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| Dr. Chris Ngige |
Like most Nigerians, I ‘knew’ Dr Chris
Ngige in 2003, following the Anambra
political whirlwind of that era. I don’t
know why, but whenever a David-Goliath
scenario occurs, I always side with the David even though I may later call him to order. This is in line from our
peoples’ saying that the best thing is to save the cock from the kite before
blaming it for straying into the danger zone.
In those days of political madness and chicanery in Anambra State, I was fully on the side of Ngige, and I deployed
my writing skills, the only instrument available to me by the grace of God. I did several analysis on the
Anambra-Ngige-Uba affair.
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| Dr. Chris
Ngige and Chris Uba |
In the first one( Him
whom the gods want to kill, BusinesDay, 16/7/03) I wrote on the first governorship abduction in Nigeria, when
‘After a fierce battle bordering on direct and indirect ‘resource control’ the godfather
struck. It was a coup achieved through civilian-police collaboration’. I argued
that it could only have happened in
Anambra State ‘where the ‘men of
timber’ always look the other way while the rest are busy chasing
containers, where the civil servants’ loyalty
is as cheap as that of Judas and where there is always a good supply of mercenary politicians; and
in the PDP which is always its own opposition, where nothing is ever done
transparently and where there is always a leader in addition to a chairman’. I
concluded that ‘Ngige fought a good
fight; he displayed intelligence, courage and tact; but he who must go to
equity must do so with clean hands. He is standing with a wooden leg because of
the big question mark about his mandate. He also appeared to have forgotten
that he who dines with the devil should use a long spoon and that the devil
always gives with the right hand and retrieves with the left. This incidence
has shown once more that it is easier to give water to the monkey but very
difficult to retrieve the cup, that sharing the loot always puts the thieves
asunder’. And that The Governor is between the devil and the deep sea. On the right
side, there is the electoral tribunal and on the left there is Chris Uba and
his hirelings.
I further analysed the
internecine war between Ngige and his traducers( Ngige vs the allied forces,
Round 2, BusinessDay, 21/1/04), which I started by calling Kwame Nkrumah as a
star witness by quoting him thus: Whenever there is a battle between
powerless conscience and conscienceless power ,the later will laugh first while
the former will laugh last, and blamed the whole crises on ‘the
PDP as a party, the National Assembly
[controlled by the PDP] the
police hierarchy led by an Inspector General who is simultaneously fast and
slow depending on whom the piper is;
some pay-as-you-go members of the judiciary [judges of the night];
Enugu State which is providing critical logistic support and all those who are
in a position to act and speak but have
chosen to adopt the say nothing and do nothing strategy’. My 3rd outing , which I wrote in ‘tears, sorrow and unimaginable
mental agony’ bemoaned the invasion
and burning down of Anambra State during
which thugs were hired,
paid ,armed and given a simple and single assignment: to destroy everything
that belongs collectively to the people of Anambra State[including the
perpetrators]. I concluded that ‘The structures and equipment destroyed do not
belong to Nigige; they do not belong to the Government[and by the way, who is
the Government?]; they are the commonwealth of all Anambrarians and other
stakeholders in the State’( Anambra, Alu Melu, BusinessDay, 17/11/04). In my
final intervention done 14 years ago I
prophesied that Ngige would bounce back( Ngige: out but not down; BusinessDay,
22/3/06). In the concluding part of
that intervention, I stated ‘Ngige won all the cases he instituted against the
federal government; he won all the cases he instituted against the PDP; all
those who participated in the various
legal/political ambush warfare against him are now gnashing their teeth or telling their
stories on the other side; he came in through the window but through effective
management of the situation, he turned himself into a darling of the people; he
has a lot of physical projects to his name and he has even left something for
the Governor to take off with. And he did this in a state that has not had real
taste of governance and a country where governors talk more and do less. He has
tried; the people are happy with him and he should be thankful to God. But now,
he has to go; he has to go because he stood on a wooden leg-the fraudulent
manipulation of the peoples will by a fraudulent party. But, Ngige will not be forgotten in a hurry.
He Is Out, But Not Down’ That was 14 years ago, when Ngige left the Government House Awka and took a
lonely walk into an uncertain and unknown future; into the political
wilderness.
Today, Ngige has bounced back, to the surprise
of those who doubted my prophetic capabilities. He is back and in government,
where he is highly visible, even if for controversial reasons. Today, I don’t want to prophesy about his
political future and I am not writing in
solidarity with him. I am just telling
him to ‘mind your sef. This is also in line with my prophetic responsibilities:
to call those in authority to order’. Prophets of old like Nathan, Elijah,
Elisha and Amos, toed this line. Unfortunately, I am not so sure of the
prophets of today! Next week
Other
Matters: Spousal Wickedness
In the past two weeks,
this segment of my weekly epistle
focused on parental wickedness(12/2/2020) and on the wickedness and
selfishness of the children(19/2/2020). Today, we are focusing on spousal
wickedness; acts of wickedness perpetrated by spouses against each other, which
at times also adversely affected the children.
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| Hadiza & Fatimah |
As you go through this brief
intervention, ask yourself why people who voluntary agreed to get entangled
with each other, with the support and in the presence of family and friends ‘till death do us
part’, will suddenly so hate themselves that they do the unthinkable to each
other. We start from Kastina where Samaila Musa, chained his two wives Fatimah Salisu, 25, and Hadiza Musa, 20,in a room
for 10 months and did several unthinkable things to them.
According to Hadiza, ‘He shaved off my hair and pubic hair. He
also cut my fingernails and ground them together. He mixed them up with my food
and ordered me to eat it. He also put pepper in my eyes and private parts’!!!
Is this a normal human being?
There is the story of this foreign based Nigerian
who came in to take his family along, did a DNA as a requirement for a visa and
discovered to his chagrin that the his 3
children were not actually his! He lost it and
brutally restructured the wife’ s facial and dental configuration. |
women who faked own kidnap
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The wife’s inconsiderate
infidelity and the man’s raw brutality make me ask two of them, was there love
before? There was the case of Stella Peter who murdered the ‘ husband’ for failure to finance the daughter’ s first year birthday party.
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| Stella Peter |
husband while another followed the same route ( Faked Kidnap) to force
her husband to relocate her to America.
There was also this Malawian woman who set her husband and two children
together with their house on fire after her husband caught her in their
matrimonial bed with another man.
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| The Malawian woman, children & husband |
So, what went wrong? How did the
love go so sour that spouses defraud, batter and even murder their spouses? Are
they no longer ‘one’? was there love in
the first instance? Have they forgotten the promises they made to each other?
What actually is happening to the marriage and family institution?
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