An Iroko has been felled. An uncommon eagle has flown home. The priced bull elephant has walked out of the circus to join the galleries above never to appear on stage again but to watch us continue till our retirement date. The factory recall for my man - the one and only OWELLE Nibo, the Grand Prince of the Nibo ancient kingdom of the Achebe King with 63 wives, the war dynamo man, the Okigwe bush crude oil refining miracle worker that rode on the Thermodynamic laws of entropy to produce win the war petroleum without water cooling, the pathfinder who sowed the seed for the liberalization of the radio and TV monopoly that birthed private Radio and TV Broadcasting in Nigeria via the papers at the Information, Telecommunications and Media Policy Retreat at ASCON Badagry, the prophet who cancelled the cheeky idea that telefone is not for the poor and in 1999 December revealed in the NCC Millenium Calendar the GSM revolution and assured Nigerians that the fisherman, the palm wine tapper, the okada rider, the market woman, the cocoa farmer, the groundnut pyramid porter will use a hand held phone very soon, the man who shelled the NITEL godfathers and mafia to submission via the Nigerian Stakeholders meeting of the Muson Center that birthed the peoples Magna Carta that liberated the Nigerian Telecoms industry and had NITEL register as ONE of the service providers instead of the holding funnel for all telecom service providers in a Nigeria. That is the dividends of the gsm and liberated Telecoms you enjoy today. He suffered personal losses for it but did not care having achieved his objectives and produced the first draft of the Convergence Law for Information - Radio, TV and Telecoms. The ebullient and vivacious OWELLE ndi Uwa - Engr. Dr. Emmanuel Chukwuma Nnama, KSC, Mr. Telecoms has been recalled to the factory to rest and watch us complete the dreams of the Great Nigeria we have dreamed and talked about. Cut down in cold blood by the bullets of an assassin or armed robber in within the walls of his ancestral maternal home in Nibo. The loss is colossal but will not be all in vain. In life, he was a giant of a man. In revolutionary ideas, he was a pace setter and pathfinder, his name opened doors here and there. A man of the people. He will never die to be forgotten soon. He lives on now in glory and in our great memories. Adieu, my friend and partner. On a day like this, all dins are forgiven and all wrongs erased. Our dreams and efforts at national development were not on vain. Ideas ruled the world. Ideas were shared, visions were evangelized and some takers did run with them. For that we praised God. We did have fatigues of expectation. Yes but alas now, Your ultimate rewards awaits your great soul. Do have a good rest. You deserve to rest from your many labours. Good night brother Emma!!! Catch you later later. Owerri 0600 hrs 290314
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 08:53:48 +0000
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