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PoliticsRe: Rotimi Akeredolu Repairing 300 Vehicles Used By Past Administrations In Ondo by farem: 11:55am On May 15, 2019
focus7:
Other governors are building repairing roads, building major projects, buying new vehicles but Akeredolu is further proven to the world that he's the worst governor ever produced in Nigeria by repairing workout vehicles and lying to us that Ondo State GDP is rising.

He think this is an Igbo state that drink lies.
You have been wired to see bad things even in the middle of good things

https://www.nairaland.com/5188433/gossy-water-returns-fayemi-commissions
Christianity EtcRe: Prophet Jeremiah Omoto Fufeyin Gives N500k To Members Wgo Dropped 50 As Offering by farem: 11:34am On May 15, 2019
Boyslick:
Me wey dey everly return empty envelope for church nko undecided
Since it's your decision and determination that led you to do it, you receive empty blessing for your empty envelope
CrimeRe: Nurse Struggling With A Rapist Injured In Kano (Disturbing Photos) by farem: 11:23am On May 15, 2019
Ume1991:
Look at her dress, she's probably a Yoruba woman. She must have been pounced upon by afonja rapist.
When incurable mad person is being found, you are the one!
Someone resisted rape even at the cost of her life, and you open your gutter-mouth to describe her this way.

Your mother didn't resist the gorilla that raped her and you are the product of the intercourse!
CrimeRe: Fight Breaks After A Nigerian Man Slapped An Oyinbo For Raining Insults On Him by farem: 7:26pm On May 14, 2019
Richmondofficia:
what kind of sick sh!t is this,that slap shaked my phone
This your SHAKED statement shook, shakes, is shaking and has shaken my phone too!
CelebritiesThrowback Photo Of Pastor Adeboye And Wife by farem(op): 11:10am On May 14, 2019
When I check the past of elderly (via their pictures), I have no doubt that tomorrow will be brighter.
What do you say of this old photo?

PoliticsRe: Emefiele Smiles As Buhari Congratulates Him As "CBN Governor" - Photos by farem: 6:52pm On May 13, 2019
kapelvej:
As long as Emiefele can be used to line the pockets of the Jihadists
So much for the wailers!
There's nothing, PMB can do to please you. Even if he has picked your father (if he is qualified).
What you have been waiting for is for buhari to replace him with one garba Ahmed and that one failed you grossly!
I trust una, you can always find something to masturbate over.
Kwantinu!
CrimeRe: JAMB: Segun Referred To State Hospital In Ogun After Suicide Attempt by farem: 2:56pm On May 13, 2019
qualityGod:
Rip bro is better to die go to everlasting hell than to remain in Nigeria hell
That's what you have unwittingly advised!
CrimeRe: TRUE & TOUCHING STORY: Kidnapped victims by Fulani Herdsmen recount story by farem(op): 9:54pm On May 12, 2019
Nwodosis:
Was wondering which kidnapped victim can write this novel as her experience.
May you not involve in critical event
CrimeRe: TRUE & TOUCHING STORY: Kidnapped victims by Fulani Herdsmen recount story by farem(op): 9:50pm On May 12, 2019
donbachi:
Make una clap 4 me...dis is the first time i read a long story to it's last.
A story so engaging
CrimeRe: TRUE & TOUCHING STORY: Kidnapped victims by Fulani Herdsmen recount story by farem(op): 8:31pm On May 12, 2019
CrimeTRUE & TOUCHING STORY: Kidnapped victims by Fulani Herdsmen recount story by farem(op): 8:20pm On May 12, 2019
TRUE & TOUCHING STORY: Kidnapping saga by Fulani Herdsmen all over Nigeria. I was kidnapped on the Kaduna express way and here is my story

I had no premonition that day when I boarded a cab, a golf car from Kaduna to Abuja.

A few kilometres after Kaduna, shortly after the NYSC camp, around Dutse, on the express, we were assailed by a volley of gunfire targeted at tyres of vehicles on the express.

Of course all vehicles trapped within the radius of fire had to stop and passengers ran across the express to the other side of the road. As we ran, we saw men in army camouflage wielding Ak47s run after us and dragged us back to the side we just fled from.

No one escaped, they had seen us run and pursued us until we were all caught and rounded up. We were then marched in a single file into the bush.

As we headed into the bush, they had us arranged in formation, one victim, one kidnapper and so on while the rest of the kidnappers formed two lines beside our single file. There was no escape as they repeatedly warned us that we would be shot if we tried to escape.

We marched on for the full 6 hours into the bush; there were no huts, no buildings, no farmland, just endless vast arid land. I was able to gauge time because I was still wearing my wrist watch though my phone and bag had been taken by the kidnappers. Same with the rest of the others, victims like me, who had the misfortune of being on the road at that hour.

As soon as our phones were taken, the sims were removed; this of course meant they didn’t want us traced. Our phones were auctioned off to a certain ‘Yellow,’ that was the name of the person on the other end of the line who bargained for our phones.

I was in tatters in the course of our 6 hours’ trek; my gown had ripped open in my attempt to escape, my wig had fallen off and my tear stained face was caked with dirt and dust.

I was the only woman among the victims; there were 35 of us and twice the number of kidnappers. I feared the worst would happen to me. I began to pray because these people were just smoking weed, they were not normal people.

When we stopped, I quickly sought the face of one whom I perceived to be the leader. I went on my knees and crawled to his feet, groveling, weeping agonisingly and pleading.

I said to him: ‘I know you are a good Muslim, one versed in the tenets of Islam and who knows the sanctity of marriage. Please protect my honour for I am a married woman. Please protect me.’

This leader, who must have been like 26 years at the most, wouldn’t look at my face and I quickly sensed that he couldnt bear to look at a crying woman and so I intensified my cries and pleas and grovelling. I rolled in the dust with snot running from one nostril to the other.

Still, with his gaze averted he told me to stop crying and go join the rest of the victims where they were huddled on the ground. When I wouldn’t stop, he said sternly that if I didn’t stop then he wouldn’t help me. I stopped. He looked at me and told me I wouldn’t be touched by anyone of his boys.

Then they started getting in touch with our people to demand for ransom. How did they contact our relatives?

First off, they asked us all to call out the numbers of relatives we wanted them to contact for our ransom; once we gave the numbers, they would call them then allow us speak for just a few seconds before they took over the phone and made their demands.

They used an old untraceable Nokia phone to make each of these calls and because they spoke Hausa to us but Fulani amongst themselves, I wasn’t able to catch much of what was said among them.

Being the only woman, I was the first to be asked to introduce myself; name, state of origin, job, how much I had in my bank account and as they searched every nook and cranny of my bag and wallet; they wondered why I didn’t have an ATM card.

Thankfully, that day was the day I didn’t travel with my ATM card. I told my kidnappers that I had no bank account; that I am a married woman with children who also happens to be a student. I pleaded, telling them my husband is poor and earns N8,500 monthly and that my family is very poor as well. I told them I was given to my husband at a young age to settle a debt my father had incurred.

But they called me a harlot for leaving my children and going to school. I explained that it was my husband’s idea. He wanted me to go work to augment his salary and working required a certificate and so I had to go to school to earn one. Thankfully, my story was believed. I was soon to realize that these uneducated kidnappers didn’t know much.

They decided I was worth N5million! Immediately I heard that, I raised my hands in surrender, ‘Just shoot me, there’s no way my husband or family will ever raise that amount of money, nobody in my village, Gorin goni, the poorest village in Kaduna, will give as much as N2,000. So please, just shoot me.’

The leader then drew me aside and asked me exactly how much my family could get, I said N10,000. He walked away in anger swearing that I would die. I was still haggling with them over my ransom, when God came through for me…

There was another victim, a Customs officer from Kogi state who drew their ire; they discovered his identity from the ID Card found in his wallet.

It was clear the kidnappers apparently hate the current government because victims who worked for government were singled out and thoroughly beaten with the sticks they used to herd cows. They said the government had impoverished its people and that those in government were thieves.

Every chance they had they would beat the Customs officer. Despite my situation, I began to think of how to save him; so I called out that he must be a fake customs man as his service number is 10 digits instead of 6. They stopped and, thankfully the Customs guy cued in, he begged them saying indeed he was a fake customs man; he said he smuggled cars into the country and he had to do a fake ID to deceive the Customs officials who were collecting money from him. That’s how they stopped beating him!

They demanded 10million off the Customs officers family!

Then, there was also amongst us a Yoruba man who by all appearances was quite rich. Since the Yoruba man didn’t speak Hausa, I was his interpreter to the kidnappers.

This Yoruba man jumped into the drainage tunnel when we were first attacked and fled to the bush but the kidnappers had gone after him and dragged him by the leg out of the tunnel into the open. So, he was caked in blood and dirt. This man told me I should tell the kidnappers he was willing to pay any amount they wanted!

I had to shush him. I warned him, they will finish you o. But the man was jittery, you know how you Yoruba people are at the sign of trouble.

At the end of the negotiation, they demanded N100 million from his family!

You see, all of us victims had been thoroughly stripped of whatever we possessed. I was quick to have deleted my messages and email from my phone when the commotion started, that was my saving grace.

So, when I said I didn’t even have enough money not to talk of a bank account, there were no alerts or bank details in my phone. The others were not so lucky.

Each victim was asked to give the correct PIN number and amount left in their accounts. Any attempt to give a fake PIN was instant death upon discovery because they wouldn’t ask you again.

How did God come through for me?

I was the go-between who always had the phone so I could interpret when calls came in.

One afternoon, they suddenly began to argue amongst themselves and so moved away from us victims. I suddenly found myself alone with the phone! I quickly dialed my brother and told him to keep negotiating, never to give accept the amount they asked for.

You see, once a victim speaks to their family, the victim never gets to talk again until ransom is paid and families don’t realise they can haggle and negotiate the ransom!

After demand for ransom was made from all victims/families, we began another stretch of travelling. We trekked for another 6 hours, making it a total of 12 hours trek from the express into the deepest parts of the bush.

As we went along, we saw their armed vigilantes. Yes, the kidnappers had vigilantes to catch and kill runaway victims. They told us their vigilantes were well armed and since it was an open field, any runaway victim would be shot dead.

When we got to what was our destination, it was a huge village, community of different ‘platoons’ of kidnappers who also had their own victims. So it was like a village business, hundreds of kidnappers, living side by side several hundreds more with each owning victims they raided off the roads.

When we were eventually settled in an open place, the other ‘platoon’ of kidnappers came to ‘inspect us’, like we were spoils of war, loot they had come to admire.

Suddenly, I was being ogled by boys no than 16 to 18. They told my kidnappers that I was a ‘good catch.’ They meant this in terms of rape. But I heard one of my kidnapper say, their leader forbade them from touching me but that they would see about it. I began to pray again that the leader doesn’t change his mind about protecting me.

To cut a long story short, I was released on the third day after a ransom of N500,000 was paid on my behalf. No, my family didn’t raise all the money, my old school mates from the federal government girls’ secondary school I attended, helped raise the money as well. I have God and them and of course my traumatised family to thank for my release.

The customs officer who was asked to bring N10 million, paid N5million.

They asked our families to meet us at a certain place from where their okada rider look outs took them on a two hours’ ride inside the bush. There they counted the money, asked them to walk back and wait at a certain point for us.

I and the customs officer were released together as our ransom was paid the same day. We walked for more than 8 hours to reunite with our families.

I am home today but still so traumatized. I was happy when Governor El Rufia’s convoy went after some of them weeks ago. But a more concerted effort is needed.

While I was there, an Airforce fighter jet came and hovered over the community of kidnappers. Yes, it means government is aware of their location. As soon as the fighter jet was sighted, the kidnappers assembled all of us victims on the edge of a water fall and pointed their weapons at us. They were prepared to shoot us if the fighter jet opened fire on them.

At this point, we the victims began to wave off the fighter jet, we began to beg them to leave, whereas our kidnappers taunted and dared the fighter jet to drop lower so they could complete the massacre.

I found out that victims whose families couldn’t raise money were taken to the edge and shot, their bodies would fall below and be swept away by the water. That way it won’t stink out the community.

To date, no body has come to take my statements or ask me what happened. I mean the authorities haven’t contacted me. So they know exactly what is going on.

(Series written and edited by Peju Akande and based on true stories)
Christianity EtcRe: Pastor Ephraim Ononye Sprays Dollars At A Wedding In Lagos (Photos) by farem: 4:45pm On May 12, 2019
Sirmuel1:
Chai! Our Their tithes and offerings embarassed
FamilyRe: Family Abandons Father’s Corpse In Mortuary For 15 Years by farem:
tstx:
Wake up... Ghosts doesn't don't exist
Chai! I disagree with you... BUT....


You are right!

PoliticsHISTORY. Monarchs who ruled over Rano Kingdom (Emirate) from 1001 A.D, till date by farem(op): 4:28pm On May 12, 2019
Sharing HISTORY.
Monarchs who ruled over Rano Kingdom (Emirate) from 1001 A.D, to date.

Christianity EtcRe: Is Going To Church A Guarantee Of Making Heaven? by farem: 2:07pm On May 12, 2019
MyVILLAGEpeople:
No. There is no where in the Bible God said w e should go to church.
God didn't tell us to go to any business centre. Most churches of today are just money making ventures for conmen and fraudsters.

God looks at your heart and good deeds. Most people who go to church do the most abominable things.
Doom is the lot of those who would decide to listen to you and not the word of God!

Hebrews 10:25
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
PoliticsRe: Adeleke Will Get Victory At Supreme Court –brother by farem: 1:41pm On May 12, 2019
besti27:
Dele, a sibling of the hopeful of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2018 Osun State governorship race, Ademola Adeleke, has communicated certainty that the Supreme Court would overrule the Court of Appeal and announce the congressperson as the properly chosen legislative leader of the state.

Adeleke scored 254,698 votes to conquer the applicant of the All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, who surveyed 254,345 votes, in the September 22, 2018 race.

Be that as it may, the race was proclaimed uncertain by the Independent National Electoral Commission because of the crossing out of aftereffects of some surveying units.

Oyetola, in the long run, scored the most noteworthy number of votes in the strengthening race to develop as the champ of the surveys.

In any case, the Election Petitions Tribunal upturned Oyetola's triumph and articulated Adeleke the victor.

In any case, the Court of Appeal a week ago decided for Oyetola, putting aside the decision of the council.

Dele, in a meeting with SUNDAY PUNCH on Friday, said the substance of the case under the watchful eye of the investigative court was discarded in light of "insignificant details."

He stated, "One had an abnormal state of assumptions about polished skill and anticipated that some itemized work should be finished. Be that as it may, someone just discarded everything on negligible details and overlooking the substance of the case. This rubbishes everything that equity should speak to.

"Equity should be about details. It is crazy. There is no how you will catch wind of such and won't be baffled yet his spirit has not hosed. Congressperson Ademola Adeleke is a child of Balogun (war administrator) in this way, such can't hose his spirits.

"He has the firm conviction that the Supreme Court will see the mistakes in the judgment of the Court of Appeal and will settle on the choice to address them and reestablish the desire for the regular man in the legal executive. Nearly everyone is stunned by the judgment of the Court of Appeal except for a couple of recipients of the disease.

"Everyone realizes that Senator Ademola Adeleke is the genuine victor and the holder of the command of the general population of Osun State. We believe that the Supreme Court will get that going."


read more: https://gistok.ng/adeleke-will-get-victory-at-supreme-court-brother/


So says Onnoghen Adeleke (Jnr brother to Ade dancer)
Christianity EtcRe: Pastor Adeboye Built Intensive Care Unit For Plateau Hospital (Photos) by farem: 1:31pm On May 12, 2019
MissRaine69:
In Nigeria you take a camera crew and notify everyone. Bill Gates just does his stuff in Nigeria and no one knows.
You must have been Bill Gates child for you to know since NO ONE knows!
Tueh!
Christianity EtcRe: Pastor Adeboye Built Intensive Care Unit For Plateau Hospital (Photos) by farem: 1:22pm On May 12, 2019
KidsNEXTdoor:
These people are still extorting money from gullible poor masses.... It's wrong
These 'gullible' are still the ones you 'wise' take your CVs to!
Christianity EtcRe: Pastor Adeboye Built Intensive Care Unit For Plateau Hospital (Photos) by farem: 1:17pm On May 12, 2019
GboyegaD:
Good one, hope it is well managed and those who need it are those who it is used for.
I[b] still do not understand why this is news though.[/b] Thought Bible says when you give with your right hand, your left hand need not be notified.
You should have stopped the state government from acknowledging it.
Should have put structures in place that no indigenes, reporters, govt officials, in, and out-patients, medical personnel and other staff are chased away before and during the time! Or you still expect the Church to bring armed men to chase them?
Shior!
EducationRe: The Names Of The Jamb Highscorers Is The Story Of Nigeria by farem: 3:36pm On May 11, 2019
Great
PoliticsRe: Contractors Successfully Completed 123 Km Of 156 Km Lagos-ibadan Rail Project by farem: 3:31pm On May 11, 2019
kaen1317:
How about the ones in the SS and SE?
They're not bothered about that. 2nd Niger bridge's progress doesn't Give a hoot.
What pleases them: just give 5 sons and daughters of the soil and abandon the 99.999999999999999999999911% remaining.
You will have thier votes!
That's the magic wand the pdp engaged that trapped thier loyalty for 20 years.
Apc too daft
InvestmentRe: China To Invest $250 Million On Ibadan Dry Port (photo) by farem: 3:03pm On May 11, 2019
bluke:
no water,
no electricity,
no health service,
no good schools yet millions on dry port.
ibadan to lagos is how many km.


thats why Jesus wept.
You're a liar! You don't, can't, won't know what a dry port is? Or else you won't be talking about the distance
PoliticsRe: Man Tumbles In Front Of A Car To Celebrate Oyetola’s Appeal Court Victory by farem(op): 2:55pm On May 10, 2019
Igbodicool:
BIAFRA the nightmare of Nigeria!
Igbos fought for the independence of Nigeria...
Igbos preached one Nigeria...
Igbos will disintegrate Nigeria!
When will this be? Honestly, we're waiting!
PoliticsRe: Man Tumbles In Front Of A Car To Celebrate Oyetola’s Appeal Court Victory by farem(op): 2:51pm On May 10, 2019
Johnnyessence:
I AM SO ASHAMED OF NIGERIA.

All the reasonable fellow with functional brains unlike the brainless APC e-rats can attest to the fact that Osun guber polls was mere with series of election malpractices, ranges from intimidation of the voters, manipulation of election results, over voting and public assualts.

There was illegal usage of sophisticated weapons and many lives were recorded to have lost must expecially, during the rerun of the said bloody election.

Universal adult suffrage were openly denied where the qualified voters were forcefully disenfranchised by the imported thugs and hooligans from Lagos State, only the few with APC identities were allowed to voted.

There was a reported case of Ife north PDP youths leader who stood on his ground that he would not abide with any forms of rigging at his polling unit but he was later shot to dead for his resistance.

I can still vividly remember another video that was circulated online where the voters were seen wailing and crying because they were disenfranchised by the APC hoodlums that chased them away from their voting centers.

I am devastated, flagabasted, disappointed and short of words when i heard about the judgement delivered at court of appeal on Osun guber election today.

Despite all the evidences submitted before the panel during the cause of trial, four out of the five judges handling the case gave their judgements in favour of Gboya Oyetola while only one upheld the tribunal judgement.

Nigeria is seriously sick and only God intervention can heal her sickness.
This guy should be placed under serious watch. If you know his family members, let them keep close to him.
This Osun matter is reaching an unpredictable level on him.
Suic...may be lurking
CelebritiesDo you know The First Person To Register In The Nigerian Army - Pic by farem(op):
THE FIRST PERSON TO REGISTER IN THE NIGERIAN ARMY WAS AN AKWA IBOM MAN

Not many Nigerians know that the first person to register in the Nigerian Army was a man of Akwa Ibom origin. Wellington Umoh Bassey is on record as having the number NA 1.

Bassey joined the Royal Band Corps of the Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF) in 1933, despite opposition from parents and the community, which saw his interest in the white man’s army as a novel and risky adventure for a 25-year-old. But he had a dream, and was determined to pursue that dream.

He wanted to be the first to enlist in the army in that part of the country. He ended up not just the first in that part; not just the first in Nigeria, but also the first in the entire West Africa, occupying a prominent place in history.

Bassey held different positions in the colonial force, including warrant officer two; company sergeant major and weapons instructor, performing so well in the latter that he was posted to train troops in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), from 1945 to 1949.

A successful completion of an officers’ training course in Warwick, England, earned him promotion to the rank of Second Lieutenant as an infantry officer by King George VI in April, 1949, a position that made him the first West African regular commissioned officer with service number WA1.

At the attainment of independence by Nigeria in 1960, the Nigerian Army was established, from the Queens Own Regiment, with Bassey as the first Nigerian soldier. Before then, he had served as aide-de-camp to the Governor General of Nigeria, Sir Stuart Macpherson.

Over a period of about 11 years, Bassey held several command positions, including first commanding officer, Boys Company (now Nigerian Military School), Zaria; first Nigerian commandant, Lagos Garrison, Apapa; first commanding officer, Federal Guards (later Brigade of Guards), Lagos; commanding officer, Nigerian Army Depot, Zaria and brigade commander, first Brigade (now first division), Kaduna.

Army Barracks Camp WU Bassey and the Wellington Bassey Way in Uyo are named after him.

#AkwaIbomNewsNg

PoliticsRe: Man Tumbles In Front Of A Car To Celebrate Oyetola’s Appeal Court Victory by farem(op):
Kennydoc:
No sign of jubilation or celebration here.
So in your estimate, the picture doesn't reflect jubilation.
What of this one below? I believe it is what you recognize as
What is more than jubilation when my enemies are in this precarious status like below

PoliticsRe: Between Olanipekun(SAN) And Ikpeazu(SAN), Who Is A Better Lawyer? by farem: 7:02pm On May 09, 2019
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Celebrities32 YEARS REMEMBRANCE: My Relationship With The Ibos - Awolowo by farem(op): 6:37pm On May 09, 2019
Obafemi Awolowo Speaks on His Relationship with the Ibos:
An excerpt from a town hall interview in Abeokuta in 1983.����

CIVIL WAR

Question: Chief Awolowo, …Your stand on the civil war, however unpopular it might have been to the Biafrans or Ibo people, helped to shorten the war. Today, you’re being castigated as the sole enemy of the Ibo people because of that stand, by among others, some of the people who as members of the Federal Military Government at that time, were party to that decision and are today, in some cases, inheritors of power in one Nigeria which that decision of yours helped to save. How do you feel being painted in this role, and what steps are you taking to endear yourself once again to that large chunk of Nigerians who feel embittered?

Awolowo: As far as I know, the Ibo masses are friendly to me, towards me. In fact, whenever I visit Iboland, either Anambra or Imo, and there’s no campaigning for elections on, the Ibo people receive me warmly and affectionately. But there are some elements in Iboland who believe that they can maintain their popularity only by denigrating me, and so they keep on telling lies against me. Ojukwu is one of them. I don’t want to mention the names of the others because they are still redeemable, but ….Ojukwu is irredeemable, so I mention his name, and my attitude to these lies is one of indifference, I must confess to you.

I’ve learnt to rely completely on the providence and vindication of Almighty God in some of these things. I’ve tried to explain myself in the past, but these liars persist. Ojukwu had only recently told the same lie against me. What’s the point in correcting lies when people are determined to persist in telling lies against you, what’s the point?. I know that someday the Ibos, the masses of the Ibo people will realize who their friends are, and who their real enemies are. And the day that happens woe betide those enemies. The Ibos will deal with them very roughly, very roughly.

That has happened in my life. I have a nickname now, if you see my letterhead you’ll find something on top, you’ll find a fish done on the letterhead. Some people put Lion on theirs, some people put Tiger, but mine is Fish. And Fish represents my zodiac sign, those of you who read the stars and so on in the newspapers; you’ll find out that there’s a zodiac sign known as Pisces, in Latin Pisces means Fish.

So I put Pisces on top, that’s my zodiac sign being born on the 6th of March,….er well, the year doesn’t matter, it’s the day that matters. And then on top of it I wrote Eebudola. All of you know the meaning of that. You know I don’t want to tell a long story but………………Awolowo school, omo Awolowo, the school…… started in Urhoboland, in the Mid-west in those days. They were ridiculing my schools, I was building schools – brick and cement, to dpc level, block to dpc level and mud thereafter. And so the big shots in the place..”ah what kind of school is this? is this Awolowo school? Useless school” and when they saw the children..”ah these Awolowo children, they can’t read and write, Awolowo children” that’s how it started, with ridicule, and it became a blessing, and now they say “Awolowo children, they are good people” no more ridicule about it, that’s how it started, so the 'Eebu' has become honor, the abuse became honor.

And so when I look back to all my life, treasonable felony, jail, all the abuses that were heaped on me, to Coker Inquiry, all sorts, and I see what has happened to the people who led, who led all these denigration campaign, where are they today? Those that are alive are what I call 'Homo Mortuus' - dead living, 'oku eniyan', that’s what they are, those that their lives have gone.

So when I look back, I come to the conclusion that all these abuses which have been heaped on me all my life for doing nothing, for doing good, they have become honor, and so 'Eebudola' is one of my nicknames. So I’ve cultivated an attitude of indifference, I’ve done no evil to the Ibos.

During the war I saw to it that the revenue which was due to Iboland - South Eastern states they call it, at that time..East Central State, I kept it, I saved the money for them. And when they ….were librated I handed over the money to them - millions of pounds. If I’d decided to do so, I could have kept the money away from them and then when they took over I saw to it that subvention was given to them at the rate of 990,000 pounds every month. I didn’t go to the Executive Council to ask for support, or for approval because I knew if I went to the Executive Council at that time, the subvention would not be approved because there were more enemies in the Executive Council for the Ibos than friends. And since I wasn’t going to take a percentage from what I was going to give them, and I knew I was doing what was right, I wanted the state to survive, I kept on giving the subvention – 990,000 pounds almost a million, every month, and I did that for other states of course - South Eastern State, North Central State, Kwara and so on.

But I did that for the Ibos, and when the war was over, I saw to it that the ACB got three and a half million pounds (£3,500,000.00) to start with. This was distributed immediately and I gave another sum of money. The attitude of the experts, officials at the time of the ACB was that ACB should be closed down, and I held the view: you couldn’t close the ACB down because that is the bank that gives finance to Ibo traders, and if you close it down they’ll find it difficult to survive. So it was given. I did the same thing for the Cooperative Bank of Eastern Nigeria, to rehabilitate all these places, and I saw to it as Federal Commissioner for Finance that no obstacle was placed in the way of the Ministry of Economic Planning in planning for rehabilitation of the war affected areas.

TWENTY POUNDS POLICY

That’s what I did, and the case of the money they said was not given back to them, you know during the war all the pounds were looted, they printed Biafran currency notes, which they circulated, at the close of the war some people wanted their Biafran notes to be exchanged for them. Of course I couldn’t do that, if I did that the whole country would be bankrupt. We didn’t know about Biafran notes and we didn’t know on what basis they have printed them, so we refused the Biafran note, but I laid down the principle that all those who had savings in the banks on the eve of the declaration of the Biafran war or Biafra, will get their money back if they could satisfy us that they had the savings there, or the money there. Unfortunately, all the banks’ books had been burnt, and many of the people who had savings there didn’t have their savings books or their last statement of account, so a panel had to be set up.

I didn’t take part in setting up the panel, it was done by the Central Bank and the pertinent officials of the Federal Ministry of Finance, to look into the matter, and they went carefully into the matter, they took some months to do so, and then made some recommendation which I approved. Go to the archives, all I did was approved, I didn’t write anything more than that, I don’t even remember the name of any of them who took part. So I did everything in this world to assist our Ibo brothers and sisters during and after the war.

And anyone who goes back to look at my broadcast in August 1967, which dealt with post-war reconstruction would see what I said there.

STARVATION POLICY

Then, but above all, the ending of the war itself that I’m accused of, accused of starving the Ibos, I did nothing of the sort. You know, shortly after the liberation of these places, Calabar, Enugu and Port Harcort, I decided to pay a visit. There are certain things which I knew which you don’t know, which I don’t want to say here now, when I write my reminisces in the future I will do so. Some of the soldiers were not truthful with us, they didn’t tell us correct stories and so on.

I wanted to be there and see things for myself, bear in mind that Gowon himself did not go there at that time, it was after the war was over that he dorn himself up in various military dresses - Air force dress, Army dress and so on, and went to the war torn areas. But I went and some people tried to frighten me out of my goal by saying that Adekunle was my enemy and he was going to see to it that I never returned from the place. But I went.

But when I went what did I see? I saw the kwashiorkor victims. If you see a kwashiorkor victim you’ll never like war to be waged. Terrible sight, in Enugu, in Port Harcourt, not many in Calabar, but mainly in Enugu and Port Harcourt. Then I enquired what happened to the food we were sending to the civilians. We were sending food through the Red cross, and CARITAS to them, but what happened was that the vehicles carrying the food were always ambushed by the soldiers. That’s what I discovered, and the food would then be taken to the soldiers to feed them, and so they were able to continue to fight. And I said that was a very dangerous policy, we didn’t intend the food for soldiers. But who will go behind the line to stop the soldiers from ambushing the vehicles that were carrying the food? And as long as soldiers were fed, the war will continue, and who’ll continue to suffer? and those who didn’t go to the place to see things as I did, you remember that all the big guns, all the soldiers in the Biafran army looked all well fed after the war, its only the mass of the people that suffered kwashiorkor.

You won't hear of a single lawyer, a single doctor, a single architect, who suffered from kwashiorkor? None of their children either, so they waylaid the foods, they ambushed the vehicles and took the foods to their friends and to their collaborators and to their children and the masses were suffering. So I decided to stop sending the food there. In the process, the civilians would suffer, but the soldiers will suffer most.

CHANGE OF CURRENCY

And it is on record that Ojukwu admitted that two things defeated him in this war, that’s as at the day he left Biafra. He said one, the change of currency, he said that was the first thing that defeated him, and we did that to prevent Ojukwu taking the money which his soldiers had stolen from our Central Bank for sale abroad to buy arms. We discovered he looted our Central Bank in Benin, he looted the one in Port Harcourt, looted the one in Calabar and he was taking the currency notes abroad to sell to earn foreign exchange to buy arms.

So I decided to change the currency, and for your benefit, it can now be told the whole world, only Gowon knew the day before, the day before the change took place. I decided, only three of us knew before then- Isong now Governor of Cross River, Attah and myself. It was a closely guarded secret, if any Commissioner at the time says that he knew about it, he’s only boosting his own ego. Because once you tell someone, he’ll tell another person. So we refused to tell them and we changed the currency notes. So Ojukwu said the change in currency defeated him, and starvation of his soldiers also defeated him.

These were the two things that defeated Ojukwu. And, he reminds me, when you saw Ojukwu’s picture after the war, did he look like someone who wasn't well fed? But he had been taking the food which we sent to civilians, and so we stopped the food.

ABANDONED PROPERTY

And then finally, I saw to it that the houses owned by the Ibos in Lagos and on this side, were kept for them. I had an estate agent friend who told me that one of them collected half a million pounds rent which has been kept for him. All his rent were collected, but since we didn’t seize their houses, he came back and collected half a million pounds.

So that is the position. I’m a friend of the Ibos and the mass of the Ibos are my friends, but there are certain elements who want to continue to deceive the Ibos by telling lies against me, and one day, they’ll discover and then that day will be terrible for those who have been telling the lies.

Omoba Bisi Odukoya
PoliticsRe: Obafemi Awolowo: 31 Years After His Death by farem: 6:21pm On May 09, 2019
Adaibeku:
Awo the frog is a tribal bigot smiley
Is this what you were asked?
PoliticsMan Tumbles In Front Of A Car To Celebrate Oyetola’s Appeal Court Victory by farem(op): 5:36pm On May 09, 2019
People can go to any length to celebrate anything that gladden their minds.

The picture below is one of the esoteric displays in Osun state.
What do say about this picture?

LiteratureRe: Wole Soyinka Replies Reno Omokri Over Chinua Achebe Being Better Than Him by farem: 9:36pm On May 08, 2019
SLAP44:
In the end, Soyinka spoke so many words and ended up saying nothing in response to the issues raised.

Such an evasive character is not worthy of even the readers digest author of the week award.
Hehn? You are right!
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Christianity EtcRe: Countries Ranked According To Prayer, Daddy Freeze Reacts by farem: 9:26pm On May 08, 2019
Pusyiter:
Antichrist, continue
Wetin prayer do you?
Chinese pray to their deity same with Africans
Why do you hate God like this?
Baby freezer is so ignorant. He stands against anything Christ, Church or Bible or can anyone says Chinese don't pray?
Have you seen a Chinese or Indian big business concerns anywhere without the emblems of their idols? None!
I pity the spiritual miscreants that foolishly follow this baby

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