₦airaland Forum

SamjohnnyB:
copied from facebook.

written by Ugo Chikezie.

A CLARION CALL FOR US (IGBOS) TO RESTORE OUR IMAGE:

There is a dangerous trend I have noticed in this country and I wish to appeal to all well meaning Igbo people all over the world to stand up and help to restore our image as a region. Each time I listen to Radio programs or read comments on Facebook, Twitter etc, I notice that people who appear to be defending corruption these days are mostly people from our region. We are good people and highly industrious. We were trained with high moral values, and we're taught to always conduct ourselves in ethical and professional manner. Therefore, my heart bleeds each time I see my people openly defending corruption thereby giving us bad image in the country.

Abacha's son and some of the people who served under him were incarcerated for many years, I didn't see any Northerner shout witch-hunt.... I can bet you, if IBB, Atiku etc are arrested today, no Hausa person will protest. Dasuki has been held for some months now, no northerner has openly come out to protest. Over 100 members of the Shiite group were killed last month by the Nigerian military, till date I've not heard the Hausas shouting "witch-hunt"

When OBJ was president, the people that criticized him the most were the Yorubas. He openly disgraced Tafa Balogun and some other prominent Yorubas for corruption and no yoruba person made any noise. Bode George was jailed some years ago and no Yoruba person shouted witch-hunt.... I can go on and on and on..... even recently Olu Falae was fingered in the arms deal scandal, and the Yorubas have not spared him.

But anytime GEJ's name is mentioned for the way he mismanaged our economy, my people will jump out in his defense.... when did we loose our sense of morality to this extent When did we go this low as a people Are we now proud of evil All over the world, people are held to account for their stewardship when they leave office. Because if there are no consequences for corruption then the whole world will be like a zoo. Sadly, in Nigeria we are shamelessly supporting evil and making excuse for corrupt people. People who say don't talk about GEJ or dont blame GEJ seem not to understand the dangerous path they are taking our country to. This is the first time this is happening in the history of Nigeria.... PMB can also decide to loot our treasury and go and if we protest, the northerners will say he is past we should focus on the future.... the next president will also come and loot and go and this evil trend will continue till the country will finally collapse right before us.

I know that so many people will attack me for this post, but let it be on record that I spoke out at a time like this when some people are giving our region bad image. There are times when silence is not golden. Evil thrive when good people keep silence. We are good people and we must arise to salvage our image and restore National and international trust. Nigeria is bigger than GEJ or PMB. Nigeria should be more important to us than PDP or APC. It's not compulsory for everybody in the country to support the president or party in power, but it's important to criticize objectively. Be a catalyst, not an enemy of state.

God in His infinite wisdom inspired some people to write the Bible, He didn't ask them to write about leaders who succeeded alone, He also inspired them to write about the Rulers who failed, so that we can learn from them. All over the world leaders are remembered for good or for bad. Mahatma Ghandi, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Nelson Mandela, Olusegun Obasanjo, Bill Clinton, Abacha, Martin Luther King, IBB, Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin etc have all lived and some are dead but they are all still being remembered for their successes and failures.. this is why it's important to always utilize your opportunities very well so that you will be remembered for good after you exit from office/earth. GEJ failed and he will always be on the wrong side of history (just like all our past rulers in Nigeria) so no one should tell me not to talk about him anymore, because there is no future if you don't properly analyze the past and learn from it.

When a child falls down, he stands up and continue running, but when an adult falls down, he will look back and understand what made him fall and address it before taking any step further. Wisdom is profitable to direct.

Let's not forget that the world is not destroyed by those who do evil, rather the world is destroyed by those who support evil....

Selah!!!!!

I do not regret an iota about the killing of Ironsi because of his idiotic view on the cesspit called Nigeria. The author of the above trash sounded and had mirror image of Ironsi. I say go to hell with your idiotic Nigeria as a country.

Lateralmaths:
The Man In The Eye Of The Storm Isn't In Cuffs And
Has Never Been.Why Metuh?

It is "one Nigeria" for you.

Bubewilson:
This calls for consideration.
Who was accused of being the bigger thief.

Buhari, Yari.ba and northern political elites are at it again. When it gets to shooting war, they will be first fools to blame someone else for instigating it. This is government is far from fighting corruption. However Buhari and his government are on mission to tarnish image of certain group in the zoo called Nigeria. Of course, Dasuki, a Fulani, will arrive in court in a private car without handcuffs while Metuh arrives in Black Maria in cuffs. In addition, Metuh never shared any money and was not even a government official. After all these political shenanigans one fool would want to talk unity in Nigeria.

ShowYourCertificate:
APC is a total joke. Why choose an Igbo man? The people of Kogi State have realised that APC is toying with their state. The APC wants to start a tribal war in Kogi State. The people of Kogi are wise.

Meanwhile, Faleke is just laughing at them in his corner

https://www.punchng.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/James-Faleke.jpg

Faleke is a Yari.ba man from Lagos state and represents a constituency in Lagos State. I really do not think Faleke is legally qualified to contest for anything in Kogi State.

What the hell zoo called Nigeria will gain from UAE? Why are these fools in Nigeria like to run second fiddle to any fool who is a Muslim? UAE is a certified consumer country just like the cesspit called Nigeria. It really sucks to be Nigeria.

ckmayoca:
Ijaw too don frustrate itshekiri and Urhobo for delta state na fisher people claimning farmers.

Bros when boat people start to claim land, the rest is story.

PASCHAL28:
Ever since some law courts admitted former National Security Adviser Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd.) and Biafra agitator Nnamdi Kanu to bail and they were not promptly released, there has been lots of hot air released, either backing or attacking their continued detention.

Today, I write to say that I think President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) and the Federal Government are right in law, contrary to the loud crowd’s assertion of ‘human rights’. first, let me state it clearly here, I am not against anybody nor group. I am an Igbo man from Agu-ukwu Nri in Anaocha Local Govt of Anambra State. but we must always do things in accordance with the laws of the land.

The detention of Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd.) and Nnamdi Kanu has generated a lot of debate and even criticisms against the Federal Government and the person of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari (PMB). These criticisms reached their peak after the President’s responses to some questions on the issue in his maiden presidential media chat of Wednesday December 30. Some legal luminaries and human rights activists vehemently contend that the Government violated court orders granting the said accused persons bail.

The Vanguard of Monday January 4 reported several senior lawyers, including the current NBA president, contending that the Government is guilty of disregarding court orders on the issue. Some argue that the Federal Government should have released Kanu or deported him after seven days. These critics have turned the trial of the duo into the trial of the State that is accusing them. I put it to 2/3 of Our so called lawyers even those in the rank of SANs that they do not know the true position of our laws. most of them who claim to be so good and sound in the field of law do not know the law itself. Even the ones claiming to be standing for Nnamdi Kanu and Dasuki do not know the true position of laws of the land.

The one million dollar question now begging for answer is therefore: Is the Federal Government really in breach of Court Orders? The answer to this question is NO. Let me say outright here that the President’s opinion on this matter is in accord with the judgement of the Supreme Court in Dokubo-Asari v. F.R.N. (2007) All FWLR (Pt. 375) p. 558 where the Supreme Court held at page 585 thus:

“…Where national security is threatened or there is the real likelihood of it being threatened, human rights or the individual rights of those responsible take second place. Human rights or individual rights must be suspended until the national security can be protected or well taken care of. This is not anything new. The corporate existence of Nigeria as a united, harmonious, indivisible and indissoluble sovereign nation is certainly greater than any citizen’s liberty or right.”

This is the law as enunciated by a unanimous decision of the apex court of the land during Yar'dua regime. The law is what the courts say it is, and not what we see in statute books. Therefore, PMB’s opinion on this matter is more in tandem with the spirit of the constitution and the law than that of those senior legal minds and human rights activists.
It is true Kanu was granted bail on October 17. On the day he claimed to have perfected his bail conditions, he was already too late as the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) had already filed a fresh six-count charge against him. Thus, in law, Kanu was released on bail for the earlier charges and then re-arrested on the new charges, which charge sheet was served on him the day he perfected those conditions.

When Kanu was arraigned on the fresh charges before Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court, he declined to enter his plea and objected to the jurisdiction of the court to try him, accusing the judge of bias. Consequently, the judge rightly disqualified himself and remitted the case file to the Chief Judge for redirection.

Like Kanu, Dasuki and three others were arraigned before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory by the EFCC on a 19-count charge bordering on money laundering and criminal breach of trust. On December 18 Dasuki and others were granted bail on the said 19-count charge. The former NSA perfected his bail conditions and was released on bail. Later, the government found fresh pieces of evidence against him and he was re-arrested and re-arraigned on a 22-count charge.

He was again granted bail and, after his release, the government re-arrested him at the gate of the court on yet another fresh set of charges.

The law is settled that any bail granted an accused is completely related to the offence(s) for which he is charged. So, if after he has been granted bail the prosecution charges him for another offence for which no bail has been granted and no plea taken, then the accused can be re-arrested.

Some of the lawyers seem to have admitted this leg of the argument. However, the problem they seem to have is the timing of the re-arrest. They opine that even though the Government has a right to re-arrest them on fresh charges, that should not come immediately after release. They further reason that the FG should have lumped the charges together instead of bringing them piecemeal.

Again, these submissions are without any basis. It is within the exclusive prerogative of the prosecution (and not anybody else) to decide whether, when and how to charge accused persons. In these matters, the AGF is the law unto himself! He is not subject to the control of anyone as far as the exercise of his powers is concerned. See State v. S.O. Ilori & 2 others (1983) 2 S.C. 155 and Amaefule v. State (1988) 2 NWLR (part 75) page 156.

One lawyer argued that Kanu should have been released after seven days of detention or deported from Nigeria in accordance with the Immigration Act. The lawyer even initiated an online petition on December 31 calling on the President to resign from office or be impeached for the alleged breaches. It was countered by another petition of Buhari supporters on www.ipetition.com <http://www.ipetition.com>. At the time of writing (noon Friday January cool, the anti-Buharis have gathered 2,997 signatures in 9 days while the pro-Buharis have gathered 12,343 in 5 days, and still counting.

This aside, is seven days detention and/or deportation the punishments for the offence Kanu is charged with? Kanu is facing a 6-count charge, one of which is treason. By section 41 (c) of the CCA, treason is a capital offence which attracts the Death Sentence. It is a matter of common knowledge that Kanu has threatened to wage war against Nigeria and has taken several steps to make his threat real.

Dasuki, on the other hand, is charged with crimes bordering misappropriation of funds set aside for the procurement of arms to battle the Boko Haram insurgency and illegal possession of firearms. Furthermore, there is the fear he may jump bail; in fact he has said he wants to jet out to receive ‘medical attention’ abroad; the habit of many a high profile figure charged with crime.

And could the opinion of the President in the said media chat influence the judge? It depends: for some judges it may make no difference; for some, it may influence the judge against the accused persons; for yet others, it may influence them in favour of the accused persons (true for judges who want to assert their authority and independence). There is no certainty as to whether and in which way the influence of that opinion goes.

So, finally, we resort again to the Supreme Court “Where national security is threatened…individual rights of those responsible take second place...” and say PMB is right by law. At this point, I am calling on my Igbo brothers to come back home. Let us reason on the way forward. Violence does not pay. I call upon the wife of Late Ikemba Ndi Igbo as a matter of urgency to build a sound and digital Library for Ikemba if it at Nnewi His Country Home or at Enugu where people mostly the younger generation who did not witness the Civil war to know more and equally to tap from what went wrong in the past and the way forward. Before 2011 elections, when IBB visited Ojukwu at His Residence before the Northern Elders did mock primaries between Atiku and IBB, Ojukwu addressed Ndi Igbo urging us to support the Northerners. what happened the press statement. I will come up with issue and many more at appropriate time. I rest my case.

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It is intellectually irresponsible to intertwine the case of Sambo Dasuki with that of Nnamdi Kanu. Besides, Dasuki case is a matter of embezzlement which Muhammadu Buhari benefitted in one way or the other. It is only in country with absolute no future that mere embezzlement of fund or agitation of independent state becomes a matter of national security. May I ask what charges have been brought against Boko Haram fighters? Why have those people such as Muhammadu Buhari who had spoken in favor and on behalf of Boko Haram, which is a brazen threat to the so-called national security, not been arrested?

princdebola201:
Anything that rocks ur boat..oduduwa is father of all yorubas..


Call abia,imo,anambra men together ask them who is the father of all igbos. Then watch how they beat themselves up

Oduduwa was a drunk and womanize who escaped through the window before he could have been manhandled by the man of the house. When he jumped from the window, some goofy storytellers conjectured he fell from the sky. Besides Ile Ife has nothing to do with Oduduwa since the original seat of the so-called Yari.ba village empire was Oyo-ile 30 miles north of Ilorin. The present day so-called Yari.ba land does not belong to them either.

gigabyte13:
how will a reasonable man venture into the wilderness? Whats there to gain?

Those who dreamt about it never overcome the nightmare.

BENZINA:
juvenile delinquency!

It takes one delinquent juvenile to recognize another. At least, I made an effort as a high school student to visit what is actually left of the so-called Bini wall. The whole story behind the empire was a joke. If there was anything tangible about the village empire, it could have been noticed towards southwest of Nigeria. The news about the village empire called Bini did not even reach Igbneke.

tombraokoto:
I'm not bini but the Bini empire was amongst the greatest empires of medieval times. See who's calling someone's empire a village empire. Igbos never conquered a palm tree in their miserable lives. The only time you tried you got your ass whooped by the Nigerian army. See this 7th class citizens if Nigeria. Village empire indeed.

I went to Bini in 70s to see the remnants of so-called village empire and was disappointed to say the least. It is very unfortunate that certain historians tend to over exaggerate narratives to the ecstasy of their foolishness. Ndiigbo are not interested in capturing anybody but helped in defending certain folks. Nobody who served in Nigerian army during the war would vomit this crap you just vomited. A mere company of Biafarn army held up two battalions of Nigeriens and Chadians during the battle at Ehiamufo. Biafrans will take Nigerians for launch without one eye closed.

The problem lies with not going back from where they came. Any non-Igbo person that settled in Igbo land is more unlikely to go back. They usually marry Igbo ladies and totally forgot their ancestral homes.

princdebola201:
Lol comparing the great benin empire to igbo empire is like comparing a primary school graduate to a university graduate LOL..

When the likes of benin, and oyo empire were dominating in southern nigeria.

Igbos were still naked in the wilderness play hide and seek with their ancestors(gorrillas)

The same dumbass Europeans who touted your foolish and village empire because it had figured head like what they (Europeans) had at home could not understand the representative style of government (democracy) Ndiigbo practiced when the Europeans visited. Today, one wonders why the same Europeans abandoned the monarchical system for democratic system. Ndiigbo are not cowards and will never succumb to the ruler ship of one goofy Oba or Emir.

tombraokoto:
bini grass cutter? I pity you. Try any nonsense you will know how far.

Bini kwa a !!!! These dudes are funny.

jmaine:
During the reign of Oba Ewuare the Great . . . .He subdued vast territories in the Igbo dominated regions . . . . . Empires in the course of their lifetime are bound to loose boundary territories to neighboring invading armies . . . . But make no mistake, the Benin Empire was one of the most powerful empires in the West African region . . . .

The so-called Bini empire never ventured toward south-east.

tombraokoto:
Bini people will finish them in a couple of seconds. Igbos are nowhere near the binis when it comes to fighting or jaguda. Believe me I've lived with them and I know how they are. They're the last people you want to have a problem with cos their problem with you will never end. Bini people are a no go area.

The so-called Bini was a village empire. I guess enough has been said already.

Uche Ekwunife is a hungry politician.

omenka:
Please can someone remind me what part of the country Imo state is again

Are you this daft?

uselessgoat:
Trump should be schooled on religious tolerance. Islam is a religion of peace and the activities of a few bad eggs can't result in total condemnation of all Muslims.

Per the bolded, Muslims need more schooling on religious tolerance than Donald Trump. He has not yet asked USA citizens to carry out Jihad on Muslims.

gohome:
We will initiate policies to ensure that Nigerians are free to live and work in any part of the country by removing state of origin, tribe, ethnic and religious affiliations and replace those with state of residence.
#VoteChange #ChangeIsHere

Prof. Yemi Osinbade

Is this not change ladies and gentlemen?
Confab report working I think

mynd44
Lalasticlala

Nigerians are most hopeless bunch of human beings ever walked the surface of earth. This reminds me about Decree #34, the purported decree that led to the civil war. I remembered vividly that Lt. Muhammadu Buhari participated in a coup in order to stop decree #34.

Most Nigerians are full of it. Who made Itse Sagay a constitutional lawyer or legal expert on constitutional matters? Which case that bordered on constitutionality has been won by this joker named Itse Sagay? Which constitution does the goofy Itse Sagay hold its expertise? I guess most Nigerians are not referencing Nigerian constitution because Nigeria has no working constitution therefor the goon called Itse Sagay is not a constitutional lawyer.

Only a fool thinks that a corrupt figure such as Muhammadu Buhari is corruption fighter.

Only a fool thinks that agitation for independent homeland by IPOB and MASSOB is predicated upon the idiotic partisan politics played in Nigeria. IPOB and MASSOB careless if all the politicians in Igbo land pitch tent with APC. In fact PDP can go into extinct, IPOB and MASSOB shall not give a damn fig.

ShowYourCertificate:
We are just making this Nnamdi Kanu of a guy more popular. Biafra should not be encouraged. United we stand, divided we fall.

Is there any fall worse than the present configuration of Nigeria? I had better fall than remain a Nigerian.

superstarDikk:
so economic successes r measured by how receptive one is towards Christine Lagarde?.....In OBJ's voice 'relocate to Ghana' cuz we don't give a shi* about u or any oda like u

What has reception of Christine Lagarde or lack thereof got to do with the apprehension of the situation by a country's finance minister? Kemi Adeosun looked like a timid village girl friend who has just arrived at the boyfriend's house in the city. Who gives a ratass about a gutter called Nigeria? I shall be damned if I lived in a zoo called Nigeria.

JayJustus:
you're an unforgettable joke

You are a Nigerian therefore the joke is on you.

It is not surprise that any woman with this stream of thought allegedly by Hon. Ada Kate Uchegbu is an open hole.

This is the reason the colonialists are against the realization of Biafra or any independent state in African continent ground-fathered by Africans.

omonnakoda:
I believe like General Muhammadu Buhari,GCFR President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, many Nigerians are perplexed as to what they really want. We are talking of a group that totally rejected Buhari at the elections. He has complied with the constitutional requirement and provided them a Minister from every state
In fact in the last 5 years that privilege was not extended to the SW and some Yorubas approached the President then to complain. In fact we discussed here on Nairaland and many Ibos were unanimous in asserting that the Yorubas did not vote fore the president nd deserved to be marginalized

Now the fact is that at that time the Yorubas ACTUALLY DID VOTE for the president and he won the SW though not with the same margin as the SE. He won every SW state except Osun where he was 2nd. This particular fact is important to remember and so I highlight it

PDP won the presidential election in the SW in 2011


Nevertheless the SW has shortchanged and humiliated. Can anyone remember who was the most senior SW person in that government?

Certainly a government the SW had a greater stake in than the SE has in this one.

Did anyone start radio stations or protests in Onicha or threatening to secede.?

Let us look at what was being said at the time (5 years ago how time flies)

https://www.nairaland.com/745731/yoruba-marginalization-elders-met-jonathan#9019830

As I mentioned earlier PDP won presidential election in the SW so by this statement one can only assume the writer is talking of gubernatorial control

For the umpteenth time, the agitation for independent home land by IPOB and MASSOB has nothing to do with the idiotic partisan politics played in the zoo called Nigeria. The IPOB and MASSOB are all about separating moronic dingbats in Nigeria from Ndiigbo and Biafrans. Who in his or her right senses would want to be a compatriot of the above poster?

OgbeifunErom:
An IPOB newspaper owned by Uba making noise as usual. This is IPOB's only weapon- Noise

A group that is made up of one member- Mike Msuaan is what Authority Newspaper is classifying as Northern Youths? Mike Msuaan is a well known political beggar, just the other day, he went on a visit to Lamido, yet he supports APC's George Akume online and worships El Rufai on Facebook. A man who is nearly 50 and claiming to be a Youth. He finished from Adeyemi College in 1989. He has not achieved anything in life so he is desperately looking for a breakthrough.

These IPOB newspapers and wailers can cry as loud as they want but Buhari will rule this country back to back till 2023 as long as he hunting down corrupt animals like rats and doing an OK job in the economy.

Metuh is a goat and he ate Nigeria's yam, he must vomit the Yam - it is simple logic. I dont know why IPOB Youths dont get it

God bless Buhari

God Bless Nigeria

Only dumbass fool does not realize that IPOB is above idiotic partisan politics played in the zoo called Nigeria.