The Cynical Antics Of Governor Amaechi

The news media have been awash with stories of how the Rivers State Police Command, under Commissioner Mbu Joseph Mbu prevented 13000 (thirteen thousand), not 1,300 (One Thousand Three Hundred) teachers from collecting their letters of employment personally from Governor Amaechi at the Liberation Stadium Elekahia, Port Harcourt on Wednesday, September 25, 2013.

Protagonists of Governor Amaechi have already jumped on the condemnation bandwagon without even analytically evaluating the story.

We need no rigmarole to justify the action of the Police in preventing an imminent breakdown of law and order which resultant effects will be unconditionable.

We at once boldly state that the decision to gather 13,000 (thirteen thousand) persons in one place for the purpose of collecting letters of employment is unwise, mischievous and a deliberate attempt to orchestrate a breakdown of law and order with the sole aim of vilifying the Rivers State Police Command for failure to prevent the breakdown of law and order and for which they are being currently protracted having successfully prevented the said breakdown of law and order.

Governor Amaechi and his 'Eisteinian' thinkers cannot convince any right thinking person how they intend to distribute letters of appointment to 13,000 (thirteen thousand) individuals gathered at the said stadium in one day.

You need not be a genius to know that to do this each of the 13000 (thirteen thousand) persons would be individually called out by name. Each person would come out of the crowd, walk to the designated place where his or her letter of appointment would be issued to him or her. At the issuing point, the person would as of necessity identify him or herself to issuing officer. The person upon satisfactory identification shall then sign for his or her letter, collect the letter and either walk back to his or her seating or standing position or leave the stadium. After that, another name is called and the whole process is repeated. That is how cumbersome and rigorous the issuing and collection process would have been.

This process, with the most meticulous planning and expeditious implementation, would require in terms of time, a minimum of 20 (twenty) minutes per person. We are crediting the planners with the greatest amount of efficiency. If we multiply 20 (twenty) minutes by 13,000 (thirteen thousand) persons, we arrive at 260,000 (two hundred and sixty thousand) minutes. That is the total amount of time it would take Governor Amaechi to hand over each of the letters of appointment to its recipient.

We all know, that there are 60 (sixty) minutes in one hour. To calculate how many hours this process of handing over letters of employment to 13,000 (thirteen thousand) teachers would take, we need to divide 260,000 (two hundred and sixty thousand) minutes by 60 (sixty) minutes. The time required is 4,333.33 (four thousand three hundred and thirty three hours, and a third of an hour)!

It therefore means that the 13 thousand potential teachers would have spent at least 43 hours, two days at the Liberation Stadium to collect their letters.

In other words, Governor Amaechi called 13,000 (thirteen thousand) teachers to the stadium to give them letters of appointment by a procedure in which the first person collects his letter on the first day and the last person collects 43 hours later. In that whole period, Governor Amaechi and his staff would remain standing in the stadium distributing letters without food, sleep or even going to the toilet!!! Any interruption to the process extends the time.

We can clearly see that the whole exercise was mired in mischief and calculated to cause a breach of the peace. More importantly, the thinking governing the process shows that Governor Amaechi and his jobbers do truly deserve a rest from governance. Their thinking engine (brain) has 'knocked'.

Police Commissioner Mbu was clearly right to see through the absurdity of the exercise and stop it. In doing so, Commissioner Mbu prevented the unwarranted loss of limb and life which Governor Amaechi and his cronies deliberately and wickedly designed to cause by keeping people in the stadium for one hundred and eighty days without provision for how they would meet their sanitary needs, eat and sleep.

If the gathering of the 13,000 teachers was not to protest against the President and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan why then the newly recruited teachers have not been able to get copies of the posting letters when they visited Rivers State Ministry of Education, Post Primary Schools Board and Universal Primary Education Board as directed, several days after the aborted gathering at Liberation Stadium.

Government officials told them that the letters were not ready. What then was the rationale behind asking them to gather at the Liberation Stadium? What is wrong with the internet which is easier, cheaper and hitch-free.

We therefore ask Nigerians to always critically evaluate each of Amaechi templates to understand his antics. His templates are almost always cynical, vacuous, rancorous, deceptive and attention seeking.

Police Commissioner Mbu has deciphered this fact. That is why Governor Amaechi keeps calling for his head.

Finally, we wish Governor Amaechi well in his alleged three months leave of absence from governance and pray that while resting he would be reenergized and revitalised so that he can find the cerebral strength to do what is right by resigning from an office that has totally and completely overwhelmed him.

Signed
Jerry Needam
SA, on Media to
State PDP Chairman
Friday, September 27, 2013