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, April 22, 2015

ALMAJIRIS, WHOSE CHILDREN ARE THEY ANYWAY?

Icheoku says one of the things that cost President Jonathan  his 2015 reelection bid was his decision to empower Northern Nigeria's vassals, the  almajiris, by trying to educate them. Suddenly trying to change an age-long, intentionally institutionalized statues-quo, which has the propensity of radically altering a class system of 'haves and have-nots' and which will adversely impact on the feudalistic overlords hold on power, is an existential threat to these overlords and they reacted to abate the source of their worries. A well calculating president would have known that he was walking a path to perdition when he moved to educate these urchins in order to enlighten and embolden them to challenge entrenched feudalistic institutions lording it over them.  

But with power, it never runs in fright; instead it fought back and the president paid for it dearly. Northern feudalistic lords, fearful that their vice-hold on power in their region is being threatened by President Jonathan's use of education to empower these almajiris, ganged up and ensured that the president was shoved out of Aso Rock?  Now mission accomplished, the future of the Goodluck Jonathan Almajiri schools is now as uncertain as it is most likely to go down the pipe-drain. Power does not yield, not so easily. These Northern power stakeholders, who cannot afford to see their 'hewers of wood and fetchers of water' rise up to question their authority and continuous hold on power, struck to ensure that their future is well secured. Today the president who wanted a brighter future for the street dwellers of Northern Nigeria has been shoved aside, a matter made worse because the same bums he was trying to help were used against him as they voted in droves for the opposition candidate and against their interest.

However, the 2015 presidential election campaign brought  this very important issue to the fore-consciousness of Nigerians. What created this social problem of millions of children roaming about the streets of Northern Nigeria without much of any parental care,  guidance and direction? Outgoing First Lady Dame Patience bravely, publicly outed this societal anomaly while campaigning in Cross River State when she said "Our people no dey born children wey dem no dey count. Our men no dey born children throway for street. We no dey like the people from that side." Translation, while Southern Nigerians are responsible parents and take care of family business of raising their children, Northern Nigerians could care less about the welfare of their children, the reason for the prevalence of these street urchins in their region. Icheoku says admittedly, truth is always bitter to the outed; who instead of addressing the observed shortcomings, always fights to cover it up.  Otherwise, query if the observation of the First Lady was not a truism because there would not have been this pandemic cases of parent-less children roaming about the North had their parents taken care of their parenting duties in the first place. 

So amplifying the First Lady's observation, Icheoku asks who are parents of these street urchins in the North, for whose emancipation through education, President Jonathan unknowing engineered his own downfall? A Northern Hausa/Fulani culture that have men busily impregnating under-age young girls and abandoning them to their fate with children they cannot themselves take care of, is rather a very repugnant and reprehensible culture that needs a total make-over and overhaul. Icheoku emphasis that it is very mean spirited and quite unflattering too for any man to impregnate a girl and abandon her with his baby, especially a hapless girl with no means of supporting herself and the baby. Why bring children into this world when you do not love them or care enough for their welfare, only to pretend that your culture allows such callousness to thrive? What type of retrogressive culture fosters this anomaly, assuming these Northern Nigeria debit-daddies are right? Icheoku says it is the same crappy cultural argument that this same people make for their sexual abuse of minor girls, many of whom are younger than twelve years old and barely old enough to be their grand daughters, when they forcibly take them into concubinage to procreate unseasonably.  

So ask yourselves Nigerians, must such inhuman treatment of these Nigerian young girls that beget these almajiris continue unchecked? If it must continue, why then must the more civilized and more responsible Southerners continue to have a shared commonalities with their Northern counterpart unrepentantly vested in their old vestiges? A people who selectively chooses what law to abide by, depending on their peculiar idiosyncrasy? Why is it that these repugnant acts are okay by them and is tolerated by other Nigerians and in this modern day Nigeria of twenty first century? Icheoku maintains that the culture that foists this almajiri problem for the entire Nigeria to bear is not a good culture. It should therefore be immediately outlawed with stiff penalties prescribed for offending fathers including possible imprisonment if they renege on their obligation to provide support for their children. Enough of this political correctness and needless sensitivities that usually look the other way while this societal menace metastasizes in the North, leading to all manners of sociological problems in the country. Icheoku is not a fan of Dame Patience, but for calling out these Northern Nigerian debit-dads, she displayed uncanny courage and a motherly true love for children and she should be commended rather than chastised. Almajiris, Icheoku asks, who are your daddies?

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