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.

Showing posts with label Robert Mugabe resigns his office. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Mugabe resigns his office. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

ROBERT MUGABE FORCED OUT: AFTER THE EUPHORIA, WHAT NEXT?

ICHEOKU says even the bravest general knows when the fight cannot be won and continuing the battle becomes mere foolhardy; and so it was that the man who has ruled Zimbabwe for close to four decades, Dr Robert Mugabe, saw that the treachery is deeper than he had imagined and decided to throw in the towel and resigned his office. Now let all those conspirators who ganged up to effectuate his ouster transform Zimbabwe into the little Eldorado Paradise they saw in their vision which led to their stab on the back of the now former president. Boy, was Julius Caesar right in calling out Brutus, Et tu Brute; that an army general who he appointed to the office as head the country's military ganged up with an ousted Vice President to stage a palace coup which barreled down to the present state of a Zimbabwe without President Robert Mugabe. ICHEOKU says trust is definitely in short supply within the Zimbabwean military establishment and the country's general political environment, including the ZANU-PF.

ICHEOKU says it will take a while for it to sink in for those Zimbabweans that President Robert Mugabe is no longer in power and controlling their affairs. Hopefully they have not invited the conflagration which will ultimately consume them, with the disrespectful forced exit of a man who put so much to bring them pride and respect, as full human beings, freed from colonialist British. ICHEOKU will miss President Bobby Mugabe, especially his grandiloquence and vast repertoire of parables and metaphorical speaking. That he is a well read man is also a fact and therefore he earned the bragging right to say that he is very knowledgeable in what he is always talking about. But the conspiracies of Britain and America started the 2009 targeted economic sanction which forced the tiny country of 14 million people into a beggarly nation, with over 90% unemployment rate and a currency which is as worthless as the sands in the Sahara desert and it damaged his presidency so much that he couldn't and never recovered from it. 

But he gave it his all and he fought till the very end; tried but in vain to starve off his traducers. He was simply overpowered by circumstances beyond his control and at his very ripe old age of 93, his sinews no longer have the strength in them which they use to have to wage a fight and he signed the dotted lines of a prepared resignation letter, possibly with a pistol pointed at his cranium by the same gangster military that forced the issue to come to a head. But as with every war, after the war, comes the battle and winning the battle of a post Mugabe Zimbabwe will be the toughest challenge facing Zimbabweans down the road. Nothing really changed and therefore all the hopes raised by his ouster which led to the unwarranted jubilation of Zimbabweans might soon be dashed as wishful. 

The man who will succeed Mugabe, former Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is part of the old order that has ruled Zimbabwe since its independence in 1980. He was once the Minister of Internal Security and his ruthless put down of the Ndebele Matabeleland revolt in 1983-84 when over 20,000 Zimbabweans were brutally massacred and which actually earned him closer ties to the president, tells everything anyone needs to know about the bloody content of his character. He was subsequently appointed Vice President. But unbeknownst to Bobby Mugabe, such a snake could not be trusted and it led to the president's downfall. How this ruthless mass murderer will govern Zimbabwe is but anybody's guess. But ICHEOKU foresees the Biblical 1King 12:11 type King Rehoboam come to life that if President Robert Mugabe chastised Zimbabweans with a stick, this incoming killer will trade sticks for scorpions. Like with every revolution, after Mugabe, will come the real revolution of purging Mugabe's loyalists and replacing them with his own henchmen; and how far his decisions will go is also anybody's guess. But whether those that will be affected in the coming purge will just accept it and quietly go into the night without a fight is also up in the air. 

It is Africa where tribal and regional loyalties are always paramount in peoples affairs. As the people of Libya are still finding out after the celebration that followed the international conspiracy that led to the murder of Moummar Gaddafi, Zimbabweans might soon find out that President Mugabe was not the problem. Iraq too. Winning the war against President Robert Mugabe is definitely going to be quite different from winning the battle against a comatose economy and a people yet to fully grasp what has taken place - that their Bobby is no longer in power. A Zimbabwe military which took side with a Vice President against their own commander in chief is not a military any incoming president should trust and the real change should in fact start with them by removing every senior military officer that had a hand in the ouster of President Robert Mugabe from office. Thereafter, the over devalued currency should be addressed as well as the overall economy which is in cold doldrums, towards providing jobs for millions of unemployed Zimbabweans and prevent the 90% unemployment from further north bound trajectory. 

As far as ICHEOKU is concerned, the manner of President Robert Mugabe's removal from office is not the best. The military should have demanded the reinstatement of the sacked Vice President and allowed President Robert Mugabe to serve out his term. At his very old age of 93, he does not have that much long to live and they could have also waited him out or have the election conducted in such a way as to vote him out in next year's election. But all these are now but the shouting, as the deed is done and Robert Mugabe is no longer president of Zimbabwe. ICHEOKU says lets now wait and watch how the post President Robert Mugabe's era will turn out for Zimbabweans. So long President Bobby and may he live out whatever remains of his last days on this earth in peace and harmony; and ICHEOKU thanks him for the much which he was able to do for Zimbabweans within his widow's mite abilities. Viva Bobby.