"Emenike Nwankwo, PhD"
REPORT: "In the area of healthcare, we used to give them (missions) support and suggestions. Later, we abandoned them and the institutions collapsed. For example, Iyienu Hospital produced the first and best mid-wife in Nigeria. By the time we came into power, that school was closed down and then you wonder why such a good school was closed down. This was a school which trained our professional nurses, which should be a premier iconic institution; yet it was closed down. Iyienu trained most of our medical doctors. That was where, they did their House jobs. As I speak to you, the place is no more functional. Before we built state and national Hospitals, these hospitals served our own people. So, we are now going back. As at last week, we paid non-academic staff N3 billion and we are giving all these back to the Churches that ran these institutions. Today, we have commenced subvention to the federal schools, we are spending N6 billion in that regard. We gave over N1 billion to different schools of nursing, including Iyienu, as well as Lourdes, Ihiala. Is the Church still what it used to be, to manage moral upbringing? Yes, of course, at least, they are far better than we are (laughs) but we challenge them."
People,
A leader is one who leads. If you are aleader, you stay on top of issues and work hard to influence directions of thinking that affect the people you lead. The above comment by Peter Obi is why I say many of them who lead only when in governmen are more looters than leaders. A leader first begins with showing interest and concern for his people and the institutions that affect them.,Read the above and you see where to place Peter Obi in the scheme of things - one who did not care while not in power. He did not know why a school was closed that he knew was a successful school in his community. Democracy is not just about winning election, but about being part of the political process of knowing what happens and why. Why such places get closes is that people who could raise concerns like Peter Obi look elsewhere when not in power because it did not affect them - after all he was already rich and should not be bothered with institutions that cater to the interests of the poor. What business does he have fighting to keep such schools open when not in goverment and is too rich to be hospitalized in Nigeria?
Government to his likes not in office is just an avenue to get richer, so when you are not in government, you do not concern with government thinking. It is sad that one who became a governor of a state, did not know why the state became educationally baren and why hospitals or medical facilities like the one that train nurses closed. Had he campaign like is done in most other democracies, he would have done his homework. Had he understood what democracy was about which is service to people, he would have known why the facilities was closed as he would have wondered why at the announcement that it was to be closed not just after he took office.. This is why Igboland continue to be in dilapidation, people take power for their own best interest who did not have prior concern for community and the people they plan to govern - they just want power to control federal allocation and steal as much as they could.
On the issue of Ojukwu burial, no amount of burial is befitting enough unless they issues that Ojukwu cared about were addressed and related problems remedied. Any money spent on his burial that did not help address dilapidation in Igboland is a waste. People who want to honor Ojukwu should be asked to do so in civilized manner - give to the poor or contribute towards the construction and establishment of a befitting medical facility that can serve all Igbo and humanity. Wasting money of beer, cows, and expensive grave site does not honer ojukwu. Wasting money to be at the burial does not honor Ojukwu. People should be asked to stay were they are as there will be no room for the crowd, rather they should contribute their transport fare to the funeral to an Ojukwu memorial funds towards building the same kinds of hospitals they took him to in London at home in Igboland. That is how to give him a befitting exit. Buffoonish is parties and celebrations of waste would not add value to humanity like Ojukwu would have asked for.
Even when government does not run those hospitals like PEter Obi explained,. government helped set the rules and climate that made it possible for them to be funded and supported by people. Hospitals like schools are in most cases public good facilities that are monitored and operated under government legislation. When rich people die in England or other civilized countries they do not waste money in useless befitting unending burials. They will their assets to public good institutions that help keep them functional and progressive. When rich people die in Nigeria, they waste money in burial that they now call celebration of life. We love or show love to our people only after they died. The world is watching Peter Obi to see what leadership will come out of Ojukwu's death and whether all Igboland will get from it is a befitting burial that means nothing one week later, or whether he will invest in substantial efforts to immortalize him with a befitting medical facility for all Igbo in his home town. We are watching!!
HEN
"Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others". - Ayn Rand
"When the comes come to become, you will know the physicality of man" ... Political Jugernaut, Kingsley O. Mbadiwe (K.O.)
ONLY A FOOL IS AT HIS BEST........... Collin Powel (USA)
No comments:
Post a Comment