22/08/2016
Right to reply to a post posted by one Abdul Salami elsewhere in response to my post on KIT:
I will only respond to the core parts of your posting:
1. I invited Isaiah and every member of the KIT to join me in establishing a private higher Institution in Kishi in 2014 in continuation of my dream of establishing the first University in Kishi.
He then also invited some of his friends to join us.
I have never met nor talked to you in my life until Jare Ojo, around May 2014, mentioned to you that I was working on how we can, through creation of higher institution of learning in Kishi, bring about knowledge based economic development of Kishi and OkeOgun in general. He gave you my number and you called me. I then gave you details on how we can go about it. And to fast-track this development I suggested using crowd funding. Where people can buy shares as little as N1000. You bought into the idea, and you even promised making your land in Kishi available for the project. Low and behold, you already promised that same land to KPU; hence the first hiccup!
So you invited yourself into what I was trying to do; I never invited you. I now curse that day I new you!
(For those interested in all the documents and emails that brought us to this point, you can inbox me).
Majority of the shareholders came in because I was involved. And countless number of my other friends refused to join because of your involvement. Many other friends, uncles, and brothers begged us to keep you at arm-length. Looking back now I can say that they are so right.
Some people became shareholders because you bought shares for them as a gift, whereas, our ground rules frowns at that kind of practice.
2. To date, the expenditure on this Project is close to N100,000,000 (one hundred million Naira). Of this amount, my contribution is 90%.
Naira contributions, range from N1,000 from individual share buyers from our community to the millions I have paid.
Isaiah's Naira contribution to date is N107,500 only.
The reason, that is not in doubt, is that, despite several appeals, other people have not bought much and the mantle always fell on me to buy more to keep the Project moving.
The dollar contributions or share purchases within the same period ranged from $250 by compatriots to over $100,000.00 by my humble self. Here again, of the $133,515.00, my contribution and those of my wives is over 84%.
Isaiah's dollar contribution is $915., which he personally affirmed.
In his manipulative effort to over-price himself, he belatedly tried to claim that his time in googling for items I paid him to check for on the internet should be converted to financial contributions. I actually spent more time than he did for the same exercise rechecking same items and costs.
Neither I nor Dr David Aremu ever tried to put value on our time spent on writing or Dr Aremu's organizing conference calls for KIT).
Seeing what is happening now it would have been very stupid for anybody to contribute more than what they have done so far. Many people among the core group you are berating can put in what you already put in in multiples. They have companies where the yearly turn-over is in billion of Naira.
Personally what you claim to have invested is not even up to half of what I have invested in my factory in Kishi alone.
Assuming you added maturity to what happened shortly after we left Kishi in June, things would have changed for better for KIT in terms of share purchase. Unfortunately, your behavior that everybody that ever had dealings with you, knew you for, just has to manifest itself; and it did in a big way! The manipulation of falsehood and half truth into your reality that you are ready to go to war for.
(a) You never paid me to google anything as you quoted above. Yes you can google if you have the idea of what you are looking for. I have the training and the knowledge to do what I did for KIT, and you do not. That is why you cannot equate your googling to mine.
(b) I paid my way 3 times to Kishi on KIT project without asking for a dime from anybody (that is a total of $ 4,800). You are the first to request for the conversion of your travel expenses to Kishi to shares (I have email to prove this); making me look like a fool.
(c) On two of those occasions, I spent a total of two months in Kishi doing nothing but KIT works.
(d) I see that you easily omitted the fact I did the electrical wiring, did the machine installation and trained people how to use them, guided the design and construction of the workshop, generator house, overhead tank/toilet, provided the design and guided the construction of the new multipurpose building foundation. “ I am sure you can do, and you have done all these too”. Apart from the original idea on how we can go about setting up our knowledge base economy that started the whole of these processes.
Take the money you have invested so far and try to do what we have done so far without involving any one of us that you are crucifying today, and see how far you can go. The fact is that you had the land and have a lot of money as you claimed, why did you not do anything until we got involved?
3. This is a guy who depended on our contributions to pay his way to Nigeria by manipulating our finances, wasted precious time and money in constructing the over-priced :
(A) KIT main gate at over N7,000,000.00
(B) Factory/workshop, with a weak and already cracked foundation and a profusely leaking roof at over N12,000,000.00 which is now being pulled down due to the poor workmanship.
(C) Because of the poor quality of some of the machines Isaiah purchased and his poor understanding of operations of same for which he claims "intellectual property", we had to close the production in the factory.
Please find below the red bricks production which Isaiah spent many man hours but which turned out unusable and the cracked stone crasher that has not produced a ton of granite to date.
As I said above you have the habit of manipulating falsehood and half truth into your reality.
I told you how much money I spent on my travel to Kishi for KIT project; so far, $ 4,800. If you convert it to Naira today it is N 1,920,000. How can I possibly manipulate all the funds you listed to get that money and still achieve what we achieved? Despite the fact that most of what we bought we both saw the price before buying them, and we both agree to buy them. Especially everything we bought outside Nigeria, we have a quotation first, that many among us have seen. The stuff we bought in Nigeria, many a time people are delegated to buy them with many people in the know of how much they cost. Frankly, this is where I find you to be a very dangerous person; you know everything a priori, yet you choose to lie about it!
(A) No fund passed through my hand for the construction of KIT main gate. You send all the money directly to Hakeem and Mr Adeyemo for the project. And you also went to Kishi to spend weeks with them. My only fault is that I kept the record of the money that was spent on the project and nothing else. This project was executed between January 2015 and June 2015; whereas I was in Kishi in October 2014, November 2015, and May 2016. So you, Hakeem and Mr Adeyemo are responsible for the N 7,000,000 expanded on the main gate not me.
(B) Here again is your embellished lies to suit your narrative. The total fund I received for this project is N 9,450,000. The full expense report was published and sent to every member (please find it attached for your perusal).
- The total money spent to build the whole workshop, generator house, overhead tank/toilet, do electrical wiring, pay salaries, paid for factory operations, and machine installations, other accessories is N 8,368,000.
- Borehole, pump, and piping N 680,000
- 30 KVA generator N 255,000
- Hammer mill N 50,000
- Diesel engine to drive the hammer mill N 125,000
If you add all these up they come to N 9,478,000 (see the expense report; some of the major items went through quotes before we settled down on the cheapest quote)
As far as I know, Engr Femi Alao is one of the most successful civil engineer from Kishi with his own private firm. He executed hundreds of more complex and bigger structures than our workshop. He has seen the design of the workshop and approved it, he has been to the site during the construction, and has been in the workshop after the construction, and did not see anything wrong with the building. The only one cosmetic crack you are able to show with your picture to indicate weak foundation was not even at the pole position. The pole foundations hold the whole structure together; and none of the pole foundations has a crack, so what could be responsible for the weak foundation? Now, the workshop currently has an open structure, and we plan to build the wall around it as time goes on. So the open structure, is the one putting strain on the roof, those of us familiar with wind dynamics will attest to that. As a matter of fact before I left I initiated the construction of 3 labs in the north end of the workshop. If that side was built all the way to the roof, it will provide a break in the wind dynamic.
So this structure is being pulled down for reasons that are not well thought out and we are throwing about N 6,000,000 down the drain.
(C) Really! I will forgive you, because I am certain you do not know what you are talking about. The total amount we spent on the machines in the workshop minus the mini-dozer, and the tipper is about $25,000. For all the machines we bought we can only afford entry-level manual or semi-automated machines with low to medium productivity.
- I do not know of the cracked stone crusher you are talking about. The picture you showed is that of the machine when it was not even installed. I installed a fully functional machine. I operated it and trained Niyi and Rafael before I left. The amount of gravel produced in my presence is more than one ton. The video of the machine you have on your KIT created page shows the machine under operation with more than 20 tons of processed granite. Yet you find it convenient to lie again that the machine has not produced one ton! Now, after you chased the boys that are trained to operate the machine away, if the untrained people damaged it that is a different thing entirely. But because you find falsehood convenient, we will never know.
- On the red brick, the laterite we are using has too much stone and less clay. I complained about it; we chased people around to lead us to location we can get laterite with no stone; as far as I can recall that has not happened up till now. We need the right ratio of sand-clay-cement to get a stable brick. Now having said that, we used the brick that were available knowing fully well that they do not have the right quality, to train the bricklayers on how to use these bricks to build a house. That way when I am not around and they are able to get a good quality laterite, and the brick quality improves they can build on the training they received.
Posterity they say, will judge each and every one of us!
Dr. Isaiah Oladeji
A poor fellow!
