Self-taught Nigerian
scientist on top of the world
By Jossy Idam (Jidam14@yahoo.com)
Saturday, July 28, 2007
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Damian with his security inventions
•Photo: Sun News Publishing
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U.S-based Nigerian scientist is on the threshold of a major
breakthrough in medical science equipment . The scientist,
Damian Anyanwu says the equipment, Human Memory Decoder will
be capable of testing human organs and identify dying ones
before they pack up.
The Imo state-born scientist exclusively told Saturday Sun
he is tinkering with the equipment so it can determine the
exact year an ailing human organ will fail. " I am working
on it. I will launch a model of it soon ," he reassured.
With many inventions to his name and research center, Damian
Anyanwu Incorporated, New Jersey, U.S.A, Damian says he wants
to use his invention to help his fatherland , Africa and the
world. " Take the Human Memory Decoder, for instance,
once it dictates a sick organ , treatment can be commenced
before crisis sets in and before the organ begins to falter,"
he intimated.
Security inventions
The 50-year-old inventor has just come into the country to
see his family, friends and reach out to the federal government.
He told Saturday Sun that the death of the former Attorney
of the Federation and Minister of Justice, chief Bola Ige,
the spate of senseless assassinations, kidnappings and armed
banditry have compelled him to invent security gadgets to
curb them.
Evil fighter
In his kitty are two security gadgets, Small Giant and Crime
Invader. The name Small Giant, is actually a euphemism for
a small, concealable gadget designed to capture and record
clear photographic images in a room, office and premises.
Said he:
"I design it to capture all motion images wherever it
is installed- bank or livingroom. It’s such that you
will not notice that you are being digitally recorded because
it shows no light. There is nothing that will make you suspect
it’s a security gadget."
One of his unique inventions, Crime Invader will also help
the nation in dealing with its security problems. This particular
gadget is encased in a small plastic cylinder and can remotely
record images in day and night. Like the Small Giant, Crime
Invader only require conventional batteries to function. Images
remotely videoed by them can be monitored and replayed. When
correctly installed with required masts and fittings, Damian
says that Crime Invader can monitor 30 miles radius where
it is installed.
Demonstration
Being a practical man,the scientist unzipped his suitcase,
brought out the gadgets and publicily demonstrated how they
work in the hotel he stayed at Isolo,Lagos. Our reporter and
a small crowd that gathered marvelled at his invention with
wonder.
Red light
Damian says his security inventions constitute a red light
danger warning for armed bandits, oil installation vandals,
kidnappers and killers in the country. " When these gadgets
are installed in offices, homes, majot street and public places,
the men of the underworld would be nabbed within a twinkle
of an aye. They can’t hide anymore," he said.
To forestall coups and kidnapping of governors and top government
functionaries, the scientists has offered to install the gadgets
in Aso Rock, the nation’s seat of power, and government
houses across the country.
Reaching out
Though he has not made any formal presentation to the federal
government, Damian has a package which he believes would solve
the nation’s rising crime wave and dismal economic woes.
He traced the high incidence of crime in the country to unemployment.
Home grown solution
He told Saturday Sun that his Ethanol Technology when unveiled
would create 100,000 jobs every year. "I’ll retrain
the so-called criminals to earn decent living , build their
own houses, own cars, sleep at home at night and not become
lions at night and risk being killed," he said.
To achieve this, he wants the government to give him a base
with a reasonable support. He would like to be given some
youth corpers to retrain and re- tool for a year. Their discipline
not withstanding, Damian boldly says he would turn them into
manufactures and employers of labour within a year. "
They will then employ others and possibly train others,"
he said. Before long, Nigeria would be industrialized,"
he said with conviction.
National honour
This distinguished citizen of America left the shores of this
country in 1989 after series of disappoinment with the establishment.
In his teens, he built the first private radio station in
the country and called it Radio Mbaise. He constructed it
in his bed-sitter in his village at Amaku, Abo- Mbaise, Imo
State, with herbs stuffed in empty cans, wire strings and
other odd bits. He stunned the nation with his transmission
in 1979.
The then president of the country conferred him with a Member
of the Order of the Niger(MON) when he was only 21. And he
is probably the youngest Nigerian to be so honoured.
He dropped out of school in class four to pursue his dreams.
He later stinted with the University of Nigeria Nsukka as
a research officer, Ministry of Science and Technology, Imo
state, Ikeli Institute of Tehnology and as private manufacturer.
World Class African
His remarkable invention made has made Dr. Philip Emeragwali,
another distinguished Nigerian scientist based in the US to
classify him as the third most outstanding 100 African. Damian
has twice dined and wined with the American president, George
W Bush in the White House. |
