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POLICE NETWORKING: PRIME WAY TO FIGHT CRIME

By: Michael Daniels

Unlike before broad day light criminals claim stakeholders of Port Harcourt, robbed, shut sporadically and yet went uncaught, and the police ran into their cocoons, the story has changed somehow. A different thing is now obtainable.

One penultimate morning about 11.00am, just at Tombia Road by Obaji Junction, GRA phase 11, the ever busy road was automatically turned to a ghost street as the men of the underworld fired series of gun shot to scare people and have a free passage. A tipper driver who was trying to drive across the road then but run into them sharply lost his wind screen to their shouting, but he was not touched by the bullet. Commercial motorcyclists popularly know as Okada and other road users landed themselves along the road side and some across the drainage with the speed. In no distant time, a fleet of joint police force and the army vans filled the road, fully loaded with the joint force, chasing after the armed robbers. Beside the barrage of the JTF on the vans, many more were on bikes—some on uniform and some or mufti communicating with their radios. The news later come that the arm robbers had robbed at Trans—Amadi area of Port Harcourt and carried the money in a ‘Ghana Must Go’ bag and started running by bike. However, in less than two hours, the JTF who was pursuing the robbers started coming back. One of their vans was carrying a bike that was allegedly said to belong to the robbers, meaning that the robbers were finally caught. Consequently, I attribute the effort of the police and their victory over the arm robbers to the resuscitation of the police by the government and police networking respectively. I mean, the incentive or salary increase given to the police recently might have contributed to the police improvement. And it is police networking in the sense that before all the police could fill the road in that number like soldier ant pursuing the arm robbers they might have been fortified beyond the capacity of the robbers and alerted their colleagues elsewhere concerning what was on ground. Yes, knowing the location the robbers were heading to after robbing, they might have been radio messaging their colleagues in that direction to get ready. And by this, the arm robbers not knowing the measures the police had taken would end up falling into the hands of the police. With this I want to adhere that police networking is the prime way of fighting crime currently and therefore canvass more support for the police to be equipped with advanced gadget for easier communication among themselves, and guns that would give them the courage to face the criminals squarely and fearlessly. Also, to make the public involve in helping the police to fight crime, the police’s phone number should be made more accessible to the public: if it is possible it should be dispatched at every road junction to enable the public to report any crime going on in its environ to the police. I love the posture of a group in Port Harcourt who has dispatched the following numbers: 08036889311, 08059107873 to public to report any crime to them. The public is willing to partner with the police to fight crime. It has assured this interest by responding positively when it was called upon by Presidential Police Equipment Foundation to donate money to procure sophisticated equipment that will help the police to fight crime. It is unfortunate that the money was allegedly said to have been misappropriated by the foundation. If it is true, should the government keep quite over this and allow it to die like the PDTF saga because it involves those in the presidency? God forbid! The EFCC should not play at the gallery aver this but wake up to their duty by making sure that the perpetrators are brought to book if found guilty.

WHEN CORRUPTION WERE NOT CORRUPTION
By: Michael Daniels

From my recent research on corruption from this side of the world, Nigeria, I have come to know that there are some corruptions even the most sordid ones that were not ‘corruptions’ or treated as such. Such corruptions, though very naked to the eyes, and quite an effluvium, are not seen nor perceived by the powers that be including the executives, legislator and the judiciary.

They would set up a committee for this. If the committee could not employ filibuster or sine die to kill it, but submit their findings to the general house, or if the court sits for trial, even when the facts that are enough to attract indictment are omnipresent, they would wave it aside as lacking merit, preponderance of evidence or that the substance of the matter is not proved beyond reasonable doubt. But, this is even when the evidence is ‘proved without more’ i.e. clear, concise, uncontroversial, un-impugned and indeed unchallenged. But they leave the image to pursue the shadow. Prove the title of your land in dispute, they could award it to the disclaimer only that the latter register it before you; show with pure evidence that election is rigged, they would leave the clear evidence and ask you why you do not put ‘full stop’ at the end of your sentence, and hence dismiss your case as work of futility and yet give victory to the fraudulent and or discharge the notorious murderer only because he belong to the upper class or has paid handsomely. Unlike a crime committed by any other Nigerians, those committed by those in the executive arm of the government and its equivalents, and by the ‘godfathers’ and their ‘sons’ and ‘daughters’ are clothed with purity and treated as something sacrosanct. A whole generation could pass without anyone broaching the illicit container of their dubious acts. They might be charged together with the less-privilege ones over the same case, but while the latter are facing trial before the law court, they (those in the upper class) could not be served with court warrant to appear before the court –and because they are not invited, they could not go—Senator Iyado Obasanjo-Bello has more details on this. It is a common knowledge in Nigeria that a crime committed by the highly placed in the country is not treated as such. Nevertheless, I still hold the government of the People’s Republic of China in a high esteem for being indifferent to pampering, harboring and disguising corruption, and by calling a spade, a spade, and not minding whose ass is gored. For collecting bribe worth of ₤425,000 to approve untested medicines, the Chinese government hanged Mr. Zheng Xiaoyu, former head of Food and Drug Administration. This is a good precedent. It should help would be future defaulters to the impending danger standing before them. In many countries, a scam worth of trillion US dollars is not a crime in as much as every member of the agency receives a lion share from it. That is, once the spoil could be handed out to the satisfaction of all that are involved, it is a ‘holy deal’ or ‘Christmas bonus.’ No, a Christian name must be imported for it to make it sound holy. But once a party is cheated in the distribution, automatically, it becomes a sacrilegious thing because he must report it. Knowledge has shown that two recent scams in Nigeria: Police Equipment Fund and the N300 Million scam in the health sector that are under probe (or calling for so) and prosecution, are as a result of this. Certain people that suppose to be beneficiaries of the loot or who were not given a worthy offering bailed the cat that commanded prosecution or call for it. Concerning the Police Equipment Fund scam, the story has it that: “First, and for whatever reason, Dr. Ewulum (a co-founder of the organization who was later stripped off from it) blew the whistle, alleging wrong doings at the organization. He alleged, among other things that what’s going on in the Presidential Committee on Police Equipment Fund (PCPEF) has been shrouded in secrecy,” Patrick Asonye. “It was also revealed that running of the programme was in the hands of a few individuals, to the exclusion of impeccable character whose names were originally dropped to further the organization’s goodwill,” Asonye added. To expose why the government found it difficult to probe the organization, he concluded, “------ because of the various car donations (even the senate president David Mark was mentioned as one of the beneficiaries of the car donations) most agencies were alredy compromised. It was only the (ICPC) that didn’t receive car donations that replied us in the usual official language ‘steps are being taken to look into the matter,’” Festus Keyamo, Sunday Sun, March 23rd page 8 and 15. Besides, that of the N300 million health scam was similar to the above. A member of the organization’s accountant in level four ( according to their stratification) who was deemed to inherit N175,000.00 from the scam as a Christmas bonus who was later asked to collect only N40,000.00 or go to hell, having rejected the new offer, reported the shady deal to the EFCC who immediately probe the matter and found the Minister of Health Adenike Grange, Minister of State in the ministry Mr. Gabriel Aduku, Senate Chairman on Health Mrs. Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, and many others, guilty (Daily Champion March 26,April, 9). What am I saying? Had it been the guy in level four was given the initial N175, 000.00, he could not have reported the crime, and no one could have known any thing about it. In fact, now Nigerians are not yet morally matured to reject and report corruptions once it occurs without expecting 10%, l argue that such a condition one would be cheated out in a deal like this is good for the nation and for fighting crime. Obviously, it should be the prayers of every well-meaning Nigerian to let misunderstanding that will always result to the exposition of any crime be at any place people gather to share any money stolen from the government coffer. In the other hand, I congratulate the EFCC for taking a positive action in the prosecution of the N 300 million scam in the Health sector, and urge them to apply the same bravery in that of the PCPEF and every other crime that seems to have been swept under the carpet because of the figures that are involved in it. Also, I charge President Yar’Adua, Rule of Law, to adhere to zero tolerance to corruption which is one of his 7-point agenda, and to apply it without showing favoritism. Every Nigerian is equal before the law and should be treated equally. And corruption is corruption despite who commits it and when.

THE SORRY STATE OF THE HEALTH SECTOR,
By: Michael Daniels M.K. Okoronkwo,

I have come to know why President Yar’Adua and his ilk always fly abroad for medical treatment. If it is not for anything else, it is to receive urgent and quality medication. Unlike in the country where doctors in many hospitals are in part-time medical services, and nurses under-supplied, in occidental countries, we can see, not only permanent doctors but resident ones who know the values of life.

What I saw in one of the private hospitals in Port Harcourt, along East-West Road of the city truly reveals the putrefaction of the health sector. About 8’0 clock A.M that day I was told our friend had auto accident earlier before then; about 2’0 clock A.M, fell unconscious and was rushed to the hospital in question. And before we could locate the hospital, it was already noon. And on arrival, we met empty reception room, with no receptionist to attend us. Anyway, we had to wait for one to come. And it took another bit of time before a nurse out of the three nurses in the medium-size hospital could come and ushered us into the ward in which the friend was. However, the excuse of the nurse for keeping us waiting nervously before given us attention should at most be that they all (they only three nurses in the hospital) were treating someone who had a fatal knife-cut all over his body.

On meeting our friend, though he had been stitched on the head where he had a cut, and was on drip, he was still on his dirty cloth full of blood and groaning for pain. “O boy, how about your health (which is paramount)? We queried. “I ‘m having sharp pains both on my shoulder and on the chest. Since I came, I had not been given any serious medication beyond the drip and checking of my blood pressure (BP). The doctor said I should pay a deposit of N20, 000.00 before treatment commenced,” he answered. At this, we decided to go and see the doctor.

The doctor, though not the one that was on duty the early morning the friend was brought to the hospital nor the one that established the deposit bill; told us when the patient was carried to the hospital she was called to come but she declined holding that it was too early to enter the road. At last, she confirmed the N29, 000.00 deposits and could not accept anything less than that to effect treatment.

When we could not win her favour to slash the bill, we decided to go and bring the money. When we returned, the patient was still groaning heavily and sighing as he turned on either side of the bed in pain, but the doctor was nowhere to be found. “Nurse, we have brought the money! Call the doctor,” we pleaded. “Wait! She will soon be here,” the nurse replied. After one hour, we were yet to see the doctor. We therefore, queried her whereabouts again and even demanded for her phone number to call her, all to no avail. They later informed us that the doctor would be in the hospital by 4:00 pm. “You are not serious,” we cried. “If the doctor –comes by 4’ O clock pm, when should the X-ray going to be conducted and the result issued?” We asked in confusion. At this juncture, the nurse stepped on our nerves by telling us, “Sorry, even if the doctor comes now the X-ray will certainly skip today because we don’t have X-ray facility here; moreover, today is Saturday and we couldn’t go outside for it.” “Incredible!” We waved our heads sideways crying for the sorry state of the Nigerian healthcare centers

Once more, we pressed, “You mean our brother would be in this state till next week?” Knowing that our avalanche of pressure on them to reason with us over the condition of our friend might not produce any fruit, we pleaded them to use a damp cloth to wipe out the blood on his body—and he was cleansed by 3:30 pm. Yet he was brought to the hospital by 2’O clock a.m.

Furthermore, till I left the hospital by 5:00 pm, I did neither see the doctor nor any ray of electric light in the hospital—their power generating plant could only supply light to the reception room. And in the hot room my friend was was another patient who had burn all over his body. Meanwhile, this is a man who supposes to be, if not in an air-conditioned room, at least in a cool place. But he was exposed to the oven.

Nevertheless, over the weekend, our friend was transferred to UPTH (University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital) by an uncle. Alas, on the evening of that Monday he called to tell us he was at home. Hence we went to see him. In fact, he regretted leaving the former hospital in the first place to the UPTH despite its shortcomings at least he was given a bed in the first. According to him, “The UPTH is over-crowded: it does not have enough accommodation compared with the teaming patients there. The hospital was so congested that even the waiting room was automatically converted to patient’s room—patients lain indiscriminately all over the hospital premises. To worsen the situation, the doctors are dull in discharging their duties. It took me many hours of waiting to have my X-ray. Even now they told me to come back next week to collect the result. To be candid I left the hospital with annoyance because I was not comfortable in it. Right in my presence, four persons died. I’m tired of this. Besides, the pain of this is too much on me; I could not endure till the next week they told me to come. As a result, tomorrow, I’m going to Enugu with the X-ray to see our family doctor for him to interpret it and give me the necessary medication.” However, as he went to Enugu, he called again to tell us that the cut on his head which was stitched and bandaged at the first hospital was decaying and reopened, and treated and re-stitched in Enugu.

Obviously, I was listening to him with sympathetically as he was narrating his ordeal in the hospital. And this keeps telling me that healthcare centers—both government’s and privates’—in Nigeria are in danger. They are not delivering to the public what is expected from them. Only the poor in the country who have no alternative receive the full blow of their plagues. The rich have nothing to do with the services of the Nigerian health sector. Their own family doctors are in the Overseas, if they feel a little headache they travel abroad for special care. And because they (Nigerian leaders) do not have the masses in their agenda, they have little or nothing to offer to resuscitate the national healthcare, the common hope of the masses. To tell you the extent of their wickedness towards the poor Nigerians, they could audaciously misappropriate the little fund the government could budget for health sector. Who could fathom the impacts N300 million might create in transforming the hospitals in Nigeria at least the government hospitals, or the lives it could save if it was directly applied in developing Nigerian hospitals as against being shared among the doyens of the Ministry of Health. Mrs. Iyabo Obasanjo—Bello, the Senate Chairman on Health who (whose Committee) inherited N10 million from the loot was not ashamed to tell us (in the course of defending herself) that her committee received such tranche from the ministry as a support for a trip to Ghana, to deny the EFCC a toehold from intercepting her. But her argument is a mere wishy-washy. If truly the Ministry used the money to support the journey she claimed, what impact did that trip to Ghana with money allocated to improve the health of the sick-masses at home? The money was not spent properly or at the right place where the utility is at maximum, therefore, it is misappropriation. Consequently, she ought to face the trial.

Notwithstanding, the time is ripe for our leaders to think home in the area of healthcare. A situation the government officials should have such an affinity for Overseas medical treatment should be greatly discouraged—if possible it has to be outlawed to give the leaders the benefit of upward grading of the national healthcare. The government has to put more interest in the national healthcare delivery and transform them to international standard or at least just as the ones they visit in Overseas. They should employ capable hands both foreign medical practitioners and Nigerian doctors practicing in abroad, to come and manage the health of Nigerians and at the same time retrain our local doctors and recruit many more including nurses. I love the transformation going on in the Lagos State healthcare. The simple way to describe it is what the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris said, “…so, the kind of work that is going on at the Ikeja General Hospital is one aspect of building the service at tertiary level so that the amount of money we are spending on sending people abroad , would stop. We are going to use that one too to attract more specialists from abroad, especially Nigerians working there to come back home; we can also use it to build capacity locally, that is why the uncompleted work in Ikeja is being completed and new ones are being planned, especially the cardiac center diagnosis unit at Gbagada. We have completed what we are doing there ….”

I want to reiterate here that Nigerian governments in all levels and in every region should target international standard in building the nation’s healthcare. And until there is influx of patients from South Africa and Overseas to Nigeria for medical treatment, or until Nigerian leaders and wealthy men in the country stop going abroad for medical check-up but start receiving the same from home, Nigerian healthcare institutions remain a death trap. And when the last is the case, Vision 2020 will be in jeopardy. “A healthy nation is a wealthy nation,” they said.

Missing Aircraft: What a funny story!

By: Michael Daniels

“…your pilot is not the only one who knows where your airplane is at any given moment. In fact, several others on the ground are monitoring the progress of your flight. The system has been designed to minimize dangers and maximize safety. (No wonder accidents rates for commercial aircraft are very low)” Awake April 2008, page 15.

Some years back, the country was blessed with series of plane crashes some of which were Belleview, Sosoliso, ADC, Military Aircraft, and aircraft carrying electoral materials to the East during the last April presidential election. And each time any of them occurred, the aviation ministry and the government would act as if they had done anything to avert a successive one. What the government always did ranged from probing the ministry, sacking or changing the minister and promising to upgrade the industry. But when the pain of the inferno seems to have subsided, the upgrading of the industry could be discarded and the chapter exhumed when another one occurs and gets dumped again once the populace seems to have forgot it. The same thing is applicable to road accident. There are many bad roads in the country which millions of people pass on daily, yet to repair them is not in the budget of the government. It is a day a fatal accident would occur on any of them claiming lives that government might deploy bulldozer to grade it. The system is one of the Nigerian factors. In the row is that an about to collapse electric poll or school structure in Nigeria could not be replaced until a day it will fall and cause havoc to lives. More on this, River Niger Bridge could not be dualized to support the existing one, unless the present one collapses. Nigerians know responding to problems after it has constituted a nuisance to humanity: they are yet to know stitch in time saves nine. However, the country has started this year with broken news of a missing areoplane Beech craft 1900D belonging to Wings Aviation Ltd whose search has taken days and had been stretched to Cameroon, yet without any fruit. Besides, when I watch the whole show, especially when I ponder on what I was taught concerning air transportation, that beside the pilot, several others on the ground monitor the progress of passengers’ flight, I take the story of the missing aircraft as a childish talk or the Aviation Ministry as playing in the gallery, unless I were misinformed. My lecturer on aviation taught me that to ensure safety and orderly flow of air traffic, since pilots’ chances of seeing each other while on air is minimal, that a traffic control system is put in place on ground and operated by ground-base (aviation) workers. “Air traffic control specialists play a vital role in the safety of air traffic. The first priority is to provide separation between aircrafts,” says Samuel, a 13 year air traffic controller in California. In his own words, an air traffic supervisor, Melba added, “First and foremost, is safety, but aside from safety, we also provide expeditious and orderly flow of traffic.” The summary of all this is that beside the pilot operating the aircraft from the cockpit, many ground-base eyes and ears are following the flight. Furthermore, I can deduct from here that the ground-base aviation workers play a greater role in the directing of the pilot and or tracking of the aircraft. They see even what the pilot could not see or before he (the pilot) could see it and advise him on the next line of action. To avoid collision of (two) aircrafts, the controller could instruct a pilot to either change: 1. Heading or direction, well known as vectoring in aviation 2. Speed in terms of overtaking or most importantly 3. Altitude to keep them more apart. I was equally meant to know that (at times) when surfing, that pilots do not know on their own where they are or will go especially when they meet intersection points in the airways, except they are informed by the ground-base air traffic controller; this calls for the need for pilots to keep with the ground-base controllers a copy of their intended flight route of plan (flight progress strip) before taking off. And with this the ground-base controller could track aircraft along the airways. “There are intersection points on the airways. When a pilot comes over them, he has to report that information to the controller. Then the controller strip will mark that on his mental picture of the path of that aircraft,” says, Salvador Rafael, another air traffic controller. Nevertheless, the components of the control system or what creates link between the pilot and the ground-base controller are radio and radio transmitter and radar antenna. The radio transmitters are located at specific points as aircraft fly from point to point until it reaches its destination. Also, this point to point flying of aircraft is what about specific airways. The mechanic here is that the directional radio transmitters provide signals to guide aircraft, and the pilot picks the signal through an instrument available in the aircraft and knows exactly where he is. In addition to the directional radio transmitter is the radio with which both the pilot and controller use to exchange information or the pilot receives instruction from the ground-base controller to know where the aircraft is at any given point in time. Before navigating, the pilot and controller choose a common radio and frequency to ensure steady communication and avoid lost of contact as a result of failure of the radio, they (pilot and controller) could select double radios and frequencies. A common language (the one both the pilot and controller understand) and formal phrases are other key factors to be adopted by both the pilot and controller. In addition to this, the pilot is advised to read back or repeat certain instructions given by the Controller. The aim is to see that the pilot gets the controller properly before acting. Rader is the next tool that air traffic controllers use. And through its antenna it picks up any radio waves that bounce off from the aircraft. “The planes then show up as objects, or tangents, on the controllers radar screen. May airplanes are equipped with a transponder, which returns an identification signal to the radar. When the signal is combined with computer input, the aircraft show up on a radar screen, complete with flight number, speed, altitude, and aircraft type,” Awake. As a safety enlacement, the radar also has the capacity to alert the controller when dangerous situations exist. This is possible through visual and visible alarms that go off if the system anticipates that two aircraft will get too close to each other. Anther alarm goes off if an airliner appears to be getting too close to the ground. From the foregoing, or how the aircraft is fortified, to ensure safety, you can discover that the makers of aircraft are very sensitive towards the important of life and would not like to risk any; hence, they put the basic facilities in place. And where these components of the aircraft and the personels operating it are available and functioning accordingly, it sounds funny for an aviation industry to surface with a story of a missing aircraft except to question the intelligence of men or show the world how lackadaisical they are. Consequently, million questions loom in the air waiting for answers from the aviation ministry: if the eyes and ears of the ground-base controller of the aviation department were on the aircraft as l was informed, why did Beechcraft 1900D missed without tracking it, or were they sleeping when it happened? That is number one! Two, if radio transmitter and radio help the pilot and controller to keep time to time communication, why did the aircraft miss amidst the communication or was there a communication failure before the incidence? Or was the plane hijacked? And if the plane was hijacked, when the hijackers were departing from the route the pilot dropped as his flight progress trip (according to my aviation instructor), why didn’t the ground-base controller notices it and reports? Finally, could it be that the aviation workers on duty then are neophytes in the game or that the basic equipment for the control system, especially, the radar were lacking or have worn out and could not function again? I mean does the company only exist verbally without having the necessary equipment for aviation? The government must press to find out.

COME LET US BUILD THE EAST By: Michael daniels
10, Jan.,08

“Good morning ‘Ndi nzuzu’” was a one time awkward but a mysterious and life changing lesson though a greeting Chief Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu, Eze Igbo Gburugburu, the man who saw the tomorrow of his people and warned them concerning it, had one afternoon allegedly said t o have greeted his people Ndigbo in Lagos when they invited him to commission a multi-million naira standard market they built in Lagos State. The greeting was awkward be cause it came at the wrong time (in the afternoon) and the people that claim to be sapient acted foolishly. They left their region “The East” desolate and channeled all their resources and business to the West (Lagos) and to the North (Abuja, Kaduna and Kano), and there they live and pay house and shop rents in hundreds of thousands and some in millions per annum. Despite all these, they are still fighting for acceptance in the regions. Apart from being treated as sacrificial animals or like the ‘salah’ cow and rams at every religious and communal crisis they are not the cause, nor associated with, they are suffering structural devastation. Every ElRufai’s bulldozer in Abuja always found a safe landing on the shops where Ndigbo were doing their business. By this, many have been sent home jobless and to some to their early graves. Also, many times in Lagos, the markets where Ndigbo are trading have caught fire, in the process they contributed money and lobbied the government and d rebuilt the market to suffer the same thing in no distant time yet they could not have a rethink. What happened some years back at Computer Village in Lagos during Governor Tinubu’s regime? The market was suddenly declared illegal by the government, and many people were forcefully removed from their s hops. My friend was a victim to that. Hence, he relocated to Calabar and he is doing well there. But what happened to those currently trading there? They did the normal settlement to the forces that-be in the state. And this was in the tone of millions of Naira. Now, the recent fire that gulped Tajuoso Main Market in Lagos on 15th December 2007 and which have resulted into its closure is another heavy knock on Ndigbo in Lagos. Their billions of naira have drained down the ditches through the inferno. The victims did not enjoy the Christmas, and some that managed t o g o home could not return because attempting it would mount into unbearable suffering from hunger and its other attending vices. And some that survived leaving the village are still hanging around at some places in the East, being stranded. However, the victims are still are going to pick their lessons—but not now. With a little recovery, they could run back t o Lagos, join forces and pressurized the e government, not only to reopen the market but to rebuild equally, even with a solemn promise to bear the cost. No, I’m not against any such move! But it is a high time for Ndigbo in Diaspora to think home and think east. It is time for them to be orientated. That Lagos, Kano, etc are what they are today are Ndigbo. If they can put part of what they put in other places in the East, the East would be a ‘new heaven’. Lagos is what it is because people located and invested in it. People come from far and wide targeting Lagos, Kano, Abuja, etc as final destination only that they have been developed. Even the hamlets in the East would become like the Festac Town in Lagos if the Easterners could grasp the vision I’m seeing now concerning the region. It is unfortunate that some people come to Port Harcourt daily for their day-to-day business and return at the end of the day by flight and repeat the same process the next day not at all to display their affluent but because of the restive in the area. If Ndigbo see the vision I’m conceiving they would have made South-East like Lagos and Abuja. And like Donald Duke, subtly steal the offices and headquarters of the companies in Lagos who are there just because they do not find a serene milieu in the South, just as Donald Duke stole the Nolly Wood who was hovering on the air in Lagos like a dove without a nest, to Tinalpa, Calabar where the film industry finally find peace at for its soul. This will contribute enormously to the calming of the militancy in the South-South because this having a resemblance of the Word of God, and for it (the Word) to be fulfilled, though the South-East is not a stranger to the dividends of democracy and national cake, the South-South would become jealous of the development that is eluding it and at the same time being grabbed by her sister region the South-East and would like to change from unwholesome practices in other to regain its ‘missed’ mandate. With this, I believe the restoration of serenity in the South-South regions is in the hands of the South-East. The Word of God of says: “Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always. I say then, have they stumbled that They should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?” Yes, the South-East has all it takes to soar to this envisaged platform. It is only a matter of months or at most a year. What is needed from for it is oneness, willingness, pertinacity and faith t o do it. As the Bible story goes in Genesis 11:2-4 “And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the EAST, that they found a plain in the land of Shinor; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they, said, Go t o, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we scattered abroad (consumed) upon the face of the whole earth,” ( ) And they arose and built a ‘city and a tower’. Except that the people built with a wrong motive, they would have been wonderful people on earth. Ndigbo, you are wonderful people on earth, the very people in the biblical ‘East’, the land of the wise men, the region for God’s garden (Eden). You are the Isrealites of God in Nigeria. Although you may be in bondage for 400 years, one day, your deliverance will come. But for now, there is a plain and resources for you in the East to build a city and a tower in the eastern Nigeria for the glory of God. And you have the resourcefulness for it. Therefore, I say it again: Come let us build a city and tower in the East. Who is an Igbo man among you? Tell him: come, let us build a city and a tower in the Eastern Nigeria. Our Eastern Governors, revisit your agenda in the last World Igbo Congress (WIC) in Detroit City, US and therefore come for us to build a CITY and a TOWER in Eastern Nigeria for the glory of our God.

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