…Petitions UN, AU, FG, Public
A group made up of foreign-based corporate entities, countries, transnational corporations, and representatives of foreign interest in Nigeria, under the aegis of ‘Afe Babalola Killing Our Business,’ has petitioned the United Nations, UN; African Union, AU; the Federal Government of Nigeria and the International Tribunal, alleging that foremost Nigerian legal luminary and founder of the Safe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, ABUAD, Chief Afe Babalola, is leveraging on his patriotic zeal and agrarian passion for the development of Ekiti State in particular and Nigeria in general to extinguish and destroy their chains of businesses.
The group pointed out that though they still hold in high esteem the personality and professional competence of Chief Babalola, as first-class and foremost legal luminary in Africa, but added that it regretted that the founder of ABUAD is daily working against their interest and suffocating every line of their business ventures in Nigeria.
They alleged that Chief Babalola is truculent, ruthless, merciless and has no consideration for their business progression, but rather blindly seeking how Ekiti State, Nigeria, and Nigerians could be well off at their own expense.
They pointed out that unless Aare Babalola is cautioned, stopped, halted, curtailed, compressed and completely slowed down, he may end up extinguishing, annihilating, eliminating, terminating and obliterating their sources of livelihood on the platter of national interest of Nigeria and Nigerians.
The petition, signed, stamped and sealed by the group’s Corporate Affairs Director, Amb. Wale Ojo-Lanre, cited the various acts and deeds, which Are Babalola has embarked on to deliberately go for the jugular of their businesses.
In the petition, they revealed that the first murderous action which Chief Babalola conceived and perpetrated against their interest was the establishment of a private university in Ado Ekiti called ABUAD; describing the establishment of ABUAD as a wicked, deliberate and calculated murderous act to checkmate “our age-long exploitation of Nigerian parents, who believed that standard and quality education can only be obtained in our various mushroom universities, which we planted in the UK, US, France, Europe and the Middle East.
They agreed that “it was a murderous act. And we shall never forgive him. We don’t even mind anybody establishing any private university, but for Aare Babalola to have established a classical and first-class university, whose standard surpasses the ones we established in the UK, US, Europe and the Far East, is a murderous act.
“Do you know that since ABUAD commenced academic activities, our fortunes have nosedived? It has reduced the scrambling for admission into our universities planted outside Nigeria? We found out that the number of Nigerians who hitherto carried millions of naira in a capital flight manner to pay for their children’s school fees outside Nigeria has reduced considerably.
“We also found out that this act of his has also prevented millions of naira in capital flight out of Nigeria to our countries; for they now realised that ABUAD offers optimum educational services better than the ones obtained in our so-called Ivy League institutions. They now realised that what they are looking for Europe, the US, the UK, France, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Middle East is obtainable in the most excellent form in Ado-Ekiti, hence, admission to some of our universities have reduced considerably and our finances are in shambles and you think this is not a murderous act?”
As if that is not enough, the group alleged that just yesterday, Aare Afe Babalola stabbed the only living spirit left in its surviving strategic soul, claiming that “After we realised that Aare Babalola has shut us out from making humongous revenue from educational services and bogus admission from Nigeria, we now diverted our business vision into the medical sector.
“We established hospitals in India, South Africa, the UK, Jordan, Germany which specialise in kidney transplantation. We know that Nigerians are susceptible to kidney challenges due to their carefree lifestyle and lack of proper dietary guidelines.
“Behold! It was a goldmine as reports from some of these hospitals revealed that the majority of our clients are Nigerians and they paid in dollars as we charge in dollars. We know it beforehand, because no single hospital in Nigeria has the necessary sophisticated equipment and facilities needed for such a delicate operation. We also thought that it will take many years before Nigerians could have access to a first-class hospital, where kidney transplants could be successfully done under the internationally acceptable surgical environment with the latest equipment.”
The group said that they were alarmed and hypertensive, learning, hearing and receiving reports that the same Aare Babalola has also established a first-class medical multiplex, the best in Africa and comparable only to John Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore, in Ado-Ekiti, where kidney transplant has been successfully carried out under the best and latest facilities and equipment and under the supervision of a world best surgeon, who is also a Nigerian!
The group added, “This latest act of his is more than a murderous act, but a deliberate nihilistic step, aimed at not only truncating the mindless flight of capital from Nigeria by Nigerians to our countries in search of medical tourism, but sooner or later, those who still patronize our hospitals from other African countries will now divert their medical tourism passion to Nigeria and to that town Ado – Ekiti.
“Can’t you see that Chief Babalola is not only bad, but want us dead. Hence, we are appealing to the United Nations, the Africa Union and members of the public to stop Chief Babalola from accomplishing these constructive programmes and projects, which are of tremendous benefits to Nigerians and Nigeria.”
