By
Odimegwu Onwumere
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| Kalu |
His journey to a foreign envoy recently in Abuja, where he played the
leader of the team that visited the ambassador to discuss business transactions
and how more investors could be attracted to the country, former Governor of
Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu needs serious commendation for his
foresightedness to efficacious business activities that have bettered the lots
of many without mud legs and without any glimpse of egocentric tendencies.
His
approach to the national issues as they relate to investment and progressivism
show the mindset of a man who would prefer to be hypertensive through
initiating business ideas for the citizens to enjoy and be cured of
hypertension. The rapid progression with which Kalu fights poverty in Nigeria is a measure in making sure that
something unpleasant stops happening in Nigeria, carefully and regularly.
His advancement to business is exfoliating among the political class,
especially amongst ex-governors.
Without
doubt, Kalu is endowed with business ideas and scuttles to making sure that
ordinary Nigerians are the beneficiaries. With this primacy, Nigerians have
been benefitting from his workings so that they don’t engage in shoddy business
that has not helped any person in life. Today, many Nigerians have a right to
take employment under Kalu’s business initiatives as long as they could follow
the business guidelines, which are humanitarian, and as far as they do not
abuse their office, hence cutting down the cost of unemployment in the
citizenry.
It is of
the essence to the nation that Kalu served the nation in the capacity where the
citizens of his home town of Abia State had the opportunity to good health
facilities, roads, education, portable water, and a host of other dividends
that came with his stewardship, of which he was poor in making sure that his
state and its people did not lack.
However,
more and more good things will come out of Kalu if given the support he perhaps
needed. He cannot exhaust his business acumen in helping Nigeria if
earnestly given dogged support instead of certain unnecessary distractions from
certain quarter which in every term is narrow-minded.
Just like
security agents fight crime, Kalu’s fight shoots across the root cause of crime
which is poverty, whereas certain people’s feeding budget in the world per
annum is in millions or billions of money. What many Nigerians have not
realized is that with Kalu’s business initiatives and as one of the foremost
employers of labour in Nigeria,
he is fighting against corruption. With Kalu, many Nigerians are not shaking
because they know that employment is sure for them that will see principle, and
not the many who were only employed on the pages of the newspapers.
The
suitability of all is that Kalu is a business judge in the business judiciary
of his conglomerates of businesses, who has set a lot of poverty stricken
Nigerians free and exposed poverty and brought it to book, showcasing sincerity
to fight unemployment and poverty in the country. Is he therefore not making
history by fighting these hardheaded duos of poverty and unemployment in the
country that have eaten deeply into the fabrics to abrupt end in all
ramifications?
There is
no contradiction that Nigerian leaders who are not investor friendly are the
most shady and should be weeded out of the governing bench, because their
lackadaisical behaviours to employment kill more unrecorded number of Nigerians
than any insurgent’s detonated bomb and shattering bullets. This is where the
cordial Kalu is different: He has brought poverty to face the music for its
crimes against the teeming Nigerian people; and he is not loaded with money to
spray around, but with business scheme-force to downturn the menace of poverty
in the country.
Therefore,
let all and sundry who also mean business and have Nigeria at heart give Kalu
support and see how he will purge the country of poverty first of which is the root
of crimes in Nigeria. The country needs a working system, and this is what Kalu
has been fighting assiduously to achieve. Any attack from any quarter against
him is for the wrong reason and insensible. Poverty, which he has been fighting
to eradicate, is the factual enemy to the citizens, and until it is dealt a
corporeal blow, Nigeria
will never amount to anything good.
Moreover,
Kalu should not be deterred to continue to be investor friendly. He should
always be prepared for the consequences that will follow. He should continue to
create business opportunities even when traducers castigate his indisputable
personal integrity. If other people are jokers, Kalu is not. Even when
political demagogues are engaging in a war of wear and tear to silence him, he
should always go to more envoys for more business discussions for the interest
of the ‘common’ Nigerians who need him mostly, than the few traducers who want
him go down by all means. It is time Nigeria began to appreciate what
she has, not only when she lost any.
Kalu is
one man who has in truth marched his words with action, and not the 'American
wonder' magic many people in his position exhibits. Kalu deserves from
Nigerians prayers consequently thus: May God/Allah continue to sustain his will
and courage to carry out his always graciously business advancements and
reforms that have touched the lives and minds of many Nigerians even when
detractors have always sabotaged this motivations and efforts, to remain
undaunted.
May Dr.
Orji Uzor Kalu found the strength to continue to impeach poverty and
unemployment that have been humiliating the masses of Nigerians, and God should
continue to protect and save him from the sneering of cynics.
Odimegwu Onwumere, Poet/Author, writes from Rivers
State
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