From: Chukwuemeka Okala <reukal@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: 14 February 2011 08:57
Subject: ||NaijaObserver|| Re: [NaijaPolitics] [Naijanet] Fwd: Prof. Aluko,my condolences!
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"The Bolaji I knew 15 years ago would have rejected this Greek gift. It is obviously an attempt to silent a progressive voice on the internet forum." By Rahmon O. Momoh
Comment:
The last time I checked Bolaji's nomination was neither orchestrated by the Federal Government nor the PDP. It was initially made by Governor Fashola an ACN and merely accepted by the Government that finally appointed him. So, how could this Bolaji's appointment be seen as "an attempt to silent a progressive voice on the internet forum" when those that appointed him were not instrumental in his nomination?
"This forthcoming election will be like the last one, massively rigged. PDP knew that they have done nothing to deserve reelection, so they will do everything (do-or-die politics) to rig this election. Taking Bolaji out of the equation is a good first start." By Rahmon O. Momoh
Comment
The last time I checked the statistics of the population of the registered voters in the country is now known by all and sundry, and the finger prints of all registered eligible voters captured. So, how would PDP "massively" rig the forthcoming general election?
For goodness sake, you guys should please leave Bolaji alone to prepare himself for the huge task ahead.
Last week I attended a summit in London captioned "THE FUTURE BY US - REBUILDING NIGERIA'S EDUCATION SECTOR" organised by Nigeria High Commission (9th & 10th of February). The Special Guest of Honour was Prof. Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufai, the Hon. Minister of Education.
Going by the summit, I have no doubt in my mind that the Federal Government has a big plan the determination to revamp the Education sector from now. The establishment of new Universities may not be a miscalculation after all given that funding them along with the old ones may not be, and has never been a problem, but the modus operandi. I may have the time to put my report together and post to these fora.
Fellow Nigerians, let's think of what to do, either as individuals or groups to help the Government in its vision and effort to revamp the EDUCATION SECTOR. We all are stakeholders because of the future of our children and young ones nay, the country.
Bolaji and his counterparts have a challenge ahead of them. Let's encourage them. No one is killing Bolaji In Bayelsa. Please! The Federal Government does not need to appoint someone a VC to eliminate him if that were the purpose. Please let's stop being silly! Let's be reasonable!
Emeka Reuben Okala
London, UK
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Subject: [NaijaPolitics] [Naijanet] Fwd: Prof. Aluko,my condolences!
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Date: Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Naijanet] Fwd: Prof. Aluko,my condolences!
To: Ndubisi Obiorah <nobiorah@gmail.com>
Cc: naijanet <naijanet@googlegroups.com>
Anyone with commonsense will agree that creating new universities would not solve our educational problems. It's basically kicking cans down the road. Instead, the money would be best spent rehabilitating our schools. Maybe they should fire all the current VCs and appoint new ones, but the answer is not building new universities.
Our universities started going downhill when general Obasanjo took over in 1976. Somehow baba Iyabo hates teachers. Maybe he was badly beaten by teachers when he was in modern school, but his hatred of teachers contributed to the demise of our educational system. Even when he came back, he continued his hatred by firing lecturers without due process, and refused to release funds to schools.
If new universities are the solutions to our economy paralysis, that should have been achieved with the creations of new states. One of the main reasons for new states (like new universities) is to encourage economic growth by bring the government closer to the people. Obviously that experience has failed like a tailor in a nudist's colony. Our problems have actually worsened with the creation of new states. The federal government spread itself too thin to be effective. I expect the same outcome with the new universities.
The Bolaji I knew 15 years ago would have rejected this Greek gift. It is obviously an attempt to silent a progressive voice on the internet forum. Eight years ago, Bolaji literally saved Bola Tinubu when the INEC had different results on its web site while the public results showed that Tinubu had won. He also analyzed several elections that contributed to the success of the eventual winners. This appointment will deprive us of that opportunity.
This forthcoming election will be like the last one, massively rigged. PDP knew that they have done nothing to deserve reelection, so they will do everything (do-or-die politics) to rig this election. Taking Bolaji out of the equation is a good first start.
God bless Nigeria!
Rahmon Momoh
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From: Toyin Falola <toyin.falola@mail.utexas.edu>
Date: Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:11 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Government appoints vice chancellors for new federal universities, Prof. Aluko,my condolences!
To: USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com
From: a.dasylva@ibadanculturalstudiesgroup.org
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:36:44 +0000
Dear Prof. Aluko,
I am genuinely worried at your recent appointment as one of the VCs for the newly created federal universities, and disturbed by the avalanche of congratulatory messages from colleagues,friends and well wishers. No doubt,you eminently qualify but that is not the issue. I see a deliberate distraction by political schemers of the ruling party playing on the naivity of the citizenry.Have you sat down to weigh the implications of such political abracadabra the power of pronouncing 9 universities into existence as if they were 9 bottles of beer? I wonder where colleagues kept their memory and simply jumped at celebrating a cleverly orchestrated Trojan horse or Greek gift. On Federal appointments: Tai Solarin of the blessed memory and the People's Bank, Wole Soyinka and the Federal Road Safety Commission, Prof Sam Aluko and the National Economic Intelligence Committee,etc., and most recently, Prof. Jega and INEC. The story has been the same, frustration for lack of tools to work with, for lack of the right people to work, undue interference from Government, etc. The first three were deliberately nearly disgraced out of office. It was their pedigree and good reputation they had built for themselves over the years,their dedication and passion for their beloved nation that bailed them out!Jega's is still a question of time, and that is almost predictable, except there is a divine intervention. The case of stolen DCMs, registration manipulations and other desperate moves by the do-or-die politicians are mere tip of the iceberg. Sufficient to remind Jega that being an academic or a former President of ASUU does not make him a magician that is capable of running an efficient INEC given the existing structure he met on ground.
Prof Aluko, you are more or less a moving encyclopedia of information on Nigeria and as such possesses an impressive knowledge on how Nigeria has continued to be misruled by the current ruling Party,so I actually thought that you would turn down the offer on the grounds that(1) creating a Federal university in every State of Nigeria is the least of options to cater for many of our youth seeking university admission,(2) existing Federal universities could be better funded, expanded, and equipped to accommodate more students,(3)the so called money given to establish each new university is inadequate to develop a world class Faculty of Science. Besides, don't be deceived as contractors appointed by the same government agents are already laying ambush to pounce on the money so that less than a third of the money will finally end up doing the work on the site. If the project finally fails,guess who will carry the blame? You of course. That is the tradition here. I think well meaning Nigerians should insist that Federal govt should be concerned more with making all our redundant refineries work, repair our road network, make the trains move on our railways again, and find permanent solution to electricity generation and distribution(4) FG should create employment opportunities for our youth. Alas, a nation without visionary leadership perishes. The well wishers,no doubt,may have had good intentions,but it also puts a question mark on the fragile principle of followership. How come suddenly we all forgot to remind ourselves that most Nigerian universities have severally been described as 'glorified secondary schools'!The same proprietor-government of the Federal Universities no sooner than it announced the creation of additional 9, that President Jonathan suddenly turned a super hero, Ikole people were at war in the course of which lives were,as usual,wasted!A country where every house is its own local government- must produce its own water by bore hole or buy 'pure water', must generate its own electricity, construct its own road,provide its own security "vigilantes", will find it very hard to convince discerning minds that creating additional 9 Federal universities is capable of solving all the problems highlighted above or remove the pathological greed in most if not all the serving politicians in Nigeria.
My fear with your kind of appointment has always been that when good people like you accept FG's Greek gift, you not only end up being messed up, your credibility is all they need to legitimize the many crimes they are committing on daily basis against all Nigerians who do not belong to the ruling class.
So my dear brother Bolaji, I love you so much,but as things are right now,my condolences.
Demola Dasylva
Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN
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