BOMBSHELL: OTTI FIRES AGAIN, CALLS ON WELL-MEANING ABIANS TO LEAVE THEIR COMFORT ZONE TO SAVE ABIA STATE
Afnews Editor
Oct 07, 2019
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With every sense of humility, I believe that most of you know where I was in the corporate world before I took the audacious decision to step into the ring in a bid to halt the destructive leadership onslaughts on Abia and Abians. Therefore, the essence of this press conference is to once again appeal to well-meaning Abia sons and daughters to carefully and critically examine the unfolding sad developments in Abia state, and consider stepping out of their shells so that we could as brethren come together with sincerity of purpose and selflessly salvage the state which is faced with imminent collapse.
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In 2018, I wrote an open letter and organised press conferences during which I called on Abia state government to pay workers and Pensioners their accumulated arrears, and reminded the government in Abia of the importance of salary payments in the economic health of the state, and also highlighted the far reaching consequences of non-payment of salaries and pensions. I knew that the Okezie Ikpeazu led government was incompetent, but shortly before I wrote the said letter and held the press conference, I reviewed the volume of requests I was getting through phone calls and text messages on a daily basis from ordinary men and women from Abia and realised that the astronomical increase in such requests was predicated on the rising poverty levels in the state, which the government is a major propeller.
A serious minded government that is not preoccupied with thoughts of petty politics would have carefully looked at the posers I raised at that time and digested the message even if it didn't like the messenger. Sadly, political sycophants and social media miscreants were recruited by the government to attack my person. Unfortunately today, their misrule, emboldened by medieval anti democratic arrogance has finally brought a disaster of immense proportions as we feared, to the extent that different institutions of government are presently being shut down, facing strike actions, protests, or merely existing in theory while lying comatose.
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Also while the present government in Abia state has consistently lied to the world that there is a state government sponsored agricultural revolution in Abia, including the nonexistent Abia rice and Abia mushroom products, the government faced its biggest embarrassment a few days ago during its kangaroo media tour when the picture of the governor commissioning a dirty and substandard two-room local rice mill was released to the world, causing outrage and condemnations. Today, unlike the propaganda promoted by Ikpeazu, there is nothing like Abia rice anywhere.
The government knows it and the populace knows this as well. So, what were the lies for?
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All over Abia state, the tragic failings of the Ikpeazu government are self evident. His ineptitude, lack of vision and indifference to the task of governance, are legendary.
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Obviously his core interest in government appears to be jolly jolly ! He is permanently on a charted flight jetting out of Abia to frolic with friends and associates.
Most of the time he is abroad, deceiving those that listen to him that he is in search of foreign investment, while the few existing local ones are closing shop. The drive to better the lot of the masses does not matter to him.
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Like the Roman general, Nero, he keeps fiddling while his kingdom burns.
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These figures are exclusive of the Bailout funds of N14.15B and the 3 tranches of Paris club refund, totaling over N20B. Sadly, Abia doesn't look like a state that has seen twenty percent of the above mentioned funds, forcing one to ask; where do Abia funds go to? We are left with the sad conclusion that these resources meant for the development of the state and empowerment of our people are deployed into frivolities, diverted for self enrichment, shared to some unproductive political allies, and are wasted for the settlement of election rigging thugs and sycophants.
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Some of you will recall that on the 16th of August 2017, I had organised a similar press conference to raise alarm over the approval granted by the Presidency and the National Assembly to the Ikpeazu government to plunge the state into a fresh loan of $200m from African Development Bank. I had noticed some irregularities in the documentation for that loan and raised a few posers.
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I had stated that documents sighted by me showed that the National Assembly might have been misled into approving a loan that is different from the one recommended by the Presidency. I had indicated that on May 25, 2017 a Presidential request for $100 million regarding Abia State Rural Access and Mobility Project (RAMP) was sent to the National Assembly, however, on July 18, 2017 the then Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun sent a request for $200 million to the National Assembly in respect of Abia State Integrated Infrastructure Development Project (ASIIDP) which curiously, is exactly the same request that Abia State Government submitted in October 2015.
I had gone further to ask
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In line with the adage that an elder doesn't stand idly by and watch, while a goat delivers in tethers, I therefore call on Abia elders, senior citizens, royal fathers, captains of industry, serving and former lawmakers at the state and national levels, elder statesmen and political stakeholders across political party lines, human rights activists and opinion leaders to rise to the challenge posed by the current destructive leadership ravaging Abia state. I call on our Clergymen and women to speak out positively. There comes a time when silence is no longer golden.
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Your subjects are being owed salaries, your members are living in abject poverty and in filth. People are dying prematurely out of hardship and lack of good medical facilities. Businesses are closing down and some are relocating making it difficult for our children to get jobs.
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Crime is on the increase and life is becoming unbearable. A few has spoken up, but majority are either sitting on the fence or preaching peace. The word of God says in Jeremiah 6:14 "they dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious.
Peace,Peace, Peace they say, when there is no peace". Again we are reminded of Ezekiel 13:10 "Because they lead my people astray, saying, Peace, when there is no peace, and because when a flimsy wall is built, they cover it with whitewash, therefore tell those who cover it with whitewash that it is going to fall". My prayer is that this will not be our portion!
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To all those who can speak but have chosen to be silent, I remind you of the words of Frantz Fanon thus "every onlooker is either a coward or a traitor"
Abia is too big and rich in human and material resources to be surrendered to jesters for destruction on the alter of sectionalism and petty partisanship while vulnerable men and women who look up to us as leaders wallow in daily pain and penury. The truth is that the ordinary people in Abia seem to have been defeated and resigned to fate.
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They cannot help themselves. All well meaning Abia people should leave their comfort zones and recover their voices so that a genuine conversation on rescuing our state can begin.
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If previous humble appeals on behalf of suffering workers and dying pensioners could attract hostile reactions, insults and infantile defamatory attacks from the Ikpeazu led government, then I don't see any reason why I should not expect something worse from the sycophants and idle e rats recruited by the government. However, they should know that the resolve to get Abia out of the present mess has become stronger than ever, and no kindergarten tantrums can dampen it.
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I also wish to state again that this is not political. It is about the love of our state and our people.
We must rise to the challenge now as ours is now virtually a failed state.
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