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, April 30, 2015

INDONESIA EXECUTES DRUG PEDDLERS, A LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTION?

Icheoku says it is not an extraordinarily cruel and unusual punishment; and provided such offenders were aware of existing laws prohibiting the conduct prior to the commission of the offense, if convicted, such criminals should be made to face prescribed penalty. The execution of those convicted drug offenders by Indonesia therefore did not breach any known laws and should be seen as purely a law enforcement action that should be respected by any law abiding society as well as their political leaders. Icheoku says the threat by Australian Prime Minister to recall his country's ambassador to Indonesia is therefore uncalled for and a rash action without any merit whatsoever. If the Prime Minister is so incensed because of the carrying out of a lawful judicial process, which was fully litigated or rather prosecuted, with various tiers of appeals duly observed and completed, what message is he sending to the underworld drug dealers, that it is okay to deal in illegal drugs and destroy another country's society just for profit motive? 

Icheoku says this is not a case where a holier than thou higher moral grounds will suffice as the  irate Prime Minister should have preached to his country men not to peddle their nefarious illegal drug trade in Indonesia, fully aware of the existing prescribed death penalty against such offense. Icheoku says what went down in Indonesia today is not comparable to the Nigeria case under then Muhammadu Buhari in 1984 when he  murdered three innocent Nigerians using a retroactive decree. Then, there was no death penalty for drug peddling on the books in Nigeria so the three Nigerians killed were not possessed with the necessarily mens rea that their action would lead to their death.  They could have stayed away as one of them confessed that if only he knew it would result to his death, he would not have engaged in the illicit trade. 

Icheoku  agrees that if anyone knowingly breaks the law,  he should face prescribed penalties including death if already preexisting the offense and vividly on the books. Icheoku also supports law enforcement of any country, especially one geared towards protecting its society from such a purely economic and financial gains crimes as drug dealing; which destroys the fabric of societies rendering many citizens hopelessly dependent addicts which in turn drastically impacts the society overall. Provided due process was strictly followed and such laws applied across the board and not selectively applied, depending on who infractured the law, it is okay and should serve as a deterrent. So what if two Australians were among those nine executed drug peddlers as they are not better or of more value than the others including those four Nigerians.  They committed a death penalty offense, they were convicted, they exhausted their rights of appeal and clemency petition and therefore should face the consequence of their action. 

But the funny thing is that the same Australia that is now throwing tantrums over its two drug dealing citizens, looks the other way without an outcry when countries like Saudi Arabia chops off peoples heads on any given Friday or China puts their own death penalty offenders to death or even America's States especially Texas, sends its own convicts to the death chambers. So what is different now or is it because it is Indonesia and they felt like they can intimidate and bully them around? Colombian Pablo Escobar was executed for drug offences, admitted his was even without trial or due process; and similarly have so many other drug dealers perished in the war against drugs particularly in Mexico. So what is the Australian Prime Minister suggesting or that Australians are too special a people to be put to death for violating another country's death penalty law.  Good enough the government in Jarkata was not easily intimidate nor caved in to the likes of Australian and the rest is now but history, having put to death those drug peddlers including two Australians, one French, four Nigerians, one Indonesian and one Brazilian. Icheoku says with four Nigerians among the executed, pundits are seriously now wondering whether Nigeria has effectively become a narco state? This conjures Bola Tinubu and Buruji Kashamu's alleged drug dealing as Icheoku wonders whether they would have lived to become a leading political player and an elected senator of the federal Republic respectively had they pried their trade in Indonesia. 

1 comment:

  1. Indonesian envoy defends execution of four Nigerians
    Posted by: Vincent Ikuomola, Abuja in News 3 hours ago
    THE execution of four Nigerians and other nationals on Tuesday by the Indonesia government followed due process, its ambassador to Nigeria, Harry Purwanto, has said.
    Purwanto, who spoke in Abuja yesterday after he was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said the execution was carried out strictly after completion of all legal proceedings.
    Jamiu Owolabi Abashin, 50; Martin Anderson, 50; Okwudili Oyatanze, 41; and Sylvester Obiekwe Nwolise, 47, were executed on Tuesday in Indonesia for drug related offenses.
    Speaking to reporters after meeting with the ministry top officials, Purwanto explained that there was nothing that could be done to save the four as the court had ruled over the case and there was nothing the government could have done at that stage.
    “There was nothing we could do for those four Nigerians because every legal process was completed and only then did the government of Indonesia implement the decision of the court.”
    He said necessary opportunity was provided to the convicts for the last 10 years the case lasted, adding that his government suspended the moratorium on death penalty due to the gravity and dangerous impact of the drugs on their country.
    In his reaction, the Under-Secretary, Economic and Consular Affairs Department of the Ministry, Ambassador Bokunolu Onemola, said the situation was not enough to instigate a row between both countries.
    Onemola stressed that Nigeria would not recall its ambassador to Indonesia over the executions.

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