From Umuahia, Abia State
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When an individual bears the stamp of shame, he becomes an incredulous moral burden; decorated with the baggage of alienation and ostracism. That is the current status of former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu.
OUK has again, albeit very unfortunately; proven that he did not know one bit what transpired while he was Governor. He has published his mistakes and brought his ineptitude to public glare. While regretting washing his dirty linen outside, he has again proven that he does not even wear any linen. OUK is fast sustaining the stamp of shame. Anybody who wants to know what it means for a former Governor to have the brain of a sponge or the thinking power of a rock should read OUK’s OPEN LETTER TO ABIANS published online 22.11.12 and Frankie James’s reply.
His OPEN LETTER TO ABIANS is shrouded in frustration as Abians; speaking through their Stakeholders foreclosed his readmission into the PDP. They simply described OUK as an embarrassing moral burden whose presence would naturally ignite uncontrollable disaster. I am yet to see a man whose presence excites more negative emotions than Oji Uzor Kalu. His letter is therefore understandable.
He has just written an open letter to ABIANS, the first according to him since he left office in 2007. May be, very few Abians know that OUK actually left government in July 2010. In his honesty, he failed to acknowledge that. The stamp of shame has a way of eroding the inner consciousnesses of the victim; otherwise OUK ought to have remembered that in his greed, selfishness and unabashed gluttony, he refused to give up the paraphernalia of office until he was disgraced by popular will. That will be a story for another day.
1. OUK said he serviced a debt of $600 million incurred by an administration in 1983. It is possible that he was referring to the revered Dee Sam because he was the Governor of then Imo State till Dec. 31 1983. Nothing can be farther from the truth because Imo, Abia and Ebonyi collectively shared the subsisting liabilities incurred by the old Imo State. That debt was still being serviced until lately. Abia State never inherited $600 million dollars of that debt. The records are there and OUK knows he did not leave with a clean bill of health
2. OUK said in his letter that as against the lies, against his person that he left behind a debt of N29B for Abia people, that it was TAO that borrowed N20B in the first two months of his administration. At this point, one can forgive OUK because his mother may have just given him after six years, scanty information about Abia. No sane person, no former Governor who was in – charge, no reasonable adult would make such frivolous claims. OUK’s mother is fast losing it and could be pardoned for persistently misleading her little boy.
3. Which bank would give an administration that was just two months old N20B? If OUK was truly a Governor, he would know that the processes of getting clearance from the Ministry of Finance, concluding the assessment on liquidity confidence and passing the legibility mark would have taken more than two months at least. Abians would now judge the disposition of this hanger on, who in the first material sense; had no business being at the Government House. Abians would know that OUK was an unapologetic stranger and by stander as far as governance was concerned.
4. OUK economically accepted that he borrowed N2B from the bank for the purpose of ‘infrastructural’ development. I have searched the length and breadth of my dictionary to see if the word infrastructure could mean anything different. The best I saw was that OUK is a lesson in misadventure. What infrastructure? It is on record that while that child’s play he called administration lasted, OUK did not invest on a single infrastructure. This clown sold off Golden Guinea, killed National Ambassador, literally sold off Abia Hotels; sold off Modern Ceramics Industry and criminally inserted ‘Dubai Roads’ into the lexicon of Governance.
5. OUK does not know what N2B can do to a State. If he truly used N2B, Osusu would not have collapsed in two months, cemetery road, which he selfishly named after himself would not have gone extinct after three months, he would not have repainted Aba Township Stadium and shamelessly code named it INTERNATIONAL STADIUM
6. OUK should admit that he sunk N2B into the establishment of SUN NEWSPAPERS and CAMP NEYA. N2B, though just a little part of what he borrowed in Abia’s name never found its way into Abia’s coffers.
7. OUK is asking the people to judge him and TAO. I say without fear of any intimidation that, OUK is miles away. Even at the risk of over repeating myself, I challenge this University drop out called OUK to tell us one single capital project he executed while in office.
8. To the best of my knowledge, OUK’s eight years in the saddle were EIGHT WASTED YEARS that never, did not and will never add any value to the collective development of Abia State. Let him prove me wrong in pictures and not words. Pictures don’t lie.
9. The best he could do was to attempt being richer that the State. OUK did not know that one day, he would face the competent court of public opinion.
10. Anybody who wants to know what it means for a former Governor to have the brain of a sponge or thinking power of a rock should read OUK’s OPEN LETTER TO ABIANS.
