- Efon n’ja baalu… No Enemy is Small Enemy!
Efon n’ja baalu! Mosquito can crash aeroplane was his nickname! He was the most fragile of the three musketeers in the school. So, no one takes him seriously. Until most often, too late. Just as it happened last Saturday, when the General Overseer (GO), Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye surrendered the GO-ship of Nigeria’s mantle, having been overwhelmed, by an overlooked Mosquito of a Civil Servant!
But though the drama ended abruptly, like in the days of the Biblical Mordecai and Harman, the message of the book: ‘The 48 Laws of Power’, would remain indelibly green in the memories of many: that: No Enemy, is a Small Enemy!
Thank God for a timely and decisive reaction of President Muhammadu Buhari. He wrung the Mosquito by the neck, and dismantled its stagnant watery stronghold! Even before the ever watchful, and adventurous Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) could cash on it!
Nevertheless, Nigerians are yet to be convinced of the exact roles of the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo in the entire script! Did he or, did he not see it coming?
The major lesson of the drama, perhaps, is that no one is prudently and conscientiously, watching Buhari’s back, a situation which has enabled adventurous King’s men, arbitrarily and sometimes recklessly, take the laws into their hands, most often, to the detriment of President Buhari and good governance!
Efon n’ja Baalu!! It was a nickname of one innocuous classmate. And perhaps, the Mosquito might have done more than crash land a Boeing 737, but for the wisdom of a prompt suspension of the implementation of an Innocuous law called the Corporate Governance Code; the sacking of the Executive Secretary, Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN), Mr Jim Obazee, and quick replacement by Daniel Asapokhai.
Unbelievably, some uninformed Christian ‘faithfuls’ had begun massive ‘white fast and prayers against ‘every attempt’ by Buhari’s Government to suppress Churches, Christianity and the entire Christian leaderships, for an eventual ‘selfish’ Islamization of Nigeria!
Now, how many people know that Buhari had nothing to do with the codification of the FRCN law? How many people know that even the Minister of Trade, Mr Okechukwu Enelamah allegedly begged Obazee not to touch, let alone implement the law, while the people were still lamenting the biting effects of the economic downturn?
Ibrahim Magu is relaxed now.
Let Godwin Emefiele, the CBN Governor continue to celebrate!
The King’s men! And then, the Public Servants.
Once their name was Civil Servants. In those days, they constituted a body of highly efficient, objective and independently-minded people, always on touch, yet never heard; forever, keeping Government’s secrets, Secret! But a few have since turn coat; and metamorphosed into ‘Evil’ Servants, padding budgets, corrupting Ministers and misleading Board Directors, Commissioners and other Political appointees!
Talk to political appointees undergoing EFCC probes today and you may be shocked to discover that most of them were actually misled or influenced, by over zealous ‘Evil’ Servants. Yet, it is the same Evil Servants who leaked the ‘Secret’ clandestine sharp practices to their ‘Successors’, all in bid to prove their un-spared loyalty; all in bid to make the new appointee a next victim and easy mincemeat!
When was the last time you visited some Government Secretariat? Especially, when salaries are not paid? Now, who would rescue Nigeria from the ‘Evil’ Servants?!!
In the meantime, let’s remember to pray for Buhari, on how he maneuvers the jigsaw, as he waltz through a minefield called South-Kaduna ‘Islamization’/ Fulani herdsmen debacle.
Let us pray for Buhari as he leaves the shouldering old ‘fire’ in Nigeria, to swoop and exterminate a newly developing combustion in Gambia, knowing full well that as he pleads with Jammeh to step down, he would on the television network, also be watching some groups of demonstrators in Nigeria, either protesting the fainted Naira that has inched towards N500 per Dollar; or the Niger Delta people, swearing violently, that they would not fold their hands any longer and watch a further ‘humiliation’ of their kinsman, former President Goodluck Jonathan’s family!
Let us pray for Buhari, knowing full well that, while he thinks his cup of headaches is full, the King’s men and the overzealous ‘Evil’ Servants are still painstakingly hatching a new line of migraine, for the one-way minded President!
Obviously, this wasn’t what the revered educationist, Dr Tai Solarin meant when he gave his 1964 legendary salute: May Your Road Be Rough!
The Road shouldn’t be rougher than this!
May the President live forever!!!
