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Remembering Diepreye Alamieyeseigha
Godfrey Pondei
venerated, adulated, very highly esteemed, and loved. ‘Inye’, he was idolised, bequeathed fond memories that are hitherto unconditionally and eternally engraved in the fleshly tablets of people’s hearts, nearly a decade after he passed to the great beyond.
Yes, despite the fate occasioned by vicissitudes of fortunes, the man, whose message to our generation was encapsulated in a mandate called Chief Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha, dually and affectionately addressed as DSP and the Governor-General of the Ijaw Nation, Nigeria’s fourth most populous ethnic nationality.
Being the pioneer elected governor of Bayelsa State in 1999, he did throw up the inevitability of indicating direction virtually on all fortes, and by default, assuming the place of a model, inadvertently birthed future leaders that have served the state and Nigeria in different capacities.
DSP squared up to the status of a ‘progenitorial’ leader. This way, the retired soldier became synonymous with the direction and focus that successive administrations should toe, engendering statecraft to benefit the most number of persons, a precursor for many that have come thereafter.
With multi-faceted legacies in infrastructure and intangib
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GOOD BYE MY BROTHER
To save your world you asked this man to die: would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
Wystan Hugh Auden (1907- 73)
Today 10/10/15 our Iroko fell. A fearless man. The Adukali 1 of Epie and Atissa people. Mark Twain had Alamieyeseigha in mind when he said “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Alamieyeseigha was a man of many parts. From 2005 Alamieyeseigha’s health has been a subject of discussion for us his friends and family. But Alamieyeseigha being a strong man had fought his Health issues gallantly. Yesterday his health suddenly became difficult to manage and today he was rushed to the hospital and he died.
I have lost a brother and a loving friend. Chief DSP Alamieyeseigha was many things to many people. What ever we think we know of him, what ever we want to say of him, let us remember that he is dead and dead person do not speak. Lynn Caine was speaking to us when she said “Since every death diminishes us a little , we grieve – not so much for the death as for ourselves. Alamieyeseigha and his family has suffered enough. Let the dead be.
To me Alamieyeseigha was the senior brother I never had. He was good to me and my family. He showed me love and respect. I will always r