1.
The classic insight of one ancient Greek guy, Socrates, is that the unexamined life is not worth living. The great man Socrates it appeared did not talk about the examined life. Perhaps he assumed away things. The point is: Could any life endure close scrutiny? If it did, how devastated or whole would it turn out?

2.
Perhaps that is why the same Greeks, we are told, invented the idea of democracy. Democracy is a system of self and group examination, of nation, of citizens and those elected to lead her. So democracy calls for openness, for naked kings, even if clothed citizens. Before democracy the kings were all bedecked in magnificent ensembles. The kings and emperors were clothed in robes, sometimes borrowed, and oftentimes embroidered into the heroic, the nationalistic and the imperial personae. And these kings and emperors all wooden if not rotten guys, were sold as saints.

3.
But smarter non democratic leaders quickly close the windows of national self-examination, especially those of leaders. One classic example we may all remind ourselves is the decree 34 of the then head of the Nigerian military junta, General Muhammadu Buhari. The decree says in summary that you cannot talk or examine the then president or any of his appointees even if your data and analysis were one and all correct. And if you did at all, that could earn you the most dictatorial sanction available.

4.
And General Buhari and confederates came and went. Actually they were booted out by the willy General, Ibrahim Babangida. Buhari even did a stint in Benin the city of the Obas. He was held in forced seclusion by the powers that sacked him off his seat of governance. The faction led by Babangida were palace coup makers. So the choice of Benin was in line. It was all a palace, a power game.

5.
And between the Buhari sacking and the emergence of President Goodluck Jonathan a world happened. One of it was that Babangida fell out of favour with the southwest – his former political alliance partners. Thus following the law of ancient alchemy the needful happened.

6.
It is that your enemy’s enemy is your friend. So the southwest alchemists, were all looking out for who and who were Babangida’s worst and most intractable enemies. Whenever and wherever they found one they beatified him or her into a hero, a holy man and something out of this world.

7.
Unexamined, the southwest alchemists forged or made Buhari a national hero, the greatest Nigerian that never was. So Buhari’s sainthood was not strictly his. It was rather a reflection of the alleged devilry of Babangida – who is the sworn and even mortal enemy of the southwest. That is Buhari’s sainthood is the southwest continuing in war with Babangida by other, by ‘’ecclesiastical’’ means. And lest we forget the southwest controls the decibel of noises even if not signals, of the nation’s history. They don’t own the press. They run the press. Why this is so may be glimpsed off our book: Minorities as Competitive Overlords.

8.
And on the basis of this political alchemy, Buhari took on the task of wanting power as a democratic contender. And he lost severally. Even the southwest, wary of who he really is or what he really is not, bided their time in embracing him. That is, in all the Buhari long walk to the presidency, the southwest kept to a narrow path. They allowed Buhari to wallow in the broad road that led him to nowhere. Buhari only gathered northern votes and no more. In the southwest he was scorned. And the southeast, the south-south and the middle belt seconded the vote of no confidence on the then candidate Buhari.

9.
And then Jonathan happened. And suddenly the southwest led by Jagagban Tinubu, fell out of love with President Jonathan. And they began to hate themselves. In fact one may recall that Jagagban called Jonathan, a drunken fisherman. It was apparently in reply to a Jonathan taunt. Luckily in those eras there were little like hate speech. So nobody was indicted.

10.
However, the important thing here is that Jonathan and Jagagban became mortal and sworn enemies. And a system of alchemical petri dishes returned. Of course, again, Jonathan and Buhari are sworn political enemies. Buhari thought Jonathan was a minor and not just minority upstart. Buhari’s own assessment of who he is – something Hegelian, a world spirit on the Nigerian soil – was that he was some kind of Mahdi. A Mahdi against a minion? That was what Buhari couldn’t quite put up with. That was the why and how of the monkeys and baboons being soaked in blood. Things were teleological, racing towards the end.

11.
And quickly the Jagagban washed up with a vision of turning rust into gold. And he became to resell Buhari in the guise of the anit-villain Babangida, now anti-villain Jonathan saint. No metaphors, no imageries, and by some logic forgeries were spared by Jagagban and troupe to set up and sell their alchemical concoction as the real gold. And some believers essentially from the southwest bought. The core north were a ready believers and believing congregation.

12.
And the saint – Buhari – began to live a life, a presidential life. And this is a democracy. And democracies work on the Socratic theories of the examined life. And citizens and historians began to examine the great Buhari and his Socratic or un-Socratic credentials.

13.
The results are all we live through. Let us help ourselves by leaving things to Punch. Punch by the way has been accused of supporting the Buhari alchemical emergence. Please see our book: How and why the Yoruba fought and lost the Biafra Nigeria civil war/FFK. Anyway that is an assertion. Whatever the truth of the assertion, the point is that Punch assertion is historical and verifiable. They are things we can individually affirm. But we need an authority so let’s quote the Punch.

14.
‘’ABANDONING his trademark reticence, President Muhammadu Buhari acted decisively on Monday by ordering “the disengagement of Abdulrasheed Maina,” the former chairman of the Presidential Pension Reform Task Team, from service. But before then, the damage had already been done to his sanctimonious crusade against corruption….
But Buhari was elected President in 2015 on a promise of combating the blight of Boko Haram terrorism and corruption. He has professed for too long to be morally offended by the level of corruption on Jonathan’s watch. Far much more than his opponents could ever dream, however, the President has damaged his own reputation for integrity, compromised the anti-corruption war and dashed hopes that he would be a unifying figure in a fractured, divided nation. His swift response to the Maina scandal is uncharacteristic and the scandal might never have happened if he had acted so decisively in the past.
There has been a serial condoning of corruption when it comes close to home. The Chief of Army Staff, Yusuf Buratai, and Dambazau were alleged to have acquired unexplained wealth, as was his controversial Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari….
Buhari should change gear or come out completely discredited. He should investigate the veracity or otherwise of the deluge of complaints against his top aides and other associates that are reported to exert so much influence despite holding no official positions. As Tam David-West, a former Petroleum Minister, once advised, Buhari needs to clean up his house. He should know he is acting with impunity by ignoring allegations of corruption against members of his kitchen cabinet.’’ Maina: The audacity of corruption. Punch October 24, 2017

15.
Even more this is a chance to stay as follows. Despite our enthusiasms no man is born and gifted with the DNA of integrity or personal honesty. What is, is that men become corrupt or are co-opted by the power diagrams at work and play. If power is concentrated in one or few hands the wielders become in spite of themselves corrupt or co-opted. This is one of the discoveries of our book: Corruption in Africa: resolution through new diagnosis. And the Punch almost gave us a grill for the mill. It writes in the same editorial:

16.
Maina first came to public consciousness as an instrument for cleansing the monumental fraud and outright stealing that were being perpetrated in public pensions and he quickly went to work, claiming back then in 2012 that about N3.3 trillion might have been released by the Federal Government since 1976 without being accounted for. The details were shoddy.

17.
So Maina was a good guy. He is now turned ugly. And what causes it? It is that the powers in our constitution is such that a president and his aides are mini-gods. They can do and undo. Maina is only a beneficiary of a thuggish and roguish constitution we all have acquiesced to. The fault in part is ours. To summarize let it also be known that the unexamined lie is not worth telling. It may soon all too soon un-tell itself.

courtesy: Jimanze ego-Alowes

Surely we threw caution to the wild wind because we did not want the man who was occupying the office at that time.

All voices of reasoning were silenced and dominated. Let's continue to enjoy the change we clamoured for.

ebuk4real:
1.
The classic insight of one ancient Greek guy, Socrates, is that the unexamined life is not worth living. The great man Socrates it appeared did not talk about the examined life. Perhaps he assumed away things. The point is: Could any life endure close scrutiny? If it did, how devastated or whole would it turn out?

2.
Perhaps that is why the same Greeks, we are told, invented the idea of democracy. Democracy is a system of self and group examination, of nation, of citizens and those elected to lead her. So democracy calls for openness, for naked kings, even if clothed citizens. Before democracy the kings were all bedecked in magnificent ensembles. The kings and emperors were clothed in robes, sometimes borrowed, and oftentimes embroidered into the heroic, the nationalistic and the imperial personae. And these kings and emperors all wooden if not rotten guys, were sold as saints.

3.
But smarter non democratic leaders quickly close the windows of national self-examination, especially those of leaders. One classic example we may all remind ourselves is the decree 34 of the then head of the Nigerian military junta, General Muhammadu Buhari. The decree says in summary that you cannot talk or examine the then president or any of his appointees even if your data and analysis were one and all correct. And if you did at all, that could earn you the most dictatorial sanction available.

4.
And General Buhari and confederates came and went. Actually they were booted out by the willy General, Ibrahim Babangida. Buhari even did a stint in Benin the city of the Obas. He was held in forced seclusion by the powers that sacked him off his seat of governance. The faction led by Babangida were palace coup makers. So the choice of Benin was in line. It was all a palace, a power game.

5.
And between the Buhari sacking and the emergence of President Goodluck Jonathan a world happened. One of it was that Babangida fell out of favour with the southwest – his former political alliance partners. Thus following the law of ancient alchemy the needful happened.

6.
It is that your enemy’s enemy is your friend. So the southwest alchemists, were all looking out for who and who were Babangida’s worst and most intractable enemies. Whenever and wherever they found one they beatified him or her into a hero, a holy man and something out of this world.

7.
Unexamined, the southwest alchemists forged or made Buhari a national hero, the greatest Nigerian that never was. So Buhari’s sainthood was not strictly his. It was rather a reflection of the alleged devilry of Babangida – who is the sworn and even mortal enemy of the southwest. That is Buhari’s sainthood is the southwest continuing in war with Babangida by other, by ‘’ecclesiastical’’ means. And lest we forget the southwest controls the decibel of noises even if not signals, of the nation’s history. They don’t own the press. They run the press. Why this is so may be glimpsed off our book: Minorities as Competitive Overlords.

8.
And on the basis of this political alchemy, Buhari took on the task of wanting power as a democratic contender. And he lost severally. Even the southwest, wary of who he really is or what he really is not, bided their time in embracing him. That is, in all the Buhari long walk to the presidency, the southwest kept to a narrow path. They allowed Buhari to wallow in the broad road that led him to nowhere. Buhari only gathered northern votes and no more. In the southwest he was scorned. And the southeast, the south-south and the middle belt seconded the vote of no confidence on the then candidate Buhari.

9.
And then Jonathan happened. And suddenly the southwest led by Jagagban Tinubu, fell out of love with President Jonathan. And they began to hate themselves. In fact one may recall that Jagagban called Jonathan, a drunken fisherman. It was apparently in reply to a Jonathan taunt. Luckily in those eras there were little like hate speech. So nobody was indicted.

10.
However, the important thing here is that Jonathan and Jagagban became mortal and sworn enemies. And a system of alchemical petri dishes returned. Of course, again, Jonathan and Buhari are sworn political enemies. Buhari thought Jonathan was a minor and not just minority upstart. Buhari’s own assessment of who he is – something Hegelian, a world spirit on the Nigerian soil – was that he was some kind of Mahdi. A Mahdi against a minion? That was what Buhari couldn’t quite put up with. That was the why and how of the monkeys and baboons being soaked in blood. Things were teleological, racing towards the end.

11.
And quickly the Jagagban washed up with a vision of turning rust into gold. And he became to resell Buhari in the guise of the anit-villain Babangida, now anti-villain Jonathan saint. No metaphors, no imageries, and by some logic forgeries were spared by Jagagban and troupe to set up and sell their alchemical concoction as the real gold. And some believers essentially from the southwest bought. The core north were a ready believers and believing congregation.

12.
And the saint – Buhari – began to live a life, a presidential life. And this is a democracy. And democracies work on the Socratic theories of the examined life. And citizens and historians began to examine the great Buhari and his Socratic or un-Socratic credentials.

13.
The results are all we live through. Let us help ourselves by leaving things to Punch. Punch by the way has been accused of supporting the Buhari alchemical emergence. Please see our book: How and why the Yoruba fought and lost the Biafra Nigeria civil war/FFK. Anyway that is an assertion. Whatever the truth of the assertion, the point is that Punch assertion is historical and verifiable. They are things we can individually affirm. But we need an authority so let’s quote the Punch.

14.
‘’ABANDONING his trademark reticence, President Muhammadu Buhari acted decisively on Monday by ordering “the disengagement of Abdulrasheed Maina,” the former chairman of the Presidential Pension Reform Task Team, from service. But before then, the damage had already been done to his sanctimonious crusade against corruption….
But Buhari was elected President in 2015 on a promise of combating the blight of Boko Haram terrorism and corruption. He has professed for too long to be morally offended by the level of corruption on Jonathan’s watch. Far much more than his opponents could ever dream, however, the President has damaged his own reputation for integrity, compromised the anti-corruption war and dashed hopes that he would be a unifying figure in a fractured, divided nation. His swift response to the Maina scandal is uncharacteristic and the scandal might never have happened if he had acted so decisively in the past.
There has been a serial condoning of corruption when it comes close to home. The Chief of Army Staff, Yusuf Buratai, and Dambazau were alleged to have acquired unexplained wealth, as was his controversial Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari….
Buhari should change gear or come out completely discredited. He should investigate the veracity or otherwise of the deluge of complaints against his top aides and other associates that are reported to exert so much influence despite holding no official positions. As Tam David-West, a former Petroleum Minister, once advised, Buhari needs to clean up his house. He should know he is acting with impunity by ignoring allegations of corruption against members of his kitchen cabinet.’’ Maina: The audacity of corruption. Punch October 24, 2017

15.
Even more this is a chance to stay as follows. Despite our enthusiasms no man is born and gifted with the DNA of integrity or personal honesty. What is, is that men become corrupt or are co-opted by the power diagrams at work and play. If power is concentrated in one or few hands the wielders become in spite of themselves corrupt or co-opted. This is one of the discoveries of our book: Corruption in Africa: resolution through new diagnosis. And the Punch almost gave us a grill for the mill. It writes in the same editorial:

16.
Maina first came to public consciousness as an instrument for cleansing the monumental fraud and outright stealing that were being perpetrated in public pensions and he quickly went to work, claiming back then in 2012 that about N3.3 trillion might have been released by the Federal Government since 1976 without being accounted for. The details were shoddy.

17.
So Maina was a good guy. He is now turned ugly. And what causes it? It is that the powers in our constitution is such that a president and his aides are mini-gods. They can do and undo. Maina is only a beneficiary of a thuggish and roguish constitution we all have acquiesced to. The fault in part is ours. To summarize let it also be known that the unexamined lie is not worth telling. It may soon all too soon un-tell itself.

courtesy: Jimanze ego-Alowes

Poppycock!

Buhari2019:
Poppycock!

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ebuk4real:


HELLO ZOMBIE
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Chukwuebuka go and sleep and don't forget saying your night prayers. Say goodnight to your parents too and sleep tight.

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