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Politics / Some Things You Can Do To Take Down The Fraudulent 1999 Constitution - L N C by meavox: 5:43pm On Jul 17, 2020
SOME THINGS YOU CAN DO TO TAKE DOWN THE FRAUDULENT 1999 CONSTITUTION
Lower Niger Congress
17th July 2020


Firstly, taking down the 1999 Constitution which entraps the indigenous people of Middle Belt and South means “One Nigeria” ends. Then it will be RECONFIGURED as new countries following a Referendum. The 1999 Constitution will be taken down by an internationally accepted non-violent strategy of Constitutional Force Majeure.

This is not a time to lay back and wait for others to work, then you enjoy what you did not work for. Everyone must get involved. Even our children can get involved because it is a NON-VIOLENT method!

Some things YOU and your children can do:
• Tell others about what is going on – We are Taking Down the 1999 Constitution.

• This is the information age so tell others to go to the internet as that is where information is placed for the people of the world to access.

• Spread the knowledge in every gathering: religious, wedding, funeral, birthday, parties, work, school, university, polytechnic, newspaper stand, taxi, keke, luxury bus travel, plane, waiting rooms, EVERYWHERE.

• Copy LNC posts and broadcast them by WhatsApp and other social media. If it’s too long, just copy the web address and broadcast that.

• Write about Taking Down the 1999 Constitution in comments sections of newspapers, magazines etc. Write about it as “Letter to the Editor”. Make posters about it. Write your own tweets about it in Twitter and retweet others tweets. Do the same in Instagram. Use hashtags: #BinIt9ja #BinItNG

• Call into radio chat shows and talk about it. If you are in TV, talk about it. If you are in music, sing about it.

• Stop singing the national anthem – Nigeria is slaughtering our people and grabbing our lands so why sing it?

• Boycott beef – Why are you still eating beef, meat pie, shaki, kpomo etc when you know our people are being slaughtered and our farms destroyed by herdsmen? When you stop eating beef, those who trade in it will start to sell something else.

• Be creative – find your own ways of raising awareness.

• Visualize your new country where there is self-determination, resource control, borders control, peace and progress! grin


SOURCE:
https://web.facebook.com/lowernigercongress

Politics / Trans-nigeria Gas Pipeline: Making Economic Decisions Based On Political... Lnc by meavox: 7:31am On Jul 16, 2020
TRANS-NIGERIA GAS PIPELINE: MAKING ECONOMIC DECISIONS BASED ON POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS ALWAYS LEADS TO WASTE AND INEFFICIENCIES
Okenwa Nwosu
Lower Niger Congress
16th July 2020

Not many Nigerians are aware of the Trans-Nigeria Gas Pipeline, whose first phase was stopped at Ajaokuta, Kogi state ostensibly to serve the Russian-designed steel complex that had died in the womb decades earlier. The gas pipeline was supposed to be extended to Kaduna and Kano but was left uncompleted due to its nonviability. The trans-Nigerian segment is supposed to be the southern end of a Trans-Sahara Gas Pipeline that would link the plentiful natural gas reserves of Nigeria with the European market. This was a big dream that looked good on paper. But on a closer look, it possesses all the attributes of a pipedream. The industrialized West countries, which have been the top consumers of fossil fuel, have individually and collectively set up target dates for phasing out their reliance on carbon-based energy sources that, of course, include natural gas. It required no specialized knowhow to appreciate the fact that the notion of committing vast sums of funds to build a gas pipeline from Nigeria to the Mediterranean coast shall never see the light of day.

The initial investment made in building the Tans-Nigeria Gas Pipeline that stops at the abandoned Ajaokuta Steel has been lying idle despite the vast sums of hard cash borrowed for its construction. In this ongoing global economic slowdown when the export price for crude petroleum and natural gas has plummeted to dismal levels, the Buhari administration has seen it as a priority to borrow the sum of $2.8 billion from China to plow into the extension of the northern end of the nonfunctioning gas pipeline to nowhere. According to contract specifications, the pipeline dimensions for this Chinese contract is still based on the outdated design for a grandiose Trans-Sahara Gas Pipeline project that shall never be because of the current global trends.

Business Day correspondents smelt something fishy in all this and aptly raised the alarm. With all the economic woes that stare today’s Nigeria in the face, many would consider the expansion of the country’s debt burden by $2.8 billion to build a pipeline extension into the poorest part of Nigeria without an industrial client base that one can see as a manifestation of economic tomfoolery. Perhaps, the only justification for the AKK-Pipeline undertaking, at this juncture, is the political gratification of President Buhari’s primary constituents in the Arewa North. It should be recalled that similar federal contracts were once awarded in the past to the cronies of political leaders to build electric gas-turbine generators at locations that have no access to natural gas pipeline. These gas turbines, after construction, have since joined the long list of abandoned white-elephant projects that litter the Nigerian countryside.

Piping of Nigeria’s abundant natural gas from the South, where the resource can be more efficiently utilized, into the vast, impoverished expanses of the North with the assistance of a foreign loan is a reliable indicator that the minders of today’s Unitary Nigeria have indeed lost their minds and commonsense. Why in the world do Buhari and his advisers think that the best place to put $2.8 billion of borrowed money in today’s troubled Nigeria is to revisit a white elephant project that was abandoned at Ajaokuta for decades?

To read the Business Day article as republished, go to the LNC USA website homepage and scroll toward the bottom. Share widely with your social media contacts as usual.
Okenwa.


SOURCE:
https://web.facebook.com/lowernigercongress
Politics / Fulani Herdsmen As Agents Of A New Nigeria by meavox: 6:52am On Jul 15, 2020
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FULANI HERDSMEN AS AGENTS OF A NEW NIGERIA


Nigeria is being reformed into another type of land. Here is some evidence:

Taken from Punch news article (2018) link: https://punchng.com/i-dont-believe-foreigners-are-involved-in-nigerias-killings-french-envoy/

IN 2018: “The outgoing French Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Denys Gauer, has identified IMPUNITY and INJUSTICE as the factors driving the killings and bloodshed in Plateau, Benue, Kaduna and other parts of the country.

The envoy attributed the killings to STRUGGLE FOR LAND [he is saying it is about land grabbing! That means WAR to steal your land], noting that FOREIGNERS WERE NOT INVOLVED in the bloodshed in the Middle Belt region.

Addressing journalists in commemoration of the 2018 French National Day in Abuja on Saturday, the diplomat who would be rounding off his tour of duty at the end of the month, said Nigerians deserved to enjoy effective security and better governance than the government was currently providing.

He admonished the Federal Government to punish those behind the killings….

“The reason for the killings is demography; SOME PEOPLE ARE FIGHTING FOR LAND…. I think impunity is encouraging the killings and those responsible must be punished. I don’t believe foreigners are involved in the killings,” he said in response to a question about the claims by the Federal Government that Libyan mercenaries were responsible for the bloodshed.

The envoy added, “THE SECOND IS JUSTICE. When there is that kind of killing, there must be proper prosecution and perpetrators must be properly sentenced. If that does not happen, then, it cannot end.”

Gauer noted that foreign investors and partners would not be willing to invest in the affected areas on account of the security challenges there.

The departing diplomat… added that INSECURITY AND BAD ROADS were a challenge…”

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Middle Belt, Oduduwa and Lower Niger (SE and SS) this French diplomat 2 years ago told us the Nigeria of 1960 is finished, and that the Fulani herdsmen are doing killing and land grabbing. Is that not the definition of WAR?
Two years have passed and the international community are reporting genocide (War!) in Nigeria. Google it. #SilentSlaughter

The Nigeria of 1960 is NOT the Nigeria of today. So why are we still part of it? Killing and land grabbing is happening. You think YOU alone will escape it because to you, “My case is different”? You think God will bless your selfish unconcerned heart? Wait then. Judgement Day will come.

Taking down the 1999 Constitution means taking down this Nigeria. This constitution was IMPOSED upon us, and never agreed by us. So taking it down is bringing JUSTICE. Plus the Nigeria of now is NOT the Nigeria of 1960! To do justice to our children we MUST take down this fraudulent 1999 Constitution and that will make the land grabbing and killings to end. This war brought upon us using Fulani herdsmen and terrorists is to bring in the agenda of grabbing our ancestral lands all the way to the sea.

Indigenous people of Middle Belt, Oduduwa and Lower Niger, this Nigeria is not the one of 1960. Don’t let anybody whether pastor, priest, politician or lawyer deceive you. They all know this. They are WILLING TOOLS many with their children abroad because they know Nigeria is not a country. They are willing tools. Note them.

The 1960 Nigeria is dead. This Nigeria is another hellish one. Broadcast and keep on broadcasting to the Middle Belt, Oduduwa and Lower Niger people.
Politics / If You Don’t Believe In Nigeria – Stop Singing The Anthem! by meavox: 6:46pm On Jul 14, 2020
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IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE IN NIGERIA – STOP SINGING THE ANTHEM!

Those of us who seek better and greater things, why are we still singing the national anthem?

Is your mouth not your own or is that also conquered territory?

Those who gain from One Nigeria can sing the anthem.

Those frightened of everything can sing the anthem.

But you, you who know Nigeria is finished and is a dead place, why are you singing the anthem?

You, you who are seeking self-determination and resource control, why are you singing the anthem?

You, you who are determined that you will live free in a new country, why are you singing the anthem?

STOP SINGING THE ANTHEM! grin

If you are at work, sit down and don’t sing it.

If you must stand, don’t sing, just wear your COVID mask.

If you are in school, don’t sing it.

If you are a boss or in charge, sing it if you like. But may God punish you if you use your position to force those under you to either stand or to sing the anthem. You are not their god. Your choice is your own business, so sing it for yourself and leave others be.

To all those of the Alliance territory: Oduduwa Bloc, Middle Belt Bloc and Lower Niger Bloc (SE and SS): we shall have our own Federations. Visualize it! Act to make it happen quickly. Oduduwa already have their own anthem. So too will we others Blocs. So live out what is in your heart: No Nigeria means no Nigeria anthem. Simple.

As usual, share widely to all of Oduduwa Bloc, Middle Belt Bloc and Lower Niger Bloc.
Politics / Re: Is Nigeria Country Of Morons Imbeciles Idiots Or All Of Above?- Bayo Oluwasanmi by meavox: 6:22pm On Jul 13, 2020
Alliance territory: Oduduwa, Middle Belt and Lower Niger (SE & SS)

Taking down the fraudulent, Apartheid, anti-development 1999 Constitution MEANS Nigeria is taken down! grin
So let's do it!

Google to see what is being done and what YOU are to do to be involved in your own rescue from this madhouse.

Politics / Is Nigeria Country Of Morons Imbeciles Idiots Or All Of Above?- Bayo Oluwasanmi by meavox: 6:18pm On Jul 13, 2020
IS NIGERIA A COUNTRY OF MORONS, IMBECILES, IDIOTS OR ALL OF THE ABOVE?
By Bayo Oluwasanmi
Sahara Reporters, JUL 13, 2020
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The Nigerian situation defies all logic. Are we a country of morons, imbeciles, or idiots or all of the above?
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It is no secret that Nigeria’s ruling elite are cruel, amoral, unfit for the office they hold. They are all fucking morons. Ironically, this hasn’t stopped them from becoming presidents, governors, ministers, and what have you.

Though the citizens are aware of their leaders’ flaws, they choose to be willfully blind, dumbed down and misinformed. Both citizens and leaders are deficient in self-respect and courage. The oppressed are afraid to rattle the cage of their oppressors.

There’s no accountability for the thieves. Kleptocracy is the hallmark of the president, governors, and other elected officials. They see their positions as personal ATM. The country has been so demeaned and the people so deranged enough to keep electing sickos into office time and time again. What a buffoonish country!

Rotten from inside and desiccated, the country is staggering into oblivion. At every given opportunity, the people keep voting for the worst legislators in the history of the world. Each group of legislators proves dilatory and more irresponsible. Never have we a National Assembly more vicious, and less capable of seeing forests for trees.

There is a relationship between power and madness. History is replete with rulers driven insane by overreaching themselves. The Nigeria case proves this to be true. We are governed by a government controlled by a band of cabal of vandals, a nihilistic brigade who sees the government as their property. Nigeria is where the oppressed joyfully handed themselves over to thieves and lunatics to preside over their affairs.

Strange and scary things happen on a daily basis. A soldier is being detained for complaining for fighting terrorists without weapons, without being paid, and without being fed. 356 soldiers fighting terrorists resigned due to the government's failure to take care of them and their families.

Billions of money meant for citizens to cushion the economic impact of COVID-19 were pocketed by those in charge of the fund. Attorney-General, Malami, flouted the country’s CDC’s COVID-19 guideline on public gathering by holding a society wedding party for his son with six private jets ferrying guests from near and far. He gave two multi million naira mansions as wedding gifts to his son.

Legislators took delivery of a brand new SUV fleet costing billions during COVID-19 pandemic while their citizens are dying of hunger, disease, and being ravaged by COVID-19. State governors convert civil servants salaries into their personal money while workers are unpaid for months. Legislators donate electricity poles, wheelbarrows, loaves of bread, bore holes, ropes, wires, buckets, blankets, pillows, soaps, and other bizarre things as “empowerment tools” to their constituents. undecided

Fourteen million or so school age children roam the streets. Education has been totally destroyed. Students learn in dilapidated buildings and in the most hostile learning environment. University graduates are unemployed as ‘Danfo’ drivers and ‘Okada’ commercial bike riders. Workers are unpaid for months and even years. Chinese factory owners in Nigeria treat Nigerian workers at best as indentured slaves and at worst as disposable diapers.
Moribund hospitals, contaminated drinking water, death trap roads, epileptic electricity supply, shanty public housing, and non-existent social safety net are some of the problems citizens contend with every day. Lawlessness, injustice, and other wild life characteristics form the new civilization.

Armed robbers, Fulani herdsmen terrorists, abductors, kidnappers, roam freely for prey. In short, there’s no one in charge. You’ll expect all these to ignite mass unrest. Instead, citizens continue to defend, plead, appease, praise, and are ready to die for the same people that destroyed them.

President Jerry Rawlings of Ghana sums it beautifully: “Nigerians are still in love with their oppressors.”

The Nigerian situation defies all logic. Are we a country of morons, imbeciles, or idiots or all of the above?



SOURCE:
http://saharareporters.com/2020/07/13/nigeria-country-morons-imbeciles-idiots-or-all-above-bayo-oluwasanmi

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Politics / Re: Boko Haram Plans To Expand Into Middle Belt - Read Sahara Reporters Article Here by meavox: 10:05am On Jul 13, 2020
Alliance brethren of Middle Belt Bloc and Oduduwa Bloc (I am of Lower Niger Bloc), the time is NOW for us to rid our minds of the strongholds that are preventing us being serious, and to take down the 1999 Constitution which IS EFFECTIVELY taking down "One Nigeria".

We must dissolve this union of death, terrorism and backwardness.

No 1999 Constitution = No Nigeria!

Let's have our own Federations!

Politics / Boko Haram Plans To Expand Into Middle Belt - Read Sahara Reporters Article Here by meavox: 9:59am On Jul 13, 2020
NIGERIA’S TERROR KING, SHEKAU, CONNECTS EAST, WEST AND CENTRE IN A PUZZLING AGENDA
Sahara Reporters
12th July 2020
BY HUMANGLE

Scorned and underrated, Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Jama’atu Ahlul Sunnah Lidda’awatu Wal-Jihad (JAS), otherwise known as Boko Haram is currently pulling a massive stealth strategy in an organisational makeover destined to connect the northeast, the north-west and the north-central in a bewildering expansionist agenda.

Defined by welcoming former apostates; engaging in factional reconciliations; admitting of modest ideological shifts; and proposing a balanced role for clerics and combatants in his group, Shekau is on the move to consolidate his ranks and establish himself as the ‘African Jihadi Caliph’ after his 2011-12 falling out with Al Qaeda, the embattled Islamic State in Iraq and the Levent.

Often portrayed as a silly sick bag, on account of his frequent melodramatic video appearances, where he is either dancing, singing, mimicking others or indiscriminately shooting machine guns into the air, insurgency experts and knowledgeable sources on the identity of social movements in the Nigerian northeast, believe Shekau is emerging more of a strategic and calculated schemer than past or current assessment of him is admitting.

Insurgency experts in Maiduguri and Abuja told HumAngle that no other leader has so far exerted comparable influence to sustain such bloody villainy in the now decade-old insurgency which has consumed about 30,000 lives and scattered more than two million citizens into a cruel internal flight from their homes.

After the demise of Muhammed Yusuf in 2009 when he became the putative leader of Boko Haram, and the immediate period of floundering and mediocre Shekau leadership, during which he survived several coups and counter-coups by even far more superior fighting forces within the jihadi community, the wily insurgent has embraced a far-reaching restyling with an unmistakable eye on expansionist ambitions.

Experts date this remodelling to 2012 when he lived in Kano, Northwest Nigeria, before moving to the remote forest areas of Alagarno and Sambisa in Borno State in the Northeast.

HumAngle’s own investigations show that after executing several of his associates at the slightest provocation, Shekau appeared to have come round to the view that this excess was responsible for the defection of hundreds of previous members across Nigeria and into the diaspora, even while others joined forces with other insurgents to form ANSARU in 2012 and ISWAP in 2016.

With a studied eye on current developments within rival groups, Shekau staked a handsome bet: ANSARU evidently had not grown in any prestige, because, according to sources, the lack of leadership, while ISWAP continues to be bogged down by constant leadership feud. In the light of all these, Shekau’s smartest move, it seemed, was to invest in growth and expansion.

Multiple sources knowledgeable about the inner workings of Shekau’s group started noticing an astonishingly tolerant evolution in him, adopting a lenient posture towards his troops and commanders.

He is believed to be currently extending a hand of reconciliation to defectors, something previously unthinkable, although he remains agnostic towards the Islamic State West Africa (ISWAP) and its members, to which a defected member of Shekau’s flock said, “He still has zero-tolerance for them.”

The deft weaving of alliance and the development of a renewed cosy gesture to others have invariably eased his expanded footprints, starting from the lucrative Lake Chad region through the north-central zones of the country, to the north-west regions.

All these developments speak to a new vision of the insurgency; and to the ultimate purpose of a caliphate, insights that appear to have evaded the radar of scholars and the security forces.

In the Lake Chad basin area, Shekau courted Sa’alaba and Bakura, two prominent fighters who were reluctant to commit to any side during the feud between the late Abu Musab [son of the group’s founder Yusuf] and the late Mamman Nur whose ISWAP fighters duelled and the Shekau-led Boko Haram forces in 2016.

With the Sa’alaba/Bakura group in the play, they had over 300 fighters, as at December 2018, pledged allegiance to Shekau early in 2019 dramatically redrawing the map of the resource-rich Lake Chad basin as a contested terrain which ISWAP had monopolized for a while.

Unconfirmed reports claimed that this Shekau’s manoeuvre, of offering fighters, groups under him which are operating outside of the Sambisa general area in central and southern Borno, and in parts of Cameroon, to operate semi-autonomously, is the critical factor helping to cement these new alliances.

The idea of a sub-faction, with Shekau serving only as a spiritual leader, became a win-win that offered major attraction to many fighters as to the expansionist Shekau himself.

Thus, fighters who defected from Boko Haram, but showed no interest in joining the government’s safe corridor window suddenly became part of the groups showing interest in Shekau’s new offerings.

HumAngle sources believe that these are fighters Shekau is particularly courting for a measure of an expanded alliance by licensing them to “go to more than 10 locations within and outside Nigeria and fight as members of JAS,” according to a source familiar with the group’s new big-tent programme.

This mother-breast strategy appears to have hit the chord for many as one former fighter told HumAngle that after fleeing Sambisa forest in 2018 to Kano, he could not find a job to do, a fate that also affected many of his comrades in arms who found it hard to reintegrate into the civil society in northern Nigeria.

Every day, they claimed, they were afraid to meet someone from Maiduguri who knew them and life became a nightmare. “Some of us joined ANSARU and moved to the forests in Northwest Nigeria because, at any rate, it was very difficult to find jobs in the cities,” said the former fighter.

Now that “Imam Shekau has created cells in Niger and Zamfara states we are free to rejoin the group without the fear of reprisals,” he added.

Shekau’s ideological shift is at its striking peak. His departure from the past seemed total that he had soft-pedalled to the point of categorising some Muslims living outside his fold not as takfiris (apostates) but now in welcoming tones as “brothers.”

Not all past allies and current freelancer fighters are believers yet, but, according to sources, they are open minded enough to venture a try, like fighters in Taraba, Kogi shocked, Katsina and Sokoto states who are currently in the process of sealing such allegiance, according to competent sources and as already disclosed in an exclusive report by HumAngle on June 16.

What has given momentum to this strategy of sealing alliances, HumAngle learnt, was prudent of theology, culture and history. Before any allegiance is sealed, Shekau will typically normally send emissaries to the location, carry out investigations and explain clearly his ideology, and speak of the value of strength in unity. Historians of the region said this was a complete resort to empire-building lessons from the 19th century Kanem Borno.

So when there is an understanding, after the back and forth interactions, the emissaries will accept the Bai’a (pledge of allegiance) on behalf of Shekau and stay back to organise the Katiba (detachment) in different components – Shurah Council, Jaish (military), Amniyat or Sariya (intelligence), Hisbah (police), I’ilan (media unit), among other structures.

A typical example is the Sa’alaba/Bakura in the Republic of Niger, operating close to the border with Nigeria, that has the above structure in place. He is reported to command the largest number of fighters (Katiba) outside the Sambisa general area boasting of no less than 700 active fighters. This is next in strategic importance to Shekau’s Katibas in Cameroon, Republic of Chad and Niger State, North-Central Nigeria and Zamfara in Northwest Nigeria.

It remains unclear here if the Nigerian government and international partners in the war against terrorism understand or have plans to alter or indeed forestall this expansionist programme of Boko Haram.

Notwithstanding that Shekau’s fighters have been under intense attacks from both the Nigerian military and the Multi-National Joint Task Force, the group currently faces little or no resistance from counterintelligence and counter doctrinal messaging perspective to dent their current violent expansionist onslaught.

This news analysis is a partnership between HumAngle Foundation and the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism under the media and terrorism programme.


SOURCE:
http://saharareporters.com/2020/07/12/nigeria%E2%80%99s-terror-king-shekau-connects-east-west-and-centre-puzzling-agenda
Politics / Re: "Yoruba Nation" Poll - No Elections In 2023 Rearrange Nigeria First - Koiki by meavox: 6:50am On Jul 11, 2020
Nigeria? We are done with it!

Trap of death and nonsense.

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Politics / "Yoruba Nation" Poll - No Elections In 2023 Rearrange Nigeria First - Koiki by meavox: 6:45am On Jul 11, 2020
For my Yoruba brethren

But Middle Belt and Lower Niger (name for now of SE & SS until changed by consensus) are also involved because we are in ALLIANCE with Oduduwa to separate from Arewa-Sharia.

The Yoruba youth who posted this is CORRECT. The way out for us is to have NO elections in 2023. The international community will become involved and there will be a transitional government pending referendum. Then we each get our own countries/federations. This is the way it is done. Google it and teach yourself.

Here is the Facebook post of Oloyomi Koiki

(his hashtag is too long. I saw a shorter one somewhere and will bring it to our attention when I locate it)

Well done ooo Yoruba! grin
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Olayomi Koiki
was live.

PART 60
Ona Ile Yoruba ti la.

NIGERIA IS ON THE VERGE OF BREAK UP
Orilede Yoruba

SUFFERING IN SOUTH WEST

AWARENESS

DO NOT GET INVOLVED IN ANY ELECTION COME 2023 IN NIGERIA?

LET'S BUILD OUR AWARENESS MORE NOW

NOTHING CALL NIGERIA

YORUBA NATION AS COME TO STAY
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Crime / Sex Traffickers Left 1000s Of Women To Starve During Italy Lockdown: Uk Guardian by meavox: 9:26am On Jul 10, 2020
Copied from a WhatsApp post but I located the Guardian UK article referred to in it and copied it here.

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SEX TRAFFICKERS LEFT THOUSANDS OF WOMEN TO STARVE DURING ITALY LOCKDOWN
The Guardian UK
By Lorenzo Tondo
10th July 2020

“Revealed: Gangs abandoned trafficked Nigerian women without access to food or funds amid coronavirus pandemic…”
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The title actually says a lot about this story. This is what is happening to our young women because they have no hope in Nigeria. But is a life of prostitution really HOPE?
Nigerians, especially of the South and Middle Belt, this state of hopelessness is brought about by the 1999 Constitution which is a forgery, Apartheid, and anti-development (Google it). YOU can play a part in stopping our children and women from fleeing into prostitution abroad by raising awareness about this fraudulent Constitution and using the internet (Google search) to keep yourself informed and energized on what you should do to take down the 1999 Constitution.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jul/10/sex-traffickers-left-thousands-of-women-to-starve-during-italy-lockdown-coronavirus

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SEX TRAFFICKERS LEFT THOUSANDS OF WOMEN TO STARVE DURING ITALY LOCKDOWN

Revealed: Gangs abandoned trafficked Nigerian women without access to food or funds amid coronavirus pandemic.

Thousands of Nigerian women forced into prostitution were left to starve by sex traffickers during the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy, the Guardian can reveal.

According to the UN’s International Office for Migration (IOM), more than 80% of the tens of thousands of Nigerian women who arrived in Italy from Libya in recent years were victims of highly organised sex trafficking gangs. The women are forced into prostitution to pay off debts of up to €40,000 (£36,000) and controlled through violence and fear of “juju” black magic rituals they are made to undergo before their journey to Europe.

According to testimonies from volunteers, social workers and NGOs, during the prolonged and strict three-month Covid-19 lockdown introduced by the Italian government, trafficking gangs abandoned women and their children, who were unable to leave their homes or work and were left without food or money to pay the rent. Given the illegal status of their jobs, they had no recourse to financial assistance or unemployment benefits.

“Sex traffickers had no interest in feeding or helping Nigerian women during the pandemic,” says Alberto Mossino, co-founder of Piam Onlus with his wife, Princess Okokon, a former victim of sex trafficking. The association helps abused and vulnerable women escape their traffickers in Asti, in the north-western region of Piedmont. “In the eyes of sex traffickers these women are subhuman, exploited to enrich their pimps, who treat them like ATMs. And when the ATM runs out of cash, they discard it and look for another one.”
Desperate and forced to stay in their homes with no food or money, many women turned to volunteer associations for a package of rice or a loaf of bread.
“They’d call us in sheer desperation and panic,” says sister Valeria Gandini, a Combonian missionary, who for more than ten years has assisted Nigerian victims of sex trafficking in Sicily. “Many were left home alone with small children and no food. From the beginning of the lockdown, we delivered groceries to their doorstep, given that face-to-face meetings were not allowed. When the government started easing up on the restrictions, they started coming to our church in search of food.”
In Naples, where thousands of women from various nationalities have been forced into the sex industry, the Dedalus cooperative began a crowdfunding initiative in March to provide aid and food packages to Nigerian women who were victims of sex trafficking during the pandemic.
“The conditions they were forced to live in, especially regarding their health, were quite unsettling,” says Jean d’Hainaut, coordinator of the Dedalus cooperative, which helps women seeking to free themselves of their pimps. “They were left alone and cashless by their exploiters, and some of their landlords even threw them out on the streets.”
In recent months, some experts have pointed out that the modus operandi of Italy’s sex trafficking gangs have changed. Historically, Nigerian women forced into prostitution in Italy lived under the tight control of mamans, older women who had often been sex workers themselves and who managed the prostitution of the women. Now, the debt bondage of the women is often managed remotely.

“Thanks to the vast profits [made by this illegal trade in women] in recent years, but also in order to evade arrest, some of these mamans have relocated to other areas in Europe, such as France and Germany. Many of these Nigerian women have now been left to manage their debts on their own, although there is always someone around who controls them and makes sure they’re physically punished if they don’t work.” says Princess Okokon, who runs Piam Onlus’s anti-trafficking services.

“Before the lockdown this allowed women under the control of these gangs more freedom but under lockdown this has been catastrophic as the women have found themselves isolated and with no one willing to help them.”
During lockdown, anti-trafficking organisations said that more women came forward seeking help in leaving their traffickers. Yet this came with huge potential psychological and physical repercussions. Okokon said that the juju rituals that many victims are forced to undergo, which involve complicated and frightening rituals often using the women’s blood, hair and clothing, bond the woman to her trafficker and to any debts she will incur. Those who are forced to undertake these ceremonies are made to understand the terrible consequences for the woman and her family if she escapes.

“This juju might seem like something small or meaningless to people here in Europe, but to the women these curses are real and terrifying,” says Okokon, who was herself taken from Nigeria to Italy in 1998. “Using these very old belief systems passed down through generations is a psychological form of control that is much stronger than any violence that can be done to them. It’s clear that such decisions are the result of extreme distress and not a psychological epiphany regarding their state of oppression and this has very worrying consequences for their mental health.”


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Politics / Nigeria - Ethics Of Supporting A Sham 1999 Constitution - Ndidi Uwechue by meavox: 7:41am On Jul 10, 2020
NIGERIA - ETHICS OF SUPPORTING A SHAM 1999 CONSTITUTION
By Ndidi Uwechue
African News Today
9th July 2020

Nigeria has actually collapsed. I cannot pinpoint the exact date, but when I consider the filth, decay and squalor everywhere, the depth of social pathologies, and horrifyingly, the genocide against ethnic nationalities, together with unstopped herdsmen and Boko Haram-ISIS terrorism, I cannot truthfully call Nigeria a country. It is simply a territory, a piece of land covering an area of 923,768 sq km in western Africa.

A country would be a place where people can live in an environment of peace, intelligence, dignity, and civility, not be so debased as to flounder around in lack, having only a stunted, miserable, frightening and violent existence.

With the passage of time, Nigeria the self-proclaimed “giant of Africa” seems unable to be anything other than delinquent and dysfunctional. Nigerians and the watching world now need to ask, is Nigeria a product of what its first Northern Premier Ahmadu Bello at Independence in 1960 wished for the nation? When he said, “The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our grandfather, Othman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We must use the minorities in the North as willing tools, and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us or have control over their future.” reported in the Parrot Newspaper of 12th October, 1960.

Such a Nazi-like agenda is clearly Apartheid in nature, plus anti-development. Sixty years after Independence the outcome is very much that the indigenous ethnic people of Nigeria just as Bello wanted, have no control of their lives and can only expect a bleak future if the situation in Nigeria is not stopped, then reversed.

Experts have condemned the 1999 Nigeria Constitution as the foundation and source of the deliberate retardation and grand corruption that are the constant feature of existence in this territory. Much has been written about the 1999 Constitution: how it robs the indigenous Niger Delta-Eastern peoples from benefiting from the bountiful crude oil resources in their lands, how it obstructs electrification of Nigeria, how it prevents states and individuals from building long needed infrastructure, how it enables looting of public funds with impunity. In short, from the effects of the 1999 Constitution it would be understandable if an observer concluded that the inhabitants of this territory are “a confused bunch of Negroes”! Those who want to take issue that this description is antinubianist (racism specifically against Black people) are free to do so. However, anybody whether visitor or citizen who stays 48 hours in this territory will at least privately if not publicly, agree that Nigeria is a chaotic confusion of self-inflicted crises.

So, why would any sane people agree to live under such a Constitution that makes their lives a living hell, and causes mass flight of Nigerians (many illegally) in desperation to be in the West, and now also the Orient? Fact-finding revealed that the indigenous people of Nigeria had enough sense not to agree in any way to the 1999 Constitution. It was IMPOSED upon them, and remains forced upon them by threats and use of State power against them. We find that the Preamble of this Constitution which states, “We the people… resolved” is a complete fabrication for “We the people” had absolutely nothing to do with that social contract, making it a FORGERY.

Since the 1999 Constitution is a forgery, everything it represents is by extension invalid and fraudulent. Examples are a Presidential system rather than Parliamentary, plus no resource control by owners of the resources, as agreed prior to Independence; the number of States; the number of Local Government Areas; lion’s share of public funds being spent on giving officials a sumptuous lifestyle whereas citizens receive lack; culture of sloppiness and mediocrity; insecurity etc. Nigerians at all levels and in every position should be able to live according to the Alternative Culture of “doing the right thing” and “doing the right thing the right way”. It is therefore morally right, and within people’s human rights to REJECT the sham 1999 Constitution then DEMAND and even INSIST that it be DISCARDED and be replaced with social contracts that “We the people” have agreed upon and legitimized by Referendum.

Furthermore, the 1999 Constitution states that Nigeria is “indivisible and indissoluble”. Since the Constitution is a fraud it is most dishonourable and unjust to criminalize self-determination individuals or groups who seek to live under terms agreed at Independence. These are individuals and groups who want to live in a reality where truth counts: they know the Constitution is forged, and rightly refuse to assent to it. Strangely, the core North decided to live under Islamic Sharia law which in effect is that area giving itself self-determination, the very thing that is brutally denied the South and Middle-Belt! Having Sharia when at Independence it was agreed the new nation would be secular means breaking away from the rest of Nigeria emotionally, spiritually, and practically.

We are now at the point where the non-Sharia part of Nigeria MUST urgently do the right thing so that there can be some evidence of democracy in action in their part of the territory seeing that the Arewa region has chosen Sharia as self-determination. (In fact, the right thing should actually have been done a long time ago!) Therefore, for the sake of justice, the Middle-Belt and South should now be responsive to the self-determination clamours of their distressed people who are captives of a sham Constitution that is anti-development and pro-corruption, and which denies them control of their present and future – as Ahmadu Bello and his successors wanted.

The British felt enslaved within the European Union (EU) so following a Referendum, got Brexit done. Former Prime Minister May had said, “We can get out of the EU….and put our own Parliament back in sovereign control of our destiny.” Every human being is born free and has a God-given right to control his destiny. Northern Nigeria has done so by taking up Sharia. It is now for the Middle-Belt and South to work for their own self-determination because the present state of deterioration costs too many lives, and forces citizens to flee abroad (as migrants and refugees) where because of their numbers they are increasingly being seen as a burden and a nuisance.

Those in leadership positions also know that Nigeria has collapsed. That is why they and their children travel regularly to the West for medical treatment, for education, for opportunities, for shopping, for relaxation, to give birth – in fact, to enjoy the good life there, that the 1999 Constitution deprives ordinary Nigerians. They will be remembered more favourably if being leaders, they were to take the lead in doing the right thing and throw away the discredited 1999 Constitution, so that “We the people” Constitutions can become a reality.

We must make Black lives matter right here in this territory, our ancestral lands. Justice and democratic living is what the indigenous people want, so it would be ineffectual to prefer to maintain the current unjust, and therefore unsustainable status quo. Given the terrorism, genocide and insecurity reported in local and foreign media, government is being watched by the people and by international agencies. Actions and inactions are being recorded. Just like at their peak of evil power Nazis thought even God could not stop them, they got conquered, and those who did not commit suicide, ran helter-skelter, but were hunted down and brought to book. grin


SOURCE:
http://www.africannewstoday.com/politics/nigeria-ethics-of-supporting-a-sham-1999-constitution/
Politics / Sowore & Revolution Now At Fed High Court, Maitama, Abuja On 10 July - Be There! by meavox: 6:30pm On Jul 09, 2020
SOWORE & REVOLUTION NOW AT FEDERAL HIGH COURT, MAITAMA, ABUJA ON 10 JULY, 9.00am - BE THERE!


Omoyele Sowore
@YeleSowore

Tweeted:

"We’ll be at FHC Abuja tomorrow in pursuit of justice over Nigerian state violations of our rights regarding #RevolutionNow protests, we invite you to attend enmasse even as I’ve been informed that the lawless DSS is planning to rearrest me and other leaders. Trust we won’t relent"

Politics / 4 Federations Out Of 1 Nigeria – Must Watch Video: M N N Alliance (lnc Speaker) by meavox: 9:36am On Jul 08, 2020
4 FEDERATIONS OUT OF 1 NIGERIA – MUST WATCH VIDEO: MNN ALLIANCE (LNC speaker)

MUST WATCH 52 minute video that explains what is being done to rescue the indigenous people of Middle-Belt, Oduduwa and Lower Niger (SE and SS) via the non-violent internationally accepted Constitutional Force Majeure of taking down the Apartheid 1999 Constitution which is a forgery.

The new arrangement will give ethnic nationalities the Self-Determination and Resource Control that is our God-given right.

The MNN (Movement for New Nigeria) an Alliance of ethnic nationalities of Middle-Belt and South groups, have been strategising for over 20 years! The good outcome is Nigeria will then become 4 federations: Oduduwa, Middle-Belt, Lower Niger and Arewa (these names can be changed by the people of each Federation by consensus).

We are living in perilous times of genocide, land grabbing, deliberate food insecurity etc and ALL hands must be on deck to extricate ourselves and OUR CHILDREN (we owe it to them!). ALL the information needed has been placed on the internet. It is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY AS AN ADULT to locate it and learn and apply. (Spoon-feeding days are over).

Other MNN information about the Strategy and what has already been done can be found on the Lower Niger Congress (LNC) website and Facebook site (Google it).



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRPrao-Yl4g&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0a5ipuFIuOaamy8HP50KGcO1NrAG7uYbhGNRIkxny9q-zMKCIKdPUWZLM
Education / If You Want – Be Left Behind! by meavox: 8:31am On Jul 08, 2020
From a WhatsApp post.

Do consider copying and forwarding on via your own WhatsApp and other social media.

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IF YOU WANT – BE LEFT BEHIND!

Many Nigerians prefer not to read and boast about it, scornfully calling reading, “big grammar” and actually think that they are being clever. That type of Nigerian WILL be left behind if they continue to maintain their position.

However, to other Nigerians who want to be part of the intelligent world, and move at that level, here is the way:
EVERYTHING you will need in life whether for work, hobby, pleasure or interest has been placed where you and the whole world can access it – it is on the INTERNET!
You therefore need to READ. The only difference between you and the “foreign expert” is that they READ. So you too can become an expert in many things if you too decide to READ.

The internet is where citizens of the world place the information they have. They put it there for ALL of us. On the internet: There are Youtube and other videos. There are articles and even whole books. There are magazines and newspapers. There are courses on everything from sewing, cookery, carpentry, painting, science, technology and IT. There is information on medical conditions, animal diseases, and plant diseases… If you want to know why Nigeria is in the state it is, a Google search will bring out information for you. Now we are without excuse. Nobody will come and visit you personally to tell you what is going on, and spoon feed you information (as if you are a baby). YOU must now go and get information YOURSELF via the internet. This is how it is now. Adults must act like adults and gather the information they need to make their and others lives better.

So Nigerian, especially young people, we are in the Information Era. This is a time where READING is king. It is a time where information is placed and accessed on the internet. So, if you have any information you want others to get, you place it on the internet. Similarly, if you want to receive information from others, you go to the internet. We now need to live an Alternative Culture which is “doing the right thing” and “doing the right thing the right way”. That means enjoying and being an active READER – and rejecting the culture of despising knowledge by being scornful of “big grammar”. Do not be left behind. The internet is here for your benefit.

Those who may not have access to a smart device can still access the internet by PRIORITISING going to a business centre where they can browse for about 100 naira/hour. If you reduce your tithe and offering it will become more possible to do. Any religious leader who truly cares about you and your progress will be happy to see you learn and grow, and will encourage you to access the internet.

- Ndidi Uwechue is on Facebook and Twitter

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Politics / Re: Return To Federalism To Save Nigeria — N A D E C O, Vanguard News by meavox: 7:09pm On Jul 06, 2020
FREEDOM is coming!

FREEDOM from what Bello said regarding MB and South - that we would never be allowed to control our future, because these visitors that we welcomed to our land have mad cow disease to think they are gods over our lives. Peace they never wanted. Just Conquest. Well, who will conquer who?

Here's a poster to copy and share. grin

Politics / Re: Return To Federalism To Save Nigeria — N A D E C O, Vanguard News by meavox: 6:37pm On Jul 06, 2020
Indigenous brethren of Middle Belt, Oduduwa and Lower Niger (SE & SS), why do we pretend we don't know what to do to get out of this diabolic entrapment called "Nigeria"? Are we really CURSED? Our children depend on us! Genocide all over the country. Boko Haram has united with ISIS. What MORE evil happenings do we need to get serious?

Here is NADECO very clearly saying we must get rid of the 1999 Constitution which is the forged document being used to hold us captive and steal our resources.

There are other bodies saying the same thing such as MOVEMENT FOR NEW NIGERIA (MNN) which is an Alliance comprising these 3:
1. LOWER NIGER CONGRESS,
2. FEDERATION OF OODUA PEOPLES
3. MIDDLE BELT CONGRESS

Their UNITED and COLLECTIVE aim is to use the non-violent Strategy of Constitutional Force Majeure to take down the fraudulent, Apartheid 1999 Constitution then replace with “WE the people” Constitutions where indigenous people will have resource control, self-determination and of course, borders control.

They have been working for over 20 years and it is all explained on the LNC website and Facebook page. Google it.

SO COME ON BRETHREN, we must get ourselves well informed and broadcast this rescue plan to all our people, including our children.
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Politics / Return To Federalism To Save Nigeria — N A D E C O, Vanguard News by meavox: 6:10pm On Jul 06, 2020
RETURN TO FEDERALISM TO SAVE NIGERIA — NADECO
Vanguard news
June 12th, 2020

(Excerpts, for full article go to link below)

…Therefore, NADECO asserts that: The seeming total disregard of this administration and its party (APC) to fulfil its major electoral promises and manifesto that it would restore the country to federal constitutional governance if voted into office constitutes a betrayal of public trust upon which it secured its mandate in 2015.

It is very painfully clear now that the President and the APC made false promises that they did not intend to execute. The El-Rufai Committee set up (an afterthought) therefore, remains a ruse, a gimmick to hoodwink the public to believe that the government was doing something. President Buhari’s so called three pillars – to secure Nigeria, to revamp the economy and to fight corruption have clearly recorded very low achievements because the current centralist and unitarist governance structure remains unsuitable, unsustainable and counterproductive in an heterogeneous geographical and political space where the different ethnic nationalities or groups of them must be free to govern themselves as they deem fit given the divergent languages, religions, traditions, cultures, artifacts and folklores of the people.


The state of the economy has not witnessed any significant and qualitative upliftment as a result of the centralist and unitarist governance. The fact that fiscal federalism has been abandoned since the advent of the military governance and with the landmark decreed appropriation to the central government of the major sources from which the Regions were raising resources to fund their developmental programmes, the atomized/component states since then do very little for Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, since all that is expected of them is to wait for the monthly allocations from the Federation Account, except for very few of the states that can pay their bills without the “Manna from Abuja”.


…As we speak today, Nigeria’s recurrent expenditure remains between 75 per cent -80 per cent of the total country’s earning. How can the Nigerian State justifies the disproportionate pay and emoluments of politicians in the midst of abject poverty of most Nigerians.

Therefore, it is unfortunate that capital projects remain aspirational but for the new Chinese colonialist experiment for political and economic influence for which the Asian leader is giving out conditional loan facilities and on which she is insisting on her own citizens to execute the funded project – the Kaduna/Abuja, Lagos/Ibadan rail road projects perhaps could have remained on a wish list. Can we be wary of second colonialism?

iii. Unemployment is still intolerably high while the standard of living of our people remains intolerably poor.

In spite of the social investment programme, Trader money, N-Power projects e.t.c., the latest indicators of the world body on Human Development Index put Nigeria within the bracket of the World War ravaged areas – Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Pakistan and others in that category. Given the Godly endowment of Nigeria in Human and Natural resources. Nigeria, and its citizens deserve better qualitative lives.

…It is equally a painful reality during the current governance that herdsmen/bandits from both local and external wings started and are still tormenting Nigerian native farmers. In the North East, North West, North Central, South West, South East, and South-South, there had been the upsurge of herdsmen/bandits incessant attacks, arson on the homes of the natives who are regularly being slaughtered in an undisguised manner of ethnic cleansing of the natives from their land for the Fulani herdsmen to take possession.


And there had been evidently programmed support from the government security agencies for the herdsmen who are busy capturing Nigerian’s for ransom and cold murder of a number of Nigerians. And there has been very little or no arrest nor prosecution of these violent actors making it difficult for Nigerian peasant farmers to go and plant their crops and ply their other trades on the firm. Yet President Buhari insensitively and in gross violation of Section 14(3) of the 1999 constitution has retained the nepotic composition of the “National Security Council” which in reality is “Northern Security Council” thereby ignoring the popular will of Nigerians including the National Assembly to recompose that council to reflect Nigeria. In Federalism, there is no room for nepotism and other failures of governance that has led Nigeria to its present pass.


NADECO, therefore, restates that the current centralist and unitarist government that has occasioned inequity, unfair play, injustice, discrimination and disrespect for the rule of law within the skewed, warped and lopsided national structure are unsustainable and cannot endure any longer in Nigeria’s heterogeneous society.

It is NADECO’s categorical imperative that the ethnic nationalities which were the building blocks upon which Nigeria was constructed should meet in a genuinely representatives assembly with the copies of the constitutions of the regions to which they belonged with their ethnic positions in order to finally arrive at an autochthonous federal constitution for Nigeria. NADECO hereby unequivocally tells president Buhari that the only positive legacy that he should commit himself to is in taking urgent step to accomplish this all important matter. grin


Let it be said without any ambiguity that all global countries established by forced cohabitations like Nigeria remain transient. The experiences of the former USSR, Yugoslavia e.t.c were sufficiently illustrative. Self Determination remains the ANTHEM of this millennium and Nigeria cannot be an island given the painful sacrifices that NADECO and others went through for the restoration of democracy even though what we are operating today still smacks of militarism: never mind all the conspiracy theories that are associated with the criticism of the country’s adherence to undemocratic governance. The world is now a global village….


SOURCE:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/06/return-to-federalism-to-save-nigeria-nadeco/
Politics / Re: Electricity Calamity And The Sham 1999 Nigeria Constitution - Ndidi Uwechue by meavox: 9:23am On Jul 05, 2020
I learned something oooo

That 1 million people need 1000MW

With this formula we can calculate Nigeria needs.

Norway with population of 5.3 million then needs 5300MW. But Norway has 36,000MW so even if they have hurricane or some disaster that affects any part of their grid, people will still have enough to power their homes, businesses and factories.

Nigeria truly is a big nonsense that doesn't mean well for the indigenous people at all. angry
Politics / Electricity Calamity And The Sham 1999 Nigeria Constitution - Ndidi Uwechue by meavox: 9:17am On Jul 05, 2020
ELECTRICITY CALAMITY AND THE SHAM 1999 NIGERIA CONSTITUTION
By Ndidi Uwechue
African News Today
1st July 2020

There are several ways of generating electricity such as using: Gas – Nigeria has it. Fossil fuel – Nigeria has it. Coal – Nigeria has it. Biomass – Nigeria has it. Wind ¬– Nigeria has it. Hydro – Nigeria has the water for it. Nuclear – Nigeria has the Uranium for it. Solar – Nigeria has the sun for it. So why exactly is it that sixty years after Independence Nigeria remains so badly unelectrified? What is the source of the permanent under-development of the territory called Nigeria?

We do not need to look far for the answer to these important questions as observers, including experts on electricity, law and jurisprudence point us to the 1999 Nigeria Constitution. Nigerians are living witnesses (or rather, victims) that without electricity access is denied to modernity, to technology, and to 21st Century living. So this issue of non-availability of electricity in Nigeria in 2020 is a serious matter and parents especially, ought to be concerned about the kind of existence they are giving their children to inherit.

The Second Schedule of the 1999 Constitution parts 1 and 2 are the ones that chiefly concern electricity. Part 1 is the Exclusive List of 68 items that are solely under government control. Although “Electricity” is not directly mentioned here by name, item number 67 is so broad as to capture many infrastructural matters as it states:
“67. Any other matter with respect to which the National Assembly has power to make laws in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution”.
Going down to part 2 of this same Second Schedule is the Concurrent List that describes BOTH Federal and State powers where we find:
“13. The NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [my emphasis] may make laws for the Federation or any part thereof with respect to-
(a) electricity and the establishment of electric power stations;
(b) the generation and transmission of electricity in or to any part of the Federation and from one State to another State;
(c) the regulation of the right of any person or authority to dam up or otherwise interfere with the flow of water from sources in any part of the Federation;
(d) the participation of the Federation in any arrangement with another country for the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity for any area partly within and partly outside the Federation;
(f) the regulation of the right of any person or authority to use, work or operate any plant, apparatus, equipment or work designed for the supply or use of electrical energy.

Even though States can also legislate regarding electricity, Federal laws supersede. Thus, the 2005 Electric Power Sector Reform Act with Sections 8, 65 and 66 empowers Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) to take charge of transmission of electricity throughout Nigeria. Although after the partial privatisation of the electricity sector there are GenCos (electricity generating companies) and DisCos (electricity distribution companies) still via TCN the Federal government controls the national grid through which electricity must pass. Thus, through a complex web of laws, the 1999 Constitution puts the power of electrification of Nigeria in the hands of the Federal government.

A key source of information for this article is “Power Devolution and Electricity Transmission in Nigeria: A Study in Resources Mobilization for Economic Development” Conference Paper · May 2018 by Obiora, C. A., Chiamogu, A. P., and Chiamogu, U. P. (2019) in Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal – Vol.6, No.4. This academic paper explains how disabling and obstructive the 1999 Constitution is for the electrification of Nigeria. Basically, even if there is a town with capable engineers who can generate electricity for the townspeople, they will not be able to, so citizens and businesses must suffer the destructive consequences of electricity lack.

From the paper referred to above, we learn that,
“The existing transmission system is only capable of delivering about 5,300MW... This is as a result of Nigeria's current weak transmission infrastructure…”
Furthermore, please Nigerians note this well,
“It has been estimated that developing economies would need about 1000MW per million people to meet their electricity demand…”

A simple calculation shows that Nigeria with a population of over 200 million needs over 200,000MW of electricity. In May this year we learned that the Federal government had done a deal with Siemens to provide 25,000MW by 2025. Yet, with a fast ballooning population we can all clearly see that 25,000MW in 2025 (even if it is achieved in Nigeria’s highly corrupt environment) will NOT advance Nigeria!

Carelessly, my generation has lived with electricity lack and developmental retardation because we chose to submit ourselves under an anti-development Constitution that is a known forgery, for “We the people” did not produce it, nor did a Referendum on it occur. The aim of this article is to further caution Nigerians and especially young people that living under this Constitution WILL NOT WORK! If not scrapped, this same fraudulent 1999 Constitution will also deprive another generation of young Nigerians from living an intelligent, exciting life filled with the technology that electricity enables, and which their counterparts in modern countries easily enjoy.

“It is absolutely impossible for Nigeria to be a rewarding venture for its constituent units and its frustrated, subjugated and degraded citizens.” – Remi Oyeyemi.

An Alternative Culture of “doing the right thing” and “doing the right thing the right way” is the only culture that will turn this territory around. It is therefore of UTMOST importance, and should be our PRIORITY now, to discard the sham 1999 Constitution and replace it with a truly “We the people” pro-development social contract.

Kuumba, the 6th Principle of Kwanzaa, signifies: To do always as much as we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. So Nigerian parents, your children need to see your love for them in action. They are saying to you,
“Our house is on fire. Your inaction is fuelling the flames by the hour and we are telling you to act as if you loved your children above all else” – Greta Thunberg

We should do the right thing that will make Nigeria “more BEAUTIFUL and BENEFICIAL than we inherited it”. It is by putting this land on a just and fair foundation with a “We the people” Constitution.

#BinIt9ja #BinItNG


SOURCE:
http://www.africannewstoday.com/politics/electricity-calamity-and-the-sham-1999-nigeria-constitution/

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Religion / Nigerian Church Practices Make Their Followers To Be Lazy & Sheepish – Oped. by meavox: 9:54am On Jul 03, 2020
NIGERIAN CHURCH PRACTICES MAKE THEIR FOLLOWERS TO BE LAZY & SHEEPISH – OpEd.
Developmental Capitalism & The Nigerian Mega Churches: The Way Forward.
By Adeoba Morenikeji Olufemi

There is a work side to prosperity. It is the works of your hand that God blesses.

People are in farms planting yams and you are busy sitting in church. When it is harvesting time, don’t expect yams to fall from heaven. When it is eating time, people are eating and you are “believing” God for yams. Faith doesn’t work that way!

Faith without work is dead. There should be a corresponding action in line with faith.

When the Christian gospel came to Africa, the missionaries saw two vital areas of deficiencies – hospitals and schools. They filled these gaps. Today, directly or indirectly, we have all benefited from it.

Today, we have a major problem – unemployment. Instead of filling this gap, we are taking advantage of it.

We gather the unemployed and “prophesy” jobs to them. We give them stickers, sell “holy water”, tell them to sow and expect a harvest convincing their gullible mind to “work” for the Lord and that breakthrough is coming… All these we do to manipulate and exploit the vulnerable.

We travel abroad. We have gone to Isreal and seen the agricultural exploits there. But we are not willing to bring them home.

When we sow, instead of our money to be invested into ventures like agriculture that would alleviate the sufferings of the weak ones among us, we channel the money to an atheist in Germany who designed MOG’s customized car.

We channel the money to Buddhists in China, where we buy our building materials. We direct the money to a gay in America who produced the sound system and lighting system.

We channel the money to a Muslim in Dubai who did the interior decoration of our “magnificent” church building…what a Capital Flight!
Why are we crying of poverty and for a breakthrough? The God that I know responds to work wherever he sees man doing something to advance humanity, be it a Hindu, Gay, Buddhist, atheist etc.

I don’t want to start mentioning names, neither do I want to indict any person. But just imagine Living Faith Church going into rice production, RCCG going into cassava production, Foursquare into pepper & tomato, Christ Embassy into maize, Lord’s Chosen into yams, Catholics into millets, MFM going into plantain, etc. What will become of this great nation?

The land is there. The manpower is there. The money is there. Like the missionaries, who saw a problem and filled it, we can also fix this problem of unemployment and food security.

Just imagine a church sending hundreds of trailer loads of food to evangelize the North. No man can resist love. Feed them in love and watch how their hearts change. That was how the missionaries changed the hearts of our forebears.

The missionaries have tried for us, and instead of us to keep pressing northwards, we have resorted to building empires. We have commercialized the gospel. It is all about breakthroughs, money and less of Jesus, His Person, His Sacrifice and finished works.

We have the manpower to feed Nigeria and Africa, generate employment by adding values to farm produce and exporting them.

It is time we convert our exotic cars in our garages to tractors and other mechanized and modern agricultural tools. By doing what the government cannot do, “THE GOVERNMENT SHALL BE UPON ITS SHOULDER”.

When we roar, the government is supposed to quiver, not because of our large bank accounts, but because of our intimidating exploits.

It is time to wake up… I see a day when we shall be holding our numerous church services in farms and factories. It is time to take the government upon its shoulder. It is action time!

Scene at typical Pentecostal church in Nigeria with thousands of congregants who routinely throng the arena with their tithes and, of course, great anticipation for miraculous cure or access to wealth.

The Voice of One has spoken! Selah!!!

…….I think we should pass this on! Loads of youths in churches HAVE NO JOBS! The church should think of ways to create jobs for them.
Please, read and share until it gets to all the general overseers of churches in Nigeria.
#ADEOBA MORENIKEJI OLUFEMI
MD MORELLEN FARMS


SOURCE:
https://www.lnc-usa.org/blog/nigerian-church-practices-make-their-followers-to-be-lazy-sheepish-oped/

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Politics / WHO DON'T Understand A. Bello’s Vow About Fulani Conquest Should Shut Up: Ogbo by meavox: 9:37am On Jul 03, 2020
WHOEVER DON’T UNDERSTAND AHMADU BELLO’S VOW ABOUT FULANI CONQUEST SHOULD SHUT UP – SAYS OGBO

Othman Dan Fodio is Not Done with Nigeria Yet – That’s the Crux of the Wh-o-o-ole Matter!

by Ogbo Awoke Ogbo is a Surveyor & Operations Management expert.

Nigeria is not dealing with religion. Nigeria is not dealing with terrorism. Nigeria is not dealing with ethnic suspicion and tribal hatred – we really don’t have issues with each other on personal levels. (Of my top five friends on earth, two are Yoruba, one Tiv, one Efik, one Igbo. And many of you don’t know but I have Yoruba in-laws, nieces and nephews. So, don’t get these things twisted, if I must borrow the expiring slang of Nigerian teenagers.)

•• Nigeria is not dealing with corruption (or kwaraption, its current version).
Nigeria is not dealing with leadership crisis – we’ve been crying about leadership since 1914.

So, what is Nigeria dealing with? Nature – One simple Law of Nature – that if you refuse to learn from history, history will destroy you!
Nature is stubborn! Nature has this uncanny persistence that its lesson MUST be learnt before any progress can be made. And so, for 100 years, Nigeria has pined away on the same spot. Same stories. Same problems, same people, same mindset, same insanity. Nigeria thinks it can beat nature to its laws – repeating the same follies and expecting miracles.

•• We have learnt little from remote and immediate history. Very little! Perhaps, no one captures the peril of our ignorance of history better than Sanusi Lamido Sanusi himself, the current Emir of Kano. Hear him:

“There is a new Igbo man, who was not born in 1966 and neither knows nor cares about Nzeogwu and Ojukwu. There are Igbo men on the street who were never Biafrans. They were born Nigerians, are Nigerians, but suffer because of actions of earlier generations. They will soon decide that it is better to fight their own war, and may be find an honorable peace, than to remain in this contemptible state in perpetuity. The Northern Bourgeoisie and the Yoruba Bourgeoisie have exacted their pound of flesh from the Igbos. For one Sardauna, one Tafawa Balewa, one Akintola and one Okotie-Eboh, hundreds of thousands have died and suffered. If this issue is not addressed immediately, no conference will solve Nigeria´s problems.”

That was prophetic … since the statement was made as far back as 1999.

•• Look at those pictures in the post very well. I was there. That was my generation. I was only five years old, but I vividly recall those protruding bellies.

I vividly recall standing in a long queue for a bowl of powdered milk being distributed by the Swiss Red Cross at the Ugoni Primary School, Okposi. I vividly recall the rich, heavenly taste of that heavily fortified milk as it made love with my grateful tongue. I vividly recall that first touch from the Swiss Red Cross.

•• My mother was a nurse during the Civil War, a trained nurse. It was from her that I first heard the word “kwashiorkor” from which many children had perished. She treated scores of kwashiorkor children at our home.

So, the handlers of Nigeria terminated the study of history in Nigerian schools – deliberately. Can you imagine a sensible nation hiding its history? Partly to hide the atrocities of that pogrom from the memories of upcoming generations. But you don’t hide problems; you solve them. Every plea for the terms of the Nigerian water and oil union to be negotiated have been met with the demonic stubbornness that “Nigeria cannot be negotiated!” Says who?

•• And because history was banned from the school curriculum, we have a generation of Nigerian youth who know more about Arsenal, Manchester and Chelsea than their own reason for existence.

They are taught like parrots to sing a “national anthem” that has zero meaning. For instance, what is the meaning of the phrase “where peace and justice shall reign” or the more annoying “the labors of our heroes past?” Who exactly are these heroes past and what were their labors that won’t be in vain?

* Was Ahmadu Bello a hero? Yes… to the Northerners.
* Was Awolowo a hero? Yes, but don’t mention that to the Igbo man.
* Was Azikiwe a hero? Perhaps, but to only a few people in the East.
* Was Ojukwu a hero? Yes, but a Northerner wouldn’t drive through an Ikemba Nnewi Street.

So, who exactly were these heroes past? Grand deception. If there were ever any heroes past, nobody mentions them.

•• And what do we now have? Exactly the same setup we had in 1966! The North-West Alliance called APC, the government-sponsored pogroms in the Middle Belt, the demonization of a particular tribe, the strategic militarization of the Fulani herdsmen.

But here’s why we will never fight another war in Nigeria: It is not necessary anymore. On good authority, there is a better instrument.

But let’s go back a little bit – like two or three hundred years. You have to do your own research too. Many Nigerians have parboiled brains. They only think in one direction – their inherited beliefs, what others told them, and beer parlor conversations they listened to.

First, you will NEVER understand the genesis and prognosis of Nigeria’s intractable troubles until you give a vigilant analysis to the revealing declaration of Ahmadu Bello’s on 12th October 1960:

The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great grandfather Othman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We must use the minorities in the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us and never allow them to have control over their futur[/b]e”.

Three years before then, in 1957, the very same Bello had openly declared: “[b]We the people of the North will continue our stated intention to conquer the South and to dip the Koran in the Atlantic Ocean after the British leave our shores
.” (Underline dip the Koran.)

Ahmadu Bello, a grandson of the Sultan of Sokoto, was one of the first Northerners to become exposed to Western education. He grew up to take over the mantle of leadership of Northern Nigeria’s political establishment and subsequently, that of entire country.

And so that you don’t think that the conquest and enslavement of the South was only in Ahmadu Bello’s imagination, here is what Tafawa Balewa, Nigeria’s first Prime Minister had said in 1947 – it’s shocking from the mouth of a “hero past:”

We do not want our Southern neighbors to interfere in our development. We have never associated ourselves with the activities of these people. We do not know them, we do not recognize them, and we share no responsibility in their actions. We shall demand our rights when the time is ripe. If the British quit Nigeria now at this stage, the Northern people would continue their uninterrupted conquest to the sea.” (UNDERLINE: UNINTERRUPTED CONQUEST TO THE SEA)

•• Believe me, people in the South might be stupidly naive but the North isn’t! You derogatorily call them ‘Aboki.” Yet, with all your PhD’s and conquests of Math, Economics and English (the white man’s language), you still can’t match the stealth, the consistency, the strategy, the unity and the brilliant execution of the people you look down upon as ’abokis.’

Here’s is the incontrovertible thesis: No one will EVER understand Nigeria’s troubles or its solutions until he digs into Ahmadu Bello’s charge of October 1960. You will never understand why the “Fulani herdsmen” have strategically occupied every land space in the South. You will never understand the open visa arrangements being sought with die-hard Islamic countries. You will never understand the meetings in Saudi Arabia. You will never understand the so-called National Grazing Reserve Bill that is hopefully dead on arrival. You will never understand the new school curriculum of unequal yoke of unrelated subjects of Islam and Christianity.

Also, Ahmadu Bello gave us another deep hint for the endless blood flow in Nigeria: Othman (or Usman or Uthman) Dan Fodio, the founder of the Sokoto Caliphate!

I learnt about Usman Dan Fodio in my Primary School history, and later in Secondary School. His courage, his rise to power and conquests fascinated me as an adventurous little boy. Little did I know that I wasn’t done with Usman Dan Fodio. He may have died in 1817 as we were taught but his spirit is alive and well and poised for more trouble. (Re-read Ahmadu Bello’s statement.) Dan Fodio is not done yet – that is the crux of Nigeria’s troubles!
I repeat, if you do not understand Ahmadu Bello’s vow, echoed by the then seemingly harmless Balewa, and resurrected in the current leader of Nigeria; and if you do not understand the role of the British in the evil that took residence in Nigeria, please respect yourself and go sit down. And if possible shut up. Because until you do, you will never appreciate why we are where we are, and why the future remains precarious unless our collective consciousness acknowledges and confronts these undercurrents.

•• Nigeria is in … I think Americans call it … “deep sh*t.” But I have hope. The yoke shall be broken. Not by bravado. Not by war. Not by more bloodshed. But by one single stone. The destiny of every Goliath is a little pebble to his forehead. Every Goliath has a pebble with his name on it.
Just one more insight into Dan Fodio before I let the wise be wise and the fool to be fool. Dan Fodio’s impressive jihads were finally wedged at Ilorin and Upper Benue. But then, he left a dying request, which isn’t a secret anymore – that his followers must dip the Quran into the Atlantic!

And let me tell you this: Lebanon learnt their lesson too late. While you may pride yourself in being “open minded” about these things, the scions of Othman Dan Fodio do not play by the same rules. The Quran has been dipped in the Atlantic via the Ilorin route. Ever wondered why the very last street bordering Nigeria and the Atlantic Ocean was named Ahmadu Bello Way?

•• Here’s the summary of the current affairs in Nigeria:

The Quran is not yet dipped into the Atlantic through Benue and Igboland. Second, another powerful scion of Dan Fodio is now the Commander in Chief, who also doubles as the Grand Patron of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN). Don’t smell something if you don’t want to! “Kwaraption” my foot!

President Muhammadu Buhari is Life Patron of MACBAN which sponsors the Fulani herdsmen militia. More than 70 victims of herdsmen killings were given mass burial in Makurdi, the state capital on Jan. 11, 2018

As usual, I will get names and attacks after this article. But hey, your praise or criticism means nada to me. I’m too old to write to impress you. And I’m already as famous as I never wanted to be. There is NOTHING in this article you cannot find in the public domain if you do just a little research and a little thinking. So, what’s your beef with reality?

•• If you have better information backed with facts, you’d better present it to the world rather than the usual dimwitted comments like “Ogbo, you’re a fool” or the favorite blackmail type “Ogbo, you’re stirring up hatred.” The one that trips me most is “Be patient, the President is working on something … Rome was not built in a day!” This has nothing to do with patience! Neither with Rome! If you were hungry and knew food was cooking in the pot, being patient makes perfect sense. But suppose what is in the pot isn’t food?

•• The signs are so glaring even the blind could see them. Armed “Fulani herdsmen” have mapped out our villages; they have literally occupied every inch of our ancestral lands. They are applying the secret spiritual principle that states that “every place the sole of your feet shall touch, I shall give you.”

But the saints and sinners alike are snoring! Those who are awake are arguing with the signboard!

Ogbo Awoke Ogbo


SOURCE:
https://www.lnc-usa.org/blog/whoever-dont-understand-ahmadu-bellos-vow-about-fulani-conquest-should-shut-up-says-ogbo/

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Politics / Stop Calling Yourselves “nigerians”–we Are Done With It!: Bin 1999 Constitution by meavox: 9:53am On Jun 30, 2020
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STOP CALLING YOURSELVES “NIGERIANS” – WE ARE DONE WITH IT!

Brethren and indigenous people of Middle Belt and South, ALL of us are captives and chained up via the plan of Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto which is that:
''The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate from our great grandfather, Othman Dan Fodio. We must RUTHLESSLY PREVENT A CHANGE OF POWER. We must use the minorities in the North as willing tools, and the South as conquered territories, and NEVER ALLOW THEM TO HAVE CONTROL OF THEIR FUTURE''. (The Parrot (Newspaper) of October 12, 1960)

How can we accept that any people CONTROL OUR FUTURE as Fulani have OPENLY stated since 1960 and are doing!? Are we COWARDS like our parents? Will we bow to unlearned Fulani foreigners like our parents did? Are we men or are we babies? Can we demand our children respect us when we don't respect ourselves enough to set ourselves and our children free from this ridiculous Fulani rubbish that that dead fellow Bello said: “and NEVER ALLOW THEM TO HAVE CONTROL OF THEIR FUTURE''

ENOUGH OF THIS NONSENSE! Our children deserve to be FREE and we, their fathers will work unitedly to give our children FREEDOM.

Already the MNN (Movement for New Nigeria) have been working for our united FREEDOM for over 20 years. MNN is an Alliance of:
• The Federation of Oodua Peoples
• Middle Belt Congress
• Lower Niger Congress

The STRATEGY is to take down the Apartheid 1999 Constitution which is a forgery and thus a fraud! Then have new honest democratic “WE THE PEOPLE” Constitutions where WE, the INDIGENOUS people will decide and control our futures as God ordained for Mankind!

We will have our own FEDERATIONS: Oduduwa! Middle Belt! And Lower Niger! (These are the names for now once these virtual Federations become a reality the people will decide by vote what they are to be called).

Visualize it now!

Politics / Re: Proposed Oduduwa National Anthem - Video.... (happy Days Will Come!) by meavox: 7:03am On Jun 27, 2020
Sweetgoodie:
watch as yeroba Muslims will violently oppose it


I have Yoruba Moslem friends and you are very WRONG! (You troublemaker, just have a rest from your dark spirit for the weekend. My post is a POSITIVE one to generate PEACE and HAPPINESS)

Since at least 2 years now, Yoruba Moslems have been shouting that there is a difference and a separation between Yoruba Moslems and Arewa Moslems!

We all know Yoruba Moslems happily marry Christians and NEVER do terrorism. Yoruba Moslems have correctly been saying they are not violence-seeking like Arewa Moslems.
Politics / Proposed Oduduwa National Anthem - Video.... (happy Days Will Come!) by meavox: 6:49am On Jun 27, 2020
Our Yoruba brothers are now a member of UNPO grin (So also are our Igbo brothers) grin

The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is an international, nonviolent and democratic membership organisation. Its Members are indigenous peoples, minorities, unrecognised States and occupied territories that have joined together to defend their political, social and cultural rights, to preserve their environments and to promote their right to self-determination. (Google for more)

Yoruba can have their own flag, send their own sports team to international games etc. So very happy that the owners of this territory, the indigenous ethnic nationalities WILL set ourselves free.

Brethren of Middle Belt and Lower Niger, we are in ALLIANCE with Oduduwa and will support ourselves together. The ethnic nationalities within our Blocs will also be FREE!

I do not speak Yoruba but I KNOW the Oduduwa National Anthem must be wonderful! cheesy
Here it is to enjoy!


https://web.facebook.com/rotimi.osunsan/videos/3121096131271173/?t=0


grin cheesy smiley
Politics / Re: Opinion: Should I Boycott Nigerian Beef... By Ndidi Uwechue, African News Today by meavox: 9:31am On Jun 26, 2020
XXXXTENTACION:
If we boycott beef wetin men go dey chop after all no be only fulani get cow you might end up hurting others.


The writer is talking about the MORALITY of eating Blood Beef.... And made it clear that those who trade in it can find another business. But we shall all die and be judged. If for you the fact that people are getting killed because of beef is not a problem, then that is your kind of spirit. The writer has a different spirit from you, that is all.
Politics / Re: Opinion: Should I Boycott Nigerian Beef... By Ndidi Uwechue, African News Today by meavox: 7:34am On Jun 26, 2020
I, and others have been calling for a Beef Boycott as it is a form of PROTEST about what is going on in this territory called Nigeria.

There are 3 things that keep this government in power:
1) Monopoly on beef
2) Control of Niger Delta crude oil
3) Control of Military

All we need do is cut off these 3 legs!

Beef Boycott will cut off leg #1. So WHY are we still buying and eating Fulani beef... I guess like Oyeebo say, Nigerians don't love their children and don't really care the life or death their children will have. cry
Politics / Opinion: Should I Boycott Nigerian Beef... By Ndidi Uwechue, African News Today by meavox: 7:28am On Jun 26, 2020
OPINION: SHOULD I BOYCOTT NIGERIAN BEEF?
By Ndidi Uwechue
African News Today
25th June 2020

This article is one that I posted on June 18, 2019 on my Facebook page. The question is now even more urgent with the violence, slaughter and food insecurity being foisted upon the country by herdsmen. Please therefore consider this question well: Should I boycott beef?

By early 2016, the world was horrified to hear about massacres and destruction carried out by nomadic herdsmen when Agatu in Benue State, Nigeria experienced appalling violence. Even before that time there had been regular reports of herdsmen trespassing onto farms, slaughtering people, stealing, destroying, and then grabbing the lands of their victims. The mindless slaughter continues and we now read that these militant herdsmen have been ranked as the fourth deadliest terrorist group in the world by the Global Terrorism Index.

Given that in Nigeria cattle business has now come to involve herdsman violence the question that each of us should ask ourselves is, "Should I boycott beef?"

A boycott is when you decide to stop buying a product or service, or stop attending a particular event because it has caused a moral outrage of some kind. For example, in Western countries citizens boycott businesses that behave inappropriately eg if the business shows signs of racism or antisemitism or pornography etc. Then, the CEO of the business apologises and may even resign, and the offensive situation is stopped. A boycott is thus a means of showing disapproval of a particular behaviour or situation, so that it stops. Boycott is a power that each of us has. It is an expression of people power, a "soft power", but a power nonetheless. Boycotts can be used to bring about social change.

In herdsmen attacks many lives are lost and property destroyed. Thousands of surviving victims and terrified citizens are displaced from their homes, and the peace, security and unity of the country come under threat. So, should I boycott beef? This will depend on the kind of country that I want Nigeria to be now, and that I want to leave as a legacy. It may help us decide whether or not to boycott beef by imagining ourselves the victim of a militant herdsman. Picture yourself (or the person you love the most) out on your farmland. Suddenly you hear sounds approaching and getting louder. Over there you see a group of armed herdsmen and fear engulfs you. They run menacingly towards you shouting in a language that you do not understand. Some are armed with AK47 rifles, some are brandishing cutlasses. Terror fills your heart. Tears come into your eyes. You know from what has happened to others on their farms that torture then your death is at hand. You are completely powerless as you crumble to the ground and have to face a violent death.

For sure, the government and security services have the responsibility of protecting peoples' lives and property, but every citizen has the responsibility of using their people power to do nothing or to do something. It is quite important that as a nation we grasp the reality that we ourselves are responsible for the kind of country we have because of the choices we make! We each choose whether to be community-focused, or to instead be individual-minded and self-focused. The choice that we collectively make determines the type of society that we collectively create.

Producing beef has led to, and continues to cause the death of others, so should I boycott beef? Before we answer this question let us look at one more thing. Life can be brutally hard in Nigeria because of the levels of corruption, so many people have been hurt, and even very deeply wounded by their experiences and have responded by erecting a wall around their heart to block out feelings, and so they have become numb to others' pain as a means of self-protection. However, psychologists tell us that indifference when it becomes a habit, actually dehumanizes us. Indifference can make us lose our humanity. Our humanity is that quality in us that allows us to connect with others.

As a nation we can reject the culture of indifference and unconcern by reclaiming our humanity, and one way we can do so is by showing solidarity with the victims of herdsmen through boycotting beef and beef products. It may not be easy for some people to stop eating beef because it is so tasty, however, showing care for the suffering members of our society and becoming a more caring person will taste even better for our souls.

So, should I boycott beef? The answer comes when we ask ourselves three other questions:
1) Have I completely lost my humanity?
2) Do I want to be a community-focused person or a self-focused person?
3) Do I want to do the right thing?

Some of us may be involved in the beef business as butchers, restaurant owners, caterers, etc and we may be concerned that we would lose money or even go out of business. It all boils down to whether you are comfortable with "blood money" and whether you think that making money when this involves the torture and death of others (through herdsmen violence and criminality) will ultimately make you and your future prosperous. Sometimes things happen in life that cause us to adjust and reshape, and for the sake of our humanity we may need to sell other types of meat and exclude beef. Restaurant and supermarket owners could even consider putting up a notice or poster informing customers of their new ethical position with wording such as, "Until there is a change in the beef business this establishment will no longer sell beef or beef products, in solidarity with and out of concern for the victims of herdsmen." Nigerians will understand the principle behind this decision, and the sales of other products will compensate for the exclusion of beef.

So should I boycott beef? Doing the right thing is not often easy, but it is the only way to create a just and caring society. You should never ever be ashamed of doing the right thing. Your humanity calls for it.



SOURCE:
http://www.africannewstoday.com/politics/opinion-should-i-boycott-nigerian-beef/
Politics / Takedown Of Constitution Is Fastest &... Means To Change.. Nigeria- Okenwa Nwosu by meavox: 7:40pm On Jun 25, 2020
TAKEDOWN OF 1999 CONSTITUTION IS THE FASTEST & SUREST MEANS TO CHANGE UNITARY NIGERIA NONVIOLENTLY
– Okenwa Nwosu
June 23, 2020

It is incredible but, nonetheless, factual that an enslaved people have always been, somehow, complicit in the perpetuation of their own enslavement. The trans-Atlantic slave trade lasted for more than four centuries simply because the source of African captives was expanding faster than the foreign market could handle. In other words, there was a glut of slave captives at the source within the African continent. Economic empires and fiefdoms were built out of the wealth created from human slavery by Africans whose kin are prime victims of the trade. During the abolition of slavery, unique military campaigns were undertaken before some African slave-trading hubs were finally disbanded.

The majority of constituent stakeholders in today’s Unitary Nigeria now see themselves as being enslaved in their own ancestral lands by the Sokoto Caliphate-controlled central government in Abuja. This government is legitimized and propped up by the imposed fraudulent 1999 Constitution. The political environment that allowed the emergence of a master-servant governance order in today’s Unitary Nigeria is dynamic intercourse between the ruling class – the Fulani aristocracy and the rest being used in the control network. The bottom rung in this network is the foot soldiers and outfielders whose task is to assure that the enslavement machinery constraining “We the people…” is always maintained and lubricated. These foot soldiers are often made to swear oaths with their own lives to defend and protect the instruments of our enslavement. The amenable ones among them are paid off and the obstinate ones are bumped off and disposed of for good.

As fully explained in this editorial opinion, the imposed fraudulent 1999 Constitution is a systematic codification of the perpetual enslavement of the indigenous stakeholders of Nigeria by an immigrant hostile nomadic culture under the guise of nation-building. What exists in today’s Unitary Nigeria, as delineated in the 1999 Constitution, is a Fulani-minority rule in the same way that the infamous Apartheid Constitution once legalized the White Boer-minority rule of South Africa. The internal slavery system set up within Unitary Nigeria shall endure as long as the beneficiaries and their foot soldiers are allowed to continue to hoodwink and mesmerize the millions of “We the people…” with their bogus lies that can’t stand the most casual scrutiny. The imposed fraudulent 1999 Constitution is just like a counterfeit paper note. Nigerians must stop worshipping a counterfeit document forged to perpetuate our folks’ enslavement in our own ancestral lands.

There are carefully selected simple acts that the enslaved stakeholders of the Southern and Middle Belt Nigeria shall collectively undertake soon to demonstrate our total rejection of a fraudulent imposition as the basis for the future. Intelligent people can only continue to live in slavery if they fail to do even the basic things needed to demystify their slave masters’ fake aura. Respect for the 1999 Constitution is a misplaced one. Only a handful of Nigerians drunken in tomfoolery or crippled by Stockholm syndrome would still fail to see the fraud being used to mastermind their enslavement.

To read the Editorial Opinion and associated remarks, go to the LNC USA website homepage and scroll toward the bottom. Share widely with your social media contacts as usual.

Okenwa.


SOURCE:
https://web.facebook.com/okenwanwosu01/posts/3334673256819158

Politics / Abuja Declaration 1989 – “eradication Of Non-muslim Religions” by meavox: 7:14pm On Jun 25, 2020
ABUJA DECLARATION 1989 – “ERADICATION OF NON-MUSLIM RELIGIONS”

Nigerians, you should know about the Abuja Declaration 1989 because it affects your children’s lives. Simply, it is a plan for the ERADICATION of Non-Muslim religions. Google it.

Wikipedia makes clear that a FORGERY was later produced (in 1990) when the Islamization plan for Nigeria and all of Africa became known, and Christians began protesting it.

BEWARE: Abuja Declaration Has Been Edited [thus the 1990 version is a Forgery]
‎Jeremiah A. Anzaku-Aku‎ to ECWA DCC YOUTH FELLOWSHIP, KEFFI
October 9, 2014 · Abuja ·

Administrator Kingdom News
News
Aug 04 2014

Apparently, as a result of the growing awareness amongst Christians of the evil planned by the Muslims against the Church, the Muslims went online to edit and distort the information on the Abuja Declaration of 1989. The information on Wikipedia was edited on Monday 21st July, 2014 by one Greg Abdul. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuja_Declaration_(1989)

Their battle plan below, detailing the plot behind the current Boko Haram insurgency and other forms of political manipulations by the Muslims in the country, was completely removed!

Below is what the Muslims planned to do in Nigeria and in the other member nations of the IAO during their conspiracy conference in Abuja in 1989.
Do not be deceived, they have not changed their agenda.

The Military President as of 1989 donated US $21 billion to facilitate the conspiracy. It was acknowledged in the communique as follows:
The Joint Conference finally ratified the admission of Nigeria as a full member of the Organization of the Islamic Conference OIC, and thanked the government and people of Nigeria for having generously donated US $21 billion to the Islamic Development Fund of the OIC, and sincerely requested the Federal Government of Nigeria to implement all policies and programmes of the OIC to show the whole world that Nigeria is truly an Islamic nation.

Please find below what was originally posted on Wikipedia before it was edited on Monday 21st July, 2014.

ABUJA DECLARATION (1989)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Abuja Declaration is the outcome of a conference of the African countries of the OIC in 1989 and launched by a communiqué of the Islam in Africa Organisation (IAO) founded during this conference.

SOURCE:
https://web.facebook.com/583487475027542/posts/beware-abuja-declaration-has-been-edited-administrator-kingdom-news-news-aug-04-/779116605464627/?_rdc=1&_rdr

The Islam in Africa Organisation (IAO) is a Nigerian statuted Islamic organisation, an initiative of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
Dr. Usman Muhamad Bugaje is the current Secretary-General of the IAO.

Goals and strategies
The organization was founded on 28 November 1989 in Abuja,[1] Nigeria, with the goal to win the whole of Africa for Islam. The statutes and goals [2][3] are ratified in 1991 and this marks her formal definitive founding. The founding-communiqué is also called the Abuja Declaration.[4] Starting point for the conference is the fact that Africa is the only continent with an Islamic majority and therefore Africa should become completely Islamic.[5]
The plan contains a lot of points that are also common for Christian missionary organizations as relief and economic progression.

A battle plan was composed to Islamize Africa with some less innocent points in that decision:[6]
"To ensure only Muslims are elected to all political posts of member nations".
"To ERADICATE in all its forms and ramifications all non-Muslim religions in member nations (such religions shall include Christianity, Ahmadiyya and other tribal modes of worship unacceptable to Muslim)." (The word Christianity is underlined in the declaration)
"To ensure the ultimate replacement of all western forms of legal and judicial systems with the Sharia in all member nations before then next "Islam in Africa conference."
"To ensure the appointment of only Muslims into strategic national and international posts of member nations."

The execution of this strategy can be recognized in countries like Nigeria, Ethiopia and Sudan. In Nigeria more and more provinces choose for the Sharia leading to heavy protests of Christians, oft resulting in violence and bloodshed to both sides. In Sudan the government chose in 1983 for the Sharia, in 1991 sharpened with death punishment for apostasy from Islam.
Funds: The government of Nigeria has donated 21 billion US-dollar to confirm an IAO-communiqué [7] as donation to this "Islamic Development Fund".

Organisation
The IAO consists of four main organisations:[8] the General Shura', the highest authority consisting of 43 members from all over Africa and the Diaspora. The Executive Comité.
The Secretariat housed at Abuja, (Nigeria). The Necessary organs to the realisation of the goals.

…The organisation mentions the following countries on its website:….

MORE FROM WIKIPEDIA:
Frans Wijsen (professor of World Christianity and Inter religious Relations at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) regards [the 1990 version] as a forgery because it does not correspond with declarations made at the conference.[10]
Regarding Africa, it said, amongst other things, that only Muslims should be appointed to strategic posts, non-Muslim religions should be eradicated, Nigeria should become a Federal Islamic Sultanate, and Western law should be replaced with sharia.
Wijsen regards this as indicating a more militant aspect of Islam in Africa and comments that some aspects directly conflict with official Islamic teaching.[10] it is all about declaration of Islam.

SOURCE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuja_Declaration_(1989)?fbclid=IwAR0wvYIIv2O-d8K1-b4AE3ustkJBSms6ZFIsda5_61xBlsq8_81a9DnKrCs
Crime / Re: Herdsmen Invade Farms In Ondo, As Amotekun Seizes 42 Cows by meavox: 7:21am On Jun 25, 2020
cashinnaira:
NO need to seize any cows just destroy them like they destroyed the farmers farm...

They should eat it. They've lost the crops on their farm. What will they now have as food?

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