ORJI UZOR KALU: A MAN WITHOUT SHAME Frankie James “His speech at every public or private event begins and ends with my name, as if he has no other business in governance other than to abuse Orji Kalu. Not only that: he goes about telling all kinds of naked lies in order to soil my reputation. He also goes to gossip to the President and his wife about me, telling them unprintable things, just to disfavour me. He tells anybody he encoun¬ters – businessmen and women, politicians, the clergy, traders, farmers, drivers, carpen¬ters, bricklayers, the high and mighty, lowly people, and just anybody – that I am his sworn enemy. He also takes his campaign of hate against me to the Diaspora. The situ¬ation is really getting out of hand” I have just extracted the lines above from an article on SUN Newspapers of August 16, 2014 written by Orji Uzor Kalu entitled “The Chameleon in Orji”. The first thing that struck me was , Orji Uzor Kalu may be suffering from chronic sight and sound disease. For those who may have forgotten, OUK was Governor of Abia State for Eight wasted years. It therefore amounts to madness for him to think anybody would need to damage his reputation. For a start, OUK has no reputation. Common law of libel teaches us that a man who has no reputation cannot claim to have had his reputation injured. OUK may have gone down in the history of Abia politics as the most shameless and conscienceless Governor to have ruled the State. Nobody is haunting Orji Uzor Kalu. He is simply being haunted by his flagrant display of ineptitude, ignorance, cluelessness and visionless leadership in Abia for eight years. OUK is being haunted by his character as a pathological liar and doomsday democrat who missed the golden opportunity of his writing his name in the hearts of Abians. Governor T.A. Orji should please don’t mind OUK. He should not give him the honor of a reply because facts speak for themselves. OUK has plastic ears and wants to perpetually rue the loss of a personal estate, which Abia was under his custody. It is scandalous and pitiable for OUK to tell the whole world that he actually signed documents from TAO his Chief of Staff without cross checking them. Is it not a case of personal indictment coming from OUK a stark illiterate who allowed his witch mother to oversee the affairs of over two million Abians in the most dastardly manner? If you think I am crying wolf, I urge you to patiently glance through these facts: 1. The stark illiterate said he was going to make Abia the fastest growing State Economy. At the end of eight years, he sold off Golden Guinea, Umuahia Ceramic Industry (UCI) and Enyimba Hotels throwing well over 5,000 Abians out of gainful employment. TAO is currently revitalizing Golden Guinea having wriggled out of the illiterate OUK’s legal bottlenecks while working hard to recover Enyimba Hotels and UCI. 2. OUK closed the State University Teaching Hospital for nine months, exposing Abians to excruciating healthcare delivery system. Today, under TAO; Abia has the most well – equipped Specialist/Diagnostic Center (upgraded to Teaching Hospital standard) and a world class Eye Hospital, South Nigeria. 3. OUK converted Abians to Wheelbarrow and Truck pushers. Today, well over 2,000 Abia Youths have been empowered with vehicles; completely free of charge in what is adjudged the most realistic Youth Empowerment Programme. 4. This fifth columnist called OUK, self - acclaimed International Business man, lived in a rented Government House with gross economic implication of over one billion naira annual rent. Today, TAO is set to deliver a world class Government House to Abians 5. Civil Servants under OUK worked under horrible environments, under trees and in shabby houses scattered in all nooks and crannies of Abia. Today TAO has built, furnished and relocated all Ministries in Abia to a twin multi – billion naira Workers’ Secretariat. 6. OUK encouraged street trading in Umuahia, the only capital city in Nigeria without a standard market. Today, TAO has practically ended Street Trading in Umuahia, building two world class markets to boost economic returns for both government and traders. 7. OUK who did not know the value of education, built lock – up shops around our schools, while majority of these schools were converted to refuse dumps. The Gigantic model school standing at Abayi, Aba with similar ones replicated in all seventeen LGAs in Abia is the only “gossip” TAO needs to tell the world that he succeeded a non – achiever. 8. Let OUK visit Power line leading to the street where his late ‘father’ lived in Aba. Let him compare the state of the road now with its squalor status while he lasted as Governor of Abia State. 9. Enyimba Football, which is OUK’s visible claim of success now has a bank account and functional administration. As daft as OUK was, his Enyimba, run like his private business could not supply CAF a valid corporate account in 2003 when they emerged CAF Champions League winners. That is what happens when you give a secondary school dropout mandate to govern a State. Enyimba is still winning but with a better corporate identity. 10. OUK chastised Abians with harmful scorpions. Today, TAO is building bridges of peace and erecting indestructible foundations that were elusive under OUK. Please, who will help me shut OUK up for life. He has no shame and should be reminded in simple language that” ihe agba n’aka; ejeghi enyo ele ya”. Frankie James a rapid response journalist writes from Scotland
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 08:19:11 +0000
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