Tuesday, January 5, 2010
CHRISTMAS DAY DIAPER-BOMBER, ARREST THE SENIOR MUTALLAB TOO!
It is either the father with the family was fully detached from their terrorist-son or they were totally and completely disinterested in all his activities. Remember terrorist Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab had earlier complained bitterly about being lonely in this wide world? Any parent who while still maintaining a close relationship with a 23 year old terrorist-son, sponsoring and providing him with more money than he reasonably needed, and allegedly 'not knowing the where-about of that son' while continuously still making available to him, more funds, is not telling the world the whole truth and all that they really knew about that son. If the son was not reachable, why did the elder Mutallab not close his bank accounts to force him to return home to seek further financial aid, assistance and support directly from him? If his son became so radicalized, at what point did he become aware of it, to have reported it to the authorities in the last six months? It is our conclusion that the elder Mutallab is not telling the whole truth and should be taken in upon arrival in the US for further questioning and interrogation. Whatever questioning he probably went through in Nigeria cannot be detailed enough because of who he is, as deference to him will be uppermost in the minds of his interrogators there in Nigeria, to get at the meat in the bone. But unlike in the United Sates where his status will not necessarily be of an over-riding importance and of much influence, he will likely be more cooperative with his interrogators here. Therefore, Icheoku urges that the senior Alhaji Dr. Umaru Mutallab be arrested for further questioning, upon his forthcoming entering in the United States of America to witness his son's terrorism trial. Only his arrest and interrogation in America, a land that will not be intimidated by his status, will really bring out all that he possibly knows and force him to speak up truthfully and in full about his complicity in his terrorist-son's crime against the people of America. Further the veracity of the Nigerian Information Minister Dora Akunyili that terrorist Umar Farouk Mutallab spent only 27 minutes in Nigeria on transit from Ghana to Amsterdam to Detroit is somewhat suspect in view of known aviation practices and requirements. Now the Nigerian airports authorities have come forward to debunk such a wide-eyed claim by Dora Akunyili as being ridiculous. According to them, "Akunyili's statement shows that she is ignorant of airport procedures, as they would never have permitted anyone arriving on an airline from Accra, Ghana or anywhere else, to board an international bound flight within such short period of his arrival at the airport - 27minutes? Continuing, "under current practice, most passengers traveling outside Nigeria are required to arrive at the airport several hours before departure. A KLM staff also said that their check-in counter usually closes about one hour before departure to enable passenger go through airport checks and screening before boarding." So Icheoku asks, in view of these established facts, how credible then was Dora Akunyili's claim that terrorist Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab spent only 27 minutes at Murtala Mohammed Airport in Lagos before departing to Detroit via Amsterdam? It is either she is deliberately covering up for another Nigeria's lapse or for the senior Mutallab or something else; but this her tales by the moonlight is not adding up. This is an angle the American authorities should probe further to reconcile this disparity in narrative, and why terrorist Umar Farouk was 'specifically' allowed to board a plane out of Nigeria within just only 27 minutes of his arrival? The convoluted story of terrorist Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab becomes more complicated with the civil aviation authorities in Ghana now denying the claims that Farouk stayed in Ghana before he surfaced in Lagos for that journey of infamy to Detroit through Amsterdam. Therefore, where was this son of a bitch hibernating between December 7th 2009 when he left Yemen through Ethiopia to December 24 when he left Nigeria for United States of America's Detroit via Amsterdam. It can only be with his parents/family or he was holed up in a hotel somewhere with his father's provided funds. Icheoku believes that with proper interrogation of the elder Mutallab that the truth will certainly come out and hence our advocacy that he be arrested upon arrival in the United States for his son's coming terrorism trial. Somebody is not telling the whole truth here, not the Nigerian authorities, not the elder Mutallab and not anyone connected with this saga so far. We have earlier advocated for the firing of the American ambassador to Nigeria for not cancelling the visa of this terrorist upon being alerted by his father of his changed behavior and terrorist tendencies! According to available reports, the Mutallab clan will soon be heading to the United States to be with their terrorist-son, in solidarity, during his trial? Icheoku wonders why they have not since denounced and disowned him for what he did, assuming they are truly innocent and ashamed of what he did? Why would they come to support a terrorist if they are not in denial or believe that their son did not do what he is accused of doing? The only explanation is that they do not really feel that attempting to blow up an American airline over Detroit is a sufficient terrorist act; otherwise why is the associated shame and odium not enough to keep them far away from his trial and in hiding in some remote place in Funtua, Kastina sharia Northern Nigeria? The theory of parent's love for a child does not fly with Icheoku as they allowed their son to grow into the monster he became and could not account for his where-about several months before the terrorist incident. So, what parent's love for a child are we talking about with these Mutallabs shamelessly coming to Detroit to witness their son's trial for his attempted terrorist incident of blowing up a United States airliner? The simple solution, arrest them upon arrival and make them yield whatever information they may be withholding from the authorities. Our position is that if a driver of a terrorist could be arrested for the acts of his master, why not arrest the father of a terrorist for providing financial support for his terrorist son? It is the right thing to do and any other thing short of his arrest and interrogation here in the United States will not favor the war on terrorism. The elder Mutallab is by necessary implication a sponsor of terrorism and should be held to account for his commission or omission with regard to his son's terrorist act of December 25, 2009. It is a widely known fact that sharia Northern Nigeria, the birthplace of the Mutallabs, is a region of Nigeria with phenomenal growth of radical Muslim extremism, terrorism and bloody violence which manifests regularly as religious riots and continuing till this day. If according to the tale being told by the elder Mutallab that the where-about of his son was unknown to him and that "his son hadn't lived in London for some time and that he wasn't sure exactly where he went to after London", Icheoku asks at what point did he know of these facts and what did he do about that? He allegedly reported his son's disappearing act six months prior to his terrorism act, but are there proof of this his reportage; and why didn't the elder Mutallab address a world press conference in addition to solicit everyone to help him wrangle in his now fully grown terrorist-son before the damage of December 25? The recalling question is, after the alleged report he made, what other necessary steps were taken by him to prevent and forestall the haranguing December 25 near miss over Detroit, United States of America. These are some of the issues that need some further clarification and only his arrest and interrogation in America can yield the desired answers; therefore Icheoku says, let Dr. Umaru Mutallab be arrested upon his arrival in the United States of America for interrogation! This piece was written in collaboration with Jules Chuku.
Monday, January 4, 2010
"COUNTRIES OF INTEREST", NIGERIA NOW OFFICIALLY A TERRORIST STATE?

Friday, January 1, 2010
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010, HURRAY!

Signed: Icheoku Ebekuo J.M.A.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
DORA AKUNYILI, A SLY MEGAPHONE OF A 'TERRORIST' COUNTRY IN DENIAL?

Wednesday, December 30, 2009
UNDERWEAR BOMBER, THE NORTHERN NIGERIA TERRORIST UMAR MUTALLAB!



Tuesday, December 29, 2009
NIGERIAN HAUSA-FULANI TERRORISM, NOW GONE INTERNATIONAL!





Icheoku condemns a certain commentator's attempt at rationalising or trying to explain the inexplicable that was December 25, 2009 that because al-Queda is a global scourge, with cells embedded not only in Islamic nations but also in such liberal democracies as Britain, Denmark, Canada an

Icheoku agrees intoto and completely with another commentator that the Nigerian state helped create terrorist Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab for their continuous and subsisting yielding and tacitly supporting of such crazed-out Muslim fanatics in Northern Nigeria like terrorist Mutallab who continuously shed bloods of innocents without ever being prosecuted or held accountable for their at

Monday, December 28, 2009
MARYAM BABANGIDA'S DEATH, ANY LESSON FOR NIGERIAN LEADERS?

According to sources, Maryam died early hours of Sunday December 27, 2009 at the hospital where she was receiving treatment for the past three months; with her husband and children by her side for their final goodbyes! Her funeral as being planned by her family, will commence as soon as her remains is flown back to Nigeria. She is survived by a husband Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida and children Mohammed, Aminu, Aisha, and Halima. A native of Ogbeogo, Umuonaje Quarters, Asaba in present day Delta State, Nigeria the late Maryam Ndidamaka Babangida (Nee Okogwu), met and married then Major Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida of Minna Niger State in 1969; and commendably remained married to him until her death did them apart. Kudos to her husband, despite being a Muslim of great wealth, he remained loyal to his wife in a monogamous marriage as far as kept records are concerned; but whether he kept a harem of mistresses and concubines, Icheoku does not know! However, this apparent fidelity alone, does not forgive his numerous sins. Between them, they have four children. Maryam Babangida will be remembered mostly for her pet-project, the 'Better Life for Rural Women programme' which 'touched' the lives of many rural women throughout the nooks and crannies of Nigeria? According to one of her admirer, commenting on the programme, "the Better Life for Rural Women certainly brought the issue of women to the forefront in a dramatic way. People, for once, became more sensitive to some of the issues concerning women." Another said, "she devoted her life to the emancipation of the womenfolk while she imbued her office with grace that radiated far and wide." Maryam Babangida was also credited for influencing the choice of Asaba as the capital of Delta State, which state was created by her husband during his hijack of Nigeria as a military junta head of state? Icheoku says, may her soul now answer for the misdeeds of her husband to which she was privy and overtly or tacitly supported while she lived; especially those infra-digs they committed while in power. Dele Giwa, Gloria Okon, Mamman Vasta, Gideon Orka and crew, Ejigbo plane disaster, MKO Abiola's presidential election victory June 12th annulment, $12billion dollars Iraqi oil windfall and also the gift of draconian Sani Abacha to Nigeria, a midget despot who Babangida purposely left un-retired and who unleashed unquantifiable killer-venom on the people of Nigeria particularly the South-West? Like all mortals, the once all powerful Nigerian First Lady of yesterday has now given up the ghost and joined the list of soon to be forgotten once lived pieces of humanity? Any lesson whatsoever? For death, it does not matter that her husband helped himself enormously from the treasury of Nigeria and would have bought her health, cajoled, outfoxed or even bribed or lobbied to have her life spared; but no, Mister Death has no price, cannot be lobbied or bribed; and it does not matter that the Babangida family is reputed to be one of the richest former first family out of Africa, having stolen their heart's delight while in power? It was time-up and off she went with clenched mouth and fist and not with even a single dime out of this world? Any lesson Nigerian leaders?
As a first lady, Maryam charmed many Nigerians and exuded such elegance that her outward personality became very captivating to many if not most? But Icheoku cannot and could not vouch for her internals or whatever laid behind the fanciful facade; but for having steadfastly stood by an acclaimed 'evil genius' of a husband, whose reputed meanness was such that he killed his best-man based on a phantom coup, makes one to wonder if she was indeed a Lady Macbeth? Did she have a heart of cold steel within her palatable outward appearance not to dissuade her menacing killer-husband from carrying out all the rampages witnessed while he was in office? Who knows, but since a dead cannot hold court to defend herself, we are prepared to move on. Like many Nigerian high-ups, Maryam Ndidamaka Babangida also died in a foreign hospital bed in far away United States of America! Whether her ghost will be able to find its way back to Minna from far away America is inconclusive, since city of angels, Los Angeles, is reputed to have so many lost and confused strange phenoms walking the streets which have lost contact with their bodies? If only these men and women of power in Nigeria know how insulting it is for the country for their bodies to be flown in as cargoes from different parts of the world for burial in Nigeria; dying in strange lands, among strange doctors and nurses who do not really know who they are and could care less, but are mostly interested in the bills and charges collectable from these health-tourists 'bigwigs' out of Africa, cash cows of some sort? If only they know, they would have done something to change the comatose health-care and facilities in their countries? Imagine a viable and thriving African hospital, where they would ordinarily be extra-ordinarily pampered, nursed, nurtured, loved, revered, respected and cared for with all imaginable tender loving care; which level of affectionate care they can never receive in a foreign hospital among strangers in a strange land. Strangers they always remain in these foreign hospitals where they are sometimes looked down upon as black Africans with an accent, who must have stolen so much money from their people, so why not collect some of the loot? Some of these export-patients are even sometimes too timid and intimidated by the presence of White-people everywhere they go that they fail to fully articulate their thought to express their needs fully for fear of being talked back to in a way not befitting of their useless status? As leaders they failed, neglected and/or refused to develop their country's health care facilities and only concerned themselves with looting enough from their country's treasury to pay for such expensive overseas hospital stays whenever the need arises, including eventual death, from where they are shipped in for burial in cold and stuffy cargo bays of airplanes. Whatever happened to the dignity of one dying among ones own people, in his or her mother/father-land, surrounded by loving countrymen and medical personnel; which necessarily brings with it the right to refuse an autopsy and have your remains be buried intact, full and complete; and upon the time and manner of your choosing without the necessity to comply with several funeral and human-remains disposal codes and regulations, which are sometimes overwhelming for exotic health-tourists and outside their control, authority and influence? Nigerian leaders please change your ways and start thinking big and broad and into the future. Stop being very parochial and self-centered with your policies; instead pursue projects that will enable you to leave your imprint in the sand of time. Say to yourself today, I will not die in a foreign hospital bed but will help to develop a first-rate hospital in my country comparable to any in the world, where Nigerians including myself can receive a par-excellent medical treatment and eventually die with dignity among my people. It is doable and can be done, just be patriotic enough to stand up and be counted and say no to the cheapen health tourism! JUST DO IT! Approximating Maryam's hospital bills and charges for the three months she was hospitalised without any health insurance; at about $510,000 for a ten days stay, her gross total cost of hospitalisation might be in excess of $4.5 million dollars? Enough to build a cottage hospital in rural Asaba or Minna and possibly equip same? But these short-sighted leaders so called of Nigeria, including her former husband had opportunities to develop the health care system and facilities in Nigeria but choose not to; lest ordinary Nigerians will avail themselves of such services; and would readily scamper out to a foreign hospital anytime they have a medical need. Thankfully enough, the leveler Death does not care and will get you, no matter where you run to in search of a cure, once your time is up. It does not matter whether it was to a rat infested, under-funded and drug-less medical clinic in rural Minna or an elitist center of medical excellence in fancy Los Angeles, California USA? No matter your reputation or depth of pocket or how far away the search for a cure takes you or how highly priced your medical/health consultant is, once the clock is up you must yield because 'the inevitable is always inevitable.' And so soon thereafter, the medical examiner who does not give a damn whom you were, will be starring down your prostrate cadaver, lying down naked on a cold slab and with a pair of giant shears, will cut same open without a quiff of any sentiment. This is the fate of all mortals and their curse of morbidity and so was Maryam Babangida.
Once again Nigerians, especially the leaders so called, should learn their lesson with the death of Maryam Ndidamaka Babangida. It does not matter who or what you are, or how much you have neglected the people of Nigeria or how much you stole from them, when your time is up it is up. The only question that will remain will be, what legacy did you leave behind and ask yourself, would your death be celebrated as a good riddance because of your very high negatives with the people?

If the death of the former first lady teaches you one thing, let it be for you to use every God given opportunity to breath his free oxygen, to do good for humanity, your fellow travellers in this journey called life. That is the only thing one really has - good deeds, and which one can really take with him/her to the world beyond as evidence, while facing trial and subsequent judgment to account of one's days while here on earth. To the IBB grieving family, Icheoku says, take heart in your loss of a loved matriarch, what a lesson learnt! And to the chief mourner, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, please use whatever is left of your time here on earth to do some real introspection and ask yourself, was it worth it? Adieu Ada Asaba!
Sunday, December 27, 2009
A TERRORIST STATE, ANOTHER STIGMA NIGERIA CANNOT READILY AFFORD?


But how did northern Nigerian terrorist Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab manage undetected to get flammable powder and a syringe of chemicals aboard two international flights and across three continents of Africa, Europe and America? Icheoku can at
tempt an explanation with the Lagos Nigeria side, since being who he is, he could have probably be driven right inside the tarmac without going through all the 'inconveniences' of airport security checks and screening? But in Amsterdam, who knows what his joker was to get through the security, except his last name also meant something overthere at Schiphol; or he had accomplices facilitating his nefarious and clandestine passages? This in view of the kno
wn practice of re-screening transferring passengers from foreign flights at the Schiphol, before they are allowed to take off in subsequent connecting flights? So at least the security agencies have a working platform for their already well cut out job. Northern Nigerian terrorist Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab left Murtala Mohammed Airport in Lagos aboard a Boeing 777 KLM flight 588, at 11pm on Christmas Eve, arriving Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam at 5:37 a.m. on Christmas Day. After a 3hour lay-over he boarded an Airbus 330 Northwest/Delta Flight 253 to Detroit Metropolitan Airport
alongside other 278 passengers and 11 crew members. The rest is now history as alert and vigilant passengers thwarted his idiocy and murderous plot before he could cause us more harm and grief? Another demonstration of the harm the crassly incompetent Nigeria's Hausa-Fulani north is willing and able to do to a Nigeria in distress!



Like the terrorist incarnate Osama bin Laden, this northern Nigerian Fulani terrorist, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab comes from enormous wealth. His father, the senior Mutallab is a multi-billionaire erstwhile chairman of Nigeria's First Bank Plc and many other sundry Islamic banks and establishments. He is from Funtua, Katsina State and by necessary implication, a distant cousin of the Nigerian President in coma, Umaru Yar'Adua. He is also a mechanical engineering student or graduate at a London University College and enjoyed a life of very pampered upbringing? So what could have driven this northern Nigerian Fulani malam into becoming a murderous terrorist, who tried albeit unsuccessfully to cause Americans so much harm. Icheoku asks, what drove such a Fulani scion of Katsina State northern Nigeria into terrorism, despite the well-heeled silver-spoon of his birth and upbringing? The answer could be found in the teachings of an intolerant religion which preaches that all infidels deserve no place here on earth and that it is a merciful act of compassion to just kill them off in order to save them from eternal damnation? What a logic on its head, one may say; but not when you are one of these God-forsaken uncircumcised zealots who have visited Nigerians with so much internal economic and physical terrorism over the many years that Nigerians have been independent; making majority of them an internally colonized and subjugated people?
One derivative out of this nightmare on Christmas day is that all the security in the world could not stop this animal from boarding two airplanes, traveling undetected for 19 hours, crossing several international datelines and time zones; and through three continents? Technically speaking he had succeeded and completed his act of terrorism, having brought the bomb-making materials aboard two international planes including a third one that brought him back from Yemen to Nigeria. He had also finished mixing the chemicals and put the gadget containing it on operational mode and was in the process of exploding it when the good Lord used some vigilant and watchful passengers to stop him cold. The fire and smoke were a result of a process in motion? Once again, a case where common-sense vigilance trumped over all the billion dollar security gadgets and equipments; and proved a more effective policing tool? Of all the gifts of the season, all Nigeria got was another stain on its ever stinking image, becoming now also a terrorist state? Regrettably, another horrible case of the north giving the whole Nigeria a bad name?
Is it ok to suggests that it is about time cameras are installed in airplanes lavatories with some blurring privacy application so that whenever a passenger spends so much time inside or engages in activities outside the normal number one or number two, it will be spotted immediately? Thhis Fulani terrorist spent over twenty minutes inside the loo practising his other trade as a terrorist chemist? These homicidal terrorists are incapable of reasoning as their motivation is something out of the ordinary and above our earthly existence. Just ask yourself, how a mechanical engineer with such a pedigree could engage in such bloody venture; except that we have precedents in Osama bin Laden, Al-Zawahiri and their fellow death merchants. Icheoku asks, what else was this guy looking for in life except that his mind is so messed up by the corrupted version of teachings of his religion that ration flew out of the window of his head? Such is atypical of most northern Nigerian Hausa-Fulanis who lack adequate reason or rationality in their actions; - hijacking everything in Nigeria without regard or let to the needs of southerners, a major stakeholder in Nigeria Plc? Our recommended panacea, saturate northern Nigeria with psychologists and psychiatrists to help resolve their conflicted selves; their brains are wrongly and negatively wired, which sometimes make them so frustrated that they often act out in this insidious way? It is our firm belief that they could use some shrinks up there in northern Nigeria, definitely!
Icheoku also asserts that contrary to the claims of the Nigeria Federal government, it does not "abhor all forms of terrorism!" Southerners and Christians alike in Nigeria, have had to put up and endure series acts of northern Nigeria induced terrorism, over the many years since Nigeria's independence without the federal government actively and proactivey doing anything serious enough to permanently stem the tide and/or punish the main pillars and sponsors of these terrorisms? Boko Haram was terrorism? Kano riots was another one? Maitasine riots another one? So was Bauchi riots was a terrorist act? And Jos; Zaria, Zaky-zaky etc. The killing of Ken Saro Wiwa was an act of terrorism perpetrated by northerner Sani Abacha. Odi and Zaki-Ibaim massacre were terrorism? The Biafran genocide was terrorism of the highest order and leading to it was systematic and continuing visiting of terror on the Igbo people before Ojukwu provided ladership to say enough is enough! Therefore, tell Icheoku, Madam Re-branding Dora Akunyili how the Nigeria Federal government "abhors all forms of terrorism;" being preached now that those northerners have exposed Nigeria's dirty little open-secret darkside by exporting their domsetic terrorism overseas?


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