Politics / Re: Punch Newspaper Vows To Address Buhari As Major-General by obidark: 11:57pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
nonesense.... |
Politics / Re: Punch Newspaper Vows To Address Buhari As Major-General by obidark: 11:56pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
many americans are not happy with trump.... what are americans doing....??
they are impeachin him....
if una dont like buhari,then impeach him and stop talkin about chase out.... |
Politics / Re: Punch Newspaper Vows To Address Buhari As Major-General by obidark: 11:52pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
mauchiz:
You are on point
Let's chase the tyrant out Enough is enough wait till next elections.... are you people deaf....?? sowore deserves what he got.... wtf are you talkin about chase....?? did we tried to chase jonathan out before his tenure was over....?? what people like you are suggestin is anarchy.... |
Politics / Re: Punch Newspaper Vows To Address Buhari As Major-General by obidark: 11:50pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
maasoap:
Koni daa fun gbogbo awon ara idile re. If you can't respect the decision of the majority, that means you have no business with democracy. i tell you....they are not ready to practice democracy.... if majority vote shekau as president then you must accept.... 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Major-General: PUNCH Has Embarrassed Nigerians - Sagay by obidark: 11:40pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
i will not allow anybody to tell me that my vote dont count.... |
Politics / Re: Major-General: PUNCH Has Embarrassed Nigerians - Sagay by obidark: 11:39pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
i tell you....
this is just silly what punch is doing....
we that voted buhari should boycott punch....
if they are not happy they can go protest before dss headquaters and not molestin somebody we voted.... |
Politics / Re: When Jonathan Used The Nigerian Military To Attack The News Media. by obidark: 11:18pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
NGpatriot:
NO, PMB didn't do no such thing and if he did, you hypocrites people will commit suicide.
Btw, you did not condemn anything when Jona brutalized the news media with the military.
don min dem....they just hate muslims....thats all.... |
Politics / Re: This Was How PDP And CAN Left Nigeria For Buhari In 2015 (pic) by obidark: 10:57pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
Danwakae:
Lolsss.. Bro leave those people if u are not directly or indirectly part of them... Them have stolen our future and generation...pls , come to Taraba , places like Karim Lamido, Lao, ulssa... See the way our people are presently suffering because of our wicked leaders that have stolen their future... Bro I people should send your NGOs the north , millions here need your help , even if it's just to drill a bole hole for them ... Our leaders are no longer on the path of Allah, that's y they have no pity for he masses am not muslim btw.... |
Politics / Re: IPOB: ECOWAS Court Struck Out Nnamdi Kanu's Petition by obidark: 10:44pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
omowolewa: Haba! Even if he wins, who will enforce it?!
I wonder why his lawyer advised him to do that this what happens when you think somebody is a zoo.... 2 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: IPOB: ECOWAS Court Struck Out Nnamdi Kanu's Petition by obidark: 10:43pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
dss is their own body oo.... they are not under the president....
dss didnt sign ecowas stuff.... |
Politics / Re: IPOB: ECOWAS Court Struck Out Nnamdi Kanu's Petition by obidark: 10:20pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
haha.... |
Politics / Re: This Was How PDP And CAN Left Nigeria For Buhari In 2015 (pic) by obidark: 10:17pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
this christians think they can intimidate us with their church nonesense.... 1 Like |
Politics / Re: This Was How PDP And CAN Left Nigeria For Buhari In 2015 (pic) by obidark: 10:16pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
Danwakae:
Lolsss... If u no dey fear say Amin !!! i will slap you with a man,yes....!!!! 1 Like |
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Politics / Punch Newspaper Should Be Boycotted.... by obidark: 6:36pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
if you voted buhari dont read anything from them no more.... 1 Like |
Politics / Re: This Was How PDP And CAN Left Nigeria For Buhari In 2015 (pic) by obidark: 6:34pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
trutht828:
Still, May God handle your life and destiny the same way buhari handles nigeria's economy and security. Amen to hell with your dog....!! 1 Like 1 Share |
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Politics / Re: Wailers,Be Very Very Careful....We Voted Buhari.... by obidark: 6:29pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
trutht828:
And I'm sure you are now buying fuel at 65 naira. I'm sure you now buy dollar for one naira. I'm also sure DSS, police and soldier ask for your APC membership card and don't collect 50 naira bribe from you because you voted for Buhari.
So, how has voting buhari benefited your life?
May God turn the lives of all of you that voted buhari to what nigeria's economy and security have become. Amen. are you deaf....?? we voted buhari....!! |
Politics / Re: This Was How PDP And CAN Left Nigeria For Buhari In 2015 (pic) by obidark: 6:28pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
trutht828:
Still, may God handle your life and destiny the same way buhari handles nigeria's economy and security. you know what....?? i will take a man and sleep you with him....!! 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Re: This Was How PDP And CAN Left Nigeria For Buhari In 2015 (pic) by obidark: 6:26pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
SarkinYarki:
Darkside that is collecting stipends from govt to survive , you should be ashamed of yourself you people should be ashamed of yourselfs for not acceptin our opinions.... do you asssholes think you are better than us....?? we didnt even tried half of what you people are trying now when jonathan was still in charge.... we waited patiently and voted that basssstard out.... wait for una chance and vote who you want.... we didnt tried to stop una from votin atiku.... dont dare.... 2 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Wailers,Be Very Very Careful....We Voted Buhari.... by obidark: 6:21pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
and we are many.... 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Re: This Was How PDP And CAN Left Nigeria For Buhari In 2015 (pic) by obidark: 6:13pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
trutht828:
May God handle your life and destiny the same way buhari handles nigeria's economy and security. Say amen if you believe buhari is the best discovery after sliced bread. your religious blabla dont work on me.... am the darkside.... where was your blabla when you were captured and sold into slavery....?? where was your blabla when they came to colonize your black arse....?? stfu with that nonesense....!! 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Re: This Was How PDP And CAN Left Nigeria For Buhari In 2015 (pic) by obidark: 5:25pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
chukwuemekafran: If you were not born in 1984 ask questions about how buhari left the country before he was chased away. Buhari is the same yesterday,today and tomorrow still better than your shoeless morafvcker.... 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Re: This Was How PDP And CAN Left Nigeria For Buhari In 2015 (pic) by obidark: 5:22pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
haha....
we are gettin better in counter-propaganda....
fvck them wailers.... 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Garba Shehu Reacts To Punch Newspaper's Editorial by obidark: 5:19pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
muslims are startin to get it now....
and they will not play nice politics with you christians no more.... |
Politics / Re: Garba Shehu Reacts To Punch Newspaper's Editorial by obidark: 5:17pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
its about christians vs. muslims....
they cant fool us.... |
Politics / Re: We’re Closely Monitoring Sowore’s Case, EU cautions. by obidark: 3:57pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
who gives a fvck.... we are not fightin dss for eu.... |
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Politics / Re: Sowore’s Detention: UK Government Asks FG To Respect Rule Of Law by obidark: 3:49pm On Dec 11, 2019 |
Victor08032: The entire country and a global audience are rightly scandalised by the unfolding saga over Omoyele Sowore and the unruliness of the SSS and the government; but it is only a pattern, a reflection of the serial disregard of the Buhari regime for human rights and its battering of other arms of government and our democratic institutions. PUNCH views this tendency and its recent escalation with serious concern, knowing as the great thinker, Edmund Burke, said that “the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Nigeria had trod a path, a veritable obstacle course, where repression, especially under military jackboots, was a malignant presence and this attracted heroic resistance by ordinary people, civil society groups and the press. But Nigerians have lately become lethargic, divided by ethnic and sectarian sentiments and weakened by widespread poverty brought on by a rapacious political class and bad governance. PUNCH will not adopt the self-defeating attitude of many Nigerians looking the other way after each violation of rights and attacks on the citizens, the courts, the press and civic society, including self- determination groups lawfully exercising their inalienable rights to peaceful dissent. This regime’s actions and assaults on the courts, disobedience of court orders and arbitrary detention of citizens reflect its true character of the martial culture. Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) ran a ham-fisted military junta in 1984/85 and old habits obviously run deep. Until he and his repressive regime purge themselves of their martial tendency therefore, PUNCH will not be a party to falsely adorning it with a democratic robe, hence our decision to label it for what it is – an autocratic military-style regime run by Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd). Sowore’s travails are symptomatic: having ignored court orders granting him bail, the SSS, after much pressure following 125 days in captivity, released him only to stage a GESTAPO-style raid on the court where the journalist was standing trial. The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Ibrahim el-Zakzakky and his wife have spent over three years in detention in violation of court orders granting them bail and ordering their release. A former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, has been held in detention since 2015 in defiance of several court orders, including one by the ECOWAS appellate court that declared his continued incarceration illegal. Under Buhari, the SSS has become a monstrous and repressive secret police, acting often with impunity. Buhari bears responsibility for the state of repression because, as president, he can stop it today. But the SSS is not alone. The Nigeria Police, whose notoriety predates Buhari’s second coming, has continued its serial abuse of human rights and is ever available to officials who routinely deploy police officers from the mundane abuse of sirens in traffic to arbitrary arrest and torture of victims. The police and military fail to understand that peaceful agitation and the right to associate are fundamental rights. This situation is eerily familiar: as military head of state, Buhari’s appointee who headed the National Security Organisation, as the SSS was then known, Lawal Rafindadi, unleashed a reign of terror on Nigerians, featuring arbitrary arrests and torture in cells described by inmates as chambers of horror. Under the infamous Decree 2, agents had pre-signed detention papers, court orders were ignored and ouster clauses were inserted in decrees, while the press was specifically targeted with the infamous Decree 4 under which Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabor were jailed. Returning as an elected president, Buhari has followed the same template, appointing Lawal Daura as Director-General of the SSS, who re-enacted the Rafindadi playbook by his treatment of Dasuki and el-Zakzakky, among others, raided the homes of judges and twice deployed armed SSS heavies to foil the arrest of two former security chiefs by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Nigerian Navy authorities similarly ignored court orders to release Navy Captain Dada Labinjo, who they detained for over a year until his recent release on bail; Nigerian Army too detains suspects interminably on the grounds of being terrorism suspects. Some governors have borrowed from this nefarious model, deploying security agents and perverting the law to punish critics and journalists. Critics, Dadiyata Idris and Stephen Kefas, have been arrested and arraigned. Agba Jalingo is facing a treason charge for offending the Cross River State Government. Jones Abiri, a local publisher in Bayelsa State, has been charged with terrorism while, in Delta State, two journalists are facing criminal defamation charges. The regime’s Information and Culture Minister, Lai Mohammed, forgetting how, as opposition spokesman in 2014, he was harassed by the SSS and accused of “loitering,” has been vigorously pressing for anti-hate speech laws to restrict the social media. Abdullahi Sabi, a senator, along with others, has re-presented a hate-speech bill: their sole purpose is to insulate officials from criticism and compel unquestioned acceptance of Buhari’s draconian misrule. Under the law, suspects cannot be held beyond 48 hours except by a court order. But the regime observes this in the breach. Yet, Nigeria is a signatory to the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, African Charter on Human and People’s Rights and the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment and other treaties guaranteeing fundamental rights. The 1999 Constitution also spells out basic rights. But the regime chooses which rights or court orders to respect or obey. This is unacceptable. Critical segments of the society have been assaulted, silenced or compromised. It is time, as a Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has strongly advocated, for civil society to rejuvenate itself and send the message to Buhari to “rein in his wild dogs of disobedience.” From the United States has come a message from the Department of State, two senators and Congress telling the Buhari regime to stop its shocking affront to the rule of law, reminding the General that “respect for the rule of law, judicial independence, political and media freedom, and due process are key tenets of democracy.” Nigeria has had more than its fair share of draconian rulers, whether in military or civil garb, but none has succeeded in breaking our resilience and irrepressible spirit. This regime will not prove to be an exception. Nigeria, and Nigerians, will overcome. The strong desire of our people to enjoy the unfettered freedoms guaranteed by the constitution and the rule of law, including the freedom to speak freely and assemble peacefully, will again outlive, outlast and crush the spirit of despotism. Buhari can still redeem himself and his out-of-control security agents and reclaim his past facade of tolerance. When Daura brazenly inserted himself in politics by recklessly sending armed masked SSS enforcers to besiege the National Assembly, as acting President, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo promptly sacked him and had him arrested. Buhari should similarly distance himself and his regime from the lawlessness and impunity of the current SSS DG, Yusuf Bichi, by dismissing him, ordering the release of all victims of illegal detention and compelling obedience to court orders. The SSS has not been efficient in the war against terror; it should perform its primary duty to safeguard the country. As a product of statute, its loyalty should be to the country, not to temporary occupiers of public office. The regime’s repression cannot succeed but will further polarise the society and weaken national cohesion. The Nigerian Bar Association has vowed to defend the sanctity of judicial authority, while Soyinka has warned that disregard for court orders could beget desperation and civil disobedience. Nigerians need to stop their supine acquiescence to oppression and learn to stand up for their rights as many are doing around the world, using all peaceful and legal means, including the right to protest and of peaceful assembly. It is Dasuki, el-Zakzakky, Sowore and others today, who knows who is next if repression is not resisted? As a symbolic demonstration of our protest against autocracy and military-style repression, PUNCH (all our print newspapers, The PUNCH, Saturday PUNCH, Sunday PUNCH, PUNCH Sports Extra, and digital platforms, most especially Punchng.com) will henceforth prefix Buhari’s name with his rank as a military dictator in the 80s, Major General, and refer to his administration as a regime, until they purge themselves of their insufferable contempt for the rule of law. wtf....?? are you trying to give us a headache.... who bothered to read all this gibberish.... |