M. O. ENE
Saturday, August 19, 2023
Oracle, I greet your gods!
Greetings. Consultation or conversation?
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Chat for now… what’s with consultation?
You have my number. You Zelle the fee.
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Still one hole-in-the-middle half-penny?
Yep, but it has appreciated as a hard currency.
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I will chat for five.
Take ten today. TGIF
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Any latest on Enugu State cabinet setup?
Who died and made me a monitoring spirit!
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Touché! The truth is that we have leaders of opinions.
Opinions are like exhaust pipes: Everyone has one. The emissions smell the same and are often offensive.
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Many pipes are empty.
Okay, I will humor you: I didn’t like the infantilization of the younger members.
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But PNM went there.
We forget too soon in Naija. How old was Gowon in 1966. Ojukwu, kwanụ? Chimaroke and OUK were not much older. Mbah himself as chief of staff… how old was he?
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But we have 29.
So? How old was Kaduna Nzeogwu? 29! Commander of Biafra’s 53 Brigade, Colonel Iheanacho, was 25. I was in my mid-20s when I changed mass transit in Enugu forever: TRACAS—later ENTRACO and now Coal City Shuttle, alternate bus route that freed Coal Camp bottlenecks. Our young ones must wrap up the rap and make more waves.
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Let the youth breet! But they need opportunities.
Power is not given. You pick on a good fight. Organize, not agonize.
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You ever picked on a good fight?
Far too many! Just one: Sexual harassment of students by some lecturers… dogs that chew on their collar bones! My colleagues thought I was crazy! Some are still at it decades later: The dean of law at Calabar refers… allegedly: a repeat-offending dog unleashed to prey on female law students.
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Well, most people prefer to keep quiet when sex in on the menu.
Quiet kee you there! Why call me to vent? Let us all stay silent.
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By the way, did the diaspora and all LGAs do well in the cabinet?
You know me: Issues, not individuals. Even the governor is diaspora. Yes, every constituency should be at the table. Happy?
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I don’t hear much from the PDP partisans.
They are used to the silence of the cemetery; it is called PEACE! Worry about your own constituency.
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Apropos, what’s with the Diaspora Office?
Search me. We will see when they assemble in September.
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Is that still on? With tickets on the treetop… plus possible short notice….
Right! Zoom comes to the rescue. We will yap in Maryland in two weeks from today.
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Naija problems no dey finish! We are now into subsidy palliatives!
That’s why Southeast governors pussyfoot on palliative plans: Remittances are at work!
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Sometimes, I want to give up… just mind my business.
I hear you, but we cannot. Life is a sustained struggle. The idea is to harness remittances into investments, not melt 100% into purchasing consumables for ceremonies and paying into bottomless tithe trenches.
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Sounds like Peter Obi’s mantra.
Nope. This was why Diaspora Office came into being in 2007. We need a simple recalibration of old proposals and an accessible anchor on the ground with a direct line to Peter Mbah.
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That is the problem: no reliable heavyweight anchor on the ground.
You cannot give what you don’t have: Original ideas are hardly infectious!
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No one knows it all.
Sure, that’s why we study.
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If the lessons are documented.
You are right. Look at all the cases in court. Many did not have to enter lawyers’ offices.
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Are you referring to the NYSC saga?
Not specifically, but anyone who served knows that once you are called up as qualified, undergo the camp… orientation, and get a proper PPA, you are done. Okwu agwụ!
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So, you were referring…?
I was referring to the elections. Hardly do we study polling processes, the legal landmines, do’s and don’ts, and the dynamism of proper paths to a successful transition. So many changes are coming from the courts. Continued wastes… well, except lawyers must whack!
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You are right: even the rich lessons of PNM’s path will be lost.
Sure, if no one documents it and partisans persist on living in denial.
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Did you know that….
Times up. I must hit the sack.
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It’s Friday, sir.
It’s Saturday already. Goodnight. Good morning. Goodbye. God bless.
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May I consult now?
Are you Ịgala or Igbo? Consultations are at crack of dawn when the gods are at the gates of shrines. Only cultists consult at night.
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Ka chi foo, nwaana.
Ka ọ bọọ, nwanne.
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