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Tony Almeida is working undercover with Gen Jomo abi na Jumo.

Cohomology:
The Biafra/Gaza Complex
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Two similar scenarios:

[size=18pt]A.[/size] Kill Biafrans, including innocent men, women and children, civilians, the elderly, the sick and pregnant; kill them all. Use all forms of blockade, by land, sea and air. Prevent the Red Cross from going into Biafra to supply humanitarian goods and services. Proudly make statements like "blockades are legitimate instruments of war". And don't forget the infamous "I want to see no Red Cross, no Caritas, no World Council of Churches, no Pope, no missionary and no UN delegation. I want to prevent even one Igbo from having even one piece to eat before their capitulation. We shoot at everything that moves, and when our forces move into Igbo territory, we even shoot things that do not move . . .  " --- Benjamin Adekunle, a.k.a. "Black Scorpion," Commander, 3rd Marine Commando Division, Nigerian Army. Those Biafrans deserve to die for using military coup as a guise to kill political leaders in the Western, mid-Western and Northern regions. We must kill every one of them! Post-war, we must also contain them by continuing to marginalize them on all fronts.

[size=18pt]B. [/size] Kill Palestinians! They're Muslim terrorists! Bomb Gaza to the stone age and use chemical weapons to poison their lands for ages. Those bas.tards use terrorist organizations like Hamas to kill Israelis in restaurants and public buses. The blockade of Gaza is necessary and any supplies to them must intercepted. Gazans are starving? Let them starve and die off! Who gives a hoot! Israel has a right to defend herself and killing Palestinian civilians, including innocent women and children is mere collateral damage. The blockade of Gaza is indefinite and the expansion of settler-buildings in the West Bank must continue unabated. The Palestinians will remain under Israeli control as long as Israel feels threatened by the multitude of Arab terrorist nations surrounding her.

The four possible positions:

Support A and Support B: The true sadists and champions of evil. To these mongrels, all subordinates must bow to the powerful or get killed for resisting. Power is the beginning and end to these children of the Devil.

Support A and Against B: The position of hypocrites and fools. To these idiots, the right of Muslims is more important than the lives of innocent Biafrans killed by Mulsim-instigated massacres in Northern Nigeria and within the Nigerian military, circa 1966.

Against A and Support B: The position of hypocrites and fools. To these myopic entities, the hatred of Arab Muslims have blinded them to the shear evil of Israel's terrorist acts against the Palestinians people. They tie a clear link between Muslim intolerance and barbarism in Northern Nigeria and Muslims in Palestine, blaming both for the unsuccessful genocide attempt by federal Nigeria between 19967 and 1970.

Against A and Against B: My position and the position of all those who truly believe in human rights, justice and equity. The sane few and those who condemn evil no matter its color, creed, ethnic group or nationality. Evil is evil and must be condemned, period.

Excellent analysis.

I dey for the last one jo.

nearest:
@ Afam, please read before you comment! This was what i posted and i'm not in support of the israelis on this.



Israel should stop this we against the Arabs propaganda , i used to defend them, but their actions these days are really bad. A ship in international waters, they claim they were attacked with knives, sticks etc, no weapon was fired by the activists, yet the israelis boarded the ship and started shooting, killing over 15! this is really bad, and nobody should support it.

I can't remember addressing your post so what's the problem? I guess you are the one that needs to watch what you put down.

montelik:
There is no need for some to dismiss the video feed as propaganda. If it is fake there various technological means to determine that. Simply dismissing it out of hand because you don't like the content is not being objective. There are even reports that the Israelis commandos boarded with paint guns and tried to use that to disperse the activists. But once they met with effective guerrilla fighting techniques which were injuring their men, they requested permission to use live ammunition, permission which was granted. In some of the videos that is clearly apparent. If the videos are legit then one can understand the difficult circumstances they encountered.

A movie is usually a final product after must editing and removing of certain frames.

The footage released by IDF should show when they approached the vessel and not what they want the world to see.

Someone with a camera can slap you and begin filming when you retaliate and what people will see is your won retaliation not what cause it or the first slap.

Mariory:
More footage released by IDF (close up view apparently from a nearby Naval vessel).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYjkLUcbJWo

Still no video feed rom those on board. None that I can find anyways.

Sounds like relying on NTA to provide you information about what the Nigerian Army did in Odi.

How can some people be this dumb?

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Afam:
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bros1234:

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~Bluetooth:
I dont know why some folks here supporting israel.the incident happened in international waters and israel dont have jurisdiction to that regard.the attack has been widely condemned and israel should be made for the crime.

You don't know why? I will let you know.

1. Religious bigotry

2. Hate for Islam

3. hate for Arabs

4. Blind support for anything US or Israel

5. Other irrelevant issues they cling on to justify the hate filled positions where murder of unarmed civilians are supported.

bros1234:
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It will not take any customer anything to read up the facts about unlimited GB and that is when they will leave you and settle for those that are honest with what they are offering.

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paddy_lo:
[b]@AFAM.EYODAD. . ALL THE MISGUIDED SUPPORTERS

People in the Palestinian territories have a substantially higher life expectancy than Turks, 73.4 years for Palestineans and only 71.8 years for Turks. Perhaps this "aid flotilla" should have stayed in Turkey?Afterall.

Here's a list of life expectancy by country for 2010. Similar figures are given by the UN and others:

109 Hungary 73.69 2010 est.
110 Gaza Strip 73.68 2010 est.
111 Malaysia 73.55 2010 est.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2102.html?countryName=&countryCode=&regionCode=r
MeanWhile average life expectancy in SSAfrica is 51.5 years,

I swear the day Black ppl mind their business and only go for their economic interests
the day they will start to advance economically. . .

U guys are there worrying about gaza,and turkey. . meanwhile this is just a publicity stunt
as ppl in Gaza have higher life expectancy than in turkey or Africa,so why didnt they send those goods to darfur or turkey
Nonsense[/b]

What exactly are you doing on this thread if you believed what you just wrote above. This smells like unadulterated hypocrisy.

Beaf:
You are so right in your analysis. Most Nigerians have an identity crisis (nice way of saying inferiority complex) that makes them "know" more about foreigners than they know about themselves. We laugh at Zimbabwe (but the average Zimbabwean is better off and more educated than the average Nigerian); we know about Chelsea and Arsenal, but little or nothing about who plays for Eyimba. . . As you pointed out, life expectancy in Gaza is 73.68, in Nigeria it is 46.94.

Another hypocrisy being displayed here. Why don't you restrict your comments to those concerning Nigerians? Why is it that some Nigerians who usually are guilty of one thing or the other will be the first to accuse others?

You relax in foreign lands and tell us what to discuss and what not to discuss.

texazzpete:
Brilliant!
Your strategy is insidiously sound! Blame everything bad that happened in Nigeria on Sanusi, and accredit every positive benefit from Sanusi's reforms to Aganga.
Even the Renaissance Professionals need to take lessons from you.

That is the problem with some Nigerians. They find it difficult to analyze issues without sentiments.

bros1234:
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ElRazur:
Once again biasses rears it ugly face among the usual suspect. A link showing "unarmed" civilians attacking the task force who boarded the ship is ignored, while a news link painting the story of humanitarian aid is swiftly posted.


Gosh.

"Unarmed civilians" appears to have stun grenade, Petrol bomb, Guns and other sort of weapon.

Man, you gotta love the forum here. How some folks do it is just amazing.

Wonderful, so you expect the world to believe the footage showed by Israel?

Why didn't they start filming when they got to the ship?

Why determined what was removed and what was left in the footage.

Every message has a creator and until you understand the creator of that message and the motive behind the message you will never understand the message.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENq1J7M2ujc&feature=related

udezue:
Do I look like I need your sympathy if anything was to happen? Why don't u worry about your region on the verge of being wiped off by invading Fulani than worry about Palestinians who can't locate your black behind on a map? Israel was never my saint.

Seems you are suffering from identity crisis here.

4 Play:
Why don't you attack the Nigerian police with a crowbar, let's see whether it will make CNN.

Allowing this diversion to fly would give the wrong impression that indeed the commandos were attacked by those with knives and sticks.

So, did they retrieve 19 sticks and knives from the murdered people?

nearest:
Israel should stop this we against the Arabs propaganda , i used to defend them, but their actions these days are really bad. A ship in international waters, they claim they were attacked with knives, sticks etc, no weapon was fired by the activists, yet the israelis boarded the ship and started shooting, killing over 15! this is really bad, and nobody should support it.

Sticks and knives? Justification for murdering 19 people? Are we talking about Spartacus or Gladiators in the arena here or what?

The level some of us are willing to go to support murder is appalling and tomorrow the same set of people will complain about injustice.

princekevo:
Am forced to ask if White house has issued any statement condemning such inhuman act perpetrated buy Israeli commandos. To make this world a safe place we need to call a spade a spade, if not we should wait for a retaliation from our dear Muslim to this issue ,and when it shall come i hope the white house wouldn't be the first to condemn their act. Am surprised that EU was the first to condemn the act and odered for investigation. After more than 12hrs from the incident nothing from white yet.

Seems you are yet to come to terms with what the US represents in the scheme of things in the world. It protects its interests at all times even if it means wiping off a whole people.

na2day!:
To some of u saying israel does not want peace, remember they gave gaza back and all they got in return was hundreds of qassams raining on their cities! please give israel a break, those protesters knew what they were getting into, they were used as pawns.

They gave back what they stole and for that they should be given flowers?

Until they return all the seized lands you cannot expect Palestinians to embrace peace. You don't seize someone's property and choose to release it bit by bit and still expect the person to be happy with you.

Get rid of the bias and religious bigotry and things will be clearer.

udezue:
Afam taaa pichie gi onu ki ugua. Kedu nke gbasara ghi na ndi alakuba? I kwuchaberu okwu maka ivfe na eme na ebe I si ghi na ko yau yau maka ivfe na abughi mkpa. Ndi Palestine ajuru gi ma I na emere ha ebere? Oburu na obughi maka obele nkwado ndi Isreal nyere anyi mgbe oge agha Biafra ebe ka I che na ike ga ano vfa?

You are as guilty as those groups you accuse even in Nigeria. You should learn to stand for what is right at all times not just when it favors you.

When I say that Israel is as guilty as the terrorist groups they accuse of terrorism people think I simply hate Israel.

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Joanna.T:
I did not find your and Afam's position "perfectly logical" and I am ready to defend my arguments. I think that you both tend to neglect the sociological dimensions of reality and to see the world as much simpler than it actually is.

1. You don't have to find the position perfectly logical for it to be perfectly logical, just remember this. The correctness or otherwise of a position has nothing to do with your agreement or otherwise. Facts are facts and they don't change.

2. Trust me the world is simple but people like you will introduce all sorts of issues to make it appear complex based on what you want to achieve.

For the sake of emphasis especially for those that did not follow my points I will summarize them below

Initial reports claimed the guy was shot while he was being chased by the police.

My position - Why was he running if he had nothing to hide? (Perfect logical question).

Further reports claimed he was not the person that had problems with the police that he went to challenge the policeman who had issues with another black man and the policeman told him to leave or he will be shot and he refused to leave until he was shot.

My position - Why dare an armed man be it a policeman or an armed robber? As we debate this the man that had issues with the policeman is alive and yet the person that went to intercede is dead. Does this not call for carefulness in dealing with the law? It is not as if the guy was randomly picked up and shot.

So while some of you continue to play to the gallery by sensationalizing the issue I still maintain that the "how" and "why" the shooting took place should be the focus at least for the benefit of the living so as not to repeat the same mistake in future.

No one is debating whether the man was shot by the policeman in error or not right now as reports have cleared that part. What are the lessons learned here?

donsteady:
I am Suggesting that Nigerian police uniform shld be witout pockets n dey shud b wearing shoes wit out sock N central bank shld chng N20 a n N50 notes 2coins 2stop police road busines. what do you think?

As strange as this post sounds this will achieve instant result if implemented. It's nice to see people thinking outside the box. Ideas like these may end up helping us resolve a lot of issues in Nigeria.

Joanna.T:
I have said earlier that I would not reply to Afam's posts, but I see that I have to break this promise. Afam states:

Already texazzpete "was not convinced if I was a Pole". So texazzpete and Afam seriously doubt if I am a Pole. I am mightily amused by these doubts as to my Polishness. Do you think that it is improbable for a Pole to write critically about his/her country ? Or perhaps you find that a Pole cannot be possibly able to write in  reasonably correct English ? Or perhaps I should begin to write my posts in Polish so as to make you believe that I am Polish ? I based all of my claims on articles and video recordings, I posted links to these articles and videos. I did not ask "to be believed". As I have said in two of my earlier posts, my e-mail address is currently visible in my profile. It is my genuine address, the genuine address of a genuine Polish woman working at a genuine Polish university. Did you really think that my posts were written by some bored Nigerian joker ?! You must be very mistrustful of other people ,

Niektórzy Nigeryjczycy są bardzo podejrzliwi - that is, "some Nigerians are very distrustful", in Polish !

My problem with people like you is that you think you are right and others wrong when they don't agree with you.

You could be an Indian for all I care.

I responded to reports as the came in based on the merits and demerits of the reports.

Now, because I did not abuse or curse the Polish police from the beginning I have done wrong, right?

Unfortunately, our backgrounds and experiences differ so we may never see issues from the same angle.

While you are interested in "what happened" I am interested in "why it happened" and "how it can be prevented in future" so that the living will learn from it.

You can play to the gallery for all I care. You may choose to sensationalize the issue to serve your motive, it is your kettle of fish not mine.

And yes, it is very possible that you are not Polish because this is an online forum that anyone can register with any name and claim any nationality. This is a fact and I am a respecter of facts.

And by the way it is 100% better for some Nigerians to be distrustful than for some Polish policemen to be gunning down unarmed Nigerians!

Do we still have editors working in these newspapers because the type of written english being published by national newspapers is getting out of hand.

Breaking the article into readable chunks.

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What is happening in the east?


I was traveling from Aba in Abia state back to PortHarcourt where I reside after a marriage introduction ceremony of my youngest sister Nene in my family house in Aba. I left the house at about 4pm that day 15/5/2010 with my small uncle Anayo and a cousin Maureen. Maureen dropped somewhere in Aba while I proceeded to Portharcourt with Anayo. We had barely traveled 11km when we met what appeared to be a routine Police check point at Ihie. Normally we were flagged down for routine check at about 5pm or even later.

I was asked for my driving license which I produced, I was asked to come down and open my boot and it was at this point that I was told to enter a waiting Kia saloon car facing right and at right angle to the main express road. Other vehicles were stopped simultaneously for stop and search. An SUV that refused to stop was sprayed with bullets with apparent missing of targets and within about 5minutes the operation was over. About 2 vehicles carried the victims, a Kia saloon and a Pathfinder SUV. Some of us were loaded in the booths.

After 5minutes drive into the village we were all blind folded and now driven through untarred bush roads to an isolated location which was a transit point. It took about extra 5minutes to get there. You know things were happening fast and it was so easy to lose tract of time. At this temporary site, we were thoroughly beaten with the butts and barrels of the gun.

I never knew pains could be felt in quick succession after trauma to a particular point. When I was hit at the back with the AK47 assault riffle, I felt the first superficial pain and this was followed immediately by another crushing pain much deeper. We were about 15 people, men, women and children. After about 4hours, the women and children were driven back to the road to find their ways home. We the men, about 9 in number now waited for the next 1.5hours to be taken to their so-called police cell were they kept captives. In the transit camp where we were kept, there is one small house inhabited by a woman and some 2 or 3 children.

The woman had normal conversations with our captors and her small baby was always crying. We left the temporary area in the same 2 vehicles and by 10minutes we were in the cell. The place was surrounded by bushes and harbored a roofed but un-completed block house with doors. A standby generator was on and I had lifted the scarf over my eyes a little long before we left the transit location. We were bundled into a dark room wit one window and with 8 captives inside already.

The mode of capture of these previous 8 was targeted and not as random as ours. Example the councilor was visited by them as a Police team in a Police vehicle and informed that he was wanted in the police station in connection with certain matters. He followed them willingly. We could only sit or lie down with our eyes covered.

We were 17 in number in my cell. These include 3 Royal highnesses (The Eze of Isuochi, The Eze of Omuma, and another very important Eze that I couldn’t quite identify well because he was taken away shortly for ‘special treatment’ and remained there after I left), the councilor representing a constituency in Omuma (hypertensive and diabetic), a retired NNPC manger (diabetic), a retired CBN supervisor, a PTI lecturer/pastor, 2 yahoo fraudsters, drivers, a tailor, and some others.

Our cell phones, money and every other belonging were taken from us apart from our clothing. Food is never given to the captives and water is dispensed at extreme discretion of the captors and by my calculation this amounted to 500mls alternate daily. At a point the councilor drank my water as I moved a little out of my position to urinate. As it was close to midnight, the captors encouraged us to pray and came in periodically to check on us.

I must tell you that we all prayed as never before till morning. We also continued to pray like that every day. For me it was as true as daylight. The next day was a Sunday and at about 9am, the captor in-charge of making contacts for the captives came into our cell enquiring for people needing to contact their people for early release. It followed the sequence from interrogation about yourself and work to brutality and torture, bargain for release and possible mortal injury following failure to reach an amicable settlement. One of the captive’s phone lines was always used for these contacts.

The man in charge of the contact making is called a name. I figure he is the 3rd in command in the camp. He comes with aides who brutalize the captives mercilessly on failure to agree to a stated bill which runs into millions of naira. My initial bill was N10million even though it came down to N2m later. I was now asked to talk to my people. I talked to my people and returned the phone to the captors for negotiation with my people. The first bidding amount from my people was N100,000 which earned me the beating of my life in the hands his aides. I was hit with the gun repeatedly and while pointed close to my neck with the gun corked and uncorked severally and with several simultaneous kicks on the head and body, I was asked to talk to my people.

The beating was temporarily halted when impressed it on my people of the need again to be ‘reasonable’ amidst my cry of pains. I was one of the youngest captive. One can now imagine the impact of the brutality on an elderly man and the sick people. On that Sunday the councilor was beaten blue and black on failure to accept the N10million request fast. This was a frail looking man with 10 children, a wife and with the whole extended family as dependants. He collapsed with repeated hits on the head, ribs, hands and every other parts of the body with the butt, barrel of the gun and woods measuring 2inch x 2inch in thickness. He was literally left helpless on the floor. He constantly bemoaned his fate and wished to die in his house where his corpse will at-least be seen and given a burial unlike the camp here where our captors will bury him.

He recovered a little by Monday but that never gave him any reprieve as he continued to receive thorough beating like the rest of us. Many of us all cried like babies. The councilor got his people to sell his new car, his lands, and several other belongings and all amounted to the sum of N450,000. He also sought to collect the month’s contribution among 10 of his colleagues amounting to N500,000 which never materialized by the time I left them. My brother it was pathetic for the diabetic and the hypertensive. It is noteworthy that age was no barrier to the brutality because we had 2 people who were above 70years of age, the Eze of Omuma and the Eze of Isuochi.

The first received thorough but a moderated level brutality which increased sequentially with each daily failure to meet the captors’ demand while the second, though brutalized, had some significant consideration because he is 74years. His wife had to walk virtually the whole streets begging for money and he also had to sell lands. The rest received the same level of brutality and torture which increased with every passing day. I tried to get close to the retired NNPC man who is also a pastor because I felt he never understood the psychology of this group that prefer to call themselves Abia State Militants.

He never agreed to any fixed amount and I felt he mistook the initial moderation of the brutality on him as a spiritual effect. He is a retired man and probably over 60yrs of age. However, he was soon to understand that his judgment was wrong. The mercilessness of the boys was un-paralleled because by the time I was leaving the camp on Tuesday night there was a special torture session carried out simultaneously by over 20 of the militants which I myself may have found difficult to recover from despite my good physical fitness.

The captors had claimed that a cell phone had been stolen in the camp and all the captives that refused to bargain ‘properly’ were responsible. The captors appear not to have much interest on what they regard as poor fools like drivers, gaunt looking people, mechanics, tailors etc. Even though the ‘poor fools’ sometimes pay all their savings to the captors, they tend to receive good considerations in terms of length of stay only. I left the camp after the direct negotiation between my people and my captors went through. We left the camp at about 10pm on Tuesday. Those released that night were the Professor (Eze of Isuochi), one pastor, one driver and my humble self.

Three of us were bundled into the booth of a Nissan Pathfinder SUV while Prof was given the privilege of sitting down comfortably inside the car. As we left the camp, one or two small boys were moving about close by and our captors questioned the supposed strangers in a loud voice asking “who be that” and the small boys (I say small boys from their voice on reply) answered “I beg na indigenes”. The Eze of Omuma was released a day earlier after paying the sum of one million two hundred thousand naira.

After about 5minutes into our journey to freedom, the SUV stopped suddenly and refused to start again. After a few futile attempts to start the car, the four armed captors disembarked and called the camp for another vehicle. They identified their position as opposite the Nigerian Police Station. In less than 4minutes a new Toyota corolla arrived for us to continue our journey. I was asked to enter the booth with the pastor/PTI lecturer. They discharged us at Ihie junction and gave us transport money. We all walked bare footed because even our shoes were collected. I received N500.00. They also informed me that my vehicle was at the Police station.

The Prof and the released driver proceeded to Portharcourt while I proceeded to Aba with the pastor. I arrived my family house at Aba at about 12:09am on Wednesday to the jubilation of my parents and every other person in the house and on the street. I am grateful to my relatives who contributed immensely for my release. They include my parents, my wife, my brother, my sisters, my cousin, my uncles abroad, my in-laws, my mother’s uncle, my aunt, the pastors who prayed continually, my local church, my genuine friends who acted promptly and several well wishers.


I did not involve the police and it was the best decision. The location of the camp is not hidden. The subdued villagers know them and also know all their locations. Again the terrain of the area consisting of thick bushes, well spaced houses and the bad nature of the road all combine to favor the use of those locations by the militants. The militants tend to wear military uniforms in the camp and police uniforms with police bullet proof vest outside the camp for their normal operations. They carry AK47 assault riffles and perform drills each morning in the bush around the cell building- the so-called camp. All the boys spoke the local dialect- asa/ngwa version of igbo language.

The chairman/leader of the group who authorized each release has facial tribal marks, speaks same dialect. It may not surprise me if he is a northerner and security personnel. It is impossible that the security agents do not know their position. The joy of release subdued all the pains. I also forgot I had not eaten for 4days. I proceeded to Ihie Police station to collect my car as I was informed by my captors as my car was too old for an operational vehicle. I saw the vehicle at local police station at Ihie. I fulfilled their formalities, made statements and informed them of the release of Prof. In doing these I guarded my utterances because you never know who the insiders were. I also spoke with the DPO of the station. I also met some special police units who came on routine patrol to the police station and narrated my ordeal to them. On this visit to retrieve my car I also observed that the security agents concentrated their presence on the express road leaving the entire village empty. My brother even the people you are supposed to report to are scared and appear helpless. You also cannot rule out their support from politicians because of several boasts of installing candidates come 2011.

Information flow freely in the camp there; it is unimaginable how the information comes without government/security insiders. It also appeared they were planning relocation soon based on the insiders’ requests; possibly because of impending raid by government forces. They claim to pay some insiders-the normal Nigerian settlement.

It is pathetic the level Abia state has degenerated to. It is a level just slightly above those of animals and the bottom line is greed, corruption, power drunkenness. I understand Imo-state is following closely.

I became ill on Thursday- the cumulative effects of the ordeal. My heart goes out to the innocent men still in captivity. I wonder if they will make it alive. They include the retired NNPC manger/pastor in Winners chapel (Yoruba), retired CBN supervisor (igbo), the councilor (Omuma), The Eze who I could not identify well.

What if these kidnappers were ritualists; what would have been our fate; it is all greed, corruption, power drunkenness. Until there is good and committed leadership everything will continue to go downhill.


Dr Ohaka, MD.
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This is really a sad story. Glad the writer came out of this alive.

ADint:
What a seriously daft name for such an organisation - you don't see or hear American, UK or German citizens abroad (even though they are mostly also abroad for economic reasons as well) referring to themselves or been called "Diaspora"; what you will hear and see is "Expatriates".

Don't mind them. I blame the government for giving them audience in the first place. Even in the senate you hear them talking about them. Individuals that left Nigeria to pursue one personal endeavor or the other now claim to be Nigerians in Diaspora.

Obviously, many of them do not even know the meaning of the word diaspora.

Nigeria is not a failed state and it is not failing.

Just like every other country in the world we have issues many of them man made.

However, Nigerians irrespective of their locations should work towards making things right instead of the abuses, lies and misinformation some of us are spreading about Nigeria and Nigerians.

As long as people keep buying the newspapers they will continue to do what they are doing.

Stop buying them and they will be forced to up their games or die natural deaths.

rhymz:
Exactly my point, you were at ease puncturing holes at any arguement that points to racial prejudice but said nothing about the inaccuracies presented in the information you claimed you were working with. Your swift condemnation of the deceased man's actions without doing thesame to the brutality of the law enforcement agent only shows your biase and my earlier submission that you are trying too hard to look unbiase and discerning. You have wrongly reduced every opposing arguement to yours as hate for foreigners, exactly why I said you started off with the wrong notion. I still would have seen thesame prejudice if the deceased guy was asian so quit equating the issue to us against foreigners and making hasty baseless assumptions.

Obviously, you have comprehension problems.

A report was presented and I asked relevant questions based on the report and you think the questions were not necessary?

I asked you to list the positions you have problem with so I can address them one by one but I guess you cannot hence your style of muddling up issues and creating diversions.

State them if you can or hide your head in shame.

GenBuhari:
@ Afam,
You need to stop embarrassing yourself.

You are starting to make me wonder how old you are, as your posts appear very childish.

And the scammer who uses someone else's name has the audacity to post something here? You are merely a criminal in my opinion so your opinions belong to the trash can.

rhymz:
I am not here to contest for who curses best with you, we can open another thread for that, stop throwing temper tantrums when somebody points out your mistakes. I agree your comments were direct consequence of the available information in the begining, but did you change your opinion when fresh reports and eye-witnesses accounts( which contradicted many of the claims in the earlier reports) were presented to you? No of course! Instead, you became combative and started looking for faults without giving these reports and accounts thesame  benefits you easily gave to that of the polish police department. If there is anyone playing to the gallery here, it is you, Afam; you are trying too hard to appear unbiased and discerning, just because most of us are of the porpular opinion that there is prejudice in the case does not render our arguement useless or playing to the gallery. I understand you don't follow porpular opinions or better still, "you don't move with the crowd" but also have it in mind that when such opinions is based on facts, you don't have much of a choice than to follow it even  if it makes you come across as whining or ranting, facts are facts, it does not matter who or what they support.
Afam, whether you like to admit it or not, you 4ck'd this one up! Period!

This is what you get when you dig a hole for yourself.

What are my positions you quarrel with? List them instead of trying to muddle up issues.

From initial reports I stated the following

1. Why was the person running when he had nothing to hide?

2. Was he randomly picked out and shot? Why him?


From subsequent reports by people who registered on this forum solely to discuss this my positions were

1. Why risk your life when an armed man is threatening to shoot if you don't leave?

2. There is a difference between bravery and unnecessary risk.


On either scenario, regardless of the correctness or otherwise of the reports at hand I prayed for the guy's soul to rest in peace. I must not join you guys in your "whites are racists" mantra if that is what you want.

I had previously advised Nigerians who feel that their host nations were racists to come back home.

You guys are bloody hypocrites and sycophants and yet you have no shame. If you think that playing to the gallery will get you anywhere in life continue with it.

You and people that think like you are doing everything possible to arrive at a predetermined position.

I am responding accordingly to issues based on information at hand and this is 100% better than your bias and mindset towards foreigners.