Would her profile or erstwhile associations with members of the Committee mean that the Committee should not be thorough in the discharge of its statutory assignment? Granted that she posses the qualifications that she parades; that is not in dispute. Granted that she has requisite work experience as she brandied; nobody comes to refute. Granted that she has exhibited a high degree of competence in many international job assignments; the resounding applause will be her invitation to serve her fatherland in the like manner. Granted that the contents of the expose on the Chairman of the Committee are true and the Chairman did conduct himself to the letter; we note with high interest. In the light of all these, the big question is: What really is the point of these revelations in the apparent rot elucidated in SEC?
Indeed, we should concede that the SEC DG served very well in previous callings outside the Nigerian shores and gave a good account of herself in such international positions. Now that the country has recognized these values and granted her even more latitude for selfless service, what did she do with the confidence so expressly reposed in her? Did she continue to offer great, selfless service which we are given to recognize as her first nature? Or did she evolve into a strange entity and joined or endorsed the looting establishment? The SEC DG must not paint a picture of herself being in the “Esteemed League” of honest, selfless workers in public interest. That “Esteemed League” has more too often proved to be self-serving, having in their many numbers pretenders who wield high authority and thus have held the country captive for over fifty years. They are people in public space who assume to serve the people only after they have served themselves and the bloated quantum of their collective greed makes a necessity of them serving themselves endlessly. The resultant effect is that the Nigerian people are not served; yet, now and again, these “Esteemed League” organize awards for themselves, ascribing their public services to be “selfless and meritorious” and give us wishy-washy talks to the effect. And as the sky clears we continue to discover that our country degenerates in every facet of our humanity; our people are rendered without nation; our common wealth and resources are plundered with impunity.
The vital point the SEC DG refused to address, which the Committee has raised, is that things are falling apart in the SEC under her present watch. In the light of the present development all her qualifications and experiences must have to come under trial; skewed and unfair as she may perceive the situation, it is at the behest of the Nigerian people. In the public domain, when the responsibility of a sensitive public office rests on your shoulders, you do not ask to be treated fairly, you prove yourself above board in spite of all unfair altercations, real or imaginary.
The expose the SEC DG made of the Committee Chairman and ascribing tags in the like of kangaroo court amounts to nothing but counterfeit blackmail. In fact, she has only told us that the Committee and indeed the Chairman under attack are doing their job; and very well too at that. The Committee has in the complexity the SEC management and intricacy of the operations established that there are gross failings in the scheme of events. It is a verdict of faulted system not a personal attack on her. If her answer to such huge taint on her integrity is to reveal past, confidential and objectionable accords to which she was privy and on which she chose to hitherto remain silent, then she in her own doing rests the case against her for the Committee. She pronounces herself guilty.
By that singular act of melodrama at the Committee sitting last Thursday, March 15, 2012, she insults the very “dignity of man” upon which she pivots her integrity. She does a great disservice to all Great Lions and Lionesses who hold her in high esteem. To have stayed above-board she should have made the expose at the time of the event and shunned any benefits to her she would have received otherwise, if at all; and she should have further proceeded to make due recourse to appropriate quarters. Her present conduct serves only as a distraction to Nigerians from the burning issues of squandering of our common wealth and demeaning of our citizenship. As a people so now aware, she should not be surprised that there are no informed applauds to her on account of the expose. The expose was, to say the least, in bad taste.
We are alive to the slime in the hood of public office. We are all witnesses to how highly placed public officials, more the civil service than politicians, betray public confidence, abuse their offices and conspire against the interests of their public engagements as it personally suits them. To cry foul only when the permutations result are against their parochial interest, which is the present situation in which the SEC DG finds herself, betrays deeply embedded hypocrisy and discerning persons in civilized society cannot take her seriously. Nigerians must not take her expose seriously. A victim of her choices, if the SEC DG has to sink, it is her very own making, she should proceed to sink with unruffled mane and not drag everyone else or anyone at all down with her. The SEC DG must address the issues as they are unraveled and not play to the gallery about her qualifications, work experience character and integrity. The issues in the SEC are burning yet. “Madam, what are you doing or have done about the apparent rot in the SEC against the serious threats it portends to the mass of Nigerian investors?” That is the simple question. After all said and done, that is the point to address.
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