|
Escape From Sobibor And London; Alarming Alamaiesyeigha And Diplomatic Baggage ( A Beautiful Woman) By Prince Charles Dickson
I remember with tight emotion as I watched the movie with the title escape from Sobibor, a remake of events that occurred in a place called Sobibor, a Nazi concentration camp where all sorts of injustices and inhumanity was perpetuated by German Nazi Soldiers against fellow beings…the film climaxes as the escape from the camp is attempted by the inmates after they could no longer endure the depravation, another interesting part of that painful film is the plan for the escape itself, the movie is a true story. Apart from this particular movie I have watched a couple of ‘good’ movies on imprisonment and escapes…but none I am sure could beat the one that just unfolded in Nigeria Africa’s home of signs and wonders.
I do not know how many of these films ‘governor’ Alam ( the small letter g is intentional) must have watched while his ordeal lasted and before his escape which he called “an act of God” I am sure the Nigerian or is it Ijaw god because my Almighty Allah cannot be party to plotting an escape. Some years back a certain black chap was sedated and put in a crate weighing barely 4 and half tons, the crate was listed as ‘catering equipment’. The man on arrival in Nigeria would have been unconscious for thirty-six hours, whether he would have survived the ordeal or not is left to assumptions. That black man was Umaru Dikko, former Transport Minister and close pal to sacked President Shehu Shagari, he was to be smuggled out of the U.K as diplomatic baggage. Dis Nigeria Sef!
The man behind the government that was principal partner in that escapade was General Muhammadu Buhari now born-again democrat like they have all become these days from Obj, IBB, to Marwa, Aikhomu, Shagaya, Gowon and co.
The essence of the background rap was as a result of the escape from the same London by Alams, he is said to have arrived Port Harcourt at about 4.00am Monday 21st November 2005. The cosmetic general also part of the military born-again democrats union not only skipped, jumped and fled bail in the United Kingdom but he did it in style as speculated in the most bizarre of methods. Probably reminding one of the NADECO days when men, great men for that matter suddenly became women. I won’t want to join this band wago n of speculators, but the extent Nigerians go to, sometimes I sleep hoping to wake and discover that I am not a Nigerian but sadly I am still one, for how long only God knows.
As an old man once said that an Albino is easily recognized in the sea of blackheads…I disagreed, because not if that Albino is not Nigerian, he will escape detection. For the tummy tuck master who would have been a year older last week and enjoy flipping the pages of newspapers and smiling at birthday messages by Local Government Chairmen, Commissioners, parastatals, contractors, and fellow thieves paid for by tax payers’ monies, no one took notice, but the general of the Ijaw nation was scheming with high powered colleagues how to escape the eyes of the vigilant whiteheads in the Metropolitan Police and Airport Immigration.
He must have had lengthy discussions with governor Dariye of Plateau State author of the best selling book “How to Skip Bail in London”. The conversation as recorded by security agents at Abacha’s Directorate for Military Intelligence must have sounded like this…
Alam: J oshua how did you do it…I am not finding this place and whole thing funny, two months, you know how much I have missed in subventions and my birthday has just come and… Dariye: Solomon, if not Bola and Orji who had a hand…it was a commando arrangement... Alam: You mean Bola and Orji helped you… Dariye: you are talking of help, for where, they smuggled me out, just contact them…
And the plot was planned and expertly executed under the “watchful noses and smelling eyes” of the British security apparatus, while Uncle Bayo Ojo the Justice Minister was wasting our money traveling to and fro the United Kingdom. Abeg somebody should clap for Alams, this is not funny but what can Nigerians not do, tell me what…someone reliably informed me that the Obj we are seeing is a pirated Obasanjo because certainly the real Obj cannot be behaving like this. I close my eyes and I see Dipreye dressed in full female attire, he must have looked like ‘Big Momma’ though he had lost small weight, and stress sure affects the rich. I am sure he did not talk as he was being cleared by the immigration officials because of masquerade voice. Whiteman fall mugu, Shege bature.
I watched Nuhu Ribadu’s first press conference in response to the escape from London, the EFCC Chairman was visibly shaken, he picked his words, he could not rake, or make the usual noise, the Foreign Affairs Minister said this situation would require diplomatic maneuvering, the British High Commission here said it would dialogue with the Nigerian government and did not rule out issuing an international arrest warrant. In all these drama Uncle Immunity Clause is smiling and watching will Nigeria breach its constitution to please Britain. After all Dariye still dey Plateau dey make noise.
The legal, constitutional, political and diplomatic fire works has started. The Federal government is not finding this funny at all, its still in a state of six and sevens. You want to underestimate an Ijaw man, when the bowler hat wearing resource control baba was making noise in his last two major interviews with The Guardian and Sun Newspapers, he said he was not afraid, little did one know that beautiful as the guinea fowl, it is not used for sacrifice-Guilty as Alam was he was not willing to go down without a fight.
I would not bore us with what Alam did or did not, but the true questions is that, did this man steal money, forget the political or PDP under and above tones…if he did then he is a thief and deserves to be so treated, however, the money he laundered is Nigerian albeit Ijaw money not British so where is Britain crying more than the bereaved. His people have welcomed him home in celebrations in Yenogoa, Bayelsa State displaying the height of poverty of the mind, not just p ocket.
Nigerians the most creative people there is… we recall after Dariye was smuggled out too, one of the first callers to check out his welfare was big brother governor the Capone Orji Kalu, who admonished the small boy Joshua to be careful next time, infact he was quoted as saying to the governor “…I am not saying you should not steal but work for your people”. Christ’s sake what a Nigerian counsel. After he was boxed into the country he spent some few days in the NVRI Guest House in his Vom, Plateau backyard to cool off, gather weight, while his men surveyed ground and wet same, he was then driven back to the airport, from where paid praise singers were told to come and welcome him and he drove with entourage and siren blowing accompaniments into town. Following Sunday the State being predominately Christians, a thanksgiving service was held and the governor with hands lifted to high heavens he sang to the God of Joshua “What the Lord has done for me I cannot tell it all…so I can shout hallelujah…I can shout praise the Lord.
He celebrated his birthday even months after it had passed…so too will Alams celebrate his, supporters have lined the only expressway in Bayelsa to welcome their Lord. Will God forgive us, what poverty has turned us to, professional mourners, professional standers who are paid to come and stand and wave at people they hate like you mourn for a man you never met. How would we handle this diplomatic baggage, the scene is l ike the impotent man who hid the fact that he was impotent from his wife and his wife hid the fact that she was having an affair with the husband’s best friend, she also did not know her husband was impotent and bang she got pregnant…she cannot tell her husband the true father of the expectant child, neither can the husband question the wife and the best friend is watching confusedly…e be like say we may have to just maintain status quo. But the world is watching us, it’s not as easy as it seems, wahala dey. Almighty Allah we are in your hands, help us
|