naptu2: Someone in the crowd shouted, "Andrew, you're a sick old man", but other people in the crowd quickly drowned him out by shouting, "God save the King".
The protester was dragged away.
naptu2: I have just heard (from the BBC) that he was arrested and will be charged with breaching the peace.
naptu2: A journalist spoke to the protester while he was being detained by the police.
If you go down that thread, you'll see a video of the moment that the protester was arrested. Some civilians helped the police to drag him from the front of the crowd. Someone on the thread is alleging that the police did nothing while the civilians assaulted the protester.
Spoke to the protestor who was arrested on the Royal Mile today for shouting abuse at Prince Andrew during the Queen’s procession - his name is Rory, here’s what he had to say: pic.twitter.com/8GTwnVGLF7
The protester shouted, "Andrew, you're a sick old man". Others in the crowd immediately drowned out his words by shouting, "God save the King". Police and some civilians dragged him to the back of the crowd where he was arrested.
Prince Andrew was friends with Jeffrey Epstein, an American multi-millionaire who was accused of providing underage girls as sex slaves to wealthy friends of his. He owned an island where his wealthy friends usually had sex with children and they were often conveyed to that island on his private jet. Mr Epstein committed suicide while he was in detention awaiting trial. Some people believe that he was murdered in jail to prevent him from naming some of his wealthy friends that had sex with children.
Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of the late media mogul Robert Maxwell, was convicted for helping Jeffrey Epstein to procure young girls who were made sex slaves for his wealthy friends. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Virginia Giuffre is a woman who claims to have been a victim of paedophiles. She ran away from home when she was a teenager and lived on the streets. She was taken in by an older man who sexually abused her. She eventually reunited with her father, who helped her get a job at Donald Trump's resort in Florida (Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were once friends). She met Ghislaine Maxwell while working as a masseuse at Donald Trump's resort. Miss Maxwell hired Giuffre to work as a masseuse for Jeffrey Epstein.
Maxwell and Epstein began grooming her to provide sexual services for their friends, under the guise that they were training her to be a professional masseuse. She alleges that one of those wealthy friends of Jeffrey Epstein that she provided sexual services to was Prince Andrew.
The Prince gave an interview in which he initially denied that he knew Miss Giuffre. He also said that he could not have been where Miss Giuffre said that he was because he was getting fast food for his daughters. Nobody was convinced by his denials and most people say that the interview made things worse for him.
Prince Andrew paid some money to Miss Giuffre's charity as part of an out of court settlement. The money was given to him by the Queen. The FBI initially wanted to question him about the allegations, but they eventually dropped the request. British police also initially opened an investigation into the allegations, but this was also eventually dropped.
It is due to this allegations that Prince Andrew stepped back as a working royal and relinquished a lot of his duties, including his military duties (he served as a naval officer during the Falklands War). That's why he was not in uniform during the procession.
naptu2: Al Jazeera are reporting the Queen's death in exactly the same way that Western media organisations report such things when they happen in the 3rd World.
Several people were arrested in the UK for protesting King Charles, including a woman charged for "breach of the peace" for a sign saying: "Abolish monarchy."
The royals cost taxpayers $100M/year.
Charles inherits the Queen's $500M fortune, without paying inheritance tax.
UPDATE: UK police confirmed at least 4 people arrested for protesting the monarchy and King Charles:
▪️ 1 man in Oxford who shouted: "Who elected him?" ▪️ 3 in Edinburgh, including a 74-year-old, a woman holding a sign and a man who called Prince Andrew "a sick old man."
Mr. President @MBuhari will be visiting Imo State @GovtOfImoState tomorrow, Tuesday, September 13, 2022 to inaugurate three signature projects built by Governor Hope Uzodimma’s @Hope_Uzodimma1 administration.
The projects lined up for commissioning by the President include but not limited to the dualized Owerri-Orlu road, the first phase of the dualized Owerri-Okigwe road and the reconstructed Imo State House of Assembly Complex.
BUHARI TO COMMISSION REHABILITATED IMO ASSEMBLY COMPLEX
President Muhammadu Buhari is set to visit Imo State again for the commissioning of more signature projects built by Governor Hope Uzodimma. The President is expected to be in Imo tomorrow, 13th September, 2022 on a one day working visit.
Mr. President will among other things, commission the newly reconstructed Imo State House of Assembly Complex in Owerri. Originally built by the administration of Dee Sam Mbakwe (Of Blessed Memory), it is on record that the House of Assembly Complex prior to the emergence of the Uzodimma led administration in Imo by 2020 had been in comatose and totally abandoned for about 11 years due to its sorry and dilapidated state.
To the glory of God Almighty, the Assembly complex has now been re-equipped and re-furbished with state-of-the-art equipment/gadgets and furniture that have brought it to a world class standard and in fact, the best in Nigeria today.
The project was delivered by the world class Koran-DiResta Construction Company of Manhattan, that delivered the Nigeria House in New York, USA and ready for commissioning by Mr. President tomorrow.
All is now set for the official visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to Imo State, for the second time within a year. His visits, both the first and the second, all centered on commissioning of completed projects by the 3R Government of His Excellency, the Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodimma.
Top on the list, is the commissioning of Owerri-Orlu road. A 36KM Federal road constructed by 3R Government to ameliorate the hardship its age-long deplorable status had caused on the residents and road users over the years.
The road which transverse through six different Local Government Areas of Owerri Municipal, Owerri North, Mbaitoli, Njaba, Isu and Orlu, was built with dual carriage, drainage system on both sides and solar-powered illumination all through.
The contractor, Craneburg Construction Company, applied best of engineering designs on the project which now translate to the beauty complemented by all. The solid construction at the Njaba Bridge and other sections of the road, has restored confidence on motorists, who hitherto worried on transit along this route.
The 3R Government's road revolution in Imo State is truly transforming the road infrastructures across the State and as Mr President commissions the Owerri-Orlu road, Imolites are full of thanks to him and Governor Hope Uzodimma who embarked on the project, despite being a Federal road.
APC PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN COUNCIL REACTS TO OFFENSIVE VIDEO BY MR. PETER OBI
September 12, 2022
Our attention has been drawn to an offensive, hate-filled video made and circulated by the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, in which he accused an amorphous and non-existent “Tinubu’s Group” of spreading a Whatsapp message calling on the Yoruba not to vote for him. The purported message, according to Mr. Obi, forewarned the Yoruba that a vote for Peter Obi would be a vote for a seaport in South/South and South/East.
For the avoidance of doubt, this is a transcript of the so-called message as relayed by Mr. Peter Obi:
“Yoruba shine your eyes o, if you vote for Peter Obi, it is automatically voting for seaports in South South and South East. The Igbos will stop coming to Lagos State to invest, rather they will go to Delta and Rivers States, they may even stop building houses in Lagos. It will affect a lot of Yorubas. Yoruba ro nu o.”
Firstly, we vehemently deny the existence of any of such “Tinubu group” that made and circulated such a message. All groups supporting the APC Presidential Candidate and his running-mate have clear designations with well-known promoters. In addition, it is only messages released by the APC Presidential Campaign Council that are officially authorized and for which we take responsibility.
We challenge Mr. Peter Obi to reveal the source and name(s) behind that nebulous Whatsapp message.
We wish to state that it is obvious Mr. Peter Obi deliberately concocted that message and circulated that offensive video himself as a campaign strategy in order to come across as a victim of some kind of ethnic agenda, whereas in truth, he is the real agent provocateur of an ethnic agenda.
As the takeoff date for campaigns draw closer, Mr. Peter Obi has suddenly realised that Nigerians are beginning to burst his bubbles as his messages are bereft of ideas, depth and clear-cut solutions to our challenges. His messages are only full of false data and highfalutin jargons in what is clearly a disingenuous ruse to distract a scrutiny of his empty records as a Governor of Anambra State and nothing else. Hence his easy recourse to playing ethnic card and fanning the ember of hate.
We have in on good authority that part of the “US Strategy” (just like the failed “Dubai Strategy” his former boss and himself adopted in 2019) was to return to the country and spread ethnic hatred amongst the voters and cause chaos, then pose as the victim. They have just kick-started that plot by orchestrating and circulating the said video.
We find it utterly disgusting, demeaning and insulting to the sensitivities and sensibilities of Nigerians for a Presidential Candidate of the ilk of Peter Obi to make such a video parroting a spurious, unverified and sham message that has the potential of deepening our faultlines as a nation and further promoting ethnic tensions. This is completely unbecoming of a Presidential Candidate that hopes to unite this country. Again, we note that Mr. OBI’S latest stunt is consistent with what is now widely perceived as his adoption of hate as campaign strategy, having consistently failed to rein in his known and identifiable supporters, mostly domiciled on social media, threatening political opponents with violence and death.
Moreover, here is a man known as a sectional irredentist, with public records showing him expelling Nigerians from a section of the country from Anambra State while he was Governor and has decidedly resorted to ethno-religious card in his activities and messaging thus far, now accusing his better of being an ethnic champion. What a supreme irony!
We are also aware that plans are afoot by Mr. Peter Obi to fake an assassination attempt on himself and hire Labour Party boys dressed in APC caps and T-shirts to attack some Labour Party offices. It is all part of the “US Plan”. It is the first in a series of incendiary actions planned by this ill-prepared but desperate candidate.
We call on all well-meaning Nigerians, irrespective of ethnic origins or political divides, to rise up and condemn this tactless tactics and cheap manoeuver by a desperate non-starter of a presidential candidate who has decided to resort to crude revisionism, ethnic jingoism and crass insensitivity with a view to whipping up undeserved sentiment to fuel his faltering ambition that is nothing but a flash in a pan.
Our advice to Mr. Peter Obi is to quit the race if he has nothing more to tell Nigerians.
N.B:
We also wish to use this medium to debunk the false and misleading posts on various social media handles of supporters of Mr. Peter Obi that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is withdrawing from the race on health grounds. This is nothing but a figment of their warped imaginations. Our candidate is strong, healthy and fit enough for the coming campaigns. The opposition will hear loud and clear from him soon.
Thank you.
FESTUS KEYAMO, SAN FCIArb(UK)
– Director, Media and Public Affairs and Official Spokesperson,
Some fans have travelled from far away to watch football matches, only to discover that the games have been postponed. An angry Pakistani man was asking for a refund because he had spent a lot of money to travel to England for the game.
Many small businesses are also going to feel the impact of the cancellations. This caterer had made food for the carnival, but it was postponed out of respect for the Queen.
Football fans complain that football matches were postponed last weekend, while other events like the cricket, cinemas, etc are allowed to go on.
1) Gary Lineker says that the football should not have been cancelled, so that fans could pay their respects. The third cricket test match between England and South Africa went ahead at the Oval on Saturday and cricket fans paid tribute to the Queen by applauding after the National Anthem.
2 - 4) Some people are blaming Liverpool fans for the cancellation. They have a history of booing the National Anthem and some believe that the FA cancelled the games so that the fans wouldn't embarrass them.
Some say that the cancellation will have a terrible effect on the small teams.
From condom vending machines to football matches and funfair events, people all over the world are complaining that the services that they usually enjoy have been postponed because the United Kingdom is mourning the late Queen Elizabeth II.
1 & 2) People are not allowed to lock their bicycles at a bicycle rack in Norwich because the park was mourning the Queen.
3) A condom vending machine is not dispensing because the vendor is mourning the Queen.
4) A customer did not know if she had correctly scanned her goods at the supermarket because they had turned off the beep sound in order to mourn the Queen.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Several People Arrested In The UK For Protesting Against The Monarchy by naptu2(op): 9:50am On Sep 13, 2022
