Wednesday, 8 February 2012

'When the Nation Calls' Why I decided to serve in GEJ'S Govt. Nuhu Ribadu

I was greeted to numerous calls and mail yesterday when the administration announced my name as Chairman of the 21-man Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force.



Given my recent political pedigree, many inquirers naturally wanted to understand what was happening, and whether it was true that I was consulted and whether I would accept the offer.

The history of my life is a history of public service, and if we cast a honest gaze back to the recent protests in the wake of the oil subsidy removal, it will be clear to all that the biggest single victory Nigerians scored was to put the question of corruption squarely back on the top of our national policy agenda.

Regardless of our affiliations, our differences, and our engagements, it is at least safe to say that we have a national consensus on the deadly impact of corruption on our march to greatness, and on the capacity of our people, particularly the youth, to earn a decent, promising, life.

If we would effectively isolate and defeat this scourge therefore, we must all see it as a preeminent national security threat. We must see it as a war within our borders, a war that has assumed a systemic and endemic character, but to which all must now urgently enlist with our different capacities, or accept to all go down with the ship.

At this point in my life, it is also easy to answer the honest question if it is inappropriate to invest my modest talents and capacities to my country what I have readily offered many foreign communities, from sister nations in Africa to far flung places like Afghanistan. This, if nothing, makes my decision very personal, freeing all affiliations [social and political] of complicity, but investing the decision also with the unique character that when people reach evaluations in favour of their larger communities, it doesn’t necessarily blemish their moral identity.

This therefore is a national call. In answering it, I go back to the template of my own parents who taught me that honest public service is the greatest asset a person can offer his community. It was the same lesson I learnt from his biographical example when my own father returned home as a federal legislator in Lagos to take job as a local council official in Yola—its all about the community, and it is sometimes bigger than our personal egos.

NUHU RIBADU

AFGHANISTAN

18 comments:

  1. Amos Akin Adejinmi9 February 2012 at 15:12

    Dear Mallam Huhu Ribadu,

    There is nothing wrong in anybody offering to use their talents for the betterment of the country they believe in passionately, even when they have to make a sacrifice in doing so.

    Mr. Ribadu, when you entered the race to compete for the apex office in Nigeria, I told a number of people, including your very self, via email, that you are entering into the competition rather too early. Although I do not know the policing regulation in Nigeria, but I thought, you were being considered to take over as the next Inspector General of Police, since you were persecuted and forced into early retirement. I felt you were the one person that can turn things around in Nigeria Police Force. Even when you were not chosen as IGP, I was still hopeful that you might be made Minister of Police Affairs, as against the new one you have opted to accept now; Knowing that other petroleum exporting countries like ours, make use of specialised auditing firm for the job, which has already been duplicated, with setting up of another similar committee, headed by Dr. Kolade. If this is no corruption on its own, please, tell me what name do we call it?

    In your previous position as head of EFCC, you were only accountable and answerable to the president and may be members of the national assembly, but for you to now take up appointment from a mere minister who can be replaced any moment without notice. This is surprising to those of us who have been watching your progress, but which you have decidedly put in the reverse gear and on a sloppy hill.

    Not only were you accustomed to exercising authority in the job you were engaged in, but you also love to see them through to some logical conclusion, but in this your new job, you are expected to recommend your findings, which may be thrown 'into the refuse bin', right after you left. Any right thinking person will simply conclude that you are desperate, that is why you took the job that will make you report, instead to a minister.

    I want to assume that you 'value relationship'. You were adopted by ACN as their last presidential candidate in 2011 election; you have been in and out with the leadership of the party, how easy it was for you to ditch a people, I want to believe, spent their money on your campaign? Or were you simply using them as a ladder to climb up? I am not expecting an answer to this question from you, but merely talking to your conscience.
    I hope I will be able to write to ask you some more questions I have chosen to reserve for the time when your assignment is fully under way.

    Thank you.


    Amos

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