₦airaland Forum

Buhari loves even those who hate him

By Sharon Faliya Cham

Published Date Nov 19, 2018


In 1999, not long after Obasanjo became President, the “Christian community” of Odi in Bayelsa State murdered some Mobile Policemen sent there on a peacekeeping mission. But President Olusegun Obasanjo, a Christian, didn’t waste time in ordering heavily armed soldiers to go there and wipe off that “Christian community” in vengeance for the murdered Mobile Policemen!

Some six or seven years later, another “Christian community” called Zaki Biam in Benue State murdered some soldiers sent there on another peacekeeping mission. The murder was so gruesome that they cut off the heads of some of the soldiers and stuck them on the tips of their spears, and then danced round the community with them in a primitive manner as if we were in the Africa of 1326 AD!


Well, President Olusegun Obasanjo didn’t also waste time in sending heavily armed soldiers to this “Christian community” to wipe off the community in vengeance for the gruesome murder of those gallant soldiers!

Well! Well! Well! But what do we have today under Muslim President Muhammadu Buhari?


An Army General on a trip from Abuja to Bauchi was ambushed and murdered by a very primitive community also claiming to be a “Christian community” in Jos, Plateau State, after which they dumped his car in a deep water pond, and then buried his corpse in a shallow grave from which they removed it and dumped it in a well after it dawned on them that the shallow grave has been discovered by military intelligence!

Looking at the history of the Nigerian Army, and, indeed, all armies across the world, do you think the Army was not itching to avenge their murdered General by invading that community, and then wipe off any living thing they could see?

The only thing that made the difference here is the kind of Commander in Chief the Nigerian military currently has in power. While an impulsive and disruptive Commander in Chief like Obasanjo would never ever waste time in avenging his murdered General by wiping off everybody within the area of the murder, a cool headed, rational and compassionate Commander in Chief like Buhari will calculate the factor of innocent people and other collateral damages within the area of the murder, and then order the military or the Army in particular to exercise restraint and allow the natural course of justice to take place!

Ladies and gentlemen, this is why today, under President Buhari, instead of the Dura Du community to have been wiped off (by now) by angry soldiers over the gruesome murder of their General, we merely have the terrorists or murderers of the General hiring 120 lawyers to defend them in court!

Yes, 120 lawyers! That should tell you that those primitive murderers are being backed by certain powerful persons and groups who have up till now not condemned the gruesome murder of that General. Not even a word of condemnation or commiseration was heard from ex – senior military officers of those people, and neither have we heard any from their Paramount traditional ruler! Only Governor Simon Lalong and the leadership of COCIN Church were left moving around, visiting families of the murdered General as well as visiting the Defence headquarters and the President to apologise and calm frayed nerves!



Now, if President Buhari were an ethno-religious bigot the way some corrupt, bigoted hate-preaching pastors would want you to believe, the fact that the murdered General was a Muslim would have gingered or propelled him to wink at the Army to invade that community and have it wiped off the way Obasanjo did to Odi and Zaki Biam, or the way Goodluck Ebele Jonathan had Bama town in Borno State incinerated in 2012 on the fiction that people in the town killed some soldiers sent there to fight “Boko Haram”!

Something tells me that the people of Odi and Zaki Biam are currently envious of the Berom people of Dura Du who killed a whole Army General and still got the privilege of having their community intact till date plus the awesome privilege of 120 lawyers to defend their killer squad that murdered the General. But as we all know, both Odi and Zaki Biam communities never had the privilege of hiring 120 lawyers to defend their own killer squads unlike their Berom brethren who both have this privilege and the other privilege of even addressing press conferences to attack and question the Army’s search of the General they ambushed and murdered in their bloodied community! This can only happen under a very thoughtful, compassionate and patient President and Commander in Chief!

Yet, this is the same President that bigots and vain people in Nigeria who have not hidden their love and admiration for all the rogues that plundered and ruined Nigeria love to label as a tyrant or dictator, which leaves you wondering whether the words ‘tyrant’ and ‘dictator’ have acquired different meanings from the meanings of the despots and rogues who ruled and ruined Nigeria from 1999 to 2015, or are we to blame the rottenness of education, morality and religious values that took center stage during those 16 years of plunder and debauchery for this penchant of calling white black and black white?

Either hate him or love him, one thing has been made manifestly clear in the last few years that President Buhari has shown great love, care and compassion to those who unduly hate him, even to those who spent their worthless hours praying and wishing him death on behalf of those who see Nigeria as a big cake that should simply be sliced, shared and eaten in Dubai or in Switzerland or in Panama or in any part of the world that didn’t have the misfortune of being ruled and ruined by the PDP!



Cham sent this piece from Abuja.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/buhari-loves-even-those-who-hate-him.html


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9wpBwAc2qU

How many soldiers and top military men have Bokoharam killed?
What about fulani herdsmen that have killed many policeman?

Is Buhari also a good man for not sending the military to shoot at sight any one in the communities where Bokoharam operates?

Is Buhari a good man for not ordering the military to shoot at sight any weapon weilding herdsman?
Buhari's people have killed more service men that any people have. So he should start with sending soldiers to shoot his people at sight.

Don't forget that that community may have killed the general in self defense ie owning to the fact that the military is being fingered as colluding with the herdsmen that kill them.

This is a zombified post, any affirmative commenter are likely zombies.

NaijaRoyalty:
Then why is he Inflicting Nigerians with poverty and hopelessness?

Buhari is the symbol of poverty , everything he touches dies

He is not inflicting poverty on Nigeria. What you have before now is a situation whereby Nigeria sells oil, the money stolen by few individuals, the rest is used in buying food items and other consumable from other countries. Everything was being imported including tomatoes, toothpick, rice and at some point GARRI. That is no economy. A rent seeking economy whereby those who stole from Govt, use the money to build houses, throw parties and buy more foreign goods. With the fall in the price of oil, Nigeria was doomed to fail.
Buhari rescued the situation and minimise the effect of the fall in oil price.

Countries like Venezuela, that has a similar economic situation like Nigeria are not so lucky.

God bless you OP. I was having this conversation with a friend of mine yesterday about the people terming Buhari a tyrant and a dictator, and I was making comparison with Obasanjo.

Obasanjo is someone that committed the most attrocities against Nigeria, he is an embodiment of all wrong things and he ruled fiercely like a tyrant. From sacking senate presidents, assasinating unloyal people, massacring the common man, brutal corruption, even third term agenda to mention a few.

Yet, this same Obasanjo keep writing letters and always picturing himself as a messiah. Although, Buhari might not be perfect but he is nothing compared to a tyrant if weighed side by side with Obasanjo.

Most people were young during obasanjo's reign, removing ten years from most nairalanders age shows the demography its audience. they merely became politically conscious now due to internet exposure. Buhari picked a Vice President twice from southeast, prior to 2014 he begged for a meeting with the southeast elders but he was clearly ignored(just to peach his agenda), extremely derogatory terms and curses were hipped at him, yet he kept his cool. He even attempted negotiating 2023 with southeast elders, but they wanted non of that

How Venezuela's crisis developed and drove out millions of people
22 August 2018

Venezuela's economy is in freefall. Hyperinflation, power cuts, and food and medicine shortages are driving millions of Venezuelans out of the country. Many are blaming President Nicolás Maduro and his government for the dire state the nation is in. Here, BBC News takes a closer look at how Venezuela's economy descended into its current crisis.

What's wrong with Venezuela?
Arguably the biggest problem facing Venezuelans in their day-to-day lives is hyperinflation. The annual inflation rate reached 83,000% in July, according to a recent study by the opposition-controlled National Assembly.

Prices have been doubling every 26 days on average. This has resulted in many Venezuelans struggling to afford basic items such as food and toiletries.

With small items like a cup of coffee costing a whopping 2.5m bolivars until recently, it also became increasingly difficult to pay for goods in cash.

Until the currency's redenomination on 20 August, Venezuelans needed 25 of their highest denomination notes - the 100,000 bolivar bill - to pay for their caffeine fix.


The pile of bolivars needed to buy a roll of toilet paper is taller than the roll itself
See more photos of how many bolivars are needed to buy everyday items
To avoid going shopping with rucksacks full of cash, Venezuelans increasingly started using electronic transfers for even the smallest transactions.

As the BBC's South American correspondent found in Caracas, waiters handed customers their bank details trusting that the latter would transfer them the tip electronically.


How did hyperinflation come about?
On the most basic level, there are more people wanting to purchase goods than the number of goods available.

Venezuela is rich in oil, and has the largest proven reserves in the world. But arguably it's this exact wealth that underpins many of its economic problems.

Because it has so much oil, Venezuela has never bothered to produce much else. It sells oil to other countries, and with the dollars it earns, imports the goods Venezuelans want and need from abroad.

Its oil revenues account for about 95% of its export earnings. But when the oil price plummeted in 2014, Venezuela was faced with a shortfall of foreign currency.

This in turn made it difficult to import goods at the same level as before, and imported items became scarcer.

The result: businesses increased prices and inflation rose.

Add to that the government's willingness to print extra money and regularly hike the minimum wage in an effort to regain popularity with Venezuela's poor, and you get money which loses its worth rapidly.

The government is also increasingly struggling to get credit after it defaulted on some of its government bonds.

With creditors less likely to take the risk of investing in Venezuela, the government has again taken to printing more money, further undermining its value and stoking inflation.

What's the government doing about it?
The government lopped five zeros off the old "strong bolivar" currency on 20 August and gave it a new name - the "sovereign bolivar".

It also began circulating eight new banknotes worth 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 sovereign bolivars and two new coins.

The new currency is part of an "economic package" of measures which the government says is the "magic formula" to help Venezuela's battered economy recover.

Among the measures are:

Raising the minimum wage to 34 times its previous level from 1 September
Anchoring the sovereign bolivar to the petro, a virtual currency the government says is linked to Venezuela's oil reserves
Curbing Venezuela's generous fuel subsidies for those not in possession of a "Fatherland ID"
Raising VAT by 4% to 16%

How are people reacting?
Many people have been voting with their feet and leaving Venezuela. According to United Nations figures, 2.3 million Venezuelans have left the country since 2014 when the economic crisis started to bite.

The majority have crossed into neighbouring Colombia, from where some move on to Ecuador, Peru and Chile. Others have gone south to Brazil.

Venezuela has also seen more than 200,000 of its citizens emigrate to Spain. Many of them are the children of Spaniards who came to Venezuela in the 1950s and 60s, when it was seen as a place of opportunity.

The mass migration is one of the largest forced displacement in the western hemisphere.


What faces those staying in Venezuela?
While the new currency is likely to make cash transactions easier for a while, its introduction caused confusion. Some Venezuelans managed to get hold of the new bills, but others reported long queues when banks opened.

Some economists have also warned that the new currency could soon face the same problems as the old one unless the root causes of hyperinflation are tackled.

They say that within months its worth could be decimated by rising prices.

Employers have also said that they do not know how they will pay for the 34-fold rise in the minimum wage.

Meanwhile, shoppers still face empty shelves in supermarkets, and in some cities there have been water shortages and power cuts caused by a lack of investment in Venezuela's crumbling infrastructure.

Residents of Maracaibo, Venezuela's second largest city, have been resorting to candles as power outages last for hours
But while the power cuts and lack of running water are a problem for households and businesses, they have proven deadly in Venezuela's already run-down public hospitals.

Many of those fleeing the country say they are doing so because they cannot get the operations and medical care they need.


Pregnant women are crossing the border to give birth and mothers go to health centres in Colombia to get their babies vaccinated.

'My baby would have died if I had stayed in Venezuela'
Those who cannot leave often spend days and weeks searching for the medication they need. With food increasingly scarce, child malnutrition levels are at a record high.

Who do people blame?
Some of the problems go back a long time, but since the socialist government has been in power since 1999, first under President Hugo Chávez and more recently fronted by President Nicolás Maduro, many Venezuelans blame these two men for what is happening.

dasuki and El zaky say HI

Youngbbt:
dasuki and El zaky say HI

Court Denies El-Zakzaky Bail

Published November 8, 2018

Leadership

By ISAIAH BENJAMIN Kaduna

A High Court in Kaduna State yesterday turned down the bail application of the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife.

The court headed by Justice Gideon Kurada rejected the bail application on the ground that there are enough doctors around to take care of the health of the accused persons should the need arise.

The state prosecutor, Dari Bayero, disclosed this to journalists after court proceedings. Journalists were not allowed to cover the proceedings.

Bayero said the court consequently adjourned the case to 22 January, 2019 for “speedy trial” of the suspects.

Sheikh El-Zakzaky and his wife had earlier pleaded not guilty to the five-count charge read to them.



Counsel to the accused persons, Haruna Magashi, told journalists that the defense counsel will study the court’s judgment on bail application for their clients and determine the next course of action.

Reacting to the refusal of the court to grant the Sheikh bail, president, Media Forum of the Islamic Movement, Ibrahim Musa, said the forum was disappointed with the court’s decision.

He said the judge should have considered El-Zakzaky’s failing health and not doing so shows that the government is not ready to listen to well-meaning Nigerians and the international community that the sheikh should be set free as ordered by a Federal High Court.



“Therefore, we will keep on with our protests in Abuja and other cities insha Allah”, he noted.

As usual, Sheikh El-Zakzaky and his wife, Malama Zeenah Ibrahim, were brought to court early in the morning amidst tight security, while major routes leading to the court were all barricaded with vehicular and other forms of movement restricted.

The Islamic leader and his wife are to remain in custody till the next adjourned date.

https://leadership.ng/2018/11/08/court-denies-el-zakzaky-bail/

Youngbbt:
dasuki and El zaky say HI

Freedom denied: Supreme Court rules that Dasuki’s continued detention is in order
By Staff Writer

Published on March 2, 2018

The Supreme Court on Friday denied an appeal by former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, challenging his continued detention by the Department of State Services (DSS).

Dasuki asked the court to suspend his trial until the government releases him.



However the Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous judgement read by Justice Ejembi Eko, that the appeal lacks merit.

The court said even though the former NSA had been granted bail by both the Federal High Court and the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory before which he is standing trials on separate charges, those bails had nothing to do with his detention by the DSS because it is the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) that is prosecuting him.

It further said the bails granted Dasuki pertaining his EFCC charges have been obeyed, having been implemented by the Controller of Prison Kuje on December 29, 2015.

The court affirmed the judgment of the Court of Appeal, which earlier upheld the FCT High Court, where it said the EFCC was not liable for the detention of Dasuki by DSS.

http://www.thescoopng.com/2018/03/02/dasuki-supreme-court/

deji17:
[s]He is not inflicting poverty on Nigeria. What you have before now is a situation whereby Nigeria sells oil, the money stolen by few individuals, the rest is used in buying food items and other consumable from other countries. Everything was being imported including tomatoes, toothpick, rice and at some point GARRI. That is no economy. A rent seeking economy whereby those who stole from Govt, use the money to build houses, throw parties and buy more foreign goods. With the fall in the price of oil, Nigeria was doomed to fail.
Buhari rescued the situation and minimise the effect of the fall in oil price.

Countries like Venezuela, that has a similar economic situation like Nigeria are not so lucky.[/s]

Buhari rescued with stupid situation ?

Nigeria became the poverty capital of the world under Buhari .

10million jobs were lost under Buhari watch full eyes . (Does he even have eyes)

2.8billion dollars oil money disappeared while he was petroleum minister in 1983 , till date, buhari is yet to account for that money.

Nigeria recorded the highest number of suicide cases under buhari .


fulani heardsmen killings became the order of the day under buhari. And till today, no arrest was made.

the Danduje dollar bribery is still fresh on our mind .

Insecurity, Nepotism and religious bigotry , epileptic power supply and bloodbaths , disobedience to court orders and other high level of corruption are going on in this government.. and here you are telling me buhari what is not .

Buhari has failed in every sectors of the economy, he must go .

Normally i dont do politics...
Maybe ive been brainwashed

Just maybe

But the man up there doesn't look like buhari...at all

Shibaraba:
Normally i dont do politics...
Maybe ive been brainwashed

Just maybe

But the man up there doesn't look like buhari...at all

You mean he is Jubril from Sudan??

Iblad0994:
God bless you OP. I was having this conversation with a friend of mine yesterday about the people terming Buhari a tyrant and a dictator, and I was making comparison with Obasanjo.

Obasanjo is someone that committed the most attrocities against Nigeria, he is an embodiment of all wrong things and he ruled fiercely like a tyrant. From sacking senate presidents, assasinating unloyal people, massacring the common man, brutal corruption, even third term agenda to mention a few.

Yet, this same Obasanjo keep writing letters and always picturing himself as a messiah. Although, Buhari might not be perfect but he is nothing compared to a tyrant if weighed side by side with Obasanjo.

God bless you too.

Gbam.

Op u same d it all

Don't mind the daft hateful wailers

OP and the Shittes? The IPOBS?

Gerrarahia

Deji17, iblad0994

1999 Constitution, Buhari should hate no Nigerians

orisa37:
1999 Constitution, Buhari should hate no Nigerians

That means he is upholding the constitution.

Buhari refuses to watch shooting of unarmed pro-Biafra protesters

President Muhammadu Buhari was interviewed by Martine Dennis on Al Jazeera while he was in Qatar last week. The interview was broadcast today.

He was asked about the shooting of unarmed pro-Biafran protesters in Aba, Abia State on 9 February this year and Dennis suggested he could watch the video. Buhari point-blank refused to watch and then said the pro-Biafrans “should not be joking with Nigerian security”. His disinterest in the shooting of unarmed people would be of interest if he ever faced trial for crimes against humanity, considering that as president, he is ultimately responsible for the actions of security forces in the country.

The Biafran part of the interview came towards the end after another train-wreck of a performance from the president. Despite Dennis’s friendly disposition, unlike her Al Jazeera colleague Mehdi Hasan, who tore Buhari to shreds in an interview on the channel in October last year, the president continued to show why his dwindling band of supporters would cringe with embarrassment whenever he faces any interviewer that does more than toss him soft balls.

He was questioned about his foreign exchange policy affecting Nigerians who had children studying abroad – just like he did. His response was that “those who can afford it can afford it”. It appears he is among those that can afford to send their children abroad for education, which is different from the picture he painted when he claimed, while running for president, that he could not afford the nomination fee.

Buhari’s response to detailed questioning on the padding of his budget was to tell the interviewer that “you know more about our budget than I do”.

After his spokesman Garba Shehu had declared in February that the president turned down the invitation of Saudi Arabia to join a coalition of Islamic states against terror, Buhari flip-flopped in this interview to state that Nigeria had joined. He did not seem concerned that Nigeria was not an Islamic state and said that any Christians complaining about it can go and fight Boko Haram.

Questioned about whether he had defeated Boko Haram after claiming that he would defeat them by the end of December last year, Buhari told Dennis that the people of Nigeria knew better than her.