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.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

ABDULMUTALLAB IS JUST ONE OUT OF 150 MILLION, NOT LOGICAL!

To all those apologists, 'patriots' and implicit-defenders of a Nigeria now branded a 'terrorist country of interest', fiercely arguing that such branding is an over-kill and that terrorist Abdulmutallab is just one 'bad apple' out of a country of 150 million people, Icheoku says, one terrorist from Nigeria is simply one too many. Looking at northern Nigerian terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and the background that produced him, William Shakespeare was right that there is no way to know the mind's construction by merely looking at the face? Abdulmutallab looked as normal as any other Nigerian from the sharia North, and as innocent looking as any almajiri; but beneath the cold demeanor lies a cold mean heart of steel? So what magic wand is expected of the Americans to distinguish and differentiate from a terrorist and none-terrorist Nigerian? Icheoku says, none; hence each person bearing that green passport shall be treated as a potential terror-suspect until proved otherwise. This is the ramification of the December 25, 2009 Abdulmutallab's terrorist adventure into America and nothing can be done about it. Get it, Dora Akunyili?
Every relationship including that between countries, is based principally on trust which once broken is usually irreparable and very difficult to amend. It is the paramount bond which once broken is lost forever, gone, as there is no putting the genie back in the bottle with relationships. This is the case of Nigeria now with the international community, whose citizen Abdulmutallab shocked the world on December 25, 2009 with terrorism. But surprisingly enough, Nigerian officials are arguing that 'it was just one case of a renegade kid and that alone is not so egregious to designate Nigeria an axis of terror country of interest? Icheoku says to these Nigerian officials, if there is one Abdulmutallab, there could be two; if there are two, there could be twenty? If there are twenty there could be twenty thousand; if there are twenty thousand, there could be two hundred thousand and so on. So what the situation calls for is not protest to America but a total vigilance and a more proactive containment of the Islamic religious upheavals in sharia Northern Nigeria.
In a country of 150 million people, half of which are Wahabism Islamist Muslims, from which Abdulmutallab sprouted, what guarantees are there that there are no other Umar Farouk Abdulmutallabs lurking among the population? Icheoku asks, is the leader of Boko Haram not a Nigerian? Is Maitasine not a Nigerian? Zaki-Zaky too? So what is the ruse about Abdulmutallab being just one person among many? Or perhaps, these pacifiers of Islamist Northern Nigeria are micro-defining the term terrorism, to deliberately exclude Nigeria's internal terrorism of incessant Muslim religious riots? Instead of being remorseful for the act of their compatriot Northern Nigerian terrorist, these people are busy boastfully, threatening diplomatic showdown with the victim-country, America? A situation akin to one's child going into a neighbor's house and wrecking havoc such as attempting to destroy his china; and instead of the parents taking responsibility for their child's mayhem and apologising for the same, they remained defiant, unapologetic and now threatening "no-more-friendship" with their victim neighbor? Adding, after-all they have ten children and only one of them attempted to destroy the said china? Sounds ridiculous, not when you are one of these Nigerian officials, who failed to appreciate America's thinking in classifying Nigeria a terror "country of interest".

Icheoku does not think they get it and here is the fork on the road regarding Nigeria's current designation of a terror 'country of interest.' An attempted bombing of an America's Delta airline in American city of Detroit by a sharia Northern Nigerian Islamist fanatic, which a conservative radio talk show host in America, Rush Limbaugh, has already dubbed "an act of war" is being trivialised by the authorities in Abuja threat of diplomatic showdown? These Abuja politicians also failed to understand that the December 25 incident somehow 'messed up' President Obama's security credentials to protect Americans; and that it might hunt him during the next election? And the traducer is a Nigerian and someone in Abuja expects him not to be mad at Nigeria? If as Nigerian authorities are suggesting, terrorism is a novel thing in Nigeria, an aberration and that Nigerians are not terrorists, that Abdulmutallab is just a stray-cat, Icheoku asks, is the cutting off of Gideon Akaluka's head and hanging it on a totem pole for a celebratory macabre-parade on the streets of Kano, anything short of terrorising a particular people of Nigeria? What is terrorism if not to instill fear on a people; and haven't the Hausa-Fulani Islamist northern Nigerians instilled enough fear already in Nigerians of certain religion and ethnicity? Please tell Icheoku another thing, but we are not buying the bone being thrown to the dog that Nigerians are not terrorist; may be Southern Nigerians but Northern Nigerians definitely fits the profile. The same people who drove Miss World contestants out of Nigeria because their religion frowns against such 'skin-exposure,' when Nigeria is not an Islamic country; admitted they have a registered membership of Organisation of Islamic Conference, OIC?
Funny enough the same people in Abuja haranguing America for being very decisive and proactive in checkmating Nigeria's terrorism, failed to call out the Islamic Council of Nigeria, Association of sharia Northern Nigeria governors, the Sultanate, the Katsina emirate council and the council of Ulamas for their failure to seriously condemn the terror of their son that was December 25? Yet Nigeria is not a terrorist country? Icheoku asks, doesnt this their collective silence amount to a tacit approval of their son's act of infamy; which almost claimed the lives of 289 innocent people and forever tarnished Nigeria's image as a terrorist country too? A pugnacious Northern Nigeria, ready to take the whole Nigeria down the hell-hole with the help of one of their evil son named Abdulmutallab? A north which is the main clog in the wheel of progress of Nigeria and for too long; if only the now fighting South-West sons and daughters of Oduduwa saw what Biafra saw 40 long years ago and wanted out, this yoke would have since been extinct and non-existent!?

3 comments:

  1. Very well written. Nigeria is not only a country of terrorism, but that of anarchy. let no one lose sense of that. Elementarily, Anarchy is the absence of government.President Yar'Adua is either dead or invalid, yet the northern power hawks cannot get him hand over to the vice president, Goodluck Jonathan. Yet, Akunyili sees nothing wrong with that. I think the problem of Akunyili and her likes is diminishing returns, which has led her to suffer from loquacity. I weep for myself, nay all Nigerian, at home and in the diaspora. Uba Aham (klinreports.blogspot.com)

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  2. AbdulMutallab: Cleric faults Nigeria’s tactics over US listing
    By Jude Owuamanam, Published: Sunday, 17 Jan 2010

    THe General Secretary of the Evangelical Church of West Africa, Rev Mipo Dadang, has faulted the arguments over the listing of Nigeria by the United States as a terrorist state.

    He said the decision was not a mistake on the part of the US.

    Instead of arguing with the US over its action, the cleric said Nigeria should look inward and see whether there were other traces of terrorism in the country and try to nip them in the bud.

    Dadang told SUNDAY PUNCH in an interview in Jos on Saturday, that all the crises, especially in the North were all traces that the country might be sitting on a keg of gun powder.

    The ECWA official said, ”For me as an individual, I think the US did not make a mistake by listing Nigeria as a terrorist country.”

    Dadang said that all the sectarian killings in the North since 1987, culminating in the Boko Haram uprising and the recent Kala Kato in Bauchi State were all good examples of terrorist activities.

    He said, ”If you look at Nigeria carefully, especially the Northern Nigeria, you will see that there were so many wars. You can call them religious, ethnic or political, depending on how you view them. From 1987 in the northern part of the country, there have been so many killings.

    ”But let‘s leave that aside and examine the Boko Haran crisis last year. Where did they get the sophisticated weapons from? What objects did they use in bombing those government establishments?

    He advised Nigeria to take stock of her security situation before blaming the US for taking steps to safeguard her citizens.

    ”Nigeria has to take stock and look at the security situation before she tries to make a case with the US for listing Nigeria as a terrorist country.

    “Even though the argument has been that the action of one Nigerian out of 140 million Nigerians does not qualify for such action from the US; I think that there is more to it than just arguing.”

    He also asked the security agencies to look critically at the allegation by the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria that some groups were planning to bomb some cities in the country.

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