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WizardOfNG:
Precisely. Dude is a shameless drama King. Amusing also how today's Nigerian political leaders and wannabes always have mouth.

Yet arrest or confront them physically and they all suddenly have health problems, need urgent medical attention, are near death, fainting etc.

Political leaders of today are a disgrace in comparison to the likes of Awolowo, Mandela, Kwame Nkrumah etal. Look at the length of time the likes of Mandela, Awolowo, Buhari, OBJ etal spent in jail stoically.

OBJ spent 3 years in Jail. Awolowo too, 3 years in Jail. Buhari, over 3 years in Jail. Nelson Mandela, extraordinary man, 27 years in Jail.

Yet today's over-pampered politicians begin crying, having palpitations or fainting the minute they land in a cell. All they know is noise. Slightest physical discomfort, they are crying like babies.

Sowore has been fighting for human rights before you were born

if every body adopts the security tip of not entering an empty bus, then who will?

The kidnapping epidemic in Nigeria has evolved from a localized criminal enterprise into a multi-billion-naira national security threat. For years, a dangerous cycle has persisted: citizens, desperate to save their loved ones, pay exorbitant ransoms, which terrorists and bandit groups promptly reinvest into high-grade weaponry, fuel, and logistics to launch even larger attacks.

To break this vicious cycle, the Nigerian government must transition from a reactive posture to a proactive, highly sophisticated rescue paradigm. Rescuing hostages safely without bowing to financial extortion requires a multi-layered strategy that synthesizes elite kinetic operations, advanced technological surveillance, community-led intelligence, and aggressive financial warfare.

1. Intelligence-Led Kinetic Operations (The Hostage Rescue Paradigm)
Frontline military deployment in hostage situations cannot rely on blunt force, which often puts the victims at extreme risk. Instead, Nigeria must institutionalize dedicated, multi-agency Hostage Rescue Teams (HRTs).

Establishment of Joint Elite Commands: Drawing elite operatives from the Department of State Services (DSS), the Nigerian Navy SBS, the Air Force Panther Regiment, and the Army Special Forces into a singular, highly coordinated command.

Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Mapping: Bandits frequently utilize known blind spots in Nigeria’s vast forest reserves (such as the Kamuku, Kuyambana, and Sambisa forests). Military planners must use high-resolution satellite imagery to construct 3D terrain models of these hideouts before launching extraction operations.

Surgical Extraction Tactics: Shifting focus from heavy artillery bombardments to nighttime, low-light operations utilizing night-vision capabilities, silenced weapons, and fast-rope helicopter insertions to neutralize captors before they can harm hostages.

2. Deploying Advanced Surveillance Technology

Technology acts as a force multiplier, allowing security forces to see into the dense canopies and remote villages where victims are held.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Loitering Munitions: Persistent drone surveillance equipped with thermal imaging and Forward-Looking Infrared (FLIR) cameras can detect human heat signatures through dense forest cover, locating bandit camps without alerting the criminals.

IMSI Catchers and Cellular Triangulation: Even when bandits use unregistered SIM cards or victims’ phones to demand ransom, International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) catchers can pinpoint the exact geographical coordinates of the active device within meters, bypassing standard telecom delays.

AI-Powered Predictive Policing: Utilizing machine learning algorithms to analyze historical attack data, identifying patterns in the timing, routes, and geographic directions taken by bandits post-abduction to deploy intercept teams effectively.

3. Weaponizing Financial Intelligence and Telecommunications
While the goal is to avoid paying ransom, understanding and cutting off the financial pipelines of kidnappers is vital to crippling their operational capacity.

Strict Enforcement of NIMC-SIM Linkage: The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) must enforce biometric compliance across all telecommunication networks. Any mobile line making a ransom demand that cannot be instantly traced to a verified National Identification Number (NIN) represents a systemic failure that must carry severe penalties for telecom providers.

Tracking Crypto and Local Financial Proxies: Modern kidnapping syndicates increasingly use digital currencies or networks of complicit point-of-sale (POS) operators and local bank accounts to launder funds. The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) must deploy advanced blockchain analytics and freeze suspicious, rapid-velocity transactions in real time.

4. Community-Centric Intelligence and “Border” Security
No technological asset can replace human intelligence (HUMINT). Bandits often live near, interact with, or buy supplies from local communities.

Community Trust Rebuilding and Whistleblower Protection: Rural communities often refrain from reporting bandit movements due to fear of retaliatory massacres. The government must establish localized, highly secure, and anonymous reporting channels, backed by robust witness protection and financial incentives for actionable intelligence.

Forest Rangers and Local Hunters Integration: Formalizing alliances with the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), local hunters, and state-backed vigilante groups (like the Amotekun or Benue State Volunteer Guards). These local actors possess unparalleled knowledge of the local terrain and can act as scouts and early-warning systems for the military.

5. Legislative Reforms and Psychological Warfare
To completely eliminate the ransom economy, the state must reshape the legal and psychological landscape surrounding the crime.

Rigorous Prosecution and Maximum Sentencing: The legal system must fast-track the prosecution of arrested kidnappers, informants, and logistics suppliers. Publicizing maximum sentences—including life imprisonment or the death penalty where applicable—serves as a powerful deterrent.

State-Funded Victim Support and Mediation Units: When families know the government will deploy every available resource—including elite negotiators who specialize in stalling tactics to buy time for tactical tracking rather than financial settlement—the desperation to pay ransom decreases. The state must provide comprehensive psychological and medical rehabilitation post-rescue to build public confidence in national security agencies.

Conclusion
Rescuing kidnapped victims without paying ransom is not an impossible feat, but it demands an uncompromising departure from obsolete security methods. By starving criminal networks of their communication lines, tracking their physical movements via cutting-edge tech, and deploying surgical, elite military force, the Nigerian government can decisively shift the risk-to-reward ratio against kidnappers. When abducting a Nigerian citizen yields swift military neutralization instead of a massive financial windfall, the kidnapping industry will inevitably collapse.

https://www.fora.ng/forum/topic/breaking-the-ransom-cycle-a-strategic-blueprint-for-hostage-rescue-in-nigeria/

redcliff:
US should get the phuck out of the middle east. There were no problems there prior to 1948, how come they started having all these problems after the state of israel was created?

Best commentof all.

Tracing the root cause.

anonimi:
This is the clueless person that some people want to make their president, right

did you watch the video before vomiting this your trash?

Sowore is porbably the most intelligent presidential candidate.
Drone technology is the way to go.

That drone would be his minster of defense is a simple metaphoric statement,it does not mean there would be no minister of defense!

I still do not understand why people only react to the headlines instead of contents

Social media and Nairaland are full of juvenilles,that is why most comments here would never appreciate what Sowore was trying to say,


Technology is the way to go against insecurity!

It does not mean there would be no denfense minister.

Enugu is now the safest state in Nigeria because of the application of drone technology.

Enudun ro efo

Stupidity is when you think you cannot make it and live in the best places in Nigeria with a multipliable N20million and plausibly just go for vacation, study or business trips, any where else.

With your current line of business, you are better off in Nigeria, making money in dollars and spending very cheaply in Naira.

Only the very frustrated church rats, would abuse or curse people advising you to stay. Why can't they just give out their own opinion and move on, without attacking other people?

'Money is not Everything'', is an everlasting truism.

This does not imply that money is not important. Money solves many challenges/ problems but definitely not all challenges/problems.

Only a confirmed dullard would still find this to comprehend.

Trust terrorist Trump and Netenyahu ,at your own peril.

Iran has every reason to doubt this fake ''ceasefire agreement''.

Very deceitful set of Leaders.

David A. Charters

Abstract

This article begins with a question: can the contemporary Middle East conflict itself, in which terrorism plays a prominent role, be traced to a successful terrorist campaign? I argue that Jewish terrorism in 1940s Palestine was both tactically and strategically significant. At the tactical level, Jewish terrorists were able to erode the ability of British security forces to control Palestine. Strategically, that persuaded Britain to withdraw from Palestine, which, in turn, created the conditions that facilitated both the founding of Israel and the creation of an Arab-Palestinian diaspora. The consequent Arab-Israeli conflict has shaped and dominated Middle East politics and diplomacy for much of the last 60 years. Thus, Jewish terrorism left the region with a dual legacy of tactical effectiveness and strategic influence. This article explores and assesses this dual legacy.

INTRODUCTION

1 In Western popular discourse the term terrorism has long been associated with the Middle East, but particularly with the activities of Palestinian Arab groups, which have dominated the news for the past forty years. But sixty years ago, it was the actions of Jewish terrorists in Palestine that grabbed headlines around the world. Although this campaign is not as well-known today, it raises an important question: is the modern Middle East conflict, in which terrorism plays a prominent role, itself a product of a terrorist campaign?

2 In this chapter I argue that Jewish terrorism in the 1940s was both tactically and strategically significant. At the tactical level, Jewish terrorists were able to frustrate British security forces and erode their ability to control Palestine. That played a significant role at the strategic level in persuading Britain to withdraw from Palestine, which, in turn, created the conditions that facilitated the founding of Israel, and the consequent creation of an Arab-Palestinian diaspora. The Arab-Israeli conflict, which arose from this situation, has shaped and dominated Middle East politics and diplomacy for much of the last six decades. Thus, Jewish terrorism left the region with a dual legacy of tactical effectiveness and strategic influence. This article will explore and assess both of these legacies.

Origins of the Jewish Terrorism Campaign

3 The armed struggle that preceded the formal founding of Israel had its origins in the complex interaction of European social conflicts, great power diplomacy during the First World War, the clash of competing Jewish and Arab nationalisms in the inter-war era, and divisions within the Zionist movement. The rise of modern European nationalism combined with the marginalization and persecution of Jewish minorities encouraged a wave of Jewish immigration to Palestine at the end of the nineteenth century. These same trends revived and politicized the Zionist movement, which dedicated itself to re-creating a Jewish state, preferably in the ancient lands of Israel and now within Palestine.1 Britain"s wartime diplomacy, undertaken to defeat the Ottoman Empire, left it committed to an untenable contradiction. It was obligated both to create independent Arab states on former Ottoman lands and to support the creation of a Jewish "homeland" on a portion of those lands. Britain"s inability to reconcile these obligations frustrated Palestinian Arabs, who clashed violently with Jewish nationalists determined to create a new Jewish state in Palestine.2

4 The Zionist movement itself was divided into two broad camps: the Labour Zionists, an agrarian socialist movement, and the Revisionists, a more nationalistic faction. Their ideological differences were exacerbated by the clashes with the Arabs, which led the two factions to adopt somewhat different approaches to the use of force. The Labour Zionists, by far the majority among Palestinian Jews and drawing upon a pacifist tradition, favoured a strategy of "active defence." They created the Haganah (Defence force) to defend their settlements; trained by Orde Wingate, a pro-Zionist British officer, the Haganah also carried out limited offensive operations against Arab guerrilla forces. The Revisionists, however, were dissatisfied with the defensive mindset of the Labour Zionists and favoured taking the fight directly to the enemy. Thus, the Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization) emerged out of a pro-Revisionist rump of the Haganah. In the late 1930s, the Irgun carried out a number of terrorist-style attacks on Palestinian Arabs. But the outbreak of the Second World War divided the Zionists further over the issue of cooperation with Britain in the war effort. While the Haganah and Irgun were willing to do so to a limited degree, a few dissidents within the Revisionist movement regarded this as betrayal, since British policy toward Palestine, articulated on the eve of the war, proposed the creation only of an Arab state. These more extreme militants created a new group: the Lochmei Herut Israel (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel - LHI). Led initially by intellectual mystic Abraham Stern, they attacked the British security forces in Palestine. After Stern was killed by the police in 1942, the group became known more commonly as the Stern Gang.3 These three groups ultimately confronted the British with a terrorist insurgency after the war.

5 In the meantime, however, the Holocaust changed the Zionist calculus. The almost total destruction of European Jewry created a crisis within Palestinian Zionism. While the Holocaust reinforced the moral case for a Jewish state, the prospect of actually doing so seemed to be slipping away. The Jews the Zionists had counted on to populate and build the new state had been systematically exterminated.4 Rescuing the survivors helped to shape a new "culture of survival" against existential threats to Jewry. So, it was a "militarized" Zionism, embodied in the phrase "Never Again," that confronted the British in Palestine in 1945.5

Terrorism: a Tactical Weapon for Strategic Purposes

6 The Jewish underground groups launched their insurgency against the British on 31 October 1945 with a series of coordinated attacks against the railways, oil refineries, and police boats. The anti-British insurgency continued for nearly two years, in two phases. The first, often referred to as the "United Resistance" phase, lasted from October 1945 to August 1946. During this period, the three groups attempted to coordinate their actions against the British, but political and strategic disagreements precluded a wholly united front. The Haganah used violence as a pressure tactic to persuade the British to change their policy on Jewish immigration into Palestine. So, it limited its attacks mostly to targets related to anti-immigration efforts, such as coastal radar stations and police boats. But it also sabotaged the railway as a way of imposing economic pressure on the British. The Irgun and Stern groups, however, were committed to all-out "national liberation" wars. They did not believe that the British would give Palestine to the Jews and thus were determined to force them out. They tried to increase the human and political costs to Britain of remaining in Palestine by attacking British troops and police, military bases and police stations, oil refineries, trains, bridges, and banks. Between them, the three groups carried out 78 attacks in the nine months after October 1945. However, the united resistance dissolved after the Irgun blew up the British administration headquarters in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in July 1946, killing 92 people. Following that disaster, which was a grave embarrassment to the moderate Zionists, the Haganah effectively withdrew from armed operations. Unrestrained by the need for a united front, the Irgun and the Stern Gang rapidly escalated the levels of violence nearly four-fold in this second phase, carrying out 286 attacks over the next twelve months. Casualties exceeded 1,000 over the whole two-year period.6

7 But numbers don"t tell the whole story. The insurgents confounded the British by conducting a "two-front war": a tactical paramilitary battle for control – the ability to rule; and a strategic, political, and psychological battle for legitimacy – the right to rule.7 On the tactical front, they used innovative terrorism techniques to reduce the country to chaos, thereby making Palestine ungovernable. At the strategic level they expanded the armed struggle to Europe and Britain, and conducted an imaginative propaganda war against Britain in the United States that frustrated British policy efforts. Together, these two fronts undermined the British will to remain in Palestine.

8 Irgun leader Menachem Begin believed that once the revolt began Palestine would resemble a "glass house." The world"s attention would be focused on events there and that would protect the insurgents, because the British would not be "free to suppress the rebellion in a sea of blood."8 So the Irgun pursued a strategy that would simultaneously undermine British rule in Palestine while promoting the Irgun"s image and message. Every Irgun attack the British failed to prevent would be a blow to its prestige, while the act itself would enhance the reputation of the Irgun. It was a classic application of the anarchist strategy "propaganda of the deed."9 The Irgun"s strategy was designed to defeat Britain on both the tactical/control and strategic/political fronts. Since the British position in Palestine was already controversial at home and abroad, the legitimacy battle was all but won. So, the Irgun concentrated on undermining the means of British control.

9 The LHI"s grand strategic vision had died with founder Abraham Stern, leaving a legacy of commitment to individual terrorism, which the group turned into an obsession with revenge for his death. His successors fused this with their Marxist doctrine, arguing that Britain"s position in Palestine was determined solely by economic interests. Therefore, the Stern Gang"s strategy consisted of a combination of economic warfare and anarchist-style "direct action" against senior government officials and especially the police. Like the Irgun, the LHI"s leaders believed that their attacks would show that the Mandatory regime was "weak and ineffectual" and unable to maintain order except at an unacceptable cost.10

10 The attack on the King David Hotel in July 1946 was a devastating blow to the British administration in Palestine. The bomb had blown up the Secretariat, which was responsible for much of the day-to-day work that kept the government – and the country – functioning. It took the lives of twenty-one senior civil servants and of many junior staff, such as clerks, typists, and messengers. Administrative files and records were destroyed. Neither the people nor the records could be replaced easily, and the administration of the mandate suffered as a consequence.11

11 While the insurgents relied on "tried and true" terrorist tactics, such as bombings, assassinations, and sabotage, they offset British military advantages with tactical innovations of their own. The road network and the British Army"s vast pool of motor transport gave them freedom of movement throughout the country. The insurgents reduced British mobility with Improvised Explosive Devices (IED"s) disguised as mile-stone markers that blew vehicles off the road and killed or injured their occupants. The insurgents regarded these as their most cost-effective weapon. They also placed bombs in abandoned vehicles. British police stations were heavily fortified, protected by high thick walls, so in at least one attack the insurgents blew up a station with a massive truck bomb (vehicle-borne IED).12

12 When the British passed death sentences on convicted terrorists, British military personnel and civilians were abducted and held for ransom. Two Intelligence Corps sergeants were executed by the Irgun after a mock trial. Their booby-trapped bodies were hung in an orange grove. Facing the death penalty, two imprisoned Irgun members sacrificed themselves in a "martyrdom operation": they blew themselves up in prison with a smuggled grenade. Others were freed in an attack on Acre prison.13 In short, they skilfully neutralized Britain"s ability to exert control of the security situation.

13 The insurgents carried out more than 90 attacks against economic targets. Mines damaged or derailed more than 20 trains, and five railway stations were attacked. These incidents disrupted and delayed railway traffic over a period of nine months from October 1946 to August 1947, with a resulting loss of commercial revenue. In addition, the insurgents attacked the petroleum industry a dozen times; most of these involved sabotage of the pipeline, but in March 1947, the Stern Gang destroyed 16,000 tons of petroleum products at the Shell Oil refinery in Haifa.14 The damage inflicted in these attacks cost Britain nearly two million pounds, but the real damage was to its ability to govern the mandate. During the winter of 1947, Britain was forced to evacuate non-essential personnel and concentrate the remainder in heavily guarded security sectors (known as "Bevingrads". By August 1947, the rising insurgency had spilled over into large-scale Arab-Jewish communal violence.15 At that point the High Commissioner, Sir Alan Cunningham, told the Colonial Secretary, Arthur Creech-Jones, I cannot guarantee that the situation will not deteriorate to such a degree that the Civil Government will not break down . . . it is by no means clear how much longer I can keep the Civil Service working under conditions such as exist at present.16

14 The combined application of the Irgun"s and Stern Gang"s strategies of chaos worked; they had eroded British control of Palestine to the point where it was ungovernable. This was one of the major factors that influenced the British decision in September 1947 to abandon the Palestine Mandate.

The International Propaganda Campaign

15 In keeping with Begin"s "glass house" theory, the insurgents also conducted a strategic political and psychological battle for legitimacy. They complicated Britain"s situation on the political front through a well-organized local and international propaganda campaign. The insurgents were aided by "front" groups that served as the voices of the insurgency outside Palestine, promoting the Zionist cause and castigating the British government for its policies and actions.

16 This bolstered morale within the movements and among their local sympathisers. But they also reached out to potential supporters world-wide, especially in the United States. The US had a large and politically active Jewish community, and because it was Britain"s major creditor, it was the one major power able to exert influence on Britain. Insurgent propaganda repeatedly emphasized several major themes: first, that the insurgents were winning; therefore, a British withdrawal was inevitable. Second, it characterized Britain"s Palestine policy as illegal; it singled out in particular the limits on Jewish immigration that violated the terms of the mandate. This shifted the blame for violence onto Britain and legitimized all Jewish resistance as "self-defence." Third, insurgent propaganda de-legitimized British rule by portraying Palestine as akin to a "police state." Closely linked to this was a theme that equated British policies and behaviour with Nazism and anti-Semitism. These themes rested upon at least a kernel of truth. British policy had not changed since the outset of the war, at which time it favoured the Arabs and limited Jewish immigration, in violation of Britain"s obligations under the mandate. Palestine was not a democracy; it was governed under emergency laws, enforced by a large military and police presence. And the words and deeds of some British officials and members of the security forces were infused with a patina of anti-Semitism. This embarrassed the British government and gave insurgent propaganda considerable credibility within its audiences at home and abroad. It allowed them to maintain pressure on the US government, making it almost impossible for the Truman administration to cooperate with Britain in finding a negotiated solution to the Palestine crisis.17

17 To enhance their armed and propaganda struggles the Irgun and the Stern Gang also extended their terrorist campaign abroad. On 31 October 1946, the Irgun set off a large "suitcase bomb" at the British embassy in Rome, causing extensive damage. It claimed that the attack marked the opening of a new front against the British and the accompanying propaganda offensive was intended to "bring home" the terrorist threat to the British people. Hysterical newspaper stories of faceless, ruthless terrorists haunting the streets of London may have produced the desired psychological effect. But the reality was less dramatic. The Irgun and Stern Gang networks in Britain, including some "home-grown" terrorists, were small, under-funded, and not particularly competent. Furthermore, MI5 kept a careful watch on them and, although both groups carried out some smaller attacks, they never mounted another successful major international operation.

Continuation and further reading @:

https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/jcs/article/view/10538/11136#:~:text=At%20the%20tactical%20level%2C%20Jewish,of%20an%20Arab%2DPalestinian%20diaspora.

ruggedtimi:
And the DNA test result later reveals she isnt the daughter of the late gov...Her eye go clear

Exactly my thoughts.

[b]D[/b]eoxyribo[b]N[/b]ucleic [b]A[/b]cid test

Procashtips:
The level of propoganda and asslicking I see on Nairaland when it comes to the Zionists is out of this world.

It's like a congregation of zombies that have no ability to think independently. Just copy and paste galore. Herd mentality.

It's sickening and exposes why Nigeria can never be progressive.

A defeatist mentality is what majority have.

Even when the Zionists are themselves crying and feeling the heat, poor slaves thousands of miles away are singing hallelujah and doing praise singing of this cult of a people.

It's mind bogging.

It's a very sad development, powered by a deliberately manipulated biblical script. The god of Israel is probably a blood sucking vampire that would endorse any violent means of fulfilling a very bogus biblical prophesy.

A write up from a self centered idiot.

The origin of terrorism in the middle east,is Israel itself, which was created in 1945 via high level terrorism.

But mischievously now, fighting against Israel is terrorism but fighting for Israel is self defense, in the eye of obviously insane, self centered and egocentric homo sapiens, who have no human conscience.

Worst still ,usa/israel have nuclear weapons but now waging war against another sovereign country for the same nuclear weapons. Iran and the rest of the world should trust usa/Israel with nuclear weapons but not Iran. Isn't it? Only Israel has the right to defend itself?

Only very sane people would continue to wonder how an obviously biased USA, could also be the chief ''peace'' negotiator between Israel and neighbours.

What a crazy world!

ezugegere:
The reason is that they cannot be trusted with such deadly weapons. People that have made it clear that their life goal is to delete Israel from the map of the world, how do you want to trust them with something like atomic bomb?

Rubbish ,senseless selfish and egocentric talk!

No body has monopoly of trust, okay?

If you do not trust Iran ,then why should Iran trust you with nuclear weapons?

What a hog wash!

This is enough evidence to show that Israel cannot defeat Iran on its own.

Only fools would continue to believe otherwise.

Iran is not defenseless Palestine


also very interesting:

Countries with Nuclear weapons now at war against a country for the same nuclear weapons.

So USA and Israel can be trusted with nuclear weapons and not Iran?

And they want Iran to trust Israel /USA with nuclear weapons?

What a very egocentric and selfish world!

Amitex:
Op, please, check the pictures again, your lies are very easily detectable. Next time use correct pictures.
The before picture has 7 floors, the destroyed picture has 8.
The original picture has a central elevator at the centre, the destroyed picture has none.
The original picture has trees, but the destroyed all trees were uprooted by the missile, while shrubs are still standing.
Why do you people lie to yourselves by posting pictures from Aleppo as Israel?

Perhaps you need to re-examine yourself and mind set.

Was the story fabricated by the OP?

Is the quoted source authentic or not?

Rubbish talk and analysis!

This is what you get in a failed federalism

What concerns federal government with a state’s local government area?

Truths9ja:
Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan tried no be small

Stupidity is when you believe a senator should be assessed based on empower programs instead of the quality bills sponsored and efforts made in exposing corruption in accordance with the expectations of the constitution concerning the role of a legislator.

“In a recent statement credited to him, he (Wike) said the two conditions he must meet are: ‘Allow him to control all the LGAs in Rivers State, and that he (Fubara) should sign an agreement that he would not contest in 2027.’

Insanity is when you think treatment of a symptom would cure the cause of a disease.

I just wonder how suspension of elected executives and legislators ,would cure Wike’s quest for political power and godfatherism ,which a sane person knows it’s the cause of the crisis in Rivers State.

The likes of Odili,Amaechi,et al,left government house without causing problems for their successor or wanting to have control of any part of governance.

State of emergency ,instead of dealing with the root cause?


Nonsense!

The constitution says 2/3 of sll members of the national assembly

This is a major litmus test for the National Assembly.

Will they fall for this presidential shenanigan and reckless abuse of power?

ozo13:
truth be told when Fubara kicked the assembly members away and demolished their building u were happy am sure.

Another insanity.

Why should a previous unconstitutional action justify another unconstitutional action?

And why should my previous personal mood of happiness or sadness, be a determinant or justification for further unconstitutionality and continual chaos?

Nairaland is full of psycho patients.

helinues:
Entirely different scenarios

Rivers would have been in ruin should FG have allowed the lawbreakers to impeach Fubara

Modified: Why are the so called opposition can't engage others logically without attacking or throwing tantrums?

Imagine how they left the topic of discussion and be attacking my comments senselessly..

Eish

Breach of constitution should be condoned because it suits your selfish affiliation,abi?

Absolute Insanity!

Absolute idiot.

So because OBJ breached the constitution,we should allow Tinubu to do same?

spiSeyi:
But OBJ has the rule in 2004 & 2006 from the same 1999 constitution we are still using till this moment. And what's PDP looking at that they allow the situation in Rivers to detoriate. PDP is an irresponsible opposition party and with how PDP can't put its house in order I don't see them pulling any stunt in 2027.

So because OBJ breached the constitution,we should allow Tinubu to do same?

Absolute Insanity!

Declaration of state of emergency is subject to National Assembly approval and only require the president to take extraordinary measures that does not include suspending elected government!

madridguy:


Let them go and install him back or they should follow him to the office tomorrow.

Idiot.

Because it suits you now,the constitution can be rubbished,abi?

What a calamity!

Tinubu sacks elected executives and legislators in absolute breach of the constitution.

Section 305 of the constitution did not empower the president to do what he has done.

Even declaration of state of emergency is null and void without National Assembly approval.

Very lawless and hopeless senator!

She is always ready to break rules and protocols for selfish reasons.

How on earth would you attempt to justify an established case of legislative lawlessness with a claim of sexual harassment, even if true?

Natasha is used to selfishly breaking rules and protocols.

She actually admitted attending the IPU meeting illegally.

Very shameful!

SDP :Adewole Adebayo/ El-Rufai 2027 Ticket loading...

El-Rufai remains the best northern candidate for VP in 2027 and president for 2031.


Whilst a plausible Peter Obi/El-Rufai Ticket for any party ,would be a total tsunami!