I know how much it cost to receive treatment in a hospital here in the United States. If not for medical insurance, most of us in the United States will not be able to pay for emergency hospital visit or stay overnite in a hospital.
Did pothole on the road cause Adisa's tire to burst? During his tenure as Works and Housing Minister did he exchange quality road works for egunje?
I think it is time we start looking into who pays for all these foreign trips. No wonder they feel no pangs in starving our hospitals and doctors in Nigeira of funds.
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You are speaking like you were born yesterday or like you don't know what goes on in that British Patchwork called Nigeria. Who do you think pays for all that Forign medical trips?. Four years ago, I was in Abuja, my High School Senior Prefect who went to NDA Kaduna, who is now a Leutenant in Nigeria Army and asigned to ASO Rock. I went to Abuja to see him, from there he took me to the office of the Chief Medical officer for National Assembly, who is an Igbo guy.
The Chief Medical Officer talk to us and shared his fustration with members of NA. That he have made a budget request for N400,000 naira to open a clinic at APO village, the quarters for the legislature. To my greatest surprise, he said that members of the legislature have not even picked the his request just to open a clinic that will serve as a buffer for them incase they are sick. While we were in his office 2 legislatures came into the office of the chief medical officer. To my greatest surprise these men disgraced themselves. Calling these men Honorable legislature is an insult to that word Honorabel. My brother I thought that this legislatures came in to discuss important national issue. I was surprise how low this men stood to beg the chief medical office, I am not lieing this is exactly their words. "Oga is my turn to go for oversea medical check up, Honorable G and K have gone two times, and we have not went even one. Oga na my turn now, can you sign my paper so I can go. I have this headache I have this stomac ache, my brother it was pitiful.
Now you might ask why are this men begging to go to oversea medical checkup, because they are paid estacode at the rate of $400 a day, and they are paid this money in dollars. Now you see why they didn't want to approve $3,000 (Thousand dollars) for a medical clinic. If the chief medical officer open the medical clinic it will cut down to going to London for Malaria and headache. So to answer your question is the poor Nigerians who are paying for this medical trips.
When i see what goes on in that our Obodo, i sometimes ask questions that prompts your response as to if i was born yesterday.
Look at how Okadigbo died. Look at how many other politicians die before they could get to London, Germany or even Egypt.
While many experienced Nigeria trained doctors jet out to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and even Libya to practice our leaders prefer to starve our hospitals of funds. Thank God for ill health and death, its the equalising factor.
One more thing, i thought estacode abi na Esthercode(phone number) is meant for only when one is on official duty?
Cant wait for when IBB, OBJ, and all those responsible for starving our hospitals will want to travel abroad for medical checkup, and kaput something will happen and their plane will not arrive on time. then and only then will they see what the ordinary Nigerian faces daily!
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God: You are at your final bus stop, how was your journey?
Adisa: The flight was smooth until the pain on my right side became unbearable. Is this London or America?
God: No my son, you are at the gate of heaven and hell.
Adisa: Shogbolakeeooooooo! heaven and hell ke?, but, but Alfa told me that i will live to be very very very old. Please sir, tell me i am dreaming
God: My son, you are not dreaming (opens a big book). This here is your report card while on earth. hmmmm, hmmmm, hmmmmm, Minister for Works and housing hmmmm, (shakes head) hmmmm, So tell me my son, what did you do with all the oney meant to fix roads, i see here that there was enough money to dualize the highway where you had an accident? What happened?
Adisa: Oga i am sorry, that was when i was getting ready to receive a chieftancy title, and oh my God i forgot, I was saving money for the rainy day. I am sorry sir, i am not the only one.
God: well my son, how much did it cost to transport you to london?
Adisa: i do not know
God: How much did you donate to the hospital and clinic in your state/village
Adisa: hmmm hmmmm, i was not the minister or commisioner of health health
God: Ok, did you ever tell IBB and other politicians that the people are suffering?
Adisa: hmmmm, I , i, tried sir!
God: Do you know how much it cost to charter Virgin Airline to take your body back to Nigeria?, do you know how many people such money would have used to feed and cloth?
Adisa: no sir ( now sobbing), i did not tell them to fly me by Virgin.
God: let me ask 2000 people from Ilorin where to send you. You see, your faith is in the hand of those that your were in charge of. They will decide where you have to go. I will be right back.
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Balarabe Musa to be Taken to England – Our leaders Will Never Learn
By
Obadiah Oghoerore Alegbe
Oghoerore@oviri.com.ar
I read today in the news that one of our big shots Balarabe Musa is to be flown to England to hospital. God Almighty is now telling all our leaders the limit to human power. Nigerians should speak up to the hearings of our leaders that they owe our people.
My wife by tradition, the Owerri born wife of my younger brother died at childbirth at University of Abraka Teaching Hospitial in the year 2001, we did not have money to fly her abroad. It pains me that I did not have the opportunity to know that Igbo woman that gave us some children.
Mama alakara, mama onimoinmoin, mama onidodo, iya oniresi all of them cook to sell to our children at the village school, they do not have money to be flown to England for medical treatment. In the sub-urbs of Sapele, the Itshekiri woman with a tray on her head shouting “akamu nakara”, when sick does not have money to fly for medical treatment in England.
At Kaura Namoda, and Gamboru in the Northern Nigeria women who could hardly make their voice heard when sick do not have money top fly for medical treatment abroad. The Tapa (Nupe woman) selling groundnut and guguru at Dugbe market, when sick does not have money to fly abroad for treatment.
The Ijesha woman at Erin – Oke that barefoot goes to the creek to fetch eekun to weave mat (I have a childhood memory of walking inside those creek barefooted) when she falls sick does not have money to fly for medical treatment abroad.
In the Niger Delta, Urhobo, Itsherkiri and Ijaw women use the heat of burning petroleum pipes outlets to dry gari, the effect of this shortens their lives, when they fall sick, they have no money to fly abroad for medical treatment yet their land have produced more that 400 billion US dollars in the last forty years.
The suya man, the sanu mala, the tombo taper, the palm wine taper, the burukutu maker when the wives and children are sick do not have money to fly abroad for medical treatment.
Bob Marley sang that you will run to the sea, the sea will be boiling.
God Almighty has given our leaders opportunity, but they have been very selfish with the power given to them. During the burial of Carlito Junior, the eldest son of the former Argentine President Carlos who was a Muslim, the imam who performed the burial said “Allah through death humbles man before him”. Our leaders should know that we all shall face that whistle one day and today let our question be as the hymnal says :
“Shall I go an empty handed? Thus my dear redeemer meet, not one day of service given, must I empty handed go?”
It is time to invest in the people. It is time to stop ostentations. Only our good work will follow us to our maker. It is very unjust that a country so blessed as Nigeria can have its people in absolute poverty.
Our leaders with big mansions fly abroad constantly for medical checkups, while diseases like malaria, fever, aids are devouring our people.
Every time a rich or big man is flown abroad, let him think about God. I believe in the healing power of God, God Almighty is healing a lot of poor people in Africa, he can heal the rich and powerful too but they have to submit themselves to the will of God Almighty. Jesus said “Peter! If you love me, feed my sheep”. God is now asking those in power to use the money on hand to build hospital, roads school for the people.
The money to fly everyone for medical treatment abroad could buy medication for a lot of people in Nigeria.
Many Nigerian doctors that could treat successfully these big shot are wasting away in the Diaspora for lack of funds to relocate home. Some who have relocated are not patronized because our big shots want white doctors, white nurses in a white man’s hospital. We shall see the hand of God, we shall know that there is God Almighty in the Universe.
I call on the Federal Government to upgrade the general Hospitals at Sapele, Ilesha, Gombe, Kafanchan, Obolo-Afor with immediate effect with all the facilities that are used in the hospitals where they are flown abroad for treatment. There is no where the Nigerian big shots will go, God is everywhere.
I pray to God for the survival of Balarabe Musa because I want him to campaign for the upgrading of our hospitals. I call on Nigerians to pray for his quick recovery because only these big shots can make The President understand the degree of underdevelopment that our nation is placed.
Meanwhile we the poor and needy will continue to cry to God to have mercy on us.
Obadiah Oghoerore Alegbe
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