STOP SLEEPING IN THE PARLIAMENT OWELLE ANAYO ROCHAS OKOROCHA: SYCOPHANTS BEWARE! By KEMKA S. IBEJI

Yesterday, I posted a picture trending where our dear former Governor of Imo State, Chief Dr. Owelle Anayo Ethelbert Rochas Okorocha, was taking a nice sleep in the hallowed chamber of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. That sounded a ridicule to his allies and flowers. It however was comic relief to a lot who are either indifferent or not his supporters. But to me, it was absolutely annoying.

I am compelled to write this clarification because of certain responses I have got especially from the quarters of his (Rochas Okorocha's) goons and lovers. I do not write this to please anyone and not to vilify Mr. Rochas Okorocha himself or his political family. I write this on conviction that at all times, the right things should, at least, be done.

Sadly, I will also not fail to mention that Nigerians are the major problem of Nigeria. This simply posits that Nigeria after all is a "nonliving personality". The life in Nigeria is donated by the citizens and when the citizens are dead, Nigeria dies.

The reason why Nigerians are seen and known as the problem of Nigeria by/to me is the simple fact that they have muzzled and frazzled good values and have raped moral rectitude. Nobody is concerned about anything good but whatever works for his dinning table. Unfortunately, the political leaders are insistently misled, misguided and abused by their supporters and closest or trusted allies. Why? Dearth of values leading to the industry of sycophancy feeding fat and getting robust.

Why should former Governor and temporary Sen. Rochas Okorocha better sleeping in the Senate? Why? Please why?

Let's not be mindless of the fact that his case is full of life and breathing dangerously both at the tribunal and in the courts of law. It is too early in the day for such a man to carelessly be sleeping and snoring in the Red Chamber of the National Assembly.

What should anger every reasonable being about this gory and despicable outing of Owelle Anayo Ethelbert Rochas Okorocha is not just that he has aligned himself with the shameful act of sleeping on duty, but consideration of how he came to the Senate. One would think that for all that strength, vigour, trudge, push, hassles, arguments, fighting and he'll of noise made and engaged to force himself into the Senate, Chief Rochas Okorocha would have had a mission in the Senate. One would have gladly sat back to see and relish his unleashing of viable ideas on nation building and the like. One would have thought that this man has come with a vision to implant in the annals of our legislative lifetime. A lot would have expected stupendous introductions to the dictions and alphabets of our legislative lexicon. Many would have died waiting for his part in the enrichment of the corpus of our literature in the legislature.

Sadly, the man has indeed come to sleep!

It is more of my worry as the Senate is gradually becoming a resting place for the superannuated public pilfers, a retirement seat and gathering of failed executives, a parlour of merriment and literary joke for weak fraudsters and every wrong person or character that has got to his/her peak and now set to wait for death. What a horror of an idea!

It should concern us more, especially for those who wish Nigeria and Africa well, about how we give our support to those who want to lead us. Our support can go either right or wrong knowing that it is all about humans who are intractable to intellectual chains of absolute understanding. Humans change more than the flowing waters and so our trust and hope on them can meet with disappointment. When we know this, we should gain strength from our knowledge as such and regain honour in our responsibility to wake up to our duties to correct, critique, criticize, reconstruct and lend positive thoughts on the way forward. We really do not need to punish everyone else and everybody by remaining or maintaining our mistakes just for mere ego.

It is a higher responsibility of honour to tell your principal the truth no matter what. It is more and qualitative service to your principal and humanity to point out his or her pitfalls and save all from going down. Even when you have supported someone who has failed, it is noble to criticize him or her with truth and honesty.

It is abysmal, horrible, annoying, disastrous, catastrophic and vehemently disdainful to find Owelle Anayo Ethelbert Rochas Okorocha sleeping away with the common will of the commonwealth. It is most horrifying to find anyone defending this irrational yield of Owelle Rochas Okorocha to the ignoble fame of reflex action over the daunting task ahead of him. On your shoulders rest the future of our country Nigeria and continent Africa.

Let's hold our leaders to their duties and not make excuses for them. Let's put our values in honour and not into slavish puppetting of the misguided politicians. Remember that posterity is the bank where our deeds are deposited as savings for us. One day, we will make withdrawals willy-nilly.


Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI