Emmanuel Oko Ogar|13 December 2015|12:20pm
It's absolutely pathetic and worrisome to have a Doctor in the house while the household die of
common headache. A Doctor that doesn't know how to prescribe drugs or isn't good at administering
medication isn't better than a quack chemist working as pharmacist in a pharmaceutical store.
While surfing on the crest and trough of the Internet's wave at the wee hours of the night some
few days ago, I observed abysmally that the social site(Facebook) was flooded with posts that featured
prominently the pictures of His Excellency, Prof. Benedict Ayade discussing about the menace of
Climate change in Paris. As I flipped through one of the numerous posts, I was informed that our amiable governor is a professor of environmental science.
Instantaneously, my Adam's apple jerked and moved to-and-fro along my oesophagus; while my head sunk into the neck as she tried to take solace. I managed without success to let it rest on the concave of my palm for a while as I
exclaimed, eiyah!
Since 1999 till early this year, our state capital (calabar) have not had it so bad in the circle of
environmental sanitation. The explicit beauty of the state is continually been washed away by the day since the inception of this administration. The streets are steeply obtuse in proclivity and
declivity. The once serene calabar city is now in sordid state. Young sedimentary mountains of
heaps are growing in almost the nooks and crannies of homes and yet our environmental scientist-governor led a contingent of African
governors to Climate change conference.
If you doubt the veracity of this work, you may take a casual walk to Goldie; Bateba, Etagbor, High Way,
Main Avenue, State Housing Estate, etc and see for yourself. But be warned to keep off if you're allergic
to gory scene.
I would love to ask. What are the solutions he proffered at the conference? Has he postulated a
model in cushioning the effect of global warming? The other day, I was told he bagged award for the
research he conducted on the environmental sustainability. Congratulations sire!
At the conference, my governor was 'yanning' about decarbonization. Has he forgotten that the carbon
monoxide from the exhaust pipes of his long convoy is successfully contributing to the total gross of
ozone layer depletion? Maybe he didn't know that CO2 is one of the major greenhouse gases that
brings about the effects of Climate change or global warming. Perhaps, you may relay this to him that the crack-tip cause by his convoy on our macadam roads is greater than the fraction caused by fifty families plying the same routes. The noise pollution caused by the blaring of his siren is capable of destroying natural habitat and human auditory organs. Ask acoustics engineers.
We would like to know how much the state is earning from the carbon footprints and carbon pricing of the UN-REDD+. Our forests have been
conserved to act as carbon sink and for environmental purification for the industrialized nations. China, US, Britain Japan etc pay millions of
Dollars through the United Nations Environmental Protection Agency to the twenty fifth biodiversities
states which CRS is among. What has been the benefit of the complying communities (Boki, Akamkpa, Ikom, Odukpani etc) that have conserved their forests?
Did the governor know that gases such Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and Hydro fluorocarbons (HFCs) and others Halogens gases are rampantly in use in Cross River State? These are gases banned more than two decades ago in
Europe, America, Asia and Australia.
The state Capital, Calabar is smelling and our ebullient and erudite governor is an environmental expert. The beauty of the city is slain upon the high
places. How are the mighty fallen!
Comr. Ogar, Emmanuel Oko
Is an Environmental Physicist; Freelance Journalist & Poet. He coordinates Youths Alliance for
Northern Cross River Dreams(YANCRiD) &
Modern Leagues of Classical Experimental Writers (MLCEW).
