Of General Olusegun Obasanjo. Kellogg's cornflakes and imported tricycles?
It all started with Mr. Kunle Oshobi, managing director of Net communications who was to become a member of the communications strategy team for the presidential candidate
Atiku A bubakar.suprisinly.Mr.Kunle Oshobi is also author of the book,Project Nigeria
Mr.Kunle oshobi had stated that leadership is a very interesting subject i had stated amongst other issues that "a leader is able to do all that he asks of his followers and more" quoting General Mark clark of USA Army and long ago I stated that Obasanjo exemplifies what has been said by General mark clark as far as it pertains to Farming and agriculture.
Contributing, Dr Tokunbo Shitta bey,,Director Duchess International Hospital quoted General Douglas Mcartjur as follows:
" A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions ,and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.,he does not set out to be a leader but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent""
Mcarthur, I call him Baba Alagbado because of his corn cob pipe
/i saw the film by the same name in Wole Soyinka's oduduwa hall university of ife, 40 years ago.,soyinka was chairman of the management committee of thehaal now in a love hate relationship with chief olusegun obasanjo
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo Is known for consuming Kellogg's corn flakes in the presidential villa. abuja when he held forth as president.of Nigeria . so a photograph was revealed in the guardian newspaper nigeria..
Due to embarrassing comments imported breakfast cereals were then outlawed from the presidential villa but still allowed into Nigeria such that they would have been shedding tears
At the Federal institute of industrial research Oshodi which is a bastion of local nigerian breakfast cereal research same with the National cereals research institute in Ibadan.,the agric research capital of the black world and the world's largest indigenous blackcity where i held sway as editor of ibadan mail and saw a royal father not olubadan step out of his luxury car into a fast food joint!. Iya oloja must not know that Kabiyesi indulges in eating meat pie, sausages and doughnuts then who would patronize the traditional snacks?
From my window of the editorial suite i could see the creme de la creme of Ibadan nigeria going and coming with bags of junk food whilst taking their children to eat junk, they kept these same children and grand children away from a next door bookshop offering quality books with the result that the bookshop closed down but the fast food shop prosppered to open more branches. In ibadan Food for the body , junk and food fort he mind ,quality! Coutersyof dr tokunbo Ajasin son of the man. Chief Michal Ajasinwg who prepared the position paper on free education for western region../farewell to child's play bookshop!
All these should be of interest to DR tokunbo shitta bey the Chief medical director and managing director of the 100 bed state of the art Duchess International Hospital perhaps because of the imported food and imported lifestyles we are beginning to see strange diseases we never used to see particularly in children like Diabetes, cancer and obesity.kidney disease and hypertension.
So in addition to curative medicine as its available at Duchess International hospital we need social and preventive medicine to keep as many people as possible away from the hospital because an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure and this means for instance universal availability of potable water, 100 million nigerians are exposed to killer water , cotaminated water and 50 per cent of the cases in r hospitals are due to lack of water for HAND WASHING..,
Besides the Nigerian doctors ought to encourage and endorse the consumption of vegetable salad and fruit salad aaand the need for exercise, true friendship not social media friendship and laughter and goodsleep. Sleep is medicine, exercise is medicine,laughter is medicine, clean Air not polluteted Air is also medicine a quiet and green environment is also medicine the early morning sun is also medicine good for cancer prevention and strong bones. Vitamin D! Free health from nature. Preventative medicine.
On the anniversary of General Macarthur graduating from west point military academy ,USA, precisely on june 11 1903,obasanjo was seen presenting 85 moto tricycles to some beneficiaries and later on he was seen riding on one of the n motorcycles donated to mark=khis 85th birthday anniversary/ i would have thought that Chief Obasnjo would rather have ventured into food science and technology rather than transportation that is largely import oriented because these tri cycles are not really made in nigeria and they are far emoved from his profession which is farming.if he was hiring out nigerian made tractors then I understand not imported tricycles
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