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.

Monday, January 4, 2016

GANI FAWEHINMI, A HUGE VOID IN THIS TIME OF GREAT TRIBULATION.

Icheoku says if any black robed and white wigged man or woman ever walked the field of law in Nigeria,  Gani Fawehinmi was that man and literally the only man to have truly done so; matter of factly speaking. He walked tall, fearlessly and courageously; and where angels feared to tread, he thudded. He was never coy nor timid about the preeminent place of the law in society and always fought to ensure it. He confronted whatever needed to be confronted legally; he magisterially rose up on each and every occasion in defense of the law and people. As a result, authorities usually thought twice, knowing that Gani will be challenging their illegalities in court and doggedly too, before they trample on the constitution, the law and the  rights of the citizenry. 

But regrettably, happenstances of the past few months in Nigeria has rekindled the memory of this indefatigable legal luminary of great repute. Icheoku mourns his loss all over again as a man whom Nigeria misses at this great hour of great need, of a fearless warrior to face-down the morphing dictatorship that is President Muhammadu Buhari. Imagine an elected president, in a democracy, usurping the powers of court and disparaging the very rule of law which made his presidency possible in the first place; and lawyers in Nigeria are just keeping mum, pretending that all is well while the very foundation upon which their trade is built is being eroded and corroded in this very adverse manner. As far as many of them are concerned, provided the whole applecart is not upturned and as long as they still can eke out a living, hustling; President Muhammadu Buhari can do whatever he wants unchallenged with two Nigerian citizens whose right to fair hearing have been unduly infringed by the government. 

Various courts of competent jurisdiction heard citizens Sambo Dasuki and Nnamdi Kanu's bail applications, considered them and ruled. They granted them bail, with one, unconditionally; but President Muhammadu Buhari is saying that they do not deserve bail and as a result is still holding them illegally and in breach of the rule of law. Icheoku says if this two citizens are flight risk as President Muhammadu Buhari would shamelessly want the bewildered world to believe, why did his prosecutorial team not adduce such evidence while the issue of bail was being argued and persuade the court not to grant them bail or condition them on impossible or more stringent and hard to perfect obligations? Why would the government's prosecutorial team wait until the court have weighted their bail applications and determined their alleged offenses bailable and accordingly granted them bail, before President Muhammadu Buhari will then countermand the courts and refuse to comply with valid orders of courts and in a democracy? 

Icheoku laments that the Nigeria Bar Association, having not risen up as a pressure group in defense of the law and constitutional rights of Nigerian citizens, have lost its salt and should therefore consider revoking its charter of existence.  Their present indifference to the brash bashing of the law by President Muhammadu Buhari, especially its President Alegeh, is simply inexplicable.  Worse still, Vice President Yemi Osibanjo is a lawyer and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and you wonder doesn't he ever talk and/or ask for audience with the president to advise the president on his limitations in a democracy, where the rule of law is supreme? Then add the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, another lawyer and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria; then Minister of Works, Power and Housing Babatunde Fashola too, another lawyer and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, as well as many other lawyers in that government; yet they all are keeping mum as lady justice is suffering this wanton rape of her authority in the hands of their employer, President Muhammadu Buhari. 

Icheoku bemoans if only Gani Fawehinmi was still alive, no way would President Muhammadu Buhari dare and if he dared, the whole country will be literally on fire with legal fireworks to stop this madness. What a loss to Nigeria, especially the legal profession therein, that was the demise of Gani Fawehinmi.  Several years later, no one lawyer in Nigeria has been able to fill the very huge void left by him. It is indeed shameful the reactions so far from Nigerian lawyers to what President Muhammadu Buhari is doing to the law. It is a disheartening show of lack of courage and crass timidity that lawyers in Nigeria cannot rise up and defend their honor as lawyers and apostles of the  law and courts. If it is Sambo Dasuki as well as Nnamdi Kanu today, whose turn shall it be tomorrow to be summarily and arbitrarily similarly traumatized by injustice meted out by President Muhammadu Buhari?

Nigerians were warned that the old leopard cannot change its spots and true to prediction, President Muhammadu Buhari is now showing that his claimed "converted democrat" status was simply a ruse to con Nigerians of their votes during the last election. As warned, he has proved himself that the Muhammadu Buhari who overthrew democracy in 1983 and the one now masquerading as democratically elected President Muhammadu Buhari are but two faces of the same coin - a despotic tyrant who has no regard for the rule of law and rights of the citizens. Icheoku says when shall a Gani Fawehinmi reincarnate and when shall Nigerian lawyers become more active and truly give the citizens the confidence that they are constitutional rights defenders, who are watching their backs and watching out for them? Oh Gani, Nigeria misses you.

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