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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Mecka: 10:12pm On May 23, 2021
Can you imagine chelsea spent over $292m and came fourth.
PoliticsRe: Witness Narrates How Soldiers ‘packed Lifeless Bodies’ Into Vans by Mecka(op): 7:54pm On May 23, 2021
And the army keeps denying any part in the shooting.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Mecka: 7:44pm On May 23, 2021
donstan18:
The stats are their for you to see.

Na Trophy dey let Kane down, aside that, he’s better that all those people you listed.

Maybe except Rooney
Trophy or no trophy, stats or no stats; these are legends. How dare you compare Kane to them. Kane even would be mad at you.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Mecka: 7:43pm On May 23, 2021
donstan18:
The stats are their for you to see.

Na Trophy dey let Kane down, aside that, he’s better that all those people you listed.

Maybe except Rooney
Trophy or no trophy, these are legends. How dare you compare Kane to them. Even Kane would be mad at you.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Mecka: 7:34pm On May 23, 2021
donstan18:
Kane at 27 better pass all these werey you dey even list. cheesy
lol. are you joking or what
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Mecka: 7:26pm On May 23, 2021
donstan18:
What has City decision on Aguero got to do with my point.

I said for me, Aguero is/was the best striker to ever exist in Epl. Wetin concern me with wetin City wan use am do?
Ahead of Andy Cole Alan shearer, Rooney, Defoe, Darren bent, Van Nistelrooy, Robbie Fowler, Michael owen, Thierry Henry, Dennis bergamp, Nwankwo kanu, Eric Cantona, OGS, Van persie, Fernando Torres, Suarez, Morientes, Milan baros, Louis saha?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Mecka: 7:14pm On May 23, 2021
donstan18:
grin grin
They qualified for conference league
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Mecka: 7:10pm On May 23, 2021
Chelsea fans go and thank Spurs
FoodRe: Cook In Your Kitchen, Take Pictures And Post It Here. SIMPLE! by Mecka: 6:27pm On May 23, 2021
Halcyon123:
I don get new hubby. Yesterday was banana bread(sorry didn't get to snap it). Did two variants wheat banana bread and plain flour
Today na coconut cake .
looks amazing. keep it up
FoodRe: Cook In Your Kitchen, Take Pictures And Post It Here. SIMPLE! by Mecka: 6:20pm On May 23, 2021
mariahAngel:
All delivered this weekend.
lovely design, awesome presentation, beautiful cake
PoliticsRe: General Attahiru’s Possible Successors Emerge by Mecka: 6:10pm On May 23, 2021
saphiere:
His death looks like a planned one.
why do you think so
PoliticsWitness Narrates How Soldiers ‘packed Lifeless Bodies’ Into Vans by Mecka(op): 5:32pm On May 23, 2021
By Oluwakemi Adelagun
Two witnesses on Saturday narrated
before the panel on police brutality in
Lagos how soldiers shot at protesters at
the Lekki Toll Plaza on October 20 last
year and “carried lifeless bodies” into
their van.

The protesters were calling for an end to
police brutality when they were attacked
by soldiers at the toll gate.

Olamilekan Sanusi, who appeared
before the panel, said he was part of
those who volunteered to clean the
protest ground, especially the stage
area. He said he counted “at least 10
bodies after the gunshots”.

Mr Sanusi said that at about 6:30 p.m.,
he heard gunshots and saw people
running towards Oriental Hotel.

“I saw men of the Nigerian army. Later
when they said we should sit on the
floor, I saw a military man and I saw
protesters carrying lifeless bodies to the
military men’s feet,” he said.

“Later on, I counted ten people at the
feet of the military men, they were not
moving, they were lifeless. Later on, I
saw them carrying people close to
Diamond Bank, they were packing
bodies and putting them in the van,” he
said.

Mr Sanusi said an officer, who said he
was acting on a directive of “power
beyond him,” came on the stage and
pleaded with the protesters to go home.

He also said the officer requested that
they nominate five representatives
among themselves to discuss with him
but they turned him down.

“After coming down from the stage, I
think he left and the shootings began
again,” he said.

“Then three military men came to the
stage, destroying things, scattering
mixers, poles and speakers, then they
pushed some speakers on me. I fell, I
could not move but I could hear what
people were talking.

“I heard one woman crying, and saying,
‘you must not die,’ I could hear a car on
motion and I was trying to open my eye,
I saw the woman in blue, drenched in
blood holding a man and saying ‘you
must not die.’

“I woke up at a military hospital and
was later referred to Marina General
hospital. The person that brought me
there told me that six protesters were in
the hospital and I was in a coma for
seven hours.”

Mr Sanusi said that Governor Babajide
Sanwo-Olu visited them at the hospital
and gave them N10,000 each, and he
used his to get drugs and clothes.

“The doctor had to beg me to sit on the
chair with my drip because many
protesters were still coming. More than
11 people died in the hospital and some
were laid on the floor. In the toilet there
was blood everywhere,” he said.

Mr Sanusi said that one of the nurses
advised him to leave because the
soldiers were coming to “finish
protesters in the hospital.”

“I sneaked out of the hospital using the
small entrance door leading to the
governor’s road.”

Mr Sanusi told the panel he wants the
Lekki Tollgate to be dedicated to those
who were allegedly killed by the Nigerian
Army on October 20 2020.

“I want the panel to find those who
ordered the shooting and I want the
tollgate to be a memorial ground,” he
said.

The chair of the panel, Doris Okuwobi,
admitted the X-ray evidence of Mr
Sanusi and marked it exhibit A.

‘Shot in the chest’
Another witness, Ifeanyi Agbeeze, told
the panel he had been living in pains
after he was shot “in the chest” by a
soldier during the October 20 shooting.

Mr Agbeeze, a comedian, said himself
and his friend had earlier left the protest
ground on October 20 but returned after
they were unable to get a bus home.

“We got back to the tollgate around past
1 p.m. Around 2 p.m., we heard that the
Lagos government have declared a
curfew,” he said.
Around past 4 p.m., I saw two men
removing the CCTV camera, I don’t
know why. Later the billboard light went
off, I felt something bad was going to
happen but I couldn’t figure what
exactly it was,” said Mr Agbeeze.
“Around 6:45 p.m., I heard siren along
Sandfill, a van coming, I moved closer to
the stage, I saw the military van, I
thought they were coming to calm us.

“Somebody announced that everyone
with cars should turn on their car
headlights and face the stage because
the light was already off. And we were
instructed too not to insult anybody and
not be violent.

“When we heard the siren, they said we
should come to the stage and sit on the
floor.”

Mr Agbeeze said when the shooting
began, “someone beside him was shot
and when he tried to help him a military
man dressed in full military man shot
me in my chest.”

“I immediately ran then I discovered that
everywhere was dark and asked myself
where am I running to?”

He said that one of the protesters took
him to Marina General Hospital where
he was later referred to the Lagos State
University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH).

“They did X-ray for me and their boss
came gave the film to me. The doctors
asked me if I had gotten through with
my people.

“I was in LASUTH for six days and when
I was discharged, I was still feeling
much pain, I told the doctor that I don’t
feel okay, so, I didn’t leave the hospital
that very day.”

He said that he had to leave the hospital
when he got information that some
“soldiers were going around to finish off
protesters in hospitals.”

Mr Agbeeze said after he left LASUTH,
he went to a private hospital and on
December 29, he did another x-ray
which showed he had a fracture.

“Since then, till now, I still feel the pain I went for another x-ray on May 18,
2021,” he said.

“He (the doctor) also asked me to go
and do a CT scan but it is expensive, I
don’t have the money yet.
“I want justice, I want to know who
ordered the shooting.”

The army had initially denied taking live
bullets to the protest ground. But after
changing its testimony several times, it
eventually admitted it indeed took live
bullets to the scene but only engaged
armed miscreants.

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The panel members

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/463226-lekki-toll-plaza-witness-narrates-how-soldiers-packed-lifeless-bodies-into-vans.html
PoliticsRe: The Beatification Of A Coup Plotter, By Owei Lakemfa by Mecka(op): 2:49pm On May 23, 2021
Buhari is a scam
TV/MoviesRe: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Mecka: 1:27pm On May 23, 2021
Lage Raho Munna Bhai 10/10
A very healthy, hilarious and positive movie. Good mooorning mumbai!
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Mecka: 12:59pm On May 23, 2021
francisgodstime:
most of our players currently are Medicare from mount, pulisic( once in a blue moon player, ziyech and harvertz particularly. What is saving mount is that he did not cost d luck any dime
This mount you people keep crucifying, according to some PL commentators he has been chelsea's best player so far this season pound for pound, and these are experts in the game that i believe know better.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Fc Barcelona Fan Thread: "més Que Un Club" by Mecka: 11:47am On May 23, 2021
Congratulation atletico madrid. Next yr is another triumphant victory
TravelRe: New Drone That Allows Humans Fly Launched (Photos, Video) by Mecka: 10:14am On May 23, 2021
georgen2u:
This Is a prototype in future it will be modified to allow sitting a protective shield and parachute, so it will be so nice just like humans walking in the street of LA goes most people can afford it for urgent work or emergency
I heard a Russian invented sth like this but it never worked because of the Earth's atmosphere.
PoliticsRe: Farouk Yahaya: 7 Things You Must Know About New Chief Of Army Staff by Mecka: 9:50am On May 23, 2021
Appointment without screening. Welcome to federal republic of northgeria
PoliticsThe Beatification Of A Coup Plotter, By Owei Lakemfa by Mecka(op): 9:38am On May 23, 2021
If a man says he is against theft, why is
he supporting his neighbour to steal?

By Premium Times

Mahamat Idriss Deby , 37, bedecked in
the military fatigue of a four star
general, spotting a red beret and some
decoration on his chest, was seen at the
Nigeria Aso Rock Presidential Villa on
Friday, May 14. He had at least two
other four star generals in similar
fatigue, red and blue berets, which
announced in unmistakable terms that
this is the military dictator of another
unfortunate African country. The non-
condemnation, non-rejection, or the
acceptance of his coup by so called
democracies, is a testimony to the fact
that coups are not out of fashion, out
dated or unacceptable in the world. If
anything, it is a confirmation that a coup
in Africa is welcome if it fits into the
agenda of the beholder.
Not even in the mad seasons of Nigeria
coup plotting and subversion of
professionalism would a 26-year old
have become a general, as is the case
of Mahamat, who was seven when his
father overthrew the Chadian
government and within nineteen years,
he had gone through formal education,
military training and become a general!

The senior Deby died on Tuesday, April
19, reportedly of gunshot wounds
sustained in a fight with rebels. But
rather than allow the Speaker of the
National Assembly, Haroun Kabadi, to
act as President for 40 days, while fresh
elections are held in accordance with
the constitution, Mahamat executed a
coup sacking the government,
dissolving parliament and suspending
the constitution. When Chadians
protested against the coup, they were
killed, injured or detained.

Those like overlord France and big
neighbour Nigeria that should condemn
the coup, insist on the supremacy of the
constitution, stand by democracy and
caution the coup plotters against killing
protesters, supported the plotters.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le
Drian, whose country will never allow an
unconstitutional take over in its territory,
justified the coup, citing a so-called
needed stability and security in the
country. He claimed the overthrow of
democracy in Chad was logical because:
“There are exceptional circumstances.”

In a dishonest rendering of events, Le
Drian said: “Logically, it should be Mr
Kabadi…but he refused because of the
exceptional security reasons that were
needed to ensure the stability of this
country.” What choice did the Speaker
have with guns trained on him?
Nigerian Foreign Minister, Geoffrey
Jideofor Onyeama, in justifying the coup
said Nigeria does not want a power
vacuum. To solidify military rule in
Chad, President Muhammadu Buhari
rolled out the red carpet for the coup
plotters. He told them: “We are bound
together by culture and geography, and
we will help in all ways we can.” He did
not ask them to stop killing those
protesting against the coup or bring the
killers to justice. Rather, he told them:
“We will also help you to ensure a
smooth transition in 18 months, as you
have promised your people.”

For those of us who fought gruelling and
bloody battles against military rule on
Nigeria streets, and ensured the return
of civilian governance, from which
Buhari is benefitting, the image of a so-
called African Head of State in military
fatigue, sitting under our country’s Coat
of Arms in the Aso Rock Presidential
Villa, is a disgusting and disturbing
image.
We had thought that Africa had gone
beyond such criminality. But young
Deby’s presence, pounding the floors of
the hallowed chambers of Nigeria’s
Presidency in military boots, is a sad
reminder that coups are not a thing of
the past. It also gives the impression
that while Nigeria’s democratic physique
is civil, its soul is military. So, even if the
chameleon changes its colours, it does
not change its essence.

It is interesting that apart from the
constitution forbidding the non-
democratic seizure of power, the
Nigerian government and military have
been shouting themselves hoarse
against any coup. On December 5,
2020, the then Chief of Army Staff, Lt.
General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, declared,
while decorating 39 newly promoted
Major Generals, that: “Democracy has
come to stay. We will not tolerate any
agent of destabilisation. The years of
military misadventure in politics have
never carried us anywhere. It is over.”

He warned the new Generals: “Do not
hobnob with politicians. At this rank of
two star Generals, do not lobby for
appointment. If you want to lobby for
appointment, lobby the Chief of Army
Staff and you can only do this through
hard work, discipline and loyalty. The
crop of officers (39 Major Generals)
decorated yesterday will never be
dragged into any interest that is contrary
to the sustenance of democracy in our
nation. All our eyes are on you. We
know there are several moves to get
your attention. You must make sure that
whatever you are doing, and when some
persons approach you, you must act
within the confines of the constitution.”

In the face of the deteriorating security
situation in the country and general
unease, the Nigerian secret services, the
Department of State Services (DSS), on
Sunday, May 2, raised a red flag against
any attempt to force an unconstitutional
change in the country. As if on cue, the
next day, the Nigerian Armed Forces
issued a statement firmly rejecting any
unconstitutional change of government.

It said: “We categorically declare that
the Armed Forces of Nigeria remain
totally committed to the current
administration, as well as all the
democratic institutions associated with
it.” The statement further declared that:

“We will continue to remain apolitical,
subordinate to the civilian authority,
firmly loyal to the President,
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed
Forces of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari
and the 1999 Constitution as amended.”
The Presidency followed up these
declarations by claiming there are
Nigerians who want to force a change in
the country. The Presidency, in a
statement issued by the Special Adviser
to the President on Media and Publicity,
Femi Adesina, claimed that: “The agent
provocateurs hope to achieve through
artifice and sleight of hands, what they
failed to do through the ballot box in the
2019 elections. Nigerians have opted for
democratic rule, and the only acceptable
way to change a democratically elected
government is through elections, which
hold at prescribed times in the country.
Any other way is patently illegal and
even treasonable. Of course, such would
attract the necessary consequences.”

So, if the Nigerian government is so
firmly against coups, why is it
supporting and encouraging the coup in
Chad?

If a man says he is against theft, why is
he supporting his neighbour to steal?
For some African leaders, while coups
are forbidden dishes, there is nothing
wrong in sniffing them or enjoying their
aroma, provided they are cooked in
other shores. They are like chichidodo,
the neat, clean bird which hates
excrement but feeds on maggots
growing in the lavatory or excess dog
faeces.
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/462992-the-beatification-of-a-coup-plotter-by-owei-lakemfa.html
Jobs/VacanciesRe: What Do You Think About Working In The UN by Mecka: 8:08am On May 23, 2021
AquaPetals:
They have a decent pay...
And you get to have enuff girls to copulate with
you get to fork variety of pussy. black, Asian, Arab, Indian, Latino, Caucasian etc Lord!
Jobs/VacanciesRe: What Do You Think About Working In The UN by Mecka: 8:04am On May 23, 2021
iamyemiakins:
Enjoyment, humanitarian services, travels and tour.
I go fork foreign toto tire
FamilyRe: Why Would A Wife Ask Her Husband Money For Sex? by Mecka: 7:25pm On May 22, 2021
Maski87:
If my husband doesn't bring money, no show for him oo
Haba! madam. What happened to for better for worse.
PoliticsRe: Only 5,000 Of 20,000 Private Schools In Lagos Approved – Official by Mecka(op): 6:33pm On May 22, 2021
Just imagine. And parents will be paying through their nose to these schools
FamilyRe: Why Would A Wife Ask Her Husband Money For Sex? by Mecka: 5:24pm On May 22, 2021
no matter the circumstancess, sex is supposed to free in marriage. I cannot pay bride price and be starving

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