ICHEOKU says the choice was his to make and he chose to be deported rather than conform to the laws of an independent, sovereign nation. He should have complied with the immigration laws of Australia by not lying on his visa application as required of any visiting foreign national. He should have also complied with a valid existing law on health and good order, which requires everyone entering Australia to get vaccinated against the coronavirus pandemic disease. But he held out and such obstinacy posed a health risk to Australian society and also had the potential of energizing anti vaccination protesters, especially among his fans and supporters alike.
Novak Djokovic is just one individual, regardless of his fame and fortune, and therefore cannot be allowed to impose his selfish wishes on the government and people of Australia. Nobody asked him to come or not to come to Australia to participate in a tennis championship being held in the city of Melbourne. It was entirely his decision and he made it without regard to what is in the best health interest of Australians, who their government is trying to protect from the coronavirus pandemic with necessary vaccination requirement law. The law says if you must come to Australia, you must be vaccinated and he was not vaccinated and still refuses to be vaccinated
Rules are rules; and the law on vaccination was not made specifically with him in mind or in anticipation that he will some day, after the law has come into force, decide to fly to Australia to participate in the Australian Open tennis tournament as a defending champion. He chose not to conform to existing laws and therefore deserves what he got, the removal. It is possible that the Serbian deliberately orchestrated the outcome; therefore nobody should feel pity for him or chest-beat that he was treated unfairly; or as some propagandists have since stretched it, that it was political.
The Australian government only ensured that everybody entering into Australia conformed to their existing laws because nobody is above the law. If even a prime minister could be held to account, who then is a tennis player to demand or covet a differential treatment from the law. Good enough, he exhausted all available legal recourse in such a situation and was determined violative of existing laws by a court of competent jurisdiction before he was finally removed from the country. None of his rights as an illegal visitor to Australia were denied him and he was afforded due process by the justice system.
He has now been deported and hopefully the dust which he tried to raise, with his ridiculous demand that he be treated differently, will now begin to settle; so that the Australian Open will begin. A new champion will definitely emerge and if Novak Djokovic feels like it, he can still challenge the new champion in a future Australian Open. But he is out of this 2022 championship for good and it was totally by his own making. It is possible too that he was not fully prepared to defend his championship and concocted the ruse to deflect from his real state of affair. ICHEOKU supports the Australian government's handling of the issue and says kudos to them for not yielding to the noisy pressure, mounted by a very few but very vocal apologists, to place Novak Djokovic above the law.
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Christy 'Apena' Essien-Igbokwe , the wife of Jegede Shokoya of the New Masquerade and Nigeria's lady of songs is dead; she was 51years old. Although her family claimed that "brief Illness" killed her like so many Nigerians; Icheoku retorts that it was most likely AKwa Ibom voodoo and remote control that was used to arrest her. It is on record that she had fallen out with the governor of her native Akwa Ibiom State and have been having a relentless war for political turf with the governor? So who knows whether she was sacrificed to Ekpe cult or even Alusi-Okija as an offal; afterall African science is still very much alive and portent. May her soul rest in peace.
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