Willibroad Nformi
10 October 2008
Dr. Kenneth Nsor Nsor, Nigerian Consul General to the Southwest and Northwest Provinces, has called on Nigerian nationals living in Bui Division to be responsible and take initiatives before appealing for assistance.
He also drilled them on the need to belong to an association with the attendant benefits.
Dr. Nsor Nsor was speaking in Kumbo recently while on a maiden visit with the Nigerian Union.
The Consul General was reacting to a plea made by Mathias Udoka, Secretary General of the Kumbo Nigerian Union, for financial assistance to the union.Hear him; "Your Excellency it is also worrying that a majority of our members have left for home due to economic difficulties that have touched each and everyone of us in varied degrees.
Because of this departure and economic hardship, this union is facing acute financial difficulties to the extent that we are unable to celebrate a memorial service for our former president and other members after him. This inability to celebrate this memorial service has increased disunity in our union".
In response, Nsor Nsor lashed out at his fellow countrymen, blaming them for their inability to organise themselves and constitute an administrative organ."If I were to sign a cheque, to whom would I give when your union doesn't have a president?" Nsor asked his compatriots.
He said if the union was functioning properly, his consulate could occasionally come to their assistance. He said there was need for all Nigerians to belong to the union which he described as a meeting point for sharing ideas, harnessing resources and solving minute problems.
"If the union is necessary as I think it is, then you must make it work," Nsor Nsor told his countrymen.The Consul General was optimistic that with the recent peaceful handing over of the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon, diplomatic relations between Cameroon and Nigeria would improve considerably.
He said accords and protocols signed between the two countries since 1963 had hardly been implemented due to the rancour over the Peninsula."Bakassi frustrated a lot of protocol agreements between our people," he said.
He said the next joint commission meeting slated for Yaounde in early October would really examine and strengthen the national fraternal relationship between the two countries.He urged his compatriots to be law-abiding and represent their country well.
In an interview with The Post, the Consul General said he was determined to put order in the Nigerian Union in Kumbo.He said he was forming an electoral commission that would ensure that free and fair elections are conducted to reorganise the union.
He, however, regretted that the union had no president as the three successive ones had died. "This has instilled fear in the people and no one is ready to take up the post. I told them death comes from God and everyone must be prepared to die", said Nsor Nsor.
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