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, June 30, 2011

ANIMAL FARM STILL THRIVES, IS ALIVE AND WELL IN KENYA !

When one thinks that Nigerian Legislators are the real shake-down con-artists in Africa, bilking the country several millions of dollars in remunerations and allowances, here comes their Kenyan counterparts, racing to the top and making a serious claim to the title. Kenyan legislators, respectively, take home in just one week more than what an average Joe-Kenyan makes in an entire one year? It is true and this is not Ripley's believe it or not hoax; or any other make-believe story to rattle your intellect. 

Icheoku says this is a complete absurdity as only a none caring group of people could engage in who selfishly are milking the Kenyan State dry and without much to show for their time in parliament juxtaposed with the fat brigandage and looting which they are technically engaged in.  Worst still, these parliamentarians have so far refused or are refusing to pay their own fair share of income taxes on income received; such that out of 222 members only 2 are tax-compliant. According to the defense put up by these law makers in justification of their rather too high emoluments, their decision to pay themselves very high is to stem the temptations of corruption from creeping into parliament whereby parliamentarians may be vulnerable to easy compromise just to have enough money to meet body and soul's demand? As a result, they have to pay themselves like pirates in order to avoid being bought-over on every legislation. What a blackmail indeed?  Icheoku says this argument does not hold water as it is akin to a bank paying off an armed bank robber so that he would not rob them again? A corrupt person is a corrupt person and it does not matter the inducement provided to preclude his vulnerability, whenever the opportunity and time presents themselves for him to make extra bucks, he would always bite. It is the law of the fish - either out of hunger or curiosity, but they always get the bait inside their mouth? 

As if not bad enough, these law makers have elevated themselves above all Kenyans as they have refused to pay taxes too and it does not matter to these parliamentarians that even lowly street hustlers pay their own fair share of income taxes in Kenya? They make the law, so they reserve the legislative right to exclude themselves from such laws and its compliance or enforcement thereto?  In  a country where the average annual income is about $700 per year, these members of Parliament earn $9000 per month, yet they complain it is not enough? Are you still wondering now why the gap between the haves and the have-nots in Africa is so wide and the reason for the prevalence of dirt-poor people in the continent?  One of the most scornful argument these lawmakers put up was that they should not pay taxes since "they are traditionally expected to pass on some of their remuneration to their constituents in order for them to keep supporting them in every election? 

Now, is anyone still wondering the joke called democracy as being practiced in Africa where incumbents bribe voters to remain in power and new politicians and decent people are frustrated out of politics as they are denied every opportunity and attempt they make to break into governance. Poverty, poverty, poverty and for a few shillings these voters would sell their ballots and votes to people who but for their wealth and the crumbs that fall off their table, they would rather they did not represent them. These Kenyan mau-mau legislators even went to the extent of threatening to withhold state budget if their demands are not met? Icheoku says what a brigandage legislature at work in Kenya that will go to every and any extent to blackmail and shake down the people and government in Nairobi? And it does not help either to learn that one of these legislators, Harun John Mwau of Kilome DIstrict Kenya (pictured above), is a wanted drug baron; specifically so declared and wanted in the United States of America!

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