UNITED NATIONS URGED TO THREAD CAREFULLY.

“At the UN we’re always asked to do more and give more. So, when we make a decision, at the will of the American people about where to locate OUR embassy, we don’t expect those we’ve helped to target us. On Thursday there’ll be a vote criticizing our choice. The US will be taking names. The president will be watching this vote carefully and has requested I report back on those countries who voted against us. We will take note of each and every vote on this issue.” - Nikki Harley, United States ambassador to the United Nations; warning member countries about the consequences of their planned condemnation of the decision by America to relocate American embassy to Jerusalem. 

PENTECOSTALISM: A DOCTRINE OF GREED DESTROYING CRITICAL THINKING - IJABLA RAYMOND.

Pentecostal Christianity has corrupted our way of living. The damage that Pentecostal pastors have caused with their exploitative sermons will take decades to undo. Right across the continent, their sermons have destroyed critical thinking and produced a generation of Africans who are magical thinkers. The corruption is pervasive. It is in government, our schools, businesses, in our homes and even in our universities - the seat of all learning and philosophy. It is everywhere. 

Our universities are populated by "intellectuals" who not only believe but also teach that witches are real, that prayers can bring dead people back to life and cure all diseases and make cars drive without any fuel. Our Vice President is a professor of law and he is an ardent follower of a pastor who claims he has all these powers. We are now at a point where the generation that has suffered the most brainwashing is at the helms of our affairs. And they are spreading their corruption. If the person who teaches you science discredits evolution but argues their pastor's car can drive without fuel or that their pastor has resurrected people and cured every disease through prayers and fasting, what values are they imparting to you? The purpose of education is to overcome ignorance, not to validate it. 

Of what use is the kind of education that does not cause us to examine our prejudices? If I received a penny for every time a fellow Nigerian medical doctor argued that prayers cure cancer or resurrect people or that witches and demons are real, I would be a millionaire today. Their evidence is usually stories that have been narrated to them by their pastors, friends and families or the bible. And when I say to them the bible mentions talking snakes and donkeys they tell me I am spiritually blind and cannot understand the things of God. I think it is possible to believe in the existence of God without all that literalism but this is a subject for another day. But what value has pentecostalism added to our society? I can think of none. We are still one of the most corrupt nations on earth, the majority of our citizens subsist on less than one dollar/day, workers are owed wages sometimes running up to six months in arrears, the elderly cannot access their pensions, and our unemployed youths are forced into prostitution and armed robbery. 

The pastorpreneurs do not live by what they preach.They do not care about integrity. We have seen them physically assault church members, involved in questionable business deals, sleep with female church members, tell lies and so on. I could go on and on for days but I would struggle to identify one benefit of Pentecostalism. Greed and selfishness are the ethos of the Pentecostal movement as I have observed it practiced in Nigeria. Pastorpreneurs take money from the weakest and the most vulnerable members of the society such as widows, pensioners, the unemployed and the sick. 

They use it to buy themselves private jets and to build expansive business empires which they will bequeath to their children. They use tithes and offerings to build private schools and universities but the poor church members whose donations built these institutions cannot afford to send their children to these places. On matters that relate to human rights and good governance, we just never hear from these pastor-preneurs. Nigerians are drowning daily in the Mediterranean Sea in search of a better life in Europe. Eunice was murdered in Abuja last year by Muslim youths during evangelism. Another Christian woman was murdered by a Muslim mob in Kano recently. 

Do you hear pastor-preneurs talk about these issues? No! They are deaf and dumb, and they don’t want to know about such “mundane” issues. But as soon as you speak against tithing and threaten their livelihood they come out of hiding and one after the other, sermon after sermon, they use death threats to frighten church members to continue to pay tithes to them. They swamp us with sermons about how an all-sufficient God needs money. They say, God, who is supposedly all-powerful and omni-benevolent, needs money to be able to bless his worshippers. 

Curiously, I have yet to find one pastor use the scriptures to contradict Daddy Freeze on tithing. They have issued curses, death wishes and even tried to use his personal challenges to discredit him but not one bible verse has been used to support their position on tithing. Considering the number of scriptures these people have memorized, I think it is telling that none of them has been able to produce a SINGLE verse to support their craft. One important lesson the debate on tithing has taught us is this: Most Nigerian Christians are pastor-worshippers. They do not think for themselves and cannot read their Bibles without hearing the voices of their pastors in the background. It has taken one man to expose the shallowness with which millions of believers relate to the scriptures they claim to read daily. 

The other lesson is this: When pastor-preneurs use death threats to frighten believers into paying tithes, it proves neither the pastor-preneurs nor the believers truly believe what they preach. If heaven is the fabulous place where ALL the believer’s aspirations come to fruition then why are believers so scared of death to the point it can be used to manipulate them? This is like someone who fantasizes about emigrating to America but when they are informed they require a travel visa they say, “I reject the visa in Jesus’ name.” 

You cannot go to your beloved heaven if you do not die. To conclude, Pentecostalism is a doctrine of greed and selfishness. It thrives on fear. It exploits the weak. It destroys critical thinking. Our salvation is in insisting on a rational society. Enough of these superstitions and greed.

PPRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP NATIONAL SECURITY SPEECH

OMAROSA: YOU'RE FIRED!

ICHEOKU says for the second time and by the same personality, the lady who many Americans have come to regard as an enfant terrible nut job, Omarosa Manigault, has been fired from her White House job as director of communication for the Office of Public Liaison, whatever that means. The first time was during her reality television show debut in The Apprentice.  Both times, by the same man who midwifed The Apprentice and is now the president of the United States of America, President Donald John Trump. 

ICHEOKU says provided the divorce is amicable and that Omarosa went out somewhat satisfied and not feeling so humiliated, such that she will seek a revenge, the White House would have certainly and successfully dodged the bullet. Otherwise the White House would have been minded to go watch the "Diary of a mad black woman" and see the freight train headed their way, a public relations disaster. Omarosa has such a strong personality that scares any man shitless and a mad Omarosa is capable of shaking the White House down to its foundations with sleazy and salacious account of her experience therein. A woman scorned is the worst thing anyone could wish on their worst enemy,  a Lucifer turned loose from the pits of hell, a matter made worse if the woman is a black woman and one as feisty as Omarosa Manigault. 

Omarosa Manigault now joins a retinue of been there in the White House and now no more there former staffers of President Donald John Trump's White House. An ever growing list of previously hired and fired, gone from the White House former staffers which is now elongated with Omarosa's addition. ICHEOKU says may be it is about time the former staffers form an association of former PDJT staffers, who have now been shoved aside and put out of the limelight of the White House. A reality show can also spine off from their collective experiences, which could be turned into a nation-wide event and sure, people will tune in to watch and hopefully learn the utmost secret workings of the White House. But no one exactly knows what it is that happened at the White House that led to her being let go. ICHEOKU hopes that like Las Vegas and her predecessors in being fired, that Omarosa would let what happened in the White House to stay in White House. So long Oma.

ALABAMA LOST ELECTION: PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP TWEETS

"Congratulations to Doug Jones on a hard fought victory. The write-in votes played a very big factor, but a win is a win. The people of Alabama are great, and the Republicans will have another shot at this seat in a very short period of time. It never ends!" - President DonaldJohn Trump.

ICHEOKU says definitely a new way in American politics, teaching the old politicians how to play modern politics without bitterness. The peoples president is leading the way and American deplorables are in tow. Way to go.

ROY MOORE LOSES ALABAMA SENATE SEAT

ICHEOKU says all the effort were not enough to see himthrough the finish line. The armada of forces amassed against him was almost humanly insurmountable. Election is one crazy thing and the lynch mob successfully took down a good man who would have been great for Alabamans. 

The take Roy Moore out conspiracy played their last joker by fielding in a Write In ex-marine ultra conservative candidate and he snatched over 20,000 votes conservative votes which would have been more than enough to win the election. But hey, the sun will still come up tomorrow morning, regardless. 

ICHEOKU says congratulations to Doug Jones onhis election victory, as Alabama now switches from red Republican to blue Democrat Senate seat. Salute

ALABAMANS SHOW ROY MOORE SOME LOVE: VOTE ROY MOORE

ICHEOKU says the long awaited Tuesday December 12th 2017 is finally here for the people of the Great State of Alabama to tell Washington DC to mind their gaddam business and stay the heck out of Alabama's internal affairs matter. VOTE ROY MOORE.

ROY MOORE IS THE ONE: VOTE ROY MOORE

ALABAMA VOTES ROY MOORE. ON TUESDAY DECEMBER 12TH, 2017 ALABAMANS WILL VOTE TO SEND A MAN WHO FEARS GOD TO Washington DC TO HELP PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP CONTINUE TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. VOTE ROY MOORE FOR SENATE !

PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP SPEAKS IN PENSACOLA FLORIDA.

ICHEOKU says President Donald John Trump is coasting to an easy second term victory come 2020. Simply put, there is no visible nor invisible competitor out there, not in the Democratic Party and neither inside the Republican Party to take him on. A matter made worse because he has single handily demolished every potential prospective presidential wanna be in the Republican Party. Boy, is the president good. Yes indeed the boy is good and he did not win the presidency for no reason. He is damn good and he gives one heck of good speeches and he backs them up too. Simply unopposed for second term. 

ROY MOORE: VOTE THE PEOPLES CHOICE FOR ALABAMA SENATE SEAT

ICHEOKU says it does not matter what the Washington Swamp establishment says or wants; the fact of the matter is that they should butt out from a purely internal affairs matter of the people of the great State of Alabama. Alabamans have the final say on who represents them in the United States' Senate and peradventure in the matter of Roy Moore. They are constitutionally so entitled and they will freely exercise that their right to send their preferred candidate to Washington DC as their elected Senator. 

ICHEOKU says allegations of what supposedly happened four decades ago should not be such a shaming circumstance to warrant his rejection by the people. He is a victim of the Lynch mob Washington Swamp dwellers who are afraid and scared stiff of the erudite judge and a morally upright man coming to keep an eye on them. This is the only gas in they tank which is fueling their maniacal madness to stop and prevent by all and every means necessarily his practically assured election. Whatever it was that he allegedly did, most likely flirting with younger women; but it was not rape neither was it molestation. If, could have risen to such a character damaging and impugning conduct as to be egregious enough to warrant and justify his rejection, but it did not. 

For over forty years since, Roy Moore has remained on the narrow straight path and a real Christina warrior of God and his time has now come to go to the United States if America Senate to continue his defense of what is right and American; and not worry about what a few detractors has to say, provided it satisfies God. ICHEOKU heretofore, affirms the earlier endorsement of few months ago and urge Alabamans to troop out en-masse and use their vote to tell Washington DC to stay the hell out of their business; and that they are old enough to know one of their own sons better than the Swamp megaphone tabloid Washington Post. VOTE TO SEND A MESSAGE TO THE SWAMP; VOTE TO ELECT ROY MOORE. I am ICHEOKU and I approve this message.

ROY MOORE: THE PEOPLES CHOICE

ICHEOKU says VOTE ROY MOORE. VOTE ROY MOORE. VOTE ROY MOORE. VOTE ROY MOORE. VOTE ROY MOORE. VOTE ROY MOORE. VOTE ROY MOORE

QUEEN GRANDMA FINALLY RELENTS: PRINCE HARRY TO MARRY MEGHAN.

ICHEOKU says and they are engaged with the nuptials scheduled for Spring 2018. Congratulations to Prince Harry and soon to be bride Meghan Markle on winning the heart of Queen Grandmother Elizabeth II; whose approval and nod has to be first sought and obtained before the duo could proceed with making their relationship formal through an engagement. It must have felt like pulling a tooth and a wait in eternity, waiting for the royal seal of approval; and happy are the duo who finally made the Queen see reason that things are no longer as they used to be and that matters of love is blind to colors. 

The pair is a product of a world that has since moved on and which will, before too long, eventually, totally dispense with the royalty itself. It is a world which has now witnessed what would have otherwise been an impossibility; an unthinkable and unacceptable taboo some years ago, that a Prince of Wales who is in line for the Kingship of England is cavorting with or rather courting a commoner who is also happens to be black for that matter. ICHEOKU says anyone who says it was easy for those two love birds to get through the hurdle of the royal "mismatch" must be out of his or her mind, not to know or rather oblivious of what the British royalty or any other royalty anywhere is all about. It is about preservation and maintenance of certain purebred bloodlines, period. Such expectation of them or rather their ordered lifestyle, accommodates of no love or what the heir wants or wishes. He is bound by what his aristocracy determines is best suited for him by reason birth and age long traditions that come with the territory. His future role of propagating the throne of England is the key and nothing more; hence everything is funneled to making him a real royalty fit for King. 

They seldom have any choice in their personal lives matters. Everything about and concerns them is treated as duty called and they are required to stoically, with stiff upper lip, soldier on in defense of what holds meaning to their life of pure luxury and great expectation; and they have no choice but to live the part. In some countries, some heirs or heir-apparents are known to have foresworn their royalty just to free themselves of the hamstrings of their birth. A choice which they did not make nor were consulted before it was determined; neither was their opinion ever sort about how to rejig things to make them more suitable to them or comfortable to their situational needs. In Thailand for example, the present King and former heir apparent severally denounced the throne before the imperial custodians persuaded him to see reason and agree to lead the people as their King. So uneasy lies the head that wears the crown and many  have some understanding about what is making Prince Harry, the rebellious Prince of Wales, that he is. 

Prince Harry does not want to be shackled down by centuries old institutions and traditions which literary owns his life as a Prince of Wales. So he uses every opportunity and available moment to telegraph to the palace that he is a different type of royalty, one who will not be bogged down by the dictates of royalty. That he is a Prince who runs away to Las Vegas to party hard, naked with chics and being caught on tape. That he is the type of royalty who drinks, drives fast cars, flies airplanes and helicopters as well as lead a company into battle grounds. Yes, he did not want to be a clone of his elder brother William, the dutiful prince and future King of England, who is so steeped in traditions and the carrying out of the duties of the office that so many admirers are getting impatient to see him coronated formally as the King of England; admitted they will have to wait a little longer and long enough for the Queen grandmother to pass on or abdicate her office, then his father Prince Charles to have a go at it or wave it on to his son Prince William before it becomes his turn. 

Anyway, be that as it may, ICHEOKU says the riveting thing about what happened in England with this engagement is to say the least, revolutionary. Prince Harry has now incontrovertibly established himself as the villain Prince, the black sheep of the royal family, who pulled off the big hit and secured a near impossible royal approval from his grandmother the Queen to do an extraordinary thing - be engaged to a commoner who is also black. ICHEOKU says Her Majesty's love for her grandson Prince Harry did it, it conquered it all; as she said whatever will make my wild-buck prince grandson happy and help him settle down into a life of near routine. It is a new day people and like Romeo and Juliet, this mixed blessings has now further cemented the bond of friendship existing between America and Great Britain. The two countries are now, in addition to all the other things that hold them together, inlaws or soon to be in-laws. What will love not make possible. The power of love is stronger than steel and near infinite. It has made nations go to war and has caused the deaths of so many; but with Prince Harry and soon to be Duchess Meghan Markle, it has now cemented further the bond of two nations. 

Queen Grandmother said yes my grandson Prince Harry, you can bring a commoner who is also black into our royal household as a bona fide member of the family. This is the gist of what went down. The Queen's assent is the 54 million dollar story here and ICHEOKU is salivating over it. The Queen against all odds, signed off on the relationship simply because of her love for her grandson who she wants to see him happy and fulfilled. ICHEOKU is emphatic that Meghan Merkel was definitely not and would not have been the Queen's first choice or preferred wife for his grandson Prince Harry, whom she had expected to follow in the footsteps of his brother Prince William and towed the path. But hey, the deal is done; both lovebirds are engaged to be married next Spring 2018 and what love has put together,  nothing will or should put asunder. Not even the fact that Meghan is older than Prince Harry by about 4 years made the consideration list. Also, that Meghan is not a virgin and was previously married and a divorcee too, was not a downer either. 

This is exactly what true love is all about really. A prince found love in the house of a commoner and sealed it with a diamond engagement ring. When the wedding bells ring in the Spring of 2018, Meghan Markle will be made to shed her commoner's garb and be transformed into a royalty, as she takes the title Duchess of Sussex. But her status will be automatically elevated beyond her imagination and hers is a story of how an American black lady captured the heart of a British true born Prince and denied every British lady of a chance at royalty, marrying their Prince Harry and into the royal family. There is definitely mourning in the house of so many British girls  over this development; but provided the catfights are confined inside their respective homes, it shall be ok. William Shakespeare again was proved right that some people were born great and some people have greatness trusted to them and Meghan Markle has now become a beneficiary of the later, supremely privileged. ICHEOKU says congratulations to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle; as well as Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for giving them the nod to hitch it. May you guys have a wonderful life and your marriage be blessed abundantly with your hearts desires. This is good.

VOTE FOR ROY MOORE

ALABAMANS: DONT LET WASHINGTON DICTATE TO YOU, VOTE ROY MOORE FOR SENATE.

PRINCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE ARE ENGAGED: HURRAY!

ICHEOKU says they look nice together and hopefully the crazy media and their paparazzi hordes will let them be and not force them into a life of misery or accidentally run them off the cliff. Lady Di's tragic experience is still painfully fresh till this day and no one, not ICHEOKU, wants to relive or experience such awfulness again, NEVER again. May God protect and bless the duo as they take their baby steps into the journey of of so many unknown absurdities called marriage. All the best Harry and Meghan.

A DO NOTHING CONGRESS: ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING MOLESTING WOMEN?

ICHEOKU says the need to unmask the bad apples among the United States of American Congress as well as the Senate has now arisen. This is in order to separate the bad eggs from those decent men and women who went to Washington DC to actually go do the peoples business. But the sexual harassment cloud cover hovering over the nations seat of legislative power, the Capitol, cannot be allowed to completely cover every one of them including those innocent ones. 

To do this will be to also tarnish the image and reputation of those respectable members amongst them, who are not part of this orgy but happened to share the same supposedly hallowed chambers. In the eyes of the American people, all of them are incohoot in it and are deemed culpable and the suspicion will remain until those guilty parties are separated from the innocent through naming and shaming them. 

It should not be a case of one oily finger spreading its liquid on the rest of the four fingers, that they all eventually become soiled and stained for no fault of their own. Therefore those innocent members of the legislative body must as a matter of great concern, force the issue and have those wolves amongst them be unmasked, identified and shamed into not doing or continuing with their illicit activities again. Failure to do so is not an option, because they will all remain suspects of this perversion before the American people, who sent them to Washington DC, believing that they went there to do the peoples business, but are now finding out that they are doing the monkey business, horsing around and paying to cover it up. 

Little wonder nothing gets done in Washington as these people spend useful time they would have deployed in doing the peoples business, messing around with interns and staffers as well female lobbyist who trade sexual favors for legislative concerns of their clients. A matter made worse because these Congress men and women as well as Senators earmarked part of the America taxpayers money, which maintains their lifestyle, on also paying hush money to their victims and in order to purchase their eternal silence. ICHEOKU says this is unAmerican as the emasculation of freedom of speech right of these victims is unacceptable excessive restrain of an abused woman. How dare these supposed law makers break the law which they made by beating up these women and also forbidding them not to cry. it is not fair, it is unjust and it is repugnant to everything America stands for and it must not be allowed to stand. 

These women were abused and their abusers are still occupying their legislative seats. So query if they are not unmasked, how will their future would be victims know to stay away from them and remain vigilant against all the Senator Al Frankens and Congressman John Conyers of Washington DC legislative Capitol building. Not naming these perverts is indeed the real "Russian Collusion" and it amounts to condonation and enabling of a bad behavior. If the reason for not naming them is to protect their respectability and integrity of the Congress, how about the reason to name them in order to protect those innocent members among them who are not similarly situated and mired in the scandal; and who are now cast under the same pall of suspicion as sexual molesters when they are not. Is it not a preferred option to isolate, name and shame the few bad eggs who are involved in this disrespectful behavior than for their sinful acts to taint the entire Congress and Senate, with everyone of them now being under suspicion as a possible pervert. 

With over 265 cases of sexual molestations and over $17 million already paid out in hush money settlements to the victims, one would think that there is a need for the lawmakers to speedily do something to abate the ongoing sexual epidemic in Washington DC amongst them. This include naming and shaming those implicated and possibly forcing them out of the hallowed chambers and enacting laws that makes it a prohibited crime to harass and sexually molest interns and staffers alike, with punishment including expulsion and waiving of their immunity from prosecution.

These are the same people, the sanctimonious holier than thou Pharisees, who are hounding Alabama Senatorial candidate Roy Moore, who is merely being accused of a four decades old sexual indiscretion, and calling on him to step aside. Further, threatening that they will be forced not to sit him should he win or expel him subsequent his being sworn in. Meanwhile, they are the ones who are throwing stones at the glass house from within the inside, perpetrating all manners of sexual deviancy and paying to cover it up. Our Lord Jesus Christ was indeed right that he who is without sin should throw the first stone; except that such admonition rings hollow for the American Congress as well as the Senate, who preach one thing while doing another thing entirely in contradiction. How could these people with such resume ever sit in judgment over Roy Moore and you wonder why the staccato of noise has reached such decibel with their demand that Roy Moore step aside. Could it be that they do not want to increase their hush money budget, thinking that Roy Moore will add to the tab? 

These are the nations chief lawmakers and are now proven law breakers in chief and you wonder what they expect those Jack and Jill of us ordinary Americans on the streets to do. Chandra Levy lost her life in Washington DC because of her involvement in the same sexual tryst and the then Congressman Gary Conduit was forced to resign his office following her murder. ICHEOKU says why not just name these current perpetrators and shame them out of their nefarious activities or is the Congress by necessary implication approving of their acts and saying it is okay for them to carry on and also share the same legislative chambers with such decrepitude members. Until these perpetrators are publicly named and shamed, the scandal will remain on each member of Congress and Senator's head like a halo of shame. They are all guilty by association and only the isolation of the culprits will absolve the innocent among them.

Paraphrasing then President Ronald Reagan to Russian Gorbachev tear down this wall moment, ICHEOKU says name those members of the legislature who are molesting women and paying them hush money to keep them quiet and remain unknown. That's the only way their nefarious activities will stop and come to an end; otherwise they will continue to do what they do best, instead of making laws to fix what is broken of the American society. Now you know why nothing ever gets done in Washington DC, as those elected and sent there to do the peoples business has since found other more passionate and much more pleasurable businesses more attractive and rewarding than the business of the people; and they do it on the peoples time and dime. Shameful and pitiful.

SAMBO DASUKI: A VICTIM OF A SOCIETY WITH NO CITIZENSHIP FERVOR.

ICHEOKU says where is the citizenship in Nigerians that what touches one of them does not concern them or translates to a collective pain suffered by all. Why is it that the government of Nigeria can isolate and destroy Nigerians individually without the entire population seeing it as a we for all and that what effects one effects all? Why is Nigerians so individualistic and apathetic to the hurt of others and seem to suffer a "provided it is not me" syndrome, which every previous and subsequent leader, including maximum dictators, have exploited to their greatest advantage in ravishing and ravaging Nigerians like a cheap prostitute? Why is a hurt of one not treated and reacted to like a hurt of all; or does the one cap fits all of citizenship inapplicable to Nigerians? Paraphrasing Marvin Gay, ICHEOKU says 'what's goin on' Nigerians; or are you out of your mind and have lost your total sense of collectiveness, such that it is not your business if your brother is in trouble or sister, for that matter. 

ICHEOKU says are there answers to these 'WHYS" or are Nigerians doomed as a society incapable of ever transforming into a nation of citizens who take pride in their citizenship and protects same with valiant fervor; believing that if they come for one today, tomorrow it could be their turn or that of another; and thus band together to protect each other by protecting anyone who is suffering presently from the oppression of the State. ICHEOKU says these mind rendering questions are now more imperative than ever before, because of the inexplicable detention without legitimacy of some Nigerian citizens by the State. Why is Sambo Dasuki still in detention nearly two years since a court of competent jurisdiction granted him bail. 

Why is the government of Presidnet Muhammadu Buhari still detaining this guy in disobedience of several valid subsisting orders of court granting him bail. What explanation does Nigerians, particularly its Congress, have for allowing President Muhammadu Buhari operate as if he is running a military dictatorship where check and balance has zero tolerance. ICHEOKU says when a Congress, elected to represent the people, are no longer doing their job, like salt which has lost its taste, should be done away with. What use is it anyway still having them and wasting tax payers money on their remuneration and maintenance, when they cannot do their job. A Congress of over 600 matured individuals which is afraid of just one man and kowtowing to every one of his wish and caprice, is not a worthy Congress and should therefore either live up to its constitutional dictate of being a watchdog on the executive or forever lose its face and stand disbanded. 

Does it mean that Nigerians are proud of what their president is doing in their name or are okay with the injustice one of their own is currently being subjected to by a man they elected to represent them as their president. Why any Nigerians should be content with the state of affairs as it concerns, affects and touches Sambo Dasuki presently, also questions any and everything that person finds satisfactory with the comatose Nigerian State. How could they display this level of apathy about the fate of Sambo Dasuki, a bona fide Nigerian who co-shares the Nigerian citizenship with them. Why are Sambo Dasuki's rights and privileges, including his constitutionally guaranteed right to bail pending trial, be violated and continuing till this day and Nigerians kept quiet as if it is not a big deal. Is what President Muhammadu Buhari doing, disregarding a valid subsisting court order, indicative of the content and character of Nigerians. If as a society, Nigerians are weighted against the background of PMB actions, is this the type of behavior they are or will be proud of as fellow citizens. Definitely not the type of a representation any civilized and conscientious human-being would expect or desire from their president; at least not those who are still good citizens. Pitiful. 

Even Pakistan, as fundamentalist Islamic as it is, still obeys its courts' orders. It just released a convicted Al Queida terrorist murderer implicated in the murder of innocent victims. Zakuir Rehman Lakhvi, who is believed to be the operations chief of the Islamic militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, whose ten members, in 2008, mounted series of attacks in Mumbai India that killed 166 people and injured more than 600, was freed on bail pending appeal. But how about Sambo Dasuki, who did not kill anyone, neither is he a terrorist nor a member of any terrorist group, regardless of whatever capacity; yet he is being illegally held against his will and in utter disregard of series of subsisting orders of courts to release him on bail. All he did was work as Nigeria's National Security Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan and did not do anything so heinous or so adversarial as to warrant his perpetual detention. 

ICHEOKU says President Muhammadu Buhari needs to be reminded that Nigeria is a democracy and that he is not the Lord of the manor and therefore must subject himself to all the tenets of a democratic society including the separation of powers and respect of duly constituted courts' orders. What manner of a repented democrat is this president, who would so disparagingly demean a co-equal third arm of the government and without any consequence or renunciation from Nigerians. If Pakistan could obey her own court's orders, why not Nigeria. 

ICHEOKU says the whole errancy is being tolerated by a docile society, some useless pressure groups and associations, as well as a do-nothing Congress which is deathly afraid of the president, hence only rubber-stamps his wishes and caprices. A Congress which is supposed to represent the people and be their champion in chief, a watch dog, providing oversight functions on the executive branch, but which has become so intimidated by the executive that they hardly hold up their eyes to eyeball the president. 

Where is their check and balance on the executive that an elected president could be this lawless and wily without fear of his excesses being curbed and curtailed by an eagle eyed law makers. But unfortunately, Nigeria is not blessed with such a studious Congress; rather it has masquerading as Congress, a congregation of fraudsters and gangsters mired in a cesspool of corruption which the president uses threat of their prosecution as a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads to ensure their silence as he raids the vaults of rights and privileges of the citizens. 

There is also an ineffectual corrupt media which only reports what it has received the proverbial brown envelope for; although these days, a bank alert suffices. These are the accomplices to the aberration which is President Muhammadu Buhari's complete disregard for the rule of law, including his haughty mannerism as if he is a royalty and not a mere elected public servant. What use are these people if they cannot ensure that rule of law reigns supreme in the land and that the president operates within the confines of his authority as only an elected president and not his arrogated exaggerated power of a potentate. If Nigerians cannot ensure that Sambo Dasuki, a man who has been merely charged but not yet tried nor convicted, is released on bail pending trial as ordered by the courts, what use are Nigerians to one another, anyway. 

A hurt of one should be a hurt of all as nobody knows for whom the Buhari's despotic bell  tolls tomorrow. It is Sambo Dasuki today and tomorrow it might be ICHEOKU, admitted that is now an impossibility since ICHEOKU now longer pleads the authority of Abuja. Where is the Nigerian society's rage that one of its own is being persecuted by the government due to several decades past personal issues. Why the conspirator's silence that is pervading the Nigerian society with everyone acting as if it is just Sambo Dasuki's problem and only he should deal with it. Like Hitler had planned, after the Jews would have been others, as well as all those who were saying it is just the Jews that he is after and as a result, Hitler could have so easily had his way with the world and gotten away with it. 

The problem with such arbitrariness as President Muhammadu Buhari is exhibiting, especially one of flagrantly disregarding and disobeying competent court's orders, is the  propensity for it to metastasize like incurable cancerous growth. It is Sambo Dasuki today, who shall it be tomorrow and this is the reason Nigerians should in unison demand that the persecution of Dasuki come to an end. If the government has a case that is provable against Dasuki, they should make their case and get it over with. The victim deserves due process including the right to bail and the chance to be allowed to adequately prepare his defense, both of which the government is denying him. This is the faux pas, the giant elephant in the room, the monster which will eventually consume every Nigerian should they continue to ignore the case of Sambo Dasuki and treat same as only Dasuki's problem and not an attack on Nigerians' collective due process right to a fair trial. ICHEOKU says Nigerians must rise up and break their collective silence and inertia in the matter of the persecution of Sambo Dasuki by President Muhammadu Buhari and demand that the president obey subsisting courts' orders and release him on an already granted conditioned bail. Anything short of this is foolish and it should not be tolerated nor condoned. Let Sambo Dasuki free on bail.

HAPPY TURKEY DAY AMERICA: ITS IS THANKSGIVING DAY 2017

ICHEOKU says for all we have, family, friends and stuff, we give you thanks Oh Lord. Have a wonderful thanksgiving America. Cheers.