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Open Letter To Senator Aduda Of The FCT by onyenro(m): 1:16pm On Nov 26, 2014 |
this epistolary piece,Tee Jay Dan takes a swipe against political hypocrisy. Tee is a filmmaker and a proud Gbagyi son. Please READ. And SHARE. OPEN LETTER TO SENATOR PHILIP ADUDA; SENATOR REPRESENTING THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY, ABUJA. Dear Uncle, I am not happy to write you this letter at this time, especially through this media. But Uncle, I have tried to reach you in the past two weeks with no joy: the phone number I got is always switched off or ‘out of reach,’ and it appears you do not have the time to read or reply an email from your little nephew. You are a very busy man, I understand, and, by the way, it is no easy feat to be a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; the greatest country in the world, especially when you represent the Gbagyi people of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. It is herculean task second to none, I understand. So I am not going to complain, because I know that you did not simply ignore me – I mean, why would you ignore your own? – you have been busy creating ‘enabling laws for the good governance of the FCT. As committee member, National Identity and National Population Committee, and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Power, you cannot afford to not be the busiest person alive. I understand why you are so inaccessible both by phone and email. This is why I am not sulking, dear Uncle. But I am very busy too and I expect you to understand why I have decided use this medium to seek understanding of the following matters from you. One, I don’t understand why you, sir, and other Gbagyi politicians believe so much that we, your loving subjects, do not read the newspapers. I say this because the other day I read with utter dismay one of your numerous interviews where you bragged about developing the indigenes of Abuja “by making sure that they enjoy the dividends of democracy.” Unless you sincerely believe that we do not read the national dailies I believe that you won’t have the effrontery to lie like that, Uncle. We forgive this shameful shortcoming from a distinguished Senator like you. But please next time you feel the urge to brag about a lie simply do so in whispers, not on national papers. Thank you. Two, I don’t understand how, or why, you conveniently go about saying that “Gbagyi people are educationally backward.” I don’t understand how you get away with promising to “appropriately empower qualified” Gbagyi youths if they go to school. I mean we have professors, doctors of philosophy, and Gbagyi youths in their mid-twenties who already have Masters, none of whom you have ‘empowered.’ May be you are too busy to notice that the people you actually represent are rather ‘moving, educationally forward,’ but anyway tell me how you do it. I mean, when the FG thought to requiet the good people of Abuja with the opportunity to produce a substantive federal director, you did not waste time in fixing your younger brother. That same brother who failed to pass the compulsory promotional examination as a level 15 senior officer under the employ of EFCC, even though he was given a second chance. But soon as the President said, “aiyo, bring me a qualified Gbagyi man,” you peddled your brother one time. Now Gideon is a top director in the ministry of finance in lieu of more qualified Gbagyi youths. You keep asking the youths to go to school even after acquiring first degrees and masters degrees whereas you, my beloved Uncle, only have a Higher Diploma. I don’t understand how you do it. Three, please what is your definition of EMPOWERMENT? Last week, you teamed up with Peter Yohanna, Chairman of Bwari Area Council to amuse me. The two of you passed microphones to one another – like upcoming rappers engaged in a freestyle battle – to rap about how human empowerment is your forte. What I don’t understand is, by sharing Okada, generator sets, and clippers to the youths, are you empowering them or insulting them? Again, Uncle Sir, what does empowerment mean? Is it the attachment of hundreds of youths, the same people you keep lampooning for ‘not going to school,’ to several VIO posts where they receive a paltry of five thousand naira (N5,000) monthly, or is it the recruitment of these youths’ mothers to sweep highways for eight thousand (N8,000) a month? I swear, Peter Yohanna and yourself are geniuses! Anyway, those aren’t the main questions that I need you to answer. Let me repeat here the questions that you have been too busy to answer (I have sacrificed all other artistic considerations just to write a very plain letter, Sir Uncle): 1 – How much do you receive from the Federal government as allocation for the development of your Senatorial Jurisdiction or district? 2 – How do you disburse, expend, utilize these allocations? Please do not mention the motorcycles and cars you gave a few persons in the bid to return to the senate. And, sukusuku, do not offer some vague answer like “the government of President Goodluck Jonathan has really developed the original inhabitants of Abuja through my good office.” 3 – From your time in the House of Assembly up until now that you’ve graduated to the upper chambers, how many bills have you sponsored or supported? What are these bills; how many are party-sponsored or party-related? – how many for national growth? – how many for the betterment of the general wellbeing of the Gbagyiza? 4 – What have you done – are you doing – to douse the rising tension among the Gbagyi people about the perceived neglect and continuous exploitation of our lands by the Federal Government? Have you bothered to enlighten them about the pros and cons of the FG proposed Land Swap policy? Have you used your good office to cause them to see that the Federal Government is not their enemy, that some very few corrupt politicians are directly responsible for, and benefitting from, the status quo? 5 – Are you aware that Kubwa community has been jumping from one legal tussle to another, and have been losing communal lands to some phony land allocation recently? - you know we are farmers, yeah? Are you aware that Dan Tata is build a very large estate on the last communal farm land in Kubwa, and our parents now have to climb that Kubwa mountain to till for food while you are getting paid in multiple of billions on their behalf? Oh oh, I remember, you fooled them during the public hearing that they should worry not, because your very good and almighty office will solve the problem. How come we haven’t heard anything since then? 6 – Can you feel my disappointment in you? Ehen Uncle, you have plenty detractors o. Enemies of your political hustle have been going about saying that you are an hypocrite, never to be trusted, do you know? They say that your beloved President Goodluck wanted to make you the minister of state but that you refused the gesture and hinted that you’d rather wait until Senator Bala Mohammed vacates his position for you. But I didn’t believe them. I just laughed and told them to go away with their cheap blackmail. Actually I told them that unless you are stupid and selfish you’d never do such thing. Before they say anything else I quickly added that you are not stupid and selfish, not my Uncle, haba mana. Your detractors, dear sir, told me to wait and see some political realignment that would take place as 2015 draws nigh. Uncle, I am afraid to say that some of the events those prophets of doom prophesied are beginning to materialize. They said, as at then, that: soon you were going to start following the President about as if you were the new ADC – as though the emancipation of the Gbagyi people depends on your politics of follow-follow; Senator Bala Mohammed will jettison his plan to contest for governorship of his state, and; the bill for the creation of the office of the Mayor of Abuja will miraculously resurface and get hastily passed into law, then Mohammed will run to be elected Mayor while you get your much dreamed-of Minister of FCT. Uncle, were these mad men right about you? Did you truly reject the opportunity to become the Minister of state for FCT yet continued to discreetly ginger our people to loudly condemn the Federal Government for not giving us any ministerial slot or ambassadorial posting? I ask because, well, you have practically become the unofficial ADC to the president; Senator Bala is likely not going to contest for governorship again, and; the bill for the creation of the office of the Mayor of Abuja has miraculously resurfaced after it was summarily kicked out before the first reading when it was initially sponsored on the floor of the national assembly. Did you, for personal ambition, refuse an opportunity that we have been crying for? It is amazing how you came out of the gutters to become a multimillionaire, using our shoulders as ladder. If these allegations are false then, dearest Uncle, good for you. But if you are indeed guilty then, oga sir, you are going to pay some day soon. Before you unleash the police on me for threatening your life – or career, ha ha – let me explain what I mean by you shall pay some day soon. I do not speak or write for OIDA or any of the many bitch-organizations that you guys buy over with money and job offers. I write and speak for an increasing number of genuinely fed up Gbagyi youths who have our tribe at heart. And we have decided to become actively involved in the business of governance and representation of our people at all levels of government. The dynamics are changing and you shall feel us. Finally sir. Let me tell you a story. As a teenager I was always in and out of police cells for confronting ‘authority.’ So I am conversant with the drill. And, my friend, we are familiar with your tactics of using the police to harass and assault Gbagyi people who dare to think for themselves and ask questions, so don’t bother. I know that some of my ‘friends on Facebook’ are your stooges, and I am certain that some other Gbagyi people will share this and one way or another you will get to read it. Then you will say they should not mind me, or flare up in anger and decide to teach me How to Respect a Senator of the yadayadayada. But please, I beg you in the name of Jesus and Mohammed and Ashna, save us both the energy of having to fight each other, simply answer my questions – convince me that you mean us well – and I swear by the aforementioned names to support you through out my life until darkness overtakes me. Ha, ho, erm, hu, wphew, mtscheeeew. I am returning to my hibernation jare. You have my email in case you finally decide to reply. No, it’d actually be nice to read a public response to this. And, if you fail to convince me about your usefulness in the national assembly then, my guy, you cannot: 1) have my respect either as a Gbagyi elder or as a Senator of yadayadayada; 2) have my vote in the forthcoming elections for which you are not too busy to campaign, and; 3) get away with short changing millions of people in the F.C.T. You sef check am na, Oga, e no go maik sense say you use us hustle then carry our cake go just like that. Yours most respectful, Tukura John Atnadu Daniel. |
Re: Open Letter To Senator Aduda Of The FCT by jking001(m): 2:11pm On Nov 26, 2014 |
My friend please kindly visit MDG office in Abuja and ask for list of project executed by Aduda in each area council, I know of boreholes ,tho some were poorly executed ,Nigeria factor ,check for conditional Grant Schemes and cct he did a little in the interior villages but you might not be aware only if you do monitoring and evaluation M AND E for Abuja MDG the you would know how the funds moves. |
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