AIT ORDERED NOT TO COVER AN EVENT GEN. BUHARI WAS FEATURING

AIT ORDERED NOT TO COVER AN EVENT GEN. BUHARI WAS FEATURING! Well it is obvious that Nigeria has swallowed a frog! Tell me if this is not beginn ing of suppression of press freedom even before the General is sworn in!? We got to this point because the North wanted power shift and fast too aand so Northern hard-liners raised the necessary coercive forces to force a power shift- Boko Haram ! Secondly, after the famed Ojota rallies President Jonathan realized he must do something to make the Nigerias carm down however that means stepping on the toes of the powers that be in PDP. Consequent upon this the president did the agric transformation and disconnected the hose pipe the PDP cabals use to milk the treasury of close to 100 billion Naira on fertilizer scam per annum! Transformation in transport Education sectors also cost the major cabals in PDP a lot however President Jonathan avoided the petroleum sector where the most dangerous cabals were nesting but that didn’t save the president! In no time they formed a second PDP and all that. The fact was that even if it was Lucifer himself that could challenge President Jonathan the escapee cabals were ready to support him. Just make the ranting Jonathan to bite the sweet sweet dust! Back to General Buhari and his order or the order of his party APC they meant the same thing- early sign of possible suppression of press gfreedom and for other television houses Radio house news papers BON that sat back to cover the event and think that it was AIT problem they are committing what we call in mathematics type 2 error! A man with dictatorial mind set has no permanent friend or enemy. If you don’t want him not to breath down your neck you whip yourself into line or get crushed! I am sure that the other members of the media that still sat down to cover the event have made a grievous regrettable and deadly error they may live to regret. How should all members of the press forget so soon what General Muhammadu Buhari did to the media in his first time as a military dictator!? The least expected of other media houses was for them to stage a serious walk-out! To send signal to the General that no amount of suppression of press freedom would be condoned by the Nigeria media either now or later. Without press freedom our democracy is not work writing on tissue paper so any one with canning desire to suppress freedom is enemy of democracy! Recall that when Herr Hitler was dictating it over Germany and later over Europe and finally to the world but particularly over Germany there were British European and American Press that hailed him as a great German leader even up to the point of annexing Chekeslovakia! However well over three thousand Journalists in Europe, America and Germany paid with their lives for their foolish support to Dictator Herr Hitler; not to talk of nearly 60 million lives lost globally because of just one man, Herr Hitler. I have started hearing foreign institutions and local media groups calling on Gen. Buhari to weave the powers around him instead of strengthen the various institutional frame works meant to keep the sanity in the country. The truth is that both foreign and local institutions and media house would soon turn around to regret this! Dictators first conquer self by having high degree of discipline then they progress to conquest of their party to conquest of the institutions to conquest of the entire citizens to finally conquest of the globe! Though they have iron will as regard actions they want to take but they are also cowardly when still resistance is offered from day one. The media houses hove already lost round one as regard Gen. Muhammad Buhari and if care is not taken they may lose more rounds by the time the General assumes the full powers as Nigeria president with the array of apparatus of coercion at his disposal the press will have no chance against this General and if care is not taken let us start now to consider bye-bye to democracy and democratic structures in the country! To be fore warned is to be fore armed.

Local Kings; Xenophobia, Genocide and Tribal Hostilities in Africa.

Local Kings; Xenophobia, Genocide and Tribal Hostilities in Africa. 

The truth is that most of the local kings in Africa are irrevocably tied to the past and vestiges of its primitiveness and rigid crudity! You wont be surprised to know that the only thing vast almost without boundries is just the palaces of the African local kings, however that is where the vastness of modernity ends the brains of those kings are still as that of their primitive ancestors, where killings, wicked idiotic wars and tribal follies are competing for superiority! Many of those kings find it difficult to use a modern tablet or even have an email address let alone a simple internet system! Are you then surprised why they understand little that the world has gone global village! The only thing in their heads is constantly the phantom conquest of other hapless tribes to the extent that most of their ancestors burnt down nearby hapless villages and sold the survivors to their fellow criminals that came from Europe! So many of their offspring still have the blood of the viper flowing in their ancestors in their veins that is why from time to time those vices rear their heads!

Lets check out the Rwanda genocide; it was local leaders (kings) that instigated it and criminally supported by the country leaders! The Hutus who make up of about 85% of Rwanda and also in control of the the nation’s leadership following incitements from the local kings took on the minority Tutsis and Twa and in a twinkle of an eye well over 800,000 Tutsis were mown down ibn cold blood while the Hutusi controlled presidency happily looked the other way! However what perhaps stopped total wipe out of the Tutsi minority was a rare providence when some gallant Tutsi commanders managed to overthrow the crazy Hutusi government and had at lest a bite on the colossus Hutsus who had gave them a raw deal but how many ethnic minority could have such luck from being saved from extinction!? These were all happening while the entire globe watches in shameless docility!

Just recently before a governorship election in Nigeria some where in the South West ; Lagos precisely the Oba of Lagos Oba Rilwan Akiolu 1 was issuing threat to the Igbos ethnic nationalities residing in that city that they would have thousands of their corpses swam up the Lagos Lagoon! Mind you the election in question was not being contested by an Igbo nationality rather the election was between two indigenous Lagosian ! One would then wonder what the Oba would have said or done if one of the candidates were to be an Igbo as it would be sooner or later. It was obvious that kings like Oba of Lagos have enormous resources supplied by the government that any king in his status may practically fund a small private army which they could unleash on their perceived enemy. Though I know that the Igbos never took the Oba’s threats something to fear since the Igbos are capable of defending themselves any where on this earth evident in the result that showed that the opposing party got to the very closest to beating Oba’s preferred party but one may wonder what would have happen if the Oba’s candidate and party lost sure there would have been blood berth!

Right now in South Africa the so called xenophobia is just simmering down but several lives have been lost several millions of dollars of business destroyed or looted and this is not the first time! However this latest one is credited to inciting statements by King of Kwazulu Land, Goodwill Zwelithini KaBhekuzulu not quoting his verbatim “that foreign workers should leave!” and even earlier statement by the South African President that he would do something about migrant workers! This two leaders set the foundation for the perhaps hundreds of lives murdered in cold blood in South Africa. One cant forget so soon how South Africans were warehoused in several countries in Africa when they had their challenge even people like Tabo Mbeki lived for a long time in Surulere Lagos with his family and several thousands of South Africans! Now it is Nigerians that South African rush quickly to destroy their means of livelihood when South African companies like MTN Shoprite, DSTV Standard Chartered Bank and host of other companies are making billions of Dollars here in Nigeria! Instead of the king of Kwazulu land to scale down the amount he squashes on his palace and cronies and then spend it to send uneducated children to school so that they can compete instead of stupid cruelty against equally poor migrants with little more education! It is time that OAU, UN, International HUMAN Rights Organizations and a host of other world bodies take proactive measures to local kings and their utterances and apply stiff sanctions to them before it leads to death of hapless minorities. Where this cannot be preempted the earring kings and all others believed to be responsible for inciting people to kill and maim and destroy should be brought to trial and on conviction should be treated with the strictest international punishment for their part.

Igbos and Yorubas tit-tat and cooporation!

Yorubas and Igbos Long ages of Tit-Tat and corporation! Right from independence there have been some levels of cooperation and mutual suspicion between the Igbos and the Yorubas. I said cooperation because Herbert Mercury worked well with Owelle Nnamdi Azikiwe and on the untimely and unfortunate death of Herbert Macaury, Owelle Azikiwe became the leader of NCNC. On the other hand, after the general election where non of the three parties from North Nigeria, Western Nigeria and Eastern Nigeria failed to win outright majority to form a government Chief Obafemi Awolowo wanted to form a coalition government with Owelle Azikiwe to form a government but I guess in the sprit of his I mean Owelle Azikiwe’s Pan-Africanisim he was pursuing with Kwema Nkuruma of Ghana viewed that too selfish; the two south parties forming a government to exclude the entire north rather opted to form government with the North. This, of course angered Chief Awolowo and later to a tit-tat reaction of cross carpeting of members of Owelle Azikiwe’s party to Chief Awolowo’s party painstakingly engineered by Chief Obafemi Awolowo! That settled at that later when some Northern reactionaries wanted to and toppled Major General Aguyi Ironsi’s government that snow balled into the declaration of state by Biafra and later to civil war Chief Obafemi Awolowo serving a sentence in Calaba allegedly reached agreement with Col Ojukwu that when released he would declare a Yoruba state. However, instead of declaring a Yoruba state he took a ministerial appointment with Gowon’s government and was instrumental in using hunger to force the igbos to early surrender and scuttling of the Biafran state as well as Biafran land, Bakasi ceded to Cameron to help Nigeria block Igbos from getting any food through Nigeria Cameroon border. Today that Bakasi is history as gen. Obasonjo who rarely complied with court decisions in Nigeria speedily complied with judgment of the international court in Hague handed the Bakasi home land to the Cameroonian authorities. However, when same General Olusegun Obasonjo was released after Abacha’s death to become Nigeria President his Yoruba kinsmen rejected him however the Igbos and south south ensured that Gen Obasonjo regains power and supported him for his two terms in office. On the other hand Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu supported President Jonathan to win his first term in office. However, same Tinubu was the man that also ensured that President Jonathan did not get a second term like his kinsman Gen Obasonjo by spinning Gen Muhamadu Buhari from the north supported by the same Gen Olusegun Obasonjo the Igbos and south South supported to do his complete two terms! What a relationship! If it stopped at that it can be swallowed but the Oba of Lagos went a step further despite pushing out President Jonathan out of office to issue threats of death to Igbos who have a choice to vote not between an Igbo and a Yoruba but rather two Yorubas that they must vote for a candidate supported by his kinsman Sen. Bola Tinubu! One wonders what the Oba would then threaten the igboman with the day a political party decides to field an Igbo man as governorship candidate for Alausa mansion!? To close the story for now on cooperation side; despite Sen. Bola Tinubu’s effort two Yoruba states Ondo and Ekiti at least reasonably supported President Jonathan and even the base of Sen. Tinubu, Lagos also reasonably supported President Jonathan! Let’s hope that we do more of corporation rather than tit-tat. God bless the South and God bless Nigeria