Success’ Viral Video: Delta Govt Has Become Numb To Shame – Pat Utomi

Renowned economist, Prof. Pat Utomi, says Delta State Government has become insensitive to the “yoke of bad government” that it’s serving the people.

Utomi spoke in reaction to the Ms Success Adegor resistance video which went viral few weeks ago.

He said that the video has further made it clear that “all is not well with how Delta is governed”.

According to him, Success is “that story of the little girl who bravely said no more, with a steely determination”.

In a statement titled: “The Battle Line Issues” made available to BIGPEN ONLINE on Tuesday, Utomi said that Ms. Success is the little girl with gusto and sharp wit who decided to say “enough was enough”.

Utomi said, “She had had it with the collapsed education situation in Delta state. She was ready to be flogged till she was blue rather than be scammed yet again by the Public school system in Delta State.

“A neighbor captured her moment of defiance with a phone. The power of her strength of character gave appeal to the video and it went viral.

“You would expect shame to overcome the machinery of government in Delta for being incompetent to manage the school system as exposed by Success.

“But not the Delta government. They had become numb to shame or unable to understand the implication of the face off Success had come to symbolize.

“Government officials instead, saw it as a Nollywood moment. As if it was one of those comedy skits filmed in Asaba, they began to fall over each other offering car gifts to the person who recorded Successes moment of rage.

“What Success stands for today is like what Rosa Parks stood for in Alabama in 1955. The then 42 year old African American woman refused to obey Alabama’s racist law requiring she stand up for a White person. Her resistance resulted in the Montgomery, Alabama, Bus boycotts that fired up the Civil Rights movement. America has not been the same since.

“Deltans have a moral obligation to hoist up Success as a rallying icon to ask for accountability and a reordering of priorities in Delta state. Even if the state government is too blinded to shame to realize the meaning of the Success moment. If Rosa Parks captured the imagination of the global community, even as a Woman approaching middle age, the actions of 7 year old Success should do more and propel Deltans to cast off the yoke of bad government.

“One of my favorite school mottos says that when wealth is lost, nothing is lost. When health is lost, something is lost. But when character is lost, all is lost. And I often add that Beyond character, when shame is lost, redemption is not possible. It would seem that shame has been lost in the extant governing team in Delta State”, the statement added.