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Take rope tie the goat and tie the goat with the rope.

All na the same


Ask chinua Achebe

Is we the Afonzer

Is true but is late !

But the radio is on

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB that were remanded in Port Harcourt maximu prisob of Rivers State by Nigerian government have regained their freedom today. Another photo after the cut.

Read more: http://www.otimestv.com






The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts,

nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries.


For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience,


a single dignity will sustain them all.


Fidel Castro

Yinka Odumakin


Those opposing restructuring want to reap what they didn’t sow – Odumakin Also speaking, spokesperson, Afenifere, Mr Yinka Odumakin, took a swipe at those opposing the calls for restructuring of the country, saying that those against the moves were only interested in reaping from where they did not sow. He also took a swipe at Professor Ango Abdullahi saying that he had no moral justification to dismiss the 2014 National Conference as illegal. “Elders have the duty to tell the truth at all time. Prof Abdullahi said he attended the 2005 conference convoked by Obasanjo and we know that delegates to that conference were not elected,in fact the composition of that conference was not in anywhere

representative as the 2014 conference as the delegates were picked by only Obasanjo and the governors.” Making a case for restructuring, he lamented that “if nationhood has not eluded us, our conversation would have moved beyond these issues to fundamental discourse about our advancement in the global community with competitive edge that would have flown from our endowment, the way individuals among us have gone ahead to beat the rest of the world in different areas of human endeavour.’’ Reaping without sowing Odumakin continued: “I am of the full persuasion that resource ownership is a key ingredient of federalism. The reason why it is opposed in Nigeria and we are locked in this

perpetual feud over the oil of Niger Delta and the VAT of Lagos is the culture of reaping without sowing. “Prof Abdullahi said that Delta collects more money than many states in the North and his shock absorbers were falling off when last he drove to the state because of bad roads. We will do audit with Delta but we need to ask how much those who collect lesser than Delta are bringing to the sharing table. The data of the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of some states and what they shared from the Federation Account between June 2015 and May 2016 may be useful see below



Most of the IGR are also taxes collected from salaries paid from Abuja allocations. This is the best these states can have because they have refused to see the better possibilities under a restructured polity with every section of the country engaged in productive activities if we freed Solid Minerals from the Exclusive List. “I have also heard arguments promoted by people like Alahaji Tanko Yakassai, that those who advocate restructuring want to deny the North two advantages they are using to harvest revenue in Abuja, population. So there is no better use for land

,a critical factor of production than using it to hustle for funds in Abuja? The land mass of Netherlands is lesser than that of Niger State but it is the second largest exporter of agriculture after the USA. “China is the most populous country in the world and they are working with millions spread across the world making money with their skills. There is no credible census in Nigeria but let us agree you are more populous, why don’t you train your population productivity and let them earn money instead of using it as advantage to reap where you did not sow? “We are fighting bitterly for “our power” at every election over oil gas revenue without realizing that it cannot make us prosperous because it is just

too small. The culture of indolence has blocked good economic sense. A country like Ireland has a population of 4.6m with a GDP of $23b while Nigeria with 200m people has a GDP of $481b.Ireland has no oil and gas. “Between June 2015 and July 2016, Nigeria received $3.4b on oil and gas while Disneyland made $13.8b in the corresponding period .New York Fire Service Department is spending $1.9b in the year 2017. Yet we have an untapped annual N50trn annual economy we are not tapping because of command and control for hegemonic domination. “There is Silver and Wolfamite in Kano,Kaduna,Bauchi and Niger. Manganese in Bauchi, Katsina;Talc in Yobe and Kaduna; Silica in Jigawa and

Kano; Diatomite in Yobe and Phosphate in Sokoto among others. The South West, South East and South are blessed with diverse resources that are untapped because Abuja is a drag. “What restructuring means is that we should become a productive country with prosperity spread all over our entity .It is only those who think they can prosper only in inequity that will continue to oppose this.”

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/05/edwin-clark-90-says-nigeria-indissoluble-ango-abdullahi/

NORTHERN elders have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to upwardly review capital allocations to the North in the 2016 budget, claiming that the region was shortchanged.

This is as the elders advised the president not to buckle in dealing with the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), and urged him to ensure that the full weight of the law was brought against the agitators.

The elders in a five-page letter signed by elder statesman, Amb. Yusuf Maitama Sule equally enjoined President Buhari to continue to show sympathy to initiatives that channel “funding and expertise to the North from the country as well as from international financing and other support sources.”

The letter entitled ‘Advice on National Issues ‘was written under the aegis of Northern Elders Forum (NEF) . Describing allocations for capital projects given to the North-­east, North-­west and North-­west as inadequate, the group claimed that the region was shortchanged.

It reminded the president that the backbone of his administration is the North and cautioned that if the allocations were not upwardly reviewed, it would pose a huge problem for his government.

NEF said: “We have conducted some analysis on the 2016 budget estimates which Mr President submitted to the National Assembly. We are concerned over the absence of equity in the allocation of capital spending. The three geo-­political zones in the North are severely shortchanged.”

The group continued: “For a region deserving greater resources and attention as well as being the political backbone of your administration, this situation will pose serious problems

for your administration.

“We advise Mr President to review the proposed allocations in consultation with the National Assembly.”

The Northern elders said the South already had advantage over the North in terms of the number of federal civil servants, a situation it said meant that the south would enjoy allocations for recurrent votes.

The forum further contended: “We wish to draw Mr. President’s attention to the fact that over 75 percent of all Federal Government public service employees are from the three geo-political zones in the South. This means that virtually the same percentage of recurrent spending will go to Nigerians from the South.”

On the government structure, the verdict of the NEF was damning. The forum described

Buhari’s team as weak, urging him to immediately establish an

Economic Management Team. The group wrote: “We have

noted the need for improvements in the human and institutional

capabilities which aid Mr. President in governing the nation.

As economic difficulties and demands for good governance

become more challenging, the quality of advice and support

Mr. President will require will need to be substantially raised.

“We urge Mr. President to establish an Economic Management Team and conclude

Appointments of key officers and advisers. Where there are

evident weaknesses and gaps in skills, competencies, experience and integrity, we urge Mr. President to take steps to address them.”

On national security, NEF urged President Buhari to look into allegations that Boko Haram “still has substantial presence in

many areas near Maiduguri and other towns and villages.” The elders called for measures that would help improve the “quality of intelligence and integrity of the leadership of the Armed

Forces.” Focusing specifically on what it called the threat posed by

IPOB to national security, the forum said: “We commend Mr

President’s stand and disposition towards the threats posed by the

Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and advise that in addition to allowing full weight of the law to be deployed against these threats, Mr. President should support initiatives which

isolate this threat among Igbo people.”

Recommending on ways of rehabilitating the Northeast

ravaged by insurgency, the body called for the establishment of North-­east Development Commission in addition to other development strategies.

It counseled that the commission should be well funded and deliberately assisted to function effectively.

On what the president should do to revive the economy of the North, NEF said: “We recognize that Mr President has a national mandate and we do not intend to ask for what does not belong to the North. However, the level of poverty, which is increasing particularly in relation to the rest of the country, represents a serious threat to the region and the unity and survival of our dear country.”

The group charged the president to continue to give special attention to economic and welfare needs of the region.

In a reaction to the issues raised by the Northern elders in

respect of the 2016 budget, the House of Representatives last

night gave assurance it would look into the grouse of the North

In a telephone chat with a Sunday Sun correspondent, Spokesman of the House of Representatives, Hon. Abdulrazak Saad Namdas, promised that every gray area would be addressed in fresh negotiations with the Presidency in respect of provisions in the budget for capital projects.

“We are still awaiting response from Mr. President on the budget before we open further discussions,” Namdas said.

Further efforts made to speak with some other notable lawmakers were unsuccessful as they did not pick their calls or respond to text messages as at the time of filling this report.

Also reacting to the request to the president on Biafra agitators

last night, the National Leader of a faction of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Uchenna Madu dismissed it as nonsense.

Madu described the northern elders as a bunch of old men talking nonsense.

He added: “By the letter to Buhari, they have accepted the failure of their kinsman in governing the country and now acting in frustration.

“They should not deceive themselves in the old Biafra.

The new Biafra runs in the blood of every Igbo man and nobody can stop it. The letter asking Buhari to deal with Biafra agitators has no meaning because they cannot crush or stop Biafra. The Northern elders or whatever they call themselves can go to hell.”

http://sunnewsonline.com/northern-elders-cry-to-buhari/

By Abdu Rafiu


It is not surprising that the groups pushing for the actualization of Biafra dream are in a heightened burst of activities. Call it frenzy. Next week Tuesday will mark the 50th anniversary of the declaration of the Republic of Biafra by Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. The dress rehearsal in a way started on Monday. There was a rally in Owerri which the organizers called peaceful awareness rally and there were scattered ones in Ebonyi State according to reports. Predictably, there was awareness march in Onitsha. The Owerri rally is to sensitize their brethren who are sold on their cause to sit at home. The wave of the Biafra campaign is not likely to abate soon.

Those born when Ojukwu made the declaration are 50 years old today. As more young men grow up equipped with sound education the likelihood is that we will need to learn to live with the agitation. Their education will drive them to ask questions continually. Educated youths in other parts of the country are also bound to be asking the question: What really happened? The country will then have to confront the issue frontally.

Use of force to silence the campaigners which was implied in President Buhari’s remarks in Katsina in May last year will be futile. He said on the occasion that he was ready to lay down his life for the unity of Nigeria. He said he would not tolerate Biafra because he was a participant in the war to keep the country together and that two million people died in that war. He did not talk about those permanently impaired psychologically by the horrors of the war or those who were maimed.

It stands to reason that if there should be war the casualties will swell to a new high from the two million of the 1967-1970 war. In other words, if the huge loss of lives was intolerable, deaths that would arise from Buhari’s own war in the event he is unable to rein in the agitators and coupled with the veiled threats by Paul Unongo and Tanko Yakassai would worsen the figure further. Fixated as Buhari seems to be on war as the inevitable weapon should the agitation get out of hand would defeat his own argument and concern about deaths that come with war—especially as he has not spoken about any other options to keep Nigeria one and yet the talk of self-determination would not go away. This is why the call by former Senate President Ken Nnamani for a sitting at a round table by Nigerians to negotiate the basis for their staying together in one country must strike the right cord in sane circles. Mr. Nnamani argued that the first attempt at using force through the civil war failed. He went on to say that there is no sane Igbo man who would advocate war for solving the country’s problems, but noted that the “various groups that make up Nigeria cannot run away from discussing the basis of their continued existence.”

General Alani Akinrinade in his characteristic bluntness said it is still possible to have true federalism. Referring to the diversities right from 1914, he said the only policy that would make Nigeria to be intact and peaceful is when there is true federalism. There is resurgence in the agitation for restructuring and most fittingly it is being spearheaded by the former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and he is not mincing words. From Kaduna to Ife, from Ife to Lagos and from Lagos to Abuja, it is Atiku’s ringing voice: Let us talk and remake Nigeria. Speaking at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, where he called for immediate restructuring, he said the current system had made the country economically unproductive and politically weak. Immediate restructuring would enable the citizens of Nigeria to live better and leave a worthy legacy for the generations unborn. Just this last Tuesday he reiterated the call, saying it would encourage states to compete to attract investments and skilled workers rather than merely waiting for monthly revenue allocation from Abuja. This will also include establishment of state police for the states that so desire so as to improve security. For Nigeria to develop or even make any appreciable progress, we must restructure Nigeria’s political, administrative and political architecture. “Restructuring will facilitate the emergence of a leaner bureaucracy, enhance efficiency, block wastages and promote more prudent management. It will make for happier constituent units more committed to the progress and unity of the country and the emergence of a sense of nationhood. What is more instructive is his speech at the General Usman Katsina Memorial Conference held in Kaduna. Said he: “I suggest we resolve today to support calls for the restructuring of the Nigerian federation in order to strengthen its unity and stabilize its democracy. I believe restructuring will eventually happen whether we like and support it or not. The question is whether it will happen around a conference table in a direction influenced by us and whether we will be equal partner in the process. Or it will be in a more unpredictable arena and in a manner over which we have little influence? It should be at a table and we need to be at that table. A nation is an organism; it grows, it evolves, it changes, it adapts. And like other organisms if it does not adapt, it dies.” Everywhere there is the opportunity Atiku speaks on the danger of a standstill of the present political structure.

If I may go back to General Akinrinade, he did say in the City People magazine: “Why must we force ourselves to live together in an entity created by Whites? Hausa, Fulanis, Yorubas, Igbos, Nupe and Kanuri among others do not have any genealogical, cultural, language, beliefs, ideological and even looks affiliations. Good you allow people to make choices. You also said it is good to allow people decide their fate. This present agitation by the Igbos, garbed in the Biafra Movement, in retrospect, wouldn’t we now begin to admit that the fight to keep Nigeria one, based on contemporary realities, is futile, a fool’s errand that is not worth it? The ideals that people had in keeping Nigeria one, appear to have been thrown out of the window.”

The question is, what is going on? What has given rise to the new thinking by a well-known valiant soldier in the 3rd Marine Commando of Benjamin Adekunle, the group to which Alabi Isama belonged? It was their Division that collected the instrument of surrender later under the leadership of General Olusegun Obasanjo. Why is Atiku so concerned and determined that to save Nigeria she must be restructured?

Mankind is in new times the principal feature of which is abundance of power being poured into our world. It is a feature of New Cosmic Turning-Point which drags men to a new light and to the recognition of how far strayed human beings have gone in the wilderness and how far they have deviated from the ordinance and principles that govern life. The currents of the power in reference cannot be halted by any nation or any power, technology and what have you. What are these principles? What are the principles that govern or should govern the formation of nation states? We must first recognize who we are as human beings and the reason and purpose of nation-state, the mechanisms that bring this about and how people gather under the umbrella called nations.

The Almighty Creator created human beings. Human beings in turn created their nations. This should suggest unequivocally to us that human beings were not created for nations; it is nations that were created for human beings. The reason for the existence of a nation is to facilitate the spiritual development of human beings. We human beings just do not carry spirits we are spirits. Therefore, the purpose of our existence on earth is spiritual. It is to attain spiritual maturity so we can engage in joyful activities for all eternity which will involve in the participation of expansion and spiritualization of the world that is to be “without end.”

There are laws which put people together to form nations, families, friendship and groups with their languages and cultures which, in any case, are manifestation of the degree of maturity each people have attained. This law ensures that no group is allowed to disturb, slow down or hurry other groups; they must move at their own pace. To hurry them is to make them jump steps of development and fall. To slow any group down is a spiritual crime. The objective of this law of creation is to enable different groups live and develop in peace and harmony, and for their society to flourish in the beauty of culture and good living, and ennoble themselves and their environment. We are by our constitution to be the connecting link between this world and the Beyond so that the Power of the Creator pulsating through Creation can be absorbed by men and used to ennoble our environment. We have cut off this alternating current through proving to know better than He who created us! This law is the Law of attraction of Homogeneous Species. It ensures that only people who have things in common, who share relative strengths and weaknesses live together. Is it not so obvious that it is easier for people who have a lot in common to live together than those from whom they differ? See what happens when we travel? You will readily approach a man or woman of your own pigmentation for direction than you will feel drawn to one whose pigmentation is dissimilar. This is not what any power can legislate against. But we human beings have everywhere disarranged this order of life. The result is that a great many feel choked in the artificial arrangement. The spirit longing for freedom to be able to fulfill the purpose of its sojourn here on earth begins to agitate, and this is promptly classified as treason! Yet it is each person who has responsibility for his life; he alone is accountable before His Creator and His immutable laws. There is also the Law of Reciprocal Action which has been variously described as the Law of Karma, or the Law of Sowing and Reaping or the Law of Retributive Justice. It determines the society into which or group into which one is born.

A man who was in former life a slave owner who is now permitted another opportunity of an earth life so he can atone for his crime in former times by fighting for the dignity of the race he had mistreated, how does he achieve this if he were to live in a communist society where he is a child of the state and his freedom of choice is circumscribed? The restlessness of such spirits makes for the instability of their societies or nations. There must also be free choice of where one desires to live. Free Will is an inalienable quality of the human spirit. Where and when it is suppressed it can only be for a while. Therefore, the best form of political arrangement that can engender stability is that that takes into account of what people have in common, people of the same nationality and for them to form their own union and nation. That is the Law which has its validity, immutability and self-acting mechanism in the Perfection of the Creator. Sardauna Sir Ahmadu Bello sensed the correctness of the law and the differences among peoples. When Dr. Azikiwe said to the Sardauna, let us forget our differences, Sir Ahmadu quickly replied: No, we should not forget our differences but understand and respect them. Chief Awolowo in his writings and speeches spent his whole life pressing for a political arrangement along ethnic and linguistic lines, whether in his book, My thoughts on Nigerian Constitution or Strategies and of Peoples Republic.

General Akinrinade says since Nigerian leaders refuse to toe the line of true federalism, the best line of action is that those who want to go their way like the Igbos should be allowed to go but it should be done through referendum.

That is the course the Scots are toeing. First Minister Miss Sturgeon is unrelenting in taking Scotland away from the United Kingdom. The first referendum failed to achieve the separation. The Scots have filed their paper in line with Article 50 of Lisbon Treaty for the second referendum. The spur this time is Brexit. While the UK as a whole voted 38 per cent to leave the EU, Scotland voted 62 per cent against. The young men and women in the East who are pressing for a separation are educated and are reading the development in the world. So, the new way out is referendum, not the corking of guns.

However, attractive as developments around us may be, given Nigeria’s low level of maturity and enlightenment there are grave implications for any attempt to dismember Nigeria at the moment. Other options such as are being advocated by Atiku and the leaders of South-West are reasonable and should be considered, which is to say restructuring for a true federalism will meet the yearnings of a majority of Nigerians for now. The Report of the National Conference is closest to the dreams of all peoples and nationalities, including the Biafra agitators. It is easy to see that a majority of those who are opposed to it have not read it. The Report is a product of the experience and wisdom of leaders of thought, the wise men and women in our land


http://guardian.ng/opinion/biafra-the-sensible-options/?F

Obasanjo: We should beg those agitating for Biafra that there is enough cake to share



Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says engaging in dialogue with those agitating for an independent state of Biafra is a sure way to resolving the issue.

Speaking at the Biafra conference in Abuja on Thursday, the former president said Nigerians must treat the country with care.

‎He said the country’s fundamental problem was that it had lacked national leaders.

“We never had a national leader. Our leaders at the beginning were mindful of their regions. That is our problem till today,” he said.

‎”I have maintained that the young officers who struck in 1966 were naive but there were some element of nationalism in some of them. Be that as it may, it set us back.”

He said the war showed the bad side of the country.

“The language used in the war did not help matters, the people on the Biafra side called us vandals and we called them rebels,” he said.

“We thought we would end the war in three months, but it took us 30 months, and the federal side nearly lost it.

‎”Civil war is more difficult than fighting in a foreign land because we are fighting to unite.

‎”‎Even a soldier of mine who tried to rape a woman… I had to chase him with a gun. He did not succeed in raping the woman, and I did not have to gun him down.”

Obasanjo said some of those agitating for Biafra today lacked an understanding of what it entails.

“Some of the people agitating for Biafra today were not even born then. They don’t know what it entails,” he said.

‎”But I think, we should even appeal to those saying they want to go, we should not tell them to go, we should make them understand that there is enough cake to share. We should massage Nigeria just like in a love relationship.”
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full blast

Good blast

Like play like play this people will leave the zoo

IPOB UNN Campus Enugwu signaling to the world that IPOB Family is doing great in there campus.

Members of the Enugwu state Executives are also doing a marvelous work.

This is getting out of hand

Once Universities keyed in, There will be a big problem

We need to stop it

Since April 25, 2017, millions of Nigerians, international security and diplomatic monitors of Nigeria have been witnessing two contrasting images of the country of an estimated 170 million. One image is that of President Muhammadu Buhari. The other is the controversial profile of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the IPOB (Indigenous People of Biafra) movement. Ironically, Buhari's government detention and refusal to respect lawful orders of the courts for almost two years regarding the release or granting of bail escalated Kanu's profile, globally. It sharpened the contrast with implications.

First, it sent a historic reminder to all students of history and power that demands equity/fairness in Nigeria's geopolitics and nationalities questions cannot be swept aside as the high-noon rantings of a few, misguided chaps possessed and jaundiced by youthful impetuosity! Such snotty, condescending nonsense and arrogance have combined to show the evident limitations of some of Nigeria's leaders at the state and federal levels.

Second, since January 19, 2017, when Nigeria's President Buhari began his "medical vacation" to London, we've all seen the images of a very ill and absent commander-in-chief; plus increasing talk about the likelihood of his quitting due to his complicated, frail health. Essentially, those images fit the current shape of the country's weakening political economy. Like my made-in-Aba suits and trousers, they fit perfectly.

Third, the dominant message seems to me to be the escalating demands against Nigeria's 1914 colonial borders as imposed and implemented under The Amalgamation of the Northern and Southern regions by the British soldier of raw materials and minerals named Lord Lugard. I hear the familiar demands approximating the historical agreement at Aburi in Ghana, as reflected in the official minutes, dated January 4-5, 1967. I hear the cries of some young men and young women whose siblings and parents were murdered in the routine killing and genocidal slaughter of the Igbo and the ethnic groups/communities who constituted Biafra. I hear a demand on all those who profit from the militarized impositions of a perpetual, non-negotiable "national unity" since the 1960s to date, circa 2017. It seems to me a demand against domestic agents and foreign corporations whose actions have turned the once evergreen Niger Delta into a decimated, polluted environmental nightmare. I hear a demand for economic security and against 10 years of unemployment after graduation. I hear, loud and clear, a stand against discrimination in admissions and employment. I hear....

Fourth, many of the older generation Igbo who fought in and for Biafra caution the youth against pushing for another Biafra, even with the peaceful agitation. For all that it is worth, we note that Nnamdi Kanu was born after that war. It is the dominant demographics and a benchmark to appreciate/understand/critique the younger generation's interpretation of Biafra and trans-continental agitation for Biafra.

Fifth, Kanu-led IPOB and its affiliates distribute information and mobilize across more cities in the world more than any other Nigerian or African organization. USAfrica news index January 2014-April 2017 also show that the Pope Francis, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin 'Bibi' Netanyahu, U.S President Donald Trump know, the British Prime Minister Theresa May, and many world leaders are, at least, aware of their activism and agenda.

Sixth, without a doubt, there are aspects of the new Biafra movement which reflect a certain level of operational and tactical recklessness. On the other hand, the non-dramatic fluency with which they sorted and settled -- within 30 hours-- the harsh reality of the mountain high jump, stringent and extremely difficult to meet conditions ordered on April 25, 2017 as required bail terms for the temporary release of the leader of the IPOB, by the Federal High Court Justice Binta Nyako, a wife of a former top military officer and governor, showed the credibility and clout of IPOB . She required Kanu to provide three sureties; one of whom must be a serving Senator in Nigeria, a Jewish religious leader and highly respected person, who own land anywhere in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. The bail bond was set at N100 million, for each surety. Kanu was also ordered not to grant any interviews to the media/press, pending the outcome of his trial and should not be seen in a meeting/gathering of more than 10 persons.

Finally, what would Ojukwu (the Head of State of Biafra) have said about these events? I interviewed him 3 times; one at his house in Lagos and twice in the U.S. One thing is certain: the ideological children and grandchildren of Odumegwu Ojukwu, of Chinua Achebe, of Gen. Effiong, of Christopher Okigbo, of Wole Soyinka, have kept a message of national identity, unapologetic zeal and unbowed resilience regarding the 1967-1970 war. Especially, those who swear "citizenship" under the golden yellow colors of the Land of the Rising Sun! Biafra.

*Dr. Chido Nwangwu who appears as an analyst on CNN and SKYnews serves as Founder & Publisher of the first African-owned, U.S-based newspaper on the internet, USAfricaonline.com, and established USAfrica in 1992. He is the author of the soon-to-released book, Mandela & Achebe: Leadership, Identity, and Footprints of Greatness. @Chidö247

hmmmm

Good to hear

Three FRSC men drunk and sleeping on duty.

Dont laugh at them !

Gabriel Ajayi, one of the military officers roped in by former Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi, in the 1995 phantom coup tells BAYO AKINLOYE that Bamaiyi is a snake in the grass

When did you join the Nigerian Army?

I joined the Nigerian Army on June 27, 1971. I was part of the Regular Course Number 10 of the Nigerian Defence Academy.

What was the first brush you had with the military authorities as a soldier?

Let me state that before I went to the NDA, I had already made up my mind – because I had two and a half years experience in the newspaper industry and I undertook a lot of things knowing that I was academically better than my colleagues. I was far ahead of them in perception and in understanding of everything that was going on in Nigeria and beyond. In Kaduna, there was a time we went for a road march, and we were singing that we were Kaduna soldiers – that was in 1971...


What about his view as stated in the book that MKO Abiola died under controversial circumstances in the custody of Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar
?

Don’t mind him. At the Oputa Panel, Gen. Sabo alleged that when Abacha died Bamaiyi said the military should ‘equal the equation’. How could he claim that Gen. Abdulsalami should be held accountable for Abiola’s death when he was among those who tortured Abiola before his death? Bamaiyi was behind many evils done under Abacha. Compared to Bamaiyi, Abacha was a nice man. Bamaiyi’s aim through his book is to pit the Yoruba against Gen. Abdulsalami. What love does Bamaiyi have for the Yoruba to be concerned about the death of Abiola? Don’t mind him; he’s a liar...


http://punchng.com/bamaiyi-is-an-evil-liar-he-tortured-mko-before-his-death-col-ajayi/

If we desire a society of peace,
then we cannot achieve such a society
through violence. If we desire a society without
discrimination, then we must not discriminate against
anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a
society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.

Bayard Rustin