Sir, I was deeply distressed to read your press release wherein you have mentioned the lack of funds to purchase food grains, and the shortage of storage space to stock the grain allocated to the State of Nagaland by the Food Corporation of India. Furthermore, I was deeply embarrassed to discover that the Non-Naga Stockists, in the goodness of their hearts, were helping our Nagaland Food and Civil Supplies Department in purchasing and stocking the food grains. I, therefore, also in the goodness of my heart, and with the welfare of the Nagas in mind, have come to the following decisions:-
1. I am not a rich man, by any account, but I know people who are wealthy enough to assist me, so make me a Stockist and I solemnly undertake to purchase all the food grains allocated to the Government of Nagaland by the Food Corporation of India, if and when the Nagaland F&C.S. Department faces a financial shortage.
2. I have a house and godown on Army Supply Road, at the junction with Gurmukh Singh Road. I hereby undertake to loan it, rent free, to stock food grains for the Nagaland F&C.S. Department; provided I am given the same facility of repackaging the food grains to avoid losses due to tearing of the gunny bags. You will find it is much closer to the F.C.I. Godown and, being centrally located and on the main road, more convenient than the godowns your present stockists are using. Furthermore, I undertake to find all the storage space you need, in and around Dimapur, on the same terms.
3. I also undertake to find, within 90(ninety) days, adequate storage space, rent free, for the F.C.I supplied food grains in all the districts which lack a centrally managed F.C.I. godown, with the same proviso, that the owners of the godowns are allowed to repackage the food grains.
Sir, I give you my solemn word; as a gentleman and as an honest person; that I will do all three of the above mentioned, if you have the honour to take me up on my challenge. I would also like to remind you that being a Secretary to the Government of Nagaland does not make you wise or intelligent; it only provides you with a bigger screen to project your idiocy on; and a larger audience to laugh at it. As Abraham Lincoln once said, “You can fool some of the people all the time; all the people some of the time; but you cannot fool all the people all of the time.”
GOD SAVE MY NAGALAND
Kahuto Chishi Sumi G.B. Hevishe Village, Dimapur
