By Mcdonald Onu
Chieftain
of the All Progressives Congress and erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of
the defunct New People’s Democratic Party (nPDP), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze,
has described as a serious blunder in etiquette, comments credited to a
renowned Rights Lawyer, Femi Falana SAN, over the Kaduna-bound train
misadventure which claimed lives, left many in varying degrees of injuries and
others in the claws of bandits as hostages.
The incident which occurred Monday last week, threw the country
into mourning as it was literally oozing sounds all over and one could not help
but sympathize with survivors, console those that lost loved ones and pray for
the release of those still in the camp of the rampaging bandits. The Federal
Executive Council as well as the National Assembly in plenary all observed a
minute silent for Nigerians who were killed in the attack.
In a statement made available to media houses in Port Harcourt,
Chief Eze said soon afterwards, as is expected of every responsible government,
President Mohammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Transportation
Minister, Chibuike Amaechi, Gov. El-Rufai of Kaduna, APC National Leader,
Senator Bola Tinubu, Pastor E. A. ADEBOYE and several others took turns to
express their griefs over the incident. They described the gory scene as an
obvious act of terrorism and reiterated the exigency of a serious offensive
against the perpetrators of the heinous crime.
During his visit to the scene of the train attack,
Transportation Minister, Chibuike, lamenting over the huge human and material
loss said the incident would have been averted had his proposal for the award
of contract for installation of sophisticated security gadgets on the rail
lines, presented before the federal executive council, was approved.
That statement attracted commendations from every responsible
Nigerian especially those who understand the depth of the Minister’s sense of
foresight.
However, in a swift turn of event, Femi Falana SAN., in his very
bitter quality of thought engaged himself into a careless fit of uncensored
wrath against the Transportation Minister and attempted to cajole Nigerians
into believing that the train attack was the brainchild of Chibuike Amaechi.
Chief Eze said while he sat on the front lanai of his rented
bungalow in Port Harcourt, ruminating over Falana’s invectives and expressions
of ill-will against Amaechi, and the Buhari/APC administration, his perspective
of the renowned Lawyer suddenly turned ambivalent as only a hatchet man hired
to pull down another would engage in such a meaningless venture.
Falana had called for the prosecution of Chibuike Amaechi and
the Director General of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, for criminal
negligence manufactured and only existing in the figment of his own
imagination.
Condemning Falana’s outburst, Eze said the Senior Advocate
must aver his mind to the fact that there is risk of accident in virtually
every human endeavor. A driver plying the highway knows that a car is a lethal
weapon and there could be accident as he journeys through the road. If
eventually an accident occurs, is it reasonable to call for the arrest of the
Works Minister whose duty it is to construct and put our roads in order? Eze
queried.
He questioned the validity of a call for the arrest of an
Aviation Minister in event of a terrorist attack leading to a plane crash where
he has provided every necessary infrastructure in airports for a smooth taking-off
and landing of airplanes or the arrest of the National Security Adviser (NSA)
or the Army Chief of Staff after the killing of our ten soldiers in Kaduna
recently?
As inconsequential and idiotic as the propositions above seem,
Eze said so is Falana’s call for the prosecution of Amaechi for criminal
negligence.
Describing the comment as vitriolic and cruel, Eze said such
statement made in the heat of the tension mounted across the country in the
wake of the attack amounts to nothing less than sedition.
He said Falana’s pointless opinion almost engulfed a cascade of
dangerous vitriol and validates every feeling that the old wig may have taken
an active job with wrongdoers spewing seditious vitriol in a deliberate attempt
to incite a rebellion against the Buhari/APC government and thus should be
arrested and investigated.
His opinion on the futile attempt of PDP to unseat the Ebonyi
State Governor and his Deputy even against the tenets of the Constitution is a
case in point of the level of hatred Mr. Falana harbours against APC
The fact remains that his utterance is clearly as illogical,
unreasonable and flamboyantly idiotic as asking the Minister of Works and
Housing to be held responsible and in fact, be arrested and prosecuted for
accidents, armed robbery and bandit attacks on the Nigerian highways.
By the circumstances surrounding the rejection of the Minister’s
proposal for installation of security gadgets to prevent crimes and criminality
around the railways, Falana should know that should there be anyone to bear an
iota of blame in the whole train incident, it should be the Vice President,
Prof. Yemi Osinbanjo who chaired the FEC Meeting where that that all-important
proposal was thrown overboard.
Emphasizing that the unwarranted attacks against Amaechi is not
unconnected to the fact that Nigerians are relying on him to rescue the country
and reposition her on the path of true progress come 2023, Eze said every
effort to thwart that divine arrangement will come to naught as the awesome God
who kept Amaechi this far is still on his throne.
Eze reiterated that Falana and hirelings mobilised in this
regard that they can't destroy Amaechi because Nigerians trust him.
The party Chief called on Falana to resist the urge to be
inveigled into a situation in which he finds himself becoming partisan agents
of wrongdoers in the pursuit of their selfish, private vendetta and focus on
guarding and building on his achievements in the legal profession where he has
made very remarkable imprints.
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