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  • Impending dangers of Senator Godswill Akpabio’s defection to APC

    Impending dangers of Senator Godswill Akpabio’s defection to APC

    August 3, 2018.

    His Excellency,
    Adams Oshiomhole
    National Chairman
    All Progressives Congress

    IMPENDING DANGERS OF SENATOR GODSWILL AKPABIO’S DEFECTION TO APC

    We in the Akwa Ibom Progressives Watch (AKIPW) have noted with deep concern the broad chorus of disapproval and complete despondency amongst different strata of members of our party, the All Progressives Congress in Akwa Ibom state over the defection of the former Governor of Akwa Ibom State and Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio to the APC.

    Our group is an integrity watch team whose support for the APC is driven by the party’s change agenda, the fight against corruption as well as the near immaculate personality of the leader of the Party, President Muhammadu Buhari. We metamorphosed from Ibom Transparency Watch under the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), working assiduously in the last seven years to entrench in the party sterling values, such as integrity, justice, accountability and transparency, which are lacking in our political system. Hence, we have been on the watch so that such persons with tendencies which violate these values are not found tip-toeing around our party.

    For this reason, we feel sad, so are most members of the APC in Akwa Ibom State who looked up to our party as institution that will evict moral pervers as Senator Godswill Akpabio from position of authority, by the admission of Senator Godswill Akpabio into our party.

    Senator Akpabio’s records of service show he is a spoiler everywhere he goes. In his first organisation of employment, EMIS Telecoms Nigeria Limited, Akpabio was Personal Assistant to the CEO of the company, Chief E. Okonkwo; suddenly he manipulated his boss and threw himself up as the company’s secretary. During his stint in that position, the company was defrauded to the tune of N4billion. Records suggest Akpabio was party to the fraud and must have benefited from the loot.

    Your Excellency, you must be aware that Akpabio polarized ethnicity to its zenith in his bid to annihilate the Ibibio majority, and destroy the Oro ethnic nationality, when he was governor of Akwa Ibom State. In that mindless voyage, more than 80 prominent sons and daughters of the state were either kidnapped or killed; many were compelled to go on exile. Under Akpabio’s watch, an elder statesman, Gen. Edet Akpan Rtd., former DG of NYSC was kidnapped from a church. Four persons were killed during that operation. The wife of a BoT member of our party, Mrs. Sam Enwang, was kidnapped; the wife of Senator Aloysius Etok, who is now a stakeholder of our party was also kidnapped; Chief Senas Ukpanah was killed; a former deputy speaker of our state House of Assembly and member of the APC, Obong Okon Uwah was killed; mother of Mr. Udonwa, a governorship aspirant was kidnapped, killed and her naked corpse was dumped on the road, forcing the deceased’s son to dump his governorship ambition; a foremost traditional father, Edidem Ime Robert from Nsit Ubium was assassinated; an entrepreneur, Elder Paul Inyang was killed; three brothers called the Mbota brothers were killed; three brother to the televangelist Mrs. Helen Ukpabio were killed. The list of assassinations under Akpabio’s atrocious regime is endless.

    Your Excellency, you may wish to call for report on Akpabio’s wild intolerance for our party members in Akwa Ibom State during his reign as governor. It is on record that Akpabio’s men masterminded the awful murder of 11 supporters of the defunct ACN in 2011 that were on a campaign visit to Ikot Ekpene. We have not forgotten how Akpabio sought to exterminate, Senator John Udoedehe, who was the governorship candidate of the ACN in 2011, over trump up charges.

    You must have heard of the bare-face manipulation of the 2015 election in Akwa Ibom State against our party, by Senator Godswill Akpabio; or how Akpabio bragged on a state radio that he cross off the name of the winner of the PDP primary in Ikot Ekpene senatorial district in 2011 and replaced it with the name of Senator Aloysius Etok.

    Senator Akpabio who is now seeking asylum in the APC called our leader, President Muhammadu Buhari, very unprintable names during the 2015 electioneering. He ordered the immediate closure of the Ibom Airport on the day the Buhari, who was then the presidential flag – bearer of our party visited Akwa Ibom State. After our President won the 2015 election despite all their antics, Akpabio encouraged former President Goodluck Jonathan to challenge Buhari’s election victory in court.

    Senator Akpabio breeds impunity wherever he goes. We strongly think he played significant role in the fall of his first love, the PDP. Akpabio’s schemes factionised the Nigerian Governors Forum, (NGF), and ultimately led to the creation of PDP Governors Forum as well as the eventual defection of five PDP governors to the APC. We have not forgotten how Senator Akpabio superintended over the NGF election where 17 votes were greater than 19.

    Your Excellency, based on Akpabio’s antecedent and his dislike for our party, we strongly feel that the senate minority leader is joining the APC for many nocuous reasons. One, Akpabio is seeking an escape from prosecution for the crimes – particularly, financial, and human rights abuses – his regime committed. Two, he wants to give the party a bad image in the eyes of members of the public who looked up to the APC as the only institution that would evict Akpabio from position of authority and bring justice to those whose rights were unjustly stymied by the preponderance of his absolute powers. With his defection, members of the party and the public in extension are inured to think that the APC is a cover for plunderers of public assets. Three, Senator Akpabio wants to use our party to advance his selfish and insatiable quest for power. Four, Akpabio is on a mission to destroy APC for his man Mr. Udom Emmanuel to win a reelection in 2019. Five, Akpabio defection to the APC will provoke massive exodus of foundation members of the party to other political parties. Six, Senator Akpabio wants to catch in on the seeming feud between Mr. Chibuike Amaechi and Adams Oshiomhole to finish his oil well battle with the former Rivers state governor.

    Consequently, in our honest consideration, Senator Akpabio does not deserve a welcome to APC because his despicable political idiosyncrasies dealign to the values our great party holds. In as much as much we appreciate defections like last month’s event where a former national lawmaker, Mr. Bassey Etim, defected with over 6000 people. Etim said he defected because of Senator Akpabio’s impunity which stopped his swearing in as Senator. Etim claimed that on the day he was to be sworn-in following a federal high court’s ruling; Senator Akpabio walked into the office of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, knelt down and begged him not to proceed with the swearing in.

    Sir, we urge your leadership to look meticulously into the impending dangers of Senator Godswill Akpabio’s defection to our party. Also, the leadership of the party should resist the enticement of building our party structure around an individual.

    We look forward to your prompt action.

    Thank you for your time, Your Excellency.

    We are:

    Innocent Sylvanus
    Chairman

    ​Ubong Victor

  • Akpabio’s defection story: A peep inside the locker room

    Akpabio’s defection story: A peep inside the locker room

    It is tempting for APC and it’s Chairman (of the Senate blockade fame) to get very excited about AKPABIO’s defection. The matter is much more than gathering crowd across the south-south Geo-political zone at Ikot Ekpene. Let’s give you a few tips;

    Many think that Akpabio only defected in other to protect himself from prosecution by EFCC for embezzling over 200 Billion Naira of public funds. That is only one of the reasons for defection. Even that is forlorn hope. As soon as the 2019 elections are over, the appropriate pressure would be brought to bear on EFCC to prosecute Akpabio and he would be duly prosecuted. No elected Governor in history has pilfered the kind of money that Akpabio carted away from the coffers of Akwa Ibom State. He should find out from Sen. Dariye and former Gov. Jolly Nyame whether defection to APC saved them from prison cells. Let Akpabio ask Orji Uzor Kalu whether or not a court of law ruled that he has a criminal case to answer and granted an interim order of forfeiture against most of his allegedly ill-gotten assets.

    Akpabio has forgotten how Obong Victor Attah tried to give the PDP governorship ticket to his son in law and how the people of Akwa Ibom resisted it. In the end, Akpabio was nominated as PDP Governorship candidate in 2007 and became Governor.

    After Emmanuel Udom became Governor in 2019, he remained fiercely loyal to Akpabio and allowed him to nominate persons for the posts of the SSG, several commissioners and a host of other Government offices in the state. Nobody enjoyed such benefit from Akpabio. The greed of Akpabio remained uncommon. Despite the huge debt he drove the State into and the frequent harassment suffered by the State in the hands of EFCC on account of Akpabio’s plundering of the resources of the State, Gov. Emmanuel stood by Akpabio in the spirit of the Governor’s name- EMMANUEL.

    Akpabio became restless. He took control of the entire Party apparatus and singularly decided who got what, when and how, in the State. He did this without any regards for the Governor on most occasions.

    As Akpabio got consumed in his greed, he demanded that the Governor should consult him before submitting Annual Budget Estimates to the State House of Assembly. He added another request. This time, he wanted the Governor to get his approval before expending State funds on any project whatsoever. Indeed, he was bent on running the government on behalf of the Governor. This was was the point of departure. Why on earth did Akpabio think that he would run the government for an urbane intellectual elite and technocrat like Udom Emmanuel ? How would Emmanuel defend that before the people of Akwa Ibom State who voted him into office? As expected, Udom politely refused. Akpabio began to nag. He wanted more of the public funds of the State in addition to the embezzled funds for which he is under EFFC Investigations.

    Wait for this. It would shock you. Akpabio then told Udom to commit to making his wife who is from one of the Ibo States, Deputy Governor in 2019. Udom flatly turned this down. Akpabio grew more red.

    When Akpabio could not get Udom to surrender the purse of the State to him and secure Udom’s commitment to make his wife Deputy Governor in 2019, he began to woo APC. He knew that the APC led Government had a penchant for promising forgiveness to economic sinners who repent by joining the party. He decided to gamble it. He became a mole in PDP, even as Senate Minority Leader. He leaked out the outcome of PDP caucus meetings to APC members and promised to help them realize the removal of Saraki as Senate President.

    A new darling had been secured in the Senate by the ruling party. Such was Akpabio’s infidelity when words filtered out that he had completed arrangements to defect to APC. Nobody was surprised when Akpabio told PDP Senate caucus members that he was off to Germany on a private trip, only to emerge in London prostrating like a recently pardoned convict before President Buhari.

    Back in Akwa Ibom, it would not be easy for Akpabio to claim the Government House from Udom. The Governor is an Ibibio man. They control 12 out of the 21 LGA’s in the State. Out of Akpabio’s Senatorial district comprising 8 LGA’s, 2 belong to Ibibios who constitute the majority tribe in the State. Not only is Udom working, he is very civilized and laying durable development plan for the State. The Ibibios are happy with him. The Eket people are enjoying his tenure. So are other component tribes that make up the State. How Akpabio hopes to reverse these gains in 2019 elections for his selfish interest is a matter for conjecture.

    In any case, the likes of Obong Victor Attah, Chief Don Etiebet, Akpan Udoedohe , Nsima and others were frustrated out of PDP by Akpabio. He was ruthless to them and their supporters. They were reduced to political- lightweight through complete exclusion from political participation and crass violence against their persons. Now Akpabio would be their new leader in APC and would imagine that they would surrender to his leadership. This would be some sort of dangerous optimism.

    Having resigned as Minority Leader of the Senate, what would qualify Akpabio as the leader of these eminent politicians? Would APC and the leaders of the party in Akwa Ibom State accept Akpabio’s wife as Deputy Governorship candidate of their party in 2019. Plenty of trouble ahead as it is not yet Uhuru for APC in Akwa Ibom State.

    Dr. Stephen Nwogu writes from Calabar.

  • THIS POLITICAL STORM WILL HELP OUR DEMOCRACY

    THIS POLITICAL STORM WILL HELP OUR DEMOCRACY

    The storm in the National Assembly is not to make any political party or person fear. The storm is about the right of people to associate and express political views without being terrorized by State apparatus. If former President Jonathan’s arrowheads had done half of what President Buhari’s men are doing to perceived internal and external political opponents, the President would be no where near the gate of Aso Rock.

    President Buhari must sustain the democratic environment that created the opportunity for him to assume office as President. He cannot stay more than eight years in office. There is no need to pretend that it is a life time job. President Buhari should fight corruption transparently within the law and no one would cry for what would legally befall the truly corrupt.

    The Police should concentrate on the protection of Nigerian citizens along Kaduna/Abuja road and other black spots in our country. They are so many that the number of citizens who daily lose their lives to hoodlums and herdsmen are unbelievable in Peace time. Never before has life been so cheap in our dear country. What a state of insecurity sustained by the continuous incapacity of those that the President has entrusted with such crucial assignment.

    The security agents should block the killing fields in our country and stop over concentrating man power on escorting VIPs and laying siege on political opponents or intimidating voters. Our country should show the light in sustaining democracy in Africa in order to rebuild our society and drive it to egalitarianism. We cannot go the way of Cameroon’s Paul Biya and a host of other wayward nations whose graduates yearly attend the Nigerian law school as they do not even have one in their countries.

    President Buhari should not allow the Party cheer leaders and supposedly non- partisan hailers to mislead him by calling him a strong man for the growing political intolerance of his opponents. In the event that he fails his second term bid, they would abandon him.

    Former President Jonathan got good advice from well meaning Nigerians in respect of spiraling corrupt activists, inefficiency of the public sector and how to curb the growth of Boko Haram insurgency which characterized his era. He did not heed.

    The powers of incumbency could not save his fall like Humpty- Dumpty and all the kings men who sang Hosanah -in-the- highest deserted him. Some defected to other Political parties and pointed accusing fingers at him. Such is the fluid nature of our political environment.

    Let the President redirect his energies in dealing with what worries the public the most- the state of insecurity in the country. He should keep on working to improve the economy in order to create more jobs, reduce poverty and raise the standard of living of country men and women. If the Government cannot build new infrastructure, it should strive to complete the incomplete projects on ground and renovate the existing ones. At the end, he should let Nigerians judge him and decide whether or not he deserves a second tenure in office.

    May God bless Nigeria.

    Dr. West-Idahosa.

  • On Ekiti Election – Segun Showunmi

    On Ekiti Election – Segun Showunmi

    Catastropy Looms in Nigeria Under PMB.

    The whole idea of Democracy especially periodic elections is to give the people the opportunity to choose per time who should lead them.

    The hope is that legitimacy to function in office is granted when the will of the people counts and their wishes is respected. Anything short of that is to turn democracy on its head with attendant consequences.

    Now that the electoral umpires have declared the result in favor of Kayode Fayemi of APC, it is appropriate to say congratulations to the purported winner.

    The next days will be spent grinding over the report from our party agents and the observers. There are worrying signs that the Ekiti election may not have met the minimum acceptable standards and thankfully the election tribunals are available to be explored.

    No decent Democrat would prays that the wishes of the people be subverted if it has indeed been as one suspects in this election.

    The excessive monetization of the Ekiti Election is questionable indeed of all elections that have been conducted under this Buhari led APC given the supposed integrity of President Buhari is, to say the least disgraceful.

    It shows that the president is a hypocrite and he will look the other way when actions that are not consistent with his supposed reputation is carried out so far as it is for his benefit.

    Pray where did APC get the humongous amount that has been spent on the just concluded Ekiti hiest, I dare say Buhari has lost the right to mention the word anti-corruption not to talk of claims to be fighting it.

    On this note, I wish to call for the stoppage of all court cases of all PDP political operative especially party managers, Olisa Methuh and co for it makes no sense to point at the spark in your brother’s eyes when you have logs in your own eyes.

    On the excessive exposure of the security apparatus to elections generally and the mad usage of so-called federal might on the helpless and innocent Ekiti people, I say shame on President Buhari and the APC government. People are getting killed all over the country all the government can do is to divert the overstretched security resources to Ekiti to traumatize innocent citizen all in the name of an election heist that leaves a sore taste in the mouths of every decent person who has not been cowed or bullied to submission.

    If the attitude of the APC to elections is anything to go by one can safely conclude that 2019 elections will be very demanding.

    There is a mathematical assumption known as the catastrophic hypothesis, the now-defunct idea that the planets and smaller bodies of the solar system originated in a violent event involving a collision or near-collision between the Sun and another object” seeks to measure how series of random events can be measured to predict a catastrophic result. As things look now the APC is testing the resolve of Nigerians and they will find Nigerians very resolved, we have as a people defeated military dictatorship and by the grace of God we will defeat the tendencies that seek to foster a civilian dictatorship on our country.

    Dear members of the organized civil society groups you must know that politics and democracy are too important to be left to civilian dictators masquerading as politicians, we all must be alive to our responsibilities and safeguard this our hard-fought and hard-won democracy.

    When the idea of a coalition of political parties first got muted some felt it was an exercise to be joked with, I believe that events have proved just how timely and far thinking the idea is, clearly it is a straight fight between APC the repressive rent seekers pretending to be progressive and PDP the open and accommodative party of the people. We must move to speed up the detailed negotiations and get a united platform to get our country Nigeria working again, we must snap out of the idea that anyone can do it along. We are stronger together and we can better stand to challenge this dictatorial regime if democracy is to survive.

    All cannot be fair in democracy for democracy is no war, it is a government of the people by the people and for the people. APC and Fayemi it is not over see, you at the tribunal.

  • 2019: PDP, ADC, R-APC, 36 other parties sign grand alliance MOU to oust APC

    2019: PDP, ADC, R-APC, 36 other parties sign grand alliance MOU to oust APC

    By Dirisu Yakubu

    ABUJA-The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), African Democratic Congress (ADC), the Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC) and 36 other political parties Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in a grand alliance to form a government of national unity in 2019. The sole agenda according to the MOU, is to produce a joint Presidential candidate capable of winning the election and enthrone a new government at the expiration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure in 2019. Former Acting National Secretary of the PDP, Senator Ben Obi in his opening remarks said the various parties chose to come together to salvage the nations and put to end all semblance of nepotism and tribalism.

    According to him, the President Buhari administration has left Nigerians more divided than they were in 2019. “We are here to begin a process that will lead to the formation of a government of national unity. We are here to put to an end the nepotism and corruption that the APC government has been known for in the past three years. “They promised to tackle corruption, revamp the economy and address security challenges and restructure the nation but as soon as they were elected, they denied making such promises. ” We are here to put an end to to dictatorial tendencies and this is a war between light and darkness and I can assure you that light would prevail,” said Senator Obi. Also speaking, R-APC national chairman, Buba Galadima noted that the MOU will send shivers down the spine of the ruling party, adding that since he led a splinter group out of the ruling party, the R-APC has been receiving messages of solidarity from across the world. Buhari will lose 2019 election-Galadima For Galadima, President Buhari is fated to lose the 2019 election, adding that if the President knew what awaited him, it would have been better for him not to go into electoral contest at all. “With what I know, I can tell you that President Buhari will not only this election, he will lose his deposits. Let us not forget that the man we will be facing is a military general. We are ready, prepared to take on this fight despite their intimidations and threats. “I know him but if I was his adviser, I will tell him not to contest,” Galadima said even as he reminded parties to the alliance that the APC has set aside huge sums of money to buy them over in the months leading to the general polls.

    Representatives of the ADC and former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola on his part described the coalition as “an assignment from God,” even as he urged the parties to be committed to the letters and spirit of the MOU. He said: “We are committed to restructuring of this nation and we must respect the spirit and letters of this understanding.”

    When Nigerians voted in 2015, they thought the APC vehicle will take them to the promised land. But three years after, the APC has failed and failed tragically too.” Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Minister of Finance, Chief Olu False lamented what he termed the “gross incompetence” of the APC-led government and tasked all parties to the alliance to team up in supporting not only a sole Presidential aspirants but sole governorship candidates, Senatorial candidates as well as House of Representatives candidates across all states of the federation. “All our votes must go to the Presidential candidate and to the governorship, senatorial and House of Representatives in every state of the federation. “It is not sufficient to produce the President alone because if we have a President who does not have majority of seats in parliament, there will be challenge as to what the President would be able to do,” he noted. Parties that signed the MOU were the Action Alliance (AA), Alliance for Democracy (AD), Africa Democratic Party (ADC), Action Democratic Party (ADP), All Grand Alliance Party (AGAP), Action Peoples Party (APP), Advanced Congress of Democrats (ACD), Better Nigeria Progressive Party, Democratic Alternative (DA), Democratic Peoples Party (DPC), Grand Democratic Party of Nigeria (GDPN), Green Party of Nigeria (GPN), KOWA Party, Labour Party (LP), Mass Action Joint Alliance (MAJA), Masses Movement of Nigeria (MMN). Others included the National Conscience Party (NCP), New Generation Party (NGP), National Unity Party (NUP), Nigeria Intervention Movement (NIM), Peoples Alliance for National Development and Liberty (PANDEL), Peoples Progressive Party (PPP), People for Democratic Change (PDC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Providence People’s Congress (PPC), Reformed All Progressive Congress (RAPC), Restoration Party of Nigeria (RPN), Social Democratic Party (SDP), Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), All Grassroots Alliance (AGA), National Interest Party (NIP), Nigeria Democratic Congress Party (NDCP), Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), and Young Democratic Party (YDP) among others. Baraje, Melaye return One of the highlights of the wells attended event was the formal return to the PDP of its former Acting National Chairman, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje and the lawmaker representing Kogi East, Senator Dino Melaye. While thanking the PDP for accepting him back in its fold, Baraje said a prodigal son regardless of his sins, would always be received with joy upon repentance from his sins. “We went astray but we are back now. If a child burns one of his fingers, he quickly retreat the others. I will like to thank you for accepting to take us back,” he said. Like Baraje, Melaye said he had the option to flow with the crowd but chose to return to PDP to remain politically consisted, saying come 2019, “President Buhari will fail because he is entitled to failure. Dignitaries at the event included former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, ex-Senate President, David Mark, the governors of Gombe and Akwa Ibom States, Ibrahim Dankwambo and Udoh Emmanuel respectively. Others were Senator Liyel Imoke, Gbenga Daniel, Ibrahim Mantu, Tom Ikimi, Zainab Maina, Ike Ekweremadu and Chief Bode George.

  • Princess Marian Iyabode Awolowo, Apologies to Nigerians

    Princess Marian Iyabode Awolowo, the pioneer of Buhari’s Campaign 2011-2015 Apologies to Nigerians

    I sincerely wholeheartedly apologize to ALL Nigerians for motivating, encouraging, sponsoring mobilizers and advocating for a Buhari 2015 Presidency. I can assure you that I took this position after observing incessant killings going on in Nigeria especially in the Northern part of Nigeria in 2010.
    My decision was helped immensely by my beautiful early year’s experiences of Nigeria.

    In around mid-2010, my Conscience refused to turn a blind eye to the Terrorist killings going on in Nigeria, when knowing in my heart that majority of Nigerians are very giving, peaceful, hardworking and accommodating.

    Thus, I find it highly disturbing watching International News especially BBC News about how Boko Haram Terrorist were killing in Nigeria with reckless abandon. This critical point in time was what drove me to create Nigerian Global Awakening Group Page on Facebook in October 2011, with the aims of creating awareness and to advocate for a Change of Government by introducing a President Buhari 2015 whom I believed could help our dear beloved country Nigeria from perilous because he was an experienced former Military President in Nigeria.

    But since the 2015 inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerians and the global world have endured one avoidable gaffe, mishaps or the other. Between 2015 to date, Nigerian have seen lack of synergy, corrupt white collar crime, targeted of opposition, blackmailing of perceived enemies, incitements against Good Governance Advocates, non-prioritising the needs of the poor, Government sponsored media outlets promoting fake news, no investment in Manufacturing, Corrupt practices in Government, Nepotism, the delayed in critical appointments of Minister, the President Illness and the longest foreign medical trips took the order of the day.

    To make matters worse, premature released of 500 Boko Haram Terrorist from Kano State Prison by President Buhari, and to make worse the situation for Nigeria and Nigerians, the apparent favoritism of Killer Herdsmen who posed a threat to ALL Nigerians, Nigeria and the world at large.

    Here we are in July 2018 faced with the reality that our country Nigeria is in a bigger threat that may consume Nigeria and posed as a threat the world at large. Thus, I CANNOT WITH GOOD CONSCIENCE CONTINUE TO SUPPORT OR WISHED FOR THE RE-ELECTION OF PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI FOR SECOND TERM IN 2019 WITH THE APPARENT DANGERS HIGHLIGHTED.

    So I PLEAD with those with CONSCIENCE regardless of Religion, Political affiliations or region to STOP pretending that everything is alright with the manner President Buhari is leading our beloved country Nigeria especially in terms of securing our country beloved Nigeria.

    The insecurity across Nigeria is very alarming and dangerous to ALL and there comes a time when as humanity directs for us, to search our conscience and chose what will determine our existence in a fast global world.

    POINTS OF CRITICAL THINKING:

    1. The core reason why majority of Nigerians joined the cry for Change and campaigned vigorous against the Ex-President Jonathan was his inactive and slowness in combating Boko Haram Terrorist who are killings Nigerians especially in the Northeast of Nigeria.

    2. Nigerians Globally from ALL REGION, ALL RELIGION, POLITICAL AND NON POLITICAL rose up and came TOGETHER from across the world to say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

    3. The above key points were what propagated the need to promote a Buhari 2015 Presidency with the HOPE that he would STOP the infiltrated apparently sponsored Boko Haram killing innocent Nigerians.

    4. During the Campaign 2015, never in the history of Nigeria have there been a time when love, unity and uniformity of purpose seen amongst all Nigerians across the world in a Political Campaign settings as witnessed for All Progressive Congress Political Party and for a President of Nigeria. The mood was so unique, and the euphoria was of genuine love and Hope. For the first time in the history of Nigerian Politics, the world witnessed how ordinary Nigerians poor and rich, young and old from all region and religion donated their money to sponsor a President Buhari. The world also witnessed for the first time in African History how Nigerians globally took it upon themselves to raise the bar in election campaign funds that other African Countries were voicing of emulating.

    5. And on the 29th of May 2015, a President Buhari who was FINANCIALLY SPONSORED by ALL Nigerians regardless of Religion, Region, Creed and Political affiliations took an OATH OF OFFICE with the QUARAN that he SHALL PROTECT NIGERIA, NIGERIANS AND THEIR PROPERTIES. This was the FIRST OATH!!! AND PRESIDENT BUHARI SWORN WITH THE QUARAN!!!

    But sadly, HOPE of Nigerians has been dashed, sacrificed for wickedness and greed. Prior to speaking out in Public against the decline of our beloved country Nigeria, I have spoken directly to President Buhari on several occasions about the State of affairs, on my last visit to him in September 2017; I repeated the same fear that Nigerians are losing faith in his Government. I pleaded for synergy until it became clear that the President of Nigeria has either been hijacked by those his wife Mrs. Aishat Buhari labeled as “Cabals” , or “Presidency” or he is vulnerable and being taken advantage of due to his high intake in prescribed medications for his ailment or he is on a different mission to perilous.

    I have heard the cries of the majority including their respectful Governors. I have read and heard the cries of Global World leaders against the apparent genocide going on under President Buhari’s Governance. I have observed how Presidency is bullying Nigerians to Silence. I have observed how the Government paid social media emergence campaigners attempted to sell LIES AS TRUTH WHILE SUBDUING AND SUPPRESSING NIGERIANS, JOURNALIST AND THE WORLD FROM KNOWING THE TRUE TERROR THAT HAS BEFELL NIGERIA AND INNOCENT NIGERIANS IN THEIR LANDS.

    Majority of Nigerians are NOW certain that President Buhari has BETRAYED THEM AND HAD FAILED WOEFULL to PROTECT Nigeria and Nigerian Lives and their Properties. His recent defeatist statement in reply to the massacre going on in Plateau State, Benue State, Zamfara State, Taraba State, Enugu State, Southern Kaduna, Edo State, Kogi State, Adamawa State, Lagos State, Ogun State, Oyo State, Kwara State and other States across Nigeria saying “there is nothing I can do to help the situation except to pray to God to help us out of the security challenges” should worry all Nigerians regardless whether you are paid to silence the truth or not. This defeatism statement should worry anyone who values their lives as the President has now confirmed he has relegated his duties to God.

    SECURITY is the first that determines efficiency in which all other sections of Governance can be rated. This one area is what is measured, and serves as a determinant as to whether the poor and the rich can have peace and progress in the land or not. And when security fails, everything will naturally fall into pieces. Additionally, history has thought us that it is the very poor in the society that will pay heavily for the negligence of the Leaders. And despite President Buhari came into power to secure Nigeria with a Campaign Manifesto, his deviation from the Campaign manifesto has apparently been replaced by his sudden interest and bullish advocacy for a Cow Colonies in favour of the “nomadic Fulani herdsmen”. Many have raised concern as Nigeria has been having problems with Fulani Herdsmen from across Africa who is represented in Nigeria headed by a group called Miyetti Allah.

    Majority of Nigerians find it frighteningly odd that President Muhammadu Buhari is fraternising and playing petty footing game with this same Miyetti Allah group that is worldly known to be associated with Terrorism. The compounded correlation and the group relationship with the Nigerian President raised a Red alert flag to Nigerians who sees how this skewed relationship has taken over their lives and properties with endemic massacre recorded across Nigeria and spreading.

    Furtherance, the group known as Miyetti Allah is the representative of Fulani Herdsmen across Nigeria. According to the Global Terrorism index, the “Nigerian Fulani militants named as fourth deadliest terror group in the world that only Boko Haram, Isis, and al-Shabab were deemed deadlier than the little-known militant group from West Africa. The report further expressed “the fourth deadliest known terrorist group has been named as the Fulani militant group operating in Nigeria and parts of the Central African Republic.

    The little-known group, formed of individuals from the semi-nomadic pastoral ethnic group Fula people existing across several West African nations, has seen a dramatic escalation of its activities in the past year. As much as 92 per cent of their attacks target private citizens, reflecting the group’s primary concern over the ownership of farmland. Each attack claims an average of 11 lives, with the largest known in April 2014 killing as many as 200 people after a group of the militants targeted community leaders and residents during a meeting in central province Zamfara.

    In the past year Nigeria has experienced the greatest increase in deaths from terrorism, with 7,512 deaths reported – an increase of over 300 per cent – most of which have been claimed by Boko Haram.”

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/global-terrorism-index-nigerian-fulani-militants-named-as-fourth-deadliest-terror-group-in-world-a6739851.html

    Despite the above Global world Terrorism Index report about apparent threat to Nigerian peace and progress, President Buhari’s in responding to Governor Ortom of Benue State complaint about the incessant killings of Herdsmen against Benue Farmers and indigenes was “I am appealing to you to try to restrain your people”. President Buhari further appealed to Nigerians and Governor Ortom to “accommodate your countrymen”. This appeal by President Buhari further raised concern about his involvement in the apparent terrorism that is killing Nigerians in Nigeria.

    CRITICAL INCONSISTENCY, IN DENIAL AND CONFUSIONS BY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI:

    1. It is on record that during President Buhari’s United Kingdom visit with the Archbishop of Canterbury who is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England Justin Welby, President Buhari blamed the targeted genocides by armed Fulani herdsmen on deceased Libyan President, Col. Muammar Gaddafi.

    2. It is also on record that during President Buhari’s televised conference with the United State President Donald Trump, President Muhammadu Buhari again blamed killings in some parts of the country by suspected herdsmen on armed men from Libya. He added that “The problem of herders in Nigeria is a very long historical thing. The Nigerian herders don’t carry anything more than a stick and occasionally a machete to cut down foliage and give it to their animals, these ones are carrying AK-47”. President Buhari said “43 years of Ghaddaffi, people were recruited from the Sahel and trained to shoot and kill. With the demise of Ghaddaffi they moved to other countries and region and carried the experience with them,” President Buhari also added a very worrying and severe warning saying “So, people should not underrate what happened in Libya”.

    3. Recently, Department of State Services of Nigeria (DSS) headed by Lawal Daura was on record claiming that “the main perpetrators of the killings are not Fulani herdsmen original to Nigeria but foreign fighters and terrorists affiliated to the Islamic state of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) that is already defeated by the coalition forces headed by the United States”

    4. And the blame game has taken another turn last week when President Buhari is now insinuating that “Opposition are behind the killings across Nigeria”.

    Any Nigerian who valued lives should consider the above four statements and ask WHY would a President who said the above is appealing to Governors and Nigerians to give up their land for cow colonies knowing those who perpetrated the massacre in Nigeria are “ Libyans recruited from the Sahel and trained to shoot and kill” and why would The President of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari begged Nigerians to “accommodate “ these worldly armed known terrorist even when the head of Intelligence of Nigeria Department of security Services Lawal Daura who also confirmed that “the main perpetrators of the killings are foreign fighters and terrorists affiliated to the Islamic state of Syria and Iraq (ISIS)”.

    Why then should Nigerians be killed in order to “accommodate” terrorist the President himself have confirmed are “trained to kill”?

    Why ALL STATES IN NIGERIA MUST ENACT ANTI-GRAZING LAWS TO PROTECT NIGERIANS:

    Since evidence has demonstrated that stealing of cows appears to be a consistent reason given by the killer herdsmen to lay claim to killings of humans. It is extremely therefore important to use preventative method by enacting anti-open grazing law in ALL STATES OF Nigeria as this measure has proven to save lives. For the records, “In Ekiti State, there was a law which was constitutionally supported by the people of the state and signed by Governor Ayo Fayose in 2016 had already prohibits open-grazing between 6 pm and 7 am.” This measure in Ekiti is on record that it drove the terrorist camouflaging as Fulani Herdsmen out of Ekiti State.

    Also, “Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State enacted a law banning open- grazing in Benue State in 2017 in order to save Benue State indigenes from terrorist killer herdsmen that apparently killing the people of Benue State”

    “In Taraba State anti-grazing law was created in July 2017, and it came in effect on the 24th of January 2018”

    But shockingly, as soon as the law against open-grazing was enacted in the aforementioned States, the defense Minister of the Republic of Nigeria Dan-Ali released a statement saying the law against open-grazing should be suspended citing an alarming reason that the suspension “would reduce tension.” Many Nigerians find it hard to believe that a whole Defense Minister of the Republic Of Nigeria will asked for the suspension of a State law which evidently protect humans lives from marauding terrorist masquerading all over Nigeria as herdsmen.

    The insensitive statement of the Defense Minister though condemned by Nigerians further supports the notion that the Fulani Herdsmen engaging in massacre across Nigeria have support of the Federal Government of Republic of Nigeria headed by President Muhammadu Buhari.

    With the above calamity and the dangers it posed to Nigeria, Nigerians and the world at large, I Princess Marian Iyabode Awolowo again sincerely apologise to ALL NIGERIANS for my advocacy for a President Muhammadu Buhari 2015 Presidency. And I SHALL NOT SUPPORT PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI RE-ELECTION BID AS IT POSED DANGER TO THE PEACE AND PROGRESS OF NIGERIA AND THE WORLD AT LARGE.

    And to the LIVING, DO not BE BULLIED TO SILENCE. DO NOT BE AFRAIDTO SPEAK OUT BECAUSE TERRORIST HATES TO BE EXPOSED. CREATE AWARENESS TO SAVE YOURSELF AND OTHERS. 

    Ensure you TAKE PRESERVING YOUR LIVES AS A PIRIOTY. 

    Vote out any Governor who cedes your lands to terrorist camouflaging as Fulani Herdsmen, because the terrorist herdsmen are NOT the same peaceful Fulani herdsmen we have lived with side by side for decades in Nigeria. 

    Please ensure you VOTE for PRESERVATION OF LIVES IN THE GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION. 

    Once again, I totally unequivocally apologise to ALL who supported my callings for a Buhari2015 Presidency especially victims of the barbaric avoidable massacre going on in Nigeria. I pray to God, Allah, Olodumare to strengthen and bless all those who are victims of the barbaric killings going on in Nigeria.

    May all the departed souls rest in peace, Amen, Ameen, Ase.
    #AllLivesMATTERS

    Signed

    Princess Marian Iyabode Awolowo – United Kingdom
    Creator – Nigerian Global Awakening Group
    Creator – Nigerian Global Awakening Day
    6th of July 2018

  • Buhari’s Dirty Politics

    Buhari’s Dirty Politics

    Buhari’s dirty politics is basically hinged on insensitivity with a medley of ineptitude and clannishness. Every populist promise he made to win votes in 2015 has been breeched straightaway. Instead of draining the swamp of discord between the people when he assumed office, he filled it with more hatred, bitterness, cabals and sectarianism. He assumed office of, by and for his section, 97% and left the remaining 5% far worse than they were before.

    The myth of ‘I am for everybody, I am for nobody’, that fake anti a establishment phrase also vanished straightaway after his inauguration.

    Buhari’s dirty politics and those of his cabals are responsible for the ernomous harm and death to countless millions of Nigerians. Instead of face his failures or resign from lack of carrying capacity, he is swimming in the mire of his badly constructed blame games.

    He didn’t become the president by being a good person, he did through dirty politics by the means of an organized populist propaganda which did not allow the people to interrogate his past deeply. Sai Baba, that very insulting clamour to sensibility!

    He is now surrounded with crooks and rogues who temper often with our commonwealth. He was recently advised to share the billions of Naira of the Abacha loot from Switzerland to imaginary poor people but to go to borrow billions to fund the budget. Which sane mind thinks like that?

    Instead of pursuing peace and stability in the country that has suffered immense divisions, he is greviously encouraging nepotism, breeching all known laws, waging wars against those who disagree with his barbaric style of governance, terrorising minority tribes through either herdsmen or security agents, violating human and civil rights of the citizens.

    During his campaigns, owing to the deadly Boko Haram insurgency, Buhari promised to improve and tackle insecurity across the country. Today, the security situation is more dismal than ever. His defence team, built from his section, has become mouth piece for killer herdsmen, paving ways for their grazing routes or otherwise, death in hundreds. Oh, the government is trying to measure up the deaths that occurred during the 16 years reign of PDP, how low a government can fall down to as if lives are pebbles lost in childhood plays.

    Today, the economy is in shambles like rice shaffs blown by the wind. This is due to his series of unawares demarketing strategies of the country in hopeless foreign trips that yield nothing. The people struggle to thumb a living from miracles everyday. Farmers have either been killed in hundreds or have been dispatched to internally displaced persons camps, and there are projections of femine next year and the years to come if the killing do not stop.

    His harvest is homelessness, hunger, deprivation…pretending prosperity had been hampered by years of corruption even when he sits and dine with the likes of Maina and Babachir and other corrupt cabals.

    I do not wish to argue with any insane mind that Nigeria is not worse than it had ever been. The nation is conducive for only a privileged few, the others, 5%, are trampled upon like chattels and exploited. The nation is in a deplorable state of decay under Buhari, a fact not in doubt. His criminal array of administrative officials are there to be seen, his extremist security ministers and agents aid killer herdsmen, and according to TY Danjuma, collude with them to carry out heinous crimes against farmers. How could the Birom people be under attack for two days without any repreive? Up till now, none of his security agents or ministers has been changed since 2015 even in the face of their ineptitude.

    Buhari’s voodoo policies are inflicting harm on millions of Nigerians in a far worse situation that can ever be imagined. We must agree things are more dismal and disturbing than any time in our modern history. The nation is sliding into unchecked economic downturn and perhaps war if this killing trend is not handled with finesse.

    Lest we forget, a police state is firmly established with the fortitude of tyranny… We are sliding towards a fully-blown anarchy if the people respond in the same vein against the government. All kinds of freedoms are being suspended with unwritten decrees, removed and disappearing before our own very eyes. People now talk in hushed voices, the western world take us as political asylum seekers, senators are being dragged on tarred roads like common criminals for daring to disagree with Buhari’s primal style of governance.

    Instead of working to fulfil some parts of his deceitful campaign promises, Buhari is proving everyday he is a dirty politician. My imagination wonders at this moment to how history will judge him when his work here is over.

    Elempe Del

  • Igbanke Grammar School and its dilapidated State

    Igbanke Grammar School and its dilapidated State

    Igbanke Grammar School was built in 1968 and is located in Orhionmwon Local Government Area, Edo State, Nigeria. This is one of many schools which has been neglected by government. The video shows the dilapidated state of almost all the classrooms. We are calling on all Alumni of the Igbanke Grammar School, and all well meaning Nigerians to assist in bringing this school back to a state where children can learn. May God bless your effort.

  • It is time to act— Enough is totally and truly now enough!!

    It is time to act— Enough is totally and truly now enough!!

    By Dr. Oby Ezekwesili

    Mr President and Commander in Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces- President Muhammadu Buhari, having watched with consternation the criminal massacre of our fellow Nigerians especially in the first half of this year without any evidence of fierce sense of urgency on the part of your government to end the abnormality, I have a simple question for you today. Are you by any strange possibility in need of the spilt blood of your citizens? I personally reckon that the answer to this outlandish question which some of your citizens are now asking in utter frustration is NO.

    If therefore your own response is NO as I direly hope it is, I have a few DEMAND to make on you to STOP THE KILLINGS NOW!

    I am addressing my message to you as the President and C-in-C of Nigeria. I am addressing my DEMANDS to you as that one individual bestowed with the powers of centralized command and control of our security institutions and personnel to enforce the provisions of Section 14 subsection 2b of the Nigerian Constitution (As amended) which states that, “the welfare and security of the citizens shall be the primary purpose of the government”. Hence;

    1. STOP THE DAILY KILLING OF NIGERIANS BY TERRORIST-HERDSMEN NOW! NIGERIA MUST NOT BE CHANGED INTO A VAST KILLING FIELD UNDER YOUR WATCH, Mr PRESIDENT.

    2. STOP NORMALIZING ENDLESS BLOOD FLOW OF EVEN OUR INNOCENT CHILDREN IN THE LAND NOW!!! STOP THE BLOOD LETTING. IT IS AN ABERRATION.

    3. SHARE THE CREDIBLE STRATEGY AND SOLUTIONS OF YOUR ADMINISTRATION TO THE DAILY KILLINGS OF NIGERIANS WITH THE PEOPLE.

    4. REVEAL THE IDENTITIES OF ALL THE PERPETRATORS OF AT LEAST ALL KILLINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED UNDER YOUR ADMINISTRATION IN PLATEAU, BENUE, TARABA, KADUNA, ZAMFARA, ADAMAWA, NASSARAWA, KOGI AND OTHER STATES AND THE STATE OF JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS TO SECURE DETERRENT SANCTIONS. REVEAL THE IDENTITIES, ARREST AND ARRAY ALL SUSPECTED MURDERERS IN COURT NOW!!! 

    5. END THE FREEDOM TO KILL AND MAIM THAT THE NIGERIAN HAS HANDED TO TERRORIST-HERDSMEN. COMMENCE EFFECTIVE INVESTIGATION, ARREST, PROSECUTION AND SANCTION OF PERPETRATORS OF VIOLENT CRIMES IN ALL AFFECTED STATES NOW. 

    5B. GIVE JUSTICE TO THE DEAD NOW AND SECURE THE LIVING IN ALL AFFECTED COMMUNITIES.

    6. END THE INEFFECTIVENESS OF OUR SECURITY ESTABLISHMENTS, SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES NOW.

    7.  STOP REWARDING THE INCOMPETENCE AND FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP OF THE SECURITY ARCHITECTURE OF NIGERIA. THE COST OF THEIR FAILURE IS EXTREMELY HIGH IN THE 1,196 (Approx) NIGERIANS THAT HAVE DIED IN ONLY THE FIRST FIVE AND HALF MONTHS OF THIS YEAR.

    8. END YOUR LOYALTY TO YOUR SERVICE CHIEFS AND HEAD OF SECURITY BECAUSE OF THEIR LOYALTY TO YOUR PERSON. IT IS A BREACH OF THE OATH YOU SWORE INTO OFFICE TO PLACE NIGERIA ABOVE YOUR PERSONAL INTEREST.  IT IS SIMPLY PUT, AN ABUSE OF OFFICE.

    9. STOP YOUR COLD AND VISIBLE LACK OF EMPATHY TOWARD A SEGMENT OF YOUR CITIZENS WHO ARE DAILY KILLED WITH IMPUNITY WHILE YOU PERSONALLY MAKE AND ISSUE STATEMENTS THAT INCLUDE ENDORSING THEIR KILLERS’ SCANDALOUS JUSTIFICATION OF THEIR CRIME AS A MERE RETALIATORY ACT FOR LOST COWS.

    10. STOP THE SEEMING TROUBLING ENDORSEMENT BY YOUR ADMINISTRATION OF THE REPUGNANT ADMISSION BY AN ORGANIZATION THAT IT KILLS HUMAN BEINGS WHO ARE YOUR CITIZENS FOR THEIR OWN LOST COWS. SANCTION THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE NOW IF THE NIGERIAN POLICE FAILS TO ARREST THOSE WHO ALLEGEDLY MADE THE RECENT HERDSMEN ASSOCIATION STATEMENT AND THEIR MEMBERS WHO WERE ASSIGNED TO EXECUTE THE SO-CALLED ‘RETALIATORY ATTACKS’.

    11. MR PRESIDENT, YOUR BIASE IN HANDLING THE KILLINGS AND ABDUCTIONS OF CERTAIN SEGMENT OF NIGERIANS IS ALL TOO OBVIOUS AND UNBECOMING OF A LEADER OF A DIVERSE NATION LIKE NIGERIA.
    ALL NIGERIAN LIVES MATTER!

    12. STOP THE BLAME GAME AND YOUR CONFUSING STATEMENTS ON THE KILLINGS OF YOUR CITIZENS. TODAY, MAUMER QADDAFI’S LIBYA DESTABILIZATION. TOMORROW, YOUR POLITICAL OPPONENTS. NEXT WEEK, THE AFFECTED-COMMUNITIES OF STATE WHO ARE ALREADY VICTIMS OF THE CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE AND FAILURE TO PROTECT BY YOUR ADMINISTRATION. 

    13. COMMISSION AN URGENT INDEPENDENT RESEARCH AND STUDY INTO THE ROOT CAUSES FOR EVIDENCE BASED COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO BUILD BACK THE BROKEN DOWN COMMUNITY PEACE AND SECURITY IN AFFECTED STATES.

    14. LEAD A NATIONAL DISCUSSION TO AGREE A MARKET BASED POLICY ON CATTLE RANCHING AND GRASS/FORAGE SUPPLIES AS A FUNDAMENTAL SOLUTION TO THE HERDSMEN-FARMERS CRISIS.

    15. IMMEDIATELY CONVENE A MEETING OF ALL COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY TERRORIST-HERDSMEN AND USE YOUR PRESIDENTIAL SOFT POWER TO MOBILIZE NIGERIANS FOR SUSTAINABLE PEACE. THIS WOULD INCLUDE DISCUSSIONS ON HOW TO GOVERN LAND, WATER AND PASTURE IN A MARKET-BASED MANNER WHERE NO GROUP FEELS ENTITLED TO THE OTHERS’ ASSETS.  SUPPORT COMMUNITIES TO INSTITUTE LOCAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION SYSTEMS, MECHANISMS AND PLATFORMS.

    16. PROVIDE PROGRESS REPORT ON NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY COUNCIL THAT MR PRESIDENT INAUGURATED AND CHAIRS TO TACKLE THE HERDSMEN-FARMER CRISIS:  Provide the Nigerian Public with the progress report of the National Food Security Council which you inaugurated on Monday, March 26, 2018 under your Chairmanship. At the time of inauguration, you announced the broad objectives of the Council as being, “to developing sustainable solutions to the farmers–herdsmen clashes; Climate Change and Desertification and their impact on farmland; grazing areas and lakes, rivers and other water bodies; oil spillage and its impact on Niger Delta Fishing Communities; piracy and banditry; agricultural research institutions and extension services and the problem of smuggling.”

    17. ENOUGH OF WHAT COULD BE INTERPRETED AS IMPLICIT COMPLICITY OF YOUR ADMINISTRATION IN THE FREQUENT KILLINGS OF YOUR CITIZENS MR PRESIDENT!!!

    18. #NoMoreKillings. #StopTheKillings. #ActForResultsNOW. #MrPresident.

  • Our lives are worth more

    Our lives are worth more

    I wish we will all understand this. Where we are now is anti-life; complete bastardization of the human being @ 1 cow =1 person. Given the number of deaths that have occurred outside the troubled North-East Zone, it is debatable whether the casualties of the Nigeria-Biafra civil war are really more than the casualties all over the country in largely peace-time. Hmmmm! How did we get here?

    We were led into error by the zeal to improve our national life by embracing CHANGE. What we got instead is shocking! Whatever gains the government may have recorded, they lost woefully with their complete helplessness in the security and welfare of the people. Ironically, this is the primary purpose of Government in line with the provisions of section 14 (2) (b) of the 1999 constitution as amended.

    For whom are they improving the economy? In whose interest are they fighting corruption? For whom are they constructing railways/ roads?

    Certainly, not the people who may not live to enjoy those benefits. The people who die needlessly everyday! The people that are frequently given mass burial by the same government!

    Get something clear, human life is sacred! Be they Christians, Muslims, African Traditional Religionists, Atheists or whoever! They are under our laws guaranteed by section 33 of our constitution.

    The president must stop given excuses about the wanton destruction of life and properties going on in our country. It is his duty to enforce extant laws in our country sequel to section 5 of our constitution and he has the powers to appoint the inspector General of police under section 215 (1)(a) of the constitution or to remove him under section 216 of the Supreme law of our land.

    In addition, he has the powers to determine the operational use of the Armed Forces as the Commander In Chief under section 218 of the same constitution.

    What is left, nothing. The president has the knife and has the yam. Why does he continue to give excuses about been unable to cut the yam. Is that not why he was elected? He cannot enjoy the perks of office without delivering effectively on his duties directly or through his appointees. Throughout his tenure so far, it has been pretty clear that a number of appointments were ill conceived. Why then did the President not do the needful in good timing? The serving Inspector General of Police is in my opinion of very low reckoning by all and sundry. He has spent more time flexing muscles with the National Assembly than doing his job. An exercise that is not only unproductive but laced with partisan coloration.

    It is time to get serious in the guarantee of our right to live freely in our country. It is a cardinal right that flows from our citizenship of Nigeria. It is protected both by our local laws and International instruments.

    Enough is enough. No cow is worth killing anyone for. If the laws are made to work, cow rustlers will have no place to hide. They exist because the security community is not alive to its responsibilities. The buck stops on the President’s table and no where else.

    Dr. West-Idahosa.