Obi Nwakanma
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - How Jonathan, PDP benefit from Boko Haram insurgency
From: ayo.m.o.obe@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 08:42:42 +0100
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Ayo
To criticize Lai Mohammed and his London presentation is not to support President Jonathan. Mohammed is disrespectful of Nigeria’s sovereignty. He actually compromised it. He should not have made his and his party’s case against President Jonathan where he did. Any case on Nigeria’s affairs that he has as a Nigerian politician should be made to the Nigerian people who I may point out, are not beholden to agreeing with him. That is my beef with him. His action suggests to me that he was more confident in the agency of the British government than he is in his fellow citizens’- Fela’s colonial mentality.
What did he hope his presentation in London would accomplish that would be good for Nigeria now or later? He was inviting foreign interference and perhaps intervention on a matter that foreign powers are not better able than Nigerians to resolve. Great Britain has its own terrorism related challenges. No British citizen has come to Nigeria for assistance and/or empathy. Does Mohammed not know this? Should he not? He made himself and Nigeria smaller in my opinion.
oa
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cornelius Hamelberg
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2014 9:48 AM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - How Jonathan, PDP benefit from Boko Haram insurgency
Sir ,
Ki Tavo has put me in a good mood and that's why I'm writing in this manner.
The cause of your opprobrium is that in your view Mr Lai Muhammad is not a proud Nigerian national and that's why he betook himself with his queries to the Sub-Committee of the British House of Commons instead of to the Nigerian Police headquarters or to the head of Nigerian Security and this in your view is an act of uncle-tom foolery, betrayal and treachery.
Imagine (and this actually happened) that you are a foreign national in an African country – and you get wind of the fact that there's going to be a coup d'etat. What do you do with that intelligence? You go to the bloke who has struck you as being the most radical of the people that you've met in that country - and he looks at you with bloodshot eyes and says to you in a menacing manner, “And how do you know all this? “ - and it turns out that you have come to the right place and at the right time too and that (a) he is in the know himself and (b) he is one of the coup plotters. So what do you think he is going to do with you if he thinks that you are a blabbermouth or to ensure that you will never be a blabbermouth?
It reminds me of a chance occasion when I turned on the radio (Swedish radio) and I'm sure that the very first words I heard would have shocked your patriotic sentiments, to hear the speaker, a Swedish man say the following and these were his exact words: “Nigeria , where I was robbed twice in my journey from the airport to the hotel, first by the police and then by the military” (I'm sure that you don't want to hear the rest of the story)
Hypothetically, Mr Mohammed is obviously in a dilemma and may be motivated by just that kind of suspicion, a suspicion that the Mafia boss is in charge of both the Police and the military.
Hopefully, Mr Mohammed has not violated the Official Secrets Act by taking his complaints to his big brother in the sub-committee. The plot thickens with the so called “Secret” Intelligence Report which names a former governor and the Chadian head of state as part of the murky business of gun-running.
There are many international actors in the war against global terrorism in which Boko Haram is one of the targets and I don't suppose that you have any objection to Stephen Davis of Australia as a negotiator and most probably a good number of other counter-terrorism people weighing in on Boko Haram's connections with other Islamic terrorist groups maybe stretching as far as today's Libya.
What is surprising is that Mr Mohammed could have swung through doors to the sub-committee as either a private but very conscientious Nigerian citizen or as a Nigerian official and be so warmly received considering that he was there to publicly back-bite Goodluck Jonathan and without any diplomatic fallout....other than your Professor Ogugua Anunoby (and possibly Hon.Chika Onyeani of “Goodluck Jonathan Appreciation Day” fame?)
One would have thought Mr Mohammed would have made his protestations to e.g. Chatham House or the Tavistock Institute . Who knows, in the same brave spirit Mr Muhammed could soon be addressing sub- Committees of the Foreign Relations Committee in the United States or even be addressing the Congress, the Senate, the House of Representatives about his suspicions...and sub-committees of the Swedish Parliament after tomorrow's elections.
Sincerely said,
Cornelius
On Saturday, 13 September 2014 01:36:42 UTC+2, ofure aito wrote:In my opinion, I believe that both parties and/or their representatives or spokesmen all have hidden agenda. It is like a game of chess or tennis: seeking upper hand and aims to disarm the other in the race towards 2015 "power sweet..." I do agree with Cornelius's argument on fair hearing, after all, we are seeking a free and fair election. So, let's start by giving one another the chance to voice even the most stupid thought that may one day offer clues to resolution of our internal conflicts. However, that does not mean I agree with the contact flight to the West by the "tea-party" groups for resolution, thereby, turning a political issue into a pop culture reality show. I feel that clues to the insurgencies wearing out the sovereignty of Nigeria lie within and in the hands of these same "power sweet..." tea-party people. I say it and will always do, the independence was a sham because it was not a national concession but a cessation to the greed of the few in need of power in order to look into the eyes of the white man and also buy back their libidos taken away by color separation and identity. This means that help and resolution will continually come from the west until we learn the meaning of the words like 'truth', 'dialogue', 'understanding', 'respect', 'accountability' etc without any political or social colors. It is for this same reason that Nigeria will constantly tackle issues such as, corruption, insurgency- which is almost as old as Nigeria-, internecine ethnic rivalry and underdevelopment. By the way, has APC resolved her own internal crises and rivalries? Indeed, charity begins at home, Mr Lai Mohammed!
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the "USA-Africa Dialogue Series" moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin.
For current archives, visit http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue
For previous archives, visit http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/index.html
To post to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue-
unsubscribe@googlegroups.com
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "USA Africa Dialogue Series" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to usaafricadialogue+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the "USA-Africa Dialogue Series" moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin.
For current archives, visit http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue
For previous archives, visit http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/index.html
To post to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue-
unsubscribe@googlegroups.com
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "USA Africa Dialogue Series" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to usaafricadialogue+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the "USA-Africa Dialogue Series" moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin.
For current archives, visit http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue
For previous archives, visit http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/index.html
To post to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue-
unsubscribe@googlegroups.com
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "USA Africa Dialogue Series" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to usaafricadialogue+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
No comments:
Post a Comment