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Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by BluntBoy(m): 1:47pm On Apr 06, 2018
AFONJAPIG:
Sir please can you just leave the case, we have a useless old tyrant that doesn't give a Bleep about anyone but only himself and that of his cows

Was it Buhari that pushed him down

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Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by BluntBoy(m): 1:47pm On Apr 06, 2018
FortifiedCity:
To Buhari and everyone around him, killing is nothing.
Life means nothing to him.

Let him keep stealing our money. In ten years time, you'll still see that his cows are 150 in number

What concerns Buhari in this matter now

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Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by lexy2014: 1:49pm On Apr 06, 2018
Ebullience:
Ace photographer, Sunmi Smart Cole, on Thursday narrated how he was rough handled by President Muhammadu Buhari’s security detail during the colloquium to mark Senator Bola Tinubu’s birthday in Lagos.

Smart-Cole, 76, who is currently recovering from the injuries sustained during the beating in a hospital in Ikoyi, threatened to sue the Department of State Service (DSS).

The former head of photography in the presidency said he was revived by the former Governor, of Ogun State, Chief Segun Osoba, the Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, and the Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha.

He said he was invited to the colloquium to take photographs, and that things were going on well until the president arrived and the place became rowdy.

“I was invited by the vice-president’s office. The vice-president told one of his assistants, Mrs. Uwais, the wife of a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, to invite me to cover the event”, he told Thisday.

“When Buhari entered with about 50 security personnel, things changed. If you stood near them, they would give you elbow. At a time, I just told one of them, ‘I am an old man; I am actually 76 years old’.


“He said he didn’t care and directed another security official to make sure ‘this old man does not come near the president’. I had to take photographs from a distance.

“The security operatives around the president continued to push me until I became exhausted and I slumped because my legs became weak.

“I slumped right in front of Segun Osoba, Niyi Adebayo, the former Governor of Ekiti State; the Governor Tambuwal, and Governor Okorocha, who sat together, including the Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki. They all saw me. I am the oldest working journalist in Nigeria.

“I slumped but I did not pass out. Prof. Pat Utomi and the Publisher of Ovation Magazine were detailed by Osoba to keep me seated, saying I get too excited when I carry camera. He seized my camera.”

Smart-Cole, however, disclosed that the doctors were not yet satisfied with his recovery and would spend more days there.

http://dailypost.ng/2018/04/06/buharis-security-detail-nearly-killed-veteran-journalist-smart-cole/



he was invited, yet they pushed him causing hospitalization. Naomi Campbell that wasn't invited, nobody pushed her. In fact she succeeded in getting buhari to shake her hand(which used b haram) and snap with her all without invitation

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Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by donbachi(m): 1:52pm On Apr 06, 2018
"smokers are liable to die young"...idonblivit.it is suppose to be "middlesomeinterlooppers are liable to die young".try and mind your own beingness.but all the same sorry.
Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by AFONJAPIG(m): 1:53pm On Apr 06, 2018
BluntBoy:


Was it Buhari that pushed him down
was it not his Aide's that pushed and beat him up
Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by donbachi(m): 1:55pm On Apr 06, 2018
"Middlesomeinterlooppers are liable to die young".mind your own beingness.sorry sir
Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by BluntBoy(m): 1:58pm On Apr 06, 2018
AFONJAPIG:
was it not his Aide's that pushed and beat him up

When Obama was still president, one of his bodyguards body slammed a reporter. How about that?

You all need to understand that protecting the president is a hell of a job hence the reason these big guys are always overprotective of the president.

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Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by BluntBoy(m): 2:04pm On Apr 06, 2018
AFONJAPIG:
was it not his Aide's that pushed and beat him up

Mind you, the journalist never wrote that he was beaten up.

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Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by Omoapena(m): 2:06pm On Apr 06, 2018
Awoofawo:
And seventy something years old (probably more) is not too old to be Nigeria President?!


So you can advise ur dad at 76yr old to struggle to take pix but can't advice him to sit in an office and run a nation?


Don't compare field work to an office work.
Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by gmoni2(m): 2:12pm On Apr 06, 2018
Omoapena:
76 years old?

Sir you need to retire and rest
Your too old to cover events.

That's his passion, it's not about money or age.

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Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by Omoapena(m): 2:16pm On Apr 06, 2018
gmoni2:


That's his passion, it's not about money or age.

What about his health,

Can his health survive his passion to struggle to take pix?
Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by seguno2: 2:27pm On Apr 06, 2018
Buhari is bad luck. Bad luck is Buhari.
He has only brought death, starvation and terror into our country since 2015!
Buhari is a monumental error of gargantuan proportions that must be corrected in 2019!!!
Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by lawrenzo007(m): 2:30pm On Apr 06, 2018
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Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by ud4u: 2:32pm On Apr 06, 2018
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Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by BruncleZuma: 3:09pm On Apr 06, 2018
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Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by godofuck231: 3:10pm On Apr 06, 2018
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Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by Nobody: 3:18pm On Apr 06, 2018
oyetunder:
Why should the office of the vice president...even Osinbajo still be inviting his 76 year old uncle to come and snap? Is that the best way Osinbajo can reward or recognise Cole? Worst of all, He failed to ensure the safety of the grandpa he invited.

LOL. You obviously have never heard of Sunmi Smart-Cole; man is a legend.
Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by Okoroawusa: 3:24pm On Apr 06, 2018
Sorry Uncle Smart.
Any VIP is so protected more so the President

Try and have two or more assistants

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Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by Awoofawo(m): 3:31pm On Apr 06, 2018
Omoapena:



So you can advise ur dad at 76yr old to struggle to take pix but can't advice him to sit in an office and run a nation?


Don't compare field work to an office work.


Useless mofo......so in your myopic and dysfunctional brain.....a nation is run only by sitting in air condition office...no wonder the country isn't making any head way, socially and economy remain stagnancy under Old sick weak baba PMB......abeg commot..... only someone interest in looting think running a nation is easy...you know nothing and you part of country problem.
Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by Awoofawo(m): 3:41pm On Apr 06, 2018
Omoapena:


What about his health,

Can his health survive his passion to struggle to take pix?

Why not ask Bubu about his health...... A sick old man running from one foreign hospital to another wasting Tax Payers money......where his is your supposed Baba-youngi now as we talk....abeg commit and stop talking trashes
Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by johnmartus(m): 3:44pm On Apr 06, 2018
We can't Blane the president because buhari didn't send them and I'm very sure he know nothing about that.

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Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by Omoapena(m): 3:55pm On Apr 06, 2018
Awoofawo:



Useless mofo......so in your myopic and dysfunctional brain.....a nation is run only by sitting in air condition office...no wonder the country isn't making any head way, socially and economy remain stagnancy under Old sick weak baba PMB......abeg commot..... only someone interest in looting think running a nation is easy...you know nothing and you part of country problem.


You a big fool...


I'm talking about someone who can't struggle with a field job and you are bringing up someone who works at comfort zone

May ur father hustle like that too..

Omo ode jati jati

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Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by Omoapena(m): 3:56pm On Apr 06, 2018
Awoofawo:


Why not ask Bubu about his health...... A sick old man running from one foreign hospital to another wasting Tax Payers money......where his is your supposed Baba-youngi now as we talk....abeg commit and stop talking trashes

Go ask him yourself

You no sabi road to aso rock?
Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by nex(m): 4:05pm On Apr 06, 2018
They asked me to drop my address if I want to receive an invite to the Bola Tinibu Colloquium, and I said thanks but no thanks. I was at Eko Hotel last year for the same event. If you see armed security personnel, you will think they just got actionable intelligence that Abubakar Shekau was in the hotel. Imagine the traffic all over Victoria Island that day!

I reach Eko Hotel gate, and for the first time in my life, I was asked who I was, and what I wanted at a hotel. I told them I was a traveller, and wanted to lodge there, then they asked a couple of more stupid questions before eventually letting me in. On getting in, every single step I took, AK47, I had to turn back, and I told the guy who was waiting with my IV inside the hall, that I couldn't make it anymore.

From the kind of things I'd seen around, that is the kind of scene where you hear that journalists were beaten up, or attendees were malhandled, or shot by mistake. I jejely went back to my house. So this year, when a friend asked me if I would be attending, I said NO! I don't want to feature in 'stories that touch'.

When the CEO of Google came to Nigeria, the security was 10 times more than what was at Tinubu's Kolo-kium, however, they were not visible. They didn't display guns, they didn't block roads, they didn't make physical contact with people, they didn't even shout or talk loud. They were planted in various locations everywhere Sundar Pichai was, but most people didn't notice. Some were African-Americans, dressed in Agbada in the front seats, enjoying the event and clapping. Some were Israeli intelligence officers pretending to be fellow Google staff, wearing Jeans and Google T-shirts.

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Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by Awoofawo(m): 4:15pm On Apr 06, 2018
Omoapena:



I am big fool...


I'm talking about my father who only interest in looting

May God ruin my hustle same way PMB ruin the Nigeria

I am Omo ode jati jati


Well done oponu omo...your dad should be proud of you, asinwin!

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Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by somehow: 4:46pm On Apr 06, 2018
Does he have security men to clear roads and way for him?
Awoofawo:
And seventy something years old (probably more) is not too old to be Nigeria President?!
Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by AFONJAPIG(m): 5:15pm On Apr 06, 2018
BluntBoy:


Mind you, the journalist never wrote that he was beaten up.
if they didn't beat him up, then what did they do to him... Buhari Aide's are good in embarrassing the nation... when the head is useless I don't expect the rest of the body to be useful... Buhari is full of himself
Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by oyetunder(m): 5:15pm On Apr 06, 2018
Bagehot:


LOL. You obviously have never heard of Sunmi Smart-Cole; man is a legend.
I have. But those who manhandled him were the ones you should ask if they know him. Also, If Osinbajo cannot ensure his safety and honour, why calling him to come? So because he is a legend, he must risk his life just to doe like a common rat because of the camera he never invented?

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Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by enemyofprogress: 5:24pm On Apr 06, 2018
BruncleZuma:


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Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by enemyofprogress: 5:26pm On Apr 06, 2018
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e dey now. Na dat one everybody dey rush buy, dem wan send am to the man
Re: Smart Cole: "Buhari’s Security Nearly Killed Me!!" by AFONJAPIG(m): 5:45pm On Apr 06, 2018
BluntBoy:


When Obama was still president, one of his bodyguards body slammed a reporter. How about that?

You all need to understand that protecting the president is a hell of a job hence the reason these big guys are always overprotective of the president.
like Obama like Buhari... those guys got distinction in uselessness

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