Wanted Urgently: A National Commission for National Apologies & Reparation( NaCNAR) Ik Muo, PhD.

 

‘That night, the king could not sleep and so, he ordered for the book records of memorable deeds and read it…(Easther 6:1). As a co-heir with Christ,  I am  a king, prophet and priest but in the worldly realm, I am not a king. However on the Night of 26/10/23, when the Justices of the  Supreme-Cult,  gave a TECHNICAL knock-out  to the  Atiku & Obi, and turned itself into the lost hope of the common man seeking for justice( though Obi & Atiku are not common!), I could not sleep! I rolled around and about my  purpose-built football field sized bed, trying to come to terms with the operational implications of the  judgement,   which declared that forgery, perjury, drug-related forfeitures, electoral brigandage, deliberate deception by government officials, conscious mutilation and  manipulation of electoral results and  identity theft  were and are of no effect, and that Abuja is  just like Lagos State. And since whatever the SC declares becomes  the law, these issues became a part of our  constitution  from that day! Eventually, since I had nobody to bring the book of records to me, I  ascended into my ‘medulla-oblongata’, the largest  but free computer ever built, with the largest and inexhaustible storage capacity and recalled the records of those whom the nation had severely wronged, and whom we owe  nationwide apologies and restitution.

 Before I delve into what I saw in that my natural computer, let me share with you  an   unconstitutional  directive from the VC of Nnamdi Azikiwe University. Professor Esimone   had ordered that  an employee of the university should be suspended IMMEDIATELY for presenting a fake and forged degree certificate to the university.  In a desperate bid to secure an employment, Nwafor Osborne Ogbonnaya, whose real name is Nwafor Ogbonnaya  Nwesuzor, abandoned his undergraduate programme and forged the University’s statement of result as well as a letter of exclusion from the NYSC. He then went to complete his degree programme retroactively!!! Of course this should be expected in a nation where those who are employed are looking for their certificates while those with certificates are looking for employment. However,  a no-nonsense and  vibrant newly registered NGO, DOTLW( Defenders of The Law Worldwide)  rose to the occasion by warning  the VC to reverse the suspension IMMEDIATELY or face  legal  action and mass uprising. In support of its ultimatum, it quoted the  recent Supreme Cult judgement and the definition of forgery by SAN Keyamo as when the maker of document( not necessarily, the appropriate authority) denies ever making it!

Furthermore, as the fake news of the release of HushPuppy( HP)  by his American jailors gained momentum, a group of like-minded, vibrant youths, who have  rightly read  the season, immediately   formed a political movement: HP4SP(HushPuppy for Senate President!). They have already established the National, Zonal ,State and LG offices, (s)elected the officers and are  planning  to organise  their inaugural  congress in pursuit of their patriotic agenda. Why not? HP is eminently qualified. They have also prepared the legal response to  busybodies like PO who will OBIviously go to court: the conviction was in foreign land and not in consonance with laws and Supreme Court rulings in Nigeria, which is an independent country.  Consequently, they vowed to continue with their youthful agenda, even if the news of the release were fake. They would fight  the US judicial system over his detention to a standstill in US courts, following the recently established precedence. They will argue racism, abuse of human rights and  condescending attitude towards de-developing countries. De-Developing countries? Those that are going geometrically backwards while others are marching  econometrically forward!

And of course, you are all aware that Justice Inyang Ekwo has punished the NYSC for having the audacity to say that  the Discharge Certificate being paraded by Mbah was not issued by them. The court accused the NYSC of misrepresenting of facts  and not only restrained them from ever denying the certificate,  it also imposed a hefty fine of N5m against the agency. As a reward to Mr Mbah? The order to NYSC was go and speak no more!  One Agwolorombe (a name which means The snake that swallowed a tortoise and lives to tell the tale) graphically  presented the matter thus:

The Appeal Court has of course affirmed Peter Mbah as the winner; a person who presented a certificate disowned by the appropriate authority.!

So, here are the things I  ‘saw’ as I lay awake sleepless that night. I recalled  three Nigerian youths, Bartholomew Owoh et al who were  executed retroactively over drug-related offences by  GMBs government; the same GMB who is the grandfather of the present regime.  I recalled the young Salisu Buhari who broke down in tears and resigned his exalted speakership seat following ordinary press allegations ( The News) of forgery and perjury and the establishment of an investigative committee by the House of Representatives. He was  born in 1970, not 1963; he never went to Toronto and he never served in the NYSC’ This same NYSC again).  On 22/7/99, he resigned after this tearful speech ‘I apologise to you, to the nation, to my family and friends for all the distress I caused them, I was misled in error’ The Editor in Chief then of ‘The News’ was Bayo Onanuga; yes, the same Bayo Onanuga that thou knowest, who has become FULLY BATified.

 Evan(s) Enwerem, Kemi Adeosun, Danladi & Lyon rehearsing before he was COURted out

 I remember Evan(s) Enwerem, the Senate President, whose name became doubtful as exposed by the Tell Magazine in August 1999. He was impeached as the SP although he remained as a floor member of the Senate . I remember David Lyon, who won the  governorship election in Bayelsa state and had  finished practicing the handover protocols in the evening of February 13 before the SC axed him because his deputy, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo( quite a mouthful) submitted forged credentials to INEC. Lyon had no issue; it was his deputy and he got involved because  according to the SC, they ran on a joint ticket. And this happened  less than 24 hours to the handing over and after rehearsals and other preparations had been concluded!.  For the man to have survived this must have been an act of God. Kemi Adeosun, the psychedelic and largely experience-deficit Ministeress of Finance who was hounded  over an Oluwole NYSC Certificate  wherein she bald-facedly presented a certificate of exemption signed in September 2009 by  Yusuf Bomoi, whose tenure ended in February 2009, 7 months  earlier. Abubakar Sani Danladi, who rigged himself into the Senate and was sacked and ordered to refund 3 months salaries was in 2019 the APC gubernatorial candidate in Taraba State and was disqualified for lying under oath (age and certificate) and banned from holding public office for 10 years.

And I  recalled the latest case of  young Mmesoma, who performed excellently in JAMB but wanted to be an award winning Jambite and thus upgraded her score to 330+.   JAMB sanctioned her immediately just as ANSG set up a committee that found her guilty. Even Osita Chidoka did a special feature to explain how she could not have attended the JAMB examination centre owned by him. She publicly apologised and the scholarship awarded her by Innoson went up in flames’. I recall the case of Hon Emeka Nnamani of LP Representing Aba North Federal Constituency, who was axed by the Appeal  Court for having  indulged in Certificate Forgery ( UNIPORT)in 2015 and barred from seeking public office for 10 years. They refused to understand that in the present reality, 8(2015-2023) could be statistically approximated to 10( 2015-2025). And  then, the day broke.

Nigerians condemned these people and nobody made cases for them. In the case of Mmesoma, she was condemned but some people pleaded for mercy because of her age and because the elders had shown her the fastest  but wrong route to success and that what mattered was  just to HAMMER, irrespective of how one hammered.  Even those who called for  us to take it easy on her( but never  supported what she did)  were crucified. Today however, the reverse is the case; lettered people, who were hitherto ‘for the people’ and in the vanguard of rule of law and justice, including those who stood with Fawahinmi when he sued  one governor  in the Centre of Excellence for certificate forgery are now boldly  explaining and defending the ‘irreparable damage’  arising from ‘CSUgate’, This is  even though we had been fully warned ‘Woe to those who call evil, good( Isaiah,5:20)’. Keyamo declared that Tinubu  was and is as white as snow though he was among the first to go to court over the matter years ago. While Agu Onwuzuruoha  rued   that ‘Sadly truth is the scarcest community in Nigeria right now. It keeps changing as greed, ethnicity, stupidity and emotion are thrown into the mix. People are now arguing that truth is a moving variable. Nothing can be further than the truth’  and Lasisi Olagunju warned that ‘Conformity, acquiescence and surrender to today’s creepy spiral of silence is certain death to the republic and all who value good life…(Abobaku, Jupa and Tinubu haters. Tribune, 6/11/23),  Bayo Onanuga, of the good old  fire-spewing ‘The News’ but who is now an acute  BATist and a Professor of BATification condemned all these as ‘Infantile obsession and display of utter desperation calculated attempt to shamelessly whip up public sentiments

 So what to do? We URGENTLY need a National  Commission for National Apologies & Reparation( NaCNAR). Their responsibilities are to   identify all those whom we, as a nation, had erroneously   accused and condemned of wrongdoing , apologise  to them in a national ceremony beamed life to all the world and even beyond, especially as some of them have transited to great beyond, pay  adequate reparations to all of  them, and serve as a mind-guard to ensure that we do not go back to our evil ways of condemning the innocent. The NaCNAR should be FULLY independent and their budget should be a first-line charge on our treasury before debt servicing  consumes everything! Since the NASS  will waste  time and considering the urgency of the matter, I suggest that an executive order(EO) be issued  establishing NaCNAR and outlining their responsibilities. This Executive Order  should be patterned after the first EO ever issued( Jonah, 3: 5+) in content, tone and body language: 

‘The people of Nineveh decided that everyone should fast, and all the people, from the greatest to the least put on sackcloth  to show that they had repented. When the  king of Nineve heard about it, he got up from his throne, took off his robes, put on sackcloth and sat down in ash and sent out a proclamation… all persons, cattle and sheep are forbidden to eat or drink, must wear sackcloth, pray earnestly, and give up wicked behaviours and evil actions. Perhaps God will change his mind and stop being angry

 This way, the offended, both living and dead, will be appeased and our global  rating in  compassionate and ethical  governance will rise while God will relent from inflicting further  Tinibulation on the repentant nation and its citizens

  Other Matters: Happy New Year

 Yes, Happy New Year. November 3rd was the first day of the Catholic year and indeed, most of the conventional. It marks the beginning of  season of Advent, the period of awaiting  and preparing for Christmass and then, the ultimate coming of Christ. The four Sundays of Advent focus on Hope, Peace, Joy and Love.

 So, Happy Advent and  Happy New Year. If the New Year part is not acceptable to you, Go To COURT!


 
Ik Muo, PhD. FCIB. Department of Business Administration, OOU, Ago-Iwoye. 08033026624

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  1. A great message to those that have ears. Ichie continue, Haven is hearing your voice.

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