Expdonaloaded News; Okonjo-Iweala was the prime minister

The ideal of good governance is modeled on the Philosopher-King: the ruler who acts like a philosopher or the philosopher who becomes a ruler. Proponents of this school maintain that the business of governance requires at the head, the extra-ordinary intelligence, vision, insight and eclectic scholarship of the leaders to stir to safety the ship of the state. Government is too intricate, and too serious to be entrusted to artisans and to street brawlers who managed to win the last elections.

Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Minister of Finance who doubled as the Coordinator for the Economy was Nigeria’s Foreign Minister and under General Obasanjo, was the Head of Nigeria’s Economic Intelligence Team. From the Royal Family Obi Obahai of Ogwashi-Ukwu, she was educated at Harvard and MIT where she earned her PhD in Regional Economics. Like her father Obi, Chuka Okonjo who in the ‘50s was the Headmaster at Ibadan Government School, father and daughter transverse the disciplines and have at every point in their public service days contributed significantly to the acknowledgement of the platonic school. Indeed, as the Administrative/Consultant to the Ghana Educational Review Panel. Professor Chuka Okonjo, who is a renowned Economics Teacher, Mathematician, Statistician, Botanist, overhauled the Ghana Education system..post by expdonaloaded.blogspot.com.. By the time the Rawlings Government carried out all the reforms and the new policies recommended by the Okonjo panel, Ghana’s leadership in Education in Africa was restored. Currently, foreign students, including Nigerians flock the Ghana education institutions to benefit from those reforms.
Whatever would be history’s final verdict on President Jonathan’s era, there will be no hiding place for Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Amazon who seized the opportunities, contributed a lot to the present growth of our economy but failed abysmally in blazing a paradigm shift for the Nigerian poor and the downtrodden of her famished Anioma Community. In an address to the Senate, 6th of July, 2011 Dr. Okonjo-Iweala stated, “We have a coefficient inequal. We live in a country where the rich can just wake up and decide to travel abroad, just as their children school abroad and have access to good health care”, adding that “subsidy was a good instrument to narrow the economic gap between the rich and the poor.”
October 2011, she led a Nigerian team and struck a deal with the Paris Club to pay a portion of Nigeria’s external debt of $12 billion in return for an $18 billion debt write-off. She published the State’s monthly financial allocations from the Federal Government in the newspapers and many citizens for the first time got to know that their States were richer than many African triage entities.
As the bloated Cabinet of the Jonathan Executive Council trudged towards the end, very few can argue that the double Minister, and therefore, the “de facto Prime Minister” in many ways, elevated the ratings of the Federal Government. In order to close on a veritable scientific analysis of her legacy, we should ignore the persistent persiflage thrown from the glass windows of Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and Kaduna State governor-elect, Nasir’ El Rufai. The Ribadu, and his now weary assistant, Ibrahim Lamode wiped out the 419 confraternity took their gold watches but closed the files on the pirate governors and senators of Rome, who stole at home..post by expdonaloaded.blogspot.com.. We cannot understand the feud when the platonic brilliant Soludo as ex-Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria contributed to the downward spiral of the once formidable naira. So irresponsible was the apex Bank’s printing of the Naira denominations, the N500 naira note consequently has come to replace the former 50kobo knock about change! Where is Obama’s common sense Economics? Moreover, Prof. Soludo, Mansur Muhtar and Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala wrote the piece, “Debt Trap In Nigeria”: Towards A Sustainable Debt Strategy.
So, why all these sudden clashes of opinion and why are these scholars standing in the market square, unlimited in their employment of the language of the guttersnipe? Why are these permanent actors on our corridors of power suddenly at each others’ throats? For good or bad, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Ribadu, Rufai El Nasir’, Ezekwesili and Soludo, before we forget, at a time, were in the Kitchen Cabinet of General Obasanjo’s administration. For the records, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the Chief Accounting Officer of the Federal Government, when the later confidently prepared full indemnity compensation for the victims of the Zaki Biam Massacre.
We understand that the voucher for the Court awarded sum of Forty One Billion, Eight Hundred and Ninety Eight Million, Nine Hundred and Eighty Three Thousand Six Hundred Naira has been raised under her Finance Ministry. For the records, the Finance Minister is the Chief Accounting Officer of the Federal Government, when the Federal Government negotiated a quick deal to pay the victims of the Odi Massacre the lump sum of Fifteen Billion Naira, following a Court Order which awarded over 37.6 billion naira to the Odi victims of a Federal Army democide. As the Federal Minister of Finance and the most influential in the Cabinet who supervised the payments of these huge indemnities, why did she forget to demand for the same overdue compensation for the victims of the mother of all genocidal acts of the Nigerian Military? Asaba, Ishiagu, Igbodo, Ogwashi-Ukwu seven Onukwu brothers?
Furthermore, she quickly approved payments when the President established nineteen universities to be built mostly in the Northern part of Nigeria. Her fellow feminine Minister of Education quickly found locations for those universities including a new university in Katsina and one at Otuoke. Later she was to approve payments following fresh approval from the Presidency for another batch of twelve Federal Universities. Asaba, the first Capital on the Niger, is the only capital city in the whole thirty six states of the Federation that has no University, No Polytechnic, No Library, No Teaching hospital, No Stadium!!
While history would hopefully acknowledge her strides and uphold her financial management which ultimately led to the incremental growth in our economy, the Princess, unlike Queen Elizabeth 1, the first female genius to come to power “loved, feared and blessed by her own”, would be despised by her own. Queen Elizabeth 1, a protégé of the platonic school reigned over the British Empire and from 1570 to the close of that century expanded the Anglo-Saxon influence beyond the “setting of the Sun.” Her investment in Literacy, War and Science pronounced English, the Lingua Franca of mankind.
Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on the other hand, as the de facto Prime Minister for two terms in the last dispensation batted no eyelid as her Anioma Community was politically handcuffed, her rich heritage plundered and her proud civilization smothered almost to extinction by her phalangist expansionist neighbours.