From Mail Box of  Yushau A. Shuaib

OTHER EMAIL REACTIONS TO AUTHOR'S PUBLISHED ARTICLES

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RE: BETWEEN FOREIGN AND NIGERIAN LEGISLATORS

Hi, My Dear Shuaib,

Thank you for your piece in the Punch edition on Tuesday, May, 18, 2004. Actually, what is happening amongst our so-called State or Federal Legislators is alarming in our society today. As you have rightly asked "how many legislators from other West African countries travel abroad frequently for medical check-ups as their counterparts do in Nigeria when we have better medical facilities in our country". They, the legislators are telling our medical personnels that they are not different from 'bunch of mediocres' who do not know anything at all.

    I am praying every Nigerian to see our legislators whether in the state or federal level as 'blood suckers' and we should all fight to see that these blood sucking people are pulled down one by one. When I read in one of the national dailies, that Ekiti State Government sent legislators to Oyinbo land to teach them how to legislate, I cried for the poor in Ekiti State who I know very well cannot afford one or two square meal in a day. I used to asked myself, do these legislators have blood running in their veins? and if any their blood must have been contaminated with self-interest syndrome. What I also expect the poor to be telling the legislators to always pointedly telling them "God dey O". By saying so, God Almighty is taking record of all these on behalf of the poor masses. One of the members of federal House of Representatives came to my office one day with his official jeep. When he alighted from the vehicle, I looked at him for almost 30 minutes and I was carried away with the quality of outfit (black suit) this man worn. Since that day, I now believe that our so-called legislators are legislating for themselves and their immediate family. One question I am asking now is when will these legislators' personal pocket get full for money before they will face those who voted them in office? His movement that day was like that of an elephant by walking slowly as if he is on top of Nigeria.

    Let me digress a little, about two or three weeks ago, the Minister of State for Finance, Mrs. Nenadi Usman accused some state governors of reckless spending of taxpayers money. Some of them felt insulted because they are above the law or they are too much to be questioned in Nigeria for looting public fund as far as they are in control of their respective states. When I saw Governors James Ibori of Delta State, Lucky Igbinedion Edo State and Sam Egwu of Ebonyi State in the newspapers asking the Minister of State for Finance to tender appology letter to them, my heart bleed. These men have sold shame in the market that is why they could not keep quite when they had the Minister telling the truth. O, do they want the Minister to thank them for spending public fund recklessly? If Mrs Nenadi cannot do so, I therefore come forward to thank all the governors concern Thank You For Spending Public Fund anyhow and may God continue to bless them accordingly.

    Brother Shuaib, do you think that our legislators at the state and federal levels reads newspapers at all? If they don't have shame, the poor people of Nigeria have shame that is why they are crying for good governance in Nigeria today.

Once again, thank you brother Shuaib and I looked forward to such piece probably soonest, please.

Chris. O.

e-mail: Chrissodo@yahoo.co.uk

18-5-04

RE: PR ANALYSIS OF FANIKAYODE’S REJOINDER

"It is unfair and unjust to join a person and group in official rebuttal when they are not involved in the petition. " From the above statement, both Fani-Kayode and Umar are unjust to join "a person or group in ......petition." Hear Umar:"Were it not for public pressure, Iyiola Omisore would be sitting at the Senate if not in your cabinet. While some of us will certainly end up in jail between now and 2007, the Bode Georges who have learnt well how to massage your ego will collect more national honours, the Nigerian Ports Authority probe notwithstanding."

"If we accept in our political philosophy the view of Mr. Fasheun, one of your most prominent apologists..."

Umar was a guy I used to hold in high esteem so much but the above statement could set people of one ethnic group against the other. He wrote the above statement to display his ethinic irredentism just as Femi Fani-Kayode said in 2001 before he got his appointment that: "Goodbye Nigeria: Hello Oduduwa And lest they forget let our 'AREWA' brothers be reminded of the incontrovertible fact: the only reason that the Yoruba nation is not on the march today is simply because a fellow Yoruba man, as misinformed and misguided as he is, is sitting on the throne. Yet the truth is that, Obasanjo or no Obasanjo, when the time is right, the militant march of the Yoruba nationalists will rent the air and shake the very foundations of this country."

(Umar and Fani-Kayode both have ethnic irredentism running in their blood)

Sam

New York

Colaxie2004@aol.com

19/2/2004

RE: HAMMAN TUKUR AND NATIONAL HONOURS

Yah Alhaji,

This last one was a masterpiece. I can not say enough about you this guy. You are just too much and you belong to the thinkers and elite group of that country. The sky is even too close for your limit and I wish you all the best.

What is in this though for you? You deserve to be rewarded eventually even though you are doing this not for any profit or gain!! I think and I agree with you that, that guy deserves a national honors Award and he will surely get one this year. You need to publish this in all national dailies and in strategic locations and pages to gain the widest public consumption. I wish you the best.

I want you to modify this peice and publish it as a summary of the activities of RMAFC during this democratic dispensation in Newspapers and websites pls. I can hardly believe you have done so much in these past years and they are commendable to say the least.

Take care my Man and be YOU.

Edeth James.

December 8, 2003

edethola@yahoo.com

RE: MEMO TO ARMED ROBBER

I read your article in Gamji.com titled Memo to Armed robbers

it was very well laid kudos! I only wish they read these write ups

honestly write up like this can help change a bad mind, you never know

Keep up the good work

Cheers

Andy

"Andy Esun [ MTN - UBA ]"

<AndyE@mtnnigeria.net>

18-september2003

RE: NZERIBE FOR SENATE PRESIDENT

Nzeribe may be an Igbo, but not all Igbo have a say in the election of the Senate President and not all Igbo are in PDP. SO DO NOT GENERALIZE YOUR ADVICE FOR THE IGBO TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT SELECTING THE SENATE PRESIDENT. Rather, advise other senators from other zones not to accept Nzeribe if he is so elected.

"Dimkpa, Christian (IITA)"

<c.dimkpa@cgiar.org>

16 may 2003