Nigerian Civil War was a Necessary Evil

Nigerian Civil War was a Necessary Evil; Ojukwu and Gowon, the Chief Protagonists, Kaduna Nzeogwu the Producer, Created by the British and engineered by  the Nigerian politicians.

Like the America civil war, Nigeria civil war was meant to be if the nation was to attain greatness. The crucifixion of Christ, the wretchedness and orphanage of Prophet Mohamed from infant and the Nigerian civil war were necessary evils. One common outcome from these necessary evils is that the characters or the protagonists and the institutions involved become larger than life after the relatively short period of the evils.

It is without doubt that Nigeria was fashioned for greatness and Nigeria civil war is but a precursor for this great of a nation that Nigeria is yet to become. In the history of man and of nation states, of kingdoms and empires no people have attained greatness without either external or internal conflict or both.  So when Zik of Africa during the civil war spoke from United Kingdom and asserted that Nigeria secured independence without the spill of blood he spoke wisely though too early and factually incorrect. The Nigeria civil war is in every sense the Nigeria war of independence or blood scarifies made posterior. So about seven years after dubious and pseudo transfer of power from the Queen of England to her puppets in Nigeria, Patriotic Nigerians lead by Gowon and Ojukwu though on opposite sides of the divide embarked on the true struggle or war of independence. Yes, like in any real struggle or conflict for freedom, many Nigerians regrettably died in this war of independence; but the true casualties of this independence war ought to be the British and western influence in Nigeria. The civil war thought Nigerians the lesson of respect for one another and the aloofness of the West when Africans kill one another.

The chief protagonists of the Nigeria war of greatness and of oneness General Gowon and Colonel Ojukwu were and may as well be the best two military officers Nigeria will ever have. These two without doubt are great Nigerians. They were positioned by the divine providence. These two had the same idea of Nigeria but different language or approach. One, General Gowon loves the nation and wants to keep it and the other colonel Ojukwu loves the people and wants to protect them; two distinct approach for the same idea.  These two distinct approaches for great Nigeria was very manifest in the speeches, declarations and rule for military engagement observed by these two great Nigerians in the prosecution and resolution of the civil conflict.

With the death of Ojukwu pundits, friends and foes have speculated on the appropriate rights to accord him at death, some have suggested and called the federal government to give him a state burial, others want federal facility named after him. Yes, these are good ideas but neither will define Ojukwu correctly nor what he stood for, appropriately. None of these suggestions can correctly define Ojukwu as one who went to war and staked his very existence to protect we the people. There cannot be a better way to immortalize this Icon than to build a national civil war museum with the statue of General Gowon at the first gate looking over the nation and that of Ojukwu at the inner gate looking over the people. This national civil war museum should be built at the theatre of the civil war, somewhere in the south east. The federal government can nationalize the civil war museum at Umuahia as a joint venture, expand and   stock it with important war memorabilia. Not only will this civil war museum eternalize Ojukwu and Gowon it will give understanding of the two conflicting approaches to one idea that put these two great Nigerians on opposite sides of the same  coin. Above all, the museum will remind Nigerians and future generations of Nigerians the price paid to keep Nigerian one and in mutual respect between the groups.  

Bawomanh

ojukwu declare biafra

"OJUKWU SECEDES and DECLARES the REPUBLIC of BIAFRA.

Fellow countrymen and women, you, the people of Eastern Nigeria:

Conscious of the supreme authority of Almighty God over all mankind,
of your duty to yourselves and posterity;

Aware that you can no longer be protected in your lives and in your
property by any Government based outside Eastern Nigeria;

Believing that you are born free and have certain inalienable rights
which can best be preserved by yourselves;

Unwilling to be unfree partners in any association of a political or
economical nature;

Rejecting the authority of any person or persons other than the
Military Government of Eastern Nigeria to make any imposition of
whatever kind or nature upon you;

Determined to dissolve all political and other ties between you and
the former Federal Republic of Nigeria;

Prepared to enter into such association, treaty or alliance with any
sovereign state within the former Federal Republic of Nigeria and
elsewhere on such terms and conditions as best to subserve your common
good;

Affirming your trust and confidence in me;

Having mandated me to proclaim on your behalf, and in your name, that
Eastern Nigeria be a sovereign independent Republic,

Now, therefore, I, Lieutenant-Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu,
Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, by virtue of the authority, and
pursuant to the principles, recited above, do hereby solemnly proclaim
that the territory and region known as and called Eastern Nigeria
together with her continental shelf and territorial waters shall
henceforth be an independent sovereign state of the name and title of
"The Republic of Biafra". And I do declare that-

i. all political ties between us and the Federal Republic of Nigeria
are hereby totally dissolved;

ii. all subsisting contractual obligations entered into by the
Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria or by any person,
authority or organization or government acting on its behalf, with any
person, authority or organization operating, or relating to any matter
or thing, within the Republic of Biafra, shall henceforth be deemed to
be entered into with the Military Governor of the Republic of Biafra
for and on behalf of the Government and people of the republic of
Biafra, and the covenants thereof shall, subject to this Declaration,
be performed by the parties according to their tenor;

iii. all subsisting international treaties and obligations made on
behalf of eastern Nigeria by the Government of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, shall be honoured and respected;

iv. Eastern Nigeria's due share of all subsisting international debits
and obligations entered into by the Government of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria on behalf of the Federation of Nigeria shall be honoured
and respected;

v. steps will be taken to open discussions of the question of Eastern
Nigeria's due share of the assets of the Federation of Nigeria and
personal properties of the citizens of Biafra throughout the
Federation of Nigeria;

vi. the rights, privileges, pensions, etc. of all personnel of the
Public Services, the Armed Forces and the Police now serving in any
capacity within the Republic of Biafra, are hereby guaranteed;

vii. we shall keep the door open for association with, and would
welcome, any sovereign unit or units in the former Federation of
Nigeria or in any other parts of Africa desirous of association with
us for the purposes of running a common services organization and for
the establishment of economic ties;

viii. we shall protect the lives and property of all foreigners
residing in Biafra; we shall extend the hand of friendship to those
nations who respect our sovereignty, and shall repell any interference
in our internal affairs;

ix. we shall faithfully adhere to the charter of the Organization of
African Unity and of the United Nations Organization;

x. It is our intention to remain a member of the British Commonwealth
of Nations in our right as a sovereign, independent nation.


Long live the Republic of Biafra!
And may God protect all who live in her!"

By
Dawodu.com
Oct 3, 2007 - Dec 2, 2007.

PDP a Dying Party

What is PDP doing about the unlawful sacking by Mr. Roachas the democratically elected council chairmen in Imo State? Shame on PDP that it has not used its majority in national assembles to block these lawless power and money grabs by Governor Obi and Governor Roachas. What does local government elections mean if elected chairmen are blocked from serving their mandates just because the state elected a new governor of another party? I guess PDP is a dying party. 

The Unbanking Fanatics

Nigeria cannot be salvaged by the banking sector be it Islamic, secular or Christianity banking. The main, major problems in Nigeria are official corruption and lawlessness. Nigerians should be mindful of these diversionary plots by corrupt public officials or their stooges that are paddling baseless and unsubstantiated rumors about the so called Islamic banking.  What Nigeria need is well capitalize banks in the banking sector call it Islamic or Christianity banking. The difference between good and evil, are evil and good, that is, the manifestation of good makes action or thought good and manifestation of evil makes action or thought evil. The secular and Christianity banking in Nigeria today is riddled in greedy, corruption and criminality. Which banking system would the Christian God support secular and Christianity banking marred with greed and corruption or any other banking system regardless of its name that operates in the principle of fairness and common good?  I too I am a Christian but my God is neither a respecter of persons nor religious. For those of you, the religious, Christian fear mongers that are scared to death by the idea of Islamic banking in Nigeria what exactly are you people afraid of, Islamic bank or Islamic money? How many of you would as matter of religious principle refuse to cash a substantial amount of gift money from an Islamic bank?  Would you the guardians of the Christian faith rather have secular banking riddled in corruption and thievery of people’s money than Islamic banking based on fairness and common good? Would a bank locally owned but operates with the name of a Nigerian pagan religion receive the same scrutiny and opposition from these religious zealots? The difference between the Boko Haram and these Christian zealots is that one violently abhors the other and the other cowardly abhors the one but these two are ignorant.   Because I know the God I worship and know that he is able I am neither scared by an Islamic banking or institutions in Nigeria and I do not believe that Islamic banking is a panacea for the rot in Nigeria. Corruption and lawlessness are the two main issues strangling Nigerian.  Like any other foreign investment in Nigeria, a non-corrupt Islamic banking operating within the law of the land that observes the rule of law is good for Nigeria and good for any country. These religious sycophants and hypocrites should know that their God should be infinitely knowledgeable and cannot be influenced by their human idiosyncrasies

Messiahs? Nooop

Responding to “a Non-Conduct of Council poll raises the Ante in Anambra State” Guardian daily, 7/8/11

Mr. Rochas and Governor Obi were elected under the platform of a political party, All Progressive Grand Alliance APGA, that was suppose to enshrine true democracy, liberate and empower people of South East. But what have these Governors, Obi and Rochas become, lawless dictators. These Governors act as their state's legislature, judiciary, local government chairmen and local government councils and Mr. Roachas in addition is the lord over Imo council of chiefs. Igbo people have seen the likes of these Governors before in the person of former Governor of Abia State Orjiuzo kalu, the-uglier-than-evil Governor. No, these Governors are no different from the criminally corrupt leaderships common in the country. In fact these Governors are and will be the worst of the evils that have taken over Nigeria since the mid eighties. Time will show that Governor Obi and Governor Rochas are but sheep in wolves clothing.  These two should be Prosecuted for their lawlessness or for being the laws themselves. They must be probed for the local governments' federal allocations they are pocketing. The citizens of Imo and Anambra should brace for gloomier future under the leaderships of these lawless men, Mr. Obi and Mr. Rochas.

Ben Ojiakulo

Not one is Innocent

EFCC accuses ex-Works Minister of plotting to jump bail: vanguard online news, July 6, 2011.

If the Judge grants any of the accused bail for a foreign travel then the Judge should be investigated and prosecuted.  The accused, Mr. Lawal must first make peace with his follow country men and women before his God will grant him peace. If Mr. Lawal Misses the lesser Haji let it be the price he paid to  vindicate himself and price to prove his patriotism to the nation. Even if Mr. Lawal is innocent but jumps bail for a religious activity, the god of Lesser Haji will ask him to go home and first prove himself right to his follow men and then come back and receive blessings. As for Mr. George Elzoghbi, that he did not loot public coffer is enough to soothe and relief his pain. If Mr. Elzoghbi dies in jail while awaiting trial let it be the price he paid to vindicate himself and his family. If Mr. Elzoghbi dies in jail let it be the price for his patriotism to the Nation. Seventy five billion naira is about five hundred million dollars enough to build two world class hospitals yet Mr. Elzoghbi is seeking travel documents for foreign medical treatment that may cause him hundreds of thousands of dollar. Where are Mr. Elzoghbi’s companies and industries where he raised hundred of thousands of dollars for foreign medical treatment?  The armed robber that was sentence to death yesterday if he had asked would the court have granted him foreign medical or religious trip?         

Ekiti's Appeal court describes the dissolution of the Ekiti State Local Government Service Commission by Governor Kayode as unlawful.

Last month the newly elected Imo State Governor in a public speech blunder sacked all the 27 elected local government chairmen in the state, this is dictatorship. In a democracy, how can one man be the chief executive, the court, the Judge, and the parliament? Common sense detects that one can only sacked his or her employees, even within the law. How can an elected governor, a chief executive of state fire other elected chief executives of another tier of the government that were duly elected? Perhaps, the Governor erroneously thinks that the President can wake up one morning and sack all the 36 state governors, why not if he the governor can sack all the 27 duly elected local government chairmen; what a shame and idiosyncrasy of a Governor that was elected to correct the lawlessness in his state. Where did the Governor receive his political science class? And this brings to question the Governor’s understanding of the law. The Governor cannot illegally legalize the state.  It will be difficult for the Governor to govern if his is lawless.

 Hopefully the new Imo Governor will learn from the court’s decisions in Ekiti state and reinstate the twenty seven local government chairmen he illegally dismissed. In true democracies the governor’s action amounts to subversion of the federal constitution that established the local government authority as another tier of the government.

Ben ojiakulo

A Despot and Mother of Corruption Lectures Jonathan on Governace

{Responding to Vanguard July 3, 2011 article by Emmunuel Aziken "IBB Lectures Jonathan on Governace" }

Wonders shall Never end; IBB Preaches democracy and opposition tolerance; He thinks Nigerians have forgotten or perhaps IBB have developed the old man disease, Amnesia.

No where in the world are outlaws, crooks, murderers, dictators, embezzlers have greater freedom than in Nigeria. Most people have heard the common phrase that suggests satirically of one landing in prison for stealing a chicken, and another going to congress for stealing the whole wealth of a nation. In Nigeria this is a straight factual statement. In fact the more criminally vicious a public official is the more freedom he or she enjoys in Nigeria provided he or she have enough stolen public fund to arrogate self sovereignty.

For eight years the popular or the notorious IBB seized power under the barrel of gun and imposed his personal will on the Nigerian people. Under IBB’s dictatorship many senior military officers were executed. Among the executed was IBB’s close comrade Major General Mamman Vasta. These officers were charged for subversion against IBB’s dictatorial regime even though IBB and his cohorts by their participation in the 1983 coup committed subversion against a democratically elected government. These officers executed by IBB led junta were tried and convicted by a military tribunal appointed and supervised by IBB himself. In 1986 or thereabout a renowned journalist Dele Giwa was murdered and IBB’s henchman hit man otherwise called the national intelligence director was implicated. It was reported that this intelligence director spoke to Giwa just before a parcel bomb that killed Giwa was delivered to him. By 1986 except the military and the military leadership which IBB was at the helm no other institution, organization, group, individual has the expertise, or the means to successfully deliver a letter bomb. Even today, without the cover of the government it will be difficult to execute the parcel bomb of 1986. Beside, who else in Nigeria in 1986 had vested interest in seeing the elimination of a Journalist whose editorial columns were critical of the IBB’s military dictatorship and corruptions? It was no surprise that official investigation or report on Giwa’s assassination was never issued by IBB’s military junta. Rumor had it that Giwa had information on one mysterious Gloria Okon whose purported illicit drug trade before 1985 was linked to IBB.

The extra judiciary murder of many senior military officers and the assassination of Dele Giwa were apparent but what are not apparent are the deaths of so many Nigerians who are victims of deprivation and extinguished live ambitions due to the looting of Nigerian treasure by the military junta led by Ibrahim Babagida. In fact IBB’s military junta ushered in the culture of corruption in Nigeria. Before 1985 there was official corruption but during the eight years of IBB dictatorship, corruption became way of life in Nigeria. The culture of corruption planted by IBB led junta is seen today in all aspect of the Nigerian society.

Today IBB is a billionaire in dollars and will outspend most competitors except his likes who also commandeered the national wealth for personal use. There were no evidences that IBB was filthy rich before 1985 and no evidence that he inherited family fortune after his eight years of dictatorship. But in the 90s IBB was reported in Forbes Magazine as one of the world’s billionaires. It is no secret that IBB and his cohorts looted Nigerian treasure. His administration could not account for the extra billions of dollars that Nigeria ought to have received from the sell of crude oil during the 1990 gulf war. So IBB have the wealth to buy whatever he wishes including media time but the question is how many Nigerians will listen to this wolf who once feasts on their blood?

For eight years IBB have the opportunity to make Nigeria better and uphold the creed of the independent fathers who staked their peace and lives for the purpose of securing a free democratic and prosperous Nigeria. But rather IBB’s led military junta chose to usher in a culture of corruption and murderous environment into the country that he seized power to protect. Leading up to the 2011 presidential vote IBB filed papers to contest for the office of the presidency; this was laughable and heart breaking. It is laughable because IBB seemed to believe that Nigerians are suffering from amnesia. But it was heart breaking because an individual who ought to be doing prison time for the atonement of his crime against the people and the country is arrogantly seeking to once more lord himself over the people. It is even more heart breaking that there was that possibility that a well known crook could have once more taken the leadership of a nation that for its survival needs the guidance of all good angels of the heavens. IBB made this shamelessly bold move because he is in disposition of enough stolen public wealth. In filing papers for the office of the presidency IBB said he was exercising his legal suffrage. But he said nothing of the suffrage he suffocated when he participated in the 1983 coup that deposed democratically elected government nor did he say any thing on suffrage he stifled during his eight years of military dictatorship. Perhaps IBB thinks in error that Nigerians are stupid. No Nigerian in a right frame of mind will think or belief that IBB have anything good to offer the country If he could not offer these goodies for eight years that he single handedly dictated the policies and affairs of government. In time of 'peace' only Kings, Emperors, and despots rule nations for more than ten years and  since IBB is neither a King nor an Emperor he is despotic as he truly sought  to lead another eight years of corrupt presidency.    A second IBB presidency would have measured worse than his failed, eight years of corrupt and murderous presidency not only because he lacks idea, wisdom, vision and knowledge to lead but also because he is primitive in all his dispositions. IBB’s eight years of dictatorship shows not only that he cannot lead but also that he has no understanding of what leadership means. He knows not that to lead is to serve. If Nigerians can for a moment pretend, just pretend that they love the country then IBB will not be advising the President but rather he should be begging for a presidential pardon for the long prison time he ought to have been serving for crime against his people and country. IBB is bold to make mockery of democracy and presidential advisory because he has not been held accountable for his eight years of tyranny, dictatorship, oppression, looting of public treasure and treason.

Nigerians should save themselves from the illusion that IBB will remove his ignorant self from the national discourse because doing that could amount to political suicide and physical harm. IBB, the Maradona knows that the only way he will remain ahead of the law for his eight years of corrupt murderous dictatorship, loot and treason against the nation is to remain in the national discourse, shape it and be for everything and for nothing; IBB, the evil genius knows that as long as his is a political player his opponents more than likely will compromise and accommodate him thereby erasing the thought and idea of probing him for eight years of capital crime against Nigeria. It is for these compromise and accommodation that IBB continues to bring his primitive self into the national discourse. Even with his billions of dollars of stolen public wealth IBB knows that he cannot win a presidential election in Nigeria but can avert prosecution by remaining engaged in the national political conversation.  IBB must do what he must do to remain a freeman knowing that for eight years he committed capital crimes against Nigerian. Who else in his right mind and survival instinct and in IBB’s situation would not want to set the stage for political discuss in Nigeria?

Nearly twenty years after leaving the pinnacle of power that brought eight years of corrupt murderous dictatorship, loot and treason against the nation IBB have employed all tools, bribery, intimidation, threats, political camaraderie and prostitution to evade prosecution. Instead of calling him out for his crime against the nation, politicians seek friendship, material and financial support from IBB. Truth is that any administration that fails to probe IBB and other looters is in itself a corrupt administration and therefore must be probe because corruption is not only the act of looting but also a cowardly and wilful failure in recovering public wealth from the looters.

Voci Bawoman                                                    

Mark of a Stupid Generation

Responding to 419 (scam) email below, possibly from a Nigerian in south Africa. 

Hi Boy, go home and go fight for what is yours. You left Nigerian for abroad hoping and believing to be some body by these make believe stories and childish money making tricks? I envy your hopefulness but hope without knowledge is worse than faith without work.

Do you not know of the billions of dollars of your country's public fund, your money that the ignorant leaders of your country are exporting out to Western and Arab countries? Even Ohakim the Ex-Governor of your State or some of your friends' home state is there in the  South Africa with hundreds of millions of your money he stole. Yet all you can do is send out emails with these stories of tree vegetating money that you yourself irrespective of your stupidity would not even believe.

If you and all of you in this 419 scam can put these incredible hopes in hopelessness of yours to agitate for good governance in  Nigeria we all will be better off. Tell me if a thief comes and steals or takes your land would not go after this thief or would look the other way and allow this thief to take what is yours? What if this thief steals your land, your house, daughter, son, mother, father, brother, sister and or all that mean something to you would you not go after this thief or would you look the other way? Well my brother this is exactly what you are doing,  looking the way when corrupt public officials in Nigeria steal Nigeria to death and all you can do is to cowardly ran away to foreign land and live in hopelessness.  

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Red-herring Rochas

Governor Rochas and Red-herring

Mr. Governor, behold governance, if governance was good intensions then you are the best governor Nigeria ever had. But governance isn’t just good intensions alone. Because good intension is a very subjective supposition almost all persons have it. Abacha, IBB, Ohakim and Orji Uzo Kalu them have good intensions.

The Governor should leave the traditional rulers alone. Like any other institution governmental and non governmental in Imo and in Nigeria this Eze-ship or institution of traditional ruler-ship is highly politicized and grossly corrupted but the traditional institution is not an agency or branch of the Imo state Government. Disgraceful yes, but the Eze institution is not responsible for the poor leadership, corruption, insecurity and general abjectness in the state. In fact Governments just like what Governor Rochas is doing today are responsible for the politicization and degrading of Eze-ship in Igbo land and institution of traditional ruler- ship in Nigeria in general.

Mr. Rochas can not solve Imo problem by dissolving the exiting Eze-ships, local government councils and chairmanships and replacing the same with his political stooges. This is cronyism the same menace the Governor proclaims to fight. If the governor is true to his fight against corruption why has he not set up panel to probe his predecessors? The Governors before Mr. Rochas are responsible for more than ninety percent of corruption, general abjectness and socio-moral decadence in the state. The governor has publicly but cowardly declared that his administration will not probe Mr. Ohakim when it is crystal clear that Mr. Ohakim embezzled, mismanaged public fund and betrayed public trust. By declaring not to probe Ohakim Mr. Rochas is preparing for his own probe free exit four or eight years from now when he leaves the Governor’s house for a presidential bid. In my opinion, Governor Rochas is neither the messiah he make himself to be nor the one to save Imo people.

Here are my predictions and I pray that I am wrong. Governor Rochas between third and eighth year of his governorship will declare for the national ruling party in preparation for a presidential bid. Eighty percent of the fund the governor will use for his presidential bid will be Imo state wealth he will not account for. The Governor had ambition but this is not primarily to be Imo State governor. Imo State administration will serve as a resume and revenue source for Mr. Rochas’ presidential ambition. If Rochas succeeds in his presidential ambition then Imo People has something to be happy for but if the Governor’s presidential ambition fails Imo State will be gloomier because then ex-Governor has no way to return to Imo People their wealth he deceitfully invested in his presidential run.

Mr. Governor, prove me wrong by declaring your verifiable personal wealth now. Mr. Governor, please stop this red-herring and war on the pacifist eze-ships and tell Imo People how you plan to fight insecurity, poverty, joblessness and general abjectness in the state. If the Governor succeeds in these four then history will be kind to him otherwise the Governor will be another number like his predecessors

Ben Ojiakulo

Knowledge

Wisdom, where is thee? Righteousness whence comes thee? Where are you, the fountain of truthfulness? Courage, where is thy home? True-leadership how illusive is thee to our people?

Contrary to the belief of many, wisdom is not a function of age otherwise the same old and intellectually primitive cabals that have run Nigerian down would have taken the advantage of their fossilizing brain to run the country up. Righteousness too is not a function of religiosity because Nigeria is being ruined by the religious clowns ‘the Allah kubhakars’ and ‘the love one anothers’. Neither is truthfulness a function of conscience, IBB, Obasanjo, Abacha, Atiku, Governor Kalu, Representative Bankole, Professor Iwu, just to name few of the primitive men of this century, are for sure men with conscience yet where is their conscience? Governor Kalu and Representative Bankole surely have debunked the myth that youthfulness is the home of courage. These two not only proved that corruption is endemic in Nigeria but also unbounded. The Independent fathers, the heavens, Nigerians, young and old that have passed over to the other side of life as a result of corruption and abjectness in the country will not forgive these two, Bankole and Kula and their likes, not only for their sellout but for driving the deadly nail through the heart of the seed of regeneration, a regeneration for a new and hopeful Nigeria. The old generation destroyed Nigeria but the new generation in the person of Bankoles will erase the memory of the nation.

Nigerian gone about looking for Mr. True-leadership

Oh! True-leadership for how long shall thee elude our people? For how long shall our people seek their face? How far to corners of the earth have you depart from our people? Are the sacrifices of our founding fathers not good for the salvation of their children? Do you not see that our people and our nation are passing away? Why have thy forsaken us?

Knowledge:

Whaaat! Depart from me and disturb my peace no more!  I know who you are, Nigerian, and you’re like your people. Do not call me by my alias again, you must call me by my last name, in my home unlike in yours respect is the law. How dear you impugn on my integrity and steadfastness. Not from the days your fathers sought me have I moved, not even on vacation. I made a commit to your fathers and have been where I have been, how dear you accuse me of departing to evade your people. Since your fathers have gone to rest have I lingered with my hands clinched and fully stretched, longing for your people to take hold of my hands because I see and know the rot and the decadence in your society. I too am not immortal but my commitment to your fathers has held me in waiting for in vain for your people all these years. But know these and your foolish leaderships know it! Everything ‘expireth’ and I will not linger forever. But you should thank my maker, the Supreme-One for my omniscience nature otherwise I would have departed for the peoples that truly seek me. Now Nigerian, why have you come? Who send you or on whose authority have you came? Call me Knowledge and this is my Name .

Nigerian:

Master, sorry, Mr. Knowledge I come on my own accord I have no authority or other master but you. I have come because my people know you not but yet only you will save my people and nation from self annihilation. I do not know how much time is left but please for your promise and commitment to our fathers come and salvage us. I ask for your indulgence as I initially impugned that you forsake my country.

Knowledge:

Nigerian! I go no where with you because I do not go places. I am Knowledge. I permeate the minds of people who truly seek after me. But I must correct you when you say your people know me not. No, your people are willfully and deliberately ignorant of me. When your masses sell their votes to criminals for few cups of rice and three tins of tomatoes how can I help them? When your so called leaders export the nation’s wealth overseas how is that me? I am wise because I am knowledge. He that leads must be wise and he that is wise has me. I have been here for centuries and see people and nations move from primitiveness into civilization but the current generation of your people especially your leaders are taking your nation on back and forth Kamikaze mission   into primitive and civilized worlds. Both of these worlds have their own merits but the mix of these two leads to self annihilation. The thieves that have run your nation since the mid eighties are primitive men inspiring to live in a modern world. These thieves are primitive of the primitives. These thieves steal people’s wealth for family generations that they were not guarantee of. These thieves know not why they are here in the natural and hence they know not whence and whereas they go after here, yet they ‘thinketh’ themselves as spiritual and religious beings. These ignoramus thinketh their amassed but stolen wealth will buy them comfort but they knoweth not, the loot condemneth them here and beyond.

Your independent fathers intended that your generations acquire me hence they built schools and places of higher learning. But your generations went and acquired educational maladies and became ill educated. The educated among you today are curse unto the people and unto your nation. Comparatively the uneducated in your nation are humans and  the educated are not. Your leaders were sent to acquire me but instead they got educated in numbers, corruption, forgery, ignorance, greed, lawlessness, hate and drunkenness. How can your leaders say they have me when they travel to Germany, Europe, to America or to the middle east for medical treatment for hundreds of millions of dollar when they could built a better medical facility in your nation with just a fraction of the cost of one time foreign medical treatment? How is this action not ignorance in the part of your leaders and their hatred towards the masses of your people. Such medical facility if built locally would benefit these ruling cabals and the masses whose wealth they the loot. How is it not ignorance when a leader of people exports his people’s wealth to another people only to see his people die of deprivation of the same while the recipients of the wealth blooms and flourishes? How is it not greed beyond any understanding and education in numbers as against knowing me when your leaders steal such enormous amount of wealth that they and generations of their families will never need? How is it not lawlessness when these criminals are never prosecuted? How is it not lawlessness when the chief law enforcer or the chief executive is one of the looters and the courts, the place where the loots are shared and the legislatures the distributor of the loots. How is it not drunkenness when leaders starve their fellow citizens to death in the mist of plenty? My friend what is wrong with your people is not the lack of me but your leaders’ and your masses' willful rejection of me. I always make myself available to those that truly seek me. Your nation by virtue of its location and providence is fashioned for greatness but only under the freewill act of the Supreme-One. Your nation will be what your leaders and masses of your people make of it. The Supreme-one have finished his work and the hand work of the Supreme-One is perfect. Your people childishly and ignorantly pray to the Supreme-One for the same providences he made available from the beginning of time. The remaining work is for men and faith in the Supreme-one but without work is dead.    

 Show me seven thousand people, old or young of your nation that are not inwardly corrupt then I will give you a copy of myself, the scroll of knowledge. Go! My Nigerian friend, tell your people that they have about a dozen years or less to renew their mind with knowledge otherwise the toils of your fathers will be soiled. The salvaging of your nation from its gloomy tomorrow is neither in the pain and suffering of your olds nor in the wasting of youths but rather in the renewal of the minds with knowledge. Representative Bank ole and Governor Ojo ka-alu (ugly-than-evil) prove that your youths are no better than your olds. Your society is corrupt beyond words and wild beasts are not as greedy as your people. Go tell your people to renew their minds with me, Knowledge and the land will be healed. There will not be another time between us unless your land is healed. Goooh!                



The Gold that Glitters Not

The new Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has really confirmed my fears about his ability to govern. So far, the Governor’s public speeches and actions are at best, contradictory, none substantive, incoherent, illegal, illogical and disturbing. With the so many challenges the Governor faces in the state, the Governor has only but put up shows and charades.

Even many of the Governor’s political associates in the villages and towns in Imo state are people of questionable characters. This is not to say that the Governor is a person of questionable behaviour. But the governor’s associations raise questions about his judgment and consequently the Governor’s ability to lead the state. The Governor evidently may be a good man, but what good is a good man if he lacks sound and good judgment, neither respects nor knows the law nor the type of government in the country. Goodness, yes, is needed in a leader but this is just one of about one thousand characteristics of an effective leader. If all that the Governor is bringing to his leadership of Imo State is goodness then the Imolites must prepare for a gloomier future.

Yesterday, the Governor in another public speech blunder sacked all the 27 local government chairmen in the state, this is dictatorship. In a democracy, how can one man be the chief executive, the court, the Judge, and the parliament? Common sense detects that one can only sacked his or her employees, even within the law. How can an elected governor, a chief executive of state fire other elected chief executives of another tier of the government that were duly elected? Perhaps, the Governor erroneously thinks that the President can wake up one morning and sack all the 36 state governors, why not if he the governor can sack all the 27 duly elected local government chairmen; what a shame and idiosyncrasy of a Governor that is expected to correct the lawlessness in the state. Where did the Governor receive his political science class? And this brings to question the Governor’s quality of education and his understanding of the law. The Governor cannot illegally legalize the state.  It will be difficult for the Governor to govern if his is lawless.

Ben ojiakulo

Stop the Loot Mr. President

If President GEJ, the legislatures, and all policy makers in Nigeria are serious about moving Nigeria forward they must show credible interest in fighting public corruption and instill rule of law in the polity. The President and the legislatures must repeal the legal immunity that is designed to protect from prosecution criminally corrupt public officials that loot public coffer. This immunity 'curse' must be repealed and replaced with statute that bars public officials from foreign travel six month before and after leaving office.

Mr. President! Would you please repeal this immunity for public officials to steal public fund!! Remember that almost all Nigeria ills and abjectness across Nigeria are the results of public officials stealing the country to death. Good inauguration speech worth less than the paper it is written on if concrete actions are not taken to right the wrongs of public officials against the citizenry and against the independent fathers.

Bawomanh

The Evil Fears and Hates the Good

The greatest fear is exhibited by evil in the presence good. If IBB's murderous eight years of treasonable corrupt criminal dictatorship represents evil how can he or his likes, Atiku and Gusau grace a presidential inuaguration of Goodluck Jonathan whose leadership philosophy is an antithesis to that of IBB and Atiku’s with medieval understandings of leadership and public service? By default good and evil cannot abode together.

Bawomanh

Now, The Time to Govern, GEJ

The President's inauguration speech would have been one of the best presidential inauguration speeches if not for the timing. This speech would appropriately befit a first presidential speech following the independence of Nigeria when hopes and aspirations of Nigerian would have been understandably high. Or perhaps the president’s speech is a futuristic presidential speech delivered too early. The President's speech is inspirational and motivational as against revolutionary, reactionary and policy blunt speech the president ought to have delivered. With its enormous natural resources and human capital Nigeria is among the 50 least developed countries in the world. Underdevelopment in Nigeria and almost all Nigerian ills are as result of public corruption and lack of rule of law. These two evils is killing and tearing Nigeria into pieces yet the president’s speech treaded lightly on corruption and said virtually nothing about inequality of the citizenry before the law. Until the criminals masked as public officials are made to understand that they are answerable to the law of the land just as ordinary citizens are these criminals will continue to act with impunity in their looting of public coffer. Unless past and present criminals veiled as public servants are brought before the law for their crimes against the state and the people future public officials will tread the route of the former, the route of the criminally corrupt.

Bawomanh

Immunity to Steal a Country and a People to Death

Immunity to steal a country and a people to death

It is a travesty, mockery of rule of law, and of accountability that corrupt public officials can only be prosecuted long after their brazen acts of looting public coffer has been known. What is this license to steal called immunity clause? Public corruption is responsible for more than 95% Nigeria ills. Just think about it, almost everything that is wrong with Nigerian is either directly or indirectly link to poverty, national and individual abjectness. Even the most ill informed knows the direct relations between public corruption, especially corruption of capital flight, to both national and individual poverties.

The crimes of public corruption should be treated as treason, crime against the state because this is what is. Public corruption is the worse type of crime and the most violent against a nation and people. Think about the nature, victims and extensiveness of crime of public corruption and compare this evil act to any other form of crime and see the cataclysmic nature of this evil. Three other high crimes in Nigerian are armed robbery, kidnapping and paid assassinations. These three crimes though horrendous, pale when intellectually and logically compare to the crime of public corruption. Assassins and armed bandits during their life span and duration of their banditry, say thirty years, may kill or maim a thousand people (number highly exaggerated). But in just less than two years a public official could steal enough public fund that directly or indirectly kills a nation, a state and hundreds of thousands of people.

Most of the people who engage in the crime of armed robbery are young people and some university graduates, these young people have lost hopes and ambitions in life due to the actions of corrupt public officials. Think of high infant mortality and high death rates, dead public schools, kidnappings, poor state and inexistent of public infrastructures, poor and inadequate medical facilities and services, ill trained, ill equiped and poorly paid police force, and general insecurity just but to name few of the ills of public corruption. There is no doubt that public corruption is the worse form of crime and should therefore be treated as such.

What the so called immunity clause does is allow criminals veiled as politicians to loot public wealth under the cover of this law that protect these criminals at the expense of the general citizenry . These criminals play hide and seek game with the law because they know that the law’s hands are made short by this immunity clause. True democracies like the united State protects public officials from the accesses of the chief executives but not from prosecution for criminal offenses. The immunity clause in itself is criminal.

The only reason that the national legislatures would not abolish this immunity to steal statute is because many members of these two bodies do not have national interest at heart but like many state governors are partners or perpetrators of the crime of public fund embezzlement. But now that "a Jonathan Goodluck is in charge there should be hope that he will pressure the congress to abolish this legally sanctioned stealing of public wealth. Not only must Jonathan work to abolish this immunity 'curse' he must bring corrupt public officials to justice. Failure to prosecute corruption will not only make the president appear weak but complacence. Or bluntly, President's failure to prosecute corruption makes him and his administration corrupt. 

Voci Bawomanh

I Mitt Romney

Fellow Americans, the leader of free nation like ours ought to have wisdom. They call it change in positions I Mint Romney call it wisdom. Wisdom detects that one must be prepared to adjust former beliefs and positions so as to advance a common overriding good. If elected President of this great nation of ours, my paramount goal is to serve the American people with the best of my ability and I believe that all my beliefs and positions, past, present and even in the future must yield to this overriding goal. Principle and wisdom should never be in conflict; rather these two must recognize and know when to succumb to one another. It will be folly to cling steadfastly to former positions or even to present  positions at the expense of my desire to serve the great people of this great nation in the capacity of a president.

Acting in the capacity of Massachusetts' Governor, individual mandate for health insurance coverage, LBGT full equality and woman’s right to choose were and are still matters of principle to me. But in a presidential campaign these social issues should be state issues. You can call it flip flop I call it political wisdom; the end must just the means. Without political wisdom it is impossible to be a good politician and it is impossible to lead in the absence of good politics. This time is ours to occupy White House and I must not loose this oppurtunity to political incorrectness.  

I Mint Romney I will approve this massage.

The Nigerian Issue

Responding to "Profiling the northern enemy” and to the responses to this article

by I’ Shaq Modibbo Kawu in Vanguard daily of May 12, 2011

The Nigerian Issue

Is’haq’s opinionated article and the equally opinionated responses, for and against "Profiling the northern enemy” is exactly the fight the corrupt criminal leaders from south, north east and west want Nigerians to busy themselves with. As Long as ordinary citizens are fighting each other over cultural, ethnic and religious differences they would be too busy to realize the crime perpetrated against them even by their sectional leaders. Nigerians especially the youths must wakeup and take back this country before it is too late. Most people do not know the great value of a possession until they loose it. Most Nigerians do not see the great gift of a nation until Nigeria is no more. To reiterate, Nigeria problem lies at the fact that Nigerians are fighting the cheap, easy, lazy and unproductive ethnic war while ignoring the difficult but true and rewarding war of national interest. I am from the south and I care less about the president's ethnicity but about his or her honesty, vision, courage, intellect but above his or her love for the people and for the country. But my good friends and fellow Nigerians remember this; because leaders generally are inherently corrupt, good governance is assured by the governed and not by the governors. I am not ignorant nor naïve of the difficulties posed by the diversity of culture, ethnicity, and religious differences in the configuration called Nigeria. I also know that these differences if appropriately conceived are not by themselves the end but rather the necessary precursors for the construction of powerful great Nation. But only if Nigerians selflessly and lovely pursue this potential of Greatness for the general good shall Nigeria become a great nation. The two pillars of a great nation are numerousness and diversity of the people that appreciate and or respect one another under the law. Since the era of nation states no nation of few people or homogenous people has become great due to the fewness, homogeneousness, or healthiness of its citizens. But today like in the past great nation is synonymous to numerousness and diverseness of the ‘peopleness’ if you will.

There are two fundamental questions every Nigerian especially the ethnic groups must truthful answer. And the questions are: Do you for better and for worse belief in the configuration called Nigerian and if you do, are you willing to build, defend and protect this configuration? What contents you, smallness or Greatness since moderateness in nation status is a misnomer? I am a ‘tangiblenist’ if you will and objectivist and for me there exist two nation types, the small nations and greatness ones. I am a big fan of greatness and have no doubt that Nigerian was fashioned for greatness only if Nigerians can build and keep the union.

In the next national sovereign conference if there happens to be one, all ethnic groups must be present and all must plainly respond to these questions without deceit, pretense or fear. Only after all ethnic groupings have truthfully answered these two questions can we as a people begin the difficult but rewarding task of nation building or the xenophobic, cheap, easy but defeatist task of destroying that that was freely given in a platter of gold by the independent fathers? Yes, the colonist dictator for its benefit amalgamated the north and south of the Niger area to form this potential great nation called Nigeria. Truly, many call and regard this amalgamation an evil act and yes it was done for the benefit of the colonist. But no one can logically explain how the coming together of the oppressed people does not benefit the oppressed but only benefits the oppressors. In my opinion, the Niger area evil the colonist masters intended is only but a blessing in disguise only if the present Nigerians can unveil themselves the veils of ignorance, pettiness, ethno-phobia and “big-phobia” if you will. Many of the independent fathers saw the goodness in the dubious colonist intent hence the fathers fought for the independence of the whole people in the Niger area as one people who were one deprived and one oppressed people. Not even the notorious ignorant idol worshipers, Boko Haram religious sect, can deny the wisdom of the independent father when the fathers fought for the independence and preservation of the Niger area people as one people.

Free societies must respect single or collective aspirations of its citizens provided such inspirations does not restrict or impede the freedom of others. What Boko Haram sect is asking for is an Islamic Nigerian with Shariah legal system. Well the first mark of ignorance is when a person or a group rabidly seeks that which is humanly impossible. I have nothing against Islam and as matter of fact while in Europe I prayed with my North African Muslim brothers in their mosque. An Islamic Nigeria with shariah law is dream in many dreams. Yes, this sect is ignorant but they are human enough to understand that to seek that which have neither existed nor will ever exist is tempting the gods and therefore a sin. Boko Haram like other groups, person or persons violently seeking to Islamize Nigeria are not just by themselves an ethnic group but rather belong to an ethnic group. At the sovereign national conference these group and all other groups will within their ethnic representation present their case. At the Conference the sovereignty and integrity of Nigeria is not negotiable. But if a collection of groups closely band together, geographical situated and oriented and collectively make up a third the population of Nigeria seeks a separate society, then within ten years a referendum for independence can be conducted within the ethnic groups that seeks independence. A threshold of seventy five percent yes referendum vote for independence can start the process of granting the group semi autonomy and a full independence twenty five years latter with a second referendum. {At the end of this article are more conditions for independence for units seeking separation from the union}.

But as Nigerians wait for the conference for a perfect union there must be order and rule of law. Every citizen has the right to disagree with laws or policies of the government but no one have the right to disobey constitutionally enacted statutes. All laws however dislike but constitutionally passed must be obeyed by all even by the corrupt leaderships that have done nothing but ruined and liquidated the country. Citizens can protest, work to change the bad law but must never break the law they dislike as longer as that law have not been constitutionally repealed. Not only is Boko Haram sect breaking the law of the land they also seek to impose their will on the majority. To achieve their unattainable goal this sect is breaking local, international and universal law on the sanctity of human life. They kill in the name of their small god that lacks the power and the energy to do the least thing that even the least being could do, the taking of person’s life. The Lord is not God of confusion hence it makes no sense that the omnipotent God will subtly and indiscreetly order the ignorant, wobbling and pitiful man to destroy another God’s creature. Many religious people across the globe claim to know the mind of God, they know how to please and how to make God happy, by so thinking they equate God to human and this is the root cause of all religious evil in the world. How can a God infinitely happy and pleased in itself be made happier by the death of one of its sorry, pitiful creatures at the hands of another of the same? This is their god and not my and I new not their god because this god is so small and powerless that even a wooden god with so much carbon energy can consume this god.

But regardless of the nature of their god they must obey the law of the land. The governors and governments of the states where these religious ignoramus zealots cause pain and destruction must ensure law and order in the state. To get these governments more involved and responsible for the protection of lives and properties especially the lives and properties of the ethnic and religious minorities, these governments must at least be held financial responsible for the dastardly acts of the hoodlums in their states. The Federal government must look into the efforts the state governments make to stop violence and murder against minority, into ethnic and religious cleansing of the minority in the states. Henceforth the federal government must use the federal allocation for the culprit states to compensate the victims of ethnic and religious pogrom for human and material lose and other loses if a violence resulting to lose of lives and properties is ethnic and or religious in nature. Holding the governments of the violent states responsible for the violent acts of their wild citizens and making them financially responsible for the financial loses due to the actions of the hoodlums in their state will not only make these Government proactive in curbing this menace but it will force them to see that these vagabonds in their state are educated and tamed.

{In addition to the conditions already stated above, any section seeking independence from Nigerian must understand that it and the national government will jointly supervise the referendums. The referendums will be financed by the seceding unit without the infusion of foreign fund. From the day the date for the first referendum is scheduled the seceding unit will no longer receive federal fund allocations to the states. The national government will continue to run, maintain and manage all national security apparatus to include but not limited to police, military, customs, national intelligence, and state secret services that encompasses the seceding unit until after the second referendum. Loses and profits from jointly owned revenue sources, and costs to joint projects will be jointly shared between the national government and the seceding unit. Apart from the conditions stated here, during the entire period of quest for independence the relationship between the national government and the seceding unit must be as usual and the same as before the quest for separation until independence is achieved or defeated.}

Bawomanh

Jonathan to set panel on the political violence in the states (Vanguard Daily)

Panel is ok if it is one of the many necessary steps and actions needed to stop this madness and barbaric act. The panel must look into the efforts the state governments take to dissuade, arrest violence, murder, ethnic and religious cleansing of the minority in their states. Henceforth the federal government must use the federal allocation of the culprit states to compensate the victims of ethnic and religious pogrom in human and material lose and loses if violence is ethnic and or religious in nature. Holding the governments of the violent states responsible for the violent acts of their wild citizens and making them financially responsible for the actions of the hoodlums in their state will not only make them proactive in curbing this menace but it will make these state governments to see that these vagabonds in their state are educated and tamed.      

Bawomanh

What A Senseless Sense?

                              What A Senseless Sense?

Responding to comments by the Leader of MASSOB Mr. Iwuzurike made Where He Threatened A Retaliatory Killing of Northerners In the East for the Igbos Being killed in the North Following the Presidential Vote.


Retaliatory killing of Northerners in the east or in any region of the country is not the solution to the mayhem and pogrom against ethnic and religious minorities in the north.  If evil cannot beget good how then will the killing of Nigerians in the east make right the killing of Nigerians in the north? These ignorant barbaric elements in the north have no understanding of what civil society means because some elements of the northern political class or elites purposely bred and kept these vagabonds for selfish political advantage. These vagabonds or serfs need help from the civil society. Like the victims of their barbaric act these vagabonds are victims of some northern political class.

I strongly disagree that the solutions to this destruction of life and property of Ndigbo in the north is to destroy life and properties of Nigerians in the east. This prescription is not only barbaric and uncivilized but it defiles common sense. Killing Nigerians in any part of the country as pay back to these vagabonds will only justify the murderous behavior of these cage men in the north. This prescription is no different from the actions of the hoodlums that kill Ndigbo in the north. These vagabonds never step out and will never step out of their cages hence they will never travel to any other part of Nigeria. Like the southerners in the northern the northerners in the south are true Nigerians and we should wish that more people from the north are like them. If these Hoodlums in the north were like northerners living in the east I guarantee, Nigeria would have less trouble in the north. The only brothers southerners have in the north are those that come to the south and if this is true as it’s  then how can one kill one’s brother just because some  beasts in the north killed another of his or her brother? You see, Uwazuruike’s prescription is at best idiotic, barbaric and ignorant. 

The governors of northerner states where these barbarians are killing innocent citizens must arrest the violence in their respective states and if they cannot then they must have failed in their primary responsibility which is the protection of life and property within their states. The federal government must then exercise federal authority by deploying the military to stop pogrom against religious and ethnic minorities in the north.

Voci Bawomanh

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4/18/11

IBB, PDP and the Fate of the Nation?

                                         IBB, PDP and the Fate of the Nation?

IBB responds to PDP threat to de-member him for his antiparty activities.

“Babangida described the threat of sanction from the PDP, according to report, as ridiculous and needless, stating that he was never cowed by such threat in any way.” Tribune daily news (online) April 25, 2011. 

We say, IBB, you are absolutely  right,  having been praised,  loved, eulogized, crowned, worshipped for stealing billions of dollars of public fund with great impunity how can the mere threat of party de-membership mean any thing to you.  Beside, who says you are loyal to any party? IBB have only but one interest and that is, to be at the pinnacle of power and one loyalty, his loyalty to north’s caliphate hegemonic doctrine held by few cabals in the north. What PDP call antiparty activities IBB regard as self and northern interest activities. PDP is wrong and naïve to think that IBB, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and General Aliyu Gusau should put its or Nigerian interest above northern interest. Or perhaps PDP may have beaten IBB, the maradona in his own game.  May be PDP knew what IBB's interest was and knew where his loyalty was in the just concluded general election  but figured out that it was better to take advantage of IBB's mouthed support for PDP-Jonathan as against his inner desire for northern president. Now that the election is over PDP is asking IBB to for once in his life to say and do what he means. PDP is asking IBB to quit being in both sides of the divide. They want IBB, the maradona to decide on his political party affiliation. But we the true citizens of Nigeria, the victims of IBB's eight years of loot and dictatorship ask him to hide his primitive and greedy persona from the National stage.

Yet, we are not with the illusion that IBB will remove his ignorant self from the national discourse because doing that could amount to political suicide and physical harm. IBB correctly figured out that the only way he will remain ahead of the law for his eight years of corrupt murderous dictatorship, loot and treason against the nation is to remain in the national discourse, shape it and be for everything and for nothing; supports the ruling parties presidential candidate and while at the same time supports other candidates that could possible win the presidential vote especially a northern candidate like Buhari. IBB, the evil genius knows that as long as his is  a contender and a serious presidential candidate his opponents  will more than likely compromise and accommodate him  thereby erasing the thought and idea of probing him for eight years of capital crime against Nigeria. It is for these compromise and accommodation that IBB continues to bring his primitive self into the national discourse. Even with his billions of dollars of stolen public wealth IBB knows that he cannot win a presidential election in Nigeria but can avert prosecution by remaining engaged in the national political conversation. PDP can dismiss IBB from the party but it should not be mad at IBB for his antiparty activities because IBB should do what he must do to remain a freeman knowing that for eight years he committed capital crimes against Nigerian. Who else in his right mind and survival instinct will not sit on both sides of the divides?  IBB, the Maradona, how can he not support Jonathan even when he support his opponents? How can he not support Buhari?

IBB knew that there exist big chance for Buhari to win the presidency and not showing support to him may not only mean political death but a physical one, from a possible long prison time under Buhari administration irrespective of Buharis's selective amnesia of the looters of the Nigerian treasury. If politics was like soccer where each player must choose one side and one side only, heaven knows that IBB would have chosen Buhari for two reasons. First, if Buhari looses IBB knew he had nothing to loose, in fact IBB will be more at easy since he views Jonathan as that timid southern boy that lacks the courage, will and political mandate to probe or prosecute him. Second, because IBB understands that his support for any candidate or lack thereof would not decide the outcome of the presidential vote hence the wisest thing to do would be to support that potential President with vengeance, will and perceived courage to probe and prosecute him and to IBB that president would be a Buhari presidency.

Nearly twenty years after leaving the pinnacle of power that brought eight years of corrupt murderous dictatorship, loot and treason against the nation IBB have employed all tools, bribery, intimidation, threats, political camaraderie and prostitution to evade prosecution. Instead of calling him out for his crime against the nation, politicians seek friendship, material and financial support from IBB. Truth is that any administration that fails to probe IBB and other looters is in itself a corrupt administration and therefore must be probe because corruption is not only the act of looting but also a cowardly and wilful failure in recovering public wealth from the looters.

Voci Bawoman