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.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

SANUSI, DISMANTLING SOLUDO'S LEGACY?

Armed with a full mandate from the President Umaru Yar'Adua, Arewa Consultative Forum and Northern Forum, Nigeria Central Bank governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is marching on, moving ahead full-speed to dismantle what took Professor Chukwuma Soludo, PhD., five years to put together at the Central Bank of Nigeria?
Icheoku.com
, in our earlier editorial on his appointment, especially the cavalier manner he was nominated and confirmed, pointed out that Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is on an Arewa assigned-mission at the central bank and it does not require a soothsayer to prove us right? Icheoku had postulated that he was solely put in the central bank for a reason, since his Masters degree in Islamic Studies does not make him most qulaified and suitable for the number one economic job in Nigeria? More-so he was replacing a PhD holder in economics in this position and as predicted, Nigerians are about to realize that the Hausa-Fulani of Northern Nigeria does not mean well for Nigeria?
It was the Islamist Muhammadu Buhari, during the hey-days of the then much-touted Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo so-called economic reforms, who said that those reforms are irrelevant as all it takes is just one day of power-switch to the north and every thing will be cancelled? True to type, these mullahs keep to their threats judging from the only thing the snail-speed government of Umaru Yar'Adua has accomplished - cancellation of virtually all that Olusegun Obasanjo toiled to put together? Now, the only recuperating Nigerian entity, its financial system managed by the Central Bank is once again being wheeled to the ER; as the arrow-head of Arewa Consultative Forum has engaged the gear, and in full throttle, his bulldozer is demolishing all that Chukwuma Soludo toiled for five thankless years trying to establish at the Central Bank? Who says that Nigeria stands a chance with these mullahs at the helm of affairs? Not Icheoku, and the evidence on the ground these past 49 years buttresses our position that the northern mullahs are not the solution to Nigeria traumatised!
The other day, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi threatened to sack Managing Directors of some Nigerian Banks who fails to meet certain benchmarks and you wonder which Nigerian Banks will have to loose their Managing Directors? Which of them made the list, especially the top five? While Nigerians are still waiting for this shoe to drop, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has put some higly commendable policies of his predecessor, Chukwuma Soludo under his chopping block? Icheoku says, why try to fix something which has not broken; instead of formulating policies to augment what is already in place for continuity, this mallam is doing what comes naturally with their people of northern Nigeria, dismantle just to spite! We say, who can stop these mullahs from all this frequent 'one step forward, two steps backwards' jerking-motion which they continually subject Nigeria to? Really, if they do not want progress, no one is stopping them from just moving further away into the Sahara desert and live in their 19th century world of a lifestyle; but they must please leave the rest of other progressive minded Nigerians alone to chart their destiny in peace.
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, made his threat during a recent interview with the Financial Times of London; saying that every bank executives who are found to have been “cooking the books” will be removed? And he has since commenced this his witch-hunting audit to unravel the bad-cooks? In Sanusi's own words, he said “I have launched it (the bank audit). What I would like to do is have CBN and NDIC to go into every bank, including those we don’t think have problems. Icheoku says, why treat a healthy patient? Here in red-ink is the key to the destination of whatever audit Sanusi & Co are undertaking; in Nigeria, such action always have their intended targets in mind before they begin. Remember Nuhu Ribadu EFCC and the delineation of who is innocent and guilty? Icheoku advises all Nigerian banks currently not under the vice-grip of the Northern mallams, to watch their backs as heads will certainly roll within their families as the northerners want it all and are proving unstoppable? What a greedy set of human-dregs these people are, who could careless that other people exist in Nigeria?
Now the mother of all northernization of the Nigerian financial system and upping his operation dismantle Soludo's legacy, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has decreed the cutting of MPR to 6%, Liberalises interbank forex, end the chains on forex market and bring bureaux de change operations back into CBN trading? While reversing several key policies of his predecessor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi announced the liberalizing of the inter-bank foreign exchange, reduction of the country’s benchmark interest rate from 8 percent to 6 percent, pegging lending rates and deposit rates to 8 percent and 4 percent respectively; the removal of all restrictions imposed recently on the foreign exchange market; and the direct participation of all Class ‘B’ Bureaux – de- Change in the CBN window and reduction of capital requirement for Class A Bureaux-de-Change from 500 to 250 million Naira.
Icheoku asks, what monetary problems are these changes meant to solve, protect or guard against; that they are being instituted so soon after Sanusi's coronation as the CBN governor? What has disproportionately impacted the Nigerian financial system that they require a dose of Sanuis's immediate vaccine as announced? The answer is none, which explains why Soludo was removed because Nigeria does not value achievers; Nigeria does not feel good if something defiles the odds and appears to be working? Nigeria does not celebrate success-stories but humiliates such ground breakers while glorifying the retrogressive elements therein. Ngozi Okonjo-Iwealla proved the naysayers wrong in the finance ministry and was removed without the simplest courtesy being extended to her? Same with Soludo and so manay other unsong heros of Nigeria. But were it NEPA or whatever nomenclature has replaced it, it is Nigeria typified; a land where nothing apparently works and no one touches the nincompoops running the place and providing Nigeria with perpetual darkness. For whose benefit is the present action of Sanusi one may ask? - definitely not the Nigerian economy, but the northern currency traders of Nigeria - the Hausa-Fulani? This is the core of Sanusi's mission and once again, the northern currency traffickers can thrive in their lackadasical fashion, regardless of the pangs of pain to be suffered by the Nigerian economy.

Icheoku says, Chukwuman Soludo barely survived his first term at the central bank, so we knew renewing his contract was a no brainier. He had stepped on certain toes when he went head-on to fix the problematic dual monetary policies hitherto operating in Nigeria? One regulated financial system for other Nigerians and another laissez-faire bureaux-de-change enterprise, owned by the Hausa-Fulani high and mighty and operated by the Hausa-Fulani talakawas? Soludo wanted to level the playing field but in doing so, so many Hausa-Fulani ex-generals, oil-bunkerers and cement re-baggers were effected as they saw the goose which laid their golden eggs being trampled upon by these brilliant fiscal policies. Soludo must pay a price, they decreed, and he was let go; despite his preminent qualification and the good work which he did at the central bank. Now their boy and a future oligarch Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has been put in the saddle with express instruction to right the 'wrongs' of Soludo and this mullah has sure set off to work! Only God knows how far back his policies will set Nigeria financial system back into the doldrums? Until then, pray that these mullahs will one day change their ways and remember that Nigeria is not their exclusive preserve; but that every Nigerian is in it for the common good! God save Nigerians from the Hausa-Fulani north!

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