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.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

DAZED AND CONFUSED, PRESIDENT JONATHAN SETS UP YET ANOTHER PANEL?

DAZED AND CONFUSED, THE PRESIDENT SETS UP YET ANOTHER PANEL?Apparently lost as to what to do about the intractable security breakdown in the country, the president groping in the dark, sets up yet another panel to "get to the root of the matter?" Icheoku says, for what and for what purpose is this latest panel when recommendations made by similar previous panels, have never been implemented or acted upon? 

There was the Jos crisis Panel, there was Abuja first-bombing panel, there was Niger Delta panel as well as so many other panels set up to "get to the root of the matters" under their respective advisement; but regrettably no action has been taken by the government in furtherance of these recommendations. Now another bomb has gone off in Abuja, at the very heart of the Nigerian Police service - their headquarters, and what action did the president take but to set yet another panel to "get to the root of the matter?" Icheoku says another exercise in futility by a president who is ill-prepared to lead a country as diverse and as complicated as Nigeria. A rudderless president, lacking in raw courage to do what is needed at this material time, sought refuge in setting up panels to once again "get to the root of the matter" that Icheoku ponders whether a destination of conclusive resolution would ever be in the sight of this president? 

Instead of wielding the big stick and breaking some shanks, particularly that of IGP Hafiz Ringim, over the embarrassing catastrophic security breach at the police headquarters, the uninspiring president is setting up another panel to "confirm whether or not Boko Haram is indeed a terrorist organisation and whether they are indeed behind the current anarchy spreading in the land?" Icheoku asks what is the use of this panel when the perpetrators are not in doubt since they have owned up to their atrocity. A decisive president would have instead, declared a full-throttled earth-scorch campaign against these lunatics and respond to their acts of war in kind. It is called reciprocity, period! But this knee-jerk half measures would be interpreted by Boko Haram as once did the other terrorists of Niger Delta as government unpreparedness to meet their challenge. 

At a time like this, admitted it is a very bitter and hard pill to swallow, an Olusegun Obasanjo presidency is seriously being missed; as that was all that would be needed for these Boko Haram scumbags to hike out of town into oblivion. Icheoku knows that no panel's recommendation in Nigeria ever sees the daylight and this current Boko Haram panel will not be otherwise. Mr President, instead of all these useless distracting panels you have formed the habit of setting up, is it not better for you to just throw in the towel if you suddenly found out that the office is not really the cake-walk you expected it to be? If the heavy-lifting is beyond your ability, just let another man try. What a rudderless, confused, lost in the wilderness and possibly very stiff-scared president, Nigeria is witnessing. A man who cannot even call the bluff of lobbyists and name his ministers, several months after his own inauguration. But why can't President Jonathan put a call to his godfather that never sleeps, OBJ, for some help - even if the Odi or Zaki Ibiam option?

1 comment:

  1. BOKO HARAM MAYHEM, SECURITY CHIEFS SHOULD DEPLOY TO MAIDUGURI.

    Icheoku asks, why hasn't President Jonathan deemed it fit to order his security chiefs to deploy immediately to the theater of war on terrorism against Boko Haram in their own enclave in Maiduguri? Now calls for a decisive military action against these mullahs - total fire-power and nothing less than a total and complete routing of these animals will suffice.

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