Alakoso: Good day everybody, I thought I should be on my feet before rendering our town’s Anthem? Well, we need to be very careful about all the things we do here, they are open to all our subjects, hence there is that need from us to be very careful about all the messages we pass across, including our body language.
Well, that is just by the way, We have gone through so many trials together, since I ascended this throne, yet, it seems there is no respite from the barrage of bad news that We have been attracting.
If it is not outright stealing, it is movement of cowries from the treasurer’s account, in collision with other chiefs to some unidentifiable or faceless pockets, yet, We swore to serve our people to do the needful, We did not tell them that We are going to be stealing the Commonwealth.
My people, I think with the latest one from our youthful lady, who happens to be one of our chiefs, we should have had enough. This shows that covetousness is not about age, it resides in the DNA. Like I told you, this our regime will be firing from all cylinders, any chief or lieutenant, who is not ready to toe the line, will have himself or herself to blame. Enough is enough, we are here to reposition our town, enough of bad news, that has been assailing our royal household and the town in general. I just want to be different!
This is what I think should sink into everybody’s skull. However, if there is anyone here who thinks that his/her agenda in this palace is different from ours, the person is advised to excuse himself or herself before We apply the boot.
There used to be hope, ours is renewed hope. We cannot afford to disappoint our family, the town and well-wishers. That is the more reason why we must sing from same page.
Now, to the business of the day. I will call on our chief in charge of Agriculture and Food Security to present his memo, so we can deliberate on it.
Chief in charge of Agriculture:
Thank you very much Alakoso, you have spoken well. I don’t need to bore you with historical perspective on how we got to this state of “Ebi npa wa o” , but let me say this quickly , before the arrival of our soldiers on the scene, we were known as largest producer of Cocoa, Palm oil, Groundnut, Coffee, Rubber, Cotton, Coal ,hide and skin ,cashew ,and many more, across the length and breadth of our town. There were industries that depended on us for their survival. Suddenly, this glory took the back seat, hence the ‘Ebi npa wa’ chorus on the street.
After this, so many kings ruled, yet none of them was able to produce enough food for our town’s needs, not to mention having enough to take to neighbouring towns for sale. It was all this that brought us down on our knees.
Alakoso and my fellow chiefs, my memo will concentrate on schools in this town, whether owned by the town or our sons and daughters, then the Baales.
To start with, all the schools in this locality, will be given ten hectares of land each for cultivation of crops and Animal husbandry. There won’t be any excuse from any quarters, on why they can’t take the land or fail to use it for the purpose it was meant in the first place.
Going forward, no school should be registered without showing us its ability to provide ten hectares of land for farming, the days of an individual having a quarter of a plot for the establishment of school are over.
All the Baales should be ready to cultivate thirty hectares of land each. We cannot have all this arable land surrounding us yet we continue to lament about hunger.
“We cannot have all this arable land surrounding us yet we continue to lament about hunger.”
In this memo, I am proposing that those who are going to participate in this arrangement should be given low interest loan; while grouping themselves into cooperatives, they should also be given high yielding seedlings and farm implements.
Alakoso and gentlemen and ladies, what I have here, will serve as a pilot scheme. We will guide them and ensure its logical implementation by all the stakeholders.
I have no iota of doubt in my mind that we are going to succeed, the mantra is there is dignity in labour, this regime is for renewed hope, and nothing will derail us.
Thank you all.