By Ikenna ONUOHA (08038129192)
It is no longer news that Imo state has become calm, organized and functioning as against what was obtained in the last eight years of past administration. The ovation that greeted the victory of Rt. Hon Emeka Ihedioha at the Election Petition Tribunal is nothing but a show of solidarity, acceptance and confidence.
In the words of an American freedom fighter, Thomas Frank, "when injustice becomes a law, resistance becomes a duty", In resisting racism and administrative rascality, he said, “For decades, Americans have experienced a populist uprising that only benefits the people it is supposed to be targeting. The angry workers, mighty in their numbers, are marching irresistibly against the arrogant".
"They are shaking their fists at the sons of privilege. They are laughing at the dainty affectations of the Lea woof toffs. They are massing at the gates of Mission Hills, hoisting the black flag, and while the millionaires tremble in their mansions, they are bellowing out their terrifying demands. 'We are here,' they scream, 'to cut your taxes”.
Imo people are very cultured and compassionate too, but any issue of brigandage and hooliganism on the side of leaders detests, offends and provokes them in no small measure. No doubt, Chief Rochas Okorocha was adjudged to have started well in his first term in office but along the line, he was reported to have veered off the principles of egalitarian governance. This did not only impinge on his administration and reputation defectively but wholly ruined all he claimed to have achieved in eight years he held sway.
His actions were hinged on high level of ravenousness, rascality and grandstanding. He did all these to impress members of his immediate family, friends, associates and well-wishers to the detriment of the state and her people.
During his days as Governor, Chief Okorocha made the state the nucleus of negative decision making wherein all court orders and judgments were heedlessly and raucously ignored with flippancy, all these ricocheted into woes to Uche Nwosu.
Okorocha's actions were said to have brought the state into the axis of "iberiberism" where self-indulgence to impose his son-in-law, Hon. Nwosu as Governor was seen as a scheme of the state rather than a flimsy pursuit for dynastic self reliance.
Little wonder why Okorocha's strong yearning to install Uche Nwosu as Governor gulped billions from the state's coffers, yet not more has been said to draw the attention of Imo people to the thoughtless and awful spending of Imo collective patrimony.
Today, the Gestapo and prowling actions of Chief Okorocha has thrown Uche Nwosu into an abyss of political isolation and woes where no man sympathizes with him, this is following the court verdict that mortified him, his buddies and launched them into political vacuum.
Apparently, the state was not only manhandled, rough-handled and dealt with, but she was stripped totally naked, raped and illicitly impregnated by a man whose mandate in 2011 was cooperatively secured with no cost and released by those he suddenly turned against!
Who prays for Imo state to have a leader like Okorocha who came to power to traverse on egoism and gluttony? Imo people were never aware that Okorocha was not only famished for avariciousness, but unfilled in spirit. Today, having hit them hard by Okorocha, the people have become conscientiously and consciously aware about what he came to Douglas House to do when the game was already over.
The only thing that can easily devour a State is having a leader that is cognizant of his personal needs rather than public importance. While Okorocha was on the other side working vigorously to maneuver the general resolve of the state as Governor, the gods were functioning ad-infinitum for his down fall.
Okorocha as a man with hyper intensive rascality and insatiability, forgot that Uche Nwosu would have become a Governor in the state someday order than now if he had allowed Owerri or Okigwe zone produce governorship candidate of the then ruling All Progressive Congress (APC).
It is now palpable that the hollow hassling of Okorocha has become woes to his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu. Little wonder why a chic fizzy young Nwosu that used to cruise on opulence prior to the 2019 governorship poll, can barely be recognized today should he passes bye. This is the irony of life!
One thing is sacrosanct in the jungle of greed, is either you end up being fooled or deceived to be fooled. This situation means that it is either Okorocha was lured into the fool’s ecstasy or his son-in-law, Nwosu was enticed into gullibility. The mishap no doubt could have been avoided if Okorocha had accepted public advice and adhered strictly.
There is one thing power does to a myopic and fibble minded person, it will first convince you to believe that everything is possible, and on the other hand, keep aside from you the possibility that you could become a prey in the imagination of success.
The rascality of Okorocha that made him a political drift today will continue to reverberate in his heart till eternity, such avoidable recklessness might metamorphose into blood pressure as deterrent for his actions. Presumably, Uche Nwosu will in future regret coming close to him, for making him a Joseph that saw heaven but never stepped into it. I trust Nkwerre people!
Okorocha’s insatiable needs have led the state into wars and threats of war, and has caused us to squander the wealth with which we were once entrusted in the perpetration of wanton acts of destruction and death.
As a notable tourist state, his greed for more and the unwillingness to make the smallest sacrifice has led us to spurn all efforts to spare the planet due to his predatory demands. One of the richest states in the country seeks only to become richer, how? Because the legacy has been destroyed by a man entrusted our collective wealth.
We were assured incessantly by Okorocha that "our economy is strong, Imo is the richest state in Nigeria," yet those majorities of Imolites who live in the real world look about them and see nothing but shambles. The housing and mortgage crisis is surely nothing if not the result of his greed, the greed of lenders and the greed of borrowers. A few short years ago, we looked around and saw nothing but the imagined profits of our real estate investments, and went out and spent them, fully expecting to make more.
We put ourselves in hock even as our corporate and political leaders were busy putting our business and our state in pawn. We have succeeded in selling off our children and our grandchildren's birthright. The fallout from his greed is widespread globally and across the generations.
When those who founded this state asserted the rights of the individual, they surely did not foresee the day when individual greed would run roughshod over the sense of obligation to one's fellow human beings.
They surely did not foresee the day when candidates for the office of the Governor would be falling over themselves to claim the heritage of predecessors whose policies caused so much despair and deprivation in the lives of so many of their fellow citizens. The evidence is invisible only to the blind and those who choose not to see.
And those founding fathers surely did not foresee the day when voters could so easily allow themselves to be blinkered by their disinclination to contribute to the common good and seduced instead by the illusion of their short-term interest which Okorocha championed.
Greed, it seems, can bring momentary satisfaction when its demands appear to be fulfilled. But in so doing it rots the human soul, and its eventual return is yet greater frustration, unappeasable appetite, and the dread fear of deprivation. This is karma and it has affected Okorocha, Nwosu and their cronies.
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Ikenna ONUOHA is a Media and Public Relations Consultant. He is the State Publicity Secretary, Imo Concerned Citizens (ICC)
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