More Than Enough Is Too Much Governor Mu'azu!
A long time ago, I was on guard
to stop children from playing on the trips of sand bought by my
father for building a new four bedroom flat to accommodate us
and put a stop to the harassment of a ‘sting’ called land-lord.
Good of a son Isn’t it? But my grand father who was around for
medical treatment stopped me instead and made a prophetic
statement; he told me to be aware of sand that children do not
play on when my time to build comes. I looked at them as
destroyers or enemies of progress as you may prefer to call
them.
The late old papa was fond of
proverbs and idiomatic expressions.
I seem not
to comprehend his wisdom when he said to me “a thief thinks
every man steals” or “all are not thieves whom the dog bark at”.
At another occasion, out of ‘ignorance’ I began to hate my
grand-pa, when on my way to school he told me “may your ways be
rough” – meaning; safe journey. I was quick to pick offence
thinking he had wished me bad. He had equally taught me that
“only men who have no care for the future have sorrows for the
present". Perhaps there could not be a better time to understand
those sayings than now. What exactly do I mean by this? Democracy has brought about freedom of speech, but some
pessimists have turned it to “demo – crazy”. As early as 2000,
they pretended using the then APP platform to accuse the amiable
personality of governor Muazu of practicing “a neo-military
command structure” (Weekly Trust of 6 – 12 October 2000 pg 29
– 30) that reminds me of 29th May, 1999 in his inaugural speech,
as the 13th governor of Bauchi State, he started by condemning
the old cankerworm of politics of tri-chotomy in the state and
spoke harshly
about indolent self-centered people. It was in response to their
fabricated lies and fatuous ironically paid write-ups that
compelled me to write back using same channel. (weekly trust 20
– 26 October 2000 pg 17) captioned “weekly trust is being
corrupted by politicians” being a resident of Bauchi and most
importantly as a proud and true citizen of Nigeria who would not
like others misinformed, I’m writing again to trace the
positive. Those wolves in sheep's clothing never see anything
right in true governance administered by governor (Dr) Ahmad Adamu Muazu (Walin Bauchi). They keep chameleoning
by using
different names, forms and channels all in the name of “concerned
citizens of Bauchi” to disdain his person and personality. On
another occasion, they petition the government of financial
improprieties, inflation of contract sums and illegal diversion
of funds, citing non-existent documents and in some cases,
legislated or due-process followed documents as proofs or
exhibits. When the economic and financial crime commission
(EFCC) investigated the series of petition/allegations filed
before her dated 12th October, 2005; 20th October, 2005; 27th
October, 2005; 18th November, 2005; 28th November, 2005 and 04th
January, 2006, they declared it as a campaign of calumny and gave
governor Muazu’s transparent and due-process lead administration
a canonical status. Subsequently, these retrogressive writers
further wrote an open letter to Mr. President as published in
daily trust of Wednesday July 5th 2006 pg 34 on the same issues.
Having approached the helm of Nigerian affairs, one begin to
wonder whether they will get to UK (be sponsored abroad)
in-search of money laundering evidences. Not quite long ago, in
daily trust of 16th August, 2006 to be precise, appeared another
open letter to Mr. President, they were on yet another mission,
this time it is the road rehabilitation and reconstruction
jaundice. But unknown to them, ever since he became governor
over Bauchi State, he has put to use his wealth of experience as
a fellow of the institute of quantity surveyors (FNIQS), with a
masters degrees in construction management as well as
construction economics to lower the costs of construction
activities and the road rehabilitations
in the new-world turned Bauchi which they are crying foul of
inflating figures.
The benefits in this case,
far outweigh the cost. In my own opinion, I do not believe that
politics has to be practiced with such bitterness and blackmail.
When such slanders come to play, it affects our future and
causes us great pains. I would have given “concerned citizens” my
consent and input if the synergy
does not result to objective ends and if they had constructive
criticisms to make against governor Muazu’s
led administration than accusing him based on malice and
sentiments. As far as I know, most Nigerian –
states if not all would love to borrow a leaf from Governor
Muazu or better still have him as their chief
executive, may be I should have told Nata’ala and Co. to “travel
and see” …. That’s when they’ll become more appreciative of the
‘horn’ in them and alleviate their fears. Perhaps, this is an
empirical prove that a
prophet is not honored in his land.
I humbly recommend my
grand-pa’s advice to His Excellency to consider those writers as
“ necessary
evils”, they offered themselves to become matching steps to
successes, without which he wouldn’t have
reached this far. With the absence of these destroyers or enemies
of progress as I have envisaged in my
grand pa’s parable of children and the sand a long time ago,
probably, I should have been aware of God’s
blessing on His Excellency myself. (Hassada ga mai rabo taki ne)
A final word to “concerned
citizens” is to rally round this state-man of good-will as he
puts finishing
touches to the socio-economic transformation of the new Bauchi
State and accord him the necessary support he might require
towards a greater task ahead, come 2007. My dear “concerned Bauchi
citizens” I knew you were born crying, you live complaining and
will surely die disappointed except you change your pessimistic
approach to life. More than enough is too much! Enough of these
write – ups!
Yusuf Daudu
P.O.BOX 1488
Bauch,
Bauchi State.
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