MEMORIES OF MY 53RD INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY GIFT TO THE PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA - GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN
 |
| KEMKA S. IBEJI |
 |
| DR. GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN |
Address!!!
Mr.
President Sir,
I send my most profound 53rd
Independence Anniversary greetings to you in the spirit of cognisant national
devotion and genuine patriotism.
Sir, your 53rd
Independence Broadcast is historic to indicate what I will want to call the POSITIVE AMALGAMATION. Just as your
administration has been historic in very many ways, you are on the path of
making a great history for our nation in getting a new and ‘Nigerian people’s
interest considered’ amalgamation and on that note, I take up my pen to write
assistance to you in this PAX-NIGERIANA.
As you announce the formation
of the national dialogue, I render my humble self available to assist you on
the complementary (but subtle) task for you to strongly stamp this most
fundamental history book; NATIONAL
CONSCIOUSNESS AND IDENTITY PROJECT. Nigeria and Nigerians need a new way of
thinking, they need a philosophy. For this reason, it has become pertinent to
simultaneously hold a countrywide mental indoctrination and psycho-culture
scheme. You can achieve this Sir.
I have done extensive research
with my crew of experts on consciousness/identity and have got the hitherto
undisclosed solution. In association with best Nigerian scholars across the
world, we will infiltrate the national consciousness to the point of the
subconscious using television, radio, books, articles, journals, phones,
newspapers, internet, shows, conferences, workshops, lecture sessions, awards,
speeches, religion, morals, ethics, rallies, schools, music, movies, age
groups, pear-groups, movements, campaigns and crusades, mobilisations,
enlightenment programmes, dialogues, consultations, teaching and learning
programmes etc. Our secret is systemic and methodic. We will only use AIR to get the result.
All I pray for is your approval
and ownership to this mission as an exclusive project of the PRESIDENCY.
Attached herein is an abridged copy of the project manual. However, I am
willing to expose this project if I am given the opportunity to talk with my
PRESIDENT.
With humility built on
patriotism, I beg that you accept my 53rd Independence gift to you
Sir.
Yours
faithfully,
KEMKA S. IBEJI
08038877166
kingsolkem@yahoo.com
SEAL OF
OWNERSHIP
A priceless exclusive 53rd Independence
Anniversary gift to
Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
(President and Commander in Chief of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria)
This document is created and owned by Aireason
Limited and her certified associates as an intellectual property and is guided
by the spirit of patriotism. No part of this document is to be appropriated by
any person, group or institution, in part or whole, without the express
permission of the creator. However, we intend to share association of ideas
with all progressives in the pursuit of the goals enshrined in this document. We
therefore enjoin you to join us and not steal away from this noble course.
PROSPECTIVE
CLIENT:
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF Nigeria
WHO IS KEMKA
S. IBEJI?
Kemka Solomon
Ibeji was born to the family of Godson and Charity Ibeji in Umuokoro Ikenga
Eziudo in Ezinihitte Local Government Area of Imo State. His father Godson Ibeji
was a Christian priest before his death in 2007 at the age of 84 years while Kemka was on his way back from where he
went to pay service to his fatherland in the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC)
scheme. Kemka’s mother Mrs. Charity
Ibeji is a devout Christian mother, a seer in the Holy Order and a prophetess. They
are members of Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim & Seraphim.
Kemka S. Ibeji had his primary and secondary education in Town
School Eziudo and Eziudo Secondary Technical School respectively. He simply
always emerged the best. He bagged his first degree BA. (Hons.) in Philosophy
from University of Calabar where he graduated as the Best Graduating Student in
2005. In 2011 he completed his postgraduate degree (Master of Arts) in
philosophy from University of Ibadan. In University of Ibadan he also got the
best result to proceed to his PhD in philosophy.
Kemka is an expert in logic and intelligence, ethics
and metaphysics, intentionality, consciousness and identity. He has done great
researches in these purviews. As a patriotic pragmatist, Kemka has chosen a new
phase of life to create a psycho-philosophy and conscious identity for his dear
country Nigeria.
Kemka S. Ibeji can only succeed in this pursuit in association
with the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria hence this 53rd
Independence gift.
FEW WORDS TO MR.
PRESIDENT
Life is built on destiny and the universe is
ordered with and by intelligence unknown. High above dwells the sky that houses
the moist which awaits a season to trudge down and wet the floors of the earth.
On this plane flows the floods that move with grace, fierce and force. The
waters that without hands threaten our folks and kinsmen, pulls down grate
walls and wash away strong stands. Beneath the earth resides the sea; a wonder
of life.
Destiny anoints and ornaments kings. Your dynasty
is no exception to this truism. Kings are built with wondrous charms that
attract only the best. It is for this reason that the rich come to kings with
priceless gifts and call at their doors with dignified possessions. The poor
also visit the gates of kings with the most valuables from their ban. In that
same force of natural culture, this contains my fattest oxen as I tender even
in my paucity of human acquaintances. The greatest I have is ideas and that I
humbly honour you with.
Mr. President works hard to secure the life and
property of Nigerian citizens, to create jobs, to provide energy and power, to
govern most exceedingly well, to build infrastructure, to maintain peace, and
to do many more. You do all this with a lot of compatriots who besiege your office
to aid you.
But a question for you Sir; what do you think
about the mind of the nation?
Kemka S. Ibeji offers to help you in engineering national
consciousness and identity. Let me work with you and for you; let me take the
burden to assist you in doing this. The noble reward of praises that accrue
from it will be yours Sir.
You can do it and become the best that Nigerians
have ever wanted!
PREAMBLE
Ours has recently become a state that depends on
the foreigner to tell us what is either good or bad for us. Ours has, most
unfortunately, become a conglomerate of persons that await those from outside
our sovereignty to tell us when to divide and when we will regrettably cease in
existence as a nation. Ours has become a place with plethora of notoriously exemplary
violence. We now live just for the day. Is there any hope for the future of our
dear nation?
YES! There is hope and here is the vista for such.
Before the incursion of the colonialists into
Africa, African nations and people have lived in relative harmony within minute
governmental systems and organisations. We ruled ourselves in our rich
diversities and had robust science and technology comparable to and sincerely
better than any other across the globe. History will take us to the
institutions of family, clans, villages and towns, dynasties etc. At the wake
of the 20th century, Nigeria became an entity by bringing diverse
brothers and sisters from East, West, North and South together. Though this
gathering may not have had the interest of the native people at the background,
we came to live together. However, are we to continually take this as a curse,
keeping blind eyes on the overt benefits accruable from it? Or are we to
commence on a bid to reconstruct this communion into a blessing in disguise? Do
we not have anything in common upon which we can rebuild and strengthen our
union? How long and how successful can we exist as a nation with little or no
mental identity or national philosophy and psychology?
These hitherto ignored questions have hunted our
dear country to a perilous hurt. It has also almost destroyed the fabrics of
our social and political community. Right from leadership to education, from
our economy to politics, from health to security and safety, our national life
has been in doubt. This has led to certain definition of Nigeria as a mere
geographical carve-out. Or can anyone dispute this point to a logical
conclusion?
The whole issue boils down to the problem of
identity. Considering the diversity of our cultures, the conspicuous existential
differences among our various ethnic groups, the eye-catching varieties in our
linguistic import and a whole lot more, one thing has consistently been missing
and defeated; real national self-hood. We simply can see national ‘selves’ at
every glance at our society but not a unifying ‘national personality’.
When we say national personality, we mean that
self-hood of a group of people who have wittingly subjected all their
differences to oneness and have abandoned implements of divisive diversity to
embrace the facts and factors of binding consciousness. This is an abandonment
of absolute individualism, jingoistic ethnicism, religious extremism,
prejudiced and chauvinistic sectionalism, cultural arrogance, and belief
bigotry for the establishment and upliftment of nationalism. This leads to
conscious and un-coerced patriotism.
This sort of patriotism is not to be enforced but
willingly embraced, practised and engaged for mental and sensual harmonious
co-existence of all. This marks the beginning of nation-hood in this craved new
collective self-hood. But how is this possible?
There is the need for this project as its pursuit
is to build a national philosophy and entice orientation towards it. The aims
and objectives of this endeavour will sway in all state-run veins and run
through the length and breadth of our country’s life. It is a mission to create
an identity for Nigeria.
Our conviction to engage in this project is that
it is achievable through appropriation of positive and exemplary portents experienced
within and outside our national shores. This will be realised as we attempt to
exorcise extraneous infiltrations that have weakened the bonding propensities
discoverable in our socio-political milieu. The first questions will be to find
out the things that we essentially share as members of the same community. The
second approach will be to look out for those differences that can enhance
profitable interchange. The third tool will therefore take the form of
synthesis and synergy built from the admixture of the accruing profits of the
first and second tools.
The result that comes from the aforesaid
Trinitarian methodology of national building is a resounding national
philosophy. Simply put, if and when we harness the profitable tendencies from
our similarities and differences, and building a lifestyle out of its effective
mixing we would have succeeded in creating a national way of life for
ourselves. Philosophy in this manner becomes a way of life and a form of
culture which guides our thinking and conditions our general approach to
national psyche and life in totality.
When this is not found in our national life, and
when we make no effort to build a foundation for general lifestyle as a
cohabiting group of human persons, the differences of divisive forms inevitably
take pre-eminence and predominate. This must always be found in human life as
nature allows no void or vacuum. For this reason, it is imperative to form and
assert a structure of living; an identity upon which the distillation of our sameness
of conscience and share of value will crystallize.
This cannot be attained without structural
build-up. It has to be planned and executed with sincerity and efficiency of
performance in an all-embracing conduct and forthrightness. In this regard, what
we are trying to create is a value that commands acceptance, ownership,
service, respect or honour, and defines countrywide life. In defining life,
this value must be inculcated deep down our subconscious states and therefore
become a tool of judgement of that which is acceptable or not, good or bad,
right or wrong.
The patterns of this engagement will encapsulate
the fabrics of our social being from infancy to adulthood. To this, we intend
to craft the benefits of this social engineering pursuit into educational
modules from kindergarten to tertiary educational institutions in our land. It
is through this that we are to build a form of consciousness that is skin deep
and impactful. In a very common way of saying, we can simply affirm that we
will sleep and wake with this consciousness, work and eat with this identity,
dress with it, speak and listen with it, teach and learn from it, live and died
for it.
When the Great Greek philosopher Plato made his
populous maxim that “until philosophers become Kings or Kings become
philosophers, the world will know no peace,” he was sincerely alluding to the
fact that any nation or society that has no guiding philosophy is as good as
dead. Let us now grant life to our nation through creating a value around which
our differences will be appropriated for good and venerated for collective
excellence; it is high time.
When Nigerians call for a Sovereign National Conference or crave for the Conference of Ethnic Nationalities; it is national consciousness
and identity that they hunger and yearn for.
We can achieve
it!
VISION
STATEMENT
To foster stronger national unity and development
by establishing a common national identity and collective consciousness.
MISSION
STATEMENT
To make Nigeria a safe place of pride in the
burgeoning and globalising world order through building a noble national
philosophy and growing citizenship in that accord.
OBJECTIVES
1. Conceptualisation
of valid national psychology and construction of group-mind towards national
unity.
2. Using religion as a
tool to national union and peace (Cleansing of fanaticism).
3. Building a
countrywide strength through harnessing of ethnic diversities as such.
4. Training our social
and political leadership in consonance with nascent trends in multi-cultural
polity/community for effective governance.
5. Re-enactment of
cultural values on appreciable overlay and building it on acceptability as a
way to neo-national life and understanding.
6. To appropriate
certain viable tendencies in the humanities through enhancing ethical standard
of living as the only adequate and sufficient way to a new national lifestyle.
7. To re-create rural
orientations through informed rural wealth creation mechanisms and resource
engagement while tapping within countryside or rural vicinities.
8. Attempt to enshrine
some forms of rural industrialisation and generating massive employment thereof
as a door to bottom-up national development.
9. Using a kind of
citizenship education and civil rights enculturation as a vehicle through which
this new way of national lifestyle will be transmitted from infancy to tertiary
education.
10. Taking government
to the micro-communities for holistic imparting and grassroots impact
assessment.
11. Creating an avenue
for the citizens to have a sense of national ownership which will allow them
build love and trust along this national feeling.
12. Giving way towards
a possible means to national love and trust which will serve as basis for
national security and safety.
13. Establishing
specialised continual education for sustenance and qualitative national
leadership.
14. Sourcing national
development through promoting positive national history and emphasising the
hitherto pride spots of the nation’s life.
15.
Crafting an
acceptable national image that gives confidence and advances pride.
16.
Re-engineering and
generating fascinating national conscience for socio-political and economic
morality.
17.
Creating a national
philosophy and building a cultural lifestyle around it.
THE PROJECT
KEMKA S. IBEJI and his seasoned consultants came up with this NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND IDENTITY
project after rigorous research on the existential challenges of African
nations in general and Nigeria in particular. This project is arrived at as a
panacea for the current problems troubling and bedevilling our nation Nigeria. While
many have resigned to fate concluding that owing to the diversities inherent in
Nigerian state, there won’t be any cohesion whatsoever between all constituent
parts of the nation, our research brought us to the place of possible accord
and unity for Nigeria.
In our research, we reviewed very many other
nations across the world with multi-culture. One of them and an exciting one is
the United States of America. A striking
instance of this is found in The Guardian newspaper of Thursday July 5, 2012
(page 4) in the speech of the President of the United States of America while
swearing in Servicemen as American citizens. Among these servicemen was
Oluwatosin Akinduro a Nigerian. President Barack Obama in his speech said “It
brings me great joy and inspiration because it reminds us that we are a country
that is bound together not simply by ethnicity or bloodlines, but by fidelity
to a set of ideas.” United States of America is as diverse as, if not more
than, Nigeria in ethnicity and multi-cultural fusion but their unity has been
built on such simple ideas as ‘equality
and justice’.
Our research has yielded some fruits that can be
enlarged to tighten our bond as a nation considering our own unique experiences
as a people. This is what this whole project is all about; institutionalising
the facts and features of bonding within the fabrics of our collective national
life. To make this a reality, we have carved out stratagem to sink our
hard-found social prophylactics into the blood stream of the holistic national
components of Nigerian state.
To undertake the foregoing, we are engaging
renowned personalities across the world to form our solution into learning
systems. In this vein, we have gathered sound and prolific philosophers,
psychologists, anthropologists, social workers, educationists, social
psychologists, lawyers, historians, African scholars, diplomats, scientists,
technologists, playwrights, theatre artists, linguists, specialists in
multiculturalism and very many other professionals. Their bid in this gathering
is locating and injecting the acquired values into the society in all ranks and
at all stages of the citizenry.
In this accord our target encompasses the infants,
the adolescents and the adults respectively. In this regard, we are building
into the polity through our sight on the leadership of the nation. This takes
us to fashion workshop series for public office holders across board; all
strata of local government workers, all workers of all ministries, all staff of
all federal and state agencies, all commissioners in all the states, and all
teachers in the nation.
However, we also have a specialised package within
the larger project for all schools in Nigeria starting from the kindergarten
through primary, secondary, and tertiary institutions. Part of the tools for
this project is to come in the form of well researched document which would be
distributed to all members of the Nigerian nation.
The result of it all will be an emergence of a
nation of our mind and pride where all citizens will claim and have ownership
to the state and willingly offer overall self to the maintenance of the
superstructure which is our great nation Nigeria.
METHODIC
ENGAGEMENT
The viable tools of this project will employ the
following paramount species of our national being:
1.
National
self-hood/identity
2.
Leadership training
3.
Citizenship
education
4.
Rural
industrialisation
5.
Cultural
re-invigoration
6.
Multiculturalism
7.
Value
re-orientation
8.
Religion and
religious extremism
9.
Life and value to
life
10. Etc.
As we strive to build a nation of our mind, the
most important phase of the holistic project therefore must be enlightenment.
Every citizen of our great nation must partake in this national occupation. The
importance of this is enormous. First, it will engender trust in the whole task.
Secondly, it will bring about commitment to the pursuit. Thirdly, it will raise
unity of purpose which necessitates desired result.
Bearing this in mind, we therefore must find a
means to reaching the grassroots and involving general public. To be effective
in this bid, the rural communities inhabited by greater percentage of our
population must be drafted into the scheme in order employ its potentials for
nation building. Of great substance in achieving this purpose is rural and
grassroots leadership. For that reason, and consequent upon the structure of
our current society, reaching out to the 774 local government leadership in
Nigeria is paramount.
Nevertheless, it is a truism that the economic
potentials of the Local Government Areas in Nigeria today are inexhaustible.
However, the same Local Government Areas are where the bulk of the nation’s
wealth is idly wasting away. Mass farmlands in favourable ecosystems for food
production of commercial value for export have over the years been abandoned in
favour of one commodity; the black gold or the crude oil. Pitiably, Nigeria is
still battling with the fundamentals of first industrial revolution after 52
years of independence.
In the light of the foregoing, fashioning and
constructing a structured national identity and consciousness is needy and an
unavoidable call. But to answer this call, the tools highlighted above must be
employed.
Though the cost of this project is enormous in
terms of time engagement, intellectual investment and financial muscles, we are
not deterred. We are encouraged by the fact that, however costly education may
seem, ignorance is more expensive. But what makes it more fascinating is that
it has a lot to do with conscience nurturing and self-examination. Could this
be the same crossroad where the Greek society found itself when one her
greatest thinkers – Socrates – averred that ‘an un-examined life is not worth living’ and therefore made his
popular maxim ‘man know thyself’?
The importance of knowledge at this instance no
longer can be ignored. These will invariably akin knowledge to virtue. Here we
also underscore that most people who engage in social vices do so out of
ignorance. This is evident in the regrets that come when they are caught. Many
criminals in our society today would have abhorred their acts if they were
knowledgeable of the consequences of such. But knowing their ignorance, those
who use them capitalise on their lack of knowledge and then feed them with
wrong knowledge. Many of those who detonate bombs today in the north, those who
kidnap in the south, a great number of those who engage in armed robbery may
not have done so were they properly educated on the damage their actions are
capable of causing.
Sanitizing the general Nigerian public psyche and
providing it with some moral prophylactics become the vital heart of this
mission. Besides this moral inculcation, we are poised with economic
empowerment of the jobless youth as a fundamental utensil to bringing about a
politically, economically, socially and morally sound Nigeria for all.
Our gracious achievements in this vein will count
in numbers including attainment of national unity, shunning of violence and the
spate of killings characteristic of our current national existence, abandonment
of political thuggery, abdication of armed robbery, rejection of sectionalism,
religious fanaticism, kidnapping and many other social vices and in turn live
together in peace and harmony sharing a collective desire for peaceful
co-existence and economic development. Hence the need to revive that loyalty to
the course of true national self-consciousness and collective identity without
which we may never realise our cravings for progress in diverse ways, we must
stimulate the factors of a binding collective consciousness and identity for
national development.
CONCLUSION
Many say that as Nigeria clocks a hundred years,
the chatter that brought them together has expired and they can therefore go
their separate ways. Very many others are of the view that Nigerians should
come together through a sovereign national conference to discuss why and how we
should be together. All these are different ways of saying one thing; that our
country Nigeria is in dire need of an identity.
However, what no one has picked up in all these years
of quests is the duty to discover and establish this identity. This makes this
project novel and elevates it as a sine
qua non if our country must be and continue as one. But it is not just
being or continuing as one, but being with such bond that curries development
and stability. If this project is actualised, Nigeria will gain a deserving
place on the global map.
It is for this reason that all hands must be on
deck; men and women, boys and girls, big and small, rich and poor, the educated
and uneducated, leaders and followers, the government and the governed. Let us
all support this noble drive to make Nigeria the real Giant of Africa and the
rightful proud home of the “Black Race” across the world. Posterity
is watching us!
Long live National Consciousness
and identity project!
Long live one destiny for all
our citizens!!
Long live the Federal Republic
of Nigeria!!!
Comments
Post a Comment