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  • Don’t rig the elections: An open letter to Uhuru Kenyatta from Nigeria – By Eferovo Igho

    Don’t rig the elections: An open letter to Uhuru Kenyatta from Nigeria – By Eferovo Igho

    Dear Mr Kenyatta,

    Please don’t rig the elections. Let Kenyans vote for the leader(s) of their choice.

    You don’t say ‘I will not hand over to so and so’, which you have said repeatedly and over time. That is a statement of chaos of unimaginable distractious consequence. The only way to achieve that is by rigging. And it is very disastrious.  Kenya is a democracy. Let the people give the mandate, and you handover. Even sane emperors know they don’t own a Nation.

    You were given the Presidency by the people and not by the highly esteemed Kibaki, who you apparently have learnt nothing from because of a dead political father whose instructions you are carrying out in the present Presidential race just to settle with his ‘political enemy’ all to safeguard his family which he feared may be dealt with for obvious reasons. It was a deal secondarily to avoid another Kalengin family competing with the Moi family.

    Didn’t my heart and spirit here in Nigeria go with you in all those meetings the said ‘political enemy’, the now dead man’s son, the now dead man (who incidentally is far the worst leader Kenya ever had and second worst in the Continent after Idi Amin Dada Oumee) and you were having before his demise? Didn’t we see from here why and how your Deputy was prevented by the man’s son from seeing the man at that time?

    Do the dead mandate? Let the living do. You have chosen a course that ordinarily you wouldn’t have taken before the so-called Handsake which came on the heels of those aforesaid meetings with the then old man. What may have been transferred in that Handshake may be as horrible as your actions since then. And it gives life to the many readings of some spiritual covenants made from Kisumu to Ramogi Hills, with Mama and baby present.

    Since then you helplessly care no more for your own thus playing perfectly the Biblical Ostrich, which please see: Job 39:13-18 (ESV):

    “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love? For she leaves her eggs to the earth and lets them be warmed on the ground, forgetting that a foot may crush them and that the wild beast may trample them. She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear, because God has made her forget wisdom and given her no share in understanding. When she rouses herself to flee, she laughs at the horse and his rider.”

    You’ve been acting proudly probably because of your family background forgetting that whatever it (that background) is, is by the courtesy of Kenyans, and whatever you are today is by same. You don’t own Kenya because you are President. Kibaki never own it. Kenya own the Presidents. So, never wave your wings so proudly like the Ostrich. Don’t delude Kenyans to think you love them. Your ‘pinions and plumage’ are not of love, but just like the Ostrich you are killing your ‘loved ones’ bringing many feet to crush and trample on them. That is what the evil handshake has done.

    You tried in a way I’m yet to understand to mutilate your Country’s Constitution spending to Everest the people’s money until a very dangerous ‘reggae’ was stopped. Your own Party, a National Party is not even today now sure of winning Kiambu County. You used your own hands to tear it apart and we watched from here dazed with our hands akimbo. Then your government came crashing down. Haba!  Did the evil powers you once castigated came on your unguarded hour? With bouyant economy handed over by Mai Kibaki setting the stage to becoming a ‘tiger’ nation, today the Kenyan nation is wallowing and suffocating under in debts.

    And then too, you attempted with no mean strange strength to cause total confusion in the Mt, among your own people. Rather than having that negative success, it is they who apparently knew you were confused and therefore stayed intact. They overcame the Ostrich spirit. Talk of how you are out to destroy your own: The list runs ad infinitum.

    Have you forgotten wisdom? Have you no more share of understanding? Of the Ostrich spirit I again allude to. Now is it the Country itself by acts of rigging you want to set on fire? Please don’t.

    For, we fear your alleged night meetings that are going on, you spiritedly denying opponents rally venues, fake opinion polls sponsored to shout out voodoo figures etc, and your repeated undemocratic audacity not to handover to a certain person are all harbingers of your plan: Rigging. What a bad way to set the stage for crises.

    Don’t you love Kenya your country. It is your own. Do you prefer one dead man who died in good oldage to lives of millions of Kenyans most of whom are in their tender age? And now to think of actualising any rigging plot will be the climax of playing the Biblical Ostrich. Please don’t. It does not augur with nations that do that.

    May I say parenthetically that the other day you were in Tanzania praising Magufuli to high heavens and said specifically too that he has taught Africa to govern without borrowing from foreign countries, even though you have carelessly borrowed from those places unceasingly, AND WORSE STILL, KEPT BORROWING AFTER THAT MAGUFULI PRAISES, AND STILL BORROWING.

    Visiting Kenya frequently in the years of Kibaki and seeing live what Kenya is in your days and worse still what has become of Kenya after that sorry Handshake, I am too saddened. Too bad. The only thing that is in tact now may well be your family. Your hands have destroyed what is yours. And today, Kenya is already bleeding.

    Don’t get it to bleed further. Let the people pick their leader by ballot – that is free, fare and transparent, which is why Chebukati is there. It is not your station. Please! Don’t allow the spirit of that old man control you from the grave. He is dead. Enough of this Kid-Presidency controlled by a ‘triumvirate’ of dead Moi, the Bondo man and Mama.

    DON’T RIG THE ELECTIONS IF YOU LOVE KENYA.  Please, please and please.

    God bless Kenya.

     

    Igho writes from Makurdi, Nigeria

  • Omo-Agege: Turning Point of a Bastardized State – By Eferovo Igho

    Omo-Agege: Turning Point of a Bastardized State – By Eferovo Igho

    By Eferovo Igho

    That Deltans have for more than two decades been subjected to abracadabra kind of governance birthed by questionable elections and conjured or voodoo results is not in doubt. All the sundry strange things the products of such aberration bring to our glare and make us stomach have been much of great concern to say the least. But how do you tackle avarice soared atop Everest in Delta State and stationing there these two decades plus? We speak of apical thievery, a red herring of a sort that overtook and bastardized informed and true governance.

    When come good governance – corruption-free, value-woven, people-centered and transparency-anchored and therefore enthralling results showcasing! When will purposeful governance shore up in the State! This has been the heart cry of all Deltans even as the PDP top echelon and their cronies run roughshod over us, the draining of our Commonwealth being their singular goal. Such a piercing heart cry and palpable crave for good governance among Delta masses today cannot now be ignored, or can we continue to live with such trepidation of another four years in the hands of those political scavengers. Year 2023 presents an answer, a turning point with Ovie Omo-Agege. His giant strides in the Senate recommend him.

    Years back Omo-Agege had been very uncomfortable with the gross mis-governance he saw when he was with PDP in Delta State, and had a great burning desire then to utter all of that for good, and with a no nonsense resolve and near deviance attempted then to contest to become the governor of the State, but alas, was hoodwinked by his then Party leaders who want their senseless, unperturbed and heedless burrowing into our common treasury an ongoing culture.

    That dream of his is still very much alive than ever. His, is a rescue mission with a growing purpose. An enduring vision cannot lie. And because things, overtime, have grown doubly bad in the State, we can only sense Omo-Agege readying to fire on all cylinders, and to put a stop to this injurious and sickening huge joke we have for long acquiesced with, in the State. It really cannot be business as usual.

    As the spider is to spinning a web and the silkworm to spinning a cocoon that rolls out meters of pure silk, so Omo-Agege thinks a governor or leader of men is obligated to ‘spin’ or roll out tangible, overwhelming and soothing results. This, he has shown to all in his present senatorial constituency of Delta Central as their Senator. Check the tangibles out! If you don’t know he may well be holding a record in the National Assembly in constituency reach and touch, impact that is: A catalogue listing of so impressive feats, which may well be a subject matter another day, though already common knowledge anyway.

    So, this rudder of man can only be gearing up to steer our State to an incontrovertible haven of dazzling results on all fronts. That is the promise!
    Indeed, you see the man, Omo-Agege coming out to take governance to such a lofty height that will make silly all hitherto governments in the State since 1999. That is the chosen course: the focus nonesuch, drive fiery!

    When he elected to be Senator of Delta Central, little did we know that a Senator can attract to his or her constituency what he has attracted so far to his Senatorial District. In the education sector alone, what startling things he has attracted to the Senatorial District he represents is a catalogue of its own which again we must leave for another day. And because yours sincerely has led the Media, Strategy and Policy arm of another Senator’s operations long before Omo-Agege senatorial escapade, and so expectedly knew how Senatorial Constituency funds were used or channeled by senators, he, in Omo-Agege, notices a pleasant departure from the past. Omo-Agege’s is a revolutionary shift. Or, how do you narrate in a short piece as this how he and his office talk federal establishments in his constituency into providing for the people their needs – and that ranges from street transformers, solar street lights to what have you.

    Walk the Streets of Delta, go to all nook and crannies and you will see a people highly stoked therefore about Omo-Agege’s present gubernatorial aspiration, a people beside themselves with joy. Of course, given his greatly impressive feat at the Senate it can really not be otherwise. And what an impetus and further strengthening of hitherto fixity of resolve this is to Omo-Agege! Of course, being not one to bask on praises and carried away from set goals by them, he knows the onus is rather his to bring home the bacon; same reason he is stepping out, unlike those grabby fellows who went headlong for the safe. We refer to Omo-Agege’s heart preoccupation and the undertaking he is gearing up to get cracking. He is promising crystal delivery. A vote for Omo-Agege is therefore first, a mandate to secure our State and second, to make governance to properly stream down from Delta State House to our streets, homes and lives.

    You may well have read early May 2022 of a N150billion loan by the State Government that may well now be in the mouth of some hippopotamuses that human rights crusaders have written EFCC to dig into before it settles in the bellies of those hippopotamuses. Talk of the trillions then that have over the years gone this way of many a Hippopotamuses, greedily swallowed and long sunk down to the seabed – without trace, MAY BE. That much has humans obliterated the records these 23 years of PDP’s kakistocracy and abysmal governance in Delta State.

    Away with all of that! Now is the much desired time to show them the exit. Let’s check them out therefore: And, welcome good and informed governance, for it is only when governance beams down on a people that a people beam ear to ear. Spes sit vivere (Let hope come alive).

    Igho, a veteran public affairs analyst, wrote via eferovo@gmail.com.