JACK DORSEY (MR RASPUTIN) FINALLY MOVING ON FROM TWITTER.

ICHEOKU says whether it was by his own volition or he was eventually, finally forced out at last, it really does not matter; at least not any more. He should have left a long time ago ever before he caused so much harm to free speech and by extension, democracy. Any person who would prevent a president of the United States of America from communicating to millions of his followers and fans world wide is one heck of a communist-socialist who does not mean well for both democracy and equal rights for all. 

Therefore, Mr Rasputin can go to hell with his owning the decision to leave Twitter and stay there until it freezes over. It does not a difference make on how his departure was contrived as he damaged Twitter in so many ways by unduly politicizing it such that it has become a woke citadel. He used Twitter as a political wedge tool and succeeded in dividing Americans, and pitied them against each other. He also antagonized over 64 million MAGA-nation members and in their eyes, permanently inked himself with the scarlet letter. This is his true legacy in Twitter. What a person?

Hopefully, the Indian succeeding him will rectify the anomaly by once again repositioning Twitter as a platform where everyone can freely participate, without the need to first belong to one idiotic community of mad and angry anarchists, who readily cancels anyone who they do not approve of their viewpoint. Twitter must be reinvented and rebranded as a viewpoint neutral platform, open for everyone to freely opine their views regardless of their politics or sexual orientation or residence; otherwise the departure of Jack Dorsey would have made no difference at all. 

Many people who were forced to move on from Twitter because Jack Dorsey's policies made them feel they do not belong in the Twitter's community are closely watching the latest development, waiting to see if Parag Agrawal will be his own man and make a much needed  imprint on the company by redressing some of these wrongs and unfairnesses perpetuated by the departed communist-socialist Jack Dorsey. How Parag Agrawal moves, going forward, will determine whether Twitter meets its goal of increased twitterers by helping bring back those people who parted ways with the platform. It will also help assure the world that contrarians too have a room in the Twitter big house. Good riddance!

SPOOKED BY PETE DAVIDSON: YE NOW WANTS HIS KIM BACK.

ICHEOKU says the artist formerly known as Kanye West, now Ye, cannot withstand imagining Saturday Night Live comedian Pete Davidson sleeping with his soon to be former wife Kim Kardashian and have decided to make a go at retrieving her from him. It is however going to be a battle to the finish, where the last man standing takes the trophy, as Pete is a tiger and will put up a good fight to defend his lucky find. 

Nobody ever said that gold digging is a concept peculiar to women alone as men too can be gold diggers. With a fortune of nearly one billion dollars to her name, any Pete Davidson that nets Kim Kardashian automatically qualifies as a gold digger numero uno. So who is it between Ye and Pete will Kim finally break for? The waiting game is on.

There is a saying that the best way to make a man jealous is to stoop down and date someone beneath him, lower in status, both financially and recognition just to spite him. It appears that KimKaid have succeeded in doing exactly this to Ye as her newly ignited romance or rather dalliance with Saturday Night Live's bad boy, Pete Davidson, has triggered Ye. Now he is charging back, although on bended knees, asking Kim to please take him back. But will Kim play ball or just continue to twist the knife in Ye's heart, having seen that what she did worked as wonderfully well as she intended, planned and executed. 

ICHEOKU says It is most likely that Kim purposely staged the dating scenes with Pete, fully aware of the emotions it will stir in Ye and it appears that she has been proved right. Imagine the number of times Ye referred to her as "my wife" in his thanksgiving speech, publicly eating his humble pie and literally on his knees, begging and pleading with Kim to please forgive him and take him back. It is the height of display of his heart's hurt, but whether it is a sincerely contrite heart or he is merely putting up the facade as a way to prevent Pete Davidson from securing his soon to be former wife is anyone's guess. 

But why did Ye wait until now, after Kim apparently have apparently moved on with her newly found paramour Pete Davidson, to seek a reconciliation with her. Was it that his ego or rather mental health disease was in the way all along that prevented him from making a move earlier; and that he decided to take the opening of his moment of lucidity to strike. He definitely went all in, in wooing her back and you ask yourself which woman will not be touched hearing that her face is one of her man's two favorite things. And that all her man thinks every day is how to get her and their children back, taking full responsibility for all his actions which led to their falling apart and blaming it on his irascible temper and bipolar disorder. 

Ye also blamed the MAGA hat for his troubles because it alienated him from his wife who did not like the idea in the first place. According to him, it made them pariahs amongst their Hollywood crowd and you wonder whether all the perceived "rebel" and "my own man" image were just stage acts. It is also rather funny that Kim Kardashian West who frequently visited the White House to see then President Donald John Trump privately thought differently about the president, just because of what their Hollywood crowd thinks of the former president. Only in Hollywood and their flukiness knows no bounds. 

Ye also blamed his "running for president" for the ruination of his marriage with Kim Kardashian. A quest which to many, including ICHEOKU, was actually a huge joke bordering on lunacy because he never stood a chance in a frozen hell in the first place. A matter made worse because the MAGA crowd, which was prior to then, beginning to take likeness of him, were completely pissed off when he denounced their beloved leader President Donald John Trump after once suckling up to him. It made many people see him as a man without character or core or conviction and simply wrote him off. That former President Barack Obama and CNN host Don Lemon have previously dismissed him as a looney, coupled with his slaves comment did not help him with black people. So, who exactly was he thinking would have taken his campaign seriously? 

ICHEOKU says whatever happens and whether or not he succeeds in lobbying Kim to take him back, he must try and leave God out of the matter as God did not ask him to fall apart with his soon to be former wife when he did. So his saying or insinuating that God wants him to reunite with Kim is rather stretching the fact to pitifulness. The implication is that he is not doing it out of his own volition and conviction of strength but because God wanted him to do it. He is seeking to be pitied and Kim might decide to do him a number by simply retorting that since it was not him who wants reconciliation but only acting because God wanted it, that she will rather wait until her own God asks her to reconcile with him. 

Making mistakes as a husband is not the real issue, but whether he now has the ability and capacity not to make the same mistakes again should Kim agree to take him back. Has he banished the demons plaguing him or are they still lurking around in his life, waiting to repossess him as soon as Kim says another yes, I will do. That is the high dollar question as even divorced people sometimes get back together and remarry; and the fact that their own divorce proceedings have been underway for some months now should not necessarily be a bar to their reconciliation should Kim equally so desires and wants. 

Anyway, although miracles sometimes do happen in life, but Ye does not necessarily need a miracle in this case. What he needs is to convince Kim that he is now a changed man and that he has permanently parted ways with his old self which caused their falling apart. She loved him once and most likely still has a soft spot for him in her heart despite the Pete Davidson's presence. But she will be very careful and will tread cautiously with any future reconciliation moves for fear of finding a Ye that has not really changed, but remains possessed by his  demons. Be that as it may, ICHEOKU wishes Ye well in his current effort to appeal to the heart strings of Kim and wishes everyone of them, including Pete Davidson, the best of luck.

AVENUE OF SPHINXES: CAIRO IS UNDULY BOGGED DOWN WITH ANCIENT EGYPT.

ICHEOKU says when will the leaders of Egypt wake up to take their own destiny with their both hands and start thinking about their own legacy instead of the excessive time and resources being wasted on digging up Egypt's ancient civilization. All the ruse about tourism and providing work for archaeologists to do notwithstanding, how about leaving the ancient ruins alone where they are and moving to establish things for the present and future Egyptians to enjoy and treasure. Why the never ending digging up of ancient remains and civilizations built by the old Egypt? 

Why this misplaced priorities that instead of building a new Egypt, putting in place legacy structures for the coming generations to inherit, does the government in Cairo obsess itself with such distraction which does not really add anything of value to the average Joe Egyptian's life; other than the distant possibility of a trickle down income from ogling tourists whenever Islamist terrorism permits them to visit. It is just too much of a distraction that the government seems to have lost focus on what present and future Egypt need most, an Egypt that is competitive in a world where only the best survives and thrives.

ICHEOKU is not writing this piece because of any antagonism against archeology or what archeologists do; but so much resources are being wasted digging up Egypt and disturbing the peace of the past Egyptians. Such skewed effort takes the government focus off what is more important for the lives and happiness of the present Egyptians as well as building things for the future Egyptians to inherit and treasure. Instead of figuring out how to keep the train rolling to the next station, they are busy fiddling with how ancient Egyptians moved about before there were trains. Why disturb the peace of ancient ruins and resting places?

It is only in Africa that such abuse of ancestral resting places are on overdrive, showing no respect to the forebears and devastating what made them who they are. A native America will kill you if you dare disturb their ancestral burial grounds. There are some road construction and pipelines laying that were forced to stop because they were to pass through such sacred sites; and in some cases, large amounts were paid first relocate these cemeteries before construction could continue. So, why is Africa and in this particular case, Egypt, so violative of its ancestral places in the name of feeding tourism. So, a few tourists will come and they will spend some money and then what? 

A case made even worse because majority of the tourists, Europeans and British, do not have their own burial places being dug up in similar fashion. Who has excavated the British Stone Henge pr dug up William Shakespeare or any of the warring kings of Britain and Europe. So why Africa? Is it laziness that is fostering this practice of an easy way out, such that instead of being creative and inventive, Africa has become so inseparably entwined with their past that it spends valuable time digging up and disturbing such solemn places. If Egyptians spend all their time enamored with their past, when will they find time to prosecute their present and pursue their future? 

Drooling on or relieving their glorious storied past is definitely anathema to creating legacies for their future generations to treasure and enjoy. What does the present crop of leaders in Egypt want posterity to remember them for, as those who dug up ancient Egypt but did nothing to ingrain their own time around on earth? If those past Egyptians did not work hard living their life and creating these legacies then, what will these crop of loafers be unearthing today? But if they must dig, at least let it not be their ancestors and their burial grounds. Other countries, when they dig, only dig for skeletal remains of extinct animals such as dinosaurs, but never their ancestors or their sacred burial grounds. 

What is happening in Egypt is of serious concern and in this days of three dimensional printing, computer generated images and other scientific empowered abilities, most of these Egyptological stories could be easily recreated and replicated without digging up and disturbing the peace of people of ancient Egypt. They should be allowed to rest undisturbed and unbothered having completed their sojourn on earth. They did their time and have gone and should be left to enjoy their earned crossover in peace. Enough of the avenues of this and that everywhere in Egypt as the world is changing too fast and before too long, nobody will be interested in seeing all these ancient things and if they must, they can do so virtually. 

But whatever might end up being the case, Africa needs to wake up and start looking forward and stop dawdling in their past. Other nations have established stations in space and making serious effort to visit and colonize Mars. They are also inventing and manufacturing things for the future, including electric vehicles that will finally someday dispense with gasoline; but Africa is still busily moored in its past. It is definitely not progressive and retrogressive thinking has never bettered anybody's lot. If what Egypt is doing is a good thing, why are other countries and nations not similarly digging up their own past; or is Egypt the only country that has a past? It is sad. 

IMMIGRATION SCANDAL IN EUROPE/UK: A RESULT OF CENTURIES OF EXPLOITATIONS.

ICHEOKU says regrettably the same European nations and the United Kingdom as well as the papacy in Rome, which excoriated then President Donald John Trump for trying to secure the United States southern border from illegal immigration gone berserk, are doing exactly the same thing now and like McDonald's, lovin it. It appears that they suddenly developed amnesia and have so soon forgotten their stand then that 'migrants are fleeing from inhumane conditions from their home countries and should be given uninhibited admission into countries where they seek asylum/refuge.' They preached the gospel of good neighborliness and emphasized that the Biblical Good Samaritan story covers such migrants; and that America must throw open its southern border to let every migrant who showed up into America, tens of thousands of them that was.

So what changed with the migrants in Europe and UK, or are they not similarly fleeing from bad situations in their home countries from where they took flight? Are there not women and children among them; and why is the marching order given to President Donald John Trump to admit all those southern border migrants not applicable to Europe and the United Kingdom? Why are their barriers everywhere in Europe preventing migrants from coming in? From Poland/Belarus border to the Sicilian Mediterranean Sea border with North Africa particularly Libya, to the strait between Spain and Morocco and now the English Channel between Northern France Calais and Southern England Dover. 

Thousands of migrants have perished on these treacherous journeys to find succor in Europe and the United Kingdom in the Mediterranean Sea, the Sahara desert and now the English Channel as they try to cross the choppy waters in makeshift dinghy inflatables. Then add the many who have frozen to death in the Belarus/Polish border because of mean hearted European leaders who have refused to show compassion to these immigrants who are only seeking a better life in Europe. The fact that these leaders were not moved by the so many women and children suffering through this hardship is sufficient to brand them as heartless and very uncaring leaders who have little to no regard for human life and dignity.

If they like they can blame human traffickers all they want but the buck stops with them to ensure that those migrants do not perish as a result of their inhuman border policing, which goes against all that they preached to President Donald John Trump. It was heart rending watching those women and children being teargassed and vicious dogs set upon them at the Poland border; and cold water jets sprayed on them in this very harsh cold winter. If that is not the height of callousness, then what else so qualifies? Yet these Europeans and British people pretend to care about human-beings and the rights of immigrants fleeing degradation, but they show a bad example. They are a set of hypocrites who preached to President Donald John Trump on what to do, but refused to live by their own example.

Even the political pope in the Vatican seems to have stopped watching the news lately as nobody has heard from him preaching the gospel of free migration, at least not any more and not into his European hosts countries. Reconcile his present taciturn to the barrage of preaching he made when President Donald John Trump was trying to get a handle over the immigration run amok at America's southern border. Angela Merkel too as well as Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron are all tepid at best with their response and have been dwelling on condemning human traffickers instead of opening their borders to allow these desperate immigrants in. 

If these Europeans and British people are as caring as they often times pretend and pass-off to be, what stops them from launching a flotilla of small boats into the English Channel and the Mediterranean Sea to patrol the waters and rescue stranded migrants before they meet their watery deaths. What stops them from launching an immigration Marshal Plan sort of, to admit millions of migrants into Europe and the United Kingdom. If Germany alone could absorb one million migrants, why can't the rest of Europe and the United Kingdom at least absorb as many too. 

A matter made more touchy because many of these migrants seeking refuge in Europe and the United Kingdom are victims of colonization as their countries were pillaged by the same European and British colonizers, who used these countries natural resources to develop and build back better Europe and Britain. Now the deprived and denied peoples of these former colonies are desperately seeking to benefit from these countries which their resources built, but the same colonial exploiters are having none of it and are ruthlessly working to prevent these migrants from berthing in their countries. 

ICHEOKU says is not an advocate of a limitless or open border immigration, but truth be told, those migrants coming from formerly colonized countries deserve to be allowed into countries which colonized them and exploited their resources. In fact they should enjoy automatic immigration visas when seeking to relocate to their colonial master's countries. It should be a beneficial consequence of the man's inhumanity to fellow man treatment meted out to these former colonies by their heartless and ruthlessly efficient colonial exploiters. Then add the imperialistic political/military adventurism in some of these countries which completely decimated their hitherto existing political and social and economic structures and left these migrants destitute and despondent, forcing them to migrate. 

It is a sad commentary watching what is going on in Europe and the United Kingdom today on how they are very hostile to migrants seeking refuge therein. Why set vicious dogs on migrants or spray them with cold water jets in the middle of harsh winter or even tear gas them. What crime did these migrants commit by seeking a better life in Europe that they should be treated so meanly; or did Europeans not once seek refuge from their own despondency in the past. Ireland at one point nearly emptied out due to crop (potatoes) failure; and even as recently as 2008 due to crashed housing market. How did Europe survive after the world war if not largely in part through migration of her citizens to other places. Now they do not want citizens of other countries, facing similar excruciating circumstances, to find solace in Europe and the United Kingdom. 

Europe and the United Kingdom have enough geographical territorial space to grow their population to over one billion people. They are bigger than India in land mass and almost as nearly as big as China and therefore have enough room to accommodate millions of migrants and use the opportunity to also grow their human capital. They can also provide jobs for all of these immigrants by simply bringing back home the thousands of outsourced jobs overseas in China and Asia; and that way help to grow their economy back into reckoning once more. 

But their greatest fear is losing their white majority as a people, hence all the fuss about human traffickers bringing too many migrants to their shores and borders. Let the truth be told, they somehow deserve the hand which the immigration crisis have dealt them and they should accept their responsibility for it; and then figure out a more sensible way to accommodate those migrants. But until then, the blood of the thousands of migrants drowning in the Mediterranean Sea, dying from dehydration in the Sahara desert as well as the current killer English Channel, rests on the heads of Europe and the United Kingdom. 

They destroyed these migrants' countries and now wont allow them, victims of their nefarious activities, a safe passage into their own countries. It is not right and it is condemnable as immigrants do not deserve to drown just for seeking a better life elsewhere. If according to these trans Atlantic fellas, allowing as many immigrants as amassed at America's southern border is ok for America, doing exactly the same on their own borders, land and sea, should equally be ok for them. End the killing of migrants in Europe and the United Kingdom and do it now. May the souls of the 27 migrants, latest drowning victims in the English Channel, now rest. 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING AMERICA!

ICHEOKU says despite the hardship and still obstinately unyielding coronavirus disease which is still taking much toll on Americans, with as many as nearly two thousand American people still dying each day as a result, there is still some room to be thankful. At least, for life and the fact that we were not part of the nearly eight hundred thousand Americans who have so far already  perished in the pandemic. 

The ravaging inflation is also hovering over this year's thanksgiving like an unwanted eerie fog and will definitely take some shine out of it. There are many people who wanted to travel to go be with family and friends during this thanksgiving but who cannot afford the cost of gasoline required to make the trip. Then add their unimproved economic situation coming out of the pandemic lockdown and you find a perfect storm of unhappiness.

Millions of American people are still hurting financially, economically, politically, socially and of course from the defiant coronavirus disease. But we have to be stoical about the situation and find a way to still count our blessings and be thankful that we are still here; exactly one month to Christmas. 

Happy thanksgiving celebration to you all out there; and please remember not to binge too much, because if you pack the pounds be prepared to pound them off. Also remember the many people who are less fortunate and who have no capacity nor ability to put food on their own thanksgiving tables under the Joe Biden woke economy which is strangulating America in so many ways. It is a mixed blessing for so many, so count yourself lucky if you are in the clear.

AHMAUD MARQUEZ ARBERY'S KILLERS FOUND GUILTY.

ICHEOKU says once again there was a video of the incident and it was not controvertible as it captured the very moment that made all the difference in the returned verdict. The video showed an unarmed black man jogging through a park, was confronted and struggling with his killer before he fired shots into him taking his life and at such a youthful young age of only 25 years.

There was no apparent provocation by the victim, and there was no noticeable self defense issue that could have triggered the shooting. It was a clear cut case of extreme prejudice gone awry and resulted to the death of an unarmed black man, shot simply because the killer can(could); deluded that there will be no consequences for his action because it is Brunswick Glynn Country Georgia State and black people are not allowed to jog in their town.

But unfortunately for them, the jury saw it differently and they were also disciplined enough to be guided only by the evidence and not their skin color which majority of them share with the now convicted murderers. It was the same thing with Kyle Rittenhouse's case, which incident was also captured on video and showed that Kyle Rittenhouse acted in self defense. While the jury in Ahmaud Arbery saw the wantonness of his killers on the video, the jury in Kyle Rittenhouse saw a helpless and threatened Kyle Rittenhouse act to defend himself from imminent bodily harm and possible death. They saw the self defense themselves and decided to allow shooting in self defense survive their verdict. 

Both cases were meritoriously decided solely on the weight of evidence presented before the jury, which were largely aided by videos which captured the crucial moments in time that encapsulated both cases. There were no biases and there were no other extraneous influences that came into play to berth both verdicts. The verdicts in both cases were the right and correct decisions; and it does not matter your politics or social ideology as both cases were decided based on ascertainable and verified evidences and video which even a Steve Wonder can attest to.

ICHEOKU says if there is anything worthy of celebrating from both verdicts, it is that they were rightly and correctly decided and American people should be happy and proud of both outcomes. But the far left, in their always usual selective righteous indignation, choose and pick what is a good verdict and bad verdict. They are celebrating the guilty verdict in Ahmaud Arbery's case, but protested the not guilty verdict of Kyle Rittenhouse just because it was not the outcome they wanted, regardless of the evidence. 

The far left nut-jobs is the root cause of the trouble in America, as their position is frequently dictated by how they feel. Their emotions drive the pistons in their engines and their very thin skin does not allow them to make dispassionate decisions, at least not too often. Imagine if others begin to imitate them what upheaval such will stir up in the society. These lunatics forget that they are not the only ones living in America and that there is a reason a uniform law exists and is equally applied across the board.

Anyway, as the three convicted murderers now spend the rest of their natural lives behind bars, let other would be such racist hotheads, who still think and behave as if America is still stuck in the 1950s, have a serious rethink. Let the now sealed fate of Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael and their neighbor/friend William Roddie Bryan be a lesson that killing of black people just because you can comes with stiff consequences. Hopefully the message has now, by this verdict, been reaffirmed and resent loudly and clearly that we are no longer in Kansas and that such malice murder comes with life in prison.

May the soul of Ahmaud Marquez Arbery now rest. To his bereaved family, especially his indefatigable Amazonian of a mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, may she begin to finally find some healing from such a tragic loss of a son. It is a pain that will definitely linger on for a long time and most likely accompany her to her grave. She should find some solace and consolation in the experience of Holy Mary the mother of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, whose son was similarly lynched by the Jews. 

Although the verdict will not resurrect her son nor bring him back, but the fact that his killers did not go unpunished should be a form of consolatory "prize" for her unrelenting quest for justice for her slain son; admitted nothing was in fact actually gained by anyone in the outcome, speaking in the real sense of it. Lets hope that the verdict will now bring some closure to the divisiveness in America and lower the temperature on both sides; and also help put a bandaid to polarizing Americans who are gradually finding themselves on extreme parallel sides. Adieu Ahmaud Marquez Arbery, may he now rest on.

DAVIDO'S BIRTHDAY DONATION TO ORPHANAGES: HIGHLY COMMENDABLE.

ICHEOKU says was quite impressed by the thought behind the decision as not every rich fella gives a damn about the needy in the society. It is a global dichotomy and not only restricted to Nigeria that the rich don't usually see nor care about the downtrodden. This is why some have billions of dollars when so many people go to bed hungry at night, shelterless under the mercy of the elements and without clothes on their backs to protect their skin. Any exception to any rule always attracts attention and Davido just did.

Whenever a rich person, out of the kindness of his heart decides to do something so spectacularly awesome by helping others, every good man and woman of good faith should appreciate and commend such a person as one of a kind, exceptionally good person. Mr David Adeleke by making a mouthwatering generous donation to orphanages in Nigeria has become one such rich person who deserves great applause for he has rightly earned it. His giving such a gifting a thought is even to a large extent as sufficient as his doing it; admitted the doing portion is paramount as so many people are victims of their failure to launch or execute their thoughts. But he thought and acted on it, double success.

With this, music superstar and globally recognized and recognizable person, Mr David Adeleke alias Davido, has etched himself in the minds of millions of people including ICHEOKU. His decision to make such a generous donation of N250 million ($500,000) in cash gift to orphanages in Nigeria is not an easy feat, no matter the standards used in measuring it or even how deep the person's pocket is. He has set a record that will be very difficult to break. It shows that the great young man has a heart of gold and that his veins are filled with premium milk of human kindness. He has earned himself a coveted status of a premier benefactor who should be greatly appreciated and commended by all, for his kind heartedness and magnificent generosity. 

ICHEOKU says well done Mr David Adeleke and may the good Lord reward your generosity and bless you with peace of mind, restful sleeps, good health and smooth sailing as you continue to navigate the shark infested choppy waters of life. Davido has shown an example on how it is done; how money can be put to a good and better use and for a good cause. He showed that being richly blessed does not have to only manifest in showiness such as throwing money around in parties or buying expensive cars and mansions. Further, that it is good to put such money into where there is utmost need for it in order to help alleviate and translate lives out of direness. If there is a tithe offering which will be pleasing before God, such a directed donation to motherless and fatherless children will certainly be it.

Hopefully the rest of moneybags and other new money business men and women in Nigeria will learn a thing or two from Mr David Adeleke action and copy his example going forward. There is no shame about it to affirm that he has taught the Obi Cubanas of Nigeria how to put money into a better use, rather than wasting it on funerals and cows. Imagine if the Oba fella had similarly put his own raised funds into a cause that will be more impactful in the long run than a lavish funeral ceremony. Imagine if all the thieving politicians have put some of the money they stole into useful causes such as jobs creations, instead of stuffing them into secret overseas bank accounts and in tax heavens as the recently published Pandora papers revealed. 

ICHEOKU is emphatic that Nigeria will not be in the dire economic straits it is presently if there are many Davidos therein present; people who rise above themselves to see the greater good in lending assistance to those in need of it. It does not matter how small it might be and one does not necessarily have to wait to first have billions before helping others. But unfortunately, many Nigerians are mental victims of primitive greed, believing that by amassing riches which will last several lifetimes, they have accomplished something big. They think that being on top of the world means that the rest of the people can go to hell and that regardless of social contract, that they do not own them any duty of help. But it is a mistaken believe and Mr David Adeleke has just proved them wrong. 

Anyway, ICHEOKU says is not by this piece castigating anybody nor directing anyone on how to spend their money; only that somebody did something worthy of praise and recognition and ICHEOKU decided to add his take on it. People do not need all the money they are stashing away in banks and personal vaults all over the place because the moment one dies, it is over. Sometimes, things can even take a turn for the worse upon their death as their children who they left with all the money can start fighting and killing each other as a result; or end up becoming drug and alcohol wasted addicts. But hey, if only people can be a little wiser and more civilized to curb their greed, understanding that they do not need too much to be truly happy, the world will be a much better place for everyone. 

ICHEOKU says well done Davido for shinning the light so that others may see the way to achieving a better happiness which is not alcohol or drug induced; a more restful sleeping experiences which are not purchased with pills and how being truly happy inside really feels like. How could such a person as Davido ever feel lonely or depressed, knowing that hundreds of thousands of children are living vicariously through him and owe him their up-keep. He also promised to make it an annual event and have another thing to now live and work for. Such must bring a ton of joy to him and enough to keep him truly, happily fulfilled. It is a classy act and it has won him many more admirers. Hopefully all those other dancing and drinking, money throwing, exhibitionists can learn from the Davido's example; call it the Davido Challenge, if you like and begin to take it. Kudos Mr David Adeleke.

DARRELL E BROOKS: WHY IS HE NOT A TERRORIST?

ICHEOKU says is it because an American is incapable of being a terrorist, otherwise why is what he did any different from those committed by known, captured and confined, killed or still elusive terrorists. Further, does the fact that he is not a Muslim Arab from the Middle East or any of the North African Islamist countries or not being a white male absolve him from terrorism? How about those who he subjected to mortal fear for their lives and of course those he actually took their lives? Were these people not terrorized?

How else is terrorism defined if not exactly as he acted or is the fact that his political agenda is not publicly known make all the difference? But he plowed through a crowd of people with a speeding vehicle, mowed down many of them and caused the death of five of them. So, why is he still not a terrorist or were his victims not put in mortal fear, violence and intimidation; and of course they were civilians. Unless he had a medical situation resulting emergency that completely overwhelmed his mind and control of his actions, he is an over qualified terrorist and should be so treated as such, or at least, as a domestic terrorist. 

ICHEOKU says may the souls of all those killed in such a senseless vehicular mayhem at Waukesha Wisconsin Christmas parade, by this angry dreadlocks now rest; and to those still hospitalized, ICHEOKU wishes a quick recovery. But was there a reason why the street was not completely closed off to vehicular traffic with solid road blocks. Anyway, Darrell E Brooks did what terrorists do and therefore should be declared and treated as one. It is sad.

NORDSTROM RANSACKED AS FLASH MOBS LOOT SHOPS IN LIBERAL BAY AREA CITIES.

ICHEOKU says the chickens of Bay Area acute liberalism have come home to roost. Now, they are presenting themselves as flash mob looters, terrorizing the public and shop owners and carting away millions of dollars worth of stolen merchandise. It started with the lowering of standards and not prosecuting theft of less than $1000. Now, like the flower in the Little Shop of Horrors, these over indulged miscreants want some more free things. So, blame woke Bay Area politics for cuddling criminals and allowing them a free reign in the name of their new truth, equity. It is their newly discovered pretend-attempt at making amends for past misdeeds that led to this out of control thievery ravaging Bay Area of Northern California. 

Meanwhile these troubled individuals communicated their plan of action on social media and used the same platforms to set a date and time when they will strike. If the police and the FBI and the NSA are monitoring communications of people, why didn't they capture such conspiracy and nip it in the bud before it happened. They could have prevented and thwarted these attacks by saturating a targeted store with undercover operatives soon before these criminals strike or was it rather too small a matter for law enforcement officials to waste their time and resources on. 

Why has the insurance companies of these shops not thrown a marker down, to force thsee shops to threaten a mass pullout from these liberal cities unless they effectively police the situation. But no, everyone is walking on shortened freedom plank now, afraid of tipping over and being pilloried, hence the prevailing sound of silence.

It is unfortunate how the number of these crazy acts have grown over the many years due to excessive tolerance and lack of law enforcement. Some cities are dying off because many people are moving away and relocating to the suburbs and sometimes even moving completely away to different new cities to escape the deteriorating situation, urban decay as well as a very diminished quality of life brought about by social experiments which have not worked nor have any chance of ever working. How can politicians encourage thieves to steal provided they keep it under $1000? What if a smart thief decides to piecemeal his escapades and steals $999.99 in in so many places or strikes?

Anyway, it comes with the territory as human beings are insatiable. You give them one, they want two and so the story goes on. It was the condonation of these people's past misbehaviors that exacerbated the situation. Had it been that when they first ever struck that they were rounded up and given a stiff penalty, may be some of them would have backed away and gotten into better things to do with their lives. But now, it is laughable watching arch activist and liberalist numero uno Governor Gavin Newsom talking tough about the out of hand recurring incidences but without mentioning his role in creating them. His liberal activism helped nurture the escalating thievery prevalent in his Bay Area of Northern California.

ICHEOKU says strongly believes that the madness can be arrested today with a firm resolve by the government by going very hard on those captured criminals. If the liberal controlled government can treat those January 6th Save America Rally protesters with such resoluteness, why not apply the same medicine to these Bay Area flash mob looters. Treat them as the economic saboteurs which they are as they are threatening to take down the cities and have them put away for good with long prison sentences. But it was the same way these leaders  encouraged homelessness and made it become nearly hopelessness and constantly looking like vast destitute lands that they encouraged these looting flash mobs.. 

They also did it with legalizing marijuana and yet turn around to ask why "stoned" people don't out looking for jobs. They did it with gay marriage as well and today some people are marrying their pets. They tried it with Defund The Police but have lost that argument to a more superior reasoning of the American people who rejected it in Minneapolis. Compassion is not being soft on crime, rather it is in providing such potential criminals with gainful employments that will provide them a means for meeting their needs and that of their families. 

The government must therefore take away the incentive or motivation by dropping the hammer on those still stuck in their stupid if they want to see the criminality frizzle away. The government needs to send a message to these criminals that crimes are published and punish them accordingly for being criminals. But these criminals got away with looting America during the notorious Black Lives Matter and their ANTIFA partners hostage taking of America last summer 2020 and now they have grown more impetus, feeling that they can get away with just anything things including looting of more shops and stores. 

It is therefore about time that citizens' message of "WE CANNOT TAKE IT ANYMORE" was sent to them, loudly and clearly; and we don't want Kyle Rittenhouse bearing the message. But whatever happens, the government must race to put a bandaid on the openly bleeding wounds on the Bay Area cities before completely losing whatever was left of their tourism industry. Many people are being forced to abandon their plans of visiting cities like San Francisco because of the blithe, plight and unbridled wantonness going on there, which appears  are being tolerated by government. If not, where is the crackdown? 

Did somebody say Defund The Police? Now, you know why, because they want to have a free reign with heir criminality without ever being held accountable or responsible for them. If these criminals could be so this brazen now that the police have not yet been defunded, imagine the life which they will force everybody into with a complete lawlessness. It is sad. 

RELEASING MAZI NNAMDI KANU: NOT THE ANSWER TO THE NIGERIA QUESTION.

ICHEOKU says it is too far gone into the struggle for Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to just go back now, regardless of whatever Igbo leaders might have said to President Muhammadu Buhari during their visit with him to urge that the Biafra separatist leader be freed from detention. Too many people have died already; people who laid down their lives believing that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was leading them somewhere. At least, if not them any longer, their beloved ones who they left behind. 

It will therefore be a great disservice to their memory and their hopes and dreams, for which they paid the ultimate sacrifice, for Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to now make a u-turn, accept the greek-gift from President Muhammadu Buhari and abandon the struggle. If he does, history will not be kind to him; and of course, millions of Biafra people as well as other global audience and well-wishers, who have come to admire his courage, will be greatly disappointed.

Therefore being negotiated out of his present ordeal is not an option as it is too risky a proposition. His life will be in perpetual mortal danger as the government might use its State secret service agents or other hired hitmen to whack him and pass it off as resulting from the insecurity in the Southeast or an internal rivalry within the IPOB rank, between those who are for abandoning the struggle in consonance with Igbo leaders meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari; and those who wants the agitation to continue. 

Also, if the government doesn't kill him, some die in the wool IPOB operatives might knock him off in an internal revolt for being a sellout, for bringing the people out only to abandon them midstream.

Such a release will be an eternal dilemma for Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, a Catch-22 sort of, agreeing to the president's "benevolent" release in deference to the Igbo leaders who secured it and isolating his IPOB one-world family base by accepting the attached implied conditions. At least Buhari will not just release him to go back during invectives and vituperations on him and his government as well as Nigeria. It will not happen and those Igbo leaders know as much. So how exactly can all the three conflicting factors be balanced out if not to retain the statusquo and damn the consequences.

Such a quandary of no real option will be better served if Mazi Nnamdi Kanu remains in detention or the Buhari government of Nigeria allows him to go free through a staged escape. In that way both parties will retain some degree of honor and the government will be able to finally wash off its hands from both the Kenya kidnap extraordinary rendition and whatever else might later become of or happen to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. But anything short of this scenario will only compound the issues further and make an already complicated situation even more complex. It is a gamble worth taking in order for there to be a real movement forward in the quagmire.

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu no longer owns himself but have become inextricably woven to the fate of millions of IPOB members as well as millions more non members, but who empathize with the cause, which he has been championing and courageously leading for this past years. The decision to end the struggle is not his to now make because the struggle have outgrown him and he is now only but its globally recognized face. 

So many people have died, killed by the Nigeria State while fighting for the cause. Ikonso in particular was brutally bludgeoned to death by the Nigeria State and so were hundreds of others who were disappeared, tortured and eventually killed. Some IPOB and other Biafra agitators were also drowned alive as the 23 Ezu River floaters in Anambra State evidences, one of the many atrocities perpetrated against innocent Biafra people whose only crime was dared to dream about a homeland. 

Of course there was Nkpor massacre, Oyingbo massacre, Emene massacre, Afaraukwu massacre, Ihialla massacre and other countless incidences where brave men and women of IPOB stood their ground and perished as a result. There is also the global renewal and sensitization of a soon coming Biafra homeland which have got millions of people giddy with expectation that very soon, there will be a homeland for Umu-Chineke to finally call their own, where they can live and thrive in pursuit of happiness and excellence. 

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu cannot afford to quench all these hopes and dreams or in anyway rubbish the memory and sacrifice of all those brave men and women who believed in his promise that the realization of an independent State of Biafra is a non negotiable issue. Millions of people have been triggered and the fire lit in them is so fiercely burning now that going back from the struggle is no longer an attainable option, especially not by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu just decreeing it into being. It is a referendum at minimum and a smart government  could easily defeat it through a rigged outcome; and that way finally rests the agitation. 

The struggle has elevated so much that it is forward ever and backward never speeding train that will crush anything and anybody standing on its path. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu cannot afford to be that person to abandon the Biafra people in the middle of the road where he has led them to. The genie came out of the bottle the day people started sacrificing their lives for what Mazi Nnamdi Kanu assured them was a Biafra uploading. He owes these people as well as the broader Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, the homeland which he promised and assured them will soon come. Put in another words, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has no more other choice in the matter, except to deliver on his promise. 

Mandela demanded a free South Africa and he got it after 27 years of incarceration. He went the full hog and to his willed mind, it did not matter however long it took to realize it. It is called sacrifice. Any leader who is not selflessly, mentally and physically prepared, and ready to sacrifice even his or her life to an objective at hand is in the strict sense of the word not a leader; at least not one in the mold of Nelson Mandela. Forcing an issue such as separatist agitation is not a cake's walk and also dying in detention as a result of it should have been contemplated too, should it ever get to that. 

Anyway as the nation awaits what President Muhammadu Buhari eventually decides to do, his attempt at being clever by half, with that no assurance, assurance, remarks that he will consider it, does not give much hope,  According to the president, Kanu is already standing trial and his intervention would go against the doctrine of separation of powers between the executive and the judiciary. 

But the president cleverly chose not to mention that it was his government that charged Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to court. His government put the process in motion and can also end or terminate it. They can decide not to pursue the prosecution any longer as they are both legally and constitutionally empowered to do. It is called nolle prosequi and the president can direct the Attorney General to commence the discontinuance of prosecution process right at this very minute if he sincerely wants to let Mazi Nnamdi Kanu out of his gulag.

However, the big elephant in the room is not what President Muhammadu Buhari does or does not do; nor is it the wishes of the Igbo leaders and elders who visited him at Aso Rock. To some extent too, it is not whether Mazi Nnamdi Kanu agrees to be released into the suretyship of those Igbo leaders and bound to be of good behavior, no longer firebrand and provocative. No, the only indisputable issue, which is now a wishbone in the throats of everyone currently involved in trying to secure Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's "benevolence release" by President Muhammdu Buhari, is what comes the day after. 

Will Mazi Nnamdi Kanu afford to abandon the cause and will he abandon the cause; and if he does, what will the response be from the stirred up millions of Biafran people, especially those restive IPOB members. President Muhammadu Buhari must not be allowed any credit or given a public relations profit from his releasing Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The best and the only plausible way for his release is to let the court rule on the wantonness of the Nigeria gestapo government that mounted the kidnap and extraordinary rendition of him from Kenya. Such a conclusive ruling needs to be given on the matter and in that way, the Dracula of Daura will not benefit from his illegality. But until then, lets keep watching as the drama unfolds. Viva Biafra. Keep hope alive. 

KYLE RITTENHOUSE FOUND NOT GUILTY: IT WAS THE RIGHT AND CORRECT DECISION.

ICHEOKU says did not expect anything less as he fired off those shots in self defense, to avert a threatened imminent grave bodily harm to his person and even a possible death. Anybody who saw that video of him forced down on the pavement, surrounded by an irate mob with no where else to go; and also watched him throughout the court proceedings, observed his countenance and demeanor, will agree that the jury reached the correct verdict. Self defense is the only time and situation when the killing of another is ever completely excused by law. Kyle Rittenhouse killed under such circumstance and the jury rightly agreed.

It is not always that often that we see an accused person take the stand and testify in their own case; as they most always will take refuge under the 5th Amendment against self incrimination. But he bravely and courageously took the stand and acquitted himself creditably very well throughout the cross examination. He came across as believable and credible; and his innocent baby face helped a lot to convince everyone that the fella sitting on the accused chair was incapable of committing a depraved heart crime such as murder. It helped that his lawyers were persuaded by his intelligence to gamble with him testifying and he did not disappoint. 

His lawyers did a good job too and their case was immensely helped by that particular video. Thanks to whoever the videographer was that captured that very moment of truth; and hopefully he was rewarded bountifully for that frozen in time image of Kyle sitting on that pavement, bewildered and watching his life flashing before his own very eyes. Good enough he was good with the gun and he was able to save himself, just by the whiskers. Imagine what the angry mob would have done to him had the gun jammed or misfired? They would have ripped him into pieces; but the good Lord was smiling down on him that night and he was saved by the bell of his AR-15 rifle. 

Nobody is celebrating that two people lost their lives on that fateful night and another third person was injured. If there is anything to celebrate, it is that justice was done in the case and an innocent man was adjudged accordingly. Kyle Rittenhouse did what majority of Americans wished they could have done that night but couldn't do. The jurors lived through that nightmarish experience and like every sane American, were grateful that Kyle Rittenhouse acted when he did to help put an end to the madness that was ravaging America that ugly summer of 2020.  They were therefore better placed to appreciate what went down that led to Kyle Rittenhouse's defensive firing off of his rifle.

Anyway, the nation can now breath a sigh of relief that justice was done in this case and that the anticipated mayhem by the anarchists domestic terrorists Black Lives Matter and their ANTIFA partners was effectively checkmated. Now let everyone move on and allow Kyle Rittenhouse to exhale as he continues to recover from the trauma of that event and the families of those who lost their lives continue to heal and the wounded best of healing as well. 

ICHEOKU says is particularly impressed by Kyle Rittenhouse astuteness. He is a testimony of a very good upbringing and he is both intelligence and knowledgeable. He is a proud son of his parents and they should be glad they have him as their son. He has earned his pips as a very personable smart young man and has burrowed himself into the minds of millions of admirers worldwide, especially those who call America home and residence. A career in law should be a natural calling for him. That guy is lovable. 

It will be good if Americans can now start healing from the mortal distrust existing amongst them; where blacks and whites are constantly at each other's neck and everything is seen in the prism of white and black. ICHEOKU says is not white, but Kyle Rittenhouse's case has nothing to do with race as anyone similarly situated, faced with imminent danger and threat to their life, would have similarly acted and not expect to be locked up simply for defending themselves. The video spoke a gazillion words in defense of Kyle Rittenhouse and the whole case was anchored on it.

If anybody does not like the verdict, let them persuade their lawmakers to change the protective wingspan of killing in self defense. But until then, what Kyle Rittenhouse did was a pure self defense move and the law still permits it. May the souls of those killed rest and may Kyle Rittenhouse be allowed to move on with his life. Hopefully, his remorseful tears are genuine and he should continue to maintain that poster which he presented to American people which helped him win a lot of people over. One last advise, he should endeavor to never be caught or found or captured on video celebrating those killings. Lastly, if OJ Simpson could walk, Kyle Rittenhouse walking should not be a big deal as he rightly merited his own walk of freedom. 

CHRISTOPHER BELTER: JUST ANOTHER "AFFLUENZA-DEFENSE" BENEFICIARY.

ICHEOKU says some of these stories sound bellyaching incredible, except that they are true; that some people are so privileged that they apparently get a preferred status accommodation in everything in America including in the justice system. Otherwise how else can anyone, especially one with no dog in the fight, explain the fact that a man who raped four girls, including an underage 15 year old girl, which by itself is a statutory rape, got away with a mere slap on the wrist of a probation and not a prison sentence. 

It is also not as if the facts of the cases were disputed or that the perpetrator did not own up to his heinous activities, he did. Yet a judge decided that the fella is too privileged to be sent to prison. The decision violates every imaginable sensibilities and therefore condemnable as an obvious bias-induced decision. 

ICHEOKU says were Niagara New York in California, Judge Murphy would be definitely facing a serious recall and his unsound decision, also appealed. It does not make any penal sense whatsoever, especially in view of the magnitude of the crimes which the defendant committed  that he got no prison term. He did the crimes and should have done the time. But courtesy of a judge, who has nothing to lose any more because he is retiring and will no longer be facing the public in a reelection, decided to damn the Niagara County public and did what he wanted to do. But can't his pension and other retirement benefits be reached as a punishment for the apparent tainted decision he rendered. Would he have ruled the same way were he still running for reelection and having to explain to voters what informed his decision?

The perp, Christopher Belter, pled guilty to two felony charges including third-degree rape and attempted first-degree sexual abuse, and two additional misdemeanor charges of second-degree sexual abuse, yet he did not get any time for all the offenses. Really? What useless sword of Damocles that will be hanging over the convicted rapist's head for the next eight years that will be sufficient to atone for his crimes? Why do we have prisons built everywhere in America if not for people like Christopher Belter? Why again are people who commit crimes punished and sent away to do time for what they did, if Christopher Belter is not prison bound? Why this selective and very subjective reasoning by this judge, despite the undeniable and undenied crimes of four sexual assaults. Based on what the rapist did, which he has already admitted, if Christopher Belter is not a consummate prison material, who else is?

Therefore Judge Murphy can be "agonized and not ashamed to say that he actually prayed over what is the appropriate sentence" all he wants, the fact of the matter is that he did not agonize enough nor prayed enough, otherwise he would have seen what every other right thinking and unbiased person saw in the case, that Christopher Belter committed egregious crimes of sexual nature and should have been punished with a prison sentence and not probation. Yes indeed, he caused great pains to so many people, his four victims, their families and their friends; he also caused grave great harm to them as well and of course, there were multiple crimes and deserves to be in prison. How did the judge, sincerely and honestly, reconcile his decision to these clear facts as presented in this case before him? 

Why, despite the glaring amount of undisputed factual evidence in the case, which the judge himself even acknowledged, did the judge still arrive at his conclusion that a sentence that involves incarceration or partial incarceration is not appropriate in the case and that he preferred a sentence of probation, instead? A 15 year old girl was one of the victims rapist Christopher Belter assaulted with the help of his mother and step father inside their family home. Unfit parents who forced alcohol and marijuana on their son's victims to inebriate them and help subdue them, overwhelm their consciousness and override their will of resistance, in order to enable their son have his way with them so much effortlessly. 

So, what else was Niagara Country Court Judge Matthew J. Murphy III looking to see, which he did not see, that made him reach such a distasteful decision. Why was a prison sentence not appropriate in this case when four girls were sexual assaulted by the convicted rapist; and when has a rapist and registered sex offender become too sacred and deemed as not good candidate for prison? Needless to add that it was in the same New York that a sitting Governor Andrew Cuomo was forced out of office for "mere" huggings and kisses; yet this very privileged young man is now found by the judge as too good to go to prison, after actually, wrongfully penetrating four girls, one of which is a 15 year old minor. 

What is wrong with some people or has New York now become so rich-woke sensitive that everything is now seen through a certain predetermined prism. A rapist and sexual predator/sex offender, who would have spent eight years in prison was instead patted on the back with a probation; and to make matters worse, the outrageous decision cannot be appealed. Really? Whatever is going on in Niagara New York demands a second look at and possibly a federal investigation because it does not make sense that this rapist walked. The other time it was in Texas that a white rich kid walked, after killing four people in a drunk driving accident, using a defense of affluenza; and now, another white rich young man walked away from going to prison for sexual crimes against four women, in Niagara New York, based on a similar circumstance of his very privileged background. It is sad. #SayNoToAffluenzaDefense.

QANON SHAMA'S 41 MONTHS: REPUBLICANS ARE BEING TAUGHT HOW TO WIELD POWER.

ICHEOKU says strongly believes that majority of those January 6th revelers who went into the Capitol did not know nor understood that they were committing a criminal trespass when they badged into the building. If they knew, many of them would not have dared. But the euphoria of the day and need for joining the bandwagon of the Jones catapulted many of them into the building, falsely believing that they are taking their country back by so doing. It was a spur of the moment reaction for many of them who just flowed with the crowd and found themselves in deep doodle, facing grievous consequences for their action on that fateful January 6th day. 

They went to a Save America Rally to watch their beloved President Donald John Trump speak to them, the MAGA-nation family; only to end up on the wrong side of the law with many in lengthy detention and incarceration. It was pure unbridled exuberance at best, otherwise who posts their criminal acts or behavior on social media for the law enforcement to have it so easy, identifying them, picking them up and locking them up in jails preparatory to prosecution. Now they are being increasingly convicted and getting lengthy prison sentences for what they thought was just a fun protest inside the peoples house, not knowing that it will attract consequences of such immense magnitude. 

Unfortunately for them, Democrats are in power and they have an ax to grind with them for being supporters of their most hated and disliked foe, former President Donald John Trump. Put in another way, they are pawns in the chessboard of two mortal political enemies and are being disposed as pleases the party with the upper hand. Democrats are very unforgiving and they show no mercy; especially where such viciousness will put fear of God or rather fear of Democrats into the cranial confines of the opposing party and it's supporters. Like Great White, they smelled blood in the water and they are not letting up until they put everyone away who participated in the January 6th protest in Washington DC. 

We all witnessed the destructive riots and mayhem perpetrated by Democratic Party's supporters, the Black Lives Matter and their ANTIFA partners during the summer of 2020. Yet their Democratic Party leaders dismissively explained them away as "some people will do what some people will do"; and that practically for most part, was the end of the matter. None of those rioters who burnt down American cities, looted shops and corner stores, destroyed so much properties running into billions have been arrested, detained, prosecuted nor sent away to a long prison sentence to the best of ICHEOKU's knowledge. But look at carnival barker Shama 41 months prison sentence for wearing animal skin and horns into the Capitol.

It was the same way Ilhan Omar dismissed Al Qaeda masterminded 9/11 attack as "some people did something"; and even her illegal immigration, marrying her blood brother for the sake of getting Green Card, a crime for regular Joe and Jane, has also been swept under the rug.  

Steve Bannon too is also finding out, rather with rude shock, how vicious the Democrats are as they have suddenly forgotten their own mantra during the LOCK HER UP feverishness when they admonished that partisans should not lock up their political opponents, because to do so will not be undemocratic and akin to what obtains in Ukraine and other not too democratic countries where oppositions are not tolerated nor allowed to thrive. President Donald John Trump was pressured into not pursuing his campaign debate response to Hillary Clinton's chiding: "that's why you are not the president" to which which then candidate Donald John Trump replied that if he were, "you will be in jail." 

So, how about Steve Bannon or does the same "political opponent's protective shield" which protected Hillary Clinton from being LOCKED UP not avail him simply because he is not a politician or a Democrat or a Clinton? How about James Comey who severally thumbed his nose at Congress or the other fella, the former second in command at the FBI who literally gave false testimony to the Congress? They were not pursued because the Republicans who were in power then had no backbone and cared a lot about the feelings of their Democratic colleagues. But today, see what is going on as the Democrats have thrown out of the window such courtesy and are going full throttle to drop sledgehammers on the heads of their identified and identifiable political enemies and doing it with glee. 

Look at the California eyeballs, bushbaby Adams Schiff who severally swore on national television that he has evidence of President Donald John Trump complicity in crimes including the Russian Collusion-Gate. He is still heading the intelligence committee despite having not produced the claimed evidence and the allegations being debunked with such a finality that it shameful. Then enter Eric Swalwell and his Chinese bed warming spy, but there is no consequences whatsoever because they are Democrats and they protect one another. Imagine if it was a Republican that was caught so compromised, the hell which the Democrats would have raised and continue to stir until he was forced out or at least removed from the Intelligence committee. 

Then enter Republican Congressman from Arizona Paul Gosar who has now become the first Congress person to be ever censured and just for a cartoon. A cartoon now attracts the same wrath as sexual molestation of Monica Lewinsky. But those Muslim extremists in France are being excoriated for demanding a similar treatment to those cartoonists in Charlie Hebdo  for depicting their prophet Mohammed in a light not so favorable in their Islamic faith. So why would cartooning New York effant terrible Alexandria Ocasio Cortez be punishable, but cartooning Islamic Prophet Mohammed be ok? Does it now mean that AOC is now more important than Islamic Prophet Mohammed in the eyes of the Democratic Party? 

Former President Donald John Trump has been depicted in worse light, including his severed head being held in the hands of bloody knucklehead Kathy Griffen. But it is the Democrats and they show no mercy and sometimes go extra mile to just bend it like Beckham in order to achieve their desired objective. It does not matter the means, only the end is in their tunnel vision. They are still searching and fishing, working overtime to nail President Donald John Trump in order to stop him in 2024 by all means necessarily possible. It is this operation stop him in 2024 that all the investigations are about as they are desperately searching for something to stick to him as a disqualifying stain because they have no potential candidate to take him on in 2024. 

The saddest part of their escapade is that Republicans are not fighting back, at least not as strongly as expected; that even Lindsay Graham of late has gone radio silent. Why Republicans are this way is beyond ICHEOKU's comprehension, but it sure does not give voters a reason to keep on sticking with them when they cannot even fight to defend their supporters. Imagine if it was Republican supporters that burnt down American cities last summer 2020 what the Democrats would have done to them or at least called and demanded and insisted to be done to them. ICHEOKU says must give it the Democrats, their tenacity is very impressive and they have mastered the art of real politicking as a take no prisoner pastime. 

The same Democrats who shouted 25th Amendment just because then President Donald John Trump mispronounced some names have now gone silent, faced with President Joe Biden obvious depreciation and degenerative status. So, why is nobody talking about invoking the 25th Amendment now, including some Republicans who many supporters expected to push the issue to the fore and possibly force the issue. One mention is not nor ever enough. They should be like their Democratic counterpart and take a page from them by clamping their teeth on such issues without letting go until something happens. Why not return the favor back to the democrats, one would ask?

Everywhere you look, the story is the same thing and you wonder whether Republicans will ever graduate from the school of hard knock politics controlled by the Democrats and start fighting bare knuckles like them. It recalls the sad episodes in the final months of President Donald John Trump in office before the election when he literally begged his own supposed party member Mitch McConnell to sign off on the two thousand stimulus payment to Americans, but the turtle refused. The Democrats said they will pay it and they won and they paid it. 

ICHEOKU says does not really know what it will take to revamp the Republican Party and make it more competitive. May be it is about time a third party is formed, a MAGA PARTY; and force a final rebranding of the Republican Party. But no voter or supporter of the Republican Party watching what is currently going on in the President Joe Biden administration who does not wish that the Republicans pay closer attention on how power is wield when given. Imagine if President Donald John Trump was a Democrat with his back heavily protected, guarded and shielded by an impermeable Democratic support wall, the things he would have accomplished  for America. But members of his own Republican Party are some of his worst enemies and detractors, and they worked overtime to cut him down. It is sad.

LETS GO BRANDON: WHAT IS THE FUSS ALL ABOUT?

ICHEOKU says Luke 11:11-12 in the Bible is quite clear about expectations of loved ones from their loved ones; and it is not any different from voters expectations of their political leaders. Therefore when voters elect someone into office based on promises made, they expect no less from the beneficiary of their votes than a full delivery on the promises. They also expect their lives to improve and become better; but not to in anyway become diminished as a result of the decision which they made voting the political leader into office. 

A failure by the political leader to meet this basic expectations of the voters often always result in disappointment and morphs into a buyer's remorse which they express out in so many different ways including booing, name calling, cat calls, chants and other snickering attitudes. Sometimes too, voters become so frustrated that they begin to boycott such political leader and wishing they could take their votes back; and at the nearest opportunity, most always recalls such political leader from office or vote him or her out and elect their opponent in the next election. 

This is exactly the frustration which sports fans are now expressing in packed arenas throughout America with their famous Lets Go Brandon chant. They are expressing their disappointment that instead of their lives improving with the decision they made to elect President Joe Biden, things have become worse. They have seen their fortunes upturned and things not getting better since that November 3rd 2020 fateful day when they denied President Donald John Trump a second term in office and instead elected President Joe Biden. 

But their lives have since taken a turn for the worse following that change in guard in the White House due to their decision. As anyone who has been to a grocery store or gas station of late rudely finds out and can confirm, things are no longer affordable. When something as basic as a tin of sardine that previously retails for a buck plus change, now goes for two bucks plus change; or a load of bread that used to sell for $4.99 now sells for $5.99; or a pack of meat that sold for $15 now selling for $24; or a chicken which use to sell for $12 now going for $15 then you know why people are frustrated. The rudest of the shock is filling a gas tank of your vehicle such that what cost you $40 before to fill is now costing $70. 

Unfortunately, majority of American people are on a somewhat fixed income as salaries and emoluments are as agreed with the employer until promotion and infrequent raises which do not  share the same trajectory graph with cost of living expenses. So where does anybody holding a contrary brief from those chanting Lets Go Brandon expect the chanters to find the extra money to make up for the out of balance living cost. If one was making $10 per hour in January 2021 and still making the same amount in November 2021 but the cost of a loaf of bread have seen a buck differential increase and on this tightly fixed operating budget, where is the extra one buck going to come from. 

These apologists will tell you to get a second job when the first job have worked you to the bones such that you can barely stand up on your two feet without staggering or feeling woozy and dizzy. Sometimes they will tell you to get more education but without telling you about the millions of educated people drowning in debts including students loans who are still struggling to make ends meet. Even when you are making thousands of dollars and after taxation takes a large chunk of it, and your standard of living is based on your income capacity, you are still on an already made fixed budget. So, getting to your usual dinning and you discover that the bill for a meal that use to cost $20 is now $35 plus tips, where is the additional charges going to be paid from. 

We are not talking about other more expensive items which many people have since forgone at least now, until their fortunes improve or an unknown rich uncle or aunt dies leaving them some inheritance money in their will or they win the lottery. It is this pent up anger and frustration about the sudden u-turn in their lives that chanters of Lets Go Brandon are trying to communicate to the White House in the best way possible. They have no other access and cannot rich the occupant of the White House in any other way except using harmless words in chants to express how they really feel about the hardship they are going through and the person they hold responsible for it. 

Lets Go Brandon is a cry for help as American people are suffering untold hardship since they made that decision of November 3rd 2020, replacing the occupant of the White House. They do not mean any harm to the person of the president but wishes that his presidency never came into being because of the hardship it brought about. Lets Go Brandon is a hapless and harmless rallying cry of a people disappointed by the drastically fallen short of their expectations of a Biden administration which was supposed to take the edge off the Trump mercurial administration. 

Voters expected a calmer, more soothing, do no harm Biden presidency; but they are now frustrated that the whirlwind Trump administration was much better for their lives than what they are presently living under. It is akin to jumping from frying pan into the fire; or who in America if given the option, would not readily now trade January 19th, 2021 for November 17th, 2021 based on the situational trauma which majority of Americans are living under now. So, there was a tornado Trump and now a breezy Biden, but the breeze is so still that it is depleted of oxygen  that people are finding it difficult to breath and desperately gasping for air, with some people already asphyxiated. 

At least with a tornado there is no deprivation of oxygen and it blows away very quickly; but this rarefied air is lingering on and causing a slow, painful experience for a people who are already over traumatized in so many different ways, including lack of jobs and job security and so many mad and angry fellow Americans taking it out on the people, shooting, robbing and making lives worse for everybody. Then feel free to add the never ending bills that keep on increasing. 

Anyway, this piece is not an excoriation of the president nor his administration, but that the reason behind the Lets Go Brandon viral chant can be shone a light on. Therefore anyone who has an issue with it or claiming or trying to infer an ulterior motive to it or that it is a targeted attack on the person of the president is mistaken. It is not, the chant is only an expression of  frustration and disappointment that their expectations of a President Joe Biden's administration was woefully under water, not met and that their lives have gone down south instead of up north expected trajectory. 

So, instead of the needless hoopla, those apologists should find a way to redirect their focus from the Lets Go Brandon chanters to the underlying beef fueling their disgust; and find a way to communicate this to President Joe Biden in the language he understands; explaining it to him and urging him to do something about it. Kitchen table issues always matter more to majority of American people than the hyped showy trillions of dollars infrastructure bill. People have to first be able to eat and be able to put gas in their vehicle tanks before they can drive on roads and over bridges which will be built and rebuilt with the infrastructure funds.  As far as American people are concerned the better infrastructure bill would have been lowering the cost of living, including bringing down the cost of gas. 

But hey, American people pulled that trigger on November 3rd, 2020 and now they have to live with the consequences whether they like it or not. It is sad but true that until these existential life issues are resolved, American people will continue to chant their Lets Go Brandon with hope of forcing the Joe Biden's administration to improve their lives improve or at least, get it back to where they were in before January 20th, 2021. What majority of Americans are witnessing now in their lives is definitely a nightmare before Christmas; and Santa will have a lot of explaining to do this year for not bringing enough gas and groceries as well as gifts for children whose parents cannot afford to get them something this holiday because every cent have been squeezed out of them trying to meet living expenses. Until then, LETS GO BRANDON.