Prior to Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi’s appointment by late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on June 4, 2009, there had been nine other Governors of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. Of these past governors, none had captured our imagination as much as the now suspended Prince of Kano Emirate. None had also shown such political truancy in an otherwise conservative and measured position as Sanusi.
Whether you like or hate him, the Governor of the CBN on suspension, is a master of rhetoric; a man that knows how to play to the sentiments of a citizenry in want of the dramatic, a section that is in dire want of anti-government pronouncements. And recognising this misplaced seeming populist craving, Sanusi forgot his high office and danced to tunes contrary to his calling as the High Priest of the nation’s financial apex.
Since his suspension for obvious financial misdemeanours despite his high sounding sanctimonious cymbals of finger pointing, the crows have been out in his defence and trying to portray him as a victim in the whole financial mess that has become our lot since independence.
The victim posturing is not entirely new and surprising when one takes into cognisance the insightful and highly researched works of the inspirational speaker and life coach, Steve Maraboli.
Maraboli is a man that understands the drama of life especially as it has to do with the victim mentality. According to him, people like Sanusi who complain, make fuss and create lots of drama, whine and make endless excuses, suffer from delusion and the victim mentality, which ultimately does not take them to their desired goal: to dominate.
He writes: “Your complaints, your drama, your victim mentality, your whining, your blaming, and all of your excuses have NEVER gotten you even a single step closer to your goals or dreams. Let go of your nonsense. Let go of the delusion that you DESERVE better and go EARN it!”
Yes, when Sanusi chanced on our national consciousness on his appointment, it was clear to discerning that he wanted to dominate, to dictate the pace and be the Omnibus direction of how the economy should run; how other government functionaries including those he is answerable to should kowtow to him. Perhaps, his feudal upbringing as a Blue Blood gave him the feeling of superiority; the invincible mettle to spew radical ideas rather than propagate integration, boost confidence in the system and follow clearly defined channels of communications in redressing his perceived wrongs, if any.
But like obviously posited by Maraboli in his psychological summation, the likes of Sanusi are cry babies’ of sorts and people that are truly disturbed by their sense of overwhelming importance. In this regard, he finds good company with the petit former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and Nigeria’s Number One Accidental Public Servant, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, and not the least Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State.
Together like his ilk, Sanusi owing to the fact that he desires public sympathy in order to achieve his ultimate desire for personal advancement, failed as a risk manager that he is reputed to be, to pick his fights while he obscured facts and played on the sentiments of the gullible. If it were not so, as the apex banker, he should in the first instance be consistent and concrete with his facts. But like shifting sand and a house built on the river banks, his figures of what the NNPC failed to remit to the Federation Account kept changing when the high tide of close public scrutiny was focused on his allegations.
More than that, his dabbling into partisan and regional discourse was more cancerous than his allegations of missing billions. Except the Nigerian wishes to deceive himself or be hoodwinked, it is a common reality that we distrust each other as a people; individually and regionally. Rather than preach the Gospel of Integration, temperance and placing our antecedents in proper perspective, Mallam Sanusi played diversionary agenda, apportioning blames to ethnic nationalities and stoke the embers of insurrection.
If not, how can any patriotic Nigerian underpin his seriously flawed essay, The Igbos, The Yoruba and History written in July 2011? In it, Sanusi pummelled two of Nigeria’s main ethnic stock – Igbo and Yoruba. Instead of concentrating on how to strengthen the country’s monetary policy, Sanusi was more at home in creating divisions and opening up otherwise healing wounds.
In that disingenuous piece, he writes of the Igbo: “The Igbo people were responsible for the first military coup in this country; They were responsible for the first attempt at ethnic cleansing; They were responsible for the first violation of constitutionally laid down succession procedures; they were responsible for the destruction of the federation and the creation of the unitary system of which they are now victims (since the initial objective was for the Igbos to dominate the other groups); they were responsible for Nigeria’s first civil war.”
He went further to accuse the Yoruba of displaying “…two consistent streaks that have consistently kept them in opposition and cost them opportunities for coming to power. The first is vanity – a dangerous state of self-delusion borne of imagined intellectual and academic superiority over opponents and rivals alike. Thus, Yoruba politicians have consistently underestimated their northern opponents who thrive on wily intrigues and far-sighted manipulation of the political process.
“They have also assumed to their peril that other southern tribes would naturally acquiesce to their leadership and be lured into a southern alliance whose objective is to help secure supremacy and power for the south – west.”
Continuing, the now exiled CBN ‘historian’ argues that “Even the so-called Oduduwa republic assumes that the people of the former mid-west who had fought for an independent region in the sixties will willingly resubmit themselves to Yoruba domination. This is all in addition to the recent utterances of Afenifere calling for excision of the Yoruba of the north from Fulani domination, a call dismissed by a prominent northern Yoruba leader, Sunday Awoniyi, for its banality and presumptuousness.
“The second streak is self-centredness. Of all the tribes in Nigeria who sometimes fight for parochial reasons, the Yoruba are the only group who clearly believe they are Nigeria. When they have what they want, Nigeria is good. Otherwise it is bad.”
What more need one say of the presumptuousness of Sanusi only to ponder why it took President Goodluck Jonathan this long to shove him aside as his virulent message are even more dangerous than his emerging pilfering of the bank he was given the mandate to manage.
It is easy to agree with those who argue that the president bids his time in his hope that public officers like Sanusi, who sit on their perch and abuse their very benefactors, will have vision of redemption and grab it with both hands.
But with only one thing being consistent with him, Sanusi’s voice remained the most strident and the most melodramatic ever in the history of the CBN. Not based on rock solid facts or on matters that should engender confidence in the system, but on speculations and inherent Aryan mentality as if he is a Nazi.
It was not surprising that as he was consistent in fault-finding, a whinger and burnt energy in picking quarrels with his presumed enemies in Aso Rock and the NNPC, he had less time to properly pursue policies that should see to a healthy economy.
Since Sanusi preferred to see apparitions and present himself as the new Khalifa of change, despite his tainted persona, his suspension is a welcome relief as there is little doubt that he now has ample time to pursue his crystal ball seeing, fire spitting and divisive lectures and hysterical presumptions.
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Sanusi: A different kind of Governor – Prompt News by Mr. E. Ogbeche – 1st March 2014.
THE PUBLICATIONS and the revelations contained in these two features tell about the imperatives required of the Confab and such other Bodies given the assignment to fashion the modus operandi of operations of Institutions/ sectors in Nigeria! See what I mean by the word Specification below – therefore make this comment mandatory or a good read! I did not know about the contents of Mr. E. Ogbeche’s own feature until only yesterday but most of it I just wrote out of that premonition I talked about! The effect of intimacy megalomania (I.M.) and debauchery going on in the Universities and Work places in Nigeria must be addressed in the Confab also please! Think about my contributions in that my web-site for your highways particularly the Option A-4, I don’t know about your own contributions for the growth of Nigeria, yet they can hire those without any meaningful contributions to work for us in Nigeria reflecting on these features – in there for the quantity of drinks and amount of food they can consume – the amount of money they can squander under cover as a CEO! When Sanusi Lamido came on first as the Governor of CBN, almost all commended the appointment hoping that the agitation for youths to get into the spectrums of government and management of Nigeria’s affairs had not only arrived but should be fostered! With this exposés you begin to think, if only we had started with that my National Orientation programme early – under IBB’s administration as suggested in 1992, what might have become of Nigerian politicians and public office holders today, folks! That not withstanding, I have urged them to consider a New Motto for the NYSC and they are still dithering – tells you about the drag in decision making in Nigeria not realising that time and tide wait for nobody as the saying goes and that they are dealing with public affairs of the people and not private!
[“More than that, his dabbling into partisan and regional discourse was more cancerous than his allegations of missing billions. Except the Nigerian wishes to deceive himself or be hoodwinked, it is a common reality that we distrust each other as a people; individually and regionally. Rather than preach the Gospel of Integration, temperance and placing our antecedents in proper perspective, Mallam Sanusi played diversionary agenda, apportioning blames to ethnic nationalities and stoke the embers of insurrection.
If not, how can any patriotic Nigerian underpin his seriously flawed essay, The Igbos, The Yoruba and History written in July 2011? In it, Sanusi pummeled two of Nigeria’s main ethnic stock – Igbo and Yoruba. Instead of concentrating on how to strengthen the country’s monetary policy, Sanusi was more at home in creating divisions and opening up otherwise healing wounds.
In that disingenuous piece, he writes of the Igbo: “The Igbo people were responsible for the first military coup in this country; They were responsible for the first attempt at ethnic cleansing; They were responsible for the first violation of constitutionally laid down succession procedures; they were responsible for the destruction of the federation and the creation of the unitary system of which they are now victims (since the initial objective was for the Igbos to dominate the other groups); they were responsible for Nigeria’s first civil war.”
He went further to accuse the Yoruba of displaying “…two consistent streaks that have consistently kept them in opposition and cost them opportunities for coming to power. The first is vanity – a dangerous state of self-delusion borne of imagined intellectual and academic superiority over opponents and rivals alike. Thus, Yoruba politicians have consistently underestimated their northern opponents, who thrive on wily intrigues and far-sighted manipulation of the political process.
YOU CAN SEE HE TRIES A SWYPE (take a Mickey) ON HIS PEOPLE PERHAPS TO JUSTIFY HIS RADICALISM – that he is fearless, thus: –
Ø {WILY INTRIGUES AND FAR-SIGHTED MANIPULATION OF THE POLITICAL PROCESS INDEED – he is obviously talking about reliance on the agreement for President’s term in office by (berating) his own people, rather than be fortright in political matters in Nigeria – it is all happening in Nigeria reminds you about my “Nigeria in a QUANDARY afflicting even the PhD holders!”}
“They have also assumed to their peril that other southern tribes would naturally acquiesce to their leadership and be lured into a southern alliance whose objective is to help secure supremacy and power for the south – west.”]
{All that coming from the obviously ambitious Mallam Sanusi, is not farfetched folks, hence I talked about whoever advised you about a change in the Constitution and the system of government for Nigeria without thinking properly in that vacuum created after the civil war! I need further to say that Dr. Zik could not have wished for the kind of Constitution for Nigeria knowing very well the incompatibility of the psycholog(ies) of those that are going to use it or work under its provisions as we all have witnessed today! Yes, Sanusi’s ‘streaks’ indeed I wonder what Mr. Fani Kayode, Asewaju Tinubu and Pastor Olu Bakare have to say about his observations! ‘Course we know what the rigmarole and manoeuvring is all about going by the historical brush of the Caliphate and the Yorubas in Old Kwara State! But then we had Chief Awolowo and his advisers in the War Council for Nigeria before the ABURI Conference for them to recall this history and do something then – hence I said about Nigeria, that the issues are more about misgyuided aspirations, ambitions/ missed opportunities! Best for Fani Kayode and Asewaju Tinubu to answer to this insinuation from Sanusi about Yorubas not me! They keep talking and pointing fingers yet the problems persist – you proffer solutions somebody takes it up and runs with it and they leave you complaining!
He unrealistically turned onto the Igbos alleging: “The Igbos were responsible – They were responsible for Nigeria’s first civil war,” Yes all that insinuations and yet his Kinsmen talk about Revolution for Nigeria forgetting that unless you are revolutionary yourself there is no way you can conduct one successfully! I mean,
Maj. Chukwuemeka Nzeogwu had his friends both Yorubas and Hausa at least in Gen. Hasan Katsina and others in Edo State! What happened was that these friends of Nzeogwu became afraid and did (could) not carry out their own assignments and others chickened out if you read Jeremiah Useni’s account Sept. 2013 of the causes of the war properly! To this effect Sanusi may well be writing, like Fani Kayode, from that 2nd hand – hearsay position considering their ages at the period! In spite of all that Sanusi’s officers have been in charge of leadership for Nigeria and we did not fair any better rather Nigeria’s furtunes went downhill, folks,
and we are still grappling with big problems in Nigeria! It is important to remind all those talking about revolution; If you cannot do something about the traditional rillers in your tribe as they did in France and United Kingdom better you let the sleeping dogs to lie – it is my reason for the solutions I have submitted to help us in Nigeria to achieve success peacefully with nomore bloodsheds!
He talked about ethnic cleansing and he forgot intuitively that there had been fighting between the Hausa and Igbos since time in the Northern Nigeria as far back as the 40s at least in Jos and Kanu! All that, when the time came for Nigeria to go separate ways why did they not allow the Igbos to go but the two – the Yorubas and the Northerners agreed in that unholy alliance only to now be regretting it each one of them as a result of the trappings currently in Nigeria! All in all, the issue is about that lack of proper National Orientation of leaders for country like Nigeria and they are still not doing something effective for the effect to take a centre stage in
the country!
Sanusi talked about Igbos’ streaks also and you wonder whose streak was/ is the much touted ‘One term agreement’ with Jonathan! He said also that the Igbos foiled the agreement and you go aghast want to say to him – haba abokina wana kankamba ne, in this day and age when first year students in Universities registered for law studies know what implications of ‘social contracts’ mean/ hold against Statutory provisions in Constitutions! I mean, it tells about the depravity in the thinking (nature of things) in Nigeria!
Lest we forget, Dim Ojukwu warned them about the possible outcome of not dealing (discussing) with problems in Nigeria rationally in that ABURI CACCORD in Ghana and they all had good representations and advisers from British government also then yet they could not see the dangers such that everybody is now blaming the Igbo-man in Nigeria!}
Ø We are in that situation in Igbo parlance where say, thus: – Aku fesia odalu awor! Means: When that first ‘rain-flying-ants’ had flown to their delight they usually fall for the frogs! You probably have the euphemism in your own language, thus, after all is said – the ‘Head start ambition’ appears now to be a merage and we have all come to that square one position in Nigeria, as it were! But I am saying study my solution for your political leadership and see what silver lining there is in it that can help in our situation!
I mean reading the above account and many more of its kind about Nigeria and her leaders/ citizens barring rhetoric and the mumbo-jumbo going on in the country, if you are good historian and or psychologists you can easily surmise reasons why Nigeria has problems! The leadership is poor – very deficient in ideology; in most of the cases/ incidents they cannot comprehend or agree on one and on the other hand you discover that the citizenry is still disappointingly gullible being heavily encumbered by customs, culture and religion against all efforts/ manners to get them accept need for conformity to standards internationally that enables Nationalistic tendencies and therefore (thereby encourages consistent) economic growth for nations! You discover that what is happening leads to the maxim; Here today gone tomorrow – we are still in a ‘stop and go’ situation! I mean reading through the account above (about such personnel as Lamido Sanusi – his training and experience) you wonder who can you trust to hold on to ethics and morals so as to serve as ‘Role Models’ for the up-and-coming Nigerians – the youths we talk about! I mean we have recently read open letters too and the contents noted! You hear them talk about Nigeria in a disdain manner – in bewilderment sometimes and their leaders make parody of the Institutions! Don’t seem to care about the outfalls – reminds you about that Shakespeare’s – If simple crime committed out of distemper cannot be winked at how do you deal with those concocted, chewed, swallowed and digested? Well talking about 20 $Million or $Billion, Lamido Sanusi should give provide us prove – don’t forget that they claimed Jonathan signed a document for ‘One term’ behold up till this moment/ time nobody has been able to produce the paper and you wonder what purpose Constitutions serve for Nations if groups can organise themselves to purposefully circumvent what the provisions are in a Constitution – Ghana had death of their President and Ethiopia had same experience and they trasited smoothly but they want us to go by group agreements in Nigeria to put aside the provisions of the Constitution! I consider such thinking imoral and diabolical to say the least! A good reason why the Confab must be down to earth this time not leaving any stones unturned – you must aim to reduce every aspect of the directives in the Book to a state of ‘modus operandi’ in writing – in black and whikre if you do understand what written Constitution means particularly for country like Nigeria with all these experiences! The country is for th people and not for the few groups – incidentally I have handed in a solution like the Option A-4, to help us in Nigeria!
What I notice they (all those hoping o go into public service or politics) do in Nigeria is that they think how policy proposals will affect their personal interests first before they decide whether to accept it or not – i. e. to go ahead with such policies! Therefore all those wishing to come to the public domain need to be ‘weaned’ properly to know what (responsibility) they owe to the entire country if Nigeria must grow to that great expectations!
You probably have read my comment about reasons why you have ‘written Constitution’, which applies also to all documents related to use in fashioning officers and politicians meant to work for the public interest! We have seen how because your Constitution was drafted believing that the operators would keep to the provisions only to discover that it was wrongly skewed! The same thing has now manifested in the CBN Act or what have you to guide/ direct their ‘modus operandi!’ In law, it is better not to leave documents meant to direct modes of operations open-ended because you don’t know the character of who may come to use the document hence in my description of what Constitution should be and for Nigeria I said: It should be such that is almost watertight so that whilst you are not going to be present (around) all the time to use it in your absence, it will still be serving everybody including you rightly! This is why we have what is known as ‘performance specifications’ for certain kinds of works in the building Industry! It is meant to direct whoever is going to carry out the job to conform to the directives on the specification so as to achieve or arrive at the right produce! We heard about one Dr. Moghalu and his BIG Book published on risks and hazards in Financial Institutions and he works for the CBN yet we ar faced ith he kind of improprieties reported about Lamido Sanusi!
He probably reminded or pointed all the risks and mistakes going on in the Apex Bank but because the Act was drawn in open-ended fashion as I said, Dr. Onwualu’s present/ persuasive attempts in the Bank could not even impact on Sanusi Lamido’s deportment! Afyrt all Dr. Soludo and others before him passed through the same Bank but we did not have th kind of prfligacy reported bout Sanusi! So it goes to further to explain my observation about the “Dun King’s documentary – Last of the Wild!” if you can find it o watch! Sadly Nigeria is being run by ‘customs and religion’ if you are a keen observer rather than by Common Law as in other developed or willing to develop economies and as long as this is the case, we are not going to arrive in time – we shall remain in that DOLDRUMS for a long time! I hear they said: Mua’zu – the new Chairman for PDP is begging OBJ for reconciliation and you wonder why, why; OBJ has had his time; as a matter of fact, going by the trappings in that his open letter to the President, does not require to be consulted in any serious affairs about the country if you people are really serious and know what is required or how to build a Nation! I will recommend that they should go on for a ‘New Mission’ to give advise on how to settle issues/ military problems (misunderstandings) in countries like Mali and Central Africa Republic – CAR!
I mean you heard the experience of Berlusconi in Italy in spite of his financial empire – the Press and what have you, when the time came for him to be disciplined in Italy the Courts did it but out there in Nigeria you beg people even though they are the causes of the problems you have in that country! It is unfortunate that those you go to help you in Nigeria are not politicians but impostures and opportunists all of whom play (capitalise) on your intelligence/ weakness and gullibility! I said of Nigeria earlier whether what we want to be can be achieved by being forthright or through cowardice in our pursuit of the affairs of people? I said already that there is solution for Nigeria including on for corruption, all you need is lets discuss and start trying them out! Like the Option A-4, others from me will do the same for you given time!
Haba Mallam Sanusi woni ili wanna, kankamba ne – menene ya kawo illi wanna kwuma agelin’mu? Wandansu, ageli Ghana, Zimbabwe, Uganda, kwo Rwanda su na kwokeli abasu recognition as Industrial Nations, kwu na fada kwowa de kwowa ageli Nijeria, nna tambe ka dege ina ka zuba duka professional ethics and Certificates (boko-takarda) n’nka de principles from all the training and exposures you have? Na faru ili wanna ba chawu Mallam geskiyane sabo de An’llah! Menene ya kawo ili magana wanna ? Abunde muna (nike) so – kwu yi ma abonde zei bamu anfani agelin mu, mu jala Nijeria de shi kowei!
What it is, I raised it much earlier folks; that National Orientation which we could have had from IBB’s administration is totally tacking in Nigeria – take it or leave it! The aim of the exercise cannot be over stressed for Nigeria going by this example and more of it to come depending on the thinking (mind-set) of the protagonists about what this administration is doing for Nigeria! I want to say that what you’re doing presently in the Neighbour2Neighbour is not good/ wide enough to foster the new programmes about Transformation for Nigeria! Just like week at the passing out of the NYSC students, I once again reminded that you considered my new proposal for the Motto; Nun Sibi Sed Aliis! for Nigerians to take care of the impact culture, custom and religion have on the psychology of the people but for some reasons nobody is thinking that far! It is disheartening what is happening really in Nigeria particularly within the so called educated elite! For the uneducated it is understandable but then amongst these you have properly educated citizens of Nigeria as close relations and or parents, who one expects that by now their knowledge of what is responsible for the slow growth in Nigeria, would accept and or endeavour to help (all hinds on deck – of concern) to engineer and speed up the mind sets of their own peoples! You discover that the mistrusts, suspicions and envy are such that you sometimes aghast and you are minded to pop the question: What is it all about, folks – to get Rich quickly?
I had earlier said of Nigeria is a CONUNDRUM hoping to be unravelled and not long after that observation, I raised another observation which is – Nigeria in a afflicting even PhD holders otherwise, they constitute (fill) the leadership cadre, draft QUANDARY and make the laws in Nigeria and in fact, supervise the laws also you could say, yet we have the problems caused by the groups! Then you ask the question: Why is it so in Nigeria, for example? I had earlier also requested that they looked into the Motto of the youths – in the 80s: “Do as others before you!” which you discover in true analysis, runs counter to what we want to achieve for the country all because, going by the issues on foot about Lamido Sanusi, if they should (all) take a queue from his depositions what do you expect might become of things in Nigeria? But on the contrast if they were to be guided, weaned/ initiated to my new Motto: “Nun Sibi Sed Aliis!” and they become properly grounded in its literary meaning backed by that effective application of laws, you will have or discover a faster growth and transformation across board for Nigeria!:
The orientation you are practicing now involves the children and the youth only without the older generation and the personnel at your civil service set-ups! So what do you hope to achieve and in what year could this happen knowing that you are not touching the root of the problems! My Orientation solution is meant to transcend all the customs and culture/ religion which sadly interferes with the attitude and therefore the outcomes of performances and deportments in Nigeria given time will change not forgetting my solution for corruption, which I said already could change things in Nigeria within One year – they will all sit up! Think about the effect of Option A-4 if you all come to accept the aim and intention of the solution – to help you be forthright in Nigeria about election results! I want to stop here and let’s hope for the best for Nigeria, folks!
Tell you something, Sanusi Lamido’s experience/ case may well bring to focus (to the fore) that British Statutory provision in law of making amends ‘Repayment begins where Restitution ends! It appears from Sanusi’s utterances and deportment that he is both the Judge and the Jury (Alpha and omega) in the Central Bank jurisdiction/ management – a situation the Confab will have to look into also! I said it earlier about ‘Mekwantancy theory’ about Nigeria! You think you have finished with one problem another rears its head – a ‘cacophony’ of problems some of which incomprehensible, folks! Reason why you must have how they should operate in these public Institutions reduced in black and white as in Constitutions otherwise if you leave things open-ended you’ll regret it at a later date, folks!
No doubt in what the heading of this feature suggests once you are familiar with the CBN’s Act or operational document, which encourages the Governor of it to operate as a DESPORT! Like your Constitution now under review/ amendment, whoever advised for such documentation, you forgot that the psychology of the Directors – Nigerians or what have you will vary especially in Nigeria, where culture and religion still have influence on behaviours of people irrespective of their education, as we learnt in the British Constitutional Law – ‘The Chancellors foot varies according to the individual’, therefore make you put in adequate checks in the Mode of Operation/ Document (MoO/D) for the operators! That those before him performed creditably does not mean that the successors to the seat will be of the same character; same thing applies to your Constitution! You’ll recall my definition for a compatible Constitution for Nigeria and, in particular the essence of that my New Motto for the NYSC programme – what it should be because you may not be there all time to be part of the operators therefore, you must ensure to put in enough checks and balances to guard those going to use it after you have gone – a public matter/ affairs!
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CBN stinks as FRC opens lid on financial improprieties, and corruption!
Sanusi: A different kind of Governor – Prompt News by Mr. E. Ogbeche – 1st March 2014.
THE PUBLICATIONS and the revelations contained in these two features tell about the imperatives required of the Confab and such other Bodies given the assignment to fashion the modus operandi of operations of Institutions/ sectors in Nigeria! See what I mean by the word Specification below – therefore make this comment mandatory or a good read! I did not know about the contents of Mr. E. Ogbeche’s own feature until only yesterday but most of it I just wrote out of that premonition I talked about! The effect of intimacy megalomania (I.M.) and debauchery going on in the Universities and Work places in Nigeria must be addressed in the Confab also please! Think about my contributions in that my web-site for your highways particularly the Option A-4, I don’t know about your own contributions for the growth of Nigeria, yet they can hire those without any meaningful contributions to work for us in Nigeria reflecting on these features – in there for the quantity of drinks and amount of food they can consume – the amount of money they can squander under cover as a CEO! When Sanusi Lamido came on first as the Governor of CBN, almost all commended the appointment hoping that the agitation for youths to get into the spectrums of government and management of Nigeria’s affairs had not only arrived but should be fostered! With this exposés you begin to think, if only we had started with that my National Orientation programme early – under IBB’s administration as suggested in 1992, what might have become of Nigerian politicians and public office holders today, folks! That not withstanding, I have urged them to consider a New Motto for the NYSC and they are still dithering – tells you about the drag in decision making in Nigeria not realising that time and tide wait for nobody as the saying goes and that they are dealing with public affairs of the people and not private!
[“More than that, his dabbling into partisan and regional discourse was more cancerous than his allegations of missing billions. Except the Nigerian wishes to deceive himself or be hoodwinked, it is a common reality that we distrust each other as a people; individually and regionally. Rather than preach the Gospel of Integration, temperance and placing our antecedents in proper perspective, Mallam Sanusi played diversionary agenda, apportioning blames to ethnic nationalities and stoke the embers of insurrection.
If not, how can any patriotic Nigerian underpin his seriously flawed essay, The Igbos, The Yoruba and History written in July 2011? In it, Sanusi pummeled two of Nigeria’s main ethnic stock – Igbo and Yoruba. Instead of concentrating on how to strengthen the country’s monetary policy, Sanusi was more at home in creating divisions and opening up otherwise healing wounds.
In that disingenuous piece, he writes of the Igbo: “The Igbo people were responsible for the first military coup in this country; They were responsible for the first attempt at ethnic cleansing; They were responsible for the first violation of constitutionally laid down succession procedures; they were responsible for the destruction of the federation and the creation of the unitary system of which they are now victims (since the initial objective was for the Igbos to dominate the other groups); they were responsible for Nigeria’s first civil war.”
He went further to accuse the Yoruba of displaying “…two consistent streaks that have consistently kept them in opposition and cost them opportunities for coming to power. The first is vanity – a dangerous state of self-delusion borne of imagined intellectual and academic superiority over opponents and rivals alike. Thus, Yoruba politicians have consistently underestimated their northern opponents, who thrive on wily intrigues and far-sighted manipulation of the political process.
YOU CAN SEE HE TRIES A SWYPE (take a Mickey) ON HIS PEOPLE PERHAPS TO JUSTIFY HIS RADICALISM – that he is fearless, thus: –
Ø {WILY INTRIGUES AND FAR-SIGHTED MANIPULATION OF THE POLITICAL PROCESS INDEED – he is obviously talking about reliance on the agreement for President’s term in office by (berating) his own people, rather than be fortright in political matters in Nigeria – it is all happening in Nigeria reminds you about my “Nigeria in a QUANDARY afflicting even the PhD holders!”}
“They have also assumed to their peril that other southern tribes would naturally acquiesce to their leadership and be lured into a southern alliance whose objective is to help secure supremacy and power for the south – west.”]
{All that coming from the obviously ambitious Mallam Sanusi, is not farfetched folks, hence I talked about whoever advised you about a change in the Constitution and the system of government for Nigeria without thinking properly in that vacuum created after the civil war! I need further to say that Dr. Zik could not have wished for the kind of Constitution for Nigeria knowing very well the incompatibility of the psycholog(ies) of those that are going to use it or work under its provisions as we all have witnessed today! Yes, Sanusi’s ‘streaks’ indeed I wonder what Mr. Fani Kayode, Asewaju Tinubu and Pastor Olu Bakare have to say about his observations! ‘Course we know what the rigmarole and manoeuvring is all about going by the historical brush of the Caliphate and the Yorubas in Old Kwara State! But then we had Chief Awolowo and his advisers in the War Council for Nigeria before the ABURI Conference for them to recall this history and do something then – hence I said about Nigeria, that the issues are more about misgyuided aspirations, ambitions/ missed opportunities! Best for Fani Kayode and Asewaju Tinubu to answer to this insinuation from Sanusi about Yorubas not me! They keep talking and pointing fingers yet the problems persist – you proffer solutions somebody takes it up and runs with it and they leave you complaining!
He unrealistically turned onto the Igbos alleging: “The Igbos were responsible – They were responsible for Nigeria’s first civil war,” Yes all that insinuations and yet his Kinsmen talk about Revolution for Nigeria forgetting that unless you are revolutionary yourself there is no way you can conduct one successfully! I mean,
Maj. Chukwuemeka Nzeogwu had his friends both Yorubas and Hausa at least in Gen. Hasan Katsina and others in Edo State! What happened was that these friends of Nzeogwu became afraid and did (could) not carry out their own assignments and others chickened out if you read Jeremiah Useni’s account Sept. 2013 of the causes of the war properly! To this effect Sanusi may well be writing, like Fani Kayode, from that 2nd hand – hearsay position considering their ages at the period! In spite of all that Sanusi’s officers have been in charge of leadership for Nigeria and we did not fair any better rather Nigeria’s furtunes went downhill, folks,
and we are still grappling with big problems in Nigeria! It is important to remind all those talking about revolution; If you cannot do something about the traditional rillers in your tribe as they did in France and United Kingdom better you let the sleeping dogs to lie – it is my reason for the solutions I have submitted to help us in Nigeria to achieve success peacefully with nomore bloodsheds!
He talked about ethnic cleansing and he forgot intuitively that there had been fighting between the Hausa and Igbos since time in the Northern Nigeria as far back as the 40s at least in Jos and Kanu! All that, when the time came for Nigeria to go separate ways why did they not allow the Igbos to go but the two – the Yorubas and the Northerners agreed in that unholy alliance only to now be regretting it each one of them as a result of the trappings currently in Nigeria! All in all, the issue is about that lack of proper National Orientation of leaders for country like Nigeria and they are still not doing something effective for the effect to take a centre stage in
the country!
Sanusi talked about Igbos’ streaks also and you wonder whose streak was/ is the much touted ‘One term agreement’ with Jonathan! He said also that the Igbos foiled the agreement and you go aghast want to say to him – haba abokina wana kankamba ne, in this day and age when first year students in Universities registered for law studies know what implications of ‘social contracts’ mean/ hold against Statutory provisions in Constitutions! I mean, it tells about the depravity in the thinking (nature of things) in Nigeria!
Lest we forget, Dim Ojukwu warned them about the possible outcome of not dealing (discussing) with problems in Nigeria rationally in that ABURI CACCORD in Ghana and they all had good representations and advisers from British government also then yet they could not see the dangers such that everybody is now blaming the Igbo-man in Nigeria!}
Ø We are in that situation in Igbo parlance where say, thus: – Aku fesia odalu awor! Means: When that first ‘rain-flying-ants’ had flown to their delight they usually fall for the frogs! You probably have the euphemism in your own language, thus, after all is said – the ‘Head start ambition’ appears now to be a merage and we have all come to that square one position in Nigeria, as it were! But I am saying study my solution for your political leadership and see what silver lining there is in it that can help in our situation!
I mean reading the above account and many more of its kind about Nigeria and her leaders/ citizens barring rhetoric and the mumbo-jumbo going on in the country, if you are good historian and or psychologists you can easily surmise reasons why Nigeria has problems! The leadership is poor – very deficient in ideology; in most of the cases/ incidents they cannot comprehend or agree on one and on the other hand you discover that the citizenry is still disappointingly gullible being heavily encumbered by customs, culture and religion against all efforts/ manners to get them accept need for conformity to standards internationally that enables Nationalistic tendencies and therefore (thereby encourages consistent) economic growth for nations! You discover that what is happening leads to the maxim; Here today gone tomorrow – we are still in a ‘stop and go’ situation! I mean reading through the account above (about such personnel as Lamido Sanusi – his training and experience) you wonder who can you trust to hold on to ethics and morals so as to serve as ‘Role Models’ for the up-and-coming Nigerians – the youths we talk about! I mean we have recently read open letters too and the contents noted! You hear them talk about Nigeria in a disdain manner – in bewilderment sometimes and their leaders make parody of the Institutions! Don’t seem to care about the outfalls – reminds you about that Shakespeare’s – If simple crime committed out of distemper cannot be winked at how do you deal with those concocted, chewed, swallowed and digested? Well talking about 20 $Million or $Billion, Lamido Sanusi should give provide us prove – don’t forget that they claimed Jonathan signed a document for ‘One term’ behold up till this moment/ time nobody has been able to produce the paper and you wonder what purpose Constitutions serve for Nations if groups can organise themselves to purposefully circumvent what the provisions are in a Constitution – Ghana had death of their President and Ethiopia had same experience and they trasited smoothly but they want us to go by group agreements in Nigeria to put aside the provisions of the Constitution! I consider such thinking imoral and diabolical to say the least! A good reason why the Confab must be down to earth this time not leaving any stones unturned – you must aim to reduce every aspect of the directives in the Book to a state of ‘modus operandi’ in writing – in black and whikre if you do understand what written Constitution means particularly for country like Nigeria with all these experiences! The country is for th people and not for the few groups – incidentally I have handed in a solution like the Option A-4, to help us in Nigeria!
What I notice they (all those hoping o go into public service or politics) do in Nigeria is that they think how policy proposals will affect their personal interests first before they decide whether to accept it or not – i. e. to go ahead with such policies! Therefore all those wishing to come to the public domain need to be ‘weaned’ properly to know what (responsibility) they owe to the entire country if Nigeria must grow to that great expectations!
You probably have read my comment about reasons why you have ‘written Constitution’, which applies also to all documents related to use in fashioning officers and politicians meant to work for the public interest! We have seen how because your Constitution was drafted believing that the operators would keep to the provisions only to discover that it was wrongly skewed! The same thing has now manifested in the CBN Act or what have you to guide/ direct their ‘modus operandi!’ In law, it is better not to leave documents meant to direct modes of operations open-ended because you don’t know the character of who may come to use the document hence in my description of what Constitution should be and for Nigeria I said: It should be such that is almost watertight so that whilst you are not going to be present (around) all the time to use it in your absence, it will still be serving everybody including you rightly! This is why we have what is known as ‘performance specifications’ for certain kinds of works in the building Industry! It is meant to direct whoever is going to carry out the job to conform to the directives on the specification so as to achieve or arrive at the right produce! We heard about one Dr. Moghalu and his BIG Book published on risks and hazards in Financial Institutions and he works for the CBN yet we ar faced ith he kind of improprieties reported about Lamido Sanusi!
He probably reminded or pointed all the risks and mistakes going on in the Apex Bank but because the Act was drawn in open-ended fashion as I said, Dr. Onwualu’s present/ persuasive attempts in the Bank could not even impact on Sanusi Lamido’s deportment! Afyrt all Dr. Soludo and others before him passed through the same Bank but we did not have th kind of prfligacy reported bout Sanusi! So it goes to further to explain my observation about the “Dun King’s documentary – Last of the Wild!” if you can find it o watch! Sadly Nigeria is being run by ‘customs and religion’ if you are a keen observer rather than by Common Law as in other developed or willing to develop economies and as long as this is the case, we are not going to arrive in time – we shall remain in that DOLDRUMS for a long time! I hear they said: Mua’zu – the new Chairman for PDP is begging OBJ for reconciliation and you wonder why, why; OBJ has had his time; as a matter of fact, going by the trappings in that his open letter to the President, does not require to be consulted in any serious affairs about the country if you people are really serious and know what is required or how to build a Nation! I will recommend that they should go on for a ‘New Mission’ to give advise on how to settle issues/ military problems (misunderstandings) in countries like Mali and Central Africa Republic – CAR!
I mean you heard the experience of Berlusconi in Italy in spite of his financial empire – the Press and what have you, when the time came for him to be disciplined in Italy the Courts did it but out there in Nigeria you beg people even though they are the causes of the problems you have in that country! It is unfortunate that those you go to help you in Nigeria are not politicians but impostures and opportunists all of whom play (capitalise) on your intelligence/ weakness and gullibility! I said of Nigeria earlier whether what we want to be can be achieved by being forthright or through cowardice in our pursuit of the affairs of people? I said already that there is solution for Nigeria including on for corruption, all you need is lets discuss and start trying them out! Like the Option A-4, others from me will do the same for you given time!
Haba Mallam Sanusi woni ili wanna, kankamba ne – menene ya kawo illi wanna kwuma agelin’mu? Wandansu, ageli Ghana, Zimbabwe, Uganda, kwo Rwanda su na kwokeli abasu recognition as Industrial Nations, kwu na fada kwowa de kwowa ageli Nijeria, nna tambe ka dege ina ka zuba duka professional ethics and Certificates (boko-takarda) n’nka de principles from all the training and exposures you have? Na faru ili wanna ba chawu Mallam geskiyane sabo de An’llah! Menene ya kawo ili magana wanna ? Abunde muna (nike) so – kwu yi ma abonde zei bamu anfani agelin mu, mu jala Nijeria de shi kowei!
What it is, I raised it much earlier folks; that National Orientation which we could have had from IBB’s administration is totally tacking in Nigeria – take it or leave it! The aim of the exercise cannot be over stressed for Nigeria going by this example and more of it to come depending on the thinking (mind-set) of the protagonists about what this administration is doing for Nigeria! I want to say that what you’re doing presently in the Neighbour2Neighbour is not good/ wide enough to foster the new programmes about Transformation for Nigeria! Just like week at the passing out of the NYSC students, I once again reminded that you considered my new proposal for the Motto; Nun Sibi Sed Aliis! for Nigerians to take care of the impact culture, custom and religion have on the psychology of the people but for some reasons nobody is thinking that far! It is disheartening what is happening really in Nigeria particularly within the so called educated elite! For the uneducated it is understandable but then amongst these you have properly educated citizens of Nigeria as close relations and or parents, who one expects that by now their knowledge of what is responsible for the slow growth in Nigeria, would accept and or endeavour to help (all hinds on deck – of concern) to engineer and speed up the mind sets of their own peoples! You discover that the mistrusts, suspicions and envy are such that you sometimes aghast and you are minded to pop the question: What is it all about, folks – to get Rich quickly?
I had earlier said of Nigeria is a CONUNDRUM hoping to be unravelled and not long after that observation, I raised another observation which is – Nigeria in a afflicting even PhD holders otherwise, they constitute (fill) the leadership cadre, draft QUANDARY and make the laws in Nigeria and in fact, supervise the laws also you could say, yet we have the problems caused by the groups! Then you ask the question: Why is it so in Nigeria, for example? I had earlier also requested that they looked into the Motto of the youths – in the 80s: “Do as others before you!” which you discover in true analysis, runs counter to what we want to achieve for the country all because, going by the issues on foot about Lamido Sanusi, if they should (all) take a queue from his depositions what do you expect might become of things in Nigeria? But on the contrast if they were to be guided, weaned/ initiated to my new Motto: “Nun Sibi Sed Aliis!” and they become properly grounded in its literary meaning backed by that effective application of laws, you will have or discover a faster growth and transformation across board for Nigeria!:
The orientation you are practicing now involves the children and the youth only without the older generation and the personnel at your civil service set-ups! So what do you hope to achieve and in what year could this happen knowing that you are not touching the root of the problems! My Orientation solution is meant to transcend all the customs and culture/ religion which sadly interferes with the attitude and therefore the outcomes of performances and deportments in Nigeria given time will change not forgetting my solution for corruption, which I said already could change things in Nigeria within One year – they will all sit up! Think about the effect of Option A-4 if you all come to accept the aim and intention of the solution – to help you be forthright in Nigeria about election results! I want to stop here and let’s hope for the best for Nigeria, folks!
Tell you something, Sanusi Lamido’s experience/ case may well bring to focus (to the fore) that British Statutory provision in law of making amends ‘Repayment begins where Restitution ends! It appears from Sanusi’s utterances and deportment that he is both the Judge and the Jury (Alpha and omega) in the Central Bank jurisdiction/ management – a situation the Confab will have to look into also! I said it earlier about ‘Mekwantancy theory’ about Nigeria! You think you have finished with one problem another rears its head – a ‘cacophony’ of problems some of which incomprehensible, folks! Reason why you must have how they should operate in these public Institutions reduced in black and white as in Constitutions otherwise if you leave things open-ended you’ll regret it at a later date, folks!
No doubt in what the heading of this feature suggests once you are familiar with the CBN’s Act or operational document, which encourages the Governor of it to operate as a DESPORT! Like your Constitution now under review/ amendment, whoever advised for such documentation, you forgot that the psychology of the Directors – Nigerians or what have you will vary especially in Nigeria, where culture and religion still have influence on behaviours of people irrespective of their education, as we learnt in the British Constitutional Law – ‘The Chancellors foot varies according to the individual’, therefore make you put in adequate checks in the Mode of Operation/ Document (MoO/D) for the operators! That those before him performed creditably does not mean that the successors to the seat will be of the same character; same thing applies to your Constitution! You’ll recall my definition for a compatible Constitution for Nigeria and, in particular the essence of that my New Motto for the NYSC programme – what it should be because you may not be there all time to be part of the operators therefore, you must ensure to put in enough checks and balances to guard those going to use it after you have gone – a public matter/ affairs!
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