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Governor Obi should apologise to the people of Nigeria for allegedly engaging in a blatant distortion of facts, making himself an agent of destabilisation and sensationalising what it described as a routine issue he (Obi) wanted to give a certain political party a bad name just to hang it.

We are not saying Obi has no right to play politics, but he must fight clean and avoid any action that could hurt not just the enduring harmony between the Igbo and the Yoruba, but also the unity of the country.

"Resorting to primordial sentiments anytime election is approaching is Obi's modus operandi. He did it just before the 2009 election, when he labelled the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN under which Dr. Chris Ngige contested as a Yoruba party, and he is going down the same path now.

"This is all about the November 2013 election. If Obi is sure of his performance, he should allow that to speak for him and stop whipping up tribal sentiments.

''It is very dishonourable for a political leader at the level of Obi to show total disregard for the truth and to whip up emotions for personal gains, as he has done on this issue. By his deliberate and blatant distortion of facts, as we will show shortly, Obi has raised a serious doubt about his leadership qualities.

''Equally guilty of indiscretion at best and deliberate peddling of falsehood at worst are the various 'analysts', 'commentators', out-of-luck NGOs and organisations that have jumped onto the bandwagon of bashing Lagos over the issue, mischievously tagged 'deportation' instead of what it is (home return for proper integration), when they could have sought the truth from the Lagos State Government.

''Even some of the respectable Igbo socio-political organisations failed the simple test of fairness by not unearthing the truth before making pronouncements.

"Even if they do not trust the Lagos State Government, they could have, at least, inquired about what happened from their son, who is a ranking member of the cabinet of Lagos State.

Condemning Governor Obi's action, APC continued: "There was an exchange of correspondence dated 9th, 15th and 29th April 2013 between the Lagos State Government and Anambra State Government, through its Liaison Office in Lagos, about the 'integration' not 'deportation' of the 14 people.

"Anambra State Government did not respond to requests by Lagos State to come and validate/identify the people who claimed to have come from Anambra. Had it done so, this issue could have been better managed.

"Lagos State itself received notice from the Government of Akwa Ibom to come, identify and pick up two Lagos indigenes whom they picked up in a 'lunatic clean up' exercise in Uyo. Lagos responded promptly without making any noise about it."

"In December 2011, the same Anambra State Government that is now crying foul over the home return of Anambra indigenes, arrested and repatriated 29 beggars to their home states in Ebonyi, another Igbo State, and Akwa Ibom. Then it was conveniently not 'deportation' but 'repatriation' and no tribal meanings were read to such action.

"Also in 2011, Abia State Government sacked 3,000 non-indigenes (but fellow Igbo) from her workforce and asked them to go back to their respective states, yet not even a whimper was heard from all those whare now raising hell over the ''deportation'' of 14 Anambra indigenes from Lagos.

''If Gov. Obi's logic is to be followed, then the government of Akwa Ibom, and the entire people of the state, harbour bad intentions toward Lagos State and the Yoruba by asking Lagos State to come and pick up two 'vagrant psychotics' identified as Lagosians who have been rehabilitated.

"Suffice it to say that these home returns have been going on for a long time among states, even within the same ethnic groups and has never before elicited the kind of jaundiced interpretation that has been given to the return of 14 Anambra indigenes.''
Obi should stop deceiving the Ibos because if riot breaks out in Lagos, bet me Ibos are not prepared. That was how Ojukwu led the entire Ibos to a gruesome war unprepared. If Obi so much loved Ndigbo, i think he should show that by making Anambra State inhabitable so that Anambrarians will have a place to run to in a time like this other than disrupting the peaceful co-existence between the Ibos and every other tribes in Lagos. I rest my pen once more.

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MUCH ADO ABOUT THE CHILD-BRIDE BILL: ANOTHER WOE OF THE NIGERIAN LAW MAKERS.
I write once again with deep sense of thought regarding one of the issues rocking Nigeria presently. The child-bride case is obvious another conspiracy of the law makers. One of their greatest mistakes coming barely few days after the rape of River State democracy by the federal might.
I’m a health professional. During my National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) in Zamfara State, most patients we met in the hospital were all cases of cervical cancer. They developed this ugly scourge due to the early sex their husbands subject them to, all in the name of marriage. They were all between the ages of 16 to 19. We couldn’t withstand the odour oozing out from them as their pants were all licking with urine. Urine incontinent is one of the complications of cervical cancer.
The pain is always dehumanizing, their so called husbands have abandoned them for fresh ones, more reason why Hausa men marry many wives. The painful bruise in their private parts is as a result of the force and pressure from their husband’s uncircumcised rod each time they penetrate their vagina. What a modern slavery! All the girls in the North from 9 years upward are regarded as women because there is no single girl without a husband; they are all para-gravida and nursing mothers.
Subjecting little girls to an early sex is a barbaric practice, and it is always orchestrated by idle men as a result of high libido and quest for gross polygamy. That’s not Islam at all. The adoption of this practice by our idle and corrupt law makers is just a mere politics to satisfy their hunger for fresh blood. They are tired of being called Aristos, Alhajis, Mugus etc by our young girls who sleep with them for money. As such they can conveniently build a harem of under 16 girls, that will enable them enjoy sexual satisfactions at ease.
I was present at wedding ceremony of Senator Ahmed Yerima Bakura’s daughters in 2007. The two girls who schooled in Saudi Arabia were at the ages of 26 and 28 years old respectively when Senator Yerima gave them out in marriage to naval officers. If this law is not a conspiracy, I think Yerima should have started this campaign with his own daughters. I have always told my Northern friends to extinguish themselves from being indoctrinated and brainwashed with Islam. Educate the people and embrace the ongoing Islamic awakening going on in the entire Middle East and other Islamic African countries.
This same Senator Yerima imposed Sharia Law on you people and travelled Abroad to enjoy himself. Today, the North is full of beggars with one hand and one leg. You have all amputated yourselves in the name of religion. I thank God I'm a Southerner and my religion and culture do not dehumanize me. I rest my pen. Written by Nze Nkannebe Oliver C. Lagos.

Those of us who have watched the video clips of the just ended charade or say katigenian war in the River State House of Assembly will quickly agree with me that our politicians should be subjected to Freudian psychology of psycho-analysis. They need clinical psychologist to examine their medulla oblongata to know if their senses are working or if they just existing in state of per-excellence. It is so disheartening, disenchanted and abashed to watch our politician commit impunity and rape our hard earned democracy on a broad day light. What insolence! What impudent! What disrespect! How can our political class trample on constitutionalism? It is obvious that our legislatures of National and State assemblies have turned the chamber into a theater of absurd and madness, disregarding the constitution. Our democracy is leaked, marred and intertwined with sycophancy, lawlessness, thugs, insecurity, disobedience to the rule of law, dictatorship as it is epitomized by our conspicuous consumption, money laundering and corruption. Some sacred cows are treated with impunity while some political dame gods who are guilty of several impeachable offences are there in charge and holding the entire country and polity in captive and nobody is doing anything about it. There is tyranny in the whole nation, tyranny in the universities, tyranny in the society. There is economic strangulation in the entire republic and nobody cares. What baffles me in Nigeria is the manner with which we absorb shock, suffering and smiling, allowing few persons to enjoy and lavish wealth at the expense of the poor masses. The politicians are getting richer by the seconds and the poor who voted them into power are getting poorer on a very high rate. Where are the philosophical kings who ruled the Greek city States, especially Athens? We now have polecats, jesters, idiots, nincompoops, as politicians. There is no official opposition in our democracy. We are moving towards one party state. Is that not totalitarianism, tyranny, and total dictatorship? Lastly, I want to warn that even as the short Nigerian memory is being traumatized everyday by our leaders, ranging from the incessant rape of our states, political intimidations to abuse of power especially in connivance of the federal might, it will be a striking repugnance to extinguish true justice, equity and good conscience of the Nigerian nation. I rest my pen. Written by; Nze Oliver C. Nkannebe. Apapa Lagos. +2348039326060 - See more at: http://risenetworks.org/?attachment_id=200#comment-46377