₦airaland Forum

omonnakoda:
You are merely renting the land

Remember that

Ejebleje:
Really sad how the man was vilified all these years, without anyone coming out in his defence, and now in death, glowing tributes of honesty and integrity flowing from everywhere. I was almost totally convinced that he had his palm greased by mtn , due to the sudden soft stance the government took ,and even suggested that on this forum. I do regret that stance now ,and take back that statement .

This is a big lesson. Don't believe everything you read in various media without substantive evidence.

helinues:
As in the guy is disgusting.. Everything to them is politics

SLAP44:
The only thing we want is separation from low thinking people like you.

SLAP44:
Sarrki

SLAP44:
You cannot do more than throw lies on nairaland. That's the worst you can do.

CrudeSon:
Believe this post at your own since Sarrki can lie to fill his quest to disgrace igbos,that tribe don't have such time bro,they are busy making their money!!

SLAP44:
Isiguzoro doesn't represent Ohaneze.

We only hear from Nnia Nwodo.

That's all.

Jlow2:
Now I know how you became minister of foreign affiars.

QuotaSystem:
There's a lot of very good talent for a limited number of positions.

What makes the difference is Grace (divine connection) and "Padi-Padi" (human connection).

You can't say Onyeama is not competent enough for his office can you?

Lipscomb:
Everything is connection.

Wilstino:
There is a disconnect in all these. How comes a a Kano/Northern Commissioner would come out to spew such negative things about him.

He is a stakeholder in the system and privy to happenings within.

Perhaps Onyeama judgment might have been beclouded by the good relationship and gestures he obviously enjoyed.

Anyway, you can't please everybody but time shall tell.

The lesson here is that, by and by death will come to us. Be careful what today, because people will use that to Judge and talk about you.

Chosen1984:
I do not Believe in all these ! It's After someone dies that we begin to hear this or that!

Abba Kayari was Extremely Powerful in this dispensation!

The Unnecessary Killings All around the Country went on Abated because people like him refused to take the Neccessary actions..

SweetJoystick:
Another interesting read, first i read was from Simone Kolawole

ABBA KYARI, MY BEST MAN

Tribute by Geoffrey Onyeama

I first met Abba Kyari in 1977 at Warwick University in England. I had gone there to do law as a second first degree. He had come to do a degree in sociology. I had a pending application to do Law at Cambridge and when the result of that application came and it was positive, I left Warwick during the second semester.

But my five months at Warwick was enough to build a strong friendship with Abba that lasted till his passing. Almost 43 years!

There was a small group of Nigerians at Warwick then, which included former President Yakubu Gowon (who was doing a PhD in Political Science) ; Senator Osereihmi Osunbor (former Senator and Governor); Sitonye Roy Wakama (former Deputy Inspector General of Police) and the lawyer, Desmond Guobadia.
There were a few other Nigerians.

Abba was quite skinny in those days! We became friends very quickly and a life-long bond was formed.

Abba was very simple and humble. He was also very friendly with everyone. He had very litte interest in material things. We had a common interest in politics and I believe it was our socialist political values that cemented our friendship because we were always discussing politics and how to salvage Nigeria right up to his passing.

Abba was also surprisingly sociable for someone who was so self-effacing and we had a lot of enjoyable and memorable experiences at parties and discotheques! Abba also had a very good sense of humour belied by his often stern visage.

When I left Warwick University for Cambridge, Abba came to Cambridge to introduce me to his friends there as he had studied in the city for his Advanced levels. After graduating from Warwick University, Abba went up to Cambridge to study law. We kept in touch throughout the last 43 years. We ended up together in Lagos in 1982 to attend Law School for a year. When I left Nigeria in 1985 to work in Geneva for 30 years Abba came to Geneva often to stay with me and whenever I was in Nigeria, he made it a point of coming to see me wherever I was.

When I got married in Owo to my wife from Idoani, Ondo State, Abba was my Best-Man. The officiating Vicar was somewhat perplexed because I was a Roman Catholic Igbo, marrying an Anglican Yoruba in an Anglican church with a Muslim Kanuri/Shuwa Arab Best-Man from Borno State!

The officiating Catholic priest in Geneva, Switzerland, two years later, during the baptism of our first son, was equally perplexed when a muslim Abba Kyari and a muslim Muni Attah-Sonibare were the Godfather and Godmother respectively! Abba was a Pan-Nigerian, global citizen, who recognized no boundaries between peoples, be they racial, ethnic, religious, class or political. He made friends with everyone.

Abba was a man of unimpeachable integrity. Absolutely incorruptible! I remember after he got married to his wonderful wife, Kulu, he told me how he showed her his first paycheck so she would know that he was not wealthy and would not steal!

It broke my heart to see all the false allegations against him on issues of corruption. He showed me the safe in his office where he put any unsolicited gift .

I remember asking him about the rumours making the rounds that he was making money from the fine imposed on MTN. He immediately showed me the memorandum setting up the Committee to deal with the issue and he was not even a member. He also showed me how he had been able to block attempts by many influential and powerful persons to make a lot of money at the expense of the country. He knew that fighting corruption with such single mindedness and fearlessness would see him at the receiving end of the venom of very powerful forces but was undeterred and preferred to ignore all the defamation against him.

Abba was loyal to a fault. He decided he was going to protect his boss, President Muhammadu Buhari, at all costs and would take any number of bullets for him. And he did!
Since he became Chief of Staff to the President, Abba never rested. He worked day and night, seven days a week. He was a hard taskmaster who did not suffer fools gladly. A very demanding boss. He gave a lot of himself and expected his subordinates and colleagues to do the same.

He was very intelligent, very well-read and had a wide and varied professional experience. He held strong opinions and did not yield position easily. But once he believed in someone or a cause, he would fight with everything he had.

Abba believed completely in the Nigerian project and believed completely in President Muhammadu Buhari. During the last five years he gave every second of his life for the success of both. His health suffered as a result but it was a sacrifice and investment he was happy to make. Nigerians will look back in years to come and see that he was truly the Best Man.

Rest In Peace my brother.

(Geoffrey Onyeama is Nigeria's current Minister of Foreign Affairs.)

ZombiePUNISHER:
No space for them..... Believe me

PDJT:
-Lol. Is that for me or you miss road as usual?

Racoon:
So where is the social distancing here? Thank goodness they all witnessed it.This should sound a loud warning to them.

PDJT:
-I suppose the South West faction of APC, led by the Chicago druggie, can now make their move.

ENGINEERG:
Head of cabal gone...you others should try your best to make Nigeria better

fergie001:
That is what every Chief-of-Staff in the world gets.
You shield the our President at all times.

Whatever angst I have is against Buhari not against his CoS.

mrNEMZY:
My own reaction :

I show no sympathy nor do I need to share any form of condolence to one of the people whom have been in the positions to make this country better, but have continuously placed the country in a detoriatory state for selfish gains.
A lot of people have been in one way or the other adversely affected by decisions, some might have died but they didn't get any condolence from them either.
We would all die one day, I inclusive, but in death I want to leave a legacy, not of climbing to the highest political post, but of really helping the lives of those I could touch.

I still maintain no sympathy for them because it would be highly hypocritical.





Nonsense

incomevision3k:
what did this Kyari do that makes people to hate him like this? or is it herd mentality
what were his factual sins?

stephleena:
I don't want to believe you're blind.. but nothing is actually impossible with you BMC's.

Do I have to remind you of the falling out of NSA boss, Monguno? all because of Kyari being power drunk and acting in a capacity that isn't Constitutionally his?

why should Kyari give orders and directives to service chiefs,when it isn't his to give?

his bad advises and more,makes Nigeria bleeds.

ikorodureporta:
death ends any quarrel or difference werey