AG-L11/FUM05/D-TR1/FA-05
7TH
December, 2012.
The President,
Through the Manager,
Edo State Co-operative
Farmers Agency,
Benin City,
Edo State
Sir,
DOES
POWER ACTUALLY INTOXICATE?
I want to bring to your notice once
again sir that I have submitted several letters to your office bringing to your
notice events taking place in Ovia North East Co-operative Farmers Union,
Okada.
It’s rather unfortunate that you
held the report with laxity on the fraction of the supplicant. Be reminded sir
that in your presence, I was legally appointed into the office of the Secretary
of the Ovia North East Farmers Union, hence, my appointment can only be terminated
through a legal process. The fact that I decided to be patience with the recent
attitude of the Union president is base on the genuine love I have for the
Union and all its members. And the fact that I am very well aware that he’s
being intoxicated with the power of presidency to that office as I am very sure
he has never hold such an esteemed position before.
I also see a need to respect your
office by waiting for you to address the discrepancies amicably. But my patience
is wearing away because from all aspect; there is symptom of partiality in the
process. As a report submitted to your office in the month of September has not
been attended to. Even when a follow up document was submitted to you a month later.
There is no obscure about the truth that it seems the
agency and her affiliate unions are operating without ethics. I hereby urge you
to prepare yourself to serve the people diligently, and without prejudice. I
want to assure you here sir that co-operative society operates on the same
principle all over the world. One of the principles which is DEMOCRATICALLY
CONTROLLED, is expected to be operated on the basis that any business formed by
more than one person is expected to also be controlled by all affiliate members,
democratically.
Therefore, the destructive action
taken by the ONECFU president Mr. Newman .S. Orogun which has been communicated
to you in the month of September, should be critically looked into, without any
favoritism in order to correct the aberration already taking shape in the
union. I am bothered because I have invested so much for the success of the
union farm at Okokhuo and Mr. Newman has instructed his committee not to allow
me go to my portion and the portion of some other persons I have allotted land
for in the farm, as the Manager of the Union, with permission from the same
president, Mr. Orogun .S. Newman.
Sir, if Mr. Newman intends to employ another
person to work for him as his secretary, I am not disturbing him. But his
hindering me, my group and some other persons I allot land for from working in
the farm, may not augur well for him, because I know the sacrifice I have made
to make sure the union gets a hold on the said farmland.
Please sir, help them to terminate my appointment
justly, and also advice the president not to obstruct me, my group and some
others I allotted land for in the farmland, in order for peace to continue to
reign in the Union.
I have always hold your office with
respect which I will always do if you continue to put the right peg in the
right hole, just as the Comrade governor of Edo State is setting the pace. The
farmland was approved for the union with the condition that it is going to be
utilized for the purpose at which it was approved. Otherwise they (Ministry of
Environment and Utilities)gave us a condition that they will revoke or take
away the land from us if it’s not used within a specified period of time.
Also be inform sir that according
to the Bye-Laws of the Ovia North East Local Government Area Farmers’
Multi-purpose Co-operative Union Limited, page 6 section 23 under the heading
OFFICERS AND MANAGERS, it states “The president,
the Vice President and Treasurer elected at the Annual General Meeting shall
hold office for one year and shall resign at the next Annual General Meeting”.
Therefore January 2013 being the first January after the first year of
operation of the executives of the union, the Union will hold her first Annual
General Meeting. And it is your responsibility to coordinate the AGM in
collaboration with staffs of the Co-operative Department, Ministry of Commerce
and Industry.
Your ability to put an end to this
looming horror and to reorganize the Union for better production will show that
you are not associated to those who allow power to intoxicate them by speculating
that bad is good and that good is bad.
Thanks,
Yours
Respectfully,
_______________________
Mr. Agbonlahor Osamuyi
