The Director, Corporate Communications and Corporate social responsibility, Airtel Nigeria, Emeka Oparah, has argued that the ‘Change Begins With Me campaign,’ is a replica of a scheme conceived by CEO of Bufferzone Limited, Akin Fadeyi.
Oparah, a staunch Buhari supporter and avid Facebook user, took to the social media to slam the Information Minister.
The ‘Change Begins With Me campaign’ Oparah said, “resonated with me instantly, and I believe it was the same with several of those to whom Fadeyi gave a privileged preview before he then went to town with it.”
Given the anti-corruption crusade of the Buhari administration, the telecoms chief said “I recall asking him (Fadeyi) whether the Minister of Information and Culture and his National Orientations Agency have seen the campaign to which he answered in the affirmative.”
Expressing disappointment at the turn of events, Oparah said, he was flabbergasted when, “I read in the media that the Federal Ministry of Information through the NOA would today launch a campaign tagged Change Begins with Me.
“I cannot for the life of me understand why the Federal Government would launch what, to me, is a Xerox copy of Mr. Fadeyi’s Not in My Country.
“Why the duplication? Why the replication? Why not a collaboration?”
Proffering a solution, he said; “I don’t think it’s too late for Alhaji Lai Mohammed to call Akin in for a conversation on how to blend the ideas in the interest of the Change Agenda, the anti-corruption campaign and the future of Nigeria.
“It will ridicule the philosophy of the change agenda, if Not in My Country is ignored, side-stepped or even copied by a government that seeks to do things differently.”
Speaking while launching the Change Begins With Me campaign, Buhari said Nigeria’s value system has been badly eroded over the years, and that virtues like honesty, integrity, hard-work, punctuality, good-neighborliness, abhorrence of corruption and patriotism, had given way to dishonesty, indolence, unbridled corruption and widespread impunity.
The campaign, Buhari said, was a framework to help sustain the achievements, his administration has recorded so far in its fight against corruption.
President Buhari, still remains convinced the campaign was conceived by the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, to raise the standard of ethics among Nigerians.
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