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Honorable Chuka Okadigbo: Your Imperial Majesty
 

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 Friday, January 21, 2000



 Dr. Femi Ajayi
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Honorable Chuka Okadigbo,

Congratulations on your selection as the Senate President. You finally got what you had wanted for a long time. I hope that you were more matured now than when you were the political advisor to President Shehu Shagari. Your education, degree, Nigerian political platform has metamorphosed in the past years. We are all watching and praying that you do not abuse nor disgrace your degree and your position. We need to see good legislation from the senate. Show them the leadership that Nigeria needs.

The Executive, working with Nigerians is a challenge to you. The only choice that you have now is to work with the executive not against the executive, any confrontation, because the executive is doing what Nigerians want, will be tantamount to Nigerian needs. You have to back it up with very sound, progressive legislation.

Rumor has it that you are going to confront the executive arm of the government. During your keynote address to the conference of Clerks of Nigerian Legislatures in Abuja Thursday, December 2, 1999, you reiterated that you would cooperate with the executive. If I may quote you: ".it is necessary that we learn lessons from our past so as to proffer constructive ideas that will strengthen our legislature...While cooperating with the executive for the sustenance of our nascent democracy, the legislature will remain its autonomy." I agree with you that the legislature should not be an appendage of the executive. We hold you to that promise. Do your job to the best of your ability, that is, legislate; there will be time for you in future to contest for the post of Nigerian President. We will judge you then by what you did as Senate President. Do not dabble into the executive arm of the government. Let us see you lead a proud Senate to the Promised Land, and return dignity and responsibility to the Senate.

There are many areas that you could spend your energy: � Issue with the 419ers is still eating very deep in our system; Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi should not hide under the Senate umbrella, let him come out like the former House Speaker, and stop harassing Festus Keyamo for bringing the issue to the public attention � There are some obnoxious laws that need to be repealed in order to promote and safeguard democracy; the government should repeal all laws impeding freedom of expression.

� The drug barons in the Nigeria society, you need laws to curtail their activities. The trial of thousands of them is not enough. Bring those of them still hiding under the umbrella of the National Assembly, to book and flush them out. Charity, people say, begins at home, but does not end there. Clean up the Senate and House of the drug barons that were under investigation. DO NOT COVER THEM UP. EXPOSE THEM. Not just exposing them let them face the wrath of the law.

� The issue of fake certificates in the Senate, House, and in the public service needs your attention. You know it is disheartening to note someone using fake certificates to obtain some positions in Nigeria, and remember how you boiled midnight oil to obtain your Ph.D. in political science. Is that fair to those who struggled to obtain their certificates and degrees and end up roaming the street without any meaningful job? Address that issue, and come up with some legislation to prevent that. Remember that your generation has no written records regarding their birth dates; those could be forgiven for their birth dates. Deal with the Torontoans in the public services. There are many fake Senators, House members, Local Government Chairs, Governors, Civil Servants, all across the nation. For your information, Nigerian reputation outside the borders of Nigeria is -100. What is your honorable, the high respectable individual is doing about that? Honorable Evans Evereienm is not the only one amongst you there. The original Toronto is now in wilderness in search of education. There is one respectable Alhaji in the House who voluntarily resigned his chairmanship position because he falsified his birth certificate. He deserved National recognition. He is just a gentleman. No one should rest until they are all flushed out in our system. � Related to this will be those that might claimed that they are Dr. Obafemi, Dr. Urene, and Dr. Jinadu from the United States of America. Before absorbing them into your system, there should be a system in place to check them out. There are some fakers that will be coming from all over the world, especially from the United States of America.

� SERVICE is what we need from you as our elected Senate President � HIV/AIDs patients in Nigeria are growing like wild fire during dry season. HIV positive victims in Nigeria have risen to 5.8 million Nigerians and the number is increasing like the whirlwind blowing from the Sahara Desert. Good and meaningful public control on this epidemic is needed. Encourage your Honorable members to pay the street girls after their services to them, and advise them of the imminent risk in what they are doing to their families. � Thank God that the Federal government is stopping further transportation of civil servants abroad for medical treatment. It will make the Nigerian government focus on improving the conditions of our Hospitals to cater for both the affluenced and the poor. Solid healthcare legislation is not impossible, Your Imperial Majesty, the Eagle.

� Our economy is in shambles. Few Nigerians could boast of three square meals a day. What are you going to do about that? A very progressive legislation to back up the Executive's initiatives on the economic growth is needed. � We are not opportune to go to the moon yet; however, USA has tapped the talents of some Nigerians to develop their technology, and other areas. A Nigerian Professor is lying fallow in Atlanta, inspite of his solar energy invention. Are you working of repatriating the brain that has been drained over the years? Borrowing from the Perm Sec Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Preware, you need to embark on brain gain. Are you getting some positive laws to back up this move?

� What about the opportunity to get into the political system. What do you call that? Money bag politics. I forgot how much you spent for your election.. Remind me please. Thank you. How do you want to protect those that are qualified, capable, but has no money to go into politics, but they have the experience, capability and willingness to serve Nigeria? Any law to stop this madness of money politics?

� Nigeria belongs to us all. We need one another. No one is leaving Nigeria for another person.

Reconcile with your colleagues and move the Senate forward.

God bless you.

Thanks.

Dr. Femi Ajayi
Government Affairs and Public Relations Consultant
Atlanta, Georgia




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