A MUST READ! 10 things some police officers don’t want you to KNOW.

10 things some police officers don’t want you to know -

1. Bail is free

2. Upon arrest, you are liable to remain silent; Section 6 of the ACJA Act 2015; Section 35(2) 1999 Constitution

3. When being  questioned, you must have your lawyer present. Section 6(2)(a) Administration of Criminal Justice Act (2015)

4. No one should be subject to torture or unlawful treatment. Section 8, Administration of Criminal Justice Act (2015); Section 34, 1999 Constitution.

5. Upon arrest, suspect must be charged to court immediately. Section 32 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (2015)

6. Police officer making an arrest must state reason. Section 6, Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015.

7. Suspect is innocent until proven guilty. Section 36(5) of the 1999 Constitution.

8. No one can be arrested in lieu of another person

9. Police cannot unlawfully search your phones

10. Anyone unlawfully arrested is entitled to compensation. Section 35(6) 1999 Constitution.

If your rights have been breached in relation to any of the laws mentioned above, you can make a formal complaint to the Police Complaint Commission via
@PoliceNG_PCRRU
npf.gov.ng/complaint
or contact your lawyer.

A MUST READ! Breaking: IGP Bows to #EndSARS Campaign

Breaking: IGP Bows #endsars, Orders Immediate Re-organization Of SARS


The Inspector General of Police, Idris Kpotun Ibrahim, has ordered the immediate re-organization of special anti-robbery squad (sars) across the country this was as a result of the #EndSARS campaign launched on Twitter by some Nigerians The campaign had exposed some of the atrocities committed by the Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad The IGP in a statement on Monday said “the Nigeria Police Force has observed the recent trends of event in the Social Media on the #ENDSARSNOW and the controversy being generated by the innuendos from the allegations and other misconceptions as it concerns the Operational roles and activities of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a detachment of the Nigeria Police Force.

‘Undoubtedly, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) have been doing very well in fighting violent crimes such as Armed Robbery, Kidnappings and Cattle Rustling in the country in the recent time and this has resulted in drastic reduction of incidents of the mentioned violent crimes nationwide.

‘However, the Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris NPM, mni concerned with public interest and the need to reposition the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) for more efficiency and effective service delivery to all Nigerians and ensure that the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) operates based on International Core Value of Policing with integrity and make sure the rule of law prevails in the operations and activities of the outfit, the IGP has directed the immediate re-organization of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) nationwide and instant investigation into all the allegations, complaints and infractions levelled against the personnel of the Special Anti Robbery Squad across the country by the IGP X-Squad of the Force.

‘In the new arrangement, a Commissioner of Police is now the overall head of the Federal Anti-Robbery Squad nationwide under the Department of Operations, Force Headquarters Abuja.

‘The Police Zonal Commands, State Commands and Divisions will continue to operate anti-crime units/sections, crime prevention and control squads and teams imperative to prevent and detect crimes and criminalities in their Area of Responsibilities, and other crack squads necessary to sustain law and order and protection of life and properties in their Area of responsibilities (AOR).
‘Federal Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) will now exist and operate in the State and Zonal Commands under the Commissioner of Police (F-SARS) at the Force Headquarters.
A Federal SARS Commander of a Rank of Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) and not below Superintendent of Police (SP) will be in charge of FSARS in State and Zonal Commands across the Country.
All Commissioners of Police have been directed by the Inspector General of Police to comply with this directive with immediate effect and warn their personnel not to pose as SARS operatives.

The IGP X-Squad has been mandated to go round the Commands and Police Formations nationwide to ensure strict compliance and apprehend any erring police officer.
‘Furthermore, a new training program to be organized by the Force in collaboration with some Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), Local and International NGOs, and other Human Rights Organizations on core Police Duties, Observant of Human Rights and Handling, Care and Custody of Suspects have been directed by the Inspector General of Police for all Federal SARS personnel nationwide with immediate effect.
‘However, aggrieved members of the public who have any complaint in the past or present of violation of their rights by any Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) personnel anywhere in the country are to report through any of the following channels for investigation and further actions.

i. IGP X-SQUAD
0902 690 0729 – CALLS
0903 227 8905 – SMS
0903 562 1377 – whatsapp
Email: integrityxsquad@gmail.com

ii. FORCE PUBLIC COMPLAINT BUREAU
07056792065 Calls/SMS/whatsapp
08088450152 Calls/SMS/whatsapp
Email: bailisfree@gmail.com,
pressforabuja@gmail.com
Twitter: @PoliceNG
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ngpolice

iii. PUBLIC COMPLAINT RAPID RESPONSE UNIT (PCRRU)
08057000001 – Calls Only
08057000002 – Calls Only
08057000003 – SMS & whatsapp only
Twitter: @PoliceNG_PCRRU
Facebook: www.facebook.com/PolicePCRRU

A MUST READ! OHO speaks on the Health sector of Anambra State.

Oseloka Henry Obaze speaks on the Health sector of Anambra State.
Such a rare breed...

"I Oseloka Henry Obaze in the company of my wife,  my Deputy; Chidi Onyemelukwe and her husband,  Mr Peter Obi (The former Governor of Anambra State) and a whole lot of other people was at the commissioning of the 'St. Felix Catholic Specialist Hospital Nnewi' on Tuesday.
I was touched by the various degrees of health challenges people face and had to offset some hospital bills. In my sixty-two years of life, I've been blessed with good health and have never been admitted or spent a single day in any hospital, anywhere in the world. We must upgrade our healthcare delivery system.

 Nobody prays for sickness, nobody prays for accident, what we should be praying for is that in times of emergency when one is injured, is that we have good hospitals, good doctors, quality drugs, drinkable water and electricity”, he began.

The first thing we will do as a government in emergency response is that when we receive a patient, we commence treatment immediately, life comes first before anything else.

For my government, we will introduce what is called "'Charity Care' for the indigent".
The government, community, traders and independent groups can contribute funds to the Charity Care. If any patient comes in here and is unable to pay, the hospital manager can discount the bill and send the remainder to the Charity Care administrator to offset the bill from that public pool. The Charity Care can cover the whole health bill or a percentage of it depending on the evaluation of the patient by the hospital manager.

Our government will ensure every hospital whether government, private or mission-owned must have a Charity Care administrator and this will also help create jobs for unemployed Ndi Anambra.

If we are able to save lives from our Charity Care programme, beneficiaries will begin to contribute funds to the programme knowing that in their time of need, the Charity Care came to their rescue".

Mr Chiagozie wrote from Nnewi.

A MUST READ: Biafra To Stay or To Go My Take

Biafra, If You Ask Me by Mazi Odera
May 31, 2017

I am about to thread where even the Angels don’t want to play, a topic and issue considered sacred and can invoke unbridled out pour of venom and never encomium on me, but like my old man will say “agaghi eji mgbagbu ghara ogu” (We can’t abstain from war to avoid Death).

Many of our people want Biafra where we can go back and live on our own, but I beg to differ but before you start spitting in all directions just hear me out after all okwu adiro ano na afo ,ajo njo (Words cannot be bad in incubation).

It started like a Joke when people from other Tribes accepted the superiority of the Caucasians who came in with aims of exploiting Africans to the fullest, they came with Religion which they assured us is the way, and that it is filled with LOVE, but when our Forebears refused to swallow everything HOOK, LINE AND SINKER the missionaries who came in as Saints with Bible on the surface brought Soldiers armed with Guns and slaughter us to submission, those that survived, many were carted into Slavery with shackles and fetters of Iron clanged on them for Months while they were stored in Ships without medical of any sought and if life ran out of you, they will dedicate you to aquatic world.

Destination slave market were they sale God’s Creation and they expect you to forget and shout Hallelujah.

They certainly preach to us how loving their own version was, but shown us that the right of our living or dead lies with them, they enforced it to the later.

They taught us how to speak their own language, how to worship their own God and how to see them as Superior while we are the scum of the earth, which affected our psych today.

In Africa white is pure, while black stands for evil, but I digress.

They succeeded in the Western part of this nation, same way USMAN DAN FODIO succeeded in the North with Savage brutality, but only the people or the East showed some semblance of resistance and for that the brutal BRITISH marked us for extinction despite the fact that we embraced their religion more.

Fast Forward to pre Independent, the ZIK of Africa with the same education they gave us bested them, while other leaders from other tribes lay in askance, just because of our Republican nature the British swore to cut our tail and that has been the problem will today.

The Hausas plotted to leave Nigeria in 1967 Coup (ARABA) when they hoisted an AREWA FLAG at Ikeja Canton mentioned, crafted an Arewa Constitution, the Counter Coup was a plot to announce secession but the British High Commission advised them with the phrase that THEY ARE LANDLOCKED.

They gave the Hausa Premier and emasculated the seat of the President and made it Ceremonial just to make Sure that Nnamdi Azikiwe paid for his effrontery of asking for Independent nation, which they conceded because they’ve not discovered the Oil deposit.

The Genocide of 1967 was extreme, a calculated plot and ploy to wipe us away from the surface of the Earth, the British supplied armament and enough Logistic support to annihilate us even though we accepted their version of religion and they called us Brother (Lip service).

They mauled down our Children, rape our women, gave us Kwashiorkor but I digress.

We had no friends that offered us Logistic, Arms or even water to drink, we became a social reject, but I later understood why the aggression became Total.

A Russian General said "Give me 2,000 Biafran Soldiers and I will take the world", we were under fed but once the Tanks rolled in from UBULUAFOR NSUKKA into our hinterland, we stand up and defend our land with Sticks and Faith, what we had in the entire South East before the Hostile invasion was 264 Rifles, that gave the impression which the Government used and announced that it was Police action they are bringing, that they will take SOUTH EAST under 48 hours, but it took 3 Solid years for us to stand down and that 3 years was a captive nightmare to the Western world, especially when under great and intense hatred and aggression sponsored by the British, we started FABRICATING OUR OWN GUNS, making Bullets, converting PICK UP TRUCKS into ARMOURED TANKS, we started refining CRUDE OIL and extracting all the extractable in a Mobile makeshift refineries.

We built the first MOBILE RADIO STATION,FIRST RUNWAY that was built on IMPOSSIBLE SOIL and it was invisible to the British Pilots flying our National Bombers.

We trained Pilots who land our Planes at night with just Mpakana (Naked oil Lamp) and also they take off with same near Zero Visibility.

50 years after the Feat of Biafrans achieved under designed and orchestrated hostility, the Nation that WON the War are yet to have a Functional Refinery and yet they don’t have the uncommon sense to beckon unto those who achieved the feat easily under abnormal condition to come and rescue the nation.

50 years after we built our Tanks, Guns and Bullets, the Central Army can only boast of ability to FROG JUMP any young man wearing Green Uniform and or shoot the same youth of the people who manufactured armament under intense hostility and that is the feat we have as a nation .

To show that what we did was not spur of the moment ,our own PHILIP EMEGWALI created the first ever SUPER COMPUTER,… During the hostility we manufactured WMD (Weapon of Mass Demolition) called Ogbunigwe but owing to the love abound in our heart we refused to maximize it by deploying it to towns were it may create a near NAGASAKI .

Then when we made the first WORLD INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSLE called FLYING Obunike, it would’ve made HIROSHIMA a child’s play .

The world resolved that they will not allow this Sleeping BLACK NATION TO RISE, because under a conducive setting we will lead the world, a risk the West cannot take, they wanted slaves and slaves they want us to remain.

50 Years after the drown and dawn of Biafra, even in neighboring nations the money printed in 1967 is still acceptable and stronger that Dollars and Euro …see the Biafran Dollars and see what quality is all about, it still stand crisp and without tears, compare it to even the most current Naira and do the maths.

Ask me do I want BIAFRA TO GO NOW ?

My answer is aggressive NO… WHY?

We begged to be allowed to go in 1967-1970 and they swore that it can never happen, then Awolowo saw it fit to coin a phrase and I quote

“STARVATION IS PART OF WAR, WE WILL STARVE THEIR CHILDREN TO DEATH”, then he took all our money and gave us 20 pounds for every account.

He was expecting that after the genocide that we will become thieves and Robbers and he sponsored a deadly bill that ARMED ROBBERY will face Firing squad with Biafrans tied to the stake, riddled with bullets in his mind as the final solution to eradication of Ndi Biafra.

Thank God that his ways and thinking are not of God, the first 3 set killed for Robbery are all Yoruba men starting with OYENUSI .

All the companies he gave to YOROBAS because he chased away the Idiotic foreign owners with a reason that there is War,even though the War did not touch any western or Northern state but all the Bullets were rained on our soil including Churches, markets, schools .

He gave those companies to his Yoruba brothers who simply liquidated the companies and use the money to send families, Girl friends and friends to London and as we speak they are yet to inapu okuko mkpuru akwu .

We went into world again with 20 pounds and with that we are controlling the PROPERTY prices any where in Nigeria, if we favor a SWAMP in Lagos, we turn it to VGC, if we favor the ones in Abuja we make the value to sky rocket,,, check all the magnificent houses any where in Nigeria and see that with 20 Pounds we are controlling at least 70% .

In Civil service, they placed us at back burners and we still thrive and fairing better because for any officer to excel that person must have an IGBO SUBORDINATE who is the brain behind success .

Somebody said to me, why can’t we go back home and replicate what we are doing in other States?
My answer is, we are not done with other states.. the agenda is. ..
1) We will show the rest the reason why we must be respected because we let them to taste wealth,we let them to feel fine houses, we let them to sale ancestral grave and land in exchange for money made from 20 pounds and we let them to salivate after the sweet things of life .

How about after building all this and another War comes and they turn it to abandon properties ?

Answer …we are used to it, they did it in PH and we bounced back stronger and better, but those people who wants to inherit the properties will kill half of the generation fighting who will posses it and eventually when they are done ,the properties won’t have values again because it is only us can buy such at a market value, after all we are the market setters and sellers.

So possessing the property is a curse with Catapult and nobody that inherits it enjoys it, because to maintain it is another disaster and your own brother and friend is planning to kill you and take it over.

Read my lips, if Ndigbo leaves any business environment or residential place in droves, the prices of property will become ZERO .

I know many of you will hate me for this arrogant presentation but what you must known is, TRUTH IS MY Standard, ACCEPT IT WITH GOOD FAITH OR I SHOVE IT DOWN YOUR THROAT, THE CHOICE IS YOURS ..Mazi Odera.

Moving on, we fought back from 1967 to 1970 to stay alive, now we are fighting to keep the nation alive, so we can posses the best of the nation which is ordinance of God and not of man .

No matter how treacherous the government is, we can never eat grass .
No matter the price of Rice in the market, agana agba azi ..

If we can do very well in LONDON, AMERICA, EUROPE the same people who sat in concert and decide that the peaceful mileage achived in ABURI GHANA when both Gowon and Ojukwu went to find a solution to peaceful coexistence, but the West ill advised the North then and by so doing we created a broken TRIPOD .

If we can do great in their own land ,we can do better in our nation .

We can only leave if they do what Pharaoh did by asking on a bended knee for us to go and then we shall do what the Israelites did by collecting all the Golds, Diamond, Precious Stones and most valuables in the land.

Meanwhile we saw a vibrant, educated and persistent Raph Uwazulike when he reawakened the spirit of Biafra, we followed with high hope until he went to Prison and many VISITS followed, when he came out the song changed.. He appears to be richer than imagine from source unknown….

Nnamdi Kanu also took over the mantle then an error from the Government who arrested him made him a Hero and same caliber of Visitors and now he is out, he visit those he preached against and, now he seems to be tilting toward the forest edoro iyi, but we keep our fingers crossed and tabletting for they said, First fool is accidental but fool me the second one is my own making…

What I know is that our elders has a saying which provides  "Ochu Nwa osukosu, nwe ada, nwa okuko nwelu mwo mwo oso"  and with that I am off to bow to Obinigwe nke ato for a brand new day .

A MUST READ! Obaze’s Education Plan For Anambra State

Making Sense Of Obaze’s Education Plan For Anambra State

BY CHIMA CHRISTIAN

https://www.newdiplomatng.com/opinion/making-sense-obazes-education-plan-anambra/


The Anambra governorship election is now upon us. And as such, it is incumbent on the candidates to present their bona fides to the electorate. Interestingly, some candidates are doing this with vigour. Others seem to consistently evade the issues; busying themselves with irrelevant political talks and innuendos that have little or no bearing on the lives of the people they aspire to continue governing or govern.

One major contender has, however, remained focused on the issues. Utilizing every opportunity to espouse his views, which often times, reflect his deep thinking and character. That candidate is Mr. Oseloka H. Obaze, the PDP’s flag bearer.

Not yielding to temptations of being drawn in to the fray of name calling, mud slinging, character assassination and campaign of calumny that seems to have dominated the campaign, Obaze has insisted on discussing only the issues. Thus, living up to his professional bidding as a career diplomat and a well refined gentleman.

Obaze leaves no one in doubt as to what he intends doing in office, if given the privilege to serve Anambra State in the capacity of an Executive Governor. His towering edge over the competition is his clear understanding of what the issues are and a piece by piece plan of how to address them.

Obaze’s manifesto is clear and concise. No promises of building castles in the air, turning water into wine or making a Naira equal to a Dollar. Peharps, nothing in his plan stands out like his proposed education policy framework for Anambra. And none does he communicate more frequently and eloquently to the voting public.

Apparently because of his international exposure and experience at the United Nations where he formerly served as a top official, the core theme of Obaze’s education plan for Anambra is to adopt the UNESCO policy recommendation of 26% budgetary allocation to education. He further plans to devote 10% of the 26% allocation to private schools and schools run by missions. His reasoning being that such schools also train Anambra children.

As at today, only two states in Nigeria – Kwara and Sokoto states – have met this 26% threshold. Anambra state government currently devotes a paltry 3% of its budget to education. Thus starving the all important sector the much needed steam.

The PDP candidate sees a new Anambra where amenities in Anambra schools will be greatly improved to meet mordern standards. Beyond amenities, qualified and properly remunerated teachers, teacher training and retraining, access to computer and Internet facilities, teaching and learning aids, appropriately sized classrooms, as well as well furnished laboratories – which are all essential to 21st century learning – will be catered for by the greatly increased funding.

With 10.5 million Nigerian children currently not enrolled in school, statistics say Nigeria has the highest number of out-of-school children. Agreed, the largest chunk of this people group are not domiciled in the state Obaze aspires to serve, but he has plans to ensure that all Anambra children, regardless of parent’s income cadre, have access to quality education.

The public policy expert agrees with Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which makes a case for basic education for all. The declaration has it that “Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages.” Obaze proposes to give all Anambra school children from Nursery School to JSS 3 free but quality education.

Unlike conventional politicians who mouth campaign rhetorics and promises they have little or no grasp of, Obaze has worked out the number of school children in this target group and knows the exact amount of money the state government needs to invest to achieve that purpose. He also factored into his plans how to secure the grants and finances needed to kickstart and sustain the policy initiative.

In addition to ensuring free basic education, Obaze plans to run an inclusive education system. To him, the state has a responsibility to ensure that people living with disabilities enjoy all privileges, human rights and fundamental freedoms on an equal basis with others. While it is true that no government originally sets out to marginalize people living with disabilities, the inability of policy formulators to deliberately make plans for such people group technically sidelines them in the scheme of things.

On the flip side, Obaze has said his administration will pay extra attention to school children with special needs. Offering specifics in a particular gathering, Obaze gave illustrations with how government-backed subsidy of sun screens and reading lenses to students living with albinism can ensure a more inclusive education system.

Obaze proposes, as an official government policy, that classroom teachers be provided supplementary trainings on how to handle special needs children. This is in addition to his stated plans of properly funding special needs schools like schools for the; blind, deaf, dumb, autistic, etc.

With the understanding that Mid-level manpower or blue collar skilled personnel are imperative to the development of any nation, Obaze’s education plan pays acute attention to vocational training and professions that require certification. The PDP governorship candidate plans to fund tertiary institutions and other institutes in Anambra to run short certification courses for masons, bricklayers, carpenters, painters, cobblers, electricians, mechanics, vulcanizers, bakers, caterers, farmers and the likes.

This idea of tertiary education stems from the glaring fact that not all can afford University degrees, the way our education system is currently structured. Obaze believes our society will be better for it if we have people trained, skilled and certified in Mid-level manpower jobs.

With his comprehensive education policy framework, Obaze has shown that his government, if elected, will prioritise education and ensure that Anambra children are properly equipped to excel in a highly competitive 21st century global marketplace.

While other candidates make promises, Obaze, as an expert in public policy, goes the extra mile of laying down step by step plans of how to achieve his visions for Anambra. One added advantage is that he served as the ninth Secretary to the Anambra State Government. In his days as the SSG under Gov. Peter Obi, he put these plans to bear and, for the first time, Anambra really became the “Light of the Nation.” Will Ndi Anambra elect him come November 18 to serve in a higher capacity? Nobody knows. But one thing is sure: the coming election will be a referendum between a new way of doing things and the old way.


*Chima, a good governance advocate and a public policy analyst, writes from Nnewi, Anambra state.

A MUST READ! My Old Student; Gov. Willie Obiano

In today’s Sun Newspaper, Chief Joe-martins Uzodike spoke  about his old student, Gov. Willie Obiano, whose name has become a byword for failure in governance.

http://sunnewsonline.com/anambra-needs-complete-restructuring-uzodike/

Chief Joe Martin Uzodike was the Director General of Gov. Willie Obiano’s Campaign organization in 2013.
He is also the DG of Mr. Oseloka Obaze Campaign Organisation.
In this interview, he bares his mind on Anambra and her politics.


Sun- Sir, Anambra will soon go into elections, how would you describe the political atmosphere?
JmU- I think what we are experiencing is the atmosphere of an election and nothing more.


Sun- As a seasoned politician, can you imagine how the election will go?
JmU- I believe the election will go very well. Every day, Anambra people are becoming increasingly politically aware. Whether we like it or not, the awareness started at the time of Dr. Chris Ngige, culminated during the time of Mr. Peter Obi. Both of them have set a standard for the performance of political office holders in Anambra State, alas, regrettably, we appear to be dwindling..


Sun- Dwindling! What do you really mean Sir?
JmU- Things are no longer going on very well in Anambra State. We now have as a governor, a man who is totally bereft of ideas of what governance is. Chief Willie Obiano came to power on a platter of Diamond, but he did not quite understand what governance is all about. As I speak, four years is about to go and he is still celebrating his emergence rather than sit down to work. So many wasteful ventures, making undue noise all over the place while the solid foundation he inherited are caving in on daily basis.

Sun- Sir his people say that many actions of his predecessor encumbered him, how true is this?
JmU- Which action?

Sun- They said Obi awarded a lot of unexecuted contracts, how true could this be?
JmU- Is that supposed to be a reason for failure? Most of the things they do point to the highest exemplification of ingratitude. I saw them publishing some contracts Obi awarded before leaving office. I mean this is wickedness. Obi had the money to have completed all these roads but he never wanted to take all the glory. He decided to lay a CONTINUITY foundation by flagging off these projects at the tail end – basically for campaign purposes.

He actually sat down with the candidate then, who is now the current governor, and some critical people to carefully choose and design roads to be awarded to help win the election. These roads and other projects like the shopping malls were equitably distributed across the whole state. Of course, Obi as governor never failed on his promises to ndi Anambra. They believed the projects would be completed by his predecessor within the first year in office as promised. Obi went on and mobilized 25% for most of the roads. I think it was a total of 33 roads. It was in my presence that he explained to the current Governor what he did with contracts to make him succeed. Once allocation came, Obi paid about 1.5 Billion Niara to contractors  on monthly, constant basis. This kept them at work all year round under Obi. He explained all this to the man who was to take over from him. But rather than take to the advice of the man who had eight years’ experience he went on a flashy jamboree and is still busy celebrating a victory won in 2013. Rather than continue with the structured payment, he started taking about same sum as Security Votes.

It is on record that as at the time Obi left, he did not owe any contactor. Obi inherited a total of 13 on-going roads from Ngige and completed them in his first tenure. Obiano inherited more, but has completed only three, meanwhile he has done roads in his home town. He committed little money to projects and concentrated them in his home town, I mean, where is his sense of justice? Where is his sense of equity? Other Governors remembered their people because charity begins at home, but what Ngige and Obi combined did in their towns are not up to 30% of what Obiano has already done in his own town and poised to do even more.

Let him use the remaining six months in his Government to see what he can remedy, rather than giving lame excuses. Ok, Obi awarded 33 roads, yet in his first year of office, he awarded almost the same number of roads in his community. What are his people saying?

Obi left Anambra in the best condition, with over 100 Billion left in the coffers. He should be celebrated.


Sun- Who is your candidate in the coming election?
JmU- My candidate is Mr. Oseloka Obaze.


Sun- Why are you supporting Him?
JmU- I am supporting him for the same reason I believe others are supporting him. From his past, you do not need a prophet to tell you that he is the right man for the seat now. He is coming from rich experience as an international diplomat. He was the SSG in the State, and those that worked with him can attest to his character, principles and deep understanding of the dynamics of governance. He is fair minded and will be trusted to expand development to all the parts of the State rather than concentrate it at Aguleri as we’re presently witnessing. It is even shocking that while Aguleri many roads, neighbouring towns do not have one, example is Umueri. While Aguleri has over 500 appointed aides and are controlling every aspect of the State’s economic life, other communities are being treated as if they are not part of the State.

To illustrate to you what I am saying, do you know that rather than seek alternative solution to power in Aguleri, the Governor evacuated over 50% of the light meant for Awka straight to Aguleri?
Are you aware that he moved the on-going stadium project in Awka to Aguleri?
Are you aware that Mr. Peter Obi conceived a bridge to Oil field through the shortest distance from Umueje, but once he became Governor, he abandoned it and started constructing two bridges from Aguleri.
Is this equity? Is this justice?
He promised to make Awka wear the looks of a modern capital but what we see is his concerted efforts to make Aguleri an urban community. If we leave him further, if he comes back for a second tenure, he will most likely shift the capital of the State to Aguleri! We all owe to ourselves and to our children to stop what can be best described as a disaster. I know Oseloka Obaze very well. I have served with him and I can repeat that he is fair-minded in all the spheres of the word.


Sun- Why are you so sure about him?
JmU- I am speaking from experience. One man once came to my office and swore that he would never serve in any Committee Oseloka would head. I laughed over it and asked him why. The man went on and told me how he wanted everybody to account for the last kobo, how he would keep saying that the money released for the committee work must be accounted for. He asked me if he does not know that in matters of money, we sometimes look the other side. Well this shows you how meticulous the man is. All in all, I think he is an adequate vessel housing the spirit needed to restore the glory of Anambra State now.


Sun- Sir you are so vehement in your assessment of the incumbent, are there more reasons for that?
JmU- The reasons are legion. The only thing he has done well is propaganda.  He has been busy claiming everything. While those on ground are not deceived, he has ended up deceiving other Nigerians. He talked about 5 Million Dollars Ugu export, when Ugu plantations have remained as it used to be. Where on earth could one plant such value of the vegetables in the state? He talked about export of 10 Million tubers of yam when Anambra brings in 80% of the yam they eat from Benue and Taraba States. He talked about over 200 metric tonnes of rice, which is completely fabricated. He talks about attracting 7.5 billion Dollars to Anambra, almost 80% of total FDI inflow into Nigeria within the same period.  Somebody brought advanced flying camera to him, he tested it at the lodge and proclaimed to the entire world that Anambra was using drones to catch criminals.  He inherited over N100 Billion and baptized it “near cash”. As we speak, it is suspected that he has disposed off all the dollars he inherited. He abandoned critical projects that would have changed the face of commerce and hospitality in Nigeria: Agulu Lake hotel, Awka and Nnewi Shooping Malls as well as Onitsha Hotel.  He is busy doing external things that will give attract praises to him from people like street lights; the irony of it is that he is even mounting it on uncompleted roads. Is this how to develop a state? We have a disaster on our hands which we must do away with.


Sun- But contrary to what you are saying, stakeholders in the state seem to be in his support?
JmU- That is exactly what we are saying. Government is about developing states and not seeking individual endorsements to the detriment of the State. He gives goodies in abundance to them, he builds for them. The money given to schools and hospitals are now used for private patronage. Why would they not support him?


Sun- Sir, what agenda would you set for Obaze?
JmU- He knows, as well as we do, that things are no longer going on well in the State. He knows that projects are abandoned. He knows that propaganda has taken the life of the State. He knows that since Obi left, we no longer save. He knows that we have moved from a debt-free to a debtor State. He knows that erosion is threatening many communities. He knows that appointment is now based on nepotism. He knows that all the celebrated attraction of FDIs are in worthless papers as MOUs. He knows he should bring back the 17 targets of the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs as the fulcrum of modern development. He knows almost everything about present governance in the state needs complete restructuring.

He has the duty to bring the State back on track. The most important factor is that he has the capacity and the will power to do so.


Sun- Any comment of & billion Naira demand?
JmU- Rather than Obiano tell ndi Anambra what he has done, he is looking for people to blackmail.
It will not work for him.

A MUST READ!! The Team Anambra Must Have

Obaze_Onyemelukwe on a thank you tour; Anam Market.

The Team Anambra Must Have
by Ugochukwu from Nnewi, Images by Chyned

Aside being one of the must respected families in Nnewichi (one of the four quaters of Nnewi) and Nnewi at large, the Onyemelukwe family effortlessly comesby as a family of religious, moral and career excellence. It is not surprising that Lady Barr. Mrs. Chidi Onyemelukwe completely fits into the family pidigree. As a matter of fact, the single most important factor that pre-determines one's behaviour, attitude and character is his/her family name. This is true, no doubt. Otherwise, we would be unable to have any kind of knowledge of a person before we have a chance to relate with them. No doubt there are exceptions like in all cases, but exceptions are not the rule. So one can easily see why our people said that "ana adi mma si na ulo we puo na ama", which can loosely be interpreted as  "one' goodness starts from home and then to public". I am saying that there is general consensus amongst Nnewi people that Onyemelukwe is a name; a brand name you can trust. Now that is the family where Lady Barr. Mrs. Chidi Alexandra Onyemelukwe, the PDP Deputy Governor candidate is married into. I can tell that three out of every seven voters in Nnewi will vote PDP because of  her. Already, the PDP flag bearer; Mr. Oseloka Obaze has variously been evaluated by different bodies and individuals and found to be experienced and set to bring good governance back to Anambra state Government House. Without any iota of uncertainty, Mr. Oseloka Obaze and Lady Chidi Onyemelukwe are by any standard the best combination that will deliver unmatched leadership in Anambra state.

Obaze_Onyemelukwe on a thank you tour; Ojoto, Idemili  South

Now let us also look at the family Lady Barr. Mrs. Chidi Onyemelukwe came from. The PDP Deputy Governor candidate; Lady Barr. Mrs. Chidi Onyemelukwe was born into the family of Dr. Alexanda Ekwueme, former Nigeria's Vice President in the second republic. Without any further effort to illustrate, Lady. Mrs. Chidi immediately passes as a privilleged Nigerian. Like those Nigerians of wealthy and famous parents who does not have to work, much less work hard to earn a living. Some of whom would have nothing to do with Nigeria. But here is Lady Barr. Chidi Onyemelukwe, a successful woman academically, in family and career. Not that it matters, but it is imperative for so many people who have not met or known Lady Chidi Onyemelukwe, to finally have the chance to know her through the perceptions and image of her two families. If Lady Barr. Mrs. Chidi Onyemelukwe eventhough a privillaged Nigerian still works hard academically, in family and in career, to the extent that one can say unequivocally that she standsout as a success, does she not pass as the Deputy Governor Anambra state must have? Her choice as PDP Deputy Governor candidate was a master stroke! A game changer! Here is an intelligent woman; an extremely beautiful woman, with such humility that cannot be described. Even by looking at her, you will see a woman, a leader prepared to deliver uncommon goodness.

Obaze_Onyemelukwe; Because Anambra Deserves Better!  

The time has now come for us to enthrone excellence in governance in Anambra state through voting PDP on November 18.
This is an election that must produce the most inspiring and seasoned Deputy Governor in Anambra and the Southeast. A woman of character is here to join and make Anambra state better.

These days it has become very difficult for young girls to have successful women in political leadership to look up to. Lady Barr. Mrs. Chidi Onyemelukwe will not only make an excellent Deputy Governor, she will meet the need of so many young women for a role model who is successful in career, leadership and family.

Obaze_Onyemelukwe on a thank you tour; Ayamelum. 

Without belabouring the obvious, Lady Chidi Onyemelukwe and Mr. Oseloka Obaze; a man well groomed, prepared and ready to deliver, with towering experience of international repute at the United Nations; when this soft spoken, intelligent, knowledgeable man with a deputy as good as the arrow head emerge, the governor and deputy governor of Anambra state, suffice to say that Anambra will finally be in good hands again, to this fact, there is no single doubt.

A MUST READ: OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUHARI!

OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUHARI. 

Mr President, Sir,

This open letter is necessitated by issues of urgent national importance not unconnected with your 3 minute broadcast to Nigerians this morning where you stated that Nigeria's unity is settled and not negotiable.

Mr President, Sir, I wasn't exactly born with a talent for political correctness so I like to assume your permission to pay you the courtesy of being blunt.

First, I want to register my displeasure that you, a mere servant and employee of the Nigerian people, could derisively address your employers and the same people paying your salaries even when you are hardly at work, as "my dear citizens" instead of "my fellow citizens".

That derisive opening line in your speech lend more credence to an already established fact which is that you are an arrogant victim of messiah complex who sees his people not as his employers whose wishes he must harken to but as lesser mortals and slaves who are his to do as he pleases. Even Emperor Nero didn't address Romans in that condescending manner.

Mr president sir, we are not your citizens. We are not even just your fellow citizens! We are your employers! We are your boss! We pay your bill. We feed you, Mr president. Talk to us with some respect!

Mr president, when you told us how you discussed with Ojukwu in 2003 and agreed that Nigeria's unity is non negotiable, what exactly did you think the reference to the late Biafra strong man would achieve?

Did you think that line would magically address all the institutionalized grave injustices in the system which you've made worse with your open display of tribal bigotry, vindictiveness, raw hatred for people from a particular section of the country and criminal disregard for the same constitution you swore to protect??

That you believe the unity of over 180 million people is something you, a Fulani man and Ojukwu, an Igbo man, can sit in your small sitting room somewhere in your small village of Daura and conclusively discuss, says a whole lot about how much value you attach to the so called unity.

As a free citizen of a free world and one of those paying your salaries, I find that statement criminally offensive and hopelessly disappointing. But even more disappointing is the fact that even after spending billions of our tax money and over 100 days treating an undisclosed ailment abroad, you seem not to have learnt anything from your numerous administrative blunders and trailer load of un-presidential utterances, actions and inactions which in most part, are responsible for the mess we are in today.

Mr President sir, let me remind you that you, it was, not Nnamdi Kanu, who resuscitated and fuelled the current Biafra agitation. Even the activities of the Niger Delta militants were all birthed by your tact-less, bigoted, vindictive and mostly common-sensically bankrupt utterances and actions.

And to prove that you are an unteachable ethnic jingoist with an iniquitious sense of national unity and an atrocitious sense of governance, all through your 3 minute address,

You didn't tell your employers the kind of ailment that kept you away from your duty post for over 100 days and gulped billions of tax payers' money.

You didn't announce measures to resuscitate the economy which your criminal ineptitude and analogue economic plans largely played a part in destroying.

You didn't mention measures you plan on taking towards addressing the grievances of the secessionist groups even when you admitted some of their grievances are genuine.

You didn't make any assurances towards calming freyed nerves considering the mood of the country.

You didn't categorically condemn the series of terror your fulani brethren are visiting on Nigerians. Instead, you played it down as mere herdsmen/farmers clashes.

You didn't even categorically condemn your siblings (Arewa Youths) for publicly threatening genocide on Igbos living in the North come October 1st, 2017.

You did none of the above.

Instead,

You spent almost 50% of your broadcast threatening social media users and aggrieved citizens who are only asking you to treat them as equal stake-holders in the Nigeria project or allow them quit this oppressive union. The other 50% was wasted on tales about your meeting with Ojukwu where the duo of you supposedly decided on behalf of over 180 million of us that the unity of Nigeria is non negotiable.

In a nutshell, you spent over 100 days abroad on medical tourism on tax payers' money against your campaign promises only to come back with nothing but a trailer-load of insult, derision and threats for the same citizens who paid and are still paying all your hospital bill and salaries even when you were hardly doing any job??

Quite frankly, Mr President, that speech would easily pass off as one hell of comedy except it was a tragedy.

You've simply proven that you are a man far detached from reality. It would seem you are still stuck in 1985. Indeed, a leopard never changes its skin.

Now, my dear president, as one of your employers, Iet me gift you with some piece of advise:

First, Nigeria is not a nation unless we've all decided to adopt a very confused and lopsided understanding of the term, "nation". More importantly, our unity as a people is a farce. It doesn't exist. You cannot discuss the negotiability or non-negotiability of a unity that only exist in your imagination.

How can there be unity when you, Mr President, went to a foreign land and publicly promised to discriminate against those who didn't vote you with your infamous 97%_5% speech?

Where is the unity when you were busy gifting boko haram terrorists and the marauding herdsmen with a juicy amnesty package and military protection respectively at the exact time you were, and still are, visiting the unarmed Biafra agitators with festival of bullets?

Most importantly, Mr President, mentioning "unity" and "non-negotiable" in the same sentence betrays a very poor appreciation of the queen's language. If it's unity, then the powers that bind the parties together must have been birthed through negotiations. In which case, any talk about the non-negotiability of such unity becomes the height of conscientious idiocy bothering on the fringes of lunacy. If it's unity that was a product of force, then it's no unity at all.

Mr President sir, the clause "our unity is non-negotiable" is an Oxymoronic expression.

You cannot threaten people of diverse cultural, religious and language background into nationhood!!!!

On your threats to agitators, Mr President, you proved you lack basic understanding of what the issues are. It is not just the southeast that is aggrieved, both the south south, south west and even the North, your own region, are all aggrieved as examplified by the October 1st quit  notice and threat of genocide against Igbos living in the North. Every section of the country is aggrieved. Rather than proving you are too bloodthirsty for dialogue, initiate a workable time-bound plan towards restructuring this country in such a way to enthrone justice, fairness, equity and merit.

Restructure this British contraption now!

Or,

Watch the whole country collapse under the weight of its own internal contradictions.

The fastest way of escalating an agitation is by trying to suppress it rather than addressing the issues that birthed it.

Mr President, sir, I am not unaware of the fact that in the coming days, we are going to be witnessing more killing of the unarmed pro-Biafra agitators and series of arrests, abduction and incarceration targeted at social media users and your political opponents but I have a message for you, sir, just as we survived your brutality between 1984-1986, We Will Survive You!

This, too, shall pass!

I wish you exactly what you wish Nigerians.


Love from
Charles Ogbu.
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Breaking News; Ethiopian Airline Lands at the Abuja Airport 18th April 2017

Ethiopian Airline Airbus A350 has landed at the Abuja Airport.

It is the first major airline to do so, coming a day to the reopening of the airport, which the federal government says is 100 percent complete.

Earlier today, the Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, had a test flight on board, making first landing in Abuja after six weeks of rehabilitation of the runway and other facilities at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport.

The Minister is said to have flown in from Kaduna, while the Ethiopian Airline became the first airline to land in Abuja.

The Federal Government had on Monday said the runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport Abuja, is 100 per cent complete and set for reopening to airlines on Wednesday, April 19.

The Airport Manager, Mr Mahmud Sani, who disclosed this in Abuja, said the terminal buildings at the airport have been upgraded for the safety and comfort of passengers.

“The airport is good to go. We thank the Federal Government for rehabilitating the Abuja Airport.

It is not only the runway that was rehabilitated, we also seized the opportunity to improve on our facilities at the terminal building. As you can see, every part of the terminal building is being touched,” he said.

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The 14 Year Old Boy that Started the Syrian War That have Engulfed the Country!

Al Jazeerah in yet another exclusive report, has told the story of Mouawiya Syasneh, the boy whose anti Assad Graffiti lit the spark that engulfed Syria.

Mouawiya (Photo: Al Jazeera)

Mouawiya Syasneh was just 14 when he sprayed anti-government slogans on his school wall in Deraa, Syria. It was February 2011, and he could never have imagined that such a minor act would spark a full-blown civil war.

More than half a million people have been killed in Syria since the start of the war. Mouawiya's home city has been ravaged by street fighting, shelling and barrel bombing. The war has left scars that may never heal.

Now a young man, fighting on the frontline for the Free Syrian Army, Mouawiya admits that had he known what the consequences of his actions would be, he would never have taunted the country's president, Bashar al-Assad.

His life has been transformed by that adolescent prank. He has lost friends and relatives, including his father. And Syria has been changed for ever.

The Boy who started the Syrian Civil War offers a glimpse into life in Deraa since the start of the conflict.

We meet Syrians trying to lead normal lives amid the chaos as well as those who have taken up arms against Assad's forces. 

FILMMAKER'S VIEW - by Emmy Award-winning producer, Jamie Doran 

I was in Moscow recently, chatting to people you might have thought would have known better. Educated folk, among them an experienced journalist. I had asked them a simple question: how did the Syrian war begin?

They uniformly launched into the answer that has been peddled so often in recent times, that it has now become fact in certain circles: "It was the terrorists who started it all."

The fact that ISIL in its current form didn't even exist in Syria at the time, or that al-Nusra wouldn't arrive until many months afterwards, appear to have been conveniently forgotten - not just in Moscow but in most media coverage around the world.

The surprise, even shock on their faces when I pulled out my laptop and showed them the trailer for our latest film for Al Jazeera, The Boy Who Started the Syrian War, was a wonder to behold. They simply had no idea.

They claimed they hadn't been aware of how, for decades, dissenters towards government authority had faced the daily dread of a visit from the secret police, of torture, disappearance and extrajudicial execution.

They had apparently never heard about how fathers were frightened to allow their daughters to be alone on the streets for fear of abduction, rape and murder at the hands of the Shabiha, Assad-family militias that operated with virtual impunity.

And they were totally unaware that it was a mischievous prank by adolescent schoolchildren that lit the fuse that set a country ablaze.

Early in 2016, I was sitting in Books@Cafe, a hangout for liberally minded Jordanians on Al-Khattab Street, Amman, with cameraman and filmmaker Abo Bakr Al Haj Ali. He was busily puffing away on his narghile (hookah), as we discussed how Deraa, the city which had given birth to the revolution, had been virtually ignored by the media in recent years.

One of the reasons it had been overlooked was that the Jordanians wouldn't let any Western journalists cross from their side. Almost the only other option was an official tour of government-controlled areas via Damascus that didn't appeal to me at all, even if they had let me in, which was rather unlikely.

I'd spent the previous week sitting on the border, just an hour's drive from Deraa, having established an agreement with the Jordanian military which would have made me the first Westerner allowed to cross over in three years.

There I was, in the border compound about to leave Jordanian soil, when a call came to the post. Moments later, I was very politely placed in a saloon car … and driven back to Amman. I later found out that the representative of the British intelligence agency, MI6, in Amman had advised the Jordanian government that it would be a bad idea to let me cross ... even though I was travelling on an Irish passport!

So, back at Books@Cafe, Bakr and I sat chatting about how we could make a film about Deraa without my physical presence. It's his home town. His territory.

"So, who do you know, who was there at the very beginning?" I asked.

"I know the commander, Marouf Abood, who set up the very first people's militia, after government troops attacked his village," he responded.

"Interesting. And who else?"

He went on to reel off half a dozen names; commander this, commander that.

"Come on, Bakr. You must know someone else, someone different. Someone fresh," I said.

Continuing to drag deeply on the narghile, deep in thought, he told me that there was no one else that was really very interesting.

And then he added: "Well, I suppose there's the boy who scrawled the anti-Assad graffiti on his school wall that started the war."

It was one of those moments where you could have knocked my 90 kilos over with a feather.

The boy who started the Syrian war! Think about it. It wasn't ISIL, nor al-Nusra, nor any other terrorist group. It was an act of defiance, a moment of youthful rebelliousness, if you like, that led to an uprising which has seen more than half a million people killed and a country torn to shreds.

It wasn't, of course, the fault of this 14-year-old boy and his three friends who joined him in this moment of adolescent disobedience - a prank which would have enormous consequences beyond their understanding. But when they were arrested by the police and tortured in a most horrendous way, a line was crossed from which there would be no turning back.

When their parents and families arrived at the police station to plead for their freedom, they were told: "Forget these children. Go home to your wives and make some more. If you can't manage, send us your wives and we'll do it for you."

Anger rose. The fuse had been lit and, when police started randomly killing marchers in the demonstrations that followed, armed resistance became an inevitability.

For me personally, this film has taken on an importance beyond many that I have made in the past. To be able to remind (and, in some cases, inform) a massive global audience of the true origins of the Syrian civil war, is an enormous privilege for a filmmaker.

For those directly involved in those origins, however, our film has provided an opportunity for reflection. So many have suffered greatly and sacrificed so much for a revolution which, by any calculation, is and will remain incomplete, no matter what the outcome of negotiations.

Mouawiya Syasneh, The boy who started the Syrian War, is now a young man who, like so many other young men in Deraa, carries a Kalashnikov rather than a satchel these days. As viewers will discover, his own family has paid a dreadful price for the events that followed his actions back in February 2011.

His own reflections are now a matter of record for the first time. 

Source: Al Jazeera News

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PAYBACK: Impeach Yar’Adua now, Buhari tells lawmakers!

From ISMAIL OMIPIDAN, Kaduna, Sun Newspapers
(Wednesday, March 10, 2010 )

Former Head of State, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has declared that the only solution to present political uncertainty in the country is for the National Assembly to set machineries in motion for the impeachment of ailing President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. The 2003 and 2007 presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) made the declaration yesterday while addressing members of the National Unity Forum (NUF) which had visited him in Kaduna.

The forum led by Alhaji Maigida Musa Abdu had from last week began visiting notable northern leaders to seek their opinions on how best to handle the Yar’Adua mess and at the same time ensuring that the region does not lose out completely in the power equation, especially as the country approaches 2011.

For instance, when it met with former Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Alhaji Muhammadu Dikko Yusuf, last week, the former police boss seized the occasion to call on the north to ensure that it produced ‘credible and acceptable replacement’ for Yar’Adua in 2011 presidential election.

Incidentally, like Buhari, the former police boss is also from Katsina State, like Yar’Adua. And Daily Sun can authoritatively reveal that until the president took ill, Dikko was one of his honorary advisers.

But unlike Dikko, Buhari was more forthcoming when he further said the Federal Executive Council must save the nation from the current agony by declaring the president incapacitated to pave the way for his impeachment.

He further argued that Nigeria, as a nation, should not have been in the present situation if the provisions of the constitution were respected by the leadership of the country, insisting that the constitution has specific provisions on how an ailing president could be succeeded, even as he noted that the refusal by the FEC to respect and apply the constitutional provisions had led to the present crisis in the country.

In an apparent reference to the resolution passed by the National Assembly, which empowered Goodluck Jonathan to function as an acting president, the former head of state noted that it was wrong to introduce extra-constitutional measures to tackle problems already addressed by the constitution.

To this end, he stressed that the joy of political expediency would never replace clear laid out regulations spelt out by the laws of the land, adding that ‘political expediency won’t remedy this kind of problem because if the FEC had acted in accordance with the constitution by invoking the necessary sections to declare the president incapacitated, we would not have found ourselves in this present situation.

‘As you can see, adopting extra-constitutional measures have not addressed the problem. If it had, we would not have been subjected to the raging debates and controversy going on. So we must go back to the constitution. The exco must do the right thing because once we start moving away from the constitution, then we are inviting anarchy,’ Buhari added.

He also called on the acting president to make electoral reform the priority of his government, saying that he has a feeling Nigerians would stand up for the truth and reject any imposition, or any government that wins election through ‘unfair’ means in 2011.

While maintaining that unless free and fair polls are conducted next year, both the polity and the country would not be stabilized, the former military leader further said the first measure of commitment to the electoral reform agenda was to reorganize INEC and make it more effective.

He said INEC, as presently constituted, could not give Nigerians what they need in 2011, given what happened during the recent governorship elections in Anambra State.

Culled from: http://scannewsnigeria.com/featured-post/impeach-yaradua-now-buhari-tells-lawmakers/

Lesson: In life whatever you wish or do to others, expect it back!!!

#chyned
@ogachyned

A MUST READ; IS NIGERIA A FAILED STATE?

IS NIGERIA NOW A FAILED STATE

145 of 1999 Constitution:

"Whenever the President transmits to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives a written declaration that he is proceeding on vacation or that he is otherwise unable to discharge the functions of his office, until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary such functions shall be discharged by the Vice-President as Acting President."

When traveling in January, Gen Muhammadu Buhari PERSONALLY transmitted a letter to the National Assembly, notifying them of a SPECIFIC TEN DAYS VACATION, which ended on February 6, 2017. This letter was duly read and became part and parcel of the Votes and Proceedings of the National Assembly.

The president did not return on February 6 as he promised but he has purportedly taken an extended vacation, on ground of ill health, through a letter they was said to have been transmitted to the National Assembly. That "letter" has not been seen by anyone, in order to determine its authenticity and its real author.

The "letter" has not been READ ON THE FLOORS of either Chambers of the National Assembly, to make it part of its Votes and Proceedings. In effect, the legal capacity of Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, ends midnight February 6, 2017.

Somehow, as if acting out a clever script, the Senate had hurriedly adjourned it sitting to February 24, ever before the "letter" for an extended vacation arrived. So legally, the "letter" is cooling somewhere in the National Assembly, just another letter, without any force of law. A letter transmitted to the National Assembly MUST BE READ at the plenary session to become binding.

So, by February 7, 2017, there will be no President or Acting President.

Prof Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, is from the Southern part of Nigeria.

MISSING CHIEF JUSTICE

Section 231(5) of 1999 Constitution:

"(5) Except on the recommendation of the National Judicial Council, an appointment pursuant to the provisions of subsection (4) of this section shall cease to have effect after the expiration of three months from the date of such appointment, and the President shall not re-appointment a person whose appointment has lapsed."

On November 9, 2016, the Hon Jus Mahmoud Mohammed, CJN, retired as the Chief Justice of Nigeria. The National Judicial Council recommended but the President ignored the choice of Hon Jus Walter Onnoghen, JSC, as Chief Justice of Nigeria, but proceeded to swear him in Acting capacity for three months. Until he traveled for his ten day vacation, the President did not forward the nomination of Hon Jus Walter Onnoghen to the Senate, for confirmation as substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria. Up until the time that the tenure of the Acting President will expire this night, he did not forward the name and so he cannot do so after tonight.

The tenure of the Acting CJN will lapse on February 10, 2017. As of this night, the NJC has not met to consider recommending Hon Jus Onnoghen for renewal as Acting CJN. The NJC cannot do this after February 6, 2017, as there will be no President or Acting President, to receive such recommendation.

Hon Jus Onnoghen is from the Southern part of Nigeria.

MISSING SENATE

The President of the Senate is facing multiple trials, bordering on failure to declare his assets. If he is convicted, he would have to step down as Senate President.

NOW THE KNOTTY QUESTIONS:

1. So where are we?
2. Has the Nigerian nation failed?
3. Are we being tricked or taken for a ride by some people?
4. How come the sudden adjournment of the Senate?
5. Was somebody aware prior to today that the president will not arrive today?
6. Is this all a game? If so, who are the players and who are the spectators?
7. Who singed the letter for extended vacation?
8. In the absence of a substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria, what is the fate of the judiciary?
9. Who is that in charge of the affairs in Nigeria presently?
10. Must we all sit down and tolerate all these nonsense?

You may add your own questions and keep adding them until we get the answers.

Nigeria we hail thee!

Ebun-olu Adegboruwa

Wrote from: Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria 🇳🇬.
06/02/2017

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The Fulfilled Prophecies of GEJ.

Jonathan's Prophecy, Buhari's Heresy and Tuface's Bravery

By Reno Omokri....

First published in Saturday Thisday February 4, 2017.

On December 11, 2014, then President Goodluck Jonathan accepted the Presidential nomination of the Peoples Democratic Party to contest the 2015 Presidential elections as its candidate. At that occasion, the former leader made a statement which, in hindsight, can now be seen as a prophecy.

On that day, Jonathan said:

"The choice before Nigerians in the coming election is simple: A choice between going forward or going backwards; between the new ways and the old ways; between freedom and repression; between a record of visible achievements and beneficial reforms - and desperate power-seekers with empty promises."

When the Naira crashed to ₦500 to $1 on Monday the 30th of January, 2017 it hit me that Dr. Jonathan's prophecy had been fulfilled.

I remember (and I am sure you can too) the giant bill boards the APC erected all over the country saying, and I quote

 'Is ₦216 to $1 okay? It is time to act now. Buhari-Osinbajo'.

Well both President Muhammadu Buhari  and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo have 'acted' for almost two years now and today it is now over ₦500 to $1. It is time for the duo to answer their own question.

On the 20th of November, 2014, a certain young Nigerian named Mohammad had tweeted the following tweet on Twitter;

"Today a dollar N180 and a pound is N280, hope you have a family....this is really the transformation agenda..!! GEJ has finished Nigeria.."

This tweet went viral because the APC through its agents on Twitter retweeted the tweet until it trended online.

Flash forward to Monday the 30th of January, 2017, the day the Naira crossed over the ₦500 to $1 rubicon and the now sober Mohammad tweeted three times and I will quote each of those tweets below:

The first tweet

"GEJ should please forgive me!!!"

The second tweet

"N500 even wen they claim the are fighting corruption #bringbackourGEJ"

The third tweet

"GEJ a true definition of the word HERO ...!!!"

This time around, though the APC refused to retweet Mohammad who tweets from the handle @deee009, his last tweets are even more popular than the first because Nigerians retweeted them, storyfied them and blogs celebrated them.

On Tuesday 31st of January, 2017, another young Nigerian named Uchenna tweeted through his twitter handle, Uchez2 this:

"@Uchez2: How did the dollar stay at ₦175-₦200 for 4yrs under "massive looting"? How is it now at N510 in 2 years under "massive savings"?"

What Jonathan's 2014 quote and Mohammad's 2014 and 2017 tweets as well as Uchenna's question has shown is that, no matter how far and fast falsehood has travelled, it must eventually be overtaken by truth.

Everybody is affected by the failed promises of the Buhari administration. The richest African and Black man in the world, Aliko Dangote, has seen his fortune depreciate by more than 50% from $25 billion under former President Jonathan to $12.4 billion today. We pray it does not shrink to $1.2 billion before 2019!

There is no Nigerian that is not affected and that is all the more reason why the multiple award winning singer and rapper, Innocent Idibia, AKA Tuface has said he is going to lead a nationwide protest against the policies of this government which are impoverishing Nigerians.

Of course very predictably, the administration, either directly or indirectly, has come out guns blazing against the much loved entertainer.

Government surrogates and jealous rivals have sought to disqualify and disenfranchise him from leading his protest by saying that as a father of seven  children from three different mothers Tuface lacks the moral authority to protest against government policies!

First of all, the problem many of his celebrity haters have with Tuface is not the protest itself perse. They are really angry that they were not the ones who thought of it!

If having children from many women is their grouse then they would have had a grouse with many Nigerian leaders. Which Nigerian leader has children from only one woman?

And it almost became comical when the Presidency asked to debate with Tuface on live TV. Really? A President who refused to debate his opponents at the Presidential Debates during the elections now wants Tuface to debate live on TV. I mean just negodu!

When some musicians and actors gathered at Ojota with Nasir Elrufai and Dino Melaye against then President Jonathan in February 2012, nobody cared how many children they had but suddenly they care about Tuface's baby mamas!

I guess both Elrufai and Dino Melaye have all their children from one woman!

In the new and improved Federal Republic of Double Standards, if you have more than one baby mama you can be a President, a Governor or a Senator, but you cannot lead a protest! It is haram! You are not morally fit to protest!

And it was so disappointing to see an official All Progressive Congres Twitter handle mocking the protest. APC News TV tweeted and I am quoting:

 "@APCNEWSTV: JUST BEFORE YOU JOIN THE SENSELESS PROTEST, NOTE THAT! Godswill Akpabio bankrolled the posh wedding of 2face"

What rubbish! First of all, this is a desperate lie. But even if this were true (it is not) didn't Nigerians vote for President Muhammadu Buhari despite the fact that  former Governors Rotimi Amaechi and Bola Tinubu bankrolled him?

If the Presidency and the APC want us to believe that Tuface Idibia's planned protest is "senseless" because his wedding was bankrolled by former Governor Godswill Akpabio then they are inadvertently admitting that President Buhari's Government is "senseless" because its election was bankrolled by Amaechi and Tinubu. That will explain a lot!

It will explain the Presidency's senselessness in the matter regarding Supreme Court Justice Walter Onnoghen who has been denied what should have been his privilege by political tradition as well as by judicial precedent.

Ibrahim Magu is accused of corruption yet President Muhammadu Buhari insists on confirming him. Justice Walter Onnoghen is free from corruption yet President Buhari refuses to confirm him!

This from a so called anti corruption President. Is it because Magi is a Muslim from the North, while the other is a Christian from the South.

This is yet another example in the series of double standards that are the hallmark of this administration.

A Government that publicly urged accused  justices to immediately step down, yet writes copious and even verbose letters to justify why the provenly corrupt Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, continues to retain his post. In Nigeria, it seems there is one law for the 97 percenters and another for the 5 percenters. Again I say, welcome to President Buhari's new and improved Federal Republic of Double Standards!

What President Buhari is doing to Justice Walter Onnoghen is nothing short of judicial heresy. He is placing his parochial bias above a well established doctrine that seniority at the bar and bench is the major requirement for upward mobility in the legal profession.

And as an aside, I am noticing that the rapidly shrinking army of the cult of Buhari are also set against the new U.S. President, Donald John Trump. And it got me thinking.

I have a hunch that the problem Buharists have with Donald Trump are not his policies but the fact that a politician is actually doing what he promised to do during his campaign.

They are so used to President Buhari, who promises one thing and does another thing, that when they finally see a leader who says what he will do and does what he says they go into shock.

In his first day in office, President Trump has already started fulfilling his promises. He has not blamed Obama, he has not blamed the state of things he met on the ground. He has rather began his tenure by focusing on his promises rather than focusing on the alleged wrongdoings of his predecessors.

This is why many people who supported Nigerian President Buhari cannot stand Trump. Because he exposes the hypocrisy of someone who promised change and is delivering more of the same.

This is why they are so heavily invested in blame gaming the system and blaming every negative occurrence on previous administrations while waiting to give President Buhari credit for the few things that have gone right under his government which are, ironically, the handiwork of the very administrations that he denigrates.

Two days ago (January 31st of 2017) the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics revealed that foreign investments into Nigeria has dropped to a 10 year low.

I am waiting to see the creativity with which the Buhari administration will come up with reasons to blame Goodluck Jonathan for this!

Perhaps Jonathan went around to all the nations of the world to convince them not to invest in Nigeria!

I thought that the Buhari government said Nigeria was a pariah state under Jonathan. How could a pariah government attract more investment than an acceptable government like the Buhari administration. You see, like I said previously in this piece, no matter how far and fast a lie has travelled, it MUST eventually be overtaken by truth.

And it is silly of the Lagos State Police Command to say they would stop Tuface's protest! This is the sort of impunity that has become the norm under President Muhammadu Buhari.

Doesn't Tuface have the Constitutional right of freedom of assembly? Does he not have the right to free speech?

The same security forces that cannot bring the killers of pastor Eunice Elisha to book, or give justice to the be-headers of Evangelist Bridget Agbahime have now found their voice when it comes to stopping the harmless Tuface.

Is it not silly that at a time when the Directorate of State Security have not been able to utilize its man power to make any discernible impact in the war against terror they have the men to storm Apostle Johnson Suleiman's hotel room in Ado Ekiti?

At a time when we have a Governor confessing that he paid money to killers of the citizens he is constitutionally sworn to protect, at a time when Nigeria has overnight become the most dangerous place in the world to be a Christian, at a time when the dollar goes for ₦500 to $1, is it really Apostle Suleiman that is the problem of Nigeria?

The Presidency called Apostle Suleiman's speech hate speech! puh-leeze!  What hate speech can be worse than President Buhari's 97% versus 5%? That a Presidency headed by a man who threatened that the "dog and baboon will all be soaked in blood" has the guts to ask the Christian Association of Nigeria to condemn Apostle Suleiman is the joke of the year. If the Presidency are looking for someone to condemn let them go to London!!!

Finally let me say that the Father did not give Jesus a Name that is above all names because Jesus is intelligent. No. Lucifer is also intelligent. God promoted Jesus because of two qualities. Loyalty and Humility.

When people ask me why I am loyal to former President Jonathan, they do not realize that I do not live my life for anybody whether it is Dr. Goodluck Jonathan or President Muhammadu Buhari or even Donald J. Trump. My life is a test and upon my death the Father will mark my test paper. I am loyal to ex-President Jonathan just as I try to be loyal to all my friends whether high or low because a disloyal and proud person is like Lucifer who tried to take The Father's Throne and a loyal person is like Jesus who had the opportunity to do the same yet chose to remain Loyal and Humble. If I do not follow the Messiah's example, then my Christianity is questionable!

Omokri is the founder of the Mind of Christ Christian Center in California, author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God and Why Jesus Wept and many other write ups.

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