I was reading about people mocking Alams in death
and wondered why. I personally do not have any
problems with saying bad about the dead, if they
are truly bad - I am not that superstitious or
religious to refuse to call a spade a spade for fear of
ghosts or spiritual retribution. However, I do have a
problem about ignorantly mocking a hero of his
people in death, if not for the sake of the dead, then
for the living.


I first came across this macabre dance of death on
Nky Iweka wall and immediately expressed my
opinion - THIS POST IS TRULY SICK. All they could
talk about was corruption. Not one
acknowledgement of why this man was a hero
amongst his people. Next I came across it on
Zainab Abba Haliru wall. Zainab in her characteristic
way was humane, sensitive to the living and trying
to understand why he was vilified by some and yet
loved by others.


I replied to Zainab that she was seriously misled by
what she read in Social Media, especially by those
tribal bigots and liberal bull-shitters influenced by
the Lagos Press, who think they are modern change
agents or pace setters. These liberal bull-shitters
are so pre-occupied with the phony war on
corruption they can't even see that the economy is
being crippled.


Do they think Ojukwu or Igbo people would have
cared a hoot what Yoruba or Hausa said about
Ojukwu? Not at all. As Ojukwu is to Igbo so is Alams
to Ijaw. I have decided to give my own vivid
impression of Alams based on my personal
experience of the man and his works, and why the
Ijaw honour him.


Alams was tripped up by Obasanjo when he started
fighting for resource control and opposing Obj 3rd
term. He is considered by the Ijaw people their next
greatest hero after Adaka Boro, the sixties freedom
fighter. He is greater than Jonathan in Ijaw Land.
Any indictment in UK means very little in this
context. Most Nigerian leaders are thieves anyway,
and it pales into insignificance given his enormous
achievements for the Ijaw people - fighting for the
creation of Bayelsa State and then building the State
from nothing.


When I first visited Bayelsa in 2000, Yenogoa was
just a street with stilt houses on sticks in swamps
on either sides of the street with only 2 rat infested
motels. Alams turned Yenogoa into a bustling,
vibrant, beautiful city; He sand filled the entire city
and laid out magnificent dual carriage ways,
beautifully tarred...


He established a university, Niger Delta University
in which I played a very important role. My
association in the UK trained over 100 of its
lecturers. We started Niger Delta University from
two offices in swamp ridden Yenogoa - with my
friend John Buseri, the first Vice Chancellor, holed
up in one cramped little office. We used to take river
boat to Amasoma to develop the present site of the
university before Alams built the beautiful bridge to
Amasoma. Today Niger Delta University is one of
the more beautifully laid out Universities in Nigeria.
Alams also built the polytechnic, college of
education, college of nursing and modern hotels. He
laid out the comprehensive network of well tarred
streets over the previous swamps of Yenogoa and
built bridges connecting numerous islands in the
creeks. Alams built schools throughout Ijaw land
and health centres and modern River Boat services
across the creeks to connect the islands with
modern launches. When we first went to Amasoma
it was a canoe with outboard engine. The last time I
did before the building of the bridge it was in relative
luxury in one of the modern launches.


Nationally, he assisted to bring peace to the Niger
Delta by negotiating with the militants to bring about
Amnesty. For this alone we owe him gratitude.
I consider those who mock this man in death truly
SICK. Corruption, corruption mantras by hypocritical
witch-hunters? Such bitching is irrelevant.
Alams will be greatly honoured by the Ijaw nation.
Ijaw people take note and explain better. Defend
your own.
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When you change the formal, to former in the topic. I will come back to comment.

ur english ehnn

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may his soul rest in peace

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This goes to show that Alams was an unsung hero afterall. I believe this would go a long way in changing the psyche of those Lagos-Ibadan press... RIP to him... May the good lord give the Ijaw nation the fortitude to bear this loss.

My brother I am proud of ur write up. Plz corrections. ( What You Don't No About Formal Bayelsa Governor Alamieyeseigha ) Formal to FORMER & No to KNOW. Ijaw for life. Alams & Ibori were the 2 engine rooms to Resource Control. Rip alamko long live ibori ( odidigborigbo )

Worefa