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MayorofLagos:
There are useless white farmers in Europe sitting on hectares of land and not productive. They government does not disposess them of their property. Why should we disposess blackman of his farmland and give to white?

The whte took the land from its original black owner. The white couple have owned it for 35yrs. The country and its land had been in existence longer than that.

They told us how painful it was to be chased off but never shared with us how they got it in first place.

Was any black man forcefully displaced from the land when the white settlers acquired them? I doubt it. The whites have been there since early 1900s and this is their fourth generation.

ayokellany:
There wouldn't have been any problem with the doc owning the property, the problem is that he is not able to maintain the property talkless of turning it into a productive or profitable enterprise like the white guy. If you consider the job n revenue lost to the state you'd understand why the land should never have been taken away from the white guy in the first place.

God bless you. The jobs and revenue lost alone is enough to leave the real owner alone.
The heart of man is desperately evil indeed.

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Dr Nyatsuro (pictured), who is occupying the farm, was disgraced last year when his clinic, the Willows Medical Centre, was shut down by the Care Quality Commission

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As they were: Before they were booted off their land, the Rankins' oversaw a thriving tobacco plantation (pictured) 125miles northeast of Harare that had a flourishing crop. The couple, who are staying with a relative, are hopeful of getting it back.


Her husband said: 'My wife doesn't know what it is to move. One school, one husband, one home. It's a big thing for her not to have a home, but she's a strong person.'

He added: 'Of the two of us, I'm the baby. I'm the one who cries in my pillow at night.'

After being unemployed for a year, Mr Rankin has just completed his first day of work as a freelance farming consultant. But he still feels disorientated.

'How am I supposed to look for a job?' he said. 'I'm 59 years old and I've never had to do that in my life.'

This was the third time that Mr Rankin had been expelled from a white-owned farm that was given to blacks.

After studying to be a tobacco farmer, he worked on his father's farm until it was seized in 1982. He then found work on another farm, and that was stolen a year later and given to black farmers.

Finally, he founded a farm of his own, which was taken from him last year. About 4,000 white farmers are thought to have been expelled from their properties by the Mugabe regime.

'What they tried to do to me the night they stole my farm you don't want to know,' he told MailOnline.

'They told me, we have contacts with the First Lady, you are going to leave with just the shirt on your back. I fought off four guys before they handcuffed me and dragged us out barefoot.

'They drove me away and were going to do me in, but they couldn't because my friends were following their vehicle.

'I didn't pack one item. All my property they stole. I am a loyal, non-political Zimbabwean farmer. That's what hurt me. I was so disappointed in people.'

Armed police later packed some of the Rankins' property into a truck, drove it to where they were staying and dumped it on the grass in the rain.

The Rankins, who are devout Christians, said they would forgive the Mugabes and Dr Nyatsuro – but only if they were held accountable.

'Our time will come,' Mr Rankin said. 'Now Mugabe is gone. One day, they're going to see my Land Rover roll into their yard. I'll pitch up and say, do you know who I am? Do you remember this guy? Two wrongs don't make a right, but there must be accountability.'

He added: 'Everybody talks about forgiveness but forgiveness only comes with repentance. I believe that Dr Nyatsuro must be held accountable. He is living the life of Riley and we're struggling. And he's not even using the farm at all. It's all wrong. He must pay for the two years taken from my life.'

Dr Nyatsuro, who is married to wife Veronica, was disgraced last year when his Nottingham clinic, the Willows Medical Centre, was shut down by the Care Quality Commission after a healthcare assistant was found carrying out internal examinations of patients while posing as a doctor.

Dr Nyatsuro has always denied knowledge of any violence used to take control of his claim to the Rankins' farm, and said that he was allocated the property by the state in accordance with normal legal procedure. He added that no political influence was brought to bear on the decision.

Meanwhile, the Rankins said they have even been harassed by Mugabe's thugs while staying with family members nowhere near their farm.

'Four henchmen were sent to me here, telling me I've got to get out of the country,' Mr Rankin said. 'I said, why must I go when Grace is from South Africa and Dr Nyatsuro is British? My kids were educated here. Theirs were not. Why must I go? They should go.'

Now that the Mugabes have been removed from power, however, the Rankins' future looks like it's about to change for the better.

'I'm hopeful that when the time comes, we'll get our property back, but only if they give us a guarantee that it won't happen again,' Mr Rankin said.

'I believe that it's positive for us. Dr Nyatsuro will be a very worried little man at the moment. I reckon he's shivering in his boots right now.'

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EXCLUSIVE: 'Mugabe's gone, what a pleasure': White farmer whose tobacco plantation was seized by tyrant's thugs in Zimbabwe and given to a British GP friend of the despot says: 'Justice WILL be done...'

-Phillip and Anita Rankin were turfed off their Zimbabwe farm by thugs working for Mugabe in February 2016 The family's treasured belongings were dumped into the back of lorry and driven away by bailiffs with AK47s
-Rankins had called Kingston Farm tobacco plantation in Centenary 123km north of Harare home for 35 years
-Their farm was seized and given to British doctor Sylvester Nyatsuro and wife Veronica, friends of Mugabe
-Couple say now Mugabe is gone they hope that justice is done and that they will finally get their home back



A white Zimbabwean couple whose £800,000 tobacco farm was seized by Robert Mugabe's thugs and given to a black British doctor are 'excited and hopeful' they will get it back now that the hated dictator has stepped down.

Philip Rankin, 59, and his wife, Anita, 58, were handcuffed and thrown out of the farm they had lovingly tended for 33 years by armed police in January 2016, after being 'under siege' there for 110 days.

The 2,000 acre farm was given to the wealthy GP Sylvester Nyatsuro, 47. Believed to be the Mugabes' former family doctor, he is of Zimbabwean descent but has lived in Nottingham for more than 15 years and sends his three children to private school.

In an exclusive interview with MailOnline at a relative's house in northeastern Zimbabwe, father-of-three Mr Rankin said: 'Mugabe is gone, what a pleasure. It's a breath of fresh air. It raises hopes for us. I'm hopeful that justice will be done and people will be held accountable. I'm upbeat, positive and excited. It's long overdue.'

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A tobacco farm in Zimbabwe belonging to Philip Rankin, 59, and his wife, Anita, 58, (pictured) was seized by Robert Mugabe's thugs in February last year and given to a black British doctor who was friends with the despot

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Guarded: Gun-toting thugs guarded the 2,000 acre farm after the Rankins were turfed off the property that they called home for 33 years on the orders of Mugabe

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Rack and ruin: When MailOnline visited the farm this week (pictured), a dam built by the Rankins had burst, meaning that the irrigation had dried up and tobacco could no longer be grown. The few remaining farmhands were trying to grow maize, but they were struggling without the Rankins' expertise

Mrs Rankin added: 'We have been left with nothing. I don't care what the farm looks like now, I'm prepared to go back and spend years building it up again. I'd just love to go back to my home.'

Mrs Rankin's family have lived in Zimbabwe for five generations after her ancestors settled there in the 1890s. Mr Rankin is a second-generation Zimbabwean. Both speak the local language, Shona, fluently.

'Just because you're black doesn't mean you're more Zimbabwean than me,' Mr Rankin said. 'It's sickening the racism that Mugabe instilled.'

Last February, the High Court ruled that the farm must be restored to the Rankins. This, however, was ignored by police who were acting on the orders of Grace Mugabe.

This week, however, soldiers reportedly chased the thugs off the property, marking the first step on the road to returning it to its rightful owners.

'If we get it back, it will be a new beginning for us,' Mrs Rankin said. 'I don't care if we are left with a denuded place. I just want it to be mine. I want to plant and grow produce that I can give to whoever I want. We are people of the soil. It's in our genes.'

MailOnline visited the Rankins' farm, 125miles northeast of Harare, to find it padlocked and in a state of disrepair. The farmhouse was deserted and the tobacco processing plant was locked and surrounded by rubbish.

A dam built by the Rankins had burst, meaning that the irrigation had dried up and tobacco could no longer be grown. The few remaining farmhands were trying to grow maize, but they were struggling without the Rankins' expertise.

'There was a good, white farmer here called Rankin,' one of the labourers told MailOnline. 'People are crying that he is not here any more. We aren't making any money.'

The British doctor had not visited the property in more than a year, he added, and 'did not seem to care about the place'.

The Rankins, who have lost hundreds of thousands of pounds and are now in heavy debt, are doing their best to rebuild their lives as they continue to stay with family about 50miles from their old home.

Mrs Rankin has been growing raspberries using cuttings that their gardener managed to salvage from the farm and has just sold the first batch.

'I'm kind of OK. We have to be OK, but the wheels fall off every now and again,' she told MailOnline. 'We've been in our own place for all of our married life and now we have no home.'

adesignVATExcel:
As usual Nairaland will push this to the front page despite violating one of their own rules "don't deliberately insult /provoke a religion / tribe".

Please oh miss prove me wrong.

I tried posting about the conversion of over 50 Christians to Islam and was denied because of my refusal to accept Allah as supreme God. If any of these converts dare try to leave Islam they are punishable by death. I don't know what kind of religion that is. I am sure most of those converts share similar story to Ese Oruru. What is Seun thinking? He thinks life starts and ends in traffic ?

Crocky23:
To all these pastors, tithing is the most important concept in the Bible. These pastors are running business centres not churches.
Notice he could not quote from the bible, because it's not in the Bible.

Your problem is that you are too canal. 90% of what is written in THB is geared towards spiritual matters. When the THB says "let the dead bury their dead" can a dead man bury another dead man. Once your loose focus of the spirit man interpreting the HB becomes huge task.

Good choice. Farming meets our need. CS is more of a want in our lives. I respect her choice.

This Mugabe resignation is making Maina saga slip through our attention. What's happening with Maina?

Yyeske:
SE youths don't ask for deve, that one na SS language

SE is more desertation.

There is under remittance in 95% of revenue generating agencies. What we need is ICT. Computerize the process so it is captured and shared in realtime with auditing units.

They always charge you deve even when you are doing it for them.

By how much does the govt subsidize these student ? I am sure the increase is a tiny fraction of what govt pays on their behalf. They should use their energy more productively.

Statsocial:
Poly you had to quote all that just to say this!

Stop explaining to people who don't want to be educated. Can the government tax Christians twice? At the point of earning and at the point of spending (the Church)? Impossible. Same people who can't stand up to gov that forcefully obtains tax from them are trying to force Pastors to be accountable to everybody who don't believe in tithes and offering.

These people are joking with Nigerians as usual. Buhari is just as accountable as his appointees in this issue.

I will prefer a leader of vision. You can't force the people to have vision without conflict.
The north is trying hard to hold the south back and catch up with them so it will be extremely hard to a have a unified vision that's void of conflict.

The Bishop that knows his onions.

9JATEMPEST:
Nigerians pay more tithe %10 of their income and experts in %3 tax evasion yet want Nigeria to be like London abi?


Receive sense

Give unto Ceasar what is his. Christians pay what the govt demands as theirs. If govt feels the church people can pay above 10% then it should demand it from all citizens and not just Pastors and Christians alone.

Afrojuju2017:
When God fed the thousands with two loafs of bread and fish in rather certain many of those may not have had faith on his message but came to hear it were in. The vicinity.

Jesus was not sent for the saved but for the sinner, when your progenitors received education from the Catholic and Anglican missions was it their tax-money used to fund such missions !

You making next to no sense bros. If you tax what people pay into the church after taxing the payers of these money at their point of earning it then you are taxing Christians twice and leaving others to sit back and wait for the proceeds of this injustice.

oluwakayode25:
Amazingly GOD makes it rain on both the good and the bad..He does not say rain fall on only Mr A's joys because Mr B who is his neighbour is bad...I don't like pointing fingers but I think to whom much is given much is expected.

Exactly. To whom much is given, much is expected.
We have seen cases where a certain religion and its followers use public fund to sponsor building of religious house. That isn't the case here. Let govt perform its duty with tax and stop prying into the affair of the church.

IamaNigerianGuy:
You have employed your high intelligence in the service of evil men.

In case you don't know, Europe and America was / is built on the philanthropic foundations. The people identify areas of need and direct resources into those areas before they buy publicly flaunt their wealth.

The worst thing in the world is a slave who loves his master

Stop exargerating irrelevant facts bros. What percentage of Europe did philantropy help build? You think we all reason alike ?
What is being used within the church is a tiny fraction of what the govt wastes. Let us stop this blind hate of the church.

robotix:
You are a fool. Do you know the amount of Government dignitaries that these men have access to? Do you know how much they receive from these same people in top political positions? Why can't they use their influence to make that road motorable by talking to government?

Don't forget Martin Luther was also a pastor but he fought for the blacks....

Who is the fool here? Roads need maintenance and even if fixed at the spot OP posted another spot will become just as bad in a short time. Think before typing next time bros.

Mysselff2:
And apart from that, is Pastor Chris the government,shame on the OP.OshiomhOLE that ugly fugly blackish midget is from Auchi area and he was governor for 8 years,so you want to tell me he did not go to those areas to campaign and he did not go to those areas for social ,family reasons,so HOW DID HE GO ?? He was the one in charge of the state treasury,so what didhe do with the funds abi does he want to say NOI took it from him again.Useless ugly short man devil.

As for the man that wrote this story, he needs to be slapped hard to reformat his brain to think well

I don't think this is about Oshiomole. Roads need constant maintenance because they are constantly wearing off.

geopappe:
When did church start paying tax

When they buy material that has been taxed at borders and factories.

OP and his co-travelers should go get their life together, what is pastor Chris suppose to do here? We pay tax to govt against our will and so I see no reason why govt shouldn't be the one to do it.
In Pastor Chris' street there are non-believers who pay tax to the govt also. Why expect 'tithe' money to service people who don't believe in tithe?

Desyner:
From mapet

and then from realjoker . . .



Yet both of 'you' agree when it comes to opposing me.

lol . . . What more can I say?

Lalasticlala, seun. Cc: thevictorious, statsocial

The pin is : 9 3 7 4
If the first is a sqr of the second then the first can only be 1, 4, or 9 cos they are only sqr that's one digit.
The second digit can only be 1, 2, or 3 which is sqr root of first digits going by the options for first digit.
The third can only be 9, 8, or 7 cos when added to the second digit it gives us 10.
The fourth digit can only be 2, 3, or 4 cos it is suppose to be the second digit plus 1.
Arrange them in tabular format and quick addition reveals that the combination of 9, 3, 7 & 4 in that order is our number because it adds up to give 23.

OP should send me recharge card oh . . . Lol.

I would have suggested Aregbe builds the state IGR to a point it can offset most of the recurrent expenses associated with these projects of his. Can Opon Imo compensate for the zeal that would be lost due to half salary payments?

Great question there.
I even think the govt should totally fund education for all govt owned schools. Why? Cos there are tax-paying citizens who still can't sent their wards to govt schools due to funding issue.

Olekumaster:
This man is a liar but I like this lie truth

Just like Biafra, IPOB isn't dead. Just look at the injustice in this country and realize it isn't going to die anytime soon, not even the next 50 years. It may change name (re-branding).

Yes you heard me right. There are tax paying citizens out there who can't afford govt schools.
My solution is that the govt totally subsidizes all govt-owned schools.
What do you guys think?