Honestly I am at a loss to understand what motivates some people to behave the way that they do.
I just saw an advert in one of the newspapers in which a group that calls itself the Arewa Consultative Youth Movement called for the “stepping aside” of the Chairman of @FIRSNigeria, Mr. Zach Adedeji (@ZacchAdedeji), over what they have described as “unconstitutional activities”.
First and foremost this group does not represent Arewa in any shape or form and I doubt it represents any youths either.
I consider it a privilege to have lived in the North and known virtually every relevant group and notable individual here for the last 23 years and I have never heard of this faceless so-called “Youth” group.
Secondly to call for the stepping aside of one of the current administration’s brightest stars on the basis of what they themselves have described as mere allegations is unjust and absurd.
The reforms in the Tax sector are outstanding and list amongst the greatest achievements of @officialABAT and Adedeji, together with his colleagues at FIRS, have implemented those reforms in a commendable, humane and exemplary manner.
To ask for him to be removed is tantamount to attempting to stop the great work he is doing, to provide an unnecessary distraction from his efforts and to undermine the efforts of the Federal Government to bring sanity and transparency to that sector and carry out one of its cardinal campaign promises.
It is obvious that this sponsored advert signed by one Kabiru Yusuf is the work of the opposition who are getting increasingly nervous about the great successes of this administration.
For the record let it be clear that no right-thinking person takes their infantile and nonsensical call seriously and I for one totally and completely condemn and reject it.
What makes the whole thing even more nauseating than the perfidious and scurrilous allegations, assertions and demands embedded in the advert is the fact that, despite whatever pretentions its authors have about being educated, they could not even spell the name of the object of their hate correctly.
Someone please help them by telling them that “Zach” (which they spelt as “Zak”) is short for “Zachariah”, a popular and respectable name that appears in the Holy Bible, which is spelt with an “h” on the end and not a “k”.
Learning to spell words and names properly should be the starting point of their re-education.
Meanwhile I urge Zach and his team to remain focused and to carry on the great work they are doing.
They should count it as joy and know that those that throw stones only do so at trees that have good fruits in them.
No-one, not even the jobless reprobates that are behind the advert, bothers to throw stones at a dead, dry, barren and fruitless tree.
(FFK)
