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I have been a critique of Uzodinma but if he succeeds with this pursuit, this will be a legacy in his name. States creation in Nigeria has never been entirely based on objectivity, kins are split into haves, in some case using natural landmark as rivers, which leads to gradual loss change or loss of Identity and all sort of issues with regard to resources ownership . Since this is backed by legal documents. I wish all imolites goodluck on this pursuit.

One good lesson I learnt from the private sector is that a company growth is directly linked to the knowledge and leadership of the MD/CEO. No matter how brilliant you may be like the VP, the brilliance is useless working under a leadership like Buhari's.

demoBaba:
Tell us the truth....the governor will sack you since is the the party leader now, well will called it wisdom...

David Umahi will like to build his own structure, as expected, it is better to resign honourably than to be sacked. The time Umahi was silencing APC in Ebonyi, some people like the man remained there. How I wished that when politicians jump from one party to another, they loose their elected position. Without this we would not have parties with clear principles and manifestos.

Umahi is a politician and politicians don't have principle or morals, they are simply shameless. He is seen as the most performing governor in the east and this goes to show that performance is not based on party affiliation, if not Okorocha would have been the best governor.
He is free to move anywhere, I just hope the people will exhibit critical thinking when election comes. All the people in APC and PDP do not have the intelligence to turn around the fortunes of the country for better. They do not have the capacity to bring change or break the current faulty structure to the desired state.
The current structure was never what the various nationalities through our then leaders agreed on. This present constitution was drafted by few people under minitary supervision and was never a product of the people. Period.

We need to hear from the parties involved not MURIC or CAN. Period.

Solatium:
Your assertion that president farmed out his responsibility was wrong.
The president addressed the nation twice further crisis,the first one when he gave a Presidential directives that SARS has been disbanded.
The second after the Lekki shooting incident,both clips are online if you are still in doubt.

Yo also admitted that Sanwoolu showed leadership character and directions during the crisis,why still go ahead to blocked the streets inspite all the aforementioned?
Why torched and loot both public and private interest?

Really sad that properties and lives were lost during the carnage after the lekki incident. We have had several orders in the past which were partially obeyed or outrighly disobeyed. With the police, it is even worst, considering the order by the President to the IG during the Benue crisis. Nobody trust government anymore. The main concern for me here is blaming others yet failing to accept were they have failed. Our governments have never accepted wrong doing while in power. Every problem must not be seen as nail and hammer. We are dealing with people not robots.
Curfew was declared due to refusal of the protesters to leave lekki toll gate, some had left, remember there was also one at ikeja. Before commencement time soldiers were deployed the rest is history. Let wait and see how events unfold, time will reveal all that happened.

Solatium:
I can see where you were coming from.
BAT ran away when he was clearly marked for assassination,it may interest you also that Prof Soyinka was also alerted and he left the country.
It may also interest you that Kudirat Abiola also paid the supreme Price so it is not only your China that was killed,Gani Fawehinmi of blessed memory stood and battled,ditto femi Fálànà,Abraham adesanya and the ilks.
Dele momodu was just an opportunist,he cash out big time on the crisis to arrive at his destination.


The situations weren't the same,those who you mentioned fought for Democracy to be entrenched,your DJ WITCH fought for a unit of police that was high handed to be abolished and when SARS was proscribed what else was she doing on the street?
You think we are all foolish abi?
You think Canadian government and all others don't have first information of what happened? You think your DJ WITCH was telling the truth?
Wy can't she wait and recant all that she said at the panel?

No government will tolerate an act of insurrection disguise in the form of protest,no government will close her eyes and allow financial support to come for people and have it's government overthrown,Abacha treated those you mentioned more than a terrorist,most of them were charged with treasonable felony which automatically attract death sentence when caught,the Death of Abacha made those charges disappearead,your DJ WITCH wasn't even charged with anything yet,she hasn't been invited, yet she don jump fence go Ghana go dey seek Canadian asylum.
just wait for the outcome ok,she must reap what she has shown

I appreciate the more disclosures on the heros of democracy, I limited the number of person bacause there were so many,Kunle Ajibade, Chris Anyanwu, Ben Charles-Obi, George M'bah, even Obasanjo etc Alex Ibru escaped assassination, Alfred Rewani, paid the suppreme price, so many more in the list. It is easy for the government to hold people accountable but refused to accept responsibility.
How many times has government accepted terms and agreement with the people and followed through. We saw how bush stood on the rubble of 9/11 and gave hope and direction to a mourning nation, that is leadership, how has our leaders lead us in crisis, they either sow political or tribal sentiment, to them every call for accountability is tribal or politically moltivated. Lagos state governor showed leadership but the man whose voice needed to be heard preferred using proxies, whose words cannot be held to account. Is the president an Emir? Is his but glued to aso rock? Let us blame the DJ for all the shenagigan of that period. The choice to stay back in the country is personal, those who felt in danger during Abacha's period and ran out are alive today to tell the story.
Nigerian government cannot cover their incompetence by changing the narrative

vertueptime:
Copy from many cars and paste to make one, it hurts my eyes to see cars like this

Every manufacturer copies in one way or the other. China, copies anything that can be copied from the EU and America. India is also gaining ground. In the nearest future both countries brand will soon compete side by side with others. Nigeria need to choose which way to industrialisation, to copy others like china, or develop own technology( we don't have the capacity). The shortest route is by copying others which china did. Innoson is a business man and has partnered with chinese firms.

seunmsg:
What is wrong with repealing the state pension law? Why should Saraki and other former governors and deputy governors continue to collect huge pensions despite looting the state dry while in office?

We all supported the move to repeal the law in Lagos, why should Kwara be different?

The APC governors should not wait until BAT support the move for Lagos. Zanfara and Imo state governors many months ago announced the move in their states. The rogues in PDP will not see this as a right move. Professional thieves.

Solatium:
How is she an asset?
She is inconsequential,if government want her to face justice it won't take Nigeria police 48hr to bring her out of her hiding,her case has not even ben escalated to the DSS level,talk more of the Military.

A free mind will never run away.
Na her hand work dey pursue her.

During Abacha regime some of those enjoying the democracy of today ran away e.g Dele momodu, BAT, while some who stay back lilke late Chima Ubani were assassinated. why did they ran away, can we also label them terrorists due to their actions then. Note I have nothing against the 2 people mentioned. Just trying to let you know that one man freedom fighter is another's terrorist.
First accept that there were confusion at lekki tollgate when the military started shooting and reports from that confusion might not be completely accurate.
But did the man in aso rock and his government handle this whole issue competently? May I never lead my family like the president is leading Nigeria.
Just look at the number of inconsistencies and divergences issued by government agencies and people in government. Does this tell you anything? May I never lead my followers this way.
DJ switch never caused any problem, but the government that lied on several occassions and failed at the right time to own up responsibility and state the true position of event correctly.
Now they are labelling some citizens terrorist and blocking there bank account, forgetting that during pro democracy fight, some of those who ran away from the country like BAT were sending money to Nigeria to help the fight against the leadership of that time, can we also called them terrorists based on that? No, we now called them heroes of democracy. In that vain DJ switch is also a hero of democracy.

Where is their faces, the public need to see their faces, that is how they parade alleged offenders on national tv. They should parade their them and let Nigerians know who they are, they have been found guilty by the police service.

Moferere:
So so so true.
If other traditional rulers fail to tell them the truth, I know my people will hit the nail on its head.


Just look at the picture, the traditional rulers are in the front row, while politicians are behind. This is how to arrange it unlike some people who have no regards for their Kings.

Illiterate Peoples of Biafra (IPoBs)

The traditional rulers are more sensible than the governors because they closer to the people and are more accessible to their people.
The dust has settled and people are beginning to see things with a clear head. Initially it was all sort of conspiracies, even with the governors

Must you show your stupidity on this mediums? There are many places in the world where monarchy is not practice. In most Igbo land the Ezes are just first amongst equal, like you have in the legislature. They are their to lead the council of chiefs and not to be worshiped.

UAE is relaxing laws on alcohol, is Kano more islamic than UAE?
Shouldn't there be separation between state and religion in a secular country?
The taxes and excise duties paid by the manufacturers are they shared with Kano?

We are a confused country, restructure this country to people of like minds, some people say no, they want peace. Peace without justice.

bigcasava1:
They only succeeded in killing Igbo people.

Because the Igbo people are not holding their leaders to account. The man who can afford by his effort to provide for his family is not interested in what happened in his state, but will rather comment on issue of other states.
The man Nwafor is walking free, what are the Igbo people doing about the revelations against this man and his team? Igbo pride themselves as democratic in nature, but can we see this.

just2endowed:
Government said there is no evidence that Sars officer should be tried. What the government is telling us is that, all the killers accused will be set free.
But not withstanding, the ICC is still there....

ICC may be too far, we Africans have our own ways of settling score. And that medium shows no mercy even to the last generation.
As for James Nwafor;
1. What profiling was carried out by Obiano before giving him appointment?
2. Was the sack enough? if he was an ordinary citizen, I am sure he will be in detention now for mere allegations.
3. How come Anambra youths who suffered most could not fish him out and met same terror on him and his family? You can't eliminate a family and expect to have yours.
4. How come IPOB members left him after he retired
Amambr state government is culpable. They need to tell us how such killing go unrepotted

There have been over 5 committee report on police reforms, and atleast 2 were presidential committees. The last was less than 2 years ago. Can Lai Mohammed tell us what has happened to those report as minister of information?
We know of the corruption in the country, be it police or any aspect of the country, but brazen brutality and the absolute silence of this government shows that Lai Mohammed and his cohort have tacit support to the corruption in the police.
Southern Nigerians are wiser. There are enough laws in our books to prosecute or mininise fake news, use them and stop looking to pass a new law that will absolutely emasculate the people's voice.
The East has the worst set of leadership in the country, they will easily accept all that Lai Mohammed has to say, hook and sinker.
Set of blind leaders.

Igbos way of living has no closeness to the north. When these northerners migrate and get some local converts, they bring a way of life in conflict with locals, including normadic cow rearing. While the locals has tolerated them in their communities, the recent years upsurge in farmers/herders clashes and the desire to seek for peace without justice by government and the recent anger in town has awaken these attacks.

Artillery and Garrrison, is River state a militarized? These names remind of an era I would like to forget, Military era.

Everything happening now is the fault of the president and commander in-chief. Let no fool tell me the president is innocent. He chose those that work with him The fish rottens from the head. The moment we got corrupt leaders, the follower become rotten.

When a government tramples on the right of the citizens, anarchy of government official and security agents become the order of the day.

When punishment of erring person are based on body odor of the Oga at the top what do you expect.

A countries don't get developed by just building railways or building road or bridges, they develop by ensuring justice and the rule of law, they develop by strengthening institutions and not individuals

Countries develop by bringing different opinions together and forging on one national sentiments, fulcrumed by justice and equity.

I never believed in the this president from inception to make Nigeria better. I know some one below me will want to exonerate the president from all the maladies happening. I will like to aked that fool one simple question; why is everyone interested in knowing who America new president would be.

I weep for this country, RIP to the late and my condolences to the family. As per justice, is it not Nigeria Police? Those who got judgements against the police hardly get them enforced. Useless country killing her youths on daily basis.

leisuretym:
moving FCT to Abuja is the best thing that has ever happened to Lagos State.
imagine all these madness would have been happening in Lagos

I imagined that too. With the way the north took over all the parastatals in Abuja, i just wondered what will have happened to Lagos with this "One Nigeria" deceit.

ivolt:
Nigerian Taliban in action. Useless cleric inciting members from a church which is supposed to promote peace.

Can there be peace without justice. The man asked some salient questions, have you or those calling for the head of the clergy provided answers. I did not see anything inciting. He did not ask anything different from what is asked on any public medium, radio or tv.
Until religion is seperated from the state and practiced personal and the constitution made supreme, we are just fooling around. How come some states up north called themselves Muslim states, while a governor in the south was attacked for calling his state a Christian state. Can you provide answers.
What people like you failed to understand is that people over the years have bottled in a lot of injustices, that are not reported on the social media due to remoteness of the villages. The violent eruptions due to the EndSARS movement have awaken the barbaric nature of man.

It will be foolish for us to deny the fact that some extra judicial killing is going on in Oyigbo considering the nature of our military authorities. The past and recent history have shown that we have a military that are effective on armless citizens but will take to their heels when confronted by organized arm groups. What happened to military intelligence, what happen to infiltrating the community to fish out trouble makers. Why is killing by individuals and government security agencies so trivial in this country. I listened to a radio program where a someone living close to Oyigbo recounted the actions being meted to the people over there by the military, it's sick.

Positivepoint:
Ihope the igbo will not cry when the reverse is the case and mark my words this will be soon and very bloody. We are monitoring and preparing

Everyone is angry with the way the country is and therefore transfer the anger to anyone close in argument. The altercation that occurred between some local youth and the Hausa/fulani community in Fagba, was not with the Igbos, but some miscreants from this community looted and destroyed Igbo traders shops and they broke into of one the RCCG shop at Olowosokodile looted and destroyed everything in the church, this not the first time the church has been attached by these people.
Gone are the days when any tribe will threaten another because of the low propensity of the other to retaliate. Secondly, when you draw blood on argument, the matter changes.

I will stupid to swallow this hook and sinker. Much as I don't encourage inter tribal or religious crisis, Abian youths should be ever ready for any threat. Fagba incidence is a typical example, more so that El rufia said the fulanis never forget. It important to let everyone know that while we may dissagree or quarrel online, any attempt to destroy life and properties will be met with more than equal opposite response.

The main credentials to be a Nigeria politician is '"shamelesness". If you don't have this, you cannot be successful in it. The difference between both is that one is in power, the other is out of power.

What a destruction. This is a big lesson to all state actors that no one is save, including the military when anarchy sets in. The attitude of law enforcement officers in the east has been too brutal and I am surprised that only two police personnel were lost.
Where is James Nwafor and his team of killers. These guys must pay for all the crime against the innocent people who they tortured or killed.

NBC will end up creating more anti Buhari government media houses.

When will James Nwafor and his team of murderers be brought to book. What are those docile governors in the east doing. Rip to the dead. Those killers will soon join you too.

DontBullshitMe:
Governor Makinde rose above political party sentiments.

Commendable.

The man no carry party affiliation for head. He is an objective leader.

Positivepoint:
Yet the igbo destruction of yoruba cities ain't a crime

My friend will you shut up, how will the Ibos destroy where they have huge investment? Common sense is not common. Better help fish out those who participated in the crisis rather than looking for somebody to blame with your false narratives.

The real protest is about to begin. While the state governments like Lagos state are seen to be doing something and carrying the public along, the center who mismanagement the whole issue in the first place is numb as ussual. The Niger delta militants are about to wake them up.