A Rascal Should Not Be Chairman Of NPC In more serious countries, people like Festus Odimegwu do not get near public office. But Odimegwu, who should have been left in his beer parlour at the Nigerian Breweries Plc, has been appointed to one of the most critical national institutions: chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC). He had hardly taken his seat at the chairman’s office when he started saying that the north of Nigeria was over-counted in the last population census. How did he know? Was he among the people that did the enumeration during that census? Odimegwu spoke with the confidence of one who has been assigned to do a hatchet man’s job at his present station by President Jonathan. If the president did not “send him”, then, the right thing he should do is fire the man immediately. No public officeholder makes that kind of divisive statement in a country that is already delicately divided. And Nigeria should, most definitely, not have a place for such irresponsible people at these uncertain and insecure times. Only people who are fair, just and sensitive should aspire to higher office in this country. And Festus or whatever he calls himself is certainly not a candidate for high office, considering the fact that even the brewery house where he worked had to ask him to resign because of his disgraceful role in Obasanjo’s third term scam. If President Jonathan is not going to fire the rascal because they are in cahoots, then, the National Assembly should quickly wade in to save this country a crisis that it may never get out of. - See more at: leadership.ng/news/050813/game#sthash.4iopRrQC.dpuf
Posted on: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:12:13 +0000
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