GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

JENNIFER AKUDIHOR, NIGERIAN MOTHER OF TWO CAUGHT STEALING IN THE USA.

Icheoku says as if Nigerians do not have enough bad rap already in the United States of America, this mother of two from Governor Adams Oshiomhole's Edo State, on holidays in Kansas State, was caught red-handed with shoplifted merchandise valued at over $2000. A class C felony which will most likely see her holidays automatically extended with an extended stay in the big house upon conviction.  Jennifer Akudihor was caught on camera stealing merchandise inside a Macy's store in Overland Park Kansas, which she "cleverly" stashed inside her baby's stroller and was about making it out of the store when security accosted her. The police were called, she was arrested and booked in jail awaiting bail hearing and subsequent prosecution for her crime. 

Icheoku queries whether this woman is a fit mother and also whether she should actually be visiting on holidays to the United States of America when she can hardly afford such a luxury pastime. When she was caught, there was not a single dime or penny found on her person or purse and you wonder if she indeed have any business going on holidays in the first place. Hopefully her husband will divorce her in order to save his face from such a thieving wife except she is a kleptomaniac crying for urgent help? It is possible too that she was just an errand dutiful wife for an equally criminally minded and disposed husband, who is inchoot and acted in concert with her or egged her on or possibly forced her hands. But whatever be her story since "everybody has a story", whatever motivated her stands irrelevant as not having money to pay for merchandise has never been an excuse to steal. 

Icheoku says Jennifer Akudihor  should have known better and shouldn't have brought herself to this baseness. Now she has to be processed through the straight-jacketed path that is American justice system that admits of no emotiveness. She did the crime and therefore has to do the time. Her being "very apologetic and remorseful", admitted may serve as persuasive ground for the judge to show some mercy, but it does not excuse what she did. Icheoku says irrespective of her reason for being a criminal, although presumed innocent until proven guilty despite her being caught red-handed on video and her voluntary admission to the crime, this certainly is not the way to go about acquiring what she does not have or as a means of meeting her "needs?" Sixty six items cannot be simply said to be a need as they are rather too many to be so subsumed. Were it one diaper or a baby food, may be; but sixty six items some of which might be some luxury items of clothing, goes beyond pale and she should therefore squarely deal with the legal problem which she just created for herself. What another stain on Nigerians already battered image of a country of 419 dupes and con-men, corruption-infested, Boko Haram and now holidaying shoplifters. What a shameful thing this shameless woman of Edo State have done to an overly ashamed Nigeria community in the United States. 

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