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.

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

IGP SULEIMAN ABBA'S SACK, TOO LITTLE TOO LATE?

Icheoku says the sacking of the IGP Suleiman Abba is  too little too late since he has already mission accomplished his assignment in helping enthrone a Miyetti Allah's anointed candidate, president; a group's membership which the now former IGP similarly enjoys. Icheoku asks what took the president so long or was it the same indecisiveness that hounded his presidency throughout office and which eventually helped shove him out of office that caused the delay? Why did the president not sack the IGP when it would have mattered most, pre-election, than this post-election fire brigade approach that cannot do much to salvage an already unsalvageable presidency. The deed was already done and the genie of a lost election cannot be put back in the bottle or made whole again, not even by thousands of such firings. 

The IGP played his assigned role and today President Jonathan is on the threshold of vacating Aso Rock with President-elect Muhammadu Buhari ready to move in, so what use then is this useless sacking of the IGP now that it is indeed absolutely needless and useless and of no consequentially value? Icheoku says so what if the IGP is fired - he was an IGP now retired with full pension and benefit.  An appreciative President Muhammadu Buhari will certainly compensate him with a juicy appointment for his role in helping bring about his presidency, regardless. So query why  act now, belatedly and so late in both time and usefulness? Why create a cloud of suspicion of retribution against the IGP for not "playing ball" during the elections? Icheoku is certain that many Nigerians would be wondering what is it that cannot wait in the police force for the incoming president to address that a new IGP has to be foist now with just few weeks to an incoming administration? Except there is some damaging and threatening security report against the former IGP which the administration is not disclosing just yet, the sudden termination of IGP Suleiman Abba is rather fishy and smells of a pay back, which no decent Nigerian should support nor appreciate. 

But in absence of such smoking gun report, the decision is simply mediocre and not an executive-like; which latches on to the other point which many Nigerians had against this presidency - the indecisiveness and quisling-like decision making process of the administration whenever they make one. Therefore it will be a nice move for the president, out of office, to proceed to a business school to take a course on how to be and act like a CEO, because many of his decisions while in office lacked that executive finesse and goal-targeted objective that informs decisions.  Icheoku says no chief executive officer makes or should ever make any decision on sentiments alone, without any anticipated and intended benefit derivable therefrom. If a president is appointing a new IGP at this hour of his soon to lapse presidency, what tasks does he want the new man to help him accomplish int he police force within such a very short window? If the president wants to fire a sitting IGP at this time, what would his firing now suddenly confer on his outgoing presidency? But only Jonathan can answer to these questions, but it smacks of a very poorly articulated decision making, to say the least. 

The worst part of the calculus of the present appointment is that now both the Inspector General of Police and the Chief of Army Staff are from the same president's South-south region? Icheoku wonders what type of message of crass cronyism and nepotism is the president sending to Nigerians and at this dying hour of his outbound administration. If a new Inspector General of Police must be appointed at this hour, with just few weeks to the end of his presidency, must the new IGP also come from the same geographical zone as the president as well as the COAS? Why not appoint an IGO from the Southeast which fervently supported his aborted second term bid to at least thank them and reward them for all their sacrifice. However, Icheoku refuses to read any further ulterior motive into this sudden spring-surprise, regarding possible plans of reneging on his acceptance of defeat in the just concluded election; with now his man-friday IGP in charge, who will help quell any breakdown of law and order such his action might festoon on the land. 

Icheoku says many observers of the just concluded election agree that at least the now gone IGP Abba maintained a reasonable security throughout the country, such that there was no major noticeable or serious breakdown of law and order, either before, during and after the elections; and therefore he should rather be commended for a job well done than condemned with a sack. Icheoku also refuses to buy into MURIC's allegation that the president is "strengthening his position" with the sudden appointment of a new IGP and might dig in and refuse to vacate office? Icheoku restates that the president cannot afford to carry the full weight of an anticipating world that will descend on him, a world which have already congratulated him for his sportsmanship in conceding the election and waiting for his exit. It is rather too risky a risk and a risk not worth the presidency of Nigeria and President Jonathan is too smart to tempt his fate in this bizarre manner. 

But if he chooses otherwise and attempts such fate with such a stupid bravado, he will suffer the fate of Panama's President Noriega as US Marines will be parachuting into Aso Rock to capture him for trial and imprisonment in a US prison or waste him if that becomes inevitably necessary. Icheoku is confident that a still much young President Jonathan will find this option very unpalatable a dish to taste and will stick by his words in honor of his newly earned status as world's statesman and hand over as expected. So, what drove this sudden decision to fire IGP Suleiman Abbas and in his place appoint Edo State born IGP Solomon Arase; especially in view of the fact that the now gone IGP's retirement due date is not until March 2019? Until the presidency fully discloses its reason for the sudden decision, Icheoku alongside millions of other Nigerians will continue to express surprise while urging the government to come clean and let Nigerians into the window of their rational for the sudden decision to fire IGP Abba. In the meantime, Icheoku congratulates the new IGP Arase and prays he can build on whatever successes his predecessor recorded during his short stint as head of the Nigerian police force. 

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