Nigerian Politics Ndiameeh Babrik And The Burden Of Truth
3 December 2009
By Saka Raji Audu
Personally, I do not cherish a dishonest writer that
preaches truth. Truth and dishonesty are two poles
apart and are parallel lines that never meet. A writer
who loves truth should not be seen to be untruthful or
dishonest. If this happens, such writer will be tagged
a "hypocrite" and the punishment for hypocrisy,
especially before God is better imagined than stated.
The essence of writing is to champion certain
reasonable cause of action. I do not think that some
one should write for the sake of just writing.
Therefore, writing is either used to support or
against a cause or an argument. I do not also believe
that any responsible writer worth his or her sort
should sit on defence except he or she wants to be
mischievous. It is in view of this basic fact that I
have always been in support of truth, not minding
whose ox is gored.
In my last response to an article under the title,
"Now that Malam Ibrahim Shekarau has vindicated me" by
one Mr. Ndiameeh Babrik, I raised some points of moral
issue against Ndiameeh Babrik. I stated clearly and
very well too that he is not an honest writer because
I discovered in his above title article that he was
the person who impersonated one Aliyu Dan Gata to
write trash against the people's governor of Kano
State under a pseudo name.
Hitherto, I had rightly observed that Aliyu Dan Gata
who later claimed to be DANIEL did not exist as
person, and what is more of being a Hausa from the
native of Kano. Some misguided persons misused the
opportunity provided by the online publishers for
comments to say all sorts of nonsense things. With
patience, perseverance and trust in God, the real
Aliyu Dan Gata, alias Daniel later unconsciously
exposed his true colour in person of MR. NDIAMEEH
BABRIK. This is because, as I said, God has ways of
exposing internet fraudsters.
One expects Ndiameeh Babrik to discharge the moral
burden on him by refuting it or explaining how
coincidentally he claimed to be the author of an
article purportedly attributed to a non-existing
person of Aliyu Dan Gata alias Daniel. Because
whenever the truth is established, no amount of lies
can cover it up. Mr. Ndiameeh Babrik chose to be
silent over his imposture in his berated response. If
this is correct, which one believes it is, the next
question is this. Why Mr. Ndiameeh Babrik, a man who
claims to be a member of Pentecostal church indulges
in deception, impersonation and lying before the
public?
At a time, Ndiameeh Babrik claimed to be Aliyu Dan
Gata. At another, he was Daniel from Kano and he is
now discovered to be Ndiameeh Babrik writing from
London, U.K. What sort of a writer is this? Messrs
Aliyu Dan Gata Daniel Ndiameeh Babrik should know that
the worth of a writer is not only on what he writes
but also his credibility, just like students' results
are based on learning and character.
As for Buhari and Shekarau, they are trustworthy
leaders. The only difference between the two is the
fact that one has military orientation and the other
went through the rudiment of a democrat. Any of the
two is a material for the 2011 presidential election,
depending on the people's choice. But every body must
not necessarily support the two at the same time. The
power of people to make electoral decision shall
always prevail. Whatever decision one takes, one
should be able to uphold and defend it to its
logicality. Ndiameeh Babrik, like any other person,
has the democratic and constitutional right to support
either of the two or any other person else.
Nevertheless, I do not think that Ndiameeh Babrik has
the moral rectitude to draw support for either Buhari
or Shekarau. This is because, Ndiameeh Babrik, in
addition to being a religious bigot, is a bunch of
hypocrite who calls kettle black today and will refer
to the same kettle as white the next day.
For instance, two weeks ago, Babrik wrote that
Shekarau cannot win presidential election in 2011
because in Babrik's myopic reasoning, Shekarau has
refused to grant 80 C of Os to build Pentecostal
churches in Kano. Though he did not tell us how many
of such churches were built in Katsina by Buhari as
Head of State in 1983. Just last week, Mr. Ndiameeh
Babrik wrote again to campaign for Shekarau for 2011
presidential election for honouring his church
invitation where the governor spoke on the need for
understanding and peaceful cohabitation between the
two dominant faiths in Nigeria. This week, Ndiameeh
Babrik wrote again to say that he is now supporting
Buhari. What sort of a writer is Ndiameeh Babrik who
believes in one thing today and disbelieve in the same
thing tomorrow? This is why we must regard this
chameleonic writer as a garbage in and garbage out.
It is funny that Mr. Ndiameeh Babrik resorted to self
glorification by telling his readers how many news
media that have carried his articles, which he used as
a yard stick to measure his contribution to national
issue. This is a mere expression of ego and
desperation for recognition at all costs, which is
just not important to what development means to the
common man. After all, the news of armed robbers and
fraudsters are always being published on every
electronic and print media on daily basis. Does it
therefore mean that the armed robber and the fraudster
have contributed to national issue? Who didn't know
the late notorious Lawrence Anini from old Bendel
State? Has he contributed to national issue? No wonder
that when Mr. Ndiameeh Babrik wrote all his nonsense
about Shekarau and saw that he did not get the
required applause he wanted, he wrote another article
in praise of himself and his washy articles under the
pen name as Aliyu Dan Gata. Is this the kind of thing
he wants us to know as contribution to national issue?
Ndiameeh Babrik loves Buhari and would like to support
him for his 2011 presidential ambition because the
later is good. But Babrik should know that Buhari
would certainly not be happy if he realizes that one
of his supporters as Ndiameeh Babrik alias Aliyu Dan
Gata robs Peter to Paul. Whoever likes Buhari should
try to emulate his good attributes. Likewise, whoever
likes Shekarau should equally endeavour to emulate
him. This is how the society can be good for
development and progress. It is not enough for us to
express our likeness for Buhari or Shekarau while our
actions are in contradistinctions to our mentors and
models. This is why the Buhari and Shekarau followers
should also try to be of good behavior and character.
Remember that it is when an individual improves on his
attitude that there would be collective change in the
society.
It is also disgusting to hear from Ndiameeh Babrik
that he supports the secular gnome that says "the end
justifies the means." If this is the case, why are we
fighting corruption? The aim of every corrupt person
was to get rich at the end of the day. We should
therefore not blame those who steal public fund and
become rich over night, after all, the 'end has
justified his means'. I don’t also think that Buhari
would like to hear this from Ndiameeh Babrik, no
matter the number of voters he has assembled for him
for 2011 election. For me, "the means should justify
the end." This is the only principle any society can
have to be free of corrupt practices and financial
crimes. The issue of no permanent friend but permanent
interest is an American policy of dominating the rest
of the world, which the African countries are being
adopted crudely in their politics. It beats one's
imagination how comes when the Iraq invaded Kuwait,
the American government was so concerned at protecting
the Kuwait because it is considered as weak country.
But when the same American government invaded Panama,
she regarded herself doing the correct thing, simply
because as super power, she assumes that no other
country can challenge her excesses. Is what is good
for the goose, not equally good for the gander?
Since Mr. Ndiameeh Babrik has boosted his ego by
telling us his various articles published in News
media as his contribution to national issues, I should
follow the same ego boosting by also directing him to
check archives to read any of the listed book
publications of mine. These books are "Democracy in
Nigeria, a Long Search through a Dark Tunnel"(1993),
"Remedial English for Qualifying Examinations" (1995,
revised 1996), "Dandatti Abdulkadir: A Humble
Beginning" (1996), "Sani Marshal: A Pioneer
Industrialist, Shahaharen Masanantu" (1997), "Ebira
Proverbs: Meaning and Significance" (2000), "the
Contributions of Lebanese to the Growth of Kano
Business" (2000), "Air travels and Import Manual"
(2000) and "My Last Chance, a prose" (2000). Other
books of mine are "50 Northern Pace-setters"(2000),
"How Shekarau Broke the Kano political Jinx (2007),"
Issues in 2003 General Elections" (2003), "Kano
Industries at Crossroads" (2006), "Study Skills for
Schools and Colleges" (2009), "Malam Ibrahim Shekarau:
the Hero of our time" (Volume I, 2009), etc.
At least, five (5) of these book publications were
exhibited at the 9th General Conference of
Universities that took place on 13th-17th
January, 1997 at Lusaka, Zambia. Mr. Ndiameeh Babrik
can now see that before the coming of Malam (Dr)
Ibrahim Shekarau as the 6th Executive
Governor of Kano State in 2003, I had not less than
twelve (12) book publications in addition to
voluminous articles published by various national
dailies, all to my credit. So, he should stop living
under the illusion that I have only written on
Shekarau alone. It is never in my character to brag
unnecessarily. But, since Ndiameeh Babrik started it,
I feel I should also disclose all these to him before
he assumes local champion.
At this juncture, it is not out of place to counsel
Mr. Ndiameeh Babrik to always focus on issues rather
than expressing sentiment. He should also learn to
avoid beating about the bush when writing articles and
stop deviating from the topic of discussion. Some of
us that stay in Nigeria to face the music, come rain,
thunder and sunshine are more patriotic Citizens than
the type of Ndiameeh Babrik who think that he can
bamboozle us with end credit of writing from London,
U.K. We are never unruffled, no matter the
intimidation through the use of pseudo names that do
not exist.
Finally, it is a piety that Ndiameeh Babrik uses fake
names as Aliyu Dan Gata to write articles. This alone
amounts to dishonesty and I shall not respond to any
thing coming from Aliyu Dan Gata and Mr. Ndiameeh
Babrik again because I never knew that Ndiameeh Babrik
can indulge in impersonation. In any case, I have
nothing to do with writers that are simply not
sincere.
Saka Raji Audu writes from Kano and can be reached
on his email: sakaraj@yahoo.com
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