THE WAY FORWARD

 We wish to inform you that we are left with very little fuel in the tank when we are supposed to be firing on all cylinders.  This week alone the following activities were undertaken:

 1)         Revisiting your Question No. 4 in the last Interview (With Chief G.C. Nwabueze) ”..can best be described as a  disaster..”  We are revisiting the CAUSE of the disaster;

 2)         S.O.S. to Governor Ngige on the ugly environmental degradation in

              Ogbaru.  “.Declare Ogbaru a Disaster Area..”

3)         Logistics for Ogbaru World Congress due December 2003 at play;

 4)         Petition to Gov. Ngige on mass sack of 60 (sixty) teachers of Ogbaru origin;

 5)         Planning visit to the Governor Peter Odili of the Rivers State of Nigeria;

 6)         ODA Secretary General's CALL TO ARMS AND EXHORTATION Revisited for

              your    benefit;

 7)         General Communications

 Details on some of the foregoing would be mailed/faxed to you as soon as we have some fuel.  It has not been easy for the few labourers in the vineyard.  Present Dilemma:- Apart from the little fuel and no spare tyre, we are left with smashing a deflated front tyre to cross the many bridges ahead.  It is a very difficult, if not an impossible task.

 We have come this far largely because of the magnanimity of very few individual Ogbaruans.  May God give them longevity and multiply their bounty. If O.D.A. can touch the waves with the 'widow's mite' from individuals, she can rule the waves with much from many.  O.D.A. has an ocean, but i.e. being made to wash her hands with spittle.  The shame of it!

 It is our duty at O.D.A. to at all times to find the chord in human affairs that strikes at the heartbeat of Ogbaru.  The tempo of events that concern Ogbaru in these parts has gone three octaves higher.  O.D.A., indeed Ogbaru, must ride with it. Please send us a 'life line' in the interim, if you have not any decision yet on how to fully empower O.D.A.

 What you do today for O.D.A. for a better and greater Ogbaru, whether as an individual or as a group, will be chronicled for posterity.  Let Ogbaru engrave in gold your footprints on the needs of the Ogbaru Development Association, for the well being of our Motherland.

 Fraternal greetings

 Yours in the Service of Ourmotherland, Ogbaru

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Chief G.C. Nwabueze                                               Chief Obibulu G.N. Esimai

       Presdent                                                             General Secretary
 1 October 2003                                                       Tel (234) + 0803-397-3399