How Yoruba's kenimani'injured Arisekola Alao and Gani Adams
Yoruba and its kenimani syndrome- Thinking aloud
By
Wale Ojo- Lanre
1 July 2017
May God bless late Chief Alhaji Alao Arisekola in Aljahna or wherever he is. He was an agrarian businessman who toiled hard to get contracts for some of the profits he spread on philanthropic public good and religious projects. He strived hard and cornered a contract to supply food to the Nigerian military ECOMOG contingent in Liberia. Are arisekola successfully executed this contract to the delight of the Federal government but his Yoruba people were not happy that Alhaji Arisekola is doing well with the contract and they rose against him writing petitions and frivolous articles in the media blaming the federal government for awarding such a contract to him even though he was eminently competent and qualified to handle it and he even executed it well. and when the pressure was too much on the federal government the contract was revoked and immediately rewarded to a non-Yoruba contractor with about a 60 %increase in the cost.
Alhaji Arisekola accepted his fate in Allah and he never begged for food till he died despite the kenimanism .
The militants from the East were given the contract to monitor and protect pipelines in their States from vandals. This has been going on for many years. the self determinant group from another part of the country were excluded from this national assignment until around 2014 when the oodua people's Congress after much pressure and lobby. pointing out that it is only reasonable that the pipelines that run through the southwest should be monitored, supervised and be guided better by the self-determinant group in the region so upon this argument the contract was awarded to OPC to man it for three months and without any mobilization, the OPC went into action with 750 members for the national assignment but immediately the news was spread that OPC has been engaged to monitor the pipelines in Yoruba land. kenimaniism went to work saying all manners of things against the job awarded to their kinsmen. They demanded that the contract should be terminated and the contract was eventually terminated. The Federal government paid nothing for the job that was properly executed. Sadly enough, the contract has been rewarded to another person from a non-Yoruba person just because of the kenimani...
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If this is the true position then we as Yoruba are accursed....
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