tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21293906824211852822024-03-08T03:32:32.536-08:00The Canary!"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." - Ernesto "Che" GuevaraKayode Ogundamisihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04291817365893312866noreply@blogger.comBlogger417125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129390682421185282.post-63130609096947598282021-07-24T11:36:00.001-07:002021-07-24T11:36:33.062-07:00 Yoruba Nation: Eke Ebu and Epe Does Not Win Wars - Kayode Ogundamisi<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yoruba Nation: Eke Ebu and Epe Does Not Win Wars - Kayode Ogundamisi</span></p><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="2862k" data-offset-key="2tnt1-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2tnt1-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2tnt1-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxlp_pc6gVdpvbRSuFSjUqCfAO9gmey0lvyitNlNbtO1csNuXXTOCeTV87ImdFjLivbtZJoTuqvbadBYO-pxrleuht3UXsyXYZ_hTAheZDMWYYofzvi3igIT-iAvb0v7PqWYmm6RJJTCtf/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="335" data-original-width="599" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxlp_pc6gVdpvbRSuFSjUqCfAO9gmey0lvyitNlNbtO1csNuXXTOCeTV87ImdFjLivbtZJoTuqvbadBYO-pxrleuht3UXsyXYZ_hTAheZDMWYYofzvi3igIT-iAvb0v7PqWYmm6RJJTCtf/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br data-text="true" /></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2tnt1-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2tnt1-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2tnt1-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2tnt1-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="2862k" data-offset-key="6giq9-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6giq9-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="6giq9-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">We have Mini-Fascists as Liberators, not interested in solutions to protecting Nigerians from criminals.
Just ethnic weaponization of a full-blown war by criminals. Even as a free born Yoruba you are not supposed to have an alternative view.
You MUST share ONLY their point of view. You know that Yoruba proverb 'a i rinpo ejo lon je omo ejo niya' it is relevant now than ever, you cannot go on denigrating the same institutions you will govern over when you eventually have a 'Republic', neither should you assume that you can force everyone to agree with your methods, the Yoruba are not a people with a history of taking direct order from a group of Fascists, until we go back to consultations, preparations, reaching out to even those we do not agree with and agreeing on at least a minimum point of agreement, your repeated shout of 'Yoruba Nation' and calling others 'Fulani Slaves' will only keep you very far from where you want to be.
Free born Yoruba should be free to believe in and support the campaign for Oduduwa Republic or believe in Nigeria or believe in at the minimum a regional Yoruba Nation within Nigeria or not have an opinion at all.
From our experience with the OPC. Trying to impose your wish on everyone leads only to internal conflicts and strife's and you end up losing more of yours whilst those you are fighting just fold their hands and see your self-destruct.
You cannot single handedly force an alliance either with the Fulani or Ndi Igbo or anyone else, alliances are organic, but any and every alliance must not be against another ethnic nationality, it should be for the protection of the lives of everyone that is settled within Nigeria against CRIMINALS OF EVERY ETHNIC NATIONALITY.
Until then, some of us just dey look una and wishing you the best.
Oodua A gbe wa
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;">I was diagnosed dyslectic; your child could also be dyslectic. Learn from my Story – Kayode Ogundamisi</span><br />
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My name is Kayode Ogundamisi and the following was published on twitter as a thread, since publishing the thread, I received overwhelming messages from parents and fellow compatriots who are dealing with the issue of dyslexia. Many compatriots requested it should be published as an article.<br />
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Here is my experience with dyslexia, it is a personal non-political message, it is an issue I always do not want to talk about, or too embarrassed to acknowledge, but that changed one night during a conversation with my 12-year-old daughter. It is about Dyslexia</div>
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I started my formal education at Command Children School Ikeja Cantonment in Nigeria. Dad was in the Army as an 'order rank' but he was resolute to have me attend the prestigious CCS meant for Senior Nigerian Army officers, he convinced his boss who was then a Major in the Nigerian Army, Major Dasilva to enrol me as he would his own son.</div>
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Dad did not want me to attend Army Children School (basically for 'other ranks’) Staff Sergeants down to Private in the Nigerian Army' he would pay my school fees (*More than half is salary) directly into Major DaSilva’s account. That was how I ended up being enrolled in Command Children School Ikeja.</div>
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Command Children School had upper class elite military officer’s kids in class we had a child of a former and then Head of State, kids of most members of the ruling Armed Forces, Generals etc. I did not fit in, always skiving to Army Children School in the same Cantonment.</div>
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My head teacher at Command Children School was so kind, she would always get soldiers attached to Command to go fish me out from Army Children School Ikeja opposite the Mammy Market. So, I spent half of my term in Command, other half roaming around Army Children School.</div>
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Though Command Children School was 'cool' we had 'FAN milk' 'Gala' and all sorts of exotic food, we even had tea in our hall with PEAK MILK supplied, a piano in the hall, even 'White teachers' my heart was always in Army Children School, authentic and represented my social reality.</div>
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I managed to complete my education at Command Children School but that was where I first had the word Dyslexia.<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mrs Kukoyi would describe a few of us as being "dyslectic" it never made sense to me, never bothered to find out what it meant. Was not really interested in Command Children’s School.</span></div>
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Despite my truancy at Command Children School, I was famous for being a good debater, a star goal keeper for the school soccer team and 'the go guy” by the *"ajeboters" for all the thrilling news in our "ajepako" world. After primary school, I gained admission into Command Secondary School Ipaja but Dad could not afford Command Secondary School.<br />
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Lucky for us the progressive Unity Party of Nigeria won the election in Lagos and South West Nigerian States and that was the party of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, whose party had a policy of free and qualitative education for all as part of its party manifesto, Lateef Jakande who was Lagos Governor took over all missionary schools and Dad enrolled me in the first Muslim School in West Africa Anwar Ul Islam College Agege a Lagos suburb.</div>
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Anwar Ul Islam College formerly Ahmadiyya College was established in 1948. Before UPN threw it open, it was mainly available for elite wealthy upper-class Muslims and very few wealthy upper-class Christians, but with the new policy of Free Education for all I enrolled and integrated well with my mum being Muslim and my dad a non-practicing Christian.</div>
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At Anwar Ul Islam College I was fortunate to have an environment thanks to Jakande and Awolowo that broke social barriers, I had no inhibitions, I was a guy from an 'ajepako' background, who attended an 'ajebota' school and had the best of both worlds. I became a star from Form 1. At Anwar Ul Islam College I never heard the word Dyslexia, I did well in school, was amongst the top 3 students in class from form 1-5 in the subjects of Literature, Government and History.</div>
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Despite leading and representing my school and Lagos state in debates with my colleagues and defeating top schools like the elite Kings College Lagos in literary and debating challenge finals my writing was very poor.</div>
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I would take notes in class, go home and unable to read my own note. I had to rely on school mates who lived in our Alimosho neighbourhood to read notes they had taken and then go into exams. My main English teacher Mrs Oladipupo never gave up on me. I sat for the West African Examination Council exams and scored A2 in Literature and A3 in English.</div>
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From college I proceeded to Fed Polytechnic Nasarawa to study business administration, then left for University of Jos, graduating with a 2nd class degree in Political Science and then a diploma in journalism at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism and followed up graduating with master’s in Public Administration from the Ogun State University. Not a word on Dyslexia was ever mentioned as I successfully completed my journey, I knew it was tough but I was determined and earned my academic qualifications.</div>
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When I moved to the UK having migrated and lived in Holland and Germany I decided to go for a Masters in International Relations, got admitted, wrote my first assignment and my Professor (Late Professor Gowan) called me into his office and suggested I go for Dyslexia Screening Assessment. The words of Mrs Kukoyi's many years ago as a child in Command Children School echoed.</div>
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I took my Professors advice and went for a Dyslexia Screening Assessment in London. What was identified by my primary school head teacher, never mentioned in secondary school, never came up at UNIJOS, NIJ or OSU became real. It was confirmed that I had some form of dyslexia and needed support. My university in London gave me all the support needed and I graduated with another Masters in International Relations, my thesis on small and light arms proliferation was adjudged outstanding and refreshing.<br />
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So, I had been dyslectic without knowing, without support and faced the challenge in Nigeria, there will be a child in Nigeria now in my position, a parent yet to identify a dyslectic child, how we view and treat dyslexia and other related issues in Nigeria needs to change. We cannot keep applying the *'Koboko' solution if a child shows slow signs of progress in school.<br />
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In today's world assistive technology products and services are available to support people with dyslexia and those with other forms of disabilities. Teachers and parents need to be trained and supported on how to identify and deal with children with dyslexia, education reform should include support needs.<br />
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Dyslexia isn't a disease, it is a learning disability related with slow reading, writing, and occasionally speaking skills. The education ministry in Nigeria hopefully should have a training programme that will equip teachers to identify kids with dyslexia. <span style="font-family: inherit;">Several great people in our world are dyslectic and it did not stop them from being great and impactful in our society. Our attitude must change</span></div>
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But for that conversation with my daughter, my dyslexia assessment test in London, the attendant result and support I received would just have been my little secret, but if my thread here will help just one parent, one person, then my world is made.</div>
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To learn more about Dyslexia just type the word on Google. Since publishing that article on twitter, I have also realised a lot of my compatriots are dealing with the same issue but do not want to be stigmatised, it is also reassuring that we have many groups supporting children dealing with dyslexia, you can identify one, join them and seek professional support, you can also seek the help of psychologists, don’t let your child wait his or her entire adult life to discover they could have done more as a child. I overcame life’s challenges without knowing, not a lot of our children will have the same opportunity that I had.<br />
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<b><i>*Ajebota (“An ajebota (pronounced ah-jay-butta) is someone who lives a privileged, pampered life. In Nigeria”).</i></b><br />
<b><i>*Ajepako (“An Ajepako is someone who did not live a privileged, pampered life and predominantly from working class poor areas”)</i></b><br />
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It is faulty to equate the deep loyalty Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu attracts in Lagos as exemplary of ‘Omoluabi loyalty’ or being reflective of the entire Yoruba or South-West populace. Ondo State electorate will argue for example that they "liberated" themselves without compromising the 'Omoluabi' ethos.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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In the 2012 Ondo State Governorship election the current Governor of Ondo State Rotimi Akeredolu as a candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) was perceived as a “Tinubu imposed” candidate, he ran against the then incumbent Governor Olusegun Mimiko of the Labor Party, the people of Ondo rejected Akeredolu.</div>
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Then most nook and crannies in Ondo State the campaign was more about resisting Tinubu than on Mimiko’s performance. Mimiko did not have to say much about his performance during his first term in office, it was almost above his peers, particularly in education and health care, is Abiye healthcare project was celebrated even by his opponents. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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In 2016 when Akeredolu was to run again, ironically against a candidate handpicked by Olusegun Mimiko, <span class="s1">Mr. Eyitayo Jegede (SAN), he presented himself as an independent candidate, his own man, not only did he defeat Tinubu’s anointed candidate in the APC primaries, he canvassed for votes also reminding the people of Ondo State of how they should not let outsiders chose for the people of Ondo. Akeredolu won against the candidate of the PDP and today the rest is history. A number of other factors contributed to the victories in the 2012 and 2016 election of Mimiko and Akeredolu.</span></div>
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A lot has been written about current Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, the irony is Ambode’s problem isn't <a href="https://twitter.com/AsiwajuTinubu">his</a> Godfather, former Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Akinwunmi Ambode’s problem is Akinwunmi Ambode.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Power overwhelmed the Governor, he completely detached himself from the strong political party structure, a party that has been in power in Lagos since 1999 is not the kind of party you would ride on and ignore, you may ignore the man who brought you from obscurity, but to survive, you need to be an exceptional performer and keep your party structure happy. Ambode did not read the hand over notes of Governor Babatunde Fashola, if he had, he would not be facing the political battle of his life, the people stood with Fashola even when the body language of his godfather was hostile, even the mighty Tinubu knew moving against Fashola would have been political suicide.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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The Lagos APC power structure is filled with contradictions, sometimes progressive, sometimes self-serving, mostly operating like a bunch of mafias, highly close nit, those who control the party at every level expect absolute loyalty and no questions asked, it reflects most political parties in Nigeria, even newly formed political parties are mirroring the model, they have improved on it, 6 of the newly INEC registered political parties have founders, who are party Chairmen/Women and also sole Presidential Candidate.</div>
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Lagos civil service is an extension of the party structure, if you come in as a governor, you are not expected to rock the boat or ‘change the template’ (apologies to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu) it is a structure mostly servicing the few against the majority. Hardly would you find a Lagos State civil servant that is not a card-carrying member of the APC. Particularly the Alausa based civil servants, what happens in Alausa always remain in Alausa.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Lagos APC has political leaders who depend on state resources, they have no other means of livelihood than politics, they know Lagos like the back of their hand and have foot soldiers beholding on them, from NURTW members, to genuine party members who desire progressive change to just anyone that can be a yes man or woman, mostly reliant on on a rental system, they cannot just be cut off and be neglected by any Governor no matter how powerful or resourceful.</div>
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<b>Ambode broke the first commandment, “thou shall not be unreachable”.</b></div>
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Yoruba and especially Lagosian’ s do not like Governors or political appointees who are perceived as ‘arrogant’ or cannot be reached, if you like tar the whole of Lagos roads with gold, they want to be able to ‘visit’ and expect TP on the way home, party leaders and members expect you to attend meetings at intervals, they don’t want you forgetting them during ‘Ileya’ ‘Christmas’ or any festive period, the street talk is that Ambode was not only unreachable to party members and leaders, he lived in his own world, his appointees are also detached, party members can’t even remember the name of commissioners in Ambode’s cabinet. Gone are the days when Rauf Aregbesola, Musiliu Obanikoro, Muiz Banire, Tokunbo Afikuyomi and co were Commissioners and you need not see the Governor to have a say in the government. Ambode ran a one man show.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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For every progress Ambode made with road construction in inner city Lagos and futuristic projects such as the Lagos-Airport road, Bus Terminals, he undid with unpopular policies that targeted the very poor, it was as if he was in a race to undo some of Tinubu and Fashola’s projects, they say if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it. Ambode was busy fixing projects that didn’t need fixing, from bus stops, to remodelling roads, it was a waste of time and resources. BRT buses were disappearing one after the other due to neglect, even Ambode’s newly constructed roads started developing potholes, the solutions became a problem. He did so well looking into inner city roads and improving on the Lagos Security Architecture, Lagos under him is one of the safest city by Nigerian standards. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Ambode’s greatest sin was taking away the garbage clearing project, thousands of poor people in Lagos, mostly party members employed as street cleaners and operators lost their means of livelihood. Ambode handed the task of cleaning Lagos over to a relatively unknown company called Visionscape Group, they did a terrible job, the only clean effort from Visionscape was to create a clean looking website, the new face of Lagos became the dirty face of Lagos.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Ambode unleashed one punitive tax system after the other on the people of Lagos, his most controversial being the land use tax, when he was advised to review the tax policy he was stubborn, indifferent and ruthless until the protest grew louder, he did not stop at that, he legislated his God fathers alleged tax collection firm company Alpha Betta as the sole collector, when citizens screamed scam, the state legislator claimed that legislating Alpha Betta into a state tax collection system was an “administrative mistake.”</div>
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Of all his attempt to fix inner city roads, Ambode waged war on poor people in waterfront areas, the people of Otogbgbame paid dearly for Ambode’s land grab schemes, over 200 structures belonging to poor people were razed down in 2016, the Egun and settler community around Lekki were seen by the government and elitist friends as an eyesore, to make matters worse the government disobeyed court orders, even when they got an injunction from the courts, like his predecessors Ambode mocked the Freedom of Information Act. Lagos is one of the few states where budgets are released without a breakdown.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Ambode is a product of the ‘baba sope’ collegiate contradiction and a victim of same. Hopefully the Yoruba "progressive" will learn from the resistance in Ondo, Ekiti, Kogi and the disaster of losing a Senatorial seat to a dancing clown and almost losing Osun Governorship to him as a warning shot. The warning being democracy is not a gift, it is a right, leaders are servants, entrusted with superintending the fair distribution of the commonwealth, they can’t keep distributing to their lackeys, friends, cousins, wives, concubines, brothers at the expense of qualified members of the public. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Many us have been saying it for years, both privately and in public, the <a href="https://twitter.com/AsiwajuTinubu">Asiwaju</a> Tinubu political structure would have to adapt to modern democratic ethos. The collegiate "baba sope" methods is plagued with contradictions and abuse, thus repeated conflicts. It is only a matter of time before it caves to the anger and discontent of followers and the electorate. For all his contributions to Nigeria’s democratic process, the legacy of Governor Tinubu will be better served if he stops getting involved in every selection process, let contest and processes be free and fair, Nigeria’s democratic process can only improve if internal party democratic process is free, transparent and fair, party membership open and attractive to the best who may disagree with the leaders of the party. It will be a shame for all his contributions for Governor Tinubu to leave the public with the image of the Lord of a Mafia group.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Land and resource ownership and control in Yoruba land, particularly in Lagos is now for the benefit of the few, economy of YORUBA circulates within the same elite. Thus, a Governor Ayo Fayose could challenge the traditional Yoruba left and “win” in Ekiti and it took the traditional left in Yoruba land adapting the play book of Ayo Fayose to “win’ back Ekiti. Usually it takes invoking the spirit of Obafemi Awolowo to win elections in the South West, that is fast changing, the people can’t spot the deference any more, they will rather take their chances with so called ‘akotiletas’ than stay with the so called ‘disciples of Awolowo’ <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Yoruba OMOLUABI ethos should not be the subjugation of the will of the people to the few. It is Justice for all, equality for all who live and reside in Yoruba land, irrespective of who they are, where they come from, what language they speak, we are meant to be the beacon of hope, the welcoming people who rejoice at the arrival of new settlers, the one who vacates the most beautiful part of the household to make the guest comfortable, the tolerant one, the one who’s strength is not in the ability to spill blood but the diplomatic prowess of stopping a war, the people who agree, but mostly agree to disagree. The ‘omo Karo o ji ire bi?’.</div>
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Fairness in the distribution and allocation of Yoruba resources for all who contribute to Yoruba land should now be the priority of Yoruba leaders, it should cross party and ideological lines. Not all Yoruba progressive or conservatives have done badly, even with their faults but a lot of bad has been done, yes, we can still point to some progress, but that is due to the determination and can-do attitude of Yoruba and all those who have chosen Yoruba Land as home. It is never too late to stop the house from fallen.</div>
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When was the last time you saw the poor analysing the conflict on Channels TV. CNN or Al Jazeera ? All you are are elites from both sides conjuring propaganda to suit their narratives, to make their own side the victims and the other side the aggressor, the real reason for the conflicts are hidden, when you cover up the real reason for conflicts how do you hope to get solutions.</div>
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Conflicts are good news for Nigerians politicians, it gets them elected, they are good news for journalists as it sells papers, brings in adverts on TV. They are good news for bloggers as it drives traffic to the website, they are amazing news for Nigerian NGO's as it increases money donors give them, they are good news for the office based Generals in the Armed forces as they get more security votes to steal.</div>
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Those killing Nigerians are Nigerians, those inflaming the crisis are Nigerians, those benefiting from the crisis are Nigerians, the victims are Nigerians, the solution is in Nigeria. We have a choice, Continue to DIG TRENCHES and BARRICADES or start a process of building BRIDGES or we may chose the bloody Road to Rwanda.</div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "sf optimized" , , , , , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;">2. In 2011 and 2015 I 💚Strongly supported @MBuhari to the elective post of @NGRPresident as a matter of fact I supported GMB candidacy physically, financially and in other ways in 2011 under the Congress for Progressive Change and opposed the then proposed merger with then ACN</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "sf optimized" , , , , , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;">4. Despite the opposition by several supporters of the CPC to the merger with ACN the political reality was that defeating a ruling party as entrenched as the @OfficialPDPNig the, would involve a marriage between the good, the bad and the ugly and the grassroot base of @MBuhari </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "sf optimized" , , , , , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;">6. @GEJonathan the opportunistic alliance of @MBuhari's base, the good, the bad and the ugly produced @APCNigeria Presidency and a first historic defeat of the ruling party in Nigeria @OfficialPDPNig </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "sf optimized" , , , , , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;">7. Expectations of several core CPC base was that @MBuhari would use his first term in office to carry out a needed radical reform especially has he had nothing to lose bearing in mind his age, track record on transparency, his patriotism and love for Nigeria and experience. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "sf optimized" , , , , , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;">8. @MBuhari failed very high expectation that he would do things radically </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "sf optimized" , , , , , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;">9. Party Politics: @MBuhari did not provide leadership to his @APCNigeria knowing that he was in bed with a coalition of good, bad and the ugly, he compounded things by letting his Uncle & few trusted clan mates to run his government in the early days. By his own admission he failed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "sf optimized" , , , , , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;">10. Emergence of @bukolasaraki : I am not a fan of Saraki, in fact I think he should be housed in the hottest part of Kirikiri for his corrupt tendencies, but he contributed to the emergence of @MBuhari as @NGRPresident but PMB mismanaged Saraki's emergence as @NGRSenate President.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "sf optimized" , , , , , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;">11. The moment @bukolasaraki was able to emerge as @NGRSenate President in spite of @MBuhari's posturing of (I belong to no one) his Presidency and agenda became demystified to an extent, those corrupt ones we assumed will take flight discovered GMB as PMB was vulnerable.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "sf optimized" , , , , , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;">12. @MBuhari assumed office as @NGRPresident, first move was to alienate his core supporters, his new friends and his Uncle started making appointments for him, appointments indicated unrivalled nepotism especially those from Northern Nigeria. It was embarrassing to put it nicely.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "sf optimized" , , , , , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;">13. When some parts of Nigeria started screaming about marginalisation, we told them to look at the so called Northern appointment, Dr Tilde put it so well as 'family affair' most appointment representing the North had traits of Cousins, wives, associates of Northern ruling elite.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "sf optimized" , , , , , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;">14. From day 1 core ‘BUHARISTS’ not later day debutants ‘BUHACHOPS’ started warning the @MBuhari Presidency about mismanaging the peoples mandate, we were labelled ‘attention seekers’ ‘just looking for appointment’ but @aishambuhari confirmed our position that today's PMB is not GMB.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "sf optimized" , , , , , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;">15. If @MBuhari and @APCNigeria had carried out half of the roadmaps presented to Nigerians, it would have radically transformed Nigeria. What Nigeria needs is a ‘shock treatment’. Nigeria has Cardiac arrest and we cannot continue to apply semantics, whilst those elected to find a lasting solution keep doing the opposite, keep repeating same failed experiment.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "sf optimized" , , , , , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;">16. Today what is left of APC are PMB himself 1. VERY FEW Core GMB Loyalist’s, 2. Disgruntled APC members who are (Rightly or Wrongly) not happy with PMB but too scared to leave. 3. APC Members who do not want to lose power and hoping their turn will come. 3. PDP members disguised as APC loyalist.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "sf optimized" , , , , , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;">19. The question is not about PMB wining in 2019 the question is what will be his legacy after 2019. He needs to entrench party politics, help in democratising his own party, attracting young folks and also learn the spirit of give and take in politics, bring back the GMB that we all know.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "sf optimized" , , , , , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;">20. It is in the interest of PMB and his legacy that the opposition party must be given a level playing feed to operate, that he PMB has failed to mentor anyone YOUNG and ready enough to take over from him in 2019 does not speak well of his leadership qualities. Never too late to make amends.</span></span><br />
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Kayode Ogundamisihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04291817365893312866noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129390682421185282.post-29951479541967724202017-10-15T02:36:00.003-07:002017-10-15T02:36:31.053-07:00.@WorldBank Loan: @MBuhari as a Northern @NGRPresident. When Bigots See a Reflection – Kayode @Ogundamisi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="text_exposed_show"><br />When we had the militancy in Niger Delta then President Yaradua and your hero Gridlock diverted billions of dollars to some few men who took up arms against the state, they called it ‘Amnesty programme’, today a chunk of the budget go into a programme that does not benefit the whole of Nigeria not even the whole of Niger Delta, just hundreds of violent kidnappers and militants with AK47. <br />Today those folks get the salary for doing nothing, you bigoted souls turn the blind eye. So, because Buhari is from the North he should not draw the attention of an international agency to his countries humanitarian crisis. <br />Guess what? if the North and hundreds of 'talakawas' in his base had lost confidence in Buhari because of the state of the economy, you guys keep mobilising them for him. First you wanted the Hitler of Abia to humiliate him and Nigeria, that failed. </span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show"><br />Now it is another propaganda series. There are many other ways to expose Buhari such as his handling of ‘Grass cGrasscutter, his NNPC contract saga, his inability to deal with corruption from within his own circle, the slow pace of recovery, some of his obvious acts of nepotism, his off and on sickness records as President, his inability to sack none performing Ministers and many more, but no, you go for North and South divide, when your hero failed it was Nigeria that failed, if Buhari fails Nigeria fails again. The choice is yours.</span></div>
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Kayode Ogundamisihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04291817365893312866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129390682421185282.post-32396934533148999472017-09-13T04:11:00.003-07:002017-09-13T04:11:43.155-07:00Get off the internet, It is Never too late to Join Nnamdi Kanu's IPOB Militias - Kayode Ogundamisi <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>They start their rhetoric with ‘I am not a fan of Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB’ and then go on a long false equivalence, stack all the blame on our service men and women asking them to ‘go and fight Boko Haram’. Why don’t you also leave the comforts of your homes in USA, UK, Asia or wherever it is you kiss your children good night safely at night whilst you encourage young helpless folks in the South East to throw bottles and projectiles at a National Army. As you ask the military to go and fight Boko Haram, you can also enlist in Nnamdi Kanu Biafra Secret Service or his ‘Lion Brigade Marines’ as a machinery, after all, Victor Banjo also fought in the Biafra Army in Civil War 1.</b></div>
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Who do you guys think have been in the North East for years? many of them dying, many of those soldiers from across Nigeria daily paying the supreme sacrifice to protect Nigerians.</div>
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Don’t be ashamed say where you stand, you all want Kanu and his militias to have a free ride, Nigeria can burn so long it brings that Buhari down, where have you all been for over 2 years that this character has been propagating worst rhetorics than what led to the Rwanda genocide. Be proud but don’t outsmart yourself with the now broken record of ‘I am not a fan of Nnamdi Kanu’ go home and join his army of militias.</div>
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Those of us who have been down this roads before, who witnessed the death of poor Yoruba boys and girls pushed into untimely death by leaders who kept their kids abroad will not let it happen again. I am not a fan of Nnamdi Kanu’s IPOB. I am not afraid to say that, yes to restructuring and if possible Nigeria can choose to break but not at the price of sending poor kids to untimely death, whilst your children are safe abroad, sorry you do not have my support. As Sec-Gen of the Oodua People Congress, I screamed endlessly on the need for a higher moral ground, we lost many, all the principal characters are doing well today, the leaders are well, their children are safe but hundreds of 'followers' are buried, felled by bullets, names never to be remembered, it is the duty of those of us who have been down this road before to make sure it never happens again, even if it means we have to stand alone. Once beaten 10 times shy.</div>
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We will continue to counter your narratives and your propaganda. We will condemn Buhari and the government if and when they do wrong as we have been doing, we will condemn aspects of the military operation if and when it violates the rights of citizens as we did condemn them when they invaded NUJ office in Abia State but for now, let the Python dance. Kanu said he's got the nuclear capabilities to stop the python from dancing, he did say he would wipe out any Nigerian soldier who may choose to come to his Biafra Republic, in this battle, just like Civil War 1 we won't have winners, we will all pay the price, sadly the ground zero of the battle will pay worst price. Before you come with your 'I am not a fan of Kanu', make some efforts in taming your Frankenstein monster before it consumes all. <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=410835422262846&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/kayode.ogundamisi/?fref=mentions" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Kayode Ogundamisi</a></div>
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Kayode Ogundamisihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04291817365893312866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129390682421185282.post-45265503939357329072017-09-01T03:36:00.002-07:002017-09-01T03:36:58.382-07:00Meet Up<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Kayode Ogundamisihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04291817365893312866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129390682421185282.post-55675737893194035812017-08-18T05:19:00.003-07:002017-08-18T05:19:23.387-07:00Ndi-Igbo – Biafra: Nnamdi Kanu’s nuclear weapon and the road to Self-Destruction – A short note by Kayode Ogundamisi.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Imaginary enemies are being created from North, South, East and West. The creators of the imaginary enemies are protected from the implosion that will emerge from misleading an IGNORANT mass.</div>
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How else can you describe the claim by IPOB’s Nnamdi Kanu and his Biafra travellers of possessing a nuclear weapon. Misleading a couple of young people into untimely death, making them believe they have some spiritual capability to defeat any force in the universe.</div>
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I experienced same with the Oodua People’s Congress. When you advise the young cadres not to overestimate or rely on some charm that will turn bullets into water, they laugh you off as the ‘grammar speaking’ Secretary General, sadly several young people did not live to see if the charm worked or not.</div>
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The claim of the possession of a nuclear weapon and the manipulated photo of a Deactivated soviet era SS-4 missile posted on Radio Biafra Facebook claimed to be an active Biafra missile may be funny to some, but it isn’t funny at all, I also laughed it off, but looking at the comment section, hundreds of young Igbo men and women believed it, some even calling for the immediate deployment of the weapon on Northern Nigeria.</div>
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<br />Nnamdi Kanu and his co-travellers are threading a very dangerous path, they are experimenting with something very dangerous, but the Igbo are threading a more dangerous path of self-destruct, they fail to learn from Northern Nigeria, the Northern political elites introduced Sharia, they defied then President Olusegun Obasanjo. All the States in the North introduced Sharia, most created private militias to enforce the law, when they were reminded Sharia was already part of the Nigerian constitution, they protested, to them it was a convenient political tool, religion was deployed for political gains, they claimed they had a right to self-determination, a right most of them later opposed when the OPC and others demanded for a Sovereign National Conference.</div>
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The move by Northern political leaders emboldened radical elements within the North, they planted the seed for Islamic militias who acted as Sharia police, that metamorphosed into hate preachers, that gave birth to Boko Haram, Boko Haram appointed commissioners in Borno State, they had funding’s from state governments across the North, then the monster started consuming the people, today Northern Nigeria is a war zone, that region can never survive the after effect of Boko Haram even if the evil group is defeated, will Ndi-Igbo learn from the North? I pray so.</div>
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<br />The Frankenstein Monster called IPOB is now claiming to have a private army, performing military drills, displaying ‘photo-shopped’ nuclear missiles, claiming to possess war weapons never imagined, yet one clash with the police the so-called Biafra Secret Police are unable to protect themselves, neither are they able to protect the innocent by stander in South East Nigeria.</div>
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<br />I weep for Nigeria. Newly independent Southern Sudan is exporting over a million refugees to her neighbour after independent from Sudan, will Ndi-Igbo put a leach on its Frankenstein Monster? Or are they pleased they finally have a mad man who can face that imaginary enemy? War is not a tea party, those who survived Biafra 1 should know better, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu also bragged, told his people they have all the weapons, at least Ojukwu did have some weapons, he deployed the resources of his wealthy father Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, KBE. Ojukwu deployed propaganda, his people bought it, they had a reason to, they had legitimate grievances, they had just faced a horrible pogrom, Ojukwu gave them hope, but hope does not win wars, preparation and a long standing strategy does, when the dream failed, Ojukwu had a plan B, a plane to take him away from the war zone, he did not forget to go with his Mercedes benz car, his immediate family and enough foreign currency to give him a comfortable life in exile, he lived in a mansion facing the sea side, his people are still traumatised till today. He came back from exile, joined the party of the so-called enemy, he joined National Party of Nigeria a party perceived to be ‘Northern’. He died a Nigerian, buried with the green white green flag wrapped around his casket. Hundreds of wounded Biafra soldiers still litter Enugu-Anambra roads till today begging for alms to at least have one food a day.</div>
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<br />Today the new sef acclaimed Igbo messiah, self-styled spiritual leader who claims to heal the sick Nnamdi Kanu is going down the same path Ojukwu took, he seems to have studied Ojukwu’s mannerism and use of propaganda and exploitation of genuine grievances and Igbo’s are watching and relishing the drumbeat of war.</div>
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When the rain falls, it won’t fall on the roof of Kanu’s fathers compound in Abia State. It will fall on us all. The irony is that most of those playing the drum beats of war have dual nationality, they have their immediate families far removed from ground zero, it is the poor of North, South, East and West who will pay for the madness.</div>
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The Nigerian government are also failing in tackling the scourge, they are dismissive of Kanu, they underestimate the power of propaganda, they fail to understand that Nigeria is blessed with an Army of unemployed people, this rejected and oppressed people will fall for anything, in the absence of a responsible government any psychopath who speak the right language will get the loyalty of millions of vulnerable people, mostly young with a lot of energy.</div>
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Nigerian government must look at the demands of all groups, engage with them, they should also increase the capacity of the security to tackle insurgency with limited violation of the rights of citizens. ALL OPTIONS MUST BE ON THE TABLE.</div>
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Kayode Ogundamisihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04291817365893312866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129390682421185282.post-34081033472081671462016-08-11T22:56:00.000-07:002016-08-11T22:56:25.115-07:00My Mothers Fried Meat and Nigeria’s Thieving Elite – Written by Kayode Ogundami<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">I think I must have been 9 when my Mum caught me stealing fried meat from her steaming Egusi soup. Back then my Sister Iyabo and I were always given one piece of meat to share. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">On days when I had the task of dividing the meat, Iyabo got to choose and vice versa. We always ate from the same plate. Our younger brother Segun, who tragically died young, always ate with our Mum and Dad. He was the last-born then. My other Sister, Dupe lived with my grandmother and I had no idea what the procedure was for ensuring she consumed some protein.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">In our own case, the fact that we always had to share one piece of meat niggled away at me. I always wondered why our neighbour’s children got to have a piece of meat each while two of us had to make do with one. In hindsight, I guess this was the first and perhaps most influential lesson in moderation, fairness and equity I was taught. It however wasn’t the biggest nor the most important that my mum would teach and again fried meat would also play a central role in my learning. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">One day my mum called me to keep an eye on the Egusi soup she was preparing and which was bubbling away on the hot stove in the communal kitchen my family shared with other inhabitants of the compound we called home. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">As soon as mother left, the fried meat started talking to me. Various pieces of fried meat danced to the beat from the heat; Egusi, Palm Oil; and the vegetable soup Yoruba - call ‘Sokoyokoto’ all conspired in a beat and dance whose whispers were too seductive to resist. My will was broken and I couldn't take it any longer. Since I was put in charge, there was really no reason I rationalised why I have to wait for dinner to share a piece of meat with my sister when I could and for the first time too, have one all to myself. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">I swooped in for the kill. Dipped my hand into that hot soup, didn’t even feel any heat and grabbed the most inviting looking piece of meat, but as my hand started the short journey into my mouth, I felt a hand grab my right fist. I did not need to turn to realise I had been caught, red handed. My Mum the one I always call the ‘Lion’ of the house, smiled and said. "Don't worry Kayode eat it" </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">The sarcasm was not lost on me, or the deadliness of that smile. I dropped the meat on the floor, waiting for the beating of my life but my Mum didn’t raise a finger. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">We had dinner, Mum gave Iyabo and I the usual one piece of meat. I shared it and as I was about to pick my portion she directed Iyabo to eat hers and mine. The reason for her decision was of course clear to me but lost on my Dad who was unaware of what happened in the afternoon. So he protested, fighting my battle, my late Dad was the gentle Dove, not until you start seeing photographs or hear is friends tell tales of his gallantry as a Soldier in the Nigerian Army would you ever think he was once a Soldier, my dad in his usual manner gave up, the stern look from my Mum was clear, he simply let go promising to buy me something special as compensation and choosing not to argue with my mum. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">After we finished eating, we watched NTA news, said our night prayers, (that family prayer conducted by a Christian Father and a Muslim Father both continuously trying to convince us on the right faith), anyway that night we moved items around and as was the practice turned the living room into a bed room for us the children while my parents retired to the 2nd room. We lived in what is known in local parlance as room and parlour. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">I was fast asleep in the middle of the night when my mum woke me up. She also roused my younger ones and sent them into the other room to join my Dad. I cannot write what she did to me here. None Yoruba will never understand it suffice to say the punishment shaped my life. I made up my mind never to take what does not belong to me again and in fact never even thought about it. Somehow my mother equated my first and last attempt at pilfering with such heinous crimes like murder in my mind. This is the day that I believe the foundation for my abhorrence for corruption was born. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">As we continue to fight to build a strong Nigeria in which the commonwealth is used for the common good, I can’t help but wonder what lessons the Mothers of the thieves of billions of naira taught? Surely, the majority of our mothers taught the same powerful lesson I received so how come we have ended up as a nation in which well-known figures feel no shame in stealing massive amounts especially given its impact on the lives of some 180 million Nigerians? When did it become culturally acceptable that stealing isn’t corruption or that padding the commonwealth of the many into the pockets of a few law breakers is acceptable or that a thief from my tribe is doing right by stealing as a form of revenge for the stealing perpetuated by the rogue from the other tribe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">How did we end up with a country where we can not have a cross party, cross tribe, cross gender, cross cultural, cross religion coalition in the fight against corruption and bad governance? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">Today 12th August 2016, 3 decades later as I mark my 48th year on earth, I continue to remember and feel my mother’s disgust. I believe it has guided my conduct and shaped the direction of my life. I wonder what Mothers of our ‘distinguished’ thieves’ make of their actions and if they feel the shame their ‘illustrious’ sons and daughters won’t or refuse to feel. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">We can continue to hold on to hope but until we agree to save Nigeria from Nigerians, that revolving door will keep producing the same corrupt element, those who steal, claim to repent, turn anti corruption campaigners and then refuse to return what they have forcefully taken away from the Nigerian people. It is never too late to save the homeland.</span></span><br />
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We have strong evidences of FRAUD against some elements parading themselves as members of IstandwithBuhari.</div>
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1. ISWB Concept</div>
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This is a registered business name (not an NGO) founded by Chinedu Okpalanma, the erstwhile DG of ISWB. Documents show that himself and some other elements are its founders. The attached letterhead clearly shows the business name ISWB Concept in two places.</div>
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2. Soliciting for Money</div>
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Contrary to many assertions by the ISWB elements that they are not looking to make or share money, that they are purely funded by members of the ISWB organization, we have evidence on the contrary by way of the attached letter. (Page 2)</div>
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As seen in Page 2, ISWB members have sent out many letters to Nigerians soliciting for ridiculous amounts of money. We obtained the attached letter from a VIP who was criminally approached for a sum in excess of N1 Billion Naira. We were approached by this same VIP in confidence. This VIP has already informed us that he intends to petition the relevant security agencies to look into the matter as he believes this is clearly fraudulent. We also have proof of several other politicians and heads of industry that have been approached by this dubious criminals. We will publish more letters/documents in due course.</div>
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We reckon it is criminal case and misleading to use a registered business name, as an NGO (i.e not for profit entity) soliciting for monies from Nigerians running into several billions. We have already sent a petition to the relevant authorities to look into the matter.</div>
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3. Chinedu Okpalanma</div>
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We have evidence showing Chinedu is the main founder, he remains within the organization as its arrow head working from the background never showing himself to the public while using other puppets to call the shots. He never resigned, He only changed his public role from DG to the Board Secretary of ISWB and still runs the show.<br />4. Ogochukwu Ezeaku</div>
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He is the founder & CEO of montage Africa. He is notoriously known for coveting top Government officials in return for favors. Montage Africa is known to host the annual MAWEA (montage Africa women in excellence award).</div>
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In 2013 he hosted an award where he celebrated several PDP Bigwigs including many persons that have stolen from Nigeria (and they claim they are fighting corruption). Amongst the list of his award recipients, Patience GEJ tops the list, with the likes of Diezani & Stella Oduah amongst those he celebrated. He is the Board Chairman of ISWB and now wants us to believe he is leading a campaign against corruption. We are yet to see ISWB attack Diezani or Stella Oduah in its anti corruption campaign. We attach relevant information which is widely available in the Internet.</div>
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In November 2015, he unsuccessfully organized another MAWEA event where he lobbied APC women faithful which turned out to be a disaster due to amount of those that shunned the event. This is why he is hell bent on coming at this government with deceit at any cost.</div>
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Ogochukwu operates completely out of the media reach just like his accomplice Chinedu. We know why they are hiding!</div>
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NB - 15 lungi Street Wuse 2 Abuja is the corporate HQ of both montage Africa and ISWB. Refer to the bottom corner of the letterhead.</div>
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NB - the GSM number 08087777318 is the official number of ISWB on its letterhead, fliers and billboard. It was the number our investigators reached Chinedu.</div>
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5. Nine million man rally</div>
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We call on the security agencies to invite the ISWB members to firstly deny them clearance for this deceitful rally. It is neither beneficial to the president nor does it justify the yearnings of many poor who do not even stand a chance of affording the trip to Abuja. If any group is allowed to assemble even 100,000 people on a working day (which 31st March is), that group is capable of undermining security and only Gods knows the type of agenda these people have. We have already sent a petition to relevant security agencies for further action.</div>
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OUR POSITION<br />We call on the CnC to immediately deploy the necessary government officials to dissociate his government from this group, to arrest the people responsible for this campaign of calumny, and have this group dissolved immediately.</div>
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We call on the elements of ISWB to call off their shameless plot of FRAUD within the next 24 hours. Failure to heed advice, will result in an all out assault as we plan to release full identities of members and their financial backers, pictures taken, proof of meetings, voice recordings, copies of letters and other documentation of this monumental FRAUD.<br />...more to come.</div>
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"Let me start by saying that I am Fulani (laughter). My grandfather was an Emir and therefore I represent all that has been talked about this afternoon. Sir Ajayi has written a book. And like all Nigerians of his generation, he has written in the language of his generation.</div>
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"My grandfather was a Northerner, I am a Nigerian. The problem with this country is that in 2009, we speak in the language of 1953. Sir Olaniwun can be forgiven for the way he spoke, but I cannot forgive people of my generation speaking in that language.</div>
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"Let us go into this issue because there are so many myths that are being bandied around. Before colonialism, there was nothing like Northern Nigeria, Before the Sokoto Jihad, there was nothing like the Sokoto caliphate. The man from Kano regard himself as bakane. The man from Zaria was bazazzage. The man from <span style="line-height: 19.32px;">Katsina was bakatsine. The kingdoms were at war with each other. They were Hausas, they were Muslims, they were killing each other.</span></div>
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"The Yoruba were Ijebu, Owo, Ijesha, Akoko, Egba. When did they become one? When did the North become one? You have the Sokoto Caliphate that brought every person from Adamawa to Sokoto and said it is one kingdom. They now said it was a Muslim North.</div>
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"The Colonialists came, put that together and said it is now called the Northern Nigeria. Do you know what happened? Our grand fathers were able to transform to being Northerners. We have not been able to transform to being Nigerians. The fault is ours. Tell me, how many governors has South West produced after Awolowo that are role models of leadership? How many governors has the East produced like Nnamdi Azikiwe that can be role models of leadership? How Many governors in the Niger Delta are role models of leadership? Tell me. There is no evidence statistically that any part of this country has produced good leaders. You talk about Babangida and the economy. Who were the people in charge of the economy during Babangida era? Olu Falae, Kalu Idika Kalu. What state are they from in the North?</div>
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"We started the banking reform; the first thing I heard was that in Urobo land, that there will be a curse of the ancestors. I said they (ancestors) would not answer. They said why? I said how many factories did Ibru build in Urobo land? So, why will the ancestors of the Urobo people support her?</div>
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"We talk ethnicity when it pleases us. It is hypocrisy. You said elections were rigged in 1959, Obasanjo and Maurice Iwu rigged election in 2007. Was it a Southern thing? It was not.</div>
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"The problem is: everywhere in this country, there is one Hausa, Ibo, Yoruba and Itshekiri man whose concern is how to get his hands on the pile and how much he can steal. Whether it is in the military or in the civilian government, they sit down, they eat together. In fact, the constitution says there must be a minister from every state.</div>
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"So, anybody that is still preaching that the problem of Nigeria is Yoruba or Hausa or Fulani, he does not love Nigeria . The problem with Nigeria is that a group of people from each and every ethnic tribe is very selfish. The poverty that is found in Maiduguri is even worse than any poverty that you find in any part of the South.</div>
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The British came for 60 years and Sir Ajayi talked about few numbers of graduates in the North (two at independence) . What he did not say was that there was a documented policy of the British when they came that the Northerner should not be educated. It was documented. It was British colonial policy. I have the document. I have published articles on it. That if you educate the Northerner you will produce<br />
progressive Muslim intellectuals of the type we have in Egypt and India. So, do not educate them. It was documented. And you say they love us (North)."I have spent the better part of my life to fight and Dr. (Reuben) Abati knows me. Yes, my grandfather was an Emir. Why was I in the pro-democracy movement fighting for June 12? Is (Moshood) Abiola from Kano ? Why am I a founding director of the Kudirat Initiative for Nigerian Development (KIND)?</div>
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"There are good Yoruba people, good Igbo people, good Fulani people, good Nigerians and there are bad people everywhere. That is the truth. "Stop talking about dividing Nigeria because we are not the most populous country in the world. We have all the resources that make it easy to make one united great Nigeria . It is better if we are united than to divide it.</div>
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"Every time you talk about division, when you restructure, do you know what will happen? In Delta Area, the people in Warri will say Agbor, you don't have oil. When was the Niger Delta constructed as a political entity? Ten years ago, the Itshekiris were fighting the Urobos. Isn't that what was happening? Now they have become Niger Delta because they have found oil. After, it will be, if you do not have oil in your village then you cannot share our resources.</div>
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"There is no country in the world where resources are found in everybody's hamlet. But people have leaders and they said if you have this geography and if we are one state, then we have a responsibility for making sure that the people who belong to this country have a good nature.</div>
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"So, why don't you talk about; we don't have infrastructure,we don't have education, we don't have health. We are still talking about Fulani. Is it the Fulani cattle rearer or is anybody saying there is no poverty among the Fulani? Nigeria is ours to make!" </div>
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Kayode Ogundamisihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04291817365893312866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129390682421185282.post-74682839740306675222016-03-07T06:33:00.005-08:002016-03-07T06:53:02.981-08:00@Ogundamisi vicious attack unwaranted Say's Director General Chinedu Okpalanma of #iStandWithBuhari as he resigns.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Director-General of the #iStandWithBuhari campaign, Engr. Chinedu<br />
Okpalanma, has responded to Kayode Ogundamisi, the journalist and political<br />
commentator who accused him of being a fraud because of his past role as<br />
co-founder of the #BringBackGoodluck2015 initiative. He said he was<br />
dismayed by Ogundamisi’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>vicious
campaign against his character and<br />
person just so he could pull down a nationalistic movement to which I and<br />
millions of well-meaning Nigerians have freely subscribed to via the<br />
affirmative statement #istandwithbuhari.</span></span><br />
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Okpalanma has also resigned as the DG of the campaign, saying that he took<br />
the step to show that the initiative is sincere and not about him. He said<br />
that following the backlash which greeted the news that he was the DG of<br />
the organisation, he felt the need to resign so that the group can achieve<br />
its lofty ideals without being bogged by distractions about his personality.<br />
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Admitting that he was one of the founders of the group, he said he was not<br />
alone as the campaign is a collection of young Nigerians from all works of<br />
life and different religious beliefs & political inclinations who came<br />
together with one ideal in mind: that it is time for us as individuals to<br />
see ourselves as Nigeria and seize this golden opportunity towards ensuring<br />
that Project Nigeria does not fail.<br />
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From the time Goodluck Jonathan won the 2011 election, I was one of his<br />
biggest critics. I was vocal and marched on the streets during the<br />
#OccupyNigeria protests, I wrote open letters to the Presidency in anger at<br />
some of the names his government found worthy of national merit awards, I<br />
also wrote on various public platforms on my disappointment at the then<br />
President’s seeming inability to act even when it seemed there was<br />
overwhelming evidence of impunity against his cabinet members. In all of<br />
this though, I remained steadfast in the belief that things would change,<br />
he said.<br />
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However, Okpalanma stated that as the 2015 elections approached, he began<br />
to be convinced that the Jonathan administration was more under siege for<br />
political reasons and that sabotage was a scheme being used to oust him by<br />
any means necessary. Coupled with the revolution I was witnessing in the<br />
agricultural sector & seeming revival of our railway system, I felt he was<br />
my best candidate to continue and thus I put in my whole support for his<br />
candidacy without coercion.<br />
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He however insisted that he never met the former president in person, was<br />
not sponsored by the presidency as he went about expending resources in<br />
trying to sensitize Nigerians to vote for Jonathan, and was never given a<br />
penny or contract by former ministers, agencies of government, friends of<br />
the President or even the embattled NSA Sambo Dasuki.<br />
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Okpalanma insisted in his statement that he withdrew support for Goodluck<br />
Jonathan along with his group long before the 2015 elections. My reasons<br />
then were simple. By November 2014, I was no longer comfortable with the<br />
information filtering out on how huge monies were moved from person to<br />
person in government circles. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
concluded then that Nigeria was being sold<br />
off to the highest bidder without our knowledge, and I believed that even<br />
if Goodluck Jonathan won the elections, there were facts to suggest this<br />
same people around him fingered in various illicit transactions would<br />
continue in office with him, as it seemed he was incapable of acting to<br />
change things, he said.<br />
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As a result, Okpalanma said by December 2014, he started a process of<br />
moving his support with that of 1.9 million Nigerians who had signed up to<br />
his campaign, to supporting the candidacy of President Muhammadu Buhari. He<br />
said there are people currently in government who can attest to the fact<br />
that he stood with Buhari even before the elections.<br />
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He took exception with the attempts by some people to make it seem as<br />
though only those who supported President Buhari before can participate in<br />
any cause to support his policies now. Are these advocates now saying that<br />
President Muhammadu Buhari <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>& his
political party should not work with other<br />
well-meaning Nigerians who believe in this administration and are ready to<br />
sacrifice all to ensure things change for our collective good? He said.<br />
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Speaking on why he supported Buhari, Okpalanma said his turning point was<br />
#DasukiGate. He lamented that such huge amount of money could have been<br />
diverted by one individual under our noses, and even though he thought at<br />
first that it was a witchhunt, he now believes it is true due to the<br />
confessions by those who received cash. Furthermore, he said he understood<br />
that the fight against corruption needed to be more people oriented than<br />
government oriented when he saw some Nigerians defending #DasukiGate. That<br />
was when I made up my mind to sign up with #istandwithbuhari, he said.<br />
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Okpalanma said it will be criminal to leave the task ahead to Buhari alone.<br />
As at this moment, everything I am seeing shows me that President<br />
Muhammadu Buhari is not sleeping on the job, but doing everything within<br />
legal means to ensure Nigeria lives. To rejig a system that has completely<br />
decayed and failed needs courage, prayers and support. I am doing my bit by<br />
supporting #istandwithbuhari, not trying to bring it down. If my stand is<br />
giving certain individuals or group of individual’s sleepless nights, then<br />
May they remain awake for eternity, he said.<br />
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He insisted that the #istandwithbuhari group has no endorsement from<br />
President Buhari and has not sought any sort of financial support from the<br />
President or by extension his government. I have never vied for any<br />
political position in my life (and have no intentions of doing same), nor<br />
have I ever submitted my CV for consideration for political appointment to<br />
any government, thus my involvement with #istandwithbuhari is not for<br />
political favours. I am in this because I believe in this, period, he<br />
said.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Kayode Ogundamisihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04291817365893312866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129390682421185282.post-86547912329471817852016-01-31T06:36:00.003-08:002016-01-31T06:36:33.235-08:00 .@StellaOduah #AviationScam disguised as Airport Renovation 26 point Commentary by Kayode @ogundamisi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I made 26 Comments on twitter regarding @StellaOduah and<a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/aviationscam?source=feed_text&story_id=784511378349723" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl" style="color: #627aad;">#</span><span class="_58cm">AviationScam</span></a> disguised as Airport Renovation. Someone did kindly compile it here. Please read.</h2>
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1. @stellaoduah if you love <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/nigeria?source=feed_text&story_id=784511378349723" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl" style="color: #627aad;">#</span><span class="_58cm">Nigeria</span></a> you will voluntarily report some of the contractors awarded 'airport renovation scam' to <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=18501537167" href="https://www.facebook.com/efccnigeria.org/" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)</a></div>
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2. Dear followers I will be reviewing the 'Airport Renovation' contracts awarded by @stellaoduah as Aviation Minister under #AviationScam.</div>
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3. 1 of the highlight of @stellaoduah was the commendable project called 'Airport Renovation' but it ended up being one huge #AviationScam.</div>
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4. @stellaoduah you awarded Archvisual Solutions got paid N615,857,357.09 for 'upgrade of MMIA 11 terminal' but MMIA11 is a PPP & no renovation.</div>
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5. @stellaoduah why did ArchVisual walk away with N615,857,357.09 when they had no terminal renovation to make in MMIA11? #AviationScam.</div>
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6. @stellaoduah Ngonyama Okpanum collected N99,179,509.17 as consultancy remodelling of CAL,PH,YOLA, JOS & ENUGU terminals. #AviationScam.</div>
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7. @stellaoduah issue is whilst Okpanum walked away with N99,179,509.17 as 'consultancy' they never met with any on site firm. #AviationScam.</div>
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8. @stellaoduah now let us point out the amazing ABUJA CAR PARK extension contract. Maczoll ltd got N838,875,488.69 & work noted COMPLETED.</div>
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9. @stellaoduah anyone who flies via Abuja Airport will know that 'carpark extension' is far from 'completed' Maczoll ltd made free money.</div>
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10. @stellaoduah curious thing about Abuja car park contract is Maczoll got paid ALL its fee N838,875,488.69 b4 moving to site <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/airportscam?source=feed_text&story_id=784511378349723" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl" style="color: #627aad;">#</span><span class="_58cm">AirportScam</span></a></div>
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11. @stellaoduah how can you pay Maczoll all money even when they had not mobilise ONE WORKER to site? Abuja Aiport car park is a disgrace.</div>
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12. @stellaoduah Obis's ltd got N697,886,560.88 for upgrade of PH terminal building Airport and it is noted as 95% completed. #AirportScam</div>
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13. @stellaoduah if U've been to PH Airport lately that terminal building isn't 95% completed AT ALL Obis's ltd made a cool N697,886,560.88</div>
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14. @stellaoduah even Enugu & Owerri Airport Terminal buildings did not escape #AviationScam Enugu is claimed 100% Completed Oweri Completed</div>
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15 Obis's ltd got N598,095,100.69 for Enugu &Mesh Ltd got N459,070,736.28 for Owerri both claimed to have COMPLETED renovation #AviationScam</div>
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16. @stellaoduah what is mind mysterious about #AviationScam is that what is stated COMPLETED in your handover note tallies not with REALITY</div>
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17. @stellaoduah U spent a total of N7,537,636,232.61 under phase 1 for reconstruction & N7,793,222,484.17 for consultancy under phase 1.</div>
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18. @stellaoduah real #Aviationscam is how actual reconstruction N7,537,636,232.61 & consultancy N7,793,222,484.17 almost tallied?<a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/weird?source=feed_text&story_id=784511378349723" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl" style="color: #627aad;">#</span><span class="_58cm">weird</span></a></div>
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19. @stellaoduah I'VE spreadsheets up to Phase3. I will not even bother going any further, please review & help #Nigeria by speaking to EFCC</div>
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20. @stellaoduah it is obvious to me Airport Remodelling was a disguise for #AviationScam Airports now have ABANDONED PROJECTS & dilapidation</div>
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21. @stellaoduah if money paid to contractors had been well utilised U would have had legacy of handing over top class terminal buildings</div>
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22. @stellaoduah bright spot in #AviationScam is that GAT1 terminal was evidently completed but was it a scam to convince GEJ to release yams?</div>
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23. I am further amazed that you did not spare Enugu & Owerri Airport from #AviationScam one would think they would have been saved.</div>
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24. @stellaoduah the implication of Nigerian Airports Terminal building #AviationScam is that we now need more money to completed projects</div>
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25. @stellaoduah I hope you will have a rethink and voluntarily assist @EFCC_Nigeria in tracking down those firms involved in #AviationScam.</div>
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26. @stellaoduah I respectfully brought #AviationScam to your attention just in case you are an innocent victim. Best Regards <a aria-haspopup="true" aria-owns="js_c" class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=410835422262846" href="https://www.facebook.com/kayode.ogundamisi/" id="js_d" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Kayode Ogundamisi</a></div>
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Kayode Ogundamisihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04291817365893312866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129390682421185282.post-48313186228262419312015-12-08T08:02:00.004-08:002015-12-08T08:15:19.868-08:00Prominent @radiobiafralive Supporter @adeyinkagradson remanded In UK Prison for allegedly battering his wife. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Close ally to @radiobiafralive founder Nnamdi Kanu. Mr A<span class="st1"><span style="color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">deyinka Gradson Shoyemi
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Adeyinka Gradson who is reputed for using his Facebook profile to
promote the agitation for Nigeria’s Break <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and unflinching support for UK based Nigerian
hate speech station radiobiafra was arrested by UK Police on August of 2015. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mr Gradson is now being held at </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Her Majesty Prison Woodhill a category A
male prison, located in Milton Keynes, England. Adeyinka is</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> awaiting
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mr Shoyemi Adeyinka Gradson is set to return to court on the
11<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> January 2016. His close friend commenced a Facebook fund
raising campaign calling on all “IPOB family members” and “Friends of Adeyinka”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to assist in raising fund for legal representation,
in a Facebook appeal Gradson’s friend accused UK <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>state appointed solicitors of colluding with
the police to keep Adeyinka in prison. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Robert S. Goldstein</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">(Published in the Morning Post, Lagos, August 17, 1968)</span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;">As your Public Relation's Representative in the United States, it is my distasteful duty to tender my resignation based on the following points: </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;">POINT 1 - In November of 1967 when we met in Umuahia, you and your Cabinet were very impressive. You told me of the woes of your little Republic, that thousands of people had died, were dying and more were prepared to die for freedom's sake.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;">You and your Cabinet told me you believed world opinion would help your cause if you could get your story across.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;">You expressed the opinion that very few if any people in the United States knew of the plight of the Biafrans.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;">You asked me to tell the world that Britain had teamed up with Russia in a conspiracy with the Federal Government of Nigeria to murder every Ibo in Biafra. You suggested I use my talents to induce the Press to write about the Biafran side of the war, as at that time all news came out of Lagos.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;">You will recall I did not take the asssignment that day but stayed on several days before deciding to take that job.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;">To help win the peace </span><span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;">At that time I stated to you and your cabinet that I was taking the assignment making it crystal clear I would try my best to help win the peace not the war.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;">POINT TWO - I immediately arranged the first world Press conference in Biafra inviting the US Press as well as journalists and television people from England, France, Switzerland, Africa and other parts of the Globe. This was the first news break through. I arranged regular trips into Biafra for the world Press, helped set up stringers, etc., so that your statements and the statements of your Cabinet would be heard.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;">At that time, I was absolutely positive you were right and your cause was a just one in the best interests of the free world and your countrymen.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;">POINT THREE - Finally the Republic of Biafra was recognized first by Tanzania, then quickly followed by Gabon, the Ivory Coast and Zambia. Our public relations work was paying off, world opnion was starting to side with us.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;">Peace talks were arranged at Kampala. I thought that if anyone walked away from the table it would be the Federal Government. But to my dismay it was Biafra that left the Conference. After all the fighting and killing, I knew that peace would not come easy but I could not understand leaving the Peace Conference until the last point was negotiated and the avenue explored.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;">POINT FOUR - Then urgent telex messages were received from 'Biafra' telling of tens of thousands of people starving in the refugee camps, the villages, the bush country - stating if something werent done in the next few months over a million women, children and aged would be starved to death. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;">I immediately contacted the Press, urgently petitioned the State Department for action on their part. Food, medicine and milk were sent to the only available ports open for immediate shipment to 'Biafra' via land routes through Federal and Biafra territory, under the auspices of world organizations such as the International Red Cross among others.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;">Then came the incredible answer from 'Biafra' that land corridors could not be acceptable until there was a complete ceasefire, and that an airlift was the only solution to feed the starving.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;">You then appeared before the various Heads of State and representatives of the OAU at Niamey in Niger. I fully expected you to at least accept the world help that was offered your starving throngs. However, you delayed, hoping to use these unfortunates with world sympathy on their side as a tool to further your ambition to achieve war concessions at the upcoming peace talks in Addis Ababa. Thus innocent victims continue to perish needlessly of starvation, the most agonising death that can befall any living creature.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;">POINT FIVE - This was incredible to me. I am now convinced that I have been used by you and your cabinet to help in military adventures of your origin....using your starving hordes as hostages to negotiate a victory.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;">If at some later date, following the issuance of this letter, you do concede to allow a mercy land corridor...would you expect me to agree to espouse before the world Press the incredible delay of your decision. What explanation could I honestly give for the needless prolongation of this horror.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;">Inconceivable acts</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;">I pray this communication may in some small way influence you to move affirmatively, allowing the mercy land corridor to be born.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;">It is inconceivable to me that you would stop the feeding of thousands of your countrymen (under auspicies of world organizations such as the International Red Cross, World Council of Churches and many more) via a land corridor which is the only practical way to bring in food to help at this time. It is inconceivable to me that men of good faith would try to twist world opinion in such a manner as to deceive people into believing that the starvation and hunger that is consuming 'Biafra' is a plot of Britain, Nigeria and others to commit genocide.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;">POINT SIX - I cannot in all conscience serve you any longer. Nor can I be a party to suppressing the fact that your starving thousands have the food, medicine and milk available to them.....it can and is ready to be delivered through international organizations to you. Only your constant refusal has stopped its delivery.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;">I am this date, tendering my resignation and am returning to Mr. Collins Obih of the African Continental Bank all the fees you have given me (Letter of Credit No. 354 $400,000 US.)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;">I have sent your representative in New York a Bond in the amount of 800.000 pounds that I was holding in your behalf. I have also this date, sent the Bond of 200,000 pounds issues by the Central Bank of Nigeria back to them for disposal.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6ec; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;">POINT SEVEN - I am now convinced that one Nigeria is the only solution to peace. I also call upon you Mr. Ojukwu to allow your starving people to be fed. Their well-being is of deep concern to me as well as other right thinking people of the world. Your acting in the utmost haste in this matter is in my opinion the first step toward any lasting peace in your country."</span></div>
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DG Sola Omole accused of Diverting new NTA equipments including two new Outside Broadcast (OB) Vans to start his own private TV.</div>
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Sources within Nigerian Television Authority are accusing Director General Sola Omole of removing new equipments including two new OB Vans. The OB Vans and other broadcasting equipments including digital cameras, new multiple</div>
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Teradek Bolt Pro 600 Wireless HD-SDI/HDMI Wireless Dual format Transmitters & Receiver Sets and filming dro<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">nes can no longer be found.</span></div>
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The equipments were purchased at the request of the DG and delivered to NTA in the period leading up to 2015 Election. Mr. Sola Omole, the Director General of NTA is said to be planning to launch his own new Private Television Station when he leaves NTA following in the footstep of a former NTA DG Ben Bruce.</div>
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Sola Omole and others were hurriedly granted radio and TV licence by President <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=105479482835768" href="https://www.facebook.com/jonathangoodluck" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Goodluck Jonathan</a> The missing equipments are said to be part of Omole's new private venture.<br />
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Kayode Ogundamisihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04291817365893312866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129390682421185282.post-38421478958763471032015-08-28T02:42:00.000-07:002015-08-28T02:42:17.143-07:00Oga @MBuhari Nigerians Need IGBO to make We Head Correct Gan ni so we no go dey scream mogbe! mogbe! !<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Oga @MBuhari Nigerians Need IGBO to make We Head Correct Gan ni so we no go dey scream mogbe! mogbe! !<br />
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Make i first thank you Buhari, since you waka come goat don dey run from yam, since you waka come Nigeria don dey get small small respect for International community, since you waka come e be like say light sef don take style improve, since you waka come thieiving don become corruption, since you waka come civil servants don dey check themselves, even soja boyz sef don take style serious, but he get wan small matter wey I wan put my mouth.<br />
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So na season 3 of my Ogbonge oga Buhari appointment, for season 1 oga appoint Garba and Femi, me I vex I talk say why oga need 2 town criers, country people say make I take ‘EYES WATER’ kulu my temper down, okay I come kulu down, then Season 2 oga Buhari come appoint some people again, I come say why many Ahmodu, Mohhamed come full inside, but people say I too dey quick misyarn, dem say make I kuku, okay I come kulu, then yesterday Season 3 oga Buhari come make im 3rd set of appointments, na so so people wey dey the other side of River Niger full am, ahh! Ahh! Ahh! Mogbe! Mogbe! Mogbe! Na so I come scream say wetin dey happen? I vex again, na so people say make I shut up. <br />
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Dem say even if Oga Buhari pack all im cow for im Daura farm so long dem be ogbonge competent people I no matter, I come ask say why e be say na for only other side of river Niger competent people dey? Dem say make I shut up again say na people we yoga Buhari trust e go walk with! Ah! Ah! Ah! Mo gbe! Mo Gbe! Mo daran! So all those people wey bin dey follow oga Buhari from Imo from Ondo from Akwa Ibom since ANPP days oga no trust dem? Ah! Mogbe ! Mogbe! So if I enter Villa now na so so babanriga I go dey see, no be so dat Otoueke man pack people wey im ‘trust’ for villa? Ijaw people, but that time we shout, we scream, we say mogbe! Mogbe! mogbe! For Army Ihejirika sweep all our people from the other side of River Niger pack im Ndi Bayi brothers, Stella Oduah pack im igbo people for Aviation, we scream yepa! Mo Gbe Mo gbe but now dem say make we no scream!<br />
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I beg me I don write memo go give oga Buhari, no let oraisa people deceive you o! Federal Character mean say make you look for COMPETENT people from across the country, we no say you get good intention but Nigeria na wan kain country wey be say efery action wey u take, country people go look am with correct lence, people wey fit change Nigeria dey efery part of Nigeria, people wey you fit trust dey Uyo, dem dey Argungu, dem dey Otoueke, dem even dey France, dey New York make you open yah touché light look for people deep inside Nigeria, no let bad belle people come distract your good intentions with controversy wey u no need, for diz business of changing Nigeria we must make sure say we do am with equity. No let anybody deceive you say e no mata, e mata gan ni, if e no mata why Jamb dey say person we come for wan side need 180 to enter university and person for the other side need 250. If e no matter why e be say some state no dey contribute nada internaly but some state dey give Oyel, some dey give plenty VAT tax for cigger and ogogoro yet some sharia state wey no like ciger and ogogoro dey collect the VAT chop clean mouth. I beg e matter well well.<br />
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By the way Nigeria no be Igbo Yoruba and Hausa Nigeria get minority people wey plenty, wey good, we no corrupt and wey fit do the work of change. Me I don talk my own o. I still remain Buharist and I still believe say na God keep you make you take change Nigeria, change we institutions, save us from plenty Mogbe ! Mogbe! Situations. God go bless you oga Buhari! I beg no forget the promise wey you make say you go make me Chief Warder of all Nigerian prisons, na me go dey give corrupt people koboko inside jail. I remain loyal sah, make I go draw wan correct Igbo – Mazi <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=410835422262846" href="https://www.facebook.com/kayode.ogundamisi">Kayode Ogundamisi</a></div>
Kayode Ogundamisihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04291817365893312866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129390682421185282.post-24100362950555497862014-08-12T20:03:00.001-07:002014-08-13T06:21:11.681-07:00Joseph and Rabi - The Two Icons Who Built My Character - Kayode Ogundamisi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I would like to thank you all for your birthday
wishes, I am forever grateful to each and every one of you. I took my time to
read each message and read every message; my 46<sup>th</sup> birthday went like
every other birthday, a normal day no fanfare, few phone calls and a prayer or
two from my two darling sisters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Since I am not one for birthday parties and
celebrations, its been my tradition in recent years to write one or two
personal stories on my birthday, it was extremely pleasing that I was able to
spend the day in my city of birth Lagos and please find below the words that
came to my mind, forgive me if you find the personal story boring and
apolitical but I am hoping the story will strike one or two friends. Thank you
again and may the good Lord bless each and every one of you, may God forgive us
our sins and give our leaders and followers alike the wisdom to turn liberate
Nigeria from Nigerians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I was born on the 12th of August 1968 in Mushin, Lagos
Nigeria. My mother told me I was delivered by an ‘elewe omo’ (traditional
midwifes who use local herbs in the practice of medicine). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">My arrival into Nigeria was as a result of the union
between a liberal Christian father whose main <b>hobby</b> was telling stories
of heroic and not so heroic tales of his experience as a young man who served
in Nigeria’s military<b>. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Joseph M</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">y father
migrated from Ikare Akoko and marries his fellow Akoko ‘girlfriend’ in Lagos.
My Fathers greatest gift to me was his unrelenting repetition of the phrase
“Kayode I will tell you over and over again, contentment is the key to peace of
mind”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">My mother was the opposite, a strong Muslim, extremely
ambitious, courageous and sometimes carefree to the point that we felt she
didn’t care about her children. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">My mum would say “go and w<b>a</b>nder in the forest,
go and survive, that is the reality of life”. She is the mother who would be
told her son had gotten into a fight and would simply shrug her <b>shoulders</b>
replying, “that is what a man should do to survive”. Till date I am still
trying to understand my mother. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Here is one woman who in one day found Lagos too ‘fake
and unwelcoming’ and simply gathered her belongings, left Lagos to settle not
in the urban town of Ikare but the deep farmlands in the village, farming,
trading, engaging in local politics and also rebellious in every way. Her first
love was the Akoko land, the cocoa farm, I still cant understand her love for
farming, she speaks to the land, her spiritual attachment to planting and
harvesting is still a mystery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When I listen to my father discuss his role during the
Nigerian civil war and how I was born as he was away fighting to keep Nigeria
one. All I saw was the picture of my mother in the trenches; my father never
cut the picture of someone who could hurt a fly, he was principled but reserved,
stubborn with a difference, several time i have witnessed him conceding every
inch of any argument to my mother. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It was my father who taught me how to cook, how to
wash dishes after every meal, how not to go to bed without having your bath,
how to respect others without losing your own dignity, how to stay away from an
argument if it will lead to violence. He was the soldier with the touch of a
woman and you know, women are perceived to be weak but in reality strong in
every sense of the word. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It was Joseph Ogundamisi who showered me with the love
of MOTHER & FATHER but it was my strong mother who conferred courage on me.
It was she who set me free at an early stage in life, and to her I owe a lot
when it comes to my spirit of resilience but to both of them I owe ALL and it
is to the glory of God, the love of Late Joseph Ogundamisi and the indomitable
spirit of my mother that today August 12 2014, precisely 46 years after she
gave birth to me that what they bestowed on me is the resolute belief that
nothing is more satisfying than a duty to humanity, a duty to serve those whose
voices may be trampled on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It is to them that I owe my appreciation of the fact
that serving your community and being involved in activities to make your
country better is not a gift to your people but a privilege. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">My country and my community do not owe me a thank you
for thinking about the downtrodden, I owe God a lot for giving me the privilege
to appreciate that walking away into your own comfort zone when others are
suffering is the greatest disservice to humanity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And when people wonder why I don’t get shaken by
attempts to arm-twist me, or force me into a path I am not convince is right, they
fail to see that I am a product of 2 great icons and today, I say thank you to
a father who left the world in hurry and a big loving thank you to a mother we
breathed courage into my lungs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #5a5a5a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">An undercover investigation filmed by ITV's Exposure reveals how a worker at the Nigeria High Commission (NHC) claimed he could transport items, including stolen art, out of "any airport" using his diplomatic connections.</span><br />
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Posing as a criminal gang, the Exposure team, led by reporter Mark Williams-Thomas, met Alfa Abutu, in a London hotel. Abutu told them that he could transport their stolen art to Paris.</div>
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"Give me your suitcase, this suitcase usually has to be wrapped with the national flag before we can move it anywhere. And we use diplomatic vehicle whereby the police authorities will not stop us," Abutu said.</div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #5a5a5a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Exposure later told Abutu the art was worth nearly £1 million, to which he suggested a commission of £250,000. In a series of meetings with undercover reporters, Abutu also claimed he could help transfer money, and smuggle diamonds and gold out of the country using an embassy car and its associated privileges. DETAILS ON ITV WEBSITE </span><br />
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Kayode Ogundamisihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04291817365893312866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129390682421185282.post-1809799682993971862013-12-12T00:39:00.002-08:002013-12-12T06:54:54.339-08:00 Jonathan's 'Killer Squad' And Obasanjo's Amnesia-Letter from the Pot to The Kettle By Kayode Ogundamisi <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I am not a fan of have General Olusegun Obasanjo but I have read his 16 page letter to President Jonathan trice. Obasanjo’s government remains the only civilian administration that imprisoned me UNJUSTLY for over a month simply for stating my views on the State of The Nigeria Nation under his regime.<br />
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When it comes to intolerance, grand corruption, deceit, moral bankruptcy, General Olusegun Obasanjo will sure be in the top-3 in the world league of misfits who ruled in Africa. Here is a man who slept with his sons wife inside Nigeria's presidential palace and even failed to put up a defence in court when the allegations came up. A man who sold every viable public cooperation to his cronies and concubines at give away prices.<br />
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Obasanjo is that man who betrayed every known good cause, he his the cunning fox that would arrive when a war had been won and claim victory, when it comes to 'playing both sides' OBJ is the master of the game. Here is a man who punished his Yoruba people for democratically rejecting his candidacy knowing fully well how evil he could be.<br />
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Well today is not about Obasanjo, like I told the then SSS director Mr Kayode Are during interrogation in May 2003 at his palatial SSS Headquarters in Abuja, Obasanjo will go down in Yoruba history as an 'akotileta' a traitor and no matter what others see him for, a real Yoruba would always place him in the darkest side of our history.<br />
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In as much as I am sincerely convinced that in many ways Obasanjo is as profligate as Goodluck Jonathan, no patriot can dismiss his weighty allegations against President Jonathan. Truth irrespective of the medium through which it is communicated is sacrosanct and must be espoused by all men of goodwill and courage.<br />
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If GEJ is wise, he should retreat into whatever space in which he finds the inspiration to be himself, beyond the reach of his kinsmen, self-serving special advisers, and sundry sycophants so he could read Obasanjo's letter as many times as it is necessary for him to apply his mind to the facts and consequently do the 'NEEDFULL'<br />
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Jonathan must free himself from his cave mentality, he should stop seeing Nigeria from a perspective of a timid man in need of sympathy, Jonathan behaves and carries himself like a man in need of validation and not the President of a country like Nigeria. He does not understand what it entails to be called a commander in chief. He spends more time currying for sympathy, every issue is about Jonathan. If Boko-Harram kills innocent Nigerians, Jonathan turns the debate into his person. Here is a President who always fails to see the bigger picture.<br />
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Initial reactions have said Obasanjo’s letter is like a kettle calling the pot black but that does not mitigate the fact that the current President and Commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is accused of extremely TREASONABLE ACTS against the Nigerian people; that is a very SERIOUS allegation. It behooves a clear unequivocal response from Dr. Jonathan who must first of all convince Nigerians of his suitability for the office he currently occupies and why he is even within speaking range of such grave charges.<br />
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Obasanjo's letter amplifies most of the reports dogging Jonathan; recruitment and training of snipers, serving the interest of only a section of his Ijaw ruling elite, discreetly exacerbating the Boko Harram insurgency as evident in his non-pragmatic way, colossal unprecedented corruption, dishonesty, nepotism and acute paranoia.<br />
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Thus, it is no exaggeration to say Mr Jonathan is a ticking time bomb and Nigeria could implode with him. It is perceptive to say that might be his vindictive agenda because it appears the destruction of Nigeria will be “sweet” revenge for the many years of injustice against his Ijaw ethnic Nationality.<br />
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Mr Ebele is making a mistake, revenge brings extreme wrath. Why should he toy with the lives of his Ijaw people by capriciously tying his selfish ambition to their fate? May God give him the wisdom to consider his ways and make restitutions.<br />
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As for Olusegun Obasanjo and those who claim Jonathan promised not to contest in 2015. Can they for the sake of Nigeria stop sulking and contest against him if they think he's unfit. Jonathan did not make the promise to the Nigerian electorate, it is none of my business, so long he's constitutionally allowed to seek re-election, what is my business is that the President of my country is being accused of keeping trained snippers to kill assassinate opponents, that he's raising an army in his Ijaw homeland using our territorial water ways to smuggle and stockpile arms, that he's the commander in chief of corruption. That is a treasonable act against the people of Nigeria. If the allegations are proven to be true, Mr Jonathan is not fit to be the President of Nigeria. <br />
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This is an auspicious moment for Obasanjo to apologise for the part he played in imposing a sick Y'aradua and an obviously incompetent Jonathan on a great Nation like Nigeria. There is nothing wrong with Nigeria being ruled by an Ijaw man; it is only reasonable that the man ought to have been the best of the Ijaw Nation rather than a man that is obviously unfit to be a clan head? A word is enough for those who have ears.<br />
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Kayode Ogundamisihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04291817365893312866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129390682421185282.post-58155649946722768612013-11-08T06:42:00.001-08:002013-11-08T06:57:35.812-08:00Political Killings in Ekiti Governor Kayode Fayemi Must Act! By Kayode Ogundamisi<p dir=ltr>The media has been awash with reports of killing and intimidation of perceived or real political opponents in Ekiti. The general perception is that supporters of Governor Kayode Fayemi are behind these dastardly acts. This is one politically masterminded killing too many.It behoves on Governor Kayode Fayemi to use his good offices to ensure that whoever was behind the reported liking of Mr Foluso Ogundare and assault on Mrs Beatrice Ige must face the full weight of the law accordingly.It is also important that such expectedly corrective or punitive actions must be transparent at all stages. Less of which Governor Fayemi' s silence and body language will be taken as a tacit support for these heinous acts. And that, surely, will diminish his reputation.Governor Fayemi should flash back to the evil reign of the People's Democratic Party and the hounding of political opponents by his predecessors, no one will forget in a hurry 14 Aug 2006 when a gubernatorial aspirant in Ekiti state, Professor Ayo Daramola was killed in cold blood that is one dark period in Ekiti.Dr Kayode Fayemi was elected on the platform of change and respect for human dignity; himself and his supporters faced unprecedented attack from supporters of then Governor Segun Oni of the People's Democratic Party. Fayemi literarily had to seek political asylum in Ondo state until the courts restored the mandate bestowed on him by the people of Ekiti State.I have known and related with Dr Fayemi for years and have no doubt about his democratic credentials, I also know him to be a champion for human and democratic rights, however his silence and body language as it relates political assassination under his watch is worrisome to those of us who can call him a friend.The alleged perpetuators are said to be his supporters, media reports allege the alleged killer of   Mr Foluso Ogundare is a serving lawmaker in the Ekiti State House of Assembly. The perpetuator must be identified and brought to justice, the Governor should immediately disassociate himself from anyone perpetuating violence, and political intimidation in his name, if the perpetuators are members of his political party, they must be expelled, sanctioned and handed them over to law enforcement agents without political interference.Reports of violence in Ekiti is not limited to Dr Fayemi' s supporters alone, all sides in the gubernatorial race have been implicated in various forms of violence and intimidation. All sides must have a rethink and let the people of Ekiti decide who will govern them in 2014.If Dr Fayemi does not do the needful I strongly believe his records will be tainted by self-serving bootlickers who perpetuate violence in his name just to fulfil their own ambition, if the silence from Ekiti Government House continues, observers will have no option than conclude that power seems to have consumed the good character of another 'activist' and known campaigner for human and democratic rights and that another hope is betrayed. A word is good enough for the wise.</p>
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