Yes, Wachuku

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Jaja Anucha Wachuku (born January 1, 1918 in Nbawsi , † November 7, 1996 in Enugu , Enugu state ) was a Nigerian politician .

Life

Wachuku, son of the chief of the Ngwa Josaiah Ndubuisi Wachuku , began his political career when he was first elected to the assembly of the Eastern Region in 1951 and then in 1952 a member of the Federal House of Representatives. In 1959 he was for some time chairman of the United Nations arbitration committee on the future of the Belgian colony of the Congo and the French colony of Central Congo .

After Nigeria was released into sovereignty by the United Kingdom on October 1, 1960 , he took over the office of Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives and thus Speaker of Parliament .

Shortly thereafter, however, Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa appointed him to the cabinet as Minister of Economic Development. After he was then briefly Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations in New York City in 1961, he became Secretary of State and Minister for Relations with the Commonwealth of Nations in 1961 and held these offices until 1965. After the overthrow and assassination of Sylvanus Olympio , the first President of the Republic Togos , which resulted in a state of emergency in Togo on January 13, 1963 and triggered intensive diplomatic reactions from neighboring countries, which was intended to prevent a military escalation and annexation of Togo, Wachuku was in his function as Nigeria's foreign minister for a detailed investigation of the circumstances of death and has already oracle, the act was organized and financed from abroad. That is why he convened the Conference of Monrovia States eleven days after the attack. The representatives of the putschists (Togolese revolutionary government) and the supporters of the murdered president were also invited to the three-day deliberations. After another cabinet reshuffle, he was last Minister of Aviation in the Balewa government from 1965 to 1966.

Between October 1979 and October 1983 he was a member of the Senate, where he represented Aba's interests .

Until shortly before his death he was passionate about the politics of Nigeria and stated in an interview in May 1996 with the news and press agency News Agency of Nigeria that "hypocrisy, opportunism and cowardice" ('hypocrisy, opportunism, and cowardice') ) are the "three diseases" that plague Nigeria. He himself advocated the free market economy as the basis for the country's politics.

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