Kalu’s Tears
By Rubby Obinna
The
issue always weighs him down. He is always fighting against poverty,
dissimilarity and prejudice and have written a lot about it but not enough on
his Column in Saturday Sun. This man who speaks only but the truth and is
always and ever ready to say the truth and even die for the truth is looking up
to a better Nigeria – a country where people have been following his footsteps
in politics and in business.
It was at the premises of a Federal
High Court in Abuja
presided over by Justice Adamu Bello. Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu was asking the court
to repeal the money laundering charges brought against him by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). This happened recently.
Were you thinking that Kalu cried
because of the visionless-EFCC? No. Kalu wept over the mechanical killings in
the country and call on President Goodluck Jonathan to keep fit the jam-packed
power of the president and protect Nigerians from the torrent of brutal deaths.
Kalu was not cheerful acting in response to the topical scene of carnage in
Jos, Plateau State, and mainly the death of the
Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Daylop Dantong and Majority Leader of the
Plateau State House of Assembly, Gyang Fulani.
Kalu will never take the back seat
in speaking his mind without seeking advise first. Hear him: “Things are going
down in the country by the day and it is the duty of government to stand up and
live to its expectations. Nigerians are been killed everyday and this are
Nigerians… and the primary duty of government is to protect lives and property
of citizens and if that is being done, I don’t know.”
Those in authority should not wave
Kalu’s candid advise with a pinch of salt. They should in essence, as he
admonished, consider the huge amount of money government has pumped into
security. Following his own words: “I don’t think it is justifiable because, I
have not seen a commiserating result. When we were there and all these type of
mayhem came up, the former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and the governors
put up so many strategies to stop it. I believe Mr. president should stand up
and deal with the situation. He is our president and he has the powers to deal
with the situation. This should not continue because those who have been killed
are human beings and not animals. I mean a lot of people have died and we are
not in a war situation.”
Alas! The amiable Kalu reposed on
the truth saying that government should work out a strategy that would give
justice and protect the people, because the principal duty of government is to
protect life and property. Can a president be helpless when he has all the
powers to deal with any positive situation? But what has the President been
doing? This is the tears of Kalu!
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