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CilicMarin:
It is even worse in Christianity...

Resident in you is bigotry. You just don't know it

A government that disobeys court orders poses a far greater threat to National security than a million and one Shiite Islamic sect.

As long as President Buhari continues to hold the Shiite leader, Sheik Alzakzakky and his aged wife in detention since 2015, AGAINST A VALID COURT ORDER and continues to unleash a murderous sunni dominated military on the Shiite group, he alone is responsible for any monster the Shiites might be forced to become in future.

They have been killed in their thousands. Buried in mass grave. Their leader brutalised, left with one eye and dumped in detention along with his wife since 2015 AGAINST A VALID COURT ORDER. More than six children of the Sheik leader have been killed by the same sunni dominated Nigerian military. Every of their procession which is seasonal somehow end up with the military supposedly running into them "by mistake" and leaving dozens of them dead.

This country is dancing Surugede. A dance of the spirit.

Someday, and that day is fast upon us, the Scions of today's victims of state violence and injustice will rise up and demand justice. BY FORCE.

"Without justice, what else is the State but a great band of robbers"~~St Augustine

The reaction of Nigerians to Saturday's shooting of yet to be ascertained number of members of Shiite Islamic sect at Zuba bridge, Abuja, by the Nigerian army has conclusively exposed the fact that reasonable number of Nigerians have very low sense of Civic consciousness in addition to knowing absolutely nothing on how security forces ought to operate and relate with civilians in a civilized society.

Of course, I blame them not, considering that we live in Nigeria, a country where the President and Commander-In-Chief and all his security Chiefs take turn justifying and explaining away the routine massacre of hundreds of tax paying citizens by Fulani militia operating under the umbrella of a group, Miyetti Allah, which has no other person but the same President and Commander-In-Chief as Chief Patron. Living in such a country has a way of making one begin to see state violence as the norm and human life as nothing.

But first, let's get the issue very clearly:

According to the Nigerian Army, the Shiites smashed their vehicles' windscreens and windows, injured two soldiers and tried to cart away the "ammunitions and missiles" they were transporting simply because they (the soldiers) tried to dismantle the road block they mounted while on procession. This is the summary of the official statement by the Commander, Army Headquarters Garrison, Major General James Myam.

Before we analyze this, permit me to take us back to 2015 killing of hundredS of the same shiites by the same army. Then, their excuse was that the Shiites blocked the convoy of the Army Chief, Lt General Tukur Yusuf Buratai. Meanwhile, evidence showed that the same Army, even after killing hundredS of stick wielding Shiites, supposedly to create passage for the Army Chief, went to the home of the Shiites leader, Sheik Ibraheem Alzakzakky, and was caught on video shooting people including women and children. If we all pretend to be Savages by justifying the killing of hundredS of civilians by a National Army, just to create passage for an army Chief, how do we explain the same Army going to another location to kill more of the same people??

The people killed at Alzakzakky's house, were they also blocking the Army convoy

Testifying before a judicial Commission of Inquiry set up to look into the December 12, 2015 massacre, the Secretary to the Governor Nasir Elrufai headed government of Kaduna state, Mr Balarabe Lawal, admitted that the state government and the Nigerian Army buried 347 of the killed shiites IN A MASS GRAVE. In other words, they didn't allow families of their victims take the bodies of their loved ones and afford them descent burial in accordance with their religious belief.

Now, the same Army has killed the same people with the excuse that they attacked them with stones. And with no shame whatsoever, some Nigerians including those who have always condemned Israeli soldiers for responding to stone-throwing Palestinians with live bullets are defending their own army responding to the same stone with bullets.

Even the claim by the army that they were transporting weapons when they ran into the Shiites appears to be as weightless as their claim that they were at Nnamdi Kanu's compound last year, not to attack him but to do "SHOW OF FORCE". These are illiterate excuses. You don't do Show Of Force in a locality populated by your own unarmed citizens. You do "Show Of Force" to codedly warn enemy countries to respect themselves and you do this by displaying your military might.

If the army could be dumb enough to load sensitive weapons (ammunitions and missiles) and start moving them from place to place WITHOUT getting intelligence about the traffic situation of the route they intend to ply, it simply means we have a bunch of Morons heading the Nigerian army. And if they knew the Shiites were doing procession there and still chose to take that route, instead of getting the police to disperse the Islamic sect, that is premeditated murder. If we say the Nigerian Police cannot disperse unarmed stone/stick-wielding group, then we are simply saying we don't have a police force.

Let us get this one point very clear, SOLDIERS HAVE NO BUSINESS BEING OUTSIDE THEIR BARRACKS FULLY ARMED AND IN COMBAT MODE EXCEPT THEY ARE GOING FOR OPERATION WHICH DOES NOT INCLUDE GOING TO DISPERSE A BUNCH OF RIOTOUS RELIGIOUS CROWD ON PROCESSION. The business of the army is the protection of the territorial integrity of the country. Soldiers are permitted to engage civilians only when Police and other law enforcement such as Civil Defence have conclusively failed to contain the situation and it must be in cases where the riotous assembly is populated by people who are ARMED with gun, not stick or stone.

Soldiers are trained to understand only "Open fire" and "Cease fire". You don't send soldiers against stone or stick wielding citizens. You send the Police who are trained and equipped with tear gas, rubber bullet, water cannisters etc.

The militarization of the civic spaces is itself a moral crime against the citizens. It speaks to a worrisome level of 'anyhowness' and a clear intent to massacre tax paying citizens who the government exists solely to serve and protect.

ANY COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OR ARMY CHIEF WHO SEND IN SOLDIERS TO CONFRONT UNARMED CIVILIANS HAS ONLY ONE THING IN MIND AND THAT IS THE MASSACRE OF THE SAID CIVILIAN CITIZENS. There is no "but", there is no "IF" here. In any confrontation between the Citizens and the government, the responsibility of applying restraints rests more with the government. We owe it to ourselves to stop diplomatizing and rationalizing needless state violence especially by a government that has repeatedly been found wanting in cases like ethnic cleansing by Fulani militias where that state violence are desperately needed.

It is important that we all remind ourselves that the Muhammadu Buhari led government has been holding the Shiite leader and his wife in detention since December 2015 AGAINST COURT ORDER that they be released. That is impunity of the highest order.

The Buhari government must obey the order of its own court by releasing the Shiite leader and his wife.

As the former head of Kenyan anti graft agency, professor PLO Lumumba would say "Peace can only be a product of intercourse between justice and truth. Any peace acquired through any other way is nothing but the peace of the grave yard which is no peace at all"

INTERVIEW: Why I’m stuck with Atiku – Garba Shehu


Garba Shehu speaks about his relationship with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the the future of journalism in Nigeria.

Garba Shehu, a journalist, and Public Relations Consultant, is a media adviser to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES, he speaks about his relationship with the former number two man for whom he now runs a media office reputed to be the biggest and most effective of any publicity team maintained by any Nigerian politician.

He also speaks about his challenges, the future of journalism in Nigeria and other sundry issues.

Excerpts:

PREMIUM TIMES: Since you left active journalism, not many Nigerians know you with any other job except as  media adviser to former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar. This suggests you have been with the former vice president for a long time. How long have you been in his media team and how did you meet him in the first place?

GARBA SHEHU: When I left my job at the Triumph newspapers in Kano, I went to the Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria, ALSCON, Ikot-Abasi as the Pioneer DGM (Public Relations). It was from there that I joined the Vice President as Special Assistant Media. That was in 2003.

How did I meet him?

I first met His Excellency Atiku Abubakar in the year 2000. That was in the aftermath of two landmark events affecting the political landscape of the country. The 19 Northern Governors had hosted him to a hugely successful rally/event tagged “Reception 2000,” at which event, the political North said to him: “you are our leader, we are all behind you.” President Obasanjo’s courtiers were to seize upon this and rattle the President that his V.P was scheming for power. I think, this was the beginning of the mistrust that led to all those conflicts that followed between the two.

Two, the wind of the so-called “political shari’ah” had blown across the North and by then, nine states had adopted it, one after other, extending its jurisdiction to cover criminal cases.


On the heels of this legal reform, the Vice President at that time chose to side with his boss, declaring Shari’ah in those states as political, and asked for its reversal. Atiku, not Obasanjo, asked the Shari’ah states to revert to “status quo ante.” The Vice President ran into a heavy storm of criticism in the North. It was very clear at that time that he was politically in trouble.



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Garba Shehu

INTERVIEW: Why I’m stuck with Atiku – Garba Shehu

December 8, 2013Festus Owete

Garba Shehu speaks about his relationship with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the the future of journalism in Nigeria.

Garba Shehu, a journalist, and Public Relations Consultant, is a media adviser to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES, he speaks about his relationship with the former number two man for whom he now runs a media office reputed to be the biggest and most effective of any publicity team maintained by any Nigerian politician.

He also speaks about his challenges, the future of journalism in Nigeria and other sundry issues.

Excerpts:

PREMIUM TIMES: Since you left active journalism, not many Nigerians know you with any other job except as  media adviser to former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar. This suggests you have been with the former vice president for a long time. How long have you been in his media team and how did you meet him in the first place?

GARBA SHEHU: When I left my job at the Triumph newspapers in Kano, I went to the Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria, ALSCON, Ikot-Abasi as the Pioneer DGM (Public Relations). It was from there that I joined the Vice President as Special Assistant Media. That was in 2003.

How did I meet him?

I first met His Excellency Atiku Abubakar in the year 2000. That was in the aftermath of two landmark events affecting the political landscape of the country. The 19 Northern Governors had hosted him to a hugely successful rally/event tagged “Reception 2000,” at which event, the political North said to him: “you are our leader, we are all behind you.” President Obasanjo’s courtiers were to seize upon this and rattle the President that his V.P was scheming for power. I think, this was the beginning of the mistrust that led to all those conflicts that followed between the two.

Two, the wind of the so-called “political shari’ah” had blown across the North and by then, nine states had adopted it, one after other, extending its jurisdiction to cover criminal cases.

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On the heels of this legal reform, the Vice President at that time chose to side with his boss, declaring Shari’ah in those states as political, and asked for its reversal. Atiku, not Obasanjo, asked the Shari’ah states to revert to “status quo ante.” The Vice President ran into a heavy storm of criticism in the North. It was very clear at that time that he was politically in trouble.

My senior brother and mentor, Alhaji Wada Maida, the then Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, called me to a meeting of a media strategy group under the National Democratic Project, NDP, an office set up by the Political Adviser to the VP, Dr. Usman Bugaje. When he met us, the VP did not mince his words in telling us that he had a problem and said he needed us to assist him. These words, “please help me” touched me deeply and made me to make an instant buy-in.

PREMIUM TIMES: Atiku is arguably the only Nigerian politician maintaining a functional media office whether in or out of office. Why? And can you share with us how the media office operates?


 

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Garba Shehu

INTERVIEW: Why I’m stuck with Atiku – Garba Shehu

December 8, 2013Festus Owete

Garba Shehu speaks about his relationship with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the the future of journalism in Nigeria.

Garba Shehu, a journalist, and Public Relations Consultant, is a media adviser to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES, he speaks about his relationship with the former number two man for whom he now runs a media office reputed to be the biggest and most effective of any publicity team maintained by any Nigerian politician.

He also speaks about his challenges, the future of journalism in Nigeria and other sundry issues.

Excerpts:

PREMIUM TIMES: Since you left active journalism, not many Nigerians know you with any other job except as  media adviser to former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar. This suggests you have been with the former vice president for a long time. How long have you been in his media team and how did you meet him in the first place?

GARBA SHEHU: When I left my job at the Triumph newspapers in Kano, I went to the Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria, ALSCON, Ikot-Abasi as the Pioneer DGM (Public Relations). It was from there that I joined the Vice President as Special Assistant Media. That was in 2003.

How did I meet him?

I first met His Excellency Atiku Abubakar in the year 2000. That was in the aftermath of two landmark events affecting the political landscape of the country. The 19 Northern Governors had hosted him to a hugely successful rally/event tagged “Reception 2000,” at which event, the political North said to him: “you are our leader, we are all behind you.” President Obasanjo’s courtiers were to seize upon this and rattle the President that his V.P was scheming for power. I think, this was the beginning of the mistrust that led to all those conflicts that followed between the two.

Two, the wind of the so-called “political shari’ah” had blown across the North and by then, nine states had adopted it, one after other, extending its jurisdiction to cover criminal cases.

More in Home

Untold Story: How Nigerian soldiers killed dozens of Shiites in four days

 

Body of missing Nigerian army general ‘found’

 

NLC rejects governors’ N22,500 minimum wage

 

Expert uncovers massive customers’ data leak in Arik

 

Court refuses to order arrest of former PDP Chairman

On the heels of this legal reform, the Vice President at that time chose to side with his boss, declaring Shari’ah in those states as political, and asked for its reversal. Atiku, not Obasanjo, asked the Shari’ah states to revert to “status quo ante.” The Vice President ran into a heavy storm of criticism in the North. It was very clear at that time that he was politically in trouble.

My senior brother and mentor, Alhaji Wada Maida, the then Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, called me to a meeting of a media strategy group under the National Democratic Project, NDP, an office set up by the Political Adviser to the VP, Dr. Usman Bugaje. When he met us, the VP did not mince his words in telling us that he had a problem and said he needed us to assist him. These words, “please help me” touched me deeply and made me to make an instant buy-in.

PREMIUM TIMES: Atiku is arguably the only Nigerian politician maintaining a functional media office whether in or out of office. Why? And can you share with us how the media office operates?

GARBA SHEHU: The media office is hierarchically structured but is operationally run like your regular newsroom. Decisions here are made horizontally. The media operations staff sit around a conference table for daily editorial meetings. We review the print and electronic press and the new media that is now making huge in-roads. Anything touching on Atiku is of interest to us. We discuss all the stories and determine our lines of action. We do pro-active plans and we carry them out as well.

The retention of Atiku Media Office didn’t happen by accident. The principal foresaw it and planned for it. When President Obasanjo fired me six months into my appointment as the V.P’s Spokesman, Atiku’s reaction was that this was better for us. “It is better you operate from outside the government.” At that time, he had an excellent media team in his office – certainly better than what the President had – Chris Mammah, Dr. Ojo Onukaba, Dr. Adeolu Akande and myself but the structures of government posed a peculiar operational challenge that we could not do our best for the Turaki. When I started this office, it never occurred to me that it would come this far.

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https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/151070-interview-im-stuck-atiku-garba-shehu.html

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APC vs PDP, Which Party Condones Corruption Without Shame

With much less evidence than the Ganduje videos, PDP impeached Joshua Dariye of Plateau and Alamieseigha of Bayelsa. PDP prosecuted Alamieseigha, Bankole, Patricia Ette, etc. PDP removed its young hpuse of rep speaker named Buhari for presenting fake toronto Bsc degree and prosecuted him. PDP chased James Ibori out to Dubai where he was extradited to the UK for trial and subsequent jailing.

APC on the other hand do not even bother to listen or feel ashamed by its corrupt representatives. Same man who destroyed Nigerian Airways is still the one Buhari brought to bring back Nigerian air... a man accused of stealing billions.

Over ten people who PDP removed fro
office for corruption are all back in Buhari government and continuing to loot. Buhari says.NOTHING

Now look at this. No PDP governor can be caught like this and remain in office for a month longer.

But in APC...

This is Ganduje, governor of Kano collecting bribe and talking freely about it

Gimme PDP anyday over these human pestilence

Absolutely

The annoying thing about that constitution is that the opening page says "We the people" i am not part of Those whose contributed to that constitution.

It's a military contribution handed over to Obasanjo.

We need a democratic constitution.

Father Mbaka spoke in 2015 and APC hailed him

Hmmmm

This guy is mentally unstable.

Anytime he came to my office, he was with Halogen security as ADC. All of us wondered why to date.

NwaAmaikpe:




I've been told this dude here is the best product of University of Nigeria Secondary School Enugu Campus after Ekpete, Adaeze Atuegwu, Edward Nwakuche and Osita Asika.

He is as unique as his brothers Joe and Chukwudi.
I love him for his individuality,
I love him for his uninhibition,
I love his LGBT disposition,
I love him mostly for repping my dear 042.
I'd just advice he rejects some of the hideous costumes given to him.

I've never completely seen any of his movies though but I learnt he is a good actor with a sizable preek.

042 amaka.
A Nigerian who doesn't love Enugu; is that one a Nigerian?

Enugu Amaka

Blood all over Nigeria

Lord have mercy

Life is ephemeral

Nawa

Story

Lol

In less than one month the Nigerian Army claims to have found out the pond where General Alkali's car was deposited.

In less than one month the Nigerian army claims to have found out the names and faces of everyone involved in the murder of General Alkali.

In less than one month the Nigerian army claims to have found out the location of the shallow gravesite where General Alkali was deposited after his been murdered.

In less than one month they achieved such remarkable feat using intelligence and forensic investigation where sniffing dogs and digital evidence played very vital roles in addition to cordon and search operations.

I feel like clapping for my beloved Nigerian army, but I think the following questions need some urgent answers before the clapping begins:

1. How come the Nigerian army is unable to help unravel the murderers of Dele Giwa till date?!

2. How come they have no answers for the murderers of Bola Ige Esquire, the murdered Attorney General of the Federation in Obasanjo's regime?!

3. How come they are unable to unravel the murderers that permeate Kaduna, Zamfara, Plateau, Bauchi, Edo, Rivers, Nasarawa, Delta, Lagos, Kano, Borno, Taraba, Benue, Kogi and etcetera States where innocent Nigerians are killed for fun everyday?!

4. How come they have operations in all the States abovementioned, but are unable to deliver on their mandates in those areas despite the Budgets and allowances we pay them everyday to deliver?!

5. How come they are unable to sniff out the President's certificate till date despite @Mbuhari complaining about it for over 15 years?!

6. Where are the names and pictures of the people who have been murdering innocent Nigerian peoples in Kaduna, Plateau, Kano, Rivers, Delta, Borno, Benue, Niger, Nasarawa, Ekiti, Bauchi, Zamfara, Edo and etcetera?!

7. Those people that murdered corp members in Bauchi and Kaduna in 2011 post elections violence, why have you not found out their pictures and locations?!

I am a believer, but these are my terms for believing the Nigerian army's claims on the just concluded investigation.

Just before the evidence of the sniffer dogs boomerang in Court, the Nigerian army needs to strengthen their claims by showing us some evidence of how the sniffer dogs were used to achieve investigative breakthroughs in at least 2 of the cases under query above.

Nigerians in general cannot be fooled too easily....

General Alkali was a Nigerian, and so was Bola Ige Esq., and every other innocent Nigerian murdered under the nose of the Nigerian army and other security agencies operating under the constitutional mandate to protect the lives and property of each and every Nigerian over the years.

Please help us to believe in your investigations more by providing investigation reports on the above crimes within a month too.

Waiting for answers, my sweetheart....

PHILipu1:
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If you are finger in anything coup,the army will storm your house and take away most of your personal belongings that may aid them in their investigations and you may never get some of those things back and my dad was a victim of that too.

Your dad? Na lie and it's to early.

Indeed money can change a man

Ok

Not Again.

This guy had evidence of all documents to present to Oputa panel to prove his innocence but don't have even photocopy of his credentials

MalcoImX:
Why s Nnamdi saluting PDP people?

If you are slightly educated, you will know what it means to abuse ones right.

It's like you being over 25 years working in an oil company and your father says you can't leave his house and you can't marry.

You will challenge your father after a while and roll out your right as an adult.

Your father and you may end up in court to determine or assert your right.

You will have friends who understand your predicament and understand your right to leave your father's house as a man. Those friends speak up for you a d follows you to court. Those friends are the few people Nnamdi Kanu is appreciating.

If you are religiously or ethnically bigoted, I don't expect you to understand my narrative above

This is the only thing our army has taken seriously

Chai.

This is the highest scam of all time

Every month news

We always want the easy way out In this generation.

Do you cut off your head when you have headache.

Medicine has provided many ways of handling early ejaculation.

What have you been feeding him. Maybe fura and Tuwo shinkafa.

Most women don't know that what a man eats contributes immensely to performance on bed.

You are not guaranteed the next man will be better.

Brief you where. By who.

See weak Journalism.

Anonymity indeed

GoTV:
How can any sane man marry a lady that has fornicated with wizkid uncountable times? Only God knows the number of abortions she did to avoid the baby mama tag. Yet a mumu man deem it fit to marry such a used and dumped lady? Smh

And you are supposed to be GoTV.

Your type will marry a prostitute but cos she remains silent about her past you masturbate in your delusion that you married a saint

CilicMarin:
We heard more than these before Kogi, Edo, Ondo, Ekiti, Osun states and Bauchi and Kastina bye elections....and at the end of the day..The Result was

Buhari :7

Atiku/IPOB: 0

You and your band of hypocrites are trying so hard to attach the Atiku candidacy to IPOB but it's just not working.

Nigerians are resolute. You will loose your job next year.

He is a retired general, he will lead from d front, he understands war and how 2 curb terrorism, he quashed Maitatsine in d 80s, he is a man of integrity yen yen yen....

C him now

These set of ministers are the most useless in our history.

No action, just occupying space and milking us dry.

Anyway, the head leads the entire body


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