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.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

GIWA AMU, WHO KILLED THE BRIGADIER GENERAL?

He was a Brigadier General in the Nigerian Army! He was a Nigerian Defence Adviser in the United Nations in New York! He was the spokesman of the Nigerian Army! He was the Director of Nigerian Army Public Relations Corp! He was most recently the former ADC of then Olusegun Obasanjo! He was a devoted husband! He was a father! He was a brother! He was an uncle and he was a Nigerian! Today, Solomon Giwa Amu is no more! Killed in circumstance, highly suggestive of a hit-job carried out by a higher authority. He was after-all, a Brigadier General in the Nigerian Army and having served as ADC to Olusegun Obasanjo, is not just any other ordinary Joe in Nigeria; so the death that took him was sent from the high! Why do we say that? What are our grounds for such assertion, note that we did not say allegation? What are the evidence? In response, Icheokudotcom says that the test of the pudding is in the eating. Follow us now on this excursion, as we establish reasonable basis for re-introducing the subject of state-murder of a serving Nigerian Army Brigadier General Solomom Giwa Amu.

Was it possible that the Late Army spokesman was hacked to death? If affirmative, why and by whom? Did someone kill Brigadier General Solomon Giwa Amu to keep him silent or get back at him for some old score? WHO DUNN IT? According to Gabriel Giwa-Amu, a lawyer, human rights activist and the immediate younger brother of the late Brigadier General Solomon Giwa-Amu, his late brother was possibly clubbed to death! According to Attorney Gabriel Giwa-Amu, apart from the deep (gash) wound in the head, sustained by his brother during the purported fatal auto accident which resulted in his death, there was no other physical wound of any kind on the body of the deceased-victim; who the Army authorities said, have been in a car which had somersaulted several times! Continuing the lawyer said that although there is no conclusive evidence that the killing of his brother was out-rightly ordered by the Army, there are however other circumstantial evidence that he may have been clubbed to death by those who wanted him out of the way or who may have felt threatened by his still being alive. His contention is that the army's story that his brother was flung out of the small window of the accident-vehicle on impact does not check out in view of what is known. He contradicts the army by saying that there was no way his brother, with his size, height and weight coupled to his military training could have been flung out of a window of a vehicle that was travelling at a high speed, without sustaining other bodily injuries, apart from the deep cut on his head. Further, the window of the vehicle from which his brother was allegedly flung out was rather too small to allow easy passage of a man of his brother's size. Also the alleged somersaulted vehicle in which his brother allegedly died, was for most part substantially very much intact for a vehicle which allegedly somersaulted several times. Looking at the wholesomeness of the vehicle, it is difficult to conclude that some one died therefrom . Above all, it was only his brother that died out of the eighteen (18) officers and privates travelling with him in the severally somersaulted vehicle.

The late Brigadier General Solomon Giwa-Amu allegedly died in a motor accident on Monday, February 18, 2008, while on his way, in company of others, to the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna to deliver a lecture as result of a vehicle tire-burst. Brigadier General Giwa Amu hails from Sabon-Gida Ora in Edo State, Nigeria and was a Regular 27 officer of the Nigerian Defence Academy. Brigadier General Solomon Giwa-Amu had previously escaped from another "near-fatal accident" before the last one that ultimately took his life.

Commiserating on the death of his erstwhile aide-de-camp Brigadier General Solomon Giwa-Amu, Olusegun Obasanjo said "it is an untimely elimination of a bright star, an officer and a gentleman who had exhibited all the attributes of an officer who would make it to the top’’.

Icheokudotcom thought that politically motivated murder and murder sanctioned by the state is a thing of the past in Nigeria - gone with the monstrous government of Olusegun Obasanjo but we may be wrong, after-all! Brigadier General Solomon Giwa Amu (widow pictured right being consoled by a Nigerian army officer, ADC to Umaru Yar'Adua) was killed on February 18, 2008 and Umaru Yar'Adua has already assumed the stewardship of Nigeria then. Umaru Yar'Adua has been in charge in Nigeria since May 2007 and SGA was not just an ordinary citizen to just die except someone, somewhere very high-up approved. Does this now graduate Umaru Yar'Adua into the ignoble class of Nigerian leaders whose hands are stained with Nigerian citizens' blood? Remember Buhari and Bartholomew Owo and two others retroactive death decree episode, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida and the Dele Giwa parcel-bomb murder; Sani Abacha and Ken Saro-Wiwa's judicial murder and a host of many others as well as Olusegun Obasanjo and Bola Ige, Odi and Zaki Ibiam massacres, Marshal, Dikkibo etc?

Icheokudotcom makes this claim as nothing else made any sense! The circumstance and manner of this Brigadier General Solomon Giwa Amu's death - the only who died among eighteen occupants of a vehicle, which allegedly somersaulted several times and without any ostensible body damage to the vehicle, with only one deep cut in his head for a person flung out of a small window of an accident vehicle going at top speed? There were no bruises, no broken bone and the clothing he wore during the accident were very much intact according to the story? Additionally no thorough investigation has commenced or is ongoing into the death of this man? The inaction by the authorities in Nigeria to investigate resoundingly and conclusively, the death of this Brigadier General smells of a cover-up. Anybody saying that his death was a result of mere accident under these circumstance as espoused here and other forums, must be speaking to a bunch of dullards who he believes can neither discern nor add one and one together. As for Icheokudotcom, such an army-story is a bull-crap and we are not buying it even at a discount. The death of this Brigadier General Solomon Giwa Amu is a testament to the hopeless condition still pervading present day Nigeria, where one state-death begets another! What a country? What a wasted generation? Who knows for whom the bell tolls next and for whom the conspirators are at this moment, plotting his/her story-line? God help Nigeria!