Rest in Peace, Dora Akunyili! I loved and respected this woman during her days at NAFDAC but I loved and adored her the more as she became THE ONLY MAN with the balls in the FEC to speak up against the cabal during the missing UMYA days - something that so many Nigerians disrespected her for - mocking her - and joining the lousy Senator Kanti Bello to mock her even further as he claimed during the Senate screening that she was cooking egusi for the late Presidents family. I noticed that the only sin this woman really committed was to have joined UMYA/PDPs Govt as Minister after her days at NAFDAC - the same Nigerians that had hitherto admonished her at NAFDAC turned against her in an instant - calling her names while suggesting she was trying to launder the image of a failed government - and it got worse as they nailed her to the cross for supposedly hiding the true story behind the whereabouts and health condition of UMYA - and the question I asked Nigerians at the time was please what exactly did you want this woman to do? Tell you what she was not authorized by her boss to tell you? For some funny reason, these same Nigerians refused to forgive this woman for standing up against the cabal even at the possible expense of her very life neither did they respect her when she offered her resignation from GEJs government to pursue the guber position in Anambra - well we never really heard about the woman again until her name surfaced for the National Confab - and the rest as they say is history. My concern here really is about how the Nigerian public led by some over-educated elitists can choose to make mockery of the achievements of this AMAZING STALWART while she was in public office simply because of the political choices she made later in life in serving her nation even further - and how they largely contributed towards ostracizing this woman from public life! Lets face it - the OBVIOUS lesson the younger generation would learn when they read the history books about this woman whose headgear was the only thing that stood between her skull and a bullet is that Nigeria as a nation is in the habit of killing its heroes - and that it is not one worth dying for. I congratulate all those who are now writing eulogies about her in her death after participating in all these shenanigans for being the HYPOCRITES that they have always been - lets wait for how they too would perform when they eventually get to work in and around government.
Posted on: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 16:38:24 +0000
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