Akunyili’s death in foreign hospital shameful –News for nigerians

National Chairman and former Presidential Candidate, National Action Council (NAC), Olapade Agoro, has described the death of former Director General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) in an Indian hospital as a manifestation of a shameful systemic failure in Nigeria.
The Aladura Patriarch described Akunyili as a figure that “came like a tale being told in a stormy weather,” whose death was a black day news. In his words: “The most painful, shameful and insulting of the death of our amiable strength of great value was the later revelation by Minister of Interior Mr. Aba Moro, that the Indian High Commission in Nigeria initially denied her visa when her family were making efforts to fly her to India.”
In an electronic message to Sunday Independent, Agoro said, “It was just another saddest tale and gory addition to those before Dora in the likes of Mrs. Stella Obasanjo who died in a German hospital and Mrs. Maryam Babangida who died in a  USA hospital,
both former first ladies.
“Chief Oluwole Adeosun, former Minister of Statehood of Nigeria, Nollywood veteran actor Enebeli Elebuwa both who died in Indian Hospitals, former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua who surely died in a Saudi Hospital, former Military President Ibrahim Babangida, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Governor of Lagos State Bola Ahmed Tinubu all of who sometimes ago expensively and shamelessly went to get cured in foreign Hospitals for ailments suffered on either their legs and or knees just to mention a few.”
He said the cost implication of Nigerian leaders who died in foreign hospitals and those who went there for treatment could be conservatively put at well over N15 billions.
“Hidden in this figure are those medical factors of arrays of Nigerian leaders, National Assembly members, governors, ministers, special advisers, special assistants, business board members, treasury looters, thieves from the nation who  under the cover of frequent attendance of meetings abroad disguise and pretend to go for their so called medical checkups as if there are no hospitals and highly proficient medical doctors and personnel here,” he said.
“All these unfortunate waste and senseless spending abroad could have been prevented with a well planned and duly executed, corruption free Heath Care Delivery system of honour to humanity,” he said.
“One can only conclusively reason out aloud that it is only in a nation of leaders walking on their heads, lacking nationalistic pride and commonsense that its top citizens shamelessly prowl foreign counties searching for aid and assistance and in particular provisions of basic needs and necessities that could be readily procured and or made available here at lesser or no cost at all for the benefit of the entire society at large.

The new National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, John Odigie-Oyegun, has said with the successful enthronement of a new national leadership for the party, there is an opportunity for it to kick out the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from power in 2015. Mr. Odigie-Oyegun, the Third Republic governor of Edo State emerged as the national chairman of the APC at the party’s convention in Abuja which ended Saturday morning. APC is the product of the merger of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Congress for Progressives Change, CPC, All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, a section of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, and the then new PDP The convention is its first since its registration as a political party by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, last July. In his acceptance speech Saturday morning, the chairman said the ruling PDP had failed to provide Nigerians with stable power supply, failed to provide them with security that would enable them sleep peacefully on their beds at night, failed to provide employment for millions of Nigerian youths, and failed to stem the tide of corruption that was robbing Nigeria’s children of their future. The chairman, who was the vice presidential running candidate of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, in the 2011 presidential election, said the APC would provide Nigerians with a visionary, dedicated, and people-oriented leadership that would liberate the nation from PDP’s rule of poverty and oppression. Under the stewardship of the APC, he stressed, Nigeria would progress and Nigerians will thrive. Mr. Odigie-Oyegun, however, admitted that the task of savaging Nigeria would not be easy because the rot in the country was deep. He noted that the task would be more difficult because the PDP would be determined to frustrate APC’s mission. Below is Mr. Odigie-Oyegun acceptance speech delivered on Saturday morning.

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