Firstly, let me express my likeness for President Muhammadu Buhari. I like tourist because am one, people of like nature are known to have affinity for themselves. I foresee more travels within this four years of his tenure and l would like to see his itinerary because God works in mysterious ways, bumping into the President in one of the countries across the waters would be a thing of great joy.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to USA as supposed was
for a 4-day visit particularly to seek help in recovering our missing 150
billion dollars from an unknown forest reserve. I wonder how the money would be
recovered knowing that Nigerian looters knows how the cover their ends. Would
it be through the help of their CIA computer nerds working speedily with
computer systems or through the aid of any other intelligence agency or a
related body involved in recovery. Baba is a wise man. I appreciate his sense
of embracing the modern approach of handling situations, this is why he went to
seek help from the U.S.
Now, we know that Africans have a way of granting or making
promises of what/things they can’t fulfill. The African pattern is-
1.
Praise
2.
Promise
3.
Help a little
4.
Give excuses
5.
Withdraw
Permit me to explain this pattern.
PRAISE
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A typical African man who wants to grant or seek
a favour would praise you for a while before moving forward to the matter of
importance for two reasons-
i.
To calm your nerves of suspicion
ii.
To bring in sentiments
If a favour is to be granted the praise given must be for
something in return. Sooner or later. That is why President Barrack Obama
described Nigeria as the most important and influential country in Sub-Saharan
continent. President Obama is a wise African.
PROMISE
Forget the proverb that ‘an unfulfilled promise is a sin’ in
Nigeria it doesn’t work that way, remember when your father always promised you
a bicycle if you came top in class at the end of the academic term? After hard
work to come first, the promise is not fulfilled and the same promise is made
next term. Promises are made to show the ‘promisee’ that the ‘promiser’ is most
concerned about his/their needs than theirs. President Obama promised to
recover the missing funds, added to that to recover looted assets, bring to a
halt the escapades of book haram, and to boost the Nigerian military. This is a
complete promise- one which must cover the main need and sundry.
HELP A LITTLE
Fulfilling a promise no matter how small the fulfillment
might be tells a lot. Its shows seriousness and ability to honour your word. This
was the case during President Goodluck Jonathan’s regime where America promised
to rescue the missing Chibok school girls. They helped a little by using the
drone craft to carry out surveillance in Sambisa forest. The rest is a long
story. This little help was still rendered by an African- Obama.
GIVE EXCUSES
Sometimes is just an excuse, other times it’s a chain of
excuses. When America was unable to fulfill the full promise they gave excuses
how top Nigerians stood in the way of rescuing the Chibok girls and lots more.
Excuses are part of some human’s nature to evade the chagrin from the person(s)
we want to please.
WITHDRAW
Those in charge of ensuring that the assistance is being
rendered begin to withdraw from carrying out their duty and at a snap of a finger
all the foreign aid return to their motherland. At the end of everything they
make it seem like and unplanned promise which slipped their mouth.
We do know
that Nigeria is the King Kong of Africa(mind you in Africa apes are kings to
lions) and if America decides to aid Nigeria, Nigeria would aid them too. Directly or indirectly.
Being pointblank. President Buhari is forward and he has
made this known to President Obama and his citizens. I like the way he does it(the pointblank moment)- sits
clamly, grins with his cycle-like nerd glasses and spill the words.
I appreciate this effort made by our President. I hope the
funds are recovered and ‘corruptionists’ are prosecuted and other stolen money
are recovered too. If America wants to help do this, it has to be done in an
African-American way.
PS- the way President Buhari was speaking fast and fluently
while he was articulating his speech needs a laudable commendation and I give
it to him. He truly understands that ‘if you are in Rome, you behave like a
Roman.’