Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: The Dame queries Prof Aluko for not attending mama's funeral?

Compatriot Okey Iheduru:

With due respect, you seem always to write as if you have ants in your pants - as if you are angry at the whole of the Nigerian academy.  If you want to be an agent of change, you too have to be more temperate.

For example, I write in my native Yoruba language, and TRANSLATE it right away...  ("Se ko si nkan ti a o fi ri e ni....?", that is (or which means) I hope nothing was wrong why we did not see you at....). But in your haste to castigate me - because I do not fit into your mould of Oluwasanmi, Onwumechili, Ajayi or Ndili (who I have no idea who that last one is), you miss the transalation entirely.

But you forget that Oluwasanmi et. al were not of this Internet age, and some of the upstarts who write nonsense here about VCs and others would not have the forum to write the nonsense...otherwise it is likely they would have been responded to...."Ojo lo ro to pa eyele po mo adie" that is (or which means) "it is the incidence of the rain (aka the Internet) that has made pigeons and chickens to fraternize".

By the way, from now on, I shall employ as much Yoruba (and Latin, where appropriate) as I can muster to hammer in my point, and translate into English.  If that will make you call me one hundred times, you are welcome to it.

And there you have it.

Bolaji Aluko

On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Okey Iheduru <okeyiheduru@gmail.com> wrote:

Bolaji! B-o-l-a-j-i!! B--o---l---a---j---i!!! How many times did I call you?

Please stop lacing your posts with your native language in a forum filled with so many who do not speak or understand it. You may be proud of your language, and rightly so, but it sure smacks of insensitivity. Let's try to allow the walls of the box in which we live to fall down sometimes because the world is so much more beautiful outside those walls. Besides, I'll soon start reporting some of you to your tribal language teachers for the violence you do to the language--both in its written form and in your translations of it into English. What did you guys score in that language in WAEC, any way? Or, did y'all take NECO?

And, by the way, you're now "a whole VC," not the secretary (Tokyo's mate) of the NURTW, Ibadan. I can't imagine Hez Oluwasanmi, Cyril Onwumechili, Ade Ajayi or Frank Ndili being as vituperative or gutter-snipping as you sometimes tend to be. Your very impressionable students at Otuoke are listening. As you know, the waters in the creeks are so fouled up already; it would be nice not to further contaminate them.

Your compatriot,

Okey Iheduru

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com> wrote:

Ayo:

There is nothing intrinsically wrong with a query or querying - after all, one is under the authority of some one or some institution or the other - but a query should be done (i) by a recognized authority for (ii) action related to the office/position in question. Any one of those two things is missing,  and the person being "queried" is thereby humiliatingly insulted - by an condemnable insulter.

The high office of a Vice-Chancellor should not be so treated like a "boy-boy."  If it were to happen, I would studiously ignore it.  

I can be queried by the National Universities Commission or Council of my university for not doing my job.  But I should not be queried by the First Lady for anything (she is not in any line of authority over me), and were it to be on an issue regarding the university (eg inviting her to campus and treating her shabbily), I may be queried by Council but not directly by her, and certainly NOT for NOT attending her mother's funeral.  If it were under the typical gentle Yoruba enquiry ("Se ko si nkan ti a o fi ri e ni....?", that is  I hope nothing was wrong why we did not see you at....), that is quite understandable.

The irksome-ness here is in particular that the QUERY NEVER happened, and secondly I know the source and reason of the mischievous plant of a rumor ( a silly fellow called Nebukadineze Adiele); the mischief of propagating it (an e-rag publisher named Elombah Daniel) - both trying to score some personal embarrassment - and an inattentive e-publisher (Osun Defender) merely out to embarrass the First Lady and repeating a lie without checking the source, and my friend Ikhide who should have contacted me directly rather than asking "sarcastically" publicly about this issue - for which he has apologized.

Trust that you understand.

And there you have it.

Bolaji Aluko

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Ayo Obe <ayo.m.o.obe@gmail.com> wrote:

I've never understood why the mere idea of a query always provokes such anger - but I admit that I have never been in public service.  It is is though the word 'query' has no actual meaning (Why did you do or not do that?  This is my explanation.) but is in itself charge, verdict and sentence wrapped up in one.  

But if an idiotic query is issued, why would it reflect on the person queried?  One might legitimately ignore it.  Even though one might hope in vain that shame would prevent the unanswered query from being repeated or pursued!

I say that because the First Lady's spokesperson took time to reject the condolence visit paid to her on the death of her mother by the First Lady of Rivers state because said (lesser) First Lady signed the condolence register in Rivers, but did not come to condole the (greater) First Lady at Aso Rock "as everybody else had been doing".  You and I might have imagined that if there was a condolence book, then condolences were being received where it was placed, but said spokesperson insisted that "The First Lady was not receiving condolences there!"  Ah, sorry o!

Ayo

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On 6 Dec 2013, at 05:22, olugbenga Ojo <olugbenga.ojo@gmail.com> wrote:

I never believed that rubbish for a second because I know it can not be true. Whoever worth his salt will not dance to such music. Prof continue your work. Oju ti o ba role ni Irore nso!!! egbe nbi gbo; kii se oro ojo ori; Olorun ko nii je kari ina ni kanga.

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:57 AM, Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com> wrote:

Ikhide:

How can it be true?  In my service as a VC, despite being a government official,  I have not cut that image for anyone to consider doing that to me.

So the query is a blatant lie....it is one stupid  fellow called Nebukadineze Adiele - behaving true to ilk -  writing rubbish in what he considers comical speculation on the Internet, knowing that there are enough Nigerians that are either inattentive (hopefully not you), or believing of anything of our Nigerian leaders and/or their associates (again hopefully not you.)  Adiele is one of a set of Nigerian guys - particularly abroad - who have little or no moral core, would-be assassins of character and kidnappers of image, who would do the same and encourage the same where they living in Nigeria.

And Elombah.com, a filthy e-rag anchored by Daniel Elombah, gives the speculation "original" coverage (http://elombah.com/index.php/special-reports/19363-dame-jonathan-queries-vc-otuoke-university-for-failing-to-attend-mum-s-burial-inside-details-of-the-extravagant-burial)  because of their common filthy un-filfullable agenda.

Look, Ikhide: there are more important things to discuss - like the passing away of the Great Mandela. The contrast he provided to the little minds that dot the Nigerian horizon both at home and abroad  is galling.

And there you have it.

Bolaji Aluko

Shaking his head

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Ikhide <xokigbo@yahoo.com> wrote:

Prof na true? Shame on you!

 

 

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