Yoruba and its kenimani syndrome- Thinking aloud by Wale Ojo Lanre

Yoruba and its kenimani syndrome- Thinking aloud

By wale ojolanre

May God bless late Chief Alhaji Alao Arisekola in the 11th Aljahna or wherever he is.He was an agrarian business man who toiled hard to get contracts some of its profits he spread on philantrophsm public good and religious project. He strived hard and conered a contract to supply food to the Nigerian military ECOMOG contigent 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 despite the fact that 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 and when the pressure was too much on the federal government the contract was revoked and immediately rewarded to a non Yoruba contractor with about 60 %increase in the cost.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 co tract to monitor and protect pipeline in their States from vandals . this has been going on for many years . the self determinant group from other part of the country were excluded from this national assignment until until around 2014 when the oodua peoples Congress after much pressure and lobbby. pointing out that it is only reasonable that the pipeline that runs through the southwest should 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 them to man it for three month and without any mobilization ,the OPC went into action with 750 members for the national assignment but immediately the news was spread that OPC have been engaged to monitors the pipelines the Yoruba kenimaniism went 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 without paying a penny for the services rendered by the OPC. The Federal government paid nothing for the job that was properly executed .Sadly enough, the contract has been re warded to another person from a non Yoruba person just because of the kenimani...