| From: makanjuolaarigbede <makanjuolaarigbede@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, 18 December 2017 08:20 To: ayo_olukotun Subject: Re.: How politics shortchanges Nigeria. |
My dear yet-to-be-met brother:
I have not met you in flesh and blood but I hope that you and I will soon collaborate to overcome this deficit. However, I have met you in spirit every Friday in the wise words and thoughts you put out in your column.
I am not a frivolous writer but a 75 year old Nigerian patriot who has been driven by the need, as you clearly recognise in your column, to rescue our beleaguered patrimony from the locusts into whose hands we have entrusted our destiny. I have sacrificed my own life, comforts, professional ambitions, etc., and more importantly, those of my family, nuclear and extended. I am a trained neuroscientist who has crossed class lines to accompany the struggles of our under- privileged compatriots, particularly the beleaguered smallholder farmers who, despite their vicissitudes, sweat to feed the rest of us. So, I believe I have the right to seek out and, if possible, join arms, with anyone who expresses the views that you do in your column for the PUNCH Newspaper.
Why have I waited until now to reach out to you? The last paragraph of your piece for last Friday: "This can only be done ..... by the citizenry coming into its own in the form of a People's Charter". Is this a mere pipe dream or can serious citizens actually begin to work out how to do this? Would we need to work to establish a People's Parliament, or what.
Speak to me, my brother. A npee gbon ni, a kii pee go. Thanks and God bless.
Sincerely,
Dr. Makanjuola Olaseinde Arigbede
Odeomu, Osun state.
08053627973; 08106503474.
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