HISTORY

THE STORY OF OTOKOTO MONEY RITUAL KILLINGg OF 1996

On 19th September 1996, during the regime of late General Sani Abacha's, in city of Owerri - Imo, an innocent 11-year-old boy named Anthony Ikechukwu Okoronkwo was murdered for Ritual.

The little boy was hawking boiled groundnuts, which was his daily routine.
He strolled along, selling his groundnuts for peanuts to whoever wanted to buy.
When he got to Amakohia area of Owerri, his eyes lit up with joy when a customer beckoned on him to approach.

That ‘customer’ was named Innocent Ekeanyanwu, aged 32.

The boy was called into the famous Otokoto Hotel and the little groundnut seller was visibly very excited, since it was a hotel, it meant that the new ‘customer’ would probably be buying plenty groundnuts which will mean more money to take home to make his parents happy and assist his struggling family.

While waiting,the boy was treated like a guest, he was given a bottle of Coca-Cola to cool off from the punishing heat of tropical Africa.
Innocently, he took the Coke and gulped it with relish.

As he was sipping his soft drink and taking a look at the glittering surrounding of the hotel, he could have imagined having a hotel of his own too later in the future. As he was dreaming, his vision became blurry and the sounds around him became muzzled and dull.

In a matter of minutes, he dozed off, never to wake up again. His tray full of groundnuts was lying in a corner.

Observing the boy from a safe distance was the man who had called him to buy his groundnuts. He had spiked the boy’s drink and once he saw he was asleep he took the limp body of the drugged lad into one of the hotel rooms and what followed next remains one of the most evil things anyone can ever dream up. A sharp cutlass emerged from nowhere and the boy’s head was severed from his body. He was beheaded in a matter of minutes.

After the boy’s head was cut off, he disembowel his torso, removed his liver and other parts he needed.
Not done yet, the boy's genitals were not spared as well.
After butchering the boy,and sorted out the organs, he packed his head inside a polythene bag, and buried his remains.

The Butcher, Ekeanyanwu then took the polythene bag containing the boy's head,and headed for the next destination: to the house of the man who needed the fresh head. The man who is behind it all.

HOW DID THE INFORMATION LEAK OUT:

After the grisly murder of the little Okoronkwo by Mr. Innocent Ekeanyanwu (what a name, innocent indeed), he left the hotel to deliver the head where it was needed. He then Stopped a Bike man (Okada rider) to convey him to the place.

It was the Okada man named Opara, whom he stopped to takek him to his destination in Eziama that realized that was his passenger was carrying inside a polythene bag was a fresh human head. It was still dripping with blood. When he alighted,the Okada man quickly alerted the police,The Police then intercepted Ekeanyanwu on his way back in a Peugeot 504 car, he was carrying the head with him in the polythene bag

he was going to the residence of a highly-influential figure named Chief Leonard Unaogu at Eziama, Ikeduru Local Council Area with the head but upon arriving, he was told Mr. Unaogu had gone to Lagos.
So Ekeanyanwu had no other option but to return to Owerri with the boy’s head.

When it was time to take the headless body of Ikechukwu to the local mortuary,there was a massive procession and protested by Owerri people People came out in 1000s to protest the boys ritual killing.
They stayed around and within the hotel premises, waited for the police to confirm that it was indeed a ritual murder.
While more were matching and trooping to the scene of the ritual Murder as the news was spreading.

It was in the midst of this tension that the local media station made its miscalculation. They showed the image of Innocent Ekeanyanwu holding the head of his victim.
The goal of the media was to assure the people, assuage public fear, ask the public to help identify the boy and show official transparency but what followed next was a catastrophe. All hell broke loose as the enraged people of Owerri went haywire after the image was first broadcast on the 24th of September.

All Owerri residents abandoned their businesses and congregated at the town’s central marketplace. It was there they decided on the next plan of action and outlined their strategies to deal with the Otokoto ‘headhunters’.

The news spread rapidly, every home in Owerri had hear news or seen the image of Okoronkwo’s head or his shallow grave.
Unemployed and disgruntled youths took over the parks and issued threats to the Owerri millionaires.
From the Owerri main market, the riots exploded and spread.

The pattern of destruction was neat. The rampaging crowd first went to the morgue and from there, they rushed to the Otokoto Hotel and burnt it to the ground. From there, they went to the nearby palatial mansion of Chief Vincent Duru and destroyed his property, his expensive cars were wrecked and Duru himself narrowly escaped.
From there,the crowd split into attack groups and spread out to other sites of the priviledged elite and unleashed maximum destruction.
The well-known Piano Plaza and Stores, alongside another hotel, Chibet Hotel, and various businesses linked to the Otokoto and their associates were utterly destroyed. The Zubairu-led government later confiscated all the property as recommended by the panel which was headed by Justice PC Onumajuru.

From there, they rushed to the palace of the traditional ruler and chairman of the state council of traditional rulers, Eze Onu Egwu Nwoke (later indicted alongside Aneke and Abure by the panel of inquiry) and burnt down his residence and his petrol station, they also destroyed the king’s 15 airconditioners and many of his cars. They were not done yet, from there, the crowd ‘troops’ headed for the residences of former Imo State officials.

These administrators were targeted because of what was described as ‘their alleged unwillingness to properly tackle several cases of ritual murder, kidnapping and robbery while in office.’ The angry rioters only agreed to calm down when the military administrator (MILAD), assured them that a full, state-level investigation of the incident was going to be launched.

Ekeanyanwu, who murdered the boy, was aged 32 and he worked as a gardener inside the Otokoto Hotel.

THE OTOKOTO HOTEL

At the time of its existence, Otokoto Hotel was located in an upscale area of Owerri, specifically the Amakohia side, and it was a favourite location for the rich and wealthy youths to meet, drink and have all manners of fun.

Duru’s hotel was made up of three buildings, (3,5 & 6 Stories each, one behind the other).
It was owned by Chief Vincent Duru, the father of Obidiozor Duru, the leader of the Black Scorpions secret cult that was responsible for robberies and kidnapping of children in the state.

BACKGROUND TO THE STORY

Before this horrible incident, the people of Owerri were already very mad at the bizarre actions of some loud, extremely powerful and obscenely wealthy individuals in the state. These people were highly-connected and oppressed everyone where they went.

Rumours were all over the place as to their very dark dealings and even the possibility of ritual murders and killings but no one really had any hard evidence yet or probably those who had it were too jittery to say anything.

Whatever the case, these rich people who had no really tangible or easily traceable sources of wealth kept on living large and instilling an atmosphere of terror and fear on the Owerri populace.
This was how Owerri was described at that time When the people heard of what happened inside the hotel to the boy, Owerri exploded with anger and resentment that had been piling up for years.
For two straight days, the people of Owerri trooped out in their thousands, protesting and rioting.

Not even the strong-arm tactics of the Imo State military administrator,Colonel Tanko Zubair,could stop them (the administration of the former military governor Navy Captain James Aneke was already seen as corrupt,419-based and even complicit in the protection of the Otokoto men.

They simply ran amok and the national and international media focused on the Owerri riots of 24th and 25th of September, 1996, also known as the Otokoto riots, the people felt they had had more than enough.

Any property suspected to belong to the ’Otokoto men’ were set ablaze, from posh hotels to luxury supermarkets, their flashy automobiles, palatial mansions, everything was destroyed and burnt to the ground.
Any suspected member of the Otokoto gang was lynched.

Prior to the riots,the youthful members of the Otokoto gang & other secret societies (believed to be offshoots of campus secret cults) involved in ritual killings went everywhere oppressing others with their ill-gotten wealth making other hardworking youths look clueless & silly.

The Owerri public had no faith in the police and as a matter of fact, the commissioner of police at that time, David Abure, was seen as the personification of corruption who wined and dined with the evil ones.

THE INVESTIGATION

Following the arrest of Ekeanyanwu,he was remanded in police custody while awaiting trial. But while he was in the police custody,magic happened,he was killed by food poisoning 4days after.
He killed the boy on Thursday and by Sunday morning, he was found Dead.

But luckily for the interrogators,before he was killed,Ekeanyanwu confessed and mentioned Leonard Unaogu as the brain behind the ritual killing syndicate.
He confessed that the ritual killing ring was a well-organized machine that specialized in the harvesting of human body parts and sold them to those interested in using them for rituals and all the usual nonsense they claimed to be using them for. He also said it was Unaogu who ordered him to get a human head.

Reports has it that the Otokoto saga had been in place as far back as 1976.

Confessional statements revealed that no one was spared at the Otokoto Hotel. Innocent guests and unsuspecting travellers who lodged at the hotel were drugged or attacked in the middle of their sleep and hacked to death after which they were cut into pieces for sale.

Police officers who swooped upon the hotel discovered not only the shallow grave containing that of the little boy but also graves containing other victims with their decomposing and dismembered corpses.
No one knows the exact exhumed at Otokoto Hotel was up to 24 bodies.

Some were buried at inconspicuous locations such as under the flowerbeds. Such evil, such horror!

The man that Ekeanyanwu mentioned before he was poisoned to death, Leonard Unaogu, was a business tycoon.
And he was the junior brother, Laz Unaogu, a serving minister under Abacha.

Leonard Unaogu was eventually arrested by the police.
When the police arrested Unaogu, he lied with a straight face that he never knew anyone called Innocent Ekeanyanwu and that he was not even in Owerri when the crime was committed, saying he was in Lagos.

so the afonja's learnt skull mining from the hardworking developers, interesting, history must be taught in all schools.

THE TRIAL AND JUDGEMENT:

Trial started on the 9th of December, 1996 with Hillary Ngozi Opara as the first prosecution witness.
Nine people testified before Justice S.O Ekpe, who took over from Justice Gabriel Ojiako,the retired chief judge of Imo State, during the trial.

The court also admitted the confessional statement of Innocent Ekeanyanwu.

Margaret Acholonu a receptionist of the hotel stated that two spots were dug at the hotel premises and it was from the second one that the body of Okoronkwo was exhumed.
She also implicated Chief Duru.

She also said that on that fateful day, she saw Ekeanyanwu with a black bag and he told her he was going to his village at Eziama
 
A sergeant Sunday Onwucheka, told the court he was in the office when Ekeanyanwu was arrested with a fresh human head of the innocent boy.

According to Onwucheka, before the police took Ekeanyanwu to Otokoto Hotel, the crime scene, he confessed to killing the boy at Mba River in Ikeduru and dumped the body inside the river. The police followed the false trail but found nothing at the Mba River.

So at about 7:00 pm on the 20th of September, they returned to Owerri. The following Monday, they continued with their investigation and took him to Otokoto Hotel where the headless body of the boy had already been identified before the police team arrived.

On 20th August 1997, a senior magistrate court in Owerri docked 9 police officers.
For the murder of Ekeanyanwu.
They were:

Ifeanyi Anozie, an assistant commissioner of police

Chukwu Obasi, an assistant superintendent of police

Kevin Ezirim

Christian Nnazi

Clifford Odiaka

Felix Nnorom

Christopher Aguobi

Ignatius Igwe

James Ibezere

Josephat Nwosu

The case snailed on till 14th October, 1997, over a year,and after series of adjournments, absence of lawyers,Presiding judge, suspects or even the retirement of judges or their transfer etc

When the case Finally resumed, many were pissed off. Leonard Unaogu, the minister’s brother, was transported in a new station wagon from the prison to the court like a royalty. Vincent Duru and other suspects were brought in a Black Maria from prison to the court, with handcuffs.

Duru protested the preferential treatment given to Unaogu.

Many judges handled the case.
First, it was Gabriel Ojiaku, then Simeon Ekpe who was almost done with the prosecution until he was elevated to Court of Appeal.
Then finally on 28th April 1999, Justice Chioma Nwosu-Iheme

Justice Chioma Nwosu-Iheme Judgment:

She Sentenced All the seven suspects to death, they were:

Chief Vincent Duru, the owner of the Otokoto Hotel and Unaogu denied knowing each other, but Justice Nwosu-Iheme said that was a lie.

He appealed the sentence in 2012 but he was unlucky as the sentence was upheld by the Appeal Cou

Leonard Unaogu: He would later die some years ago at the Port Harcourt Prisons in what has been described as very mysterious circumstances.

BLACK SCORPION SECRETE CULT:

After judgment, the convicts all moved to the Port Harcourt Prisons in the middle of February, 2003 pending their execution.

Prior to the case of Okoronkwo, several children had disappeared in Owerri, never to be found till date.

Some were kidnapped and their wealthy parents will pay ransom.
It was so serious that in May 1995,the daughter of Dr. Okoh, a Physician in the city was kidnapped by the Black Scorpions, one of the elite secret cult,asked the doctor to pay $12000 before the girl Will be released.

Eventually, the police stormed the hideout of the Black Scorpions and months later, the leader of the cult, Obidiozor Duru (who happens to also be the son of Chief Vincent Duru, owner of the Otokoto Hotel) and Amanze Onuoha, were both arrested.

They were brought before the Imo State Robbery and Firearms Tribunal on the charges of armed robbery,capital offence.

Businessman and politician Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu was also mentioned in the saga but he denied ever knowing anything about the case.

what happened next was nothing but a mockery of justice.
Duru and Onuoha were treated like royalties in the prisoner rather than criminals awaiting the death penalty.
They got the most liberal visiting privileges, ate food cooked and brought from their homes. They were like lords and Duru (a Ph.D holder in psychology from California State University) even impregnated one of his female Jailers and did a ‘traditional wedding’ with her before he completed his case.

And while they were incarcerated, the rate of child kidnappings in Imo dropped drastically.

In 1997, six people were executed by a firing squad following a judgement by Justice Emmanuel Nnodim.
One of those killed was Obidiozor, the son of Chief Vincent Duru, leader of Black Scorpion Cult.

WHERE IS OTOKO (Vincent Duru) NOW?:

Chief Vincent Duru(alias Otokoto) one of the men convicted in the celebrated case of the ritual murder of September 19, 1996 in Owerri, Imo State, was reportedly hanged.

His execution took place on Sunday, November 13, 2016.

This was 13 years after his 2003 conviction.
This was after government approved the execution warrant.

For His Properties:

During the administration of Ikedi Ohakim as governor, he tried to revoke the right of occupancy of the police to the confiscated Otokoto properties, but people were said to have kicked against it. The Duru family was also said to have approached Governor Rochas Okorocha over the confiscated property saying the property belonged to the Otokoto Group and not Duru. Okorocha stylishly brushed the matter aside.

Each time the issue of returning the confiscated property to the Otokoto family, Owerri people rise and protests.

Nothing like clean/legit money!

CONCLUSION:

Nigeria is still in the grips of ritual killers, almost two decades after the Otokoto saga. The same factors that gave birth to the 1996 Otokoto ritual killings are still in place today: poverty, irrational beliefs in supernatural powers that lead people to believe money can be made from flesh without doing any work, weak/corrupt law enforcement agencies and a super-slow judicial system. The presence of these factors explains why after bloody Otokoto saga, the country still had to face the Okija/Ogwugwu shrine saga in Anambra State and the Soka forest horror of Oyo State.
The Nigerian disease is still there –  yet to be healed.

We should stop that our great pf "Getting Rich Quick" Syndrome.

Otokoto happened in as far back as1996 when many Youths who are involved in Yahoo-Yahoo, Yahoo Plus, Ritual Money etc, were not even born then.
Funny enough, all those who involves in Human Ritual Killing, doesn't end well. This because 'THE DEVIL HAS NO FREE GIFT'.

So Youths, becareful
Say NO to Blood money
Say NO to Human Ritual Killing
Say NO to Kidnapping
Say NO to short-cut to Wealth

God bless U All

Sources: Punch Newspapers, Thisday Newspapers,

#Nzekwe Gerald Uchenna (NGU)
#MovementForTheEmancipationOfNigerianYouths(MENY)

Credit: @NzekweGerald

Chaii

Later some people will bring tribalism into ritual killing. This problem will almost never leave us. That I'm sure of.

God, please continue to protect me and my well-wishers

Thus is what happens when the youth worship money as today's Nigeria youth.

Ten Millionires Who Committed Suicide

by Julian Crowley

We live in a society filled with dreams and aspirations of wealth, a society that likes to believe that money will bring with it happiness and success. 
The following men were all successful businessmen who committed suicide.
The millions in their bank accounts did nothing to ease their suffering…

10. Jonathan Wraith

Thirty-five-year-old Jonathan Wraith — a young British millionaire by virtue of selling his and his father’s portable cabin business for £30 million ($46 million) — was by all accounts a happy and well-adjusted young man. However, in 2009 he picked up his shotgun and shot himself, leaving no suicide note. No clear reason could be found for Wraith’s action, but there has been some speculation that he was extremely worried about his father David’s recent stroke. It seems that this may have proven too much for the young man to take.

9. Eli M. Black

Eli M. Black, whose death was immortalized on screen in the Coen Brothers comedy The Hudsucker Proxy, was a Jewish-American businessman and millionaire controller of the United Brands Company. An astute and forward thinking capitalist, Black’s career included stints with Lehman Brothers and then the American Seal-Kap Company, which he renamed AMK. The early ’70s saw AMK merge with United Fruit Company. With that, Black’s fate was sealed. His downfall was rooted in the discovery of his $2.5 million bribe offered to the President of Honduras, to reduce export taxes on bananas. Taking matters into his own hands before the scandal broke, Black climbed the 44 floors of his office building and leapt out onto crowded Park Avenue to the horror of onlookers below.

8. Huibert Boumeester

At 49, father-of-two Huibert Boumeester took his own life after becoming seriously depressed in the fallout of the £50 billion ($77 billion) takeover of ABN Amro by the Royal Bank of Scotland. The Dutch millionaire banker’s body was discovered in a woodland area several miles away from his home in London. A suicide note to his wife Frederique that was found on his body read that he could not “go on.” The coroner confirmed that Mr. Boumeester had ended his life while depressed, explaining: “He drove to a very isolated location in woodland, sat down and used the shotgun to end his own life.”

7. Christopher Foster

In August 2008, Christopher Foster, a 50-year-old British businessman, murdered his wife and daughter before burning down his house and killing himself. The businessman shot his wife Jillian and daughter Kirstie, prior to succumbing to smoke inhalation. Foster, wealthy by virtue of his company’s work creating oil rig insulation technology, was nevertheless beset by financial concerns. Despite being a millionaire residing in a five-bedroom country mansion, he was living beyond his means, with debts of £4 million ($6.2 million). It seems that, tragically, these financial worries may well have pushed him over the edge.

6. John Lawrenson

John Lawrenson was a successful businessman who lived in a £1.2 million ($1.8 million) mansion (the Old Rectory, above). He was healthy and seemingly happy, and had earned the right to enjoy the profits from a lucrative life in the publishing world. This all would have been fine, except for one thing: his beloved wife Caroline was dying of cancer. The devoted couple, married for 47 years, poisoned themselves with a substance bought via mail order from Mexico. A suicide note found near their bodies confirms the truth: Mr. Lawrenson could not bear the thought of living alone and decided to take the matter into his own hands.

5. Wayne Pai

Wayne Pai was a successful Taiwanese businessman, and founder and chairman of the securities broker the Polaris Group. In the wake of rumors of insider trading, the nevertheless well respected Pai was found dead in July 2008. His wife and members of Polaris’ staff flew to the outlying island of Penghu to assist police with their inquiries. Pai’s suicide came at a time when allegations were being made that a former president of National Chiao Tung University had been receiving regular payments from Polaris. Pai’s body was found floating in waters surrounding the outlying island.

4. Paul Castle

Paul Castle — a self-styled businessman and property tycoon who had met the Queen of England and played polo with Prince Charles — killed himself in 2010. The 54-year-old threw himself in front of a London Underground train, leaving no chance of survival. The businessman, described as a “workaholic,” had seen several property deals go awry over the last year of his life and had also lost capital in a gas and oil surveying company. Castle, who suffered from chronic heart problems and tumors, had been married three times and was due to be wedded for a fourth time, to his girlfriend Natalie Theo.

3. Peter Smedley

Peter Smedley was an enormously successful millionaire hotelier and businessman with a tinned food empire that provided him with a sizable income. He and his wife Christine — who had been married for 33 years — enjoyed a luxurious lifestyle befitting of their riches. However, Mr. Smedley was also an extremely ill man, suffering from motor neurone disease. He ended his life by his own volition, at an assisted dying organization, the Dignitas clinic, in Switzerland. In a further twist to the story, Mr. Smedley’s death was filmed by the BBC, with segments televised as part of documentary about assisted suicides.

2. Howard Worthington

In an alarming case of destructive emotion, self-proclaimed “lord of the manor” millionaire Howard Worthington shot himself with one of his prized shotguns just moments after shooting his lover Julie Rees. The 52-year-old English former businessman, who made his fortune in the steel industry, had been ordered to stay away from his £1.3 million ($2 million) country home after threatening her with a gun a few weeks prior. While Rees recovered, Worthington did not. Verdict: suicide.

1. ReiJane Huai

Long Island resident and computer software high flyer ReiJane Huai killed himself with a single shot in September 2011. The former president and CEO of FalconStor, a data storage company, had resigned suddenly in 2010 following a lawsuit filed against him. The millionaire committed suicide on the front lawn of the $2.5 million home he shared with his wife, ShuWen. The Taiwanese-born Huai — who had traveled to the USA to study in 1984 — had several adult children living in the US and was described as a “visionary and leader” by a FalconStor spokesman

BONUS:

German tycoon Adolf Merckle commits suicide

Merckle, who was the world’s 94th-richest person in 2008 according to Forbes magazine, spent his life building a business conglomerate with about 100,000 employees.

The empire was poised to come crashing down after his family made wrong-way bets on skyrocketing Volkswagen shares.

The family has been under pressure to sell some assets or seek bridging loans and has been in talks with banks for weeks.

“The desperate situation of his companies caused by the financial crisis, the uncertainties of the last few weeks and his powerlessness to act, have broken the passionate family entrepreneur and he took his own life,” a family statement said.

The 74-year-old industrialist died when a train struck him late on Monday, said prosecutors in the southern German town of Ulm, near Merckle’s home.
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Luxury is an addictive drug

The frugal blogger Mr. Money Mustache tells us that luxury is weakness. Luxury is an addictive drug. Until we understand this, it has the power to ruin our lives.

I remember driving my brand new luxury sports car and noticing that my identity was becoming tied up with the car. I realized that this super-expensive car would wear out and then I would need to buy another one. To keep my identity, I would need to keep generating a lot of money. It was like having a drug habit. The car didn't make me feel that good, but the idea of not having the car felt lame. So I realized that I would need to keep having that fix to feel normal.

This process of getting the drug to get back to normal is a common experience for drug addicts. Also, tolerance to the drug increases with abuse over time. An amount of the drug that was once satisfying starts to not have the desired effect. We find that we need more and more of the substance or experience to get back to normal.

The problem is that, as the U2 lyric goes, "You can never get enough of what you don't really need." Once you have the Porsche Cayenne Turbo, you start wishing for a Bentley Bentayga. The more luxury you have, the more luxury you need, but luxury never really satisfies the itch that it promises to scratch.

Luxury makes us feel successful, that we are winning at the game of life, that we are not only surviving, but thriving. Like an opioid in our brains, luxury locks into our survival receptors. The irony is that purchasing luxury, and being dependent on it for our sense of self and wellbeing, leads to us depleting the very resources that we actually need for survival.

It turns out that having the discipline to live frugally, to invest rather than spend, to mend and make do, and to be able to live for longer and longer periods of time without having to work, are true measures of wealth. Deeply enjoying whatever it is you're experiencing right now is the ultimate wealth.

The people who are on the nine-to-five treadmill, working to pay for luxury cars to drive for two hours per day to and from work, are really on a luxury treadmill. These people are addicted to luxury.
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Being wealthy is a full-time job

There's a foolish impression that once you have a lot of money, you can kick back and relax. To some degree this is true. You can have more choice, and you can buffer situations in your life to some degree. However, once you have assets you have to manage them, protect them, and maintain them. You need to worry about being sued, so you need insurance. You need to hire people to do stuff for you, and you need to manage them. Delegation is really hard.

If you're not careful, you will make your life more complex, with more things, and more activities. Perhaps you will use spending money and buying things as a cheap way of avoiding self-awareness. Perhaps you will become obsessed with hoarding your money and maximizing its growth.

Some people become very suspicious of other people, not trusting that they really have friends, thinking that others are trying to get at their wealth. Even with the best intentions, others will seek funding and support from you. They want you to invest in their businesses and projects. They want to borrow money. All of this is a massive strain on your ability to be aware of your boundaries, and avoid being co-dependent or enabling.

It's really challenging being wealthy. Approach with caution.
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Follow the path of least resustance

I remember spending all day sitting next to one of the founders of the company. He was a grey-haired, old-timer of Sun Microsystems, yet a trail-blazer in the new realm of synthesizing computer logic in chips. He was the VP of Engineering at this little start-up. He’s now a mega-millionaire, perhaps even a billionaire.

We worked effortlessly, seemingly endlessly, late into the night. I showed him test-cases that my random 3D triangle generator had produced, which broke his graphics engine, making it behave differently from our model. He fixed the bugs, while I watched him code. I learned so much from him about being a principled engineer, about how to create quality code. I was so excited about what we were doing that I couldn’t stop working.

I won’t go into the details here, but I continued to follow this flow of excitement and enthusiasm, and it led me to becoming an employee of that start-up, making a ton of money, and gaining masses of experience.

I didn’t apply this principle in all areas of my life back then, so I only experienced the benefits of it in a small domain: my career. Later on, I also become fearful of losing what I had, and started to make choices that were not in alignment with the path of least resistance. These choices led to much less beneficial outcomes.

I have been learning more each day how to notice when I am experiencing resistance, where the path of least resistance is, and then flowing with that. I am learning to keep on pivoting, no matter how much success I have achieved, into the next path of least resistance.

Some people say, “follow your bliss.” I always found this statement irritating. A statement that resonates much more strongly for me is, “trust your good feelings.” Trust your excitement, your enthusiasm, your happiness, your playfulness, and your curiosity. All of these feelings are associated with flow, with the flow of your energy. When you engage with them, everything in your life will flow more easily.

When you perseverate on the thoughts that lead to unpleasant feelings, and you take actions in an attempt to stop those unpleasant feelings, it generally leads to less adaptive outcomes. Unpleasant feelings include fear, anger, loneliness, and jealousy. Bring yourself back to asking “what would I like?” and then notice where your pleasant, flowing feelings lead you. Trust those feelings.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Don't work for money ... you will never be happy'

Apple CEO Tim Cook has some advice for college students obsessed only with pursuing a career for the paycheck: Think different.

"My advice to all of you is, don't work for money — it will wear out fast, or you'll never make enough and you will never be happy, one or the other," Cook says.

"You have to find the intersection of doing something you're passionate about and at the same time something that is in the service of other people," he says.

"I would argue that, if you don't find that intersection, you're not going to be very happy in life."

MO₦€¥ Rituals was very popular & common in the '90s, 1st time I saw a headless body of a lady dumped by the street, that gave me sleepless nites for about 2weeks or more as a lil boy growing up then, it makes me wonder how wicked &heartless a fellow human can be to another.

Imagine 11-year old &struggling innocent boy gone! Just because of quick money via Rituals.
Infact, it was this Okotoko Story the reason why many Nollywood Movies then was themed 'BLOOD MONEY', RITUALS, EVIL MEN etc just to educate, conscientize people about the dangers of indulging in such practices, that the end thereof is not always smooth&juicy, cos what will it profit a man to engage in such evil, Cruel &inhumane practises, gain money, wealth, live extravagant life, can't even sleep well @nite, then die Mysteriously without living long to enjoy the money, lose his own soul. #STUPIDITY

It's better I hustle as my strength permits, then God blesses, live in peace, sleep well, I mean sound sleep&wake up@anytime, enjoy my hard-earned money with joy cos the Blessings of the Lord maketh me RICH &added no single Sorrow. Prob. 10:22
#EASYLIFE

saintkeppy:
MO₦€¥ Rituals was very popular & common in the '90s, 1st time I saw a headless body of a lady dumped by the street, that gave me sleepless nites for about 2weeks or more as a lil boy growing up then, it makes me wonder how wicked &heartless a fellow human can be to another.

Imagine 11-year old &struggling innocent boy gone! Just because of quick money via Rituals.
Infact, it was this Okotoko Story the reason why many Nollywood Movies then was themed 'BLOOD MONEY', RITUALS, EVIL MEN etc just to educate, conscientize people about the dangers of indulging in such practices, that the end thereof is not always smooth&juicy, cos what will it profit a man to engage in such evil, Cruel &inhumane practises, gain money, wealth, live extravagant life, can't even sleep well @nite, then die Mysteriously without living long to enjoy the money, lose his own soul. #STUPIDITY

It's better I hustle as my strength permits, then God blesses, live in peace, sleep well, I mean sound sleep&wake up@anytime, enjoy my hard-earned money with joy cos the Blessings of the Lord maketh me RICH &added no single Sorrow. Prob. 10:22
#EASYLIFE

I was in Owerri when that poor kid's head was shown on IBC TV, and later one of my uncles was part of the mob that burned down buildings belonging to ritualists. Only a few months prior, my aunt had taken me shopping at Piano Plaza, one of the buildings torched during the riots. I was later told I was lucky I hadn't gone upstairs, or I would have been beheaded.

Everything you said about the boy is true; imagine what he could have become if he was still alive today, but those greedy Otokoto bastards denied his family that chance. May they rot in hell.

TamiOkoroDedeh:


I was in Owerri when that poor kid's head was shown on IBC TV, and later one of my uncles was part of the mob that burned down buildings belonging to ritualists. Only a few months prior, my aunt had taken me shopping at Piano Plaza, one of the buildings torched during the riots. I was later told I was lucky I hadn't gone upstairs, or I would have been beheaded.

Everything you said about the boy is true; imagine what he could have become if he was still alive today, but those greedy Otokoto bastards denied his family that chance. May they rot in hell.

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Really, you were in Owerri? Good to know.
My sister that's wicked people for you, they know no peace.

TamiOkoroDedeh:


I was in Owerri when that poor kid's head was shown on IBC TV, and later one of my uncles was part of the mob that burned down buildings belonging to ritualists. Only a few months prior, my aunt had taken me shopping at Piano Plaza, one of the buildings torched during the riots. I was later told I was lucky I hadn't gone upstairs, or I would have been beheaded.

Everything you said about the boy is true; imagine what he could have become if he was still alive today, but those greedy Otokoto bastards denied his family that chance. May they rot in hell.

Jesus!!! Thank God for your life dear. How does the thought of how lucky you were make you feel now? These killings are still very much on oooo! I had a close shave with death sometime in 2011 or 2012 while still in IMSU. I narrowly escaped headhunters. This insatiable greed to make money overnight is sickening. God protect us all.

saintkeppy:
MO₦€¥ Rituals was very popular & common in the '90s, 1st time I saw a headless body of a lady dumped by the street, that gave me sleepless nites for about 2weeks or more as a lil boy growing up then, it makes me wonder how wicked &heartless a fellow human can be to another.

Imagine 11-year old &struggling innocent boy gone! Just because of quick money via Rituals.
Infact, it was this Okotoko Story the reason why many Nollywood Movies then was themed 'BLOOD MONEY', RITUALS, EVIL MEN etc just to educate, conscientize people about the dangers of indulging in such practices, that the end thereof is not always smooth&juicy, cos what will it profit a man to engage in such evil, Cruel &inhumane practises, gain money, wealth, live extravagant life, can't even sleep well @nite, then die Mysteriously without living long to enjoy the money, lose his own soul. #STUPIDITY

It's better I hustle as my strength permits, then God blesses, live in peace, sleep well, I mean sound sleep&wake up@anytime, enjoy my hard-earned money with joy cos the Blessings of the Lord maketh me RICH &added no single Sorrow. Prob. 10:22
#EASYLIFE

You've said it all! They never end well. Who knows? The ones that tried kidnapping me in Owerri may even be dead now.

I guess that's what was mirrowed in movies such as Blood money, Living in Bondage and the likes.... It beats my imagination the kind of mind some folks have as to take another person's life and even slice them to pieces... yuck!

Very insightful OP, please more of this kind of histories with facts. Please bring the Eddy Unoguo story, the okija shrine too. People need to know that Evil never pays. God bless you on this write up.

SUPERPACK:
so the afonja's learnt skull mining from the hardworking developers, interesting, history must be taught in all schools.

They're equals

interesting

I was in Owerri then, staying with my grand mama, I participated in the protest at Aladinma and prefab we were moving behind Nnaemeka's father he wielded a big ax and was wailing with a loud voice, "Owerri eh, dem don kill my pikin Nnaemeka o" any fine building was brought down. It was generally assumed that all beatiful buildings belonged to the Otokoto gang and, so we burnt or destroyed many beautiful edifice in Owerri then. It was a mad time. There was Larry who drives the latest cars in Owerri then he moves on convoy and all his vehicles had his name as plate number. There was Obidiozor, the dreaded millionaire and his father Otokoto whom I was to later meet in Portharcourt prison. The Abacha govt did a nice job in making sure those ritualist were brought to book. All the police officers serving at Owerri then were transferred to the North and some were dismissed from service. Thanks OP for bringing this up. How time flies.

Wickedest!

Those guys were organ harvesters.

It's funny how the expatriates that smuggle these parts out of Nigeria are never apprehended.

Until there's no demand for human organs, “ritual killings” will never end in this shithole.

The Almighty and Fountain of all Creation, Chukwu Okike, as called by the people of old, who created Nne Mmiri na Nna Mmiri Imo, Ala Igbo and the whole World, will from today being 31st August, 2023 being, Nkwo market day in Igbo land, mercilessly expose and destroy from the roots all the unrepentant past, present and future executioners and partakers of this wicked and inhumane deeds called illegal organ harvesting and all it's likes, (from both low and high persons), to honour The Almighty's Word, Name and bring about total cleansing, healing and restoration to creation, the earth , humanity and all others, amen and Amon.
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