Steven Kueberuwa:
Although you are a certifiably mad fellow, that does not mean that you should ALWAYS be ignored. This was a lesson I learnt when, sometime last year, my driver and I got lost traveling late one evening from Ado-Ekiti to Akure.
On that day, we did not take the straight and normal Ado-Ikerre-Akure road because of the bad road and delays in road construction along that path, so we headed for the alternate Ado-Ilawe-Igbara-Akure. But on getting to one Ilara-Mokin town, we reached a fork that we had no idea which further road to take, and so we stopped dead at the "city" circle ("round-ba-dout") there. ,en
Suddenly, a certifiably mad man, clearly mad to the non-clinical eye - every African village (like every African cyber-forum) has one, or else it is NOT African - appeared from nowhere. WITHOUT talking to us or asking us anything, he simply pointed in one direction and just said "Akure!" - and disappeared again. My driver and I looked at each other, and headed in the direction pointed out, and got to Akure true-true, but not before shouting our thanks to the madman at a distance. We must have been the millionth lost traveler that this madman had helped unsolicited!,en
I learnt a simple life lesson on that day, which I am deploying in the simple gesture of not ignoring you.,en
Moving on....
In offering my update of a closed important and official meeting over the university crisis that is consuming our educational system, I made a distinction between "closed" and "secret", which you have acknowledged. the whole purpose of the meeting was to leave it with some confidence-building measures in our kitty. Its closed-ness was to enable an atmosphere of frank discussions, without ascription of who said what; secrecy would have meant non-disclosure of both the meeting and its outcome. That may be a distinction with a big difference that is way above your intelligence grade.
In your maddeningly hackneyed and gratuitously adversarial disposition, Steven Stanley Kueberuwa, you opine that I be excluded from the next such closed meeting for revealing its outcome out of turn. Well, if that is the situation, then let those who gave me the job keep it, so as to make you and your evil confederacy jump over the moon over that, as you read the newspapers each day for such an eventuality. Water off my back, because I am confident of myself. I made my judgment not in a drunken stupor as many of you often are, and I will be very happy to live with that outcome.
Let me remind you: I was chosen as a VC "from the Diaspora" (along with two others out of 12 VCs of new federal universities), and even though I was not "elected" by any Diaspora voting (that desire to vote in elections in Nigeria from foreign perches appears some ways down the line), I have chosen to represent the SANER persons of the Diaspora. That excludes you and a few other mad caterwaulers (who know themselves). So, when I write "My People", don't bloody include yourself, and your blood pressure will not rise beyond the dangerous point that it already is when you read my name.
I am also resolved, like Clara Barton (founder of the American Red Cross) once said, to do a few things differently: "I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past." This quote was pointed out to me just yesterday by Dr. Joan Oviawe, for which I express appreciation. I have Clara's spirit, and I will live with the consequences of my episodic judgment.
I am of course aware that you wrote what you wrote in your hackneyed way to irk me - like a few of you kindergartners do when you read my name - but in responding to your irksomeness this time around, I believe I have used the opportunity to make some points.
And there you have it. My regards to Madam(e)s - nothing too personal.
Bolaji Aluko
PS: In the time being, you can use the attached Internal Press Release at FU Otuoke as "evidence", to your heart's content. Silly fellow! :-)
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 5:57 AM, stevek < avatarmd10701@yahoo.com > wrote:
Bolaji,
In government, the proceedings of closed door meetings are considered 'confidential' and are not supposed to be announced, with blissful equanimity to 'my people' on the Internet.
If these people find out you are doing this, they might shut you out next time.
By the way, why don't you let the press report the things you are so eager to tell an uninterested world if you think that these events are important to know? Or do work for the Tribune or AIT, too?
Go write a bitumen proposal or something if you are bored sitting in the bush with nothing to do!
S
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4. Each VC should engage with ASUU on their campuses (where in existence) to assure of Government's efforts and best intentions to resolve the crisis.,enIn my view, and that of many of my colleagues of VCs, it was a very good meeting with frank exchanges. One hopes that these confidence-building measures will help to ultimately resolve the crisis in the earliest possible time.,enBest wishes all.,enBolaji Aluko,en__._,_.___,en
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