With all sense
of frankness and fairness I can unequivocally say that I have as a
concerned and disturbed patriotic citizen of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria living in Vienna, Austria gone deeply and investigated
this saga. I used all the available means and otherwise to get to
all the people and agencies that are very important in finding the
truth. My curiosity and sincerity in digging out the fact nearly
got me into trouble at different occasions. Therefore, I can beat
my chest and say that there was no iota of truth in this
accusation. Some school of thoughts may have it that I am just an
ordinary individual whose investigations could be limited and
could easily be rejected or punctured by law on technical ground.
As a result, I am waiting for the final pronouncement of the
official findings which I believe that it will not be different
from the naked truth I have just said.
In
consideration to this my honest private investigation on the bogus
mansion and its result, honorable minister Madam, let your celebration
start now because
you are a conqueror
for your God has given you another important victory to the shame of
the devil and the evil ones. I did not find any mansion in Vienna,
Austria in the name of Mrs. Diezani Alison Madueke the honorable oil
Minister Federal Republic of Nigeria. And I challenge anybody to prove
me contrarily including “Heute” newspaper. Consequently I tender my
unreserved apology for this misleading publication as someone who
brought a translated version of the newspaper’s report to the Nigerian
audience outside Vienna, Austria.
The
record must be kept
straight that
‘Heute’ newspaper dated 7.11.11 on page 11 carried the news that
Nigeria’s oil minister had got a mansion in Vienna, Austria and some
Nigerians living in Vienna have got a copy of that paper including the
Nigerian Embassy whom I have also had contact with regarding this
fairy tale in my candid opinion. My article was not ambiguous as I
stated clearly that my reactions were based on the report of the
newspaper and had also asked the oil minister to refute the allegation
or resign from her position.
I am not a
blackmailer, a politician, a contractor and evenly not looking for any
favor from any individual or government in any form as to sell my
conscience and integrity. I do not equally involve myself in dubious
activities. I am just a patriotic concerned reliable citizen who also
feels the pains of corruption by our political leaders in Nigeria. My
actions are focused towards social change for the good of all
Nigerians. This is what I am doing and will continue to do.
Austria is ranked
as developed by experts, therefore, if one
cannot make a reference to a newspaper report in a civilized country
then all the judges all over the world that have admitted any
newspaper in evidence and used it in any form should be castigated and
such cases re-tried. And as long as this has not been done those
bunches of miscreants who are nothing but ethnic village political
champions should get this into their heads that the news did not
emanate from me. Even though I am not afraid of death at all because
when it will come you cannot do anything to change
it since it is not within your power but in the hands of the creator,
but all the abuses and threats on my person and family must stop.
However, if it pleases God that their threats will become reality, it
will also please my soul because they may not know that they have
played the role Judas Iscariot played in Jesus Christ’s
crucifixion by fulfilling part of my destiny to eternity where I will
die no more and will see corruption, blackmailing and threat no more.
If God so wishes may his name be glorified.
If a
report from an
Austrian licensed
newspaper cannot be referred to as a source
of information there would be no need for its existence just as we
should equally not listen to BBC, CNN or NTA news etc. because it
would be useless. If I should be scolded for making a reference
to a newspaper report in a civilized country then we all are guilty of
believing “The Times” in New York about the
life of the US president Barrack
Obama and his family in the White
House because we have never been there and may never be. We should
also not make a reference or believe Nigerian newspapers whenever they
write anything about Aso Rock or President Goodluck Jonathan
especially the regional newspapers until we as individuals go to Aso
Rock and verify or see the president. If the reproach of some few
individuals should be generally accepted then, we all are guilty to
have believed newspaper reports
about the former US president George
Bush who is supposed to be in prison for his lies against late
Saddam Hussein and genocide against Iraqi women and children because
we were not in Iraq to see the war and count the number of women and
children that were reported to have been
killed by Bush’s arrogance
in a supremacy show. For threatening a man
who has done a patriotic job out of his own time, money and risk, we
all should be jailed to have believed newspaper reports about the
betrayal of Charles Taylor by African leaders who ate their words out
of imperialism and complex and handed him over to their colonial
masters against the peace accord reached in Monrovia, Liberia
that led Charles Taylor to voluntarily relinquish his power as the
president. Charles Taylor took asylum in Nigeria which was part of the
treaty of his leaving power but it turned out to be a deceit and a
gate way to his incarceration against the
deal. Today Charles Taylor is standing trial in the same court that
ceded Bakassi Peninsula against all glaring evidences and the feelings
of Bakassi indigenes in Cross River state.
You and I perhaps were not witnesses to all these historical events
but yet we will quote, discuss and write as if it happened in our
bedrooms because we believe in the media.
As accredited print
media house its primary aim is to inform and people rely on it for
information because it is duty bound to verify its news and filter it
before bringing it to the audience. It was on this note of respecting
‘Heute’s’ ethic professionalism as a licensed media entity I wrote in
my article that I trust the newspaper, and consciously aware of the
gravity of the allegation it leveled against the honorably minister
and the insult it heaped on Nigeria, one had expected it to at least
be very sure of its report. You can go back
and read that article again.
Therefore I think that I did a patriotic work by bringing a translated
version of the already
known news to the
Nigerian audience and equally made a genuine patriotic call not only
as a concerned Nigerian when I said that the oil minister must clear
her name or honorably bow out from office but also as a Nigerian who is doing something in his own little way for the sought change we all
are yearning for to take place. No Nigerian in Austria was happy after
having read that insult from “Heute” newspaper but as usual
most of them took the discussions to their
sitting rooms, café bars and their clan meetings or to their small
group of friends for sympathy.
We
have our problems in Nigeria including corruption in high places there
is no doubt about that but corruption is not peculiar to Nigeria
alone.
Therefore, ‘Heute’ must explain to Nigerians what gave them the
impetus to disgrace our Honorable minister by portraying her
as wicked and
inconsiderate before the world without facts. Millions of Nigerians
all over the world especially those living in Austria have been misled
like me and humiliated in so many ways with this report and as a
matter of fact need an explanation why their country should be so
bruised sacrilegiously with the derogatory word “Hungerland.”
The big questions
now are: How did “Heute” come up with this damaging allegation? Who is
behind this and what is the motive? For your personal clarification I
have provided ‘Heute’s’ contact and mail addresses including telephone
numbers bellow.
Heute AHW Verlags GmbH
Heiligenstädter Lände 29/Top 6
1190 Wien
Fax: +4350950 ext. 12222 or ext. 12555
Phone: +4350950 ext. 12000
E-Mail: office@heute.at
Mr. President Sir,
this humiliation and insult was not only a damage to the honorable
minister but also to Nigeria as an entity. Your morality as the
commander in Chief of the Armed Forces Federal Republic of Nigeria who
appointed Mrs. Diezani Alison Madueke as a minister and your entire
cabinets are equally not spared. Accordingly, genuine concerned
Nigerians like me are expecting you to please restore our dignity and
pride by encouraging and supporting speedy investigation and legal
action against the newspaper and their agents because anything short
of this to the knowledge of the public would be a colossal failure. In
other words, please no diplomatic settlement outside the eyes of the
public should be considered in any form otherwise the
coffin of the damage would have been
sealed.
Sir,
the real foreheads of the “Terrible Goliaths” which you said that are
ready to kill their fathers and mothers or even their children just to
stop your government maybe about to be exposed for your anointed stone
to strike like David in the bible. Get to the root of this matter
because from every indication Sir, it could afford you the opportunity
of unmasking some of these monsters in the name of “Goliaths” or their
agents.
In
retrospect to the brouhaha that trailed the re-appointment of the oil
minister and the unwarranted uproar that is now associated with her
including this FAKE mansion in Vienna, Austria it is now so obvious
that some forces are after her. May God continue to protect her.
Fellow Nigerians, we all should not forget that
north, east, west and south - home is home,
for that reason, let us all in unison play
our respective roles well to move Nigeria forward and do away with
blackmailing and distractions in any form. We should not allow
ourselves to be a willing tool in causing pains to others. We must
criticize genuinely and constructively because objective
criticism brings the best out in any
reasonable government.
Kill
that ethnic politicking in you and let us leave legacies for our
children and not ill gotten billions in the bank from blackmailing and
corruption. Nigeria must move forward.
Long
live the federal Republic of Nigeria, long live President Goodluck
Jonathan and long live the oil minister Mrs. Diezani Alison Madueke
Uzoma Ahamefule a concerned Nigerian
uzomaahamefule@yahoo.com.