by Eze Eluchie
It is with
sorrowful hearts filled with longings as to what might have been if the winners
of the awards been bestowed today had, rather than the path they had paced, opted
to contribute positively towards societal advancement, that the winners of the 2nd
edition of the Annual The Worst Nigerians Awards are today announced.
Considering
that so many others, via their various untoward acts which served to ensure the
comatose and retrogressive state of the Nigerian polity, were in contention as recipients
of the Awards for 2014, the eventual winners of these Awards (losers in real
terms) outshined the rest in negativity.
The Annual Worst
Nigerians Awards is geared towards highlighting some of the entities who have
caused us to be where we are whilst the rest of the world keeps on forging
ahead. It is hoped that those who are bestowed with this Awards will strive to
ensure that the purge themselves of the persona which attracted such bestowal
and that others who are towing the path of infamy will have sufficient
motivation to make a reverse for the betterment of self and State.
As usual,
the Awards are in 4 categories, and the winners are:
The Worst Corporate
Entity:
For its
continuing leadership role in the pollution and destruction of the Nigerian
environment, rendering thousands of hectares of virgin coastal and mangrove territories
uninhabitable to all living things (man, plants, animals and whatsoever); using
its wealth of resources to unscrupulously scuttle whatsoever efforts the
populations directly affected by their prospecting and production operations
may explore to seek redress for various injustices; institutionalizing the practice
of using military and police forces, maintained and paid for by tax payers,
against the very tax payers and members of the public such security agencies
are meant to protect; Shell Petroleum Development Company (and the various pseudonyms under which it operates) is
hereby bestowed with the Worst Corporate Entity for 2014.
The Worst
Governor/State Agency:
One clear
reason why the Nigerian polity remains where it is whist others are advancing
could be traceable to the fact that the contenders for this Award were quite
numerous – the very people who ought to have served to bring governance closer
to the people became the albatross of the people. Competition for this
particular Award was quite stiff, with the eventual winner outscoring his
closest rival, Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State merely by his
internationalization and broad implications of his misgovernance on not just
the residents and citizens of his State, but the entire Nigerian State and
beyond.
For serving
as the arrowhead of the politicization of extremist Islamist terrorism in
Nigeria; presiding over a territory where some of the vilest acts of terror
experienced anywhere in the world in year 2014 occurred - the ‘abduction’ of school
girls in Chibok, rushing abroad soon after the said abduction to appear before
various media outlets to embark on a campaign of calumny against the Nigerian
State over terror; announcing to the world that he had knowledge of where the
Chibok ‘abductees’ were being held; presenting various ‘students’ (who somehow
evade the various military road blocks all over his State to show up at the
Government House in the capital city) as escapees from the terrorists; and
ultimately profiting handsomely from terror by continually collecting billions
of U.S. Dollars from the Nigerian treasury under the guise of his States
allocation from the national revenue, when in reality his authority does not
extend beyond the State capital city; the character presently occupying the
exalted office of Governor of Bornu State in Nigeria’s north-eastern region,
Mr. Kashim Shettima is hereby bestowed with the The Worst Governor/State Agency Award
for 2014.
The Worst
Federal Minister/Federal Agency
The holder
of this Award from 2013 has in no way altered his mannerisms. Deliberate acts
and omissions of the awardee for 2014 serve to stand him out for extra
recognition. From using a sham consultancy outfit to superintend over a
recruitment exercise in the Immigration Service, an exercise which
unfortunately led to the demise of several young unemployed Nigerians who had
been conned into paying to die – homicides for which no responsibility has till
date been acknowledged; to disgraceful
mass outbreaks in Prisons all over the country; to a failure to resign from his
office in the face of glaring incompetence, a failure which served to portray
the Nigerian State as a State where government appointees can get away with
whatsoever, including murder; the Minister in charge of the Federal Ministry of
Interior of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Mr. Abba Moro is hereby bestowed
with the Award of The Worst Federal Minister/Federal Agency for Year 2014.
The Worst
Nigerian.
In most
other climes, those who have been opportune to hold the highest political
offices in their countries, often retire to a serene and highly respected lifestyle
where they routinely advise their successors on how best to advance the polity.
When however a man who has held such highest office, not once, but twice,
ruling over his country for an unprecedented 10 years – years of waste and
evil, decides upon retirement, to do all he can to create disquiet and
division, champion anarchy and bequeath a legacy of lies and deliberate
distortion of history and reality with a view to presenting himself as a ‘messiah’,
then something really devious is afoot.
Perpetually
embroiled in very publicized conflicts with his immediate family, ever
exchanging verbal attacks with his peers in uniform and in politics, an uncouth
character lacking in morals and intellect and unworthy to serve as a model to
any desirous of progress, Mr. Olusegun Obasanjo, ex-dictator and ex-President
of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, has by almost unanimity of nominations
retained the award he won last year and is hereby once more bestowed with the
Award of Worst Nigerian for Year 2014.
It is
sincerely hoped that these Awards will serve its desired goals of dissuading those
who may be inclined to toe the odious path laid by the awardees hereby
presented to think twice and change course and ultimately spare the Nigerian
polity and the international community at large the pains occasioned by the lives
and activities of winners of the Worst Nigerians Awards.
The Worst Nigerian Award Trophy
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