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| Sen. Dino Melaye |
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Democratic evangelist and Senator of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, Senator Dino Melaye, may have had one of the finest birthday parties
in recent times, but the Otunba of Bunu Kingdom as he is also known, has long
gone back to work.
In a few weeks time, we hear that Sen Dino Melaye who is also the
Founder and Executive Secretary of Anti-Corruption Network, will be presenting
his autobiography, a book that will in many ways, stir the heart of
controversy, and challenge the root of corruption in our country, through a
searchlight on his life as a human rights crusader and anti corruption fighter.
The book titled: Antidotes For
Corruption: The Nigeria Story, starts as an autobiography of Dino Melaye.
Where he talks about his humble beginnings, right to the present position he
occupies as a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s 8th Assembly, vis a
vis the country’s most challenging problem called Corruption.
A touchy emotional story that gives detailed interesting accounts of
how Dino was born as a miraculous child with ease and success, as told
initially by his beloved mother.
Then other members of his immediate family, as well as old teachers
and friends, go on to narrate the circumstances that surrounded his desire to
fight corruption after being inspired by two Nigerian late musicians of blessed
memory - Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Sunny Okosun: And how their revolutionary and
enlightenment songs about the causes, types, effects and remedies of corruption
influenced him from childhood.
Dino Melaye tells more in this new book.
He even tells us why he saw the need to create a positive change.
How he created a campaign, an anti-corruption slogan Imolede - meaning 'light has come' with a corresponding response
such as okunkun parada! Which means -
'darkness disappears'.
And more importantly, how this slogan and its response slogan both
became popular and virile and resulted in an electoral revolutionary chant that
was able to overcome the powers and obstacles of godfathers in his election
area and allow him to win the primaries of the party where he anchored his
ambition.
The toast of the book we also hear, is in the part that Dino takes
on the issue of corruption in the book and dissects it. This is the part that
most Nigerian leaders will read sitting on the edge of their chairs! That is
because, Dino takes the issue head-on with great bravado!
He also suggests ways whereby the cankerworm known as corruption,
can be reduced and even wiped out completely from our lifestyles. A part of the
book which will also appeal more to the general public in order to grasp the
author’s prescriptions of how to squarely deal with the social ill, for the
benefit of a collective general development.
Already there are signs that the book will be an instant success, as
commentaries from a few of his political colleagues and business associates who
were privileged to see the manuscript, speak well of the detailed research,
that Dino meticulously put into the production.
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