IF HE IS CONTESTING
2011 OR NOT HAS KEPT NIGERIA IN FOCUS. 'WHEN THE RIGHTEOUS RULE
THE PEOPLE...'