They caught a
woman in ‘the very act of adultery’(probably ‘self-adultery’ because no man was
co-arraigned with her or she used an
ancient vibrator ), marched the unlucky lady before Jesus and sought a validation
for the punishment: execution by
stoning. They all had various shapes and sizes of stones ready. As they
continued pressing Jesus to ‘say
something’ , he threw the bombshell: ‘He without sin should cast the first stone’. There was dead silence and that was where the
matter ended as the bloodthirsty mob dropped their stones and stealthily sneaked
away, with their heads bowed… starting from the eldest!( John,8:3-11)
I was indescribably shocked when Mmesoma
admitted that she forged her JAMB result. She had been a brilliant student as
her secondary entrance result and even her original score of 249 showed. She
looked so innocent and she boldly defended herself. Even after the statement by
JAMB, I still believed that something must have gone wrong somewhere but
definitely not that the harmless village-girl I saw had manipulated her Jamb
result. Who or what pushed her? She was even reported to have gone to protest
her non-recognition by JAMB! But that is over; she had admitted by herself and
with her own mouth. Of course, forging JAMB result is like defrauding a bank:
you must be found out, today or tomorrow.
And then, a flurry of several rapid responses
and reactions. JAMB confirmed the
manipulation and imposed its sanction within 48 hours or so. Anambra
Sate Government set up a committee, which turned in its findings within 24
hours.Osita Chidoka gave all the reasons
why the 300+ score could not have been genuine, agreeing with JAMB and
exonerating his examination center. And many of us joined the latest version of the crowd that voted for Barabas ( Mt,27:17)except that in this case
they bayed for the blood of the guilty: ‘crucify her; give
us her head on a platter; no mercy for
the criminal. That serves her right; she asked for it’! These were/are people
who were dumb and numb over the conscious and
wicked pulverization of we the
people in the past few weeks. Probably, it was an opportunity for them to let
off steam
And then I
remembered Jonathan Swift, (1667-1745)an Irish satirist, essayist and political
pamphleteer, who made the simple but weighty statement that ‘laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but let
wasps and hornets break through’! Mmesoma is ‘in’ because she is a
nobody. A sneaky snake swallowed N36m in
a JAMB office. It took at least 2 days to suspend the staff who consorted with
the snake and it took more than a year
to arraign her criminal gang. Up to this day of our Lord, the son of man is not
sure that the matter had been brought to
a closure! Mbah allegedly forged his NYSC certificate, went on to sue the NYSC
Director General, (claiming N20bn) for the audacity to say so, procured a fake DSS operative to ratify his malfeasance and is now
His Excellency, given executive orders in Enugu State. Somebody
described what happened at the Tribunal
at Enugu as the case of a thief
defending another thief. Ganduje (I forgot that his baptismal name), was
caught ‘in the very act’ of collecting Dollarised kick-forward. He said ‘it
wasn’t me’ and when the Kano anti-Graft Agency came after him, he ran to the court and procured
an order “Restraining the Respondents whether by themselves or acting through their
officers, men, operatives, agents, or any persons or group of persons howsoever
described from harassing, intimidating,
detaining the Applicant or his children or any member of his family or
any appointee who served under the administration of the Applicant( and even
his friends). The Adamawa REC, Hudu Yinusa-Ari, did a weird
version of what they did at INEC HQ and when the law reluctantly went for him,
he went to court to obtain a restraining order. PMBs certificate matter is
still blowing in the wind and that of BAT is neither here nor there and so it
is with many ‘excellencies’ across the land. The National Assembly is perhaps
the largest single assembly of thieves or ‘former thieves’, EFCC alumni and
ICPC customers in Nigeria. But Life goes on, because they are all
honourable men!( Julius Caeser,III:2)
As
my online friend Agu Onwuzuruoha esoterically puts it ‘Mmesomagate is a
testimony to mischievous ostracism in the land and the same people who are
poking the mote in Mmesoma’s eyes refuse
to point at the logs in the eyes of
Petermen who are now in control of the Presidency
and National Assembly. In this season of manufactured Isaiahnism … Some people
are leaving it up in economic esoterica digging their heads deeper in the sand
of obfuscation… we cannot afford to be selective in our morality (You
can contact me for the special
dictionary to decode Agu’s vocabulary). The one and only Charly-Boy the only
grandfather who proudly answers a boy is
rightly of the view that “She learned work from leaders that
believed that forgery is good plus those who never found their WAEC results
till date. Am sure she was in dis Naija as INEC was manipulating Nigeria
electoral process.” His views
are similar to those of Osahon George who regretted that ‘criminals who
are supposed to be behind bars are always celebrated in Nigeria,.. the Picaros,
illiterates, drug lords, fraudsters, and other non-state actors wielding force,
manipulate their way into public offices. The truth of the matter is that
Mmesoma is a bonafide product of Nigeria. Fruit doesn't fall far from
the tree; She is the proverbial horse at the back which is looking up to the
horse in front during a race. Unfortunately for her, the horse in front is
vividly a bad example The one in front is just a typical Nigerian politician (
Mmesoma JAMB Result: The Truth of the matter)
However the
‘case for’ Mmesoma and support for environmental determinism in this
unfortunate matter was FORCEFULLY made by someone who wrote for OdogwuBlog, and
argued as follows.’I understand Mmesoma was born in 2004. Within
her few years on earth, she has witnessed President Olusegun Obasanjo
attempting to change the Constitution and run for a third term in office. She
saw Umar Yar'Adua ascend to the presidency via an election which he himself
admitted was "seriously flawed." She saw Muhammadu Buhari become
president with a school certificate that was said to be with the Army
Secretary. When the latter denied custody or knowledge of the certificate, a
fresh one was issued retrospectively and disputed every step of the way. Mmesoma
also saw Hope Uzodimma become Imo State Governor via a Supreme Court judgment
that even the neighborhood dog knows was dubiously procured. She saw Ahmed
Lawan return to the Senate with a party ticket which he did not contest for
because he was away gunning for a higher office. Mmesoma saw Godswill Akpabio
become Senate President even whilst still dodging court summons and the anti
graft agency, EFCC.…Above all, I think, the young lady has been a living
witness to how Bola Tinubu became president with everything from his name and
age to his schools, qualifications and election results in hot dispute’ So,
it is probably true to say that Mmesoma and other Nigerians her age were born
into a nation and an era where falsification and alternative reality are norms
that are highly rewarded. It is not a mere coincidence, that Mmesoma happened
to us in the same year that forgery ascended the highest offices in the land.
The Universe is showing us in living color the power of examples - good or ill-and
what lies ahead if we uphold or tolerate the grand forgeries that were foisted
upon us between February 25 and March 18. If we condemn and punish
forgery by a teenager, can we condone and permit forgery by her adult parents
and grandparents - especially in positions of public authority? If we condemn
and punish forgery by a teenager, can we condone and permit forgery by her
adult parents and grandparents - especially in positions of public authority?
The choice is ours.( MMesoma as the mirror before
us)
In June 2022, the
Buhari Media Organisation stated that the great
PMB had identified and weeded out
24000 federal works with kurukere certificates; about 25% of our
workers! Some of them were even making policies for us. Who employed them
without verifying their certificates? Who investigated this massive fraud and how were they punished
and by whom? Did anybody raise eyebrows?
Just the other day(25/7/23), Yemi Esan,
Head of Service of the federation announced that 1617
federal staff were caught with fake employment letters. Did anybody
raise eyebrows? It was not even an issue in the social media. Before then, some
people were caught milking our
common-purse through the decadent IPPIS system. Did we raise eyebrows? Was it a subject of intense debate? On 30/10/19,
I wrote a widely read article titled
‘Sexually Transmitted Degrees: WE are all guilty!’(https://businessday.ng/columnist/article/sexually-transmitted-degrees-we-are-all-guilty/). On this Meesomagate and the general
climate of Mmesomania I still repeat: we are ALL guilty!
A good number of Nigerians had pushed that she
should bear the full weight of the law.
However, my beloved, Ada Muo( PhD), does
not agree that Mmesoma should be sanctioned because ‘That will not be Nigerian at all’! Her opinion, which is ‘realistically
different and typically Nigerian follows hereunder. Read on!
For making such
unusual waves, all of us should line up and go to Mmeso's house to congratulate
her, the same way BAT has been congratulated even by other countries. Nothing
less than a convoy of at least a hundred and twenty most expensive non-Nigerian
SUVs should be employed to make that visit as memorable as possible. The young
girl deserves it. She is as smart as her
president. She is very sharp!
For achieving such
feat, the federal government should give her a first grade national merit award
for being so clever. It should be nothing less than that type Buhari gave BAT
before vacating Aso Rock. In addition,
all those award-winning very honourable senators, especially Akpabio,
should formally adopt her. Her DNA matches theirs perfectly. The girl is cast
in the image and likeness of our political leaders and so should be the child
in whom they are well pleased.
For her very
daring spirit, the 3 million Naira
scholarship must not be taken away from her. It a well-deserved compensation
for hard work. Has anybody taken away the office of the president of Nigeria from BAT even when it is
obvious to the blind that he "snatched and grabbed" it? How can
anybody now suggest that Mmesoma's reward for snatching and grabbing common UTME score should be
recovered from her. Answer me. Is it fair?
For cleverly
retouching her JAMB score, INEC should give her a scholarship and employ her
once she graduates. That singular and audacious exploit shows that tomorrow she can sit on the same
chair our qouta-professor INEC Chairman is occupying today. As a young Nigerian,
she has demonstrated the character capacity and competence to serve in
very sensitive and independent
institutions like INEC.
For changing her scores and making that video
where she chanted her innocence in a very charming voice, she must be persuaded
to join the Youth Wing of APC and become their principal spokesperson. To
upgrade from Ordinary Level (OL) to Advanced Level (AL), the star girl should
enrol for a three months intensive lectures which must be facilitated by tested
and proven APC orators like Festus and Lai. After all, elders are role models to
the young and these are Nigeria's most objective and honest political office
holders.
For what Mmesoma
did, all of us need to go to Chukwuemeka
Ike's grave and tell him that our children are no longer coming, they have
come. We will not also forget to tell him that the framework she adopted is the same one that
has effectively served our irrepressibly and irredeemably corrupt political
leaders for so long. Let us not forget the Igbo adage that says that a child
sent to robbery by his father uses his feet to break the door. We should tell
Chukwuemeka Ike to tell his fellow ancestors that what we ordered as a country,
by our active participation in, and endorsement, of fraud and forgery, has been
delivered, and it landed at our door steps in good shape. These are my humble and simple suggestions. If you don't
agree with me, you know what to do. If you don't, I will tell you… Go to court!
The above 6 paragraphs are Ada Muo’s ‘revolutionary’ views of the matter and she has dared any person with contrary spirit to go to COURT. In a place where ‘they’ ‘turn justice into wormwood and throw uprightness to the ground’ instead of letting ‘justice flow like waters and uprightness like a never-ending stream’(Amos,5: 7&24), is it really just and proper to upbraid Mmesoma? After all ‘the society prepares the crime and the criminal commits it!( Henry T Buckle) and ‘whenever crime is not punished speedily, people feel it is safe to do wrong’( Ecclesiastes, 8:11) Mmesoma is in a mess because she cannot afford a SAN! She does not even need a SAN; even a small boy lawyer could have marched the break on the indecent haste with which the matter was handled. I also dare say that Mmesoma is honourable and there is more hope in her than in the scoundrels masquerading as our role-models. At least, she agreed that she ‘committed’, apologised and threw in the towel. The elders will not accept, apologise or throw in the towel even if caught on camera,( Gandollar) with documented evidence( Mbah) or certified by local and foreign courts( BAT et al). I am not unaware of the declaration of Adam Smith who lived in the age of innocence that mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocence. However, the Biblical story that prefaced this article did not stop with the shameful disappearance of the male mobocrats. Jesus also told the woman to ‘go and sin no more’. He condemned the sin but not the sinner. The same advise I have for Mmesoma. I also note that Mmesoma’s case will not die quickly because of the several words and phrases that have sprouted from the matter mmesomaism; mmesomaistic, mmesomania, mmesomagate and still counting.
I ‘case my
rest’ but not without congratulating another daughter of Anambra,
Nkechi Umeh, in whom there is no deceit(
John,1:47), who came out unquestioningly tops in the same very exam! The
offence for which I would not have forgiven Mmesoma is if she succeeded in supplanting this brilliant chap as the topmost JAMBist
for 2023. Mmesoma Messed up the Anambra
brand but Nkechi cleaned up the mess.
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