Apology From Chaba Mark:
Is there anyone close enough to former president
Goodluck Jonathan who may be reading this? Please tell him that one unknown
quantity is seeking for his forgiveness.
I am asking for his forgiveness
for the reasons I’ve carefully itemized below…
1. On Chibok Girls:
I was among those that
lampooned him for being too slow to track down the abductors of the school
children. I have to apologize to him because only recently, a serving minister
threatened to implicate a governor on his role in the abduction saga. I told
myself wait a minute, did I hear what I just heard? And I cast my mind back to
when people said that the abduction was a stage managed plot to ease him out of
power. I joined others then in calling such individuals, “conspiracy theorists”
and “evil people”. The story is getting clearer.
Dear Jonathan,
In my
haste or ignorance then, I couldn’t ask myself these simple questions:
* how
about 270 human beings could be loaded into trucks and just vanish from a city
center.
* how none of the school authority could place a single phone
call to the head office of any security outfit to confirm who authorized the
evacuation as they said the abductors claim.
* why the principal who
ought to be sacked and prosecuted for gross negligence, was elevated to the
position of a commissioner shortly after. Whether it wasn’t a reward for a job
well executed?
Dear Jonathan, even now
* the army has overrun Sambisa
forest where the girls were said to be kept and still no trace of them is
found.
* surprisingly, they are being released from “somewhere” in
batches! Thank God that there are no traces of forest marks on their sleek
skins. We eagerly await batch two. Hopefully, APC will secure the release of the
last batch before 2019 as one major achievement for it to be voted again into
power.
2. On Corruption:
Dear Jonathan,
I join others
to insult your government because I thought then that the people in your
government were thieves. Little did I know that compared to what we see today,
they were mere pickpockets. Under the watch of our current anti corruption
Messiah,
* government officials use hundreds of millions of naira of IDP
funds to cut grasses in the sandy sahel region.
* billions of naira and
millions of dollars, raw cash, are dug out of a house in a highbrow area of
Lagos. The owner of the money is unknown and the said house lacks owner and
C/o.
* $25 billion contracts are currently said to be wrongfully awarded
by NNPC GMD to phoney companies.
Dear Jonathan,
Your former NSA,
Dansuki has been held incommunicado for $2 billion. Your man’s money is 2% of
their man’s. Even if Diezani’s and other monies allegedly stolen by all those
who served under your government are put together, they will not amount to 40%
of what one man is currently alleged to have fingered.
In light of the
above, dear Jonathan, find it in your heart to forgive me. I allowed myself to
be deceived by smooth talkers and propagandists. People who hid under a hypnotic
change mantra to deceive the minds of the simple. They promised to fix electric
power in six months, build new refineries, pay monthly salaries to jobless
graduates, feed school pupils and stamp out corruption. Who wouldn’t fall for
these lofty things?
But alas, since they shoved you aside, things have
gotten worse in every front. Their first act was to jack fuel price up from N85
to N145. Something you tried and we gave you headache through our “occupy
Nigeria” protests. We can’t dare raise a single voice now. Next their ill
advised economic policies caused prices of commodities to triple. They called it
recession and blamed it on you.
No light, no road, no food, no security
from attacks of herdsmen. The only means we use to cry out, social media, they
want to shut it by draconian laws.
If we agitate, they unleash trained
pythons and crocodiles on us.
There is God.
Jonathan, I am truly
sorry.
– Chaba Mark
