₦airaland Forum

PLEASE INCLUDE SOUTH-SOUTH in any SOUTH-EAST Security Outfit and Operations! WE ARE GOOD TOGETHER.

For the Security Outfit, here are the 10 Top Crimes committed by Nigerians which PLEASE we want you to help us with. We need them to stop. Dalu etc!

TOP 10 CRIMES COMMITTED BY NIGERIANS
• Terrorism – Boko Haram

• Trespass and terrorism – Herdsmen

• Human sacrifice (ritual killing)

• Road Killing (motorists on motorbikes, cars, buses and trucks mowing down pedestrians)

• Rape of infants, children and teens (minors)

• Rape of adults

• Kidnapping

• Robbery

• Looting of public resources by civil servants and politicians

• Stealing

For Amotekun, here are the 10 Top Crimes committed by Nigerians which PLEASE we want you to help us with. We need them to stop. E se!

TOP 10 CRIMES COMMITTED BY NIGERIANS

• Terrorism – Boko Haram

• Trespass and terrorism – Herdsmen

• Human sacrifice (ritual killing)

• Road Killing (motorists on motorbikes, cars, buses and trucks mowing down pedestrians)

• Rape of infants, children and teens (minors)

• Rape of adults

• Kidnapping

• Robbery

• Looting of public resources by civil servants and politicians

• Stealing

For Amotekun, here are the 10 Top Crimes committed by Nigerians which PLEASE we want you to help us with. We need them to stop. E se!

TOP 10 CRIMES COMMITTED BY NIGERIANS
• Terrorism – Boko Haram

• Trespass and terrorism – Herdsmen

• Human sacrifice (ritual killing)

• Road Killing (motorists on motorbikes, cars, buses and trucks mowing down pedestrians)

• Rape of infants, children and teens (minors)

• Rape of adults

• Kidnapping

• Robbery

• Looting of public resources by civil servants and politicians

• Stealing

This is from a WhatsApp post and tells us, reminds us that this is a new world order and we must have TECHNOLOGY if we are to be part of it.

Please copy it and send to your WhatsApp and other social media. It isn't only for Nigerians but for all Black Africans. Let's help our Race by spreading this very important and enlightening message.

====================================================================================

TECHNOLOGY MAKES RICH, NOT NATURAL RESOURCES

Dear Africans,

It is NOT natural resources that make a people rich. It is TECHNOLOGY that gives the ability to create wealth and that makes an individual, and a nation rich.

You need TECHNOLOGY to firstly identify that a natural resource is of value. TECHNOLOGY is what is then needed to mine, harvest, purify and refine that valuable natural resource. Furthermore, TECHNOLOGY is also needed to find ways, and even more new ways of using that original natural resource so that it can now be turned into useful and valuable components.

Without TECHNOLOGY we would not know that what we have scattered all over our land are diamonds! Without TECHNOLOGY we would not be able to harvest those diamonds. Without TECHNOLOGY we would not be able to put those diamonds to use, for our benefit and that of the world. Without TECHNOLOGY we would remain poor and ignorant, not knowing that we are actually surrounded by riches.

Take Japan for instance. It is a land not gifted with much natural resources. Yet, Japan is a rich country and the people live full lives. Why? Because they value TECHNOLOGY and make TECHNOLOGY the basis of their economy and lifestyle.

Our ancestors were very low on TECHNOLOGY in comparison to the people of other continents. So it was easy for foreigners who ALWAYS had better TECHNOLOGY ie Arabs and Europeans to enslave us, colonize us, and exploit us.

Today we Africans still remain the LEAST in the world in terms of TECHNOLOGY. So just as in the past, this condition puts us at a great disadvantage in every way, and we remain most vulnerable to all forms of EXPLOITATION if we do not make TECHNOLOGY our priority. The 21st century is a TECHNOCENTRIC one and winners are not those who have natural resources, but those with the best TECHNOLOGY. History and our current poverty-ridden state show that having natural resources is near useless if we do not develop the TECHNOLOGY to make them benefit us. It is TECHNOLOGY that makes rich, not natural resources.

TECHNOLOGY is the most precious thing in the world – not natural resources!

- Ndidi Uwechue is on Facebook and Twitter

Please pass this information on to Africans, not forgetting the poor and those without access to smart phones and thus social media posts. TECHNOLOGY is not an option but a NECESSITY.

Arewa are too racist against other Nigerians. So Arewa will have to secede from us. Arewa can join their Sahel brothers instead and be happy.

And leave the indigenous peoples of Middle Belt and South in peace.

Go Arewa go! Go away!

''Operation Amotekun' and ''Operation Ogbunigwe'' please help us all check mate these top ten crimes committed by Nigerians as stated in a WhatsApp post and poster.

TOP 10 CRIMES COMMITTED BY NIGERIANS
• Terrorism – Boko Haram

• Trespass and terrorism – Herdsmen

• Human sacrifice (ritual killing)

• Road Killing (motorists on motorbikes, cars, buses and trucks mowing down pedestrians)

• Rape of infants, children and teens (minors)

• Rape of adults

• Kidnapping

• Robbery

• Looting of public resources by civil servants and politicians

• Stealing

Rosskiye:
[s]Bullcrap. This is nothing like Somalia. Get real.

[/s]


We all know where we came from.

Everybody should return to their ancestral home.

Enough is enough. Indigenous people want their original peace.

If this rigged-in regime is to be believed, Nigerians will finally get COMMUNITY POLICING.

Below are the ten most common crimes committed by Nigerians and which we MUST get our police and Law Enforcement agencies to STOP. They are not listed in any particular order.

TOP 10 CRIMES COMMITTED BY NIGERIANS

• Terrorism – Boko Haram

• Trespass and terrorism – Herdsmen

• Human sacrifice (ritual killing)

• Road Killing (motorists on motorbikes, cars, buses and trucks mowing down pedestrians)

• Rape of infants, children and teens (minors)

• Rape of adults

• Kidnapping

• Robbery

• Looting of public resources by civil servants and politicians

• Stealing

Copied from a tweet:

======================================================================

by Liquid @Mefoh_

Maryam Sanda does not deserve death sentence. No crime in Nigeria does for now.
Nigeria cannot reward Boko Haram and then sentence her.

De-criminalise, Rehabilitate and Reintegrate her.

Then we also have all those dead through ritual killings throughout the length & breadth of Nigeria.

Then we also have all those killed on our roads through selfish, satanic Nigerian driving habits.

Then we have all those killed in places where there's no phone or internet networks and no roads so reports of ongoing wickedness is not exposed.

From a Tweet:

This idea is something to think about, discuss, improve on, broadcast, and use our influence to see how to bring it about.

Let's fix Naija.

Blackeuropean:
Fix Nigeria ke, Do you know when I was young, in primary school to be precise they use to call us the leaders of tomorrow? And here I'm today and those grandpas still ruling, with the dirty politics that is going on in your country how do you intend to fix it?

Please house if anyone of you have the chance to jakpa abroad, please do not look back, unless you want to die trying to fix what you can not fix.

But do not take the land route to Libya, that one Na die o.

Ha ha ha.... Go on and enjoy what you did not work for in Oyeebo country. As for me, I am a MAN not a cry baby. I will remain in Nigeria where I was born and I will play my part to fix Naija. When we die oooo we shall know who played the fool. Whether those who did something to fix Nigeria, or those who fled (by hook or by CROOK) to enjoy what others sacrificed to fix. Now this is the end of the matter. Enjoy your good easy life with Oyeebo. Me I am having it hard here in Naija but I will be with those who did not live for self. Amen.

orisa37:
The hand is Essau but The Voice is Jacob's. And Faces here in the Picture are those of Arabs and Indians.

You are right. I think the photo is from USA in 1950s or 1960s. I used it to show that Oyeebo has not changed his mind on this. Political correctness is for now stopping them saying too much in public. But go on European nationalist or right wing websites and you will see.

Blackeuropean:
The few opinions don't count.

Ha ha ha.... @ BlackEuropean - whether "few" or many, you don't know at all. But your fear that one day Oyeebo will turn on you with strong racist hate makes you want to believe there are only few. But you will be too frightened to go o Europeann right wing and nationalist websites to see that in fact there are many of them, but political correctness stops them saying what is in their heart.

To young Nigerians, remember this: You MUST one day die and come before your Maker. Then you MUST explain to Him why you REJECTED calls to fix Nigeria, and fix Africa, preferring instead to go to Europe (by hook or by CROOK) to enjoy what you did not work for. Yes, it is easier to be in Europe and to be BOASTING that you are there. But what option will your Creator value? Is it fleeing to Europe? Or is it being a man, making sacrifices to fix Nigeria? We must answer one day and explain what we did with our lives.

I will NEVER encourage any African to flee their birth country. Africa is in a huge mess. But my message is let us stay here and fix our country, and not allow the corrupt to make us flee, so that we will not be ashamed of our lives on Judgement Day. This is my message to young Nigerians. Don't let Black Europeans deceive you. Let them deceive themselves if they like.

ORIENT HARMONY (SOUTH-EAST plus SOUTH-SOUTH together) and AMOTEKUN


In recent weeks all of Nigeria has been discussing “AMOTEKUN” a Yoruba word for leopard, and a security group created by and for all the Oduduwa people of South-West zone. Given the terrible state of insecurity with herdsmen, then kidnappers, what are we the peoples of SE and SS doing?

SERAP (Socio - Economic Right And Accountability Project) an internationally recognised and respected civil society organisation has fully backed Amotekun. This is what SERAP has said in tweets:
1. "Amotekun is absolutely constitutional and legal. Amotekun is a regional security outfit, formed by states in the South-west geopolitical zone of Nigeria to reinforce the Nigeria Police, with the stated aim of improving security of life and property of Nigerians."

2. "Therefore, measures like Amotekun is entirely consistent with government’s positive obligations to respect, promote, and ensure conditions that are conducive to the exercise of the right to life. State governors should move to enact laws to perfect the operations of Amotekun."


Orient Harmony are calling all the peoples of SESS (SE + SS together) to not be slumbering at this time in our existence. These are perilous times. Each of us has responsibility to ACT, to do those things that will bring about our own Amotekun in our areas.

Orient Harmony is that ideology for SESS people that leads us to show brotherly kindness, brotherly concern, brotherly interest, and brotherly care among ourselves. Therefore Orient Harmony believes and encourages SESS people to create an Amotekun security outfit for ourselves together – one that covers all the states of SESS together. It does not matter what it is called, it is the effectiveness of it that matters.

The boundaries between our Zones of SE and SS were created to divide us, because divide and rule, weakens both SE and SS. So let us, the SESS people rise above divide and rule! We are together the most intelligent people of Nigeria and come under the umbrella of the one same religion: Christianity. So we CAN do it! We can together as SESS create our single Amotekun for we know and can prove by doing it, that “The People Who Know Their God Will Be Strong and Do Exploits!” (Daniel 11: 32b)


SOURCE:
Orient Harmony
https://web.facebook.com/Orient-Harmony-490676718354748/

Racism against Black people (now called Antinubianism) WILL increase.

Recently a Ugandan girl's face was cropped out of a photo with other White girls by Associated Press and Black people all over the world began to wail. The person who did this is obviously sick and tired of seeing Black faces in Europe. And didn't want to see Black faces in their photos too.

Now my friends, White people have been shouting that they don't want Africans (and Moslems) in Europe! BUT WE DON'T CARE AND SAY "WE ARE COMING!" OK. But let Africans know this: we are not wanted in Europe. They may have accepted some of us in the past, but they don't want MORE. They don't want Europe to become blacker. They don't want Europe to become Africa.

If Africa had been a nice place we too would not want to be invaded by other races. Look how in Nigeria we even shouted: Ghana must go!

OK. It is a "STATUS SYMBOL and a BOASTING" for us Africans to be in White man's land so we flee there by hook or by crook. OK. But White people will FIGHT BACK! So there will be many many incidents of racism/antinubianism that Black people including our children will face there.

It is best to fix Nigeria, and fix Africa. Rwanda is trying. Ethiopia too.

They cut out a Black face from a photo to tell us Black people they don't want us around them. It is their country. We did Ghana must go. They too can tell who they like to GO.

The world is changing and a big population is a problem. Europe has Robots, Drones and AI (artificial intelligence) so there will be fewer jobs so smaller population is better. Europe does not want Africans or even need us.

China, Malaysia, Japan and all of Asia are also going to kick out Black faces as we rush there. It's now harder for Africans to get a visa to China and that is telling us we are not welcome there. Even Dubai and all Arabia too.

This information I have typed here is from several WhatsApp messages, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter posts. This is a summary of what people of the world are saying. Rather than keep on being humiliated every day in Europe, we should fix our country.

EVERY AFRICAN needs to know about the Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa (PPLAAF).

I got this in a WhatsApp post and I urge us all to copy it and WhatsApp it to our networks.
Plus on Facebook.
Plus edit it and Tweet the information about PPLAAF.




==========================================================================

PLATFORM TO PROTECT WHISTLEBLOWERS IN AFRICA

What is the Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa?

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) received the Luanda Leaks documents exposing Isobel Dos Santos of Angola corrupt acts and embezzlement from the Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa (PPLAAF).

Founded in 2017 by lawyers, anti-corruption activists and investigative journalists, PPLAAF – French acronym for Plateforme de Protection des Lanceurs d’Alerte en Afrique – works to protect whistleblowers in Africa from retaliation.

To the same end, it lobbies governments to introduce and strengthen legislation to shield people who disclose information about wrongdoing in the public interest.

PPLAAF co-founder, veteran French human rights lawyer William Bourdon, told a recent ICIJ conference in Paris that protecting whistleblowers should be a duty for every government and society.

“Their sacrifice, their courage is crucial in opening the eyes of the world to the huge, complex, underground threats to the public interest”. – PPLAAF co-founder William Bourdon

Bourdon, who has represented Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Hervé Falciani (Swiss Leaks) and Antoine Deltour (Lux Leaks) detailed the “enormous risks” faced by whistleblowers throughout the world, emphasizing that in many African countries the government and/or military often controls the judiciary.

Nigerians and Africans. We are NOT as helpless as we tell ourselves. In the Dark places of the world, we must bring Light. And that is what a Whistleblower is – Light.

FIGHT CORRUPTION - BE A WHISTLEBLOWER!
“Being a whistle-blower is a good thing to be for you protect your country from harm and from decay brought on by the corrupt, and you are taking a firm stand against those who are taken up with their mindless criminality”.- Ndidi Uwechue


Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa (PPLAAF) website:
https://www.pplaaf.org/

Please forward this information to every Nigerian, every African, and every Black person. We must FIX Africa. That’s the right thing to do.

This article is spot on!

================================================================================


AFRICA’S CORRUPTION – A CASE OF WARPED EUROPHILIA
By Ndidi Uwechue
The Cable newspaper, 25 January 2020


We need an answer to give African children and young people when they ask us, “Why is there so much stealing going on?” and “Why do our civil servants and politicians keep on looting public resources?” They deserve to be answered not only because they are going to have to suffer the consequences of living with the savagery of such high levels of corruption, but their generation could also be the one that will put up a good fight against it. So our children and young people need to know exactly what they are going to have to deal with.

To know the reason for the stealing, just “follow the money”. This is an expression that means that to expose illicit wealth or unjust enrichment, trail the money. So again then, why is Africa’s public money not being used for the welfare of its citizens, but is stolen by those in power who use their positions to wreak havoc on the people they had sworn to serve? Simple. It is all about Europe - and those places where European culture is dominant ie USA, Canada, Australia, etc.

African leaders (civil servants and politicians) together with their cronies, loot Africa’s public funds to enable them to buy all manner of assets and property IN EUROPE for themselves and their family. For medical and dental treatment for themselves and their family IN EUROPE. For boarding school and university education for their children IN EUROPE. For their babies to be born IN EUROPE. For shopping and eating clean foods IN EUROPE. Enjoying the safety, facilities and comforts OF EUROPE is all that matters. Being in Europe is a STATUS SYMBOL and a BOASTING. [But they want to be buried in Africa (with much fanfare)]. In short, looting of African public funds is all because of a PERVERTED love for Europe and all that Europe has. This contemptible love that leads to STEALING and CORRUPTION in order to have resources to buy up Europe’s goodies is what I call WARPED EUROPHILIA.

For Africans, especially those in leadership, that forceful lusting after European goodies AT THE COST OF THE SUFFERING AND DEATH OF THEIR VERY OWN PEOPLE is not a new thing. There is a history of this behaviour. For several centuries African kings, chiefs and powerful others, aided and abetted the enslavement of their people for personal gain. Africans were exchanged for things like European umbrellas, European mirrors, European furniture, European weapons (to capture more slaves), European rum and other spirits, European glass beads etc. In short, the love of European goodies fuelled the African role in enslaving his own. It was Warped Europhilia then, just as it is still now.

There is nothing wrong in itself in admiring European living and culture, and being a Europhile. However, when the love of all things European causes under-development for country, plus suffering and death for others, in order to acquire Europe’s goodies for self, then that is just perverse and deviant. I leave it for experts in the field of human behaviour, our psychiatrists, psychologists and sociologists to properly assess this Warped Europhilia. However, we can already see in it some aspects of the sociopath and psychopath viz, “not recognising the rights of others and seeing one’s self-serving behaviours as permissible, huge ego, pathological lying, lack of remorse, shame or guilt, callousness, lack of empathy, and a poor sense of right and wrong”. In addition, addictive tendencies can be seen because the craving to acquire more and more European goodies appears ceaseless, eg owning at the same time hundreds of pairs of Italian shoes or French shirts, or scores of German vehicles!

There are ways to tackle this Warped Europhilia. Several anti-corruption and civil society organisations exist and we are responsible to find them out and support them for they are there for our good. For instance in Nigeria, Transparency International, SERAP, and Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) are just a few of many. Being a whistle-blower is also a good thing to be because it means you protect your country from harm and from decay brought on by the corrupt, and you are taking a firm stand against those who are taken up with Warped Europhilia and their mindless criminality.

Furthermore Europe itself is beginning to feel the effects that looting of Africa’s public money under Warped Europhilia which deprives Africa of its developmental resources, is having on its own demographics. For, Africans in significant numbers are now heading to Europe any which way they can, since Africa has become destabilised and disabled by this grand looting of the public treasury. As both continents are affected, cooperation between Africa and Europe is needed to stop this corruption, and prosecute offenders. The “War On African Corruption” should include target hardening. The target of Africa’s looters is access to Europe. So target hardening would be measures to prevent this criminal class and their families from accessing Europe. Thus, no medical tourism in Europe for them and their families. No schooling and university in Europe for them and their families. No having giving birth in Europe for them and their families. No buying of houses and businesses for them and their families in Europe. No shopping in Europe for them and their families. Just as drug addicts are deprived of the illegal drugs they crave in order to save society from their behaviour when under the influence of drugs (as well as cure them).

To sum up, it is important that Africans, especially our young people understand that the differences between their environment and life experiences, and that of European youth is because of Warped Europhilia where those who should have been thoughtful and caring leaders, instead use their positions to steal the people’s common wealth, hoarding it away in Europe, to spend it living large in Europe as RICH MIGRANTS.




SOURCE:
https://www.thecable.ng/africas-corruption-a-case-of-warped-europhilia

This is the 2nd of 3 articles.
The first one is by Tony Blair and the link to that article is pasted below.

This one here fully copied out is the response to Tony Blair.

The 3rd one is a response to this one. I also pasted a link to this 3rd article below.

I actually side with this article, not with Tony Blair when it comes to Nigeria. Because of the debt we owe, then corruption, I have no hope for Nigeria unless we Restructure.

==========================================================


TONY BLAIR IS WRONG. AFRICA WON'T BE THE ANSWER TO BRITAIN'S POST-BREXIT PROBLEMS
Peter Baumont
The Guardian UK
21 January 2020

Far from promising an economic miracle, the UK has missed the boat on a continent on the brink of a painful debt crisis

Tony Blair’s cheerleading for the UK-Africa investment summit is of a piece with much of the former prime minister’s recent career. Trading in grand-sounding ideas, often very short on detail, he brings the pitch of an evangelist crossed with a lobbyist to the world’s biggest problems.

Blair’s latest piece of rhetorical woo-woo unites (and promises to address) a series of disparate preoccupations: eradicating poverty and encouraging good governance in Africa while solving the issue of Britain’s trading relationships post-Brexit. All seasoned with just a hint of post-colonial hubris.
If it sounds familiar, it’s because it is, with Blair’s pitch tacking too close for comfort to the kind of foreign trade-not-aid agenda long embraced by Boris Johnson – host of the conference – who has suggested that UK aid should “do more to serve the political and commercial interests” of Britain.


With the Davos-y zeal that is the hallmark of what might be called the business-development complex, Blair suggests – like some latterday Milo Minderbinder out of Catch 22 – that what’s good for Britain plc inevitably will be good for African countries.
Blair’s is a “great game” kind of spin, talking up the “fresh competition for influence in Africa”. All of which is true as far as it goes (which isn’t very far, or fresh) and only credible if you are the kind of romantic optimist who believes that a non-league team has a chance of winning the FA cup while 7-0 down to Man City at half time.

What Blair’s argument conveniently ignores is that other and more powerful players have long been in this game, prominent among them China which has poured billions into pursuing just this influence, while more recently Russia has used the deployment of mercenaries and military aid as leverage to the same end.

But it is where Blair ties his ambitions to development goals that he is on perhaps the shakiest ground with its emphasis on the “transformative” power of private investment.

“The unequivocal demand I hear from African leaders,” he says, reminding us of his access to those African leaders, “is for investment that will spur the industrialisation of the continent and eradicate poverty – a pressing challenge, given the population growth and the fourth industrial revolution.”
And while superficially, at least, Blair’s nostrum is an appealing one, the problem is that its promises have not only been largely overtaken by the harsh reality of facts on the ground, but proved hazardous as well.

Let’s begin with the sugar coating on this prospect, the notion of a “fourth industrial revolution” that will eradicate poverty even as Africa’s population surges in the coming decades.
The premise of its promoters is that, with their potential for a vast, young and untapped workforce, African countries can replicate the miracle of the east-Asian tiger economies during their emergence.

The catch, according to a compelling school of thought, is that this is unlikely to take place. Unit costs for production on the African continent, for a variety of reasons, remain uncompetitively high and supply chains are too slow.
Moves towards automation and cost cutting in the established tiger economies, say the same voices, make it likely that any fourth industrial revolution will be a technological one that skips Africa entirely, unfair as that seems.

And the harsh truth is that far from promising an economic miracle which Britain can cash in on as it exits Europe, the outlook on the African continent is not a rosy one.


The money that China has gifted to African countries in recent years means that, far from enjoying an economic renaissance, the continent may be on the brink of a painful new debt crisis.

Replicating the last debt crisis in the 1990s – when high commodity prices fuelled a borrowing spree that became unaffordable as those same commodity prices collapsed – the only difference this time round is that, with the current debt held in more opaque circumstances, it will be far harder to forgive than at the successful culmination of the Drop the Debt campaign.

As the International Monetary Fund’s managing director Kristalina Georgieva warned in November, echoing the World Bank’s own alarm, about 40% of countries on the continent have worrying levels of debt including Ethiopia, one of the success stories cited by Blair.
It has not only been the IMF and World Bank ringing the warning bell.

As the UN’s World Economic Situation and Prospects [WESP] report, published last week, makes clear, the global economy, and Africa in particular, faces serious challenges in the immediate future that not only cloud the medium-term economic outlook, but raise major questions over the achievability of the 2030 goal of poverty eradication in the sustainable development goals.

Indeed, the continent’s most developed economy, South Africa, is expected to grow at just 0.7% this year and 1.1% in 2020 while leading oil exporter Nigeria will grow at 2.3% this year and 2.5% next.

The reality – despite the fine words and window dressing – is that the UK-Africa investment summit has little to do with development and good governance in Africa, and everything to do with a diminished Britain desperately looking for new markets post-Brexit. And even then it feels like wishful thinking.

As Nick Dearden, the director of Global Justice Now, pointed out in the wake of the summit’s announcement of some £6.5bn in new British investment: the “scramble for Africa” was carefully disguised as a humanitarian project. One hundred and fifty years later, what we saw at the UK-Africa summit today was a desperate and unseemly grab for markets, dressed up as ‘development’.”
Pretending otherwise is just a grubby sleight of hand.


SOURCE:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jan/21/tony-blair-is-wrong-africa-wont-be-the-answer-to-britains-post-brexit-problems


-----------------
Tony Blair's article:

Britain must open a new chapter in its relationship with Africa
Economic growth in African countries has triggered a global race for influence. Britain cannot afford to be left behind

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jan/20/britain-must-open-a-new-chapter-in-its-relationship-with-africa

-------------------
Response from Tony Blair's director to the article copied out in full here:

Tony Blair and a positive vision of Africa
Nick Thompson of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change says Africa’s future can be bright, and Britain should revisit its role and relationship if it wants to be part of that

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/24/tony-blair-and-a-positive-vision-of-africa?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1579888028

From a WhatsApp post:
=======================================================================


ISOBEL Dos SANTOS of ANGOLA – DAUGHTER OF EX-PRESIDENT WHOSE LOOTING IS BEING EXPOSED. LOOTING PUBLIC MONEY IN ORDER TO BUY UP EUROPE’S GOODIES. THIS IS "WARPED EUROPHILIA"[/b]

[b]Who is Isobel dos Santos?
Isobel dos Santos, 46, is the eldest daughter of Angola’s former president José Eduardo dos Santos, who served as the country’s autocratic leader from 1979 until 2017, throughout the country’s civil war. She studied electrical engineering at King’s College London, and launched business ventures like a restaurant called Miami Beach in Luanda, Angola’s capital.

In 2002, she married Congolese businessman Sindika Dokolo, a high-profile collector in the art world; for their 10-year wedding anniversary, the couple reportedly flew in dozens of friends and relatives from abroad to Angola for a lavish three day-long celebration. A 2013 profile in Forbes magazine declared that she was Africa’s richest and only female billionaire, as well as the continent’s youngest.
By the time she was 40, Dos Santos owned significant stakes in Angola’s key industries, including banking, cement, diamonds and telecom, and expanded in 2009 to include stakes in Portuguese banks and media companies. Dos Santos is thought to own luxury properties in London, Lisbon, and Monte Carlo, and a luxury residence in Dubai on a seahorse-shaped artificial island, according to the New York Times. In recent years, she has been photographed mingling with stars including Nicole Scherzinger and Paris Hilton.

What is she being accused of?
According to the leaked documents, which span from 1980 to 2018 but largely cover the last ten years, dos Santos benefited from lucrative deals in several of Angola’s key industries during her father’s presidency, and redirected state funds to a web of shell companies worldwide. The documents also allege that dos Santos was implicated in corruption in Angola’s diamond industry. In 1999 the president gave her a 24.5% share in the Angola Selling Corp, with an exclusive license to market Angolan diamonds, to a company controlled by dos Santos and her mother. In 2012, Dokolo signed a deal with Angola’s diamond-trading agency to buy a stake in the Swiss luxury jeweller De Grisogono. The documents allege that this deal was funded by the state company; the New York Times reports that De Grisogono is today facing a total loss. Partially funded through Angolan state funds, the jewelry company hosted annual parties on the French Riviera hosting the likes of Naomi Campbell and Leonardo diCaprio.

What are the accusations involving international companies?
Dos Santos and Dokolo are also accused of establishing and funneling millions of dollars to shell companies in tax havens, including Dubai, Malta and the British Virgin Islands. The documents allege that the Malta office of London-based consulting firm PwC was hired to audit dos Santos’ company accounts. U.S. consulting giants Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey were also allegedly hired by advisers of dos Santos to rescue the struggling Sonangol in 2016. The leaks of invoices from shell companies — tied to dos Santos and her associates — show millions of dollars were paid to these consulting firms. A spokesperson for the Boston Consulting Group told the New York Times that it took steps to “ensure compliance with established policies and avoid corruption and other risks,” while McKinsey said that it was no longer doing any work with dos Santos or her companies.

….. Dos Santos’ half brother is also facing corruption charges in Angola, and is alleged to have stolen $500 million during his time as head of the country’s Sovereign Wealth Fund. Experts say that the alleged corruption is not the sole cause of Angola’s economic recession, which has been ongoing since 2016. “The fundamental reason for recession in Angola is that they’re addicted to oil money,” says Vines. “It’s compounded by the fact that in the boom years, the Angolan economy was clearly mismanaged. There was seepage of money, and the allegations in the Luanda files indicate that there could have been significant diversions of funds, but they in themselves aren’t the driver of recession.”

According to reports, Dos Santos left Angola in 2018 for the U.K., where she’s thought to own properties in central London. On Monday, Angola’s prosecutor general said on public radio that the country would use “all possible means and activate international mechanisms to bring dos Santos back to the country.”


SOURCE:
https://time.com/5769630/isabel-dos-santos-africa-allegations/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=world_&linkId=81074506

For Nigerians it is a "STATUS SYMBOL and a BOASTING" to be in Europe.

Nigerians laugh at those of us who will not flee to Oyeebo, for Oyeebo to house us, feed us, educate us, train us, give us job, give us opportunities, give us LIFE. We are not the LAZY Blacks described by a Greek dude, copied below:


From a tweet


ΚαρελTralalalala
@leraK55

Replying to
@XXXXXX
its Terrible also here on Samos
young strong Black, blacks and Blacks
who are Lazy to work in their homecountry,
and get Free money here
more and more comming
more than 8000 ''refugees'' in a city with 5000 locals
and they want to open a second HotSpot to keep them
SOS SAMOS


Nigerians! Stop boasting about being in Oyeebo country where you are not wanted. Stop wanting to enjoy what you did not work for. Oyeebo do not want White Europe to become Black Africa. They do not want such demographic change. Be a man! FIX your country ooo. FIX Nigeria so you can get respect. Oyeebo will not tolerate this for long and will push back. They are not cowards. They are not at all frightened of Black people.

Let us FIX Nigeria.

Dereformer:
Yoruba people, una good morning ooooooo.

It took you over 50 years to see what the Igbos saw in 1967.

You see why Igbos are naturally ahead of you.

LET'S BE ADULT ABOUT THIS. UNITY IS THE WORD FOR ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH AND MB - WE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE. PLEASE DON'T ALLOW FULANI TO USE YOU AGAINST YORUBA OR ANY SOUTH AND MB TRIBES. OTHERWISE YOU TOO ARE NOT SEEING IT.

DECLARATION OF CAUSES: WHY YORUBA WILL LEAVE NIGERIA
BY BAYO OLUWASANMI
Sahara Reporters 21 January 2020

Predictions about the breakup of Nigeria have reached its crescendo. The Fulani controlled federal government headed by General Buhari continues to thumb its nose at Yorubas. With the formation of Amotekun, the Western Nigeria Security Network, Yorubas have obviously stated their declaration of causes why they will leave Nigeria.

This is Nigeria’s end time. The tyrannical regime of General Muhammadu Buhari will give way to secession. In the absence of a unifying national interest, Nigeria has become fragmented, lawless, disorderly, dangerous, and seemingly unliveable.

Predictions about the breakup of Nigeria have reached its crescendo. The Fulani controlled federal government headed by General Buhari continues to thumb its nose at Yorubas. With the formation of Amotekun, the Western Nigeria Security Network, Yorubas have obviously stated their declaration of causes why they will leave Nigeria.

In the declaration of causes, two major themes emerged: domination and internal colonisation. Other grievances include economic exploitation and blatant display of injustice. The Fulanis have never hidden their agenda to dominate the rest of the country. By October 1, it would be 60 years of independence from the Brits. Out of the 60 years, the Fulanis have been in charge of the central government for more than 40 years.

It means the control, misuse, and misappropriation of our collective God-given resources. It means the monopoly of federal government political appointments and federal agencies. Immigration, prison, customs, railways, EFCC, CCT, ICPC, FIRS, NTA, FRCN, federal civil service are headed by Fulanis. 99.99 per cent of federal judges are Fulanis. All the security agencies – military, navy, SSS or DSS, police, are controlled by Fulanis. Above all, the Fulani control of federal bureaucracy, agencies, and corporations mean utter waste of generations unborn and truncation of destinies.

Internally, the domination of Fulanis is on full speed. With the moral, spiritual, financial support, power, and influence of the presidency, the Fulani herdsmen terrorists killed, maimed, and raped our people. Appeasing the terrorists, General Buhari urged victims of Fulani carnage to learn to live in peace with their neighbours. The Northerners acting like custodians and owners of the presidency, gleefully thundered that “with Amotekun, Yorubas should forget the presidency in 2023. They even went further to demand that General Buhari the Commander-in-Chief of Fulani terrorists, should arrest Yoruba leaders because of Amotekun.

Yoruba Declaration of Causes include but not limited to the following why Yoruba is ready to leave Nigeria:

1. Nigeria is convulsed by internal violence. Yorubas are no longer safe. Nigeria can no longer deliver positive political goods to our people.

2. General Buhari’s tyrannical regime has lost its legitimacy, and by extension, Nigeria has become illegitimate.

3. Nigeria enjoys no stability and predictability. No one is in charge. Our democracy has turned dictatorship. Nothing works in Nigeria. Everything is in disarray.

4. All the ethnic groups are tense, deeply conflicted, dangerous, and contested bitterly by warring factions. There’s unprecedented disharmonies between communities and among states.

5. Nigeria is no longer or willing to perform its fundamental jobs of a nation-state. Nigeria exhibits flawed and failed institutions. Only the institution of the executive functions. If legislatures exist at all, they are rubber stamp machines. The judiciary is an annex of Aso Rock. We can no longer rely on the court system for redress or remedy.

6. Corruption flourishes on an unusually destructive scale. There’s a vacuum of authority. Nigeria is a mere geographical expression.

7. Nigeria is cursed by the discovery of oil. Failure and collapse of Nigeria is man-made. Ethnicity, economics, and ideology all fuelled our decision to leave Nigeria.

There’s no shortage of groups that want Nigeria to split up. Far from the contrary opinion of the Fulanis, secession is a populist option, it’s not a collection of cranky lonesome idealists. Nigeria is a phony country built on borrowed convenience. The looming secession will tear Nigeria to pieces. The pandemic, or an economic collapse, is driving the country to sauve qui peut secession – “let him save himself who can.”

Yorubas have no trust in General Buhari’s Nigeria. We don’t feel represented or belong in the Nigeria experiment. The only way to regain our socioeconomic and political destiny is to leave Nigeria and chart a brand new country that will guarantee our pursuit of happiness, liberty, peace, progress, and prosperity.

Under international law, Yorubas are qualified as “people” who have the right to self-determination, the ability to freely determine our political fate and form a representative government. Yoruba en masse really and truly want to secede, so legal arguments would be irrelevant. The present arrangement, the present General Buhari’s regime are not conducive to our freedom and democracy. We must leave the jungle!

If other nations broke up successfully, why would the Fulanis think Nigeria’s case is etched in stone? Here are some successful secessions:

Algeria broke away from France. East Timor seceded from Indonesia. Eritrea left Ethiopia. Bangladesh broke away from Pakistan. Uruguay left Brazil. Greece and Serbia left Ottoman Empire. South Sudan left Sudan. And Panama left Colombia. Let’s go there!

SOURCE:
http://saharareporters.com/2020/01/21/declaration-causes-why-yoruba-will-leave-nigeria-bayo-oluwasanmi

From a Tweet (I had to type it all out again):


NEW WORDS FOR NIGERIANS & AFRICANS TO HELP US FIGHT OFF OUR MIS-LEADERS

Antinubianism = racism specifically against Africans and African-heritage people.

Kleptocrat (or Klepto for short) = a leader (politician, civil servant, traditional ruler, or religious elder) who uses their power and position to steal from the people.

Warped Europhilia = Looting public funds and resources so as to be able to buy all kinds of assets and property, plus services (eg medical and education) in Europe for self and family.

Crony Capitalism = An unjust and corrupting form of capitalism where government officials give preferential treatment to family members, friends, and certain business people.
and
An economic system of collusion where family members and friends of government officials linked up with business people are given unfair advantages in the form of jobs, loans, waivers, monopolies, tax privileges, etc.

Immiseration = Economic impoverishment (that causes misery and a miserable existence)

Whataboutism = Using “what about… so and so / such and such” rather than face the issue under discussion. Used a lot to try to defend one’s or another’s criminality.

WE ARE SLOWLY SLOWLY UNDERSTANDING WHY NIGERIA IS AS IT IS. WHY OUR LEADERS ARE ENSLAVING US. BUT FAST FAST WILL ONE DAY BE OUR RESPONSE TO THEM AS WE FREE OURSELVES.

Attached below is a poster I copied from a Tweet by someone I follow that tells us precisely why our leaders LOOT.

That tweet mentioned that today (20th January 2020) is Martin Luther King Day and that just Africa's own Civil Rights Fight is arising. "A War On African Corruption" YESSSOOOO!

Copied from Twitter: Autodesk University @autodesku




AUTODESK UNIVERSITY


Heard the news? AU 2019 classes are now online for free. Access video recordings, class materials, and more.
Check it out: http://autode.sk/37DIAjY

* Construction
* Product Design & Manufacturing
* Building Design & Engineering
* Infrastructure
* Media & Entertainment


University website:
https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/

RuudVanNisteroy:
It did not work

I have just changed the link. It's The David Rubenstein Show on Bloomberg.

Sorry people

Hope it works:

https://www.bloomberg.com/peer-to-peer?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=tv&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-tv

Many resources are being depleted because of the way humans use them.

Europe is planning on AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Robots so needs a small population as these machines will do the work. China and Japan are following suit.

But what are Nigerians doing? The OPPOSITE of what the intelligent world are doing! We have no jobs, no infrastructure, food insecurity, water stress and shortage, yet all we do is BREED! On 1st January over 26,000 Nigerians were born in that short time. Babies born to suffer. Or, are we to have them flee to Oyeebo so Oyeebo can feed them, clothe them, house them, educate them, then give them job?

Now is the time to be intelligent if ever - and bring in POPULATION CONTROL into our politics. If we choose NOT to - then WOE to our young people and our children. WOE to them for what they will inherit from us.

See here, Samsung has unveiled lifelike Robots in Las Vegas. Read about it all in this link:

<b>In a bid to "make science fiction a reality", Samsung's future factory STAR Labs has developed Neon, AI-powered virtual beings that look and behave like real humans.

The AI-powered lifeforms, called Neons, were debuted at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and included simulations of a yoga instructor, a banker, a K-pop star, a news anchor and a fashion model.

In the near future, STAR Labs envisions people being able to license or subscribe to a Neon, with different virtual humans being able to offer different services such as a customer service advisor, a financial advisor, healthcare provider or concierge.

With further developments they could work as television presenters, spokespeople or actors. Alternatively, the avatars could simply act as companions or friends.

"Neon is like a new kind of life," said Mistry. "There are millions of species on our planet and we hope to add one more."

"Neons will be our friends, collaborators, and companions, continually learning, evolving, and forming memories from their interactions," he added.</b>

https://www.dezeen.com/2020/01/15/samsung-neon-star-labs-artificial-humans/


WEEP for Nigerians. Weep for the Black man who is still doing wee-wee and poo-poo in the street, like an animal and cannot even create a society that has public toilets... This is what Corruption does to humans - just see the lifestyles of Africans in Africa. Very low... Even as I write no NEPA for two days now. And very poor MTN internet. Is this how it should be? While Oyeebo who have low Corruption can advance and have good lives for themselves and their children.

Nigeria needs NEW POLITICS. Nigeria needs NEW POLITICIANS.

This is only the last half of an article but the information is very revealing.

The article's title is actually The Bleeding of the Niger; Justice, Bribecode, and the War Next Time and the source is pasted below.
By Chuma Nwokolo, 20 September 2019

Such knowledge as we have here prepares our minds and hearts for the rescue of our people out of this diabolic entrapment we are in

===================================================================================

Some will seek justice abroad, risking leaky boats that drown them, transit countries that enslave them, and xenophobic states that burn them in their streets, risking the very odium their motherland once reserved for the Igbo. But to achieve true home-grown justice, we must return to the foundations of nation, to an incident in 1900 that predated the Asaba Massacre.

Let us call this the “Asaba Transaction”.

Britain abolished slavery in 1833, starting the moral phase of European civilisation when it was barbaric to enslave and exploit humans, though perfectly legal to enslave and exploit countries with millions of humans. European companies ended their centuries-long trade in slaves and began a new trade in colonies. The star players included Cecil Rhodes’ British South African Company, the Imperial British East African Company, the German East Africa Company, the Portuguese Guinea Company, and George Taubman Goldie’s Royal Niger Company (RNC).

In 1886, Britain gave the RNC a monopoly charter to exploit much of the area that would later become Nigeria. The company operated out of its ‘capital’ in Asaba, employing Captain Lugard for the ‘pacification’ of Borgu. The idea of Nigeria took root here, as a business vision, with country, peoples and resources as assets on the balance sheet of a business whose capital was originally won from the slave trade. The RNC set the prices for commodities it bought from Nigerians as well as the goods it sold to them. Independent-minded Nigerian leaders like King Jaja of Opobo and King Koko of Nembe who tried to continue trading as freemen were deposed and replaced. In 1895, following the Akassa raid by the Nembe to assert their ancestral right to free trade, the RNC retaliated with a raid on Brass in which whole towns was burned and over three hundred people killed.

In 1900, the British government acquired the RNC’s Nigerian investments for £865,000 and formally established a government of colonists, by colonists and for colonists. This was the Asaba Transaction.

In 1914, when the Lagos Colony was amalgamated with the northern and southern protectorates to form one country under the Lugard Constitution, the terms of the Asaba Transaction did not change. None of the next four constitutions, (Clifford’s in 1922, Richards in 1946, Macpherson’s 1951, or Lyttleton’s in 1954) changed the nature of the Asaba Transaction.

The 1960 Independence constitution could have transformed the fortunes of Nigeria. For the first time, government was in the hands of Nigerians, elected from among the people. Yet, something interesting happened: our leaders found common cause with the exploiters, rather than the people. Our leaders ratified the Asaba Transaction by replacing the colonists. Instead of creating a government of the people by the people and for the people, the independence ceremony simply became, like the earlier constitutions before it, a change of baton from colonists to colonists.

Enter the black colonists.

Nigeria’s four republican constitutions of 1963, 1979, 1993 and 1999 are paper tigers. Despite their grandiloquent words, they allowed as much impunity as the military dictatorships in Nigerian history – the white ones exemplified by Fred Lugard and the black ones exemplified by Sani Abacha. They all ratified the spirit of the Asaba Transaction that transferred Nigeria into the hands of a government of colonists by colonists and for colonists. Upon taking their oaths of office, our public officers, whether freedom fighter, politician, soldier or civil servant, acquired impunity and picked up the RNC’s colonial baton of self-aggrandizement. The prime reason for their existence was the exploitation of the territory, peoples and resources of Nigeria.

The war this time is the same old war for resource control. The Asaba Transaction is renewed every election. The prospective colonists say and do whatever is necessary to win control of state resources for themselves and their sponsoring godfather-colonists. The side contracts with missionaries and traditional rulers are renewed – for their centuries-old mission: the pacification of the Nigerian mind to the end that the Nigerian body might actively collaborate in its own exploitation. Intellectuals, activists and touts suffering the oppression of the system are bribed by the centuries-old promise: collaborate with us and defend the colonial system and you too can become Supervisors of Slaves, with privileges that will elevate you above the suffering masses. From stark illiterates to PhDs, all are driven by the same promise: If you defend the iniquity of the colonial system, we will make you Supervisors of Slaves.

Nigeria’s ‘war’ against corruption is a party game.

The powerful Nigerian private sector traces its umbilical cord to an RNC that once ‘owned’ Nigeria. UAC Plc, currently quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, is ‘descended’ from the RNC. Yet, in addition to the billions of US$ annually looted by public officers, the Thabo Mbeki High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows established that in the 38 years from 1970, Nigeria lost US$217 billion revenue to illicit commercial transactions with foreign countries. Annually, public revenues the equivalent of a national budget is looted through the private sector.

The test of the Asaba Transaction is simple: can the public servant act with impunity to prosper self, family, friends and business partners, without consequence? To enthrone justice in Nigeria, we must terminate the Asaba Transaction.

We must tear up the business plan that makes Nigeria the property of a colonial class of public administrators and their collaborators in the private sector. We must recreate Nigeria as a country that belongs to, and works for, her 200 million citizens. We can do this by ending the reign of impunity by those in control of public power in Nigeria. We must ignore (for the moment) the distractions of thousands of petty injustices that are mere symptoms of the Unjust System, and focus on the root solution: we must devise a system that subordinates Nigerian leadership at all levels to the People they serve, by systemically connecting devastating consequence to serious abuse of public office.

One such system is the proposed Bribecode.

The solution must be systemic. We must not subscribe to the cult of charismatic leaders who merely present a more marketable face to the same colonial phalanx of unrepentant looters carrying the colonial baton that the Royal Niger Company transferred in the Asaba Transaction. Our challenge is to create a system that is immune to corrupt public officers. The magic bullet of the Bribecode utilizes the reformative powers of privatization, self-regulation and commercialization to energize good governance by recruiting every Nigerian and public institution into an active front in the battle.

Privatization works by monetizing information, such that every whistle-blower is rewarded for any information leading to the recovery of public funds by a percentage of that recovery.
Self-Regulation works by creating the penalty of Total Assets Forfeiture for private individuals and Liquidation of private companies for serious corruption. This will make both individuals and companies proactively eschew corrupt behaviour as a self-preservation mechanism.
Commercialisation works by the principle of Universal Prosecution whereby any one of Nigeria’s 37 attorneys general have the non-exclusive power to prosecute serious corruption offences. Fines and financial recoveries are payable to any government whose attorney general successfully prosecutes the case. The attorney general for the federation loses his powers of Nolle Prosequi and the resulting competition for prosecutions will drive corruption into extinction in Nigerian public life.
The full Bribecode is available here: http://bribecode.org/a-bill-for-the-corporation-corruption-act/. The result of the proposed law will transform Nigeria through the agency of a reborn justice system. The Bribecode can, for the first time in Nigerian history, subjugate both the private and the public sectors to the interests of the Nigerian public. With the Bribecode in force, our national, state and local government budgets will become sacrosanct and potent forces for transformation. By attaching devastating and inevitable consequence to the abuse of power in the Executive, Legislature, Judiciary and every sector of Nigeria’s socio economy, the Bribecode will trigger a justice revolution that radiates from law and order institutions to end Impunity in Nigerian public and private life. This will impact every sector of Nigeria for the better.

Yet, the proposed law is contrary to the interests of any corrupt incumbent of public office who currently enjoys the dividends of the Asaba Transaction. The onus is therefore on citizens who want a change to make it happen, by visiting www.bribecode.org/signup, signing the petition for the enactment of the Bribecode, and persuading their representatives in the National Assembly – through every possible avenue – to support the enactment of the law.

Had our leaders the courage and vision to try the killers of the first twelve Easterners in the fifties and sixties, thirty thousand innocents would not have died in one month of the pogrom. Three million souls would not have died at war. Nigeria would not have failed. The war this time is raging around us. We must leave the mob. It is time to wake up and find the moral clarity to choose the right side in this war for the future of Nigeria. We must choose right for our present and our children’s future, to the end that Ezinnebuno, and all that have died in the wars of the past, from Akassa to Asaba, may not have died in vain.



SOURCE:
https://nwokolo.com/y/the-bleeding-of-the-niger-justice-bribecode-and-the-war-next-time/?fbclid=IwAR3FqitPHJ3416uBalE2RqU3dhkE4Q2_msmD_MBwHZdWxQFeeQOAjp_u_Ls

SERAP (Socio - Economic Right And Accountability Project) has backed Amotejun in the SERAP tweets of today (17/01/20):

"Therefore, measures like Amotekun is entirely consistent with government’s positive obligations to respect, promote, and ensure conditions that are conducive to the exercise of the right to life.
State governors should move to enact laws to perfect the operations of Amotekun."


AND

"Amotekun is absolutely constitutional and legal. Amotekun is a regional security outfit, formed by states in the South-west geopolitical zone of Nigeria to reinforce the Nigeria Police, with the stated aim of improving security of life and property of Nigerians."


SINCE

Nigeria has ratified the African charter on human and peoples’ rights, which has become part of our laws.

The African commission has stated in the case of Association of Victims of Post Electoral Violence that states must use their ‘legal, technical, human and material resources’ to produce the expected result of guaranteeing the protection of the right to life.

Governments at the federal and state levels are obligated to take preventive measures to: protect citizens’ life; and to take actions through legislation and other measures to prevent loss of life.

As the African commission on human and peoples' rights has stated "The right to life is the supreme right of the human being. It is basic to all human beings and without it all other rights are without meaning."

The right to life can appropriately be described as the ‘mother’ of all human rights, given that other rights including socio-economic rights, depend on the existence of life, which is mankind’s most valuable asset from which all other human possibilities arise.

Nigerian Constitution of 1999 (as amended) makes clear the inviolability of the right to life, which is to be enjoyed by ‘every human being’.