JOE HORN, THE TEXAS VIGILANTE!

You are looking at a fat pig? A bloody murderer? A vampire seeking some crimson delight? A blood thirsty vermin? Whatever you call him, 61 year old Joe Horn (pictured here left) was sitting alone in his home in Pasadena Texas during the afternoon of November 14th, 2007 when he heard breaking glass in his neighbor's house and then saw two men burglarizing the neighbor's property. Joe's next move was to call 911 to try and get police to come and take care of the situation. The police didn't arrive in time though, and Joe went outside and shot and killed the burglars. Joe Horn was not taken into custody after the shooting and a Harris County grand jury later cleared him of the shootings.

Police initially identified the dead men in Horn's yard as 38-year-old Miguel Antonio DeJesus (left) and Diego Ortiz, 30, (right) both of Houston of Afro Latino descent. However, DeJesus was actually an alias of Hernando Riascos Torres, 38. They were carrying a sack with more than $2,000 cash and jewelry taken from the home. Both were convicted criminals from Colombia who had entered the country illegally, and were members of an organized burglary ring in Houston. Police found a Puerto Rican identification card on Ortiz while Torres had three identification cards from Colombia, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic, and had been previously sent to prison for dealing cocaine and was deported in 1999.

To see how divided people were regarding this shooting incident, Icheoku has published two differing comments about this shooting. According to one of the comments, "He didn't shoot them in the legs, to make sure they did not run away, or hold them at gunpoint until police arrived. No, he was judge, jury and executioner." The other commentary, quoted one Texan as saying "In my mind, Joe Horn is a HERO. Plain and simple. God bless this man for being an upstanding citizen and protecting himself, his home, and his neighborhood from criminals. He warned these criminals. "You move and your dead." They moved. Joe shot them. Good job".

Now read the transcript of the 911 call of Joe Horn's killing; before, during and after killing two burglars in Texas and judge for yourself on which side of the divide you are on. Here's a link to the transcript http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=local&id=5538780 and http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926577/posts

The incident may prove a test for a new law recently passed in Texas which expands the right of citizens to use deadly force. Under Texas law, people may use deadly force to protect their own property or to stop arson, burglary, robbery, theft or criminal mischief at night. But the legislator who authored the "castle doctrine" bill told the Chronicle it was never intended to apply to a neighbor's property, to prompt a "'Law West of the Pecos' mentality or action," said Republican Sen. Jeff Wentworth. "You're supposed to be able to defend your own home, your own family, in your house, your place of business or your motor vehicle." The castle doctrine, passed in September 2007 in Texas, was recently expanded precisely because the citizens of Texas were tired of rampant crime. This new law allows citizens to use deadly force in protecting their home or neighbor's home from criminals. It is no longer required that you attempt to flee first.

A plain clothes police detective responding to the 911 call had arrived at the scene before the shooting and witnessed the escalation and shootings, while remaining in his car. His report on the incident indicated that the men who were killed "received gunfire from the rear.

Icheoku here now comments as follows: - unfortunately the law is an ass and Joe Horn walked! The expanded Texas castle doctrine allowed Joe Horn, an apparent murderer to escape prosecution because he "was protecting his neighbour's home from criminals". He shot those burglars in the back while they were fleeing as reported by a percipient witness, the plain clothes police detective; which would have made it a cold blooded killing but for the castle doctrine. Also we are talking about Texas, a gun ho State where killing is glorified instead of vilified. We are talking about Texas, the State with the highest capital murder executions in the Union. We are talking about Texas where a man was dragged behind a truck in chains until his body completely dismembered. And if you still do not know Texas, we are talking about the State that gave the world, President George W. Bush! Joe Horn deserved some form of punishment for the cold blooded murders of these two burglars, especially after listening to his conversation with the 911 telephone operator! it would appear this is a guy who was desperate to knock some people off the face of this earth. First, it was not his property that was burglarized but a neighbours! Secondly, those burglars were already fleeing! Third, a 911 telephone operator had emphatically urged him not to take the laws into his hands but he ignored all the pleas and did it anyway! Now two people are dead and Joe Horn is cleared of the shootings by the grand jury. Question, if those burglars were whites, would the outcome have been different? If Joe Horn was not a pure "Texan", would the furry been more hellish? Judge for yourself! But at last, this is America and in Texas justice is sometimes very subjective!

A DOG NAMED TROUBLE!

You are looking at what may be the richest dog alive! This dog named Trouble inherited twelve million dollars from her owner, the late real estate billionaire Leona Helmsley. Leona Helmsley died last August 2007 at the age of 87years. This dog is notoriously ill-tempered and bites anyone who dares to come within her biting reaches, without any remorse whatsoever and her owner also known as Queen of Mean, loved her dearly for this her biting abilities! It thus made both of them bitches, photographed here above!

However the gift to Trouble was contested on grounds of insanity of the Maker wherein the court has slashed the gift to mere two million dollars; because the affidavit of the the dog's care-taker deposed that the dog can subsist on two million dollars for the rest of her natural life. In the affidavit, the care-taker, Lekic (photographed here right walking Trouble in white) said Trouble appears to be very happy in her new permanent home and is doing well in all respects, and the extra cash wouldn't buy her more happiness. "Two million dollars . . . would be enough money to pay for Trouble's maintenance and welfare at the highest standards of care for more than 10 years, which is more that twice her reasonably anticipated life expectancy," he said. Lekic put her annual expenses at $190,000, which includes his $60,000 guardian fee, $100,000 for 'round-the-clock security, $8,000 for grooming, $3,000 for miscellaneous expenses, $1,200 for food and anywhere from $2,500 to $18,000 for medical care.

But some pundits are angry at the court's decision reducing the twelve million dollars bequest - according to them it is not what the dog, much less the world, needs that is the controlling factor in this case, no, it is what Leona intended that matters. Leona Helmsley intended for her dog Trouble to inherit twelve million dollars form her fortune of over eight billion dollars!

Because of incessant threats to her life, Trouble was flown by a heavily guarded private jet from her owner's twenty-eight room estate in Connecticut to her new abode in Florida's Sandcastle Mansion also belonging to her late owner; where she currently resides happily! Yet some people go to bed every night without food in their stomach? If there is HELL really, Icheoku affirms that no other candidate eminently qualifies for the hottest space therein as this loony Leona Helmsley? How can she face God and explain to him that, in the face of many starving folks, she willed to her little poodle a staggering sum of $12million dollars USD!

ICHEOKU STILL SUPPORTS OBAMA!

We have been asked severally why we no longer blog about Barack Obama and whether our support for his candidacy is waning? In answer, Icheoku still supports Obama for president and our support is still in intact. However we are presently in the low mode awaiting his selection of his vice president; during which time we shall either go full throttle or reverse our support depending on who he finally chooses as his vice president. In any case however, a Hilary Clinton vice presidency is still a no brainier and we still stand by that. So Obama be warned!

Our feisty campaign for Barack Obama was in addition to our love for his candidacy, our utter disdain that America was tacitly trying its hand on neo-monarchy which the nomination of Hilary Clinton would have affirmed. Thankfully the American populace understood this and today have said a resounding NO to such an arcane and mundane practice; which has yoked the Middle East and Africa down and for so long! We have a working democracy we are proud of and there will not be another Clinton after a Bush. So the budding political dynasty of a Bush, Clinton, Bush and otherwise another Clinton has been broken and may that be the testament of United States of America forever! Icheoku still supports Barack Obama for president!

AMERICA, WE ARE THANKFUL!

To these men and this particular woman Icheoku says we are grateful for your giving America a Barack Obama and making his candidacy a dream come through. You have helped him secure the Democratic Party's nomination, now it is time to put him in the White-house! God willing, it shall come to pass and the credit will all be yours, in Jesus name, AMEN!

First among the list of people to thank for giving America, Barack Obama, is Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts for introducing Barack Obama to America! Senator John Kerry brought Barack Obama to prime-time when he chose him to deliver the Democratic Party's convention's keynote address in Boston 2004. Obama blew away all the competition and formally introduced himself affably to the America people as that man to watch out for. Barack Obama did not disappoint and today, Senator John Kerry is proud of that his decision and now takes the singular honor of being the man that intoduced the Democratic Party's nominee, Barack Obama to America!

The second man to thank for Barack Obama's candidacy, is Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware. When every American was doubtful and queasy about Barack Obama's candidacy, it is Senator Joseph Biden who affirmed to America that Obama was the first clean, articulate, bright and intelligent blackman to ever run for office. Despite all the upheavals by the likes of rabble-rouser Al Sharpton and his co-travellers, Joseph Biden was right and America so agrees. For this bold step of acknowledging the obvious when every other person was coy with Barack Obama's candidacy, Icheoku recognizes Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware as a person to thank for helping to give America Barack Obama!

Then comes the Queen of talk show, our own very dear Lady Winfrey Oprah! What the Queen of England is waiting for to formally confer a knighthood on this America's Mother Theresa is beyond Icheoku's comprehension! Oprah Winfrey has done more than enough good work to deserve the Queen of England's honorary knighthood. Oprah Winfrey had on CNN's Larry King Live mentioned Barack Obama as her preferred candidate to run for the office of the president and ever since had thrown her weighty support for Barack Obama's candidacy despite all the odds. Today America agrees with Lady Winfred Oprah that "Obama is the one" and for this, Icheoku gives her the recognition as one of those to thank for introducing this phenomenon called Barack Obama to America!

Another person to be grateful to is the product marketing manager of Barack Obama! For any product to move, it requires a good marketing. It is marketing, marketing and marketing. For that product, no matter how good to sell, it must be marketed and David Axelrod did a yeo-man's job marketing Barack Obama to America. Alongside the dexterious of campaign manager David Plouffe as well as all other campaign staffers of Barack Obama 2008, David Axelrod deserve all the kudos for successfully this far, selling Barack Obama's candidacy to the American people. Barack Obama is a good product and we the American people are grateful we bought him from the David Axelrod and crew of this world! Thank you for selling Barack Obama to us!

Icheoku cannot surmise this without acknowledging the American people for doing right by their nomination of a good promising candidate, Barack Obama. By special grace, the American people will catapult him into the White house in November 2008 to finish the business which they started with his nomination. For doing what is right by his nomination, the American people is hereby acknowledged by Icheoku as a people to thank also. The good in the American people was manifested and exhibited with their dispassionate assessment of the best candidate in this season of election politics and called it as they saw it without much ado. Only in America could this story of Barack Obama be possible - it shows the magnanimity of the American people. God bless America! Kudos to you all, good people of America! Icheoku salutes you!

His ever supportive wife, the affable Michelle Obama is also recognized by Icheoku for letting America share her man - the goodness in him, Icheoku means! Michelle Obama deserves the thanks of Americans for encouraging and supporting the campaign of her husband, Senator Barack Obama. Peradventure she will be rewarded with the First Ladyship in January 2009. This mother of two adorable girls and doting wife of our president in the waiting, Barack Obama will make a very good first lady and America hopes she will transfer some of her love for her family to the greater AMerican family. Icheoku wishes this couple God's speed as they race towards the White-house. Michelle Obama, thanks a million for the gift of Barack Obama to America!

Ironically the attacks of Hilary Clinton's campaign made Barack Obama a more fortified and formidable candidate. They put him through the furnace and he emerged golden! They made him steel-stronger through their orchestrated attacks and Obama is today a political giant, thanks to the viciousness of the Clinton's campaign. Although it was an unintended consequence by the Clintons, but Icheoku will nontheless recognize Hilary Clinton as the profitable antagonist of Barack Obama's successful primaries campaign. Hilary heretofore is a candidate deserving of our gratitude for what she transformed Barack Obama into - a candidate fresh from the heat of battle; and smoking hot for the campaign against John McCain's for the White house.

Finally, the product himself must be acknowledged. Barack Obama did not disappoint all his teeming supporters - he proved he is the correct choice and that the people rooting for him did not make any mistake. He made himself saleable and he was sold. Hopefully, he will be the next president of America come January 2009 when he will be sworn in. United States of America, lets be thankful for all our blessings and for Barack Obama! Do right, vote for change! Vote for Hope! barack Obama is the future as the past is gone and the present not worth our expectations! Visit http://www.barackobama.com/ to see how you can help this campaign of HOPE & CHANGE!

NIGERIAN MEN WIFE-KILLERS!

Warning: some of the images here might be too graphic for your psyche; proceed with caution!

Have you ever seen the face of a wife killer? Have you ever met anyone who took the life of the mother of his children? Have you ever seen or met such a person who is a Nigerian? How spooky it is indeed that such a person has the blood of another human being and a Nigerian for that matter, drooling over his hands! Such a hallowing experience becomes much creepier, when that monster who took the life of a Nigerian is also a fellow Nigerian whom you may have interacted with somehow. somewhat! Now buckle up your belt as Icheoku takes you on a harried excursion through the faces, names and somewhat biographies of some of these denigrate of society! They are painting the average Joe-Nigerian man in American as a domestic violent person; a potential wife killer! A bad name indeed, really? They are the worst of the Nigerian male society in America: the dregs of the society! They are the fabled black-sheep who have defiled and violated the sanctity of the Nigerian family cohesiveness. These men killed their WIVES! They made their children motherless! It is abominable! Brace yourself!

Now, meet denigrate person wife-killer number one, Mr. Kelechi Charles Emeruwa:-
A Nigerian Mr. Kelechi Charles Emeruwa, (pictured here right) 41 of Old Umuahia, Abia State was charged and convicted with first degree murder of his estranged wife, 36 year old Registered Nurse, Chidiebere Omenihu Ochulo. Kelechi finally lost it and stabbed his wife, with her own kitchen knife, several times that the fountain left on Julius Ceaser fades in comparison, until she gave up the ghost. "According to the account, Chidiebere had just returned from Nigeria where she bolted away for three weeks to give her late father a lavish burial despite protestations of Mr. Kelechi of the bills that are accruing and payable here in America. She wouldn’t hear any of it, after-all she makes the money; only to return to an angry frustrated maniacal husband who took her kitchen knife and carved her up. It was on New Year’s Day, in her townhouse in the 4200 block of Dunwood Terrace, in the Washington DC suburb of Burtonsville in Montgomery County, Maryland.

For a little biography, Chidiebere was born on June 1, 1970 and attended schools in Umuahia and Yola before proceeding to University of Nigeria Nsukka where she bagged a degree in Microbiology. She then got married to Kelechi in 1996 and left for the US the same year, having won the American Visa lottery. In an effort to really settle down in the US and get a respectable job, she took a second degree in Nursing and began a career at Washington Hospital Centre. As a result of her hard work, she got to the peak of the administrative cadre as a Deputy Director, Clinical Services, at the Centre where she remained until her death in the cold hands of the man she once loved - the father of her three children.

In Tennessee, a Nigerian man after taking it for so long, lost his cool and shot his Registered Nurse wife as well as his hitherto mother in-law to death with a shot gun. According to the account this RN wife was married from Nigeria a pauper and brought to the United States by this man, who trained her in school as a registered nurse. Soon after her qualification, the demon in her was let loose and it became one torment after another, with one police call after another followed by sleep-over in police cells and it went on and on ad infinitum. After a protracted battle with the authorities at the wife’s instigation, this man lost his almost nearly paid-off home to his wife, including the custody of his three kids by her. He sees these kids just periodically according to court’s order and at the discretionary behest of the wife who sometimes comes to the appointed custody visitation ground at a time of her choosing; just to punish and suffer this man. He could not take it any longer and now the rest is history with two women shot dead and the killer in death row awaiting the electric chair.

Another lunatic fringed monster, Mr. Theophilus Ojukwu has equally entered the annals of Nigerian men wife-killers in the United States of America! This cancer of wife killing by Nigerian husbands is fast spreading that the Nigerian society is getting numb and used to it, as one of the social maladies of our times. A heinous act which hitherto would be very abominable that people are shocked to their bone marrows is today seen as a possibility. In Garland, Texas on Saturday, March 25, 2007 Mr.Theophilus Ojukwu, (pictured right in his orange prison jumpsuit) 46, of Enugwu-Agu, Ihe in Awgu LGA, Enugu State used a mattock (hammer) to bludgeon his deeply asleep RN wife, Melvina Ojukwu, 36, of Umuanebe, also of Ihe, Awgu LGA, Enugu State to a very painful agonizing death.
Sources close to the family said that about two years ago, Melvina’s mother and mother in-law of Theophilus, who was visiting from Nigeria tragically died in a mysterious circumstance, in a bathtub in their house at 5400 block of Barcelona Drive, Garland Texas; this is where Melvina also met her untimely and heartbreaking death. Whether this is a chain of events is inconclusive but both situations were very tragic! Mr Theophilus Ojukwu has since been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole; that one would ask, is the craze to control the RN’s “legendary money-faucet” enough for this tragedy and the life imprisonment consequence thereof?

In another family-related violent incident involving a Nigerian, it was reported in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution of March 8, 2006 that a Registered Nurse Roseline Unachukwu, 34, and her six children were taken to the family violence shelter, Northwest YWCA in Marietta, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, as a result of physical violence. According to people with knowledge of the incident, the poor lady escaped with her life from her husband’s maniacal rage with very severe cuts in her arms which she received while fending off her husband's killer-rage. Her husband, Benjamin Unachukwu from Nnewi, Anambra State, was taken to jail to face two criminal charges with the kitchen-knife weapon of choice as evidence exhibit!

In Los Angeles California it was reported that a Nigerian RN wife was brutally murdered by her husband. The viciousness of the attack was such that the man eventually tied the dead body of his wife to his truck and dragged her dead body through the roads and streets of Southern California until her skull gave up its cranial contents. He was eventually arrested, charged, tried and convicted for first degree murder with special circumstance which carries the death penalty! He is presently awaiting a date with the lethal injection in a cold segregated death-row prison cell!

Only recently, one Nigeria RN woman living in Dallas Texas had this to write on the Internet about her fellow estranged Nigerian husband:-
“I have been married to Mr. X (real name excluded by Icheoku as we do not want to be a purveyor of this domestic madness) for 20years, and had five children for him. I was married to him at the age of 18years, and joined him in Dallas from Nigeria after my high school. For those 20years of marriage which can pass for 20years of bondage and slavery, I have had to endure constant physical abuse, verbal abuse, and emotional abuse and mental torture in the hands of Mr. X. I am asking whosoever that reads my story to please send it out to as many forums as they have access to. Silence they say is golden. But if you are dealing with a mad, sad, disgruntled man like Benjamin X, silence will no longer be golden”.
And what could have driven a Nigerian wife to write such an unflattering “oration” about her husband, one would ask? The answer depends on who you ask. Is this couple close to the finish line?
Similarly, in Grand Prairie, Dallas, Texas, Mrs. Monireti Abeni Akeredolu, (pictured below in her wedding with her killer-husband) a 46-year old Registered Nurse from Ondo State Nigeria met her untimely death in the hands of her estranged husband, Mr. Ebenezer Akeredolu, Sr., 48. According to the story, Mr. Akeredolu drove several hundred miles from Georgia (where he had moved to nurse his pains at loosing everything he had worked so hard for since coming to the United States several decades ago) to Dallas and pumped several bullets into his ex-wife in day light, with so many people watching the macabre spectacle. Mrs. Monireti died slumped in the wheels of her SUV enroute to a birthday party in her honor – she had just turned 46 a day before on September 7, 2005.

Not too long ago, also, on August 10, 2005 in Euless, a suburb of Dallas, another frustrated Nigerian husband, 45-year old Johnny Omorogieva from Edo State, Nigeria murdered his RN wife, Mrs. Isatu Omorogieva, 35, also of Edo State by savagely striking her on the head numerous times with a hammer in the full view of their 7-year old screaming daughter.

In Tulsa, Oklahoma a yet to be fully authenticated report has it that another Nigerian man recently bludgeoned his RN wife to death while she was fast asleep; following a traumatic life which she has subjected him to since turning into the majority bread winner of the family following her graduating from a nursing program.

Another Nigerian nut-case, Mr. John Onwuka (pictured here right in his orange prison jumpsuit) 49, from Akwete community of Ohafia Bende Local Government Area of Abia State was charged with one count each of homicide and use of a knife in the commission of a felony. He stabbed his RN wife of twenty five years, Mrs Gloria Uchechi Anya Onwuka age 42, fourteen times in her bedroom while she was getting ready to go to work. She was a nurse manager. Mr. John Onwuka committed this crime on the night of Saturday August 19, 2006 at the home of his wife in Estate Drive, Farmington, Hampton, Virginia with her children watching him act out his gory insanity.

"Yes I have killed the woman that messed my life up! A woman that had destroyed me. I am at Shalom West, my name is Michael and am all yours". With those words - a 911 call placed to the authorities, another Nigeria man has joined the infamous heinous club of Nigerian Men Wife Killers. Fifty year old Mr. Michael Collins Iheme (pictured here left) of Hennepin Minnesota placed the call above few minutes after shooting his twenty eight year old wife, Mrs. Anthonia Eberechi iheme, the mother of his 4 year old boy and 3 year old girl, to death. What is wrong with this crazed out Nigeria man was that he lacked the stomach to take all the bullshit he was forced to take by a typical Nigerian "Nurse" wife. However in as much as Icheoku does not condone such misbehaviour of taking the life of another, these Nigeria men who marry "fedexed" wives should better watch it as what they bargained for might not necessarily always come to fruition. There is no need travelling to Africa to find a wife - if it is akaata, filpino. latina mamacita, oke-bekee or even chinese that loves you, please settle down with such a person. Your love for foofoo and egusi soup is not enough to trade your happiness and possibly freedom when they make you do the unthinkable like our Mr. Micahel Collins Iheme and crew.

It has happened again! Another Nigerian lunatic kills his wife. Mr LeKan Fawmi, pictured here right in glasses, just received a 20 year prison sentence for killing his wife Ebonetess. The couple lived at Burcale Road, Conway, Horry County, South Carolina. His weapon of choice, a kitchen knife with which he stabbed his wife, mother of his one year old son, fifteen times in the neck; left her to bleed to death in their residence before escaping to the bush where he was later caught.

For the records, it would appear that majority of these uxoricides occurred in Dallas, Texas! Leading to the question, whuz up Dallas? Is there any maniacal peculiarity with Nigerian men living in Dallas? Further, most of the victims were Registered Nurses which forces one to ask is the "war over the purse" of who controls this their "legendary treasure trove" enough reason to commit the most heinous of all crimes? Also the number of such homicides is rather astronomical judging the sanctity of life-environment from which majority of these homicidal maniacs come from back in Nigeria. Admitted, that it is dreadfully wrong and also a sacrilege for anyone to take the life of another, especially if that other was a spouse; but what could be the driving factor of this senseless exhibition of ravenous rage by some frustrated Nigerian men in the United States of America? This question is imperative because there are other more acceptable options available for getting out of a hellish marriage including just getting up and leaving; mutual separation; taking a second wife just like the Mormons of Texas, Utah and Nevada; becoming a bachelor once again; keeping a girl friend outside your so called matrimonial home or the penultimate divorce instead of committing the mother of all crimes - taking the life of another! Nothing is worth it! Does the underlying problem defy every solution imaginable? NO! Take a deep breath and consider other options including the almighty walking-out! Nothing is worth the trouble! Not all the diamonds in South Africa and/or gold in Fort Knox! The "mansion" which you are fighting for, you did not bring it with you to America? The SUV or Mercedes car that is making you to loose your head, the manufacturing plant in Stuttgart Germany has not yet closed shop! In your convoluted suspicion that your wife is sleeping around because she dresses well, ask yourself, where is the foundational trust of your relationship and at worst, were you the first man in her life? Did you break her virginity and why do you think it is either you with her or nobody at all, that you will rather have her dead than loose her to someone else? Have you also tried getting professional counseling or earnestly engaging your wife in an open discussion to find out what you may be doing wrong and make amends where necessary. Have you tried temporary separation for a cool-off period? At worst get an amicable divorce so that you guys can remain friends for the benefit of the children! Before you write that check which you cannot cash, please stop and ask yourself, before you met her did you not have any life? It is not worth it! Learn to move on; as around the next corner may be lurking your real wife of “Christian marriage” who will really cherish and love you for who you are! Your wife's leaving you is not the end of the world as we know it! As the popular aphorism goes, "when one door closes another one is open down the road". Nothing is worth the taking of life and not that of a spouse who also is a Nigerian! PLEASE GET A LIFE!

NIGER DELTA MILITANTS, BRAVO!

It is very arrogant for the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) to be discarding the noble efforts of the Niger Delta Freedom Fighters as mere miscreants' misbehavior. These patriotic freedom fighters are struggling to emancipate themselves and their people from the shackles of the Arewa group who have held Nigeria in a strangle-hold since her independence in 1960. The Niger Deltans' effort must therefore be commended instead of all the hot air being blown by these Nigeria desert dwellers, who have arrogated to themselves the perpetual leadership of Nigeria. The Niger Deltans' effort must be respected by all as both genuine, desirable and very patriotic. The Arewa Consultative Forum should tread very carefully as any misjudgment on their part might be the trigger needed to forever chase them out of their age-long parasitic relationship with Nigeria. Enough should now be enough! The ACF's bluff must be called and now is the time! How dare these Northern mallams, who have been siphoning what does not belong to them, blame the rightful owners of the wealth for agitating for fairness and asking for what is theirs? Only a thief can do this and that is exactly what these cattle-rearers have turned into within the Nigeria polity. They are leeches who contribute nothing practically to the GDP of Nigeria; yet they arrogate themselves the lord of the manor status in Nigeria and expect every other person to only ask, how high when told to jump.

The ACF through their minion, midget Sani Abacha killed Ken Saro Wiwa for protesting the injustice being perpetrated by Northern Nigeria elites on the peoples of Niger Delta area. This time, it will not happen, as the sleeping Deltans have woken up from their slumber to ask for what is rightfully theirs. How can a brute like Theophilus Danjuma from Taraba State in the North own oil wells and blocs worth over $3billion dollars in the Niger Delta; yet all the Okumagbas, Briggs, Pepples, Wiwas etc natural Niger Deltans own nothing of their oil wells and/or blocs? Yet this oil is located in the Niger Delta? Icheoku calls on every right thinking Nigerian especially from the South to support the efforts of the Niger Delta Freedom Fighters to secure their independence from these Northern oligarchs once and for all. If it means total activism, so be it; why would a group appropriate all that is profitable just for themselves only and pretend the rest will not mind. It is crazy and it is hogwash. Niger Delta is likely the tinder that will set Nigeria ablaze, if not properly handled both professionally and rationally. Enough of this injustice being perpetrated by these Hausa/Fulani ruling group. Were the situation to reverse, these mullahs will not tolerate the South as a leech like they have been doing all these years of Nigeria's existence? Imagine the chairman of the ACF, Mr. Ibrahim Haruna, calling on the Federal Government to "deal seriously with the situation". Insisting that the militants are "mere miscreants," and that the government "should not go into any form of negotiation with them". If this is not arrogance, nothing else qualifies for that acronym. Icheoku says that it is the Northerners including this sicko, Ibrahim Haruna, that are the miscreants who need to be dealt with in Nigeria and ruthlessly too. In their desire to hide their evil acts from the international community, Mr. Ibrahim Haruna of the ACF is urging that "there was no need to internationalize the issue since it is a domestic matter". And what domesticity are we talking about, Mr. Haruna? Please give the Niger Delta Freedom Fighters a break, Mr. Ibrahim Haruna! Haba aboki? Walahi; Menini banaso kai!

In their very own words, Arewa Consultative Forum noted the grief, the pains and the hardship associated with environmental degradation from oil exploration without commensurate efforts at mitigating such suffering in the past in the Niger Delta. Then a natural flowing concomitant question there-from is, who constituted these past governments that have neglected the Niger Delta all these several decades? The answer is the ACF controlled governments of Tafawa Balewa, Yakubu Gowon, Murtala Mohammed, Shehu Shagari, Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Babangida, Sani Abacha, Abdulsalam Abubarkar and now the current sickly Umaru Yaradua. To make matters worse, the ACF has now purportedly appointed one of their own, Professor Ibrahim Gambari to head a government mediation conference between them and the Niger Delta Freedom Fighters and you ask yourself, how can this man be an impartial arbiter? This is the same Gambari from the North, who has been described as evil by the Niger Deltans because he called their hero, Ken Saro-Wiwa and others 'common criminals' before the international community in order to impress his master and cruel despot, the late General Sani Abacha. How can you be a judge in a case involving you? Why can't the ACF controlled federal government appoint an unbiased third party who has no dog in the fight, like Chief Emeka Ayaoku, ex-Commonwealth Secretary General of Igbo extraction or a Yoruba diplomat or any other person from the minority uninterested third party tribe to chair the peace conference between them and the Niger Delta Freedom Fighters? It shows that the ACF controlled federal government is not serious in their quest for a peaceful resolution of the raging conflict. Niger Delta should therefore follow through with their boycott and shun the so called Ibrahim Gambari's peace conference.

If it means total denial of access to the oil so be it, barring any equitable resolution of the conflict. As was recently decreed by the Joint Revolutionary Council of the Niger Delta, "as from next year's anniversary celebration of Late Isaac Adaka Boro, one of our heroes, there may be no more oil production in entire Ijaw territory! We will move our aged people unto production platforms for permanent residence. Women and children will take over rig sites and other offshore infrastructure. Unemployed youths will be moved into office spaces of oil companies. Unrest is not just a state of the mind. It is a course of action! No one will be allowed to take our oil without our permission anymore. Our blessing will not be allowed to be our curse”. However to achieve their objective the Niger Deltans must stay united as a house divided is bound to fall and this is the cardinal objective of ACF. ACF will do whatever it takes to infuse cracks in the foundation of the Niger Delta Freedom Fighters and certain utterances from some of the groups constituting the resistance is suggestive that their foundation is already shaking. MEND's Jomo Gbomo now speaks like he has been compromised by disassociating itself from the JRC and its actions; insisting that the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) is in no way affiliated with the JRC and they cannot act or take decisions on their behalf such as revoking the ceasefire they declared.

JRC said its combatants are prepared to confront the military where necessary as was witnessed a few days ago in the Bonga oil field and said the goal is to achieve self-determination for the region. To this objective, Icheoku says a loud AMEN! Continuing, JRC said, “given the insincere nature of the Nigerian state, self-determination remains our ultimate goal. The Ijaw and Niger Delta territory is bigger in geographical size than Kuwait or Kosovo. We will reward the countries and nation states that assist our struggle. We will guarantee them good access to the oil and gas resources at the appointed time. This is the time for them to sow seeds. We can strike anywhere in the Niger-Delta and there is no barrier whatsoever for us in the creeks of Niger-Delta, which is our homeland. Nowhere is unreachable to us”. Icheoku commends this audacity of statement and says if it is true, they should let the ball roll. Icheoku heretofore declare her unflinching support for the freedom activities of the Niger Deltans and affirms that anything short of equitable resolution of the age-long injustice in the Niger Delta should continue meeting the present resistance and much more! Aluta Continua!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NELSON MANDELA!

The father of Africa Liberation struggle, Mr. Nelson Mandela turned 90years recently. What a milestone! Ironically the British which colluded with then apartheid South Africa to steal the prime 27years of this man's life, by putting him away in Robin Island prison for his liberation struggles, is today celebrating his 90th birthday. Even the United States of America declared him a terrorist and placed him and his fellow ANC compatriots on their terrorist watch list which they just recently lifted to mark his 90th birthday. (see comment). They never gave him a chance but the rest is now history as they turned Nelson Mandela into a world hero! Nelson Mandela himself has forgiven all the apartheid operators, so Icheoku will follow suit and look at the glass half full instead. Icheoku therefore wishes Nelson Mandela the best of his golden years and pray that the African continent can raise some more Mandelas. Happy birthday, Nelson Mandela! See who is now laughing at the ignoble of the apartheid era! Maybe a case of he who laughs last? Grandpa of Africa, Icheoku appreciates you dearly. Happy 90th!

NIGERIANS EXECUTED!

Indonesia executed two Nigerian drug smugglers Fri, 06/27/2008; 10:06 AM

The Jakarta Post is reporting that two Nigerians convicted of smuggling illegal drugs were executed Thursday night near the Nusa Kambangan island prison in Cilacap, Central Java, a prosecutor was quoted by Kompas.com news portal as saying. Samuel Okoye, 37, and Hansen Nwaolisa, 40, were arrested at Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in 2001, each carrying more than 6.5 pounds (three kilograms) of heroin. They had been held at the high-security prison since their conviction. Earlier in the day, Attorney General Hendarman Supandji said the two Nigerians would face a firing squad "tonight". Television footage showed the wives and children of the convicts being escorted to the island, along with ambulances carrying two coffins.

It should be noted that one of these men, Mr. Nwaolisa was to be paid a paltry one thousand five hundred dollars ($1500dollars USD) only for his services and now Icheoku wonders if his life was just worth only such a meagre sum? Could this be a result of hardship that force people to go to such extent to survive or was it just an attempt to "kill dead body"? For whatever the reason, the amount does not fit the life that was shot away by Indonesian firing squad!

TRANSITION OF MARY JANE OGBULI

MARY JANE OGBULI

( NWACHINAEMELU )

It is with great sadness that we announce the transition of our dear sister who passed to the world beyond on May 29th, 2008 at Emmanuel Medical Care Center, Turlock, California, United States of America. Mary Jane was from the Family of Akunne Aniemeka Ogbuli of Ogboli-Eke Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria. Mary Jane was a darling sister of Onitsha-Ado Community of Northern California, USA and will be greatly missed by our community. Onitsha-Ado community of Northern California USA has suffered an irreparable loss with her demise.

Funeral Arrangement

Body leaves for Nigeria during the First week of July.

Signed

Onitsha-Ado Community of Northern California, USA!

BEHOLD THE FACE OF A JEZEBEL!

You are looking at the millionaire who inflicted several years of abuse on two Indonesian housekeepers, held as virtual slaves in her Long Island New York mansion, who received an 11-year prison sentence for her crimes. Varsha Sabhnani, 46, was convicted with her husband in December on a 12-count federal indictment that included forced labor, conspiracy, involuntary servitude and harboring aliens. The trial provided a glimpse into a growing U.S. problem of domestic workers exploited in slave-like conditions.

The victims testified that they were beaten with brooms and umbrellas, slashed with knives, and forced to climb stairs and take freezing showers as punishment. U.S. District Court Judge Arthur Spatt called the testimony "eye-opening, to say the least -- that things like that go on in our country." "In her arrogance, she treated Samirah and Enung as less than people," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Demetri Jones. "Justice for the victims: That's what the government is asking for." Federal sentencing guidelines had recommended a range of 12 to 15 years in prison for Sabhnani, who was identified as the one who inflicted the abuse. In addition to prison, she will serve three years probation and pay a $25,000 fine. "I just want to say that I love my children very much," the defendant told the court as two of her grown children looked on. "I was brought to this earth to help people who are in need."

Mahender Sabhnani, 51, who is free on bail while awaiting his own Friday sentencing, wept as he watched his wife's punishment pronounced. He was charged with the same crimes because he allowed the conduct to take place and benefited from the work the women performed in his home, prosecutors said. He is expected to receive a much shorter prison term. Prosecutors contended the accusations amounted to a "modern-day slavery" case. They said the maids were subjected to "punishment that escalated into a cruel form of torture," which ended in May 2007, when one of the women fled in the early morning hours of Mother's Day. She wandered into a Dunkin' Donuts wearing nothing but rags and employees called police.

"This did not happen in the 1800s," Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Lesko said during the trial. "This happened in the 21st century. This happened in Muttontown, New York." The women, whose relatives in Indonesia were paid about $100 a month -- they received no cash-- said they were tortured and beaten for misdeeds that included sleeping late or stealing food from trash bins because they were poorly fed. Both women also said they were forced to sleep on mats in the kitchen. Spatt postponed a decision on the amount of back wages owed to the women. Prosecutors suggested the women were due more than $1.1 million, while defense attorneys said the figure should be much lower. The couple also face fines and could be forced to forfeit their home, which is valued at almost $2 million. Mahender Sabhnani ran a lucrative international perfume business out of a home office there. The victims said they were beaten with brooms and umbrellas, slashed with knives, forced to climb stairs and take freezing cold showers as punishment for various misdeeds. One victim was forced to eat dozens of chili peppers against her will, and then was forced to eat her own vomit when she couldn't keep the peppers down, prosecutors said. One of the women arrived in the Sabhnanis' Muttontown home in 2002; the second came in 2005. Their passports and other travel documents were immediately confiscated by the Sabhnanis, the women testified.

The defense, which intends to appeal, contended the two women concocted the story as a way of escaping the house for more lucrative opportunities. They also argued the housekeepers practiced witchcraft and may have abused themselves as part of a self-mutilation ritual. Defense attorney Jeffrey Hoffman said 175 letters were submitted to the court detailing Sabhnani's charitable acts around the world. He called her "a woman who spent a lifetime doing good deeds." Hoffman said that around 2004 or 2005, Sabhnani's weight plummeted from 325 pounds to 135. "She did it by starving herself," and that resulted in a chemical imbalance and significant malnourishment. "She had become a very different person." "I think it's very harsh," Hoffman said after the sentencing. "She has suffered dramatically."