THE BRINK OF WAR, BEHIND THE SCENES, THE BLOOD BATH THAT WAS STOPPED, THE MAN ABACHA, IBB, LIES, INTRUIGES, BETRAYALS, COURAGE, SUSPENCE AND MANY MORE….
This is not fiction, but a true life story from the man who witnessed it first hand. Action packed like a Tom Clancy’s novel. This is one thread that should not be ignored because of its lenght, so it is my hope that you all would read this and maybe learn something from it, because it is our history, a very dark one I must say. It took some time to collect these materials, now its here for your reading pleasure. Enjoy....Kham
A Simple letter started this dark story that people wanted to hear but nobody wanted to tell cos most are too afraid to speak out!
THE LETTER THAT STARTED STARTED IT ALL
Seek proper understanding of the Lord and purge yourself of pagan beliefs, Abubakar Umar tells Obasanjo The text of an open letter by retired Army Colonel, Abubakar Umar to President Olusegun Obasanjo[/b]
ALTHOUGH this wish or prayer may be totally unnecessary, since leaders who believe they are divinely appointed and inspired don't need prayers, I still volunteer to wish you and your well endowed family a very merry Christmas and happy New Year in arrears. It was impossible to reach you before the events because while you were busy running court and entertaining your new friends and well-wishers and thanking the Lord for continuing to subjugate us to you, I was in far away Niger Republic for what I now regard as a convalescence holiday.
You may not believe it Mr. President that as materially poor as Niger is, it is a more amenable human habitat compared to our vastly endowed Nigeria, thanks to the Lord who has been so merciful in guiding their leaders. The journey from Kaduna to our border with Niger was a very bad experience. However, the trip from Kamba, our last border town, to Niamey was physically refreshing but psychologically torturing. The torture was caused by the realisation that Niger is a very poor country that imports bitumen from Nigeria but its roads resembles the German autobahns all due to the good and honest management of resources by its leaders. We did not encounter a single pothole throughout.
Nigeria supplies electric power to Niger yet while power outages are a daily routine here, Niger enjoys uninterrupted power supply. Consequently, its few industries are functioning. The police in Niger are some of the most courteous and duty conscious that I have seen. They don't demand nor do they expect bribes. There is evidence of good governance. The leaders are evidently honest which makes the followership content in their relative material poverty and willing to make sacrifices for the common good. Niger is a true Nation. If one could place God in time and space, one could safely conclude that He is now in Niger and no longer in Nigeria as was once supposed. President Tanja Mohammadu is a humble man who is busy doing his duty without laying any claim to the monopoly of God's grace. He apparently in doing so, does understand the Lord very well, going by our standards here.
It was on my way back at Birnin Kebbi, my hometown, that I read Mr. President's end - of- year testimony, given at Owu Baptist Church in Abeokuta. In the testimony, you once again engaged in your usual blasphemous chest beating. You claimed that your 2003 re-election was one more miracle performed by the Lord, considering the forces arrayed against you. Perhaps, because of my Niger experience and a definite feeling of pity for Nigerians who are currently saddled with a deluded leadership that is set on the course of national destruction, I decided to write you this open letter. The aim of course is to cause you to seek proper understanding of the Lord and to purge yourself of pagan beliefs. In doing so, I will not pretend to be an Imam or Bishop, neither will I resort to extensive quotations from the Holy Scriptures because I know how proficient you are in the latter.
I will rather write as a simple believer in the omnipotence and omniscience of the Supreme Being, as one who has fully internalised the truth of the description of this transient world in the Book of Ecclesiastes as "vanity of vanities". I also speak as one who has cried out twice in the past, at great personal peril, when I perceived dangerous clouds gathering in our national firmament. Mr. President, I have in the last few years been curious to study the life and particularly the background of the man Obasanjo. In view of your past apotheosis and your shocking dismal performance so far, it is, however, not necessary to reveal my findings now since they have been adequately addressed by some of your close associates and subordinates like Gen. Oluloye, Chief Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the Ikemba Nnewi, Chief Allison Ayida and Gen. Theophilus Danjuma. From their accounts, it is now clear that you have escaped public scrutiny through misrepresentation, manipulation and cunning a la Abacha.
It will suffice to review your performance as the democratic President between 1999 and 2003 and how you re-emerged in the 2003 elections in order to demonstrate that you derive your inspiration from some other being, which you tragically mistake for the good Lord. For four years Mr. President, the nation had accorded you such servile obeisance on the understanding that you inherited a weak state and that anything after Abacha was tolerable. The people were optimistic that you had the credentials to lead them to the Promised Land. What will now pass as your mythical image of a great achiever and statesman prevailed on even the doubting Thomases to believe that you were divinely anointed. But barely two years into your first term, it was clear to even your most jaundiced admirers that you are not after all the Messiah this nation has been waiting for.
If in the past, the ship of state became rudderless due to poor handling by unskilled captains, you as the present captain decided to go to sleep, dreaming that the Lord will steer the ship physically. When you awaken, you operate a theocracy, ruling from the pulpit. Your first term had, therefore, been characterised by too much sermonising about very attractive ideals which, we now know, that you don't even believe in. The result has been a worsening of our situation. But let us see how, by reviewing your scorecard in the handling of the economy and socio-political development of the country. It is incontrovertible that your government inherited a very weak economy that is precariously mono-cultural, depending on oil as its sole engine of growth. All other sectors had faced serious neglect. Excessive corruption had further compounded the problem.
You had correctly identified this as an anomaly in your many beautiful speeches and promised to reform. Theoretically, you had some of the best plans for economic recovery, but insincerity and ineptitude ensured that such plans remained mere paper tigers as the economy continued to nosedive. For example, while you had consistently and routinely drawn budgets, which were grudgingly passed into law by the National Assembly, your government circumvented them and illegally adopted other ways and means of misappropriating public funds. Accountability, which is the key to good management, is consequently sacrificed. There is, therefore, very little evidence of how a total revenue of about N3.5 trillion has been spent in the first term.
There is, however, ample evidence to show that most of it has found its way out of the economy. Otherwise, how can one explain the deplorable and worsening state of our infrastructure in spite of the colossal sums released for its rehabilitation? Over N300 billion was supposedly spent on road maintenance, yet there is not a single road that has been rehabilitated, including the one leading to Otta. Over 2 billion US dollars has been spent on NEPA, yet power outages have worsened nationwide except perhaps in Abuja. The refineries remain shut in spite of the billions spent for their rehabilitation. This poor infrastructure has necessitated the closure of many of our industries. Capacity utilisation for the remaining industries has fallen below 35 per cent.
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