NAFISSATOU DIALLO, THE WOMAN DOMINIQUE STRAUSS-KAHN RAPED?

Nafiss pictured left and as she looked then in composite picture right below; and currently in the eye of the storm for allegedly being Monica Lewinsky-ied by a horny-dog Frenchman and former IMF boss named Dominique Strauss-Kahn. She is reportedly a former beauty queen in her native Guinea and was working as a janitor and hotel chambermaid in New York's swanky Hotel Sofitel, when she became famous or rather infamous to some for bringing down the head of the International Monetary Fund. She was violated by a randy and cheap Frenchman head of IMF, who was simply too stingy to pay for sex from a professional sex-provider and opportunistically stole by force what presented itself - a hotel cleaning lady? Icheoku says, provided the alleged is a fact, this guy deserves no mercy and should be shown none as he had all the money in the world to do an Elliot Spitzer or better still just jack-off; but he chose to rather violate an already down and under hotel cleaning woman and this man wanted to be president of France? 

According to the story, Dominique was in his $3000 a day hotel suite's bathroom, probably masturbating himself, when Nafiss came into his suite do her job - cleaning after such men's mess in hotel rooms and suites at Sofitel Hotel, Manhattan New York. Strangely enough, Dominique, not thinking through the consequences of the cliff-jump he was about to make and myopically concerned only about letting off, rushed out from the bathroom naked, exposing himself sexually to Nafiss. He forcibly and without Nafiss consent grabbed her boobs and buttocks as he drew her very close to his fully naked body with a full erect penile phallus? Nafiss broke free and tried to run away but Dominique put chase and in hot pursuit, caught up with her and forcibly trust his phallus inside her mouth wherein he ejaculated immediately. This speedy offloading of Dominique's seminal fluid was highly suggestive of a pervert who was in an advanced stage of masturbation in the bathroom when Nafiss entered his suite; and only cashed in on a presented victim who could have been anyone, to relief himself of his amorous heat of passion or should Icheoku say perversion. Dominique also ripped off Nafiss pantie-hose suggesting that he wanted a real and full penetration of the victims' vaginal recess but for the mother-luck which propelled Nafiss to an escape from Dominique's amorous advances.  

Icheoku says but for Dominique's semen which Nafiss spat out on the rug of the suite's floor, from which police obtained Dominique's DNA, maybe Dominique would still be denying that anything happened? But thankfully enough Nafiss did not swallow, being an amateur; and as a result, Dominique has since qualified and changed his story from the previous "nothing happened" to now "nothing happened that is illegal". Icheoku says there is never a smoke without fire and this French pervert is atypical of so many men and women of power who usually think they can get away with just anything, including violently molesting a hotel chambermaid as is the case with Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former IMF president. Luckily Nafiss is in the United States legally, she has her green card; so let the legal fireworks theatrics of sending away and for a long time, this French society's convulsion begin and begin in all earnest. Icheoku was earlier afraid for Nafiss being deported or outed on her stay in America as a result of this unfortunate incident but thankful she is legal. 

However now comes the heavy lifting for the prosecution as well as the victim-witness in chief - how do they answer to the question or claim that what happened was consensual? Icheoku while literally putting a defense lawyer's hat, would ask the following:- why was the cleaning of a $3000 per night Hotel Sofitel suite so urgent as to be timed to coincide with the very time an executive guest was having his shower or bath? What was the rush in getting this suite ready since the previous registered guest has not yet checked out or demanded for immediate room cleaning service or did he request for that? Secondly, when Nafis saw a naked and flabby Dominique approach why did she not make a dash for the door; afterall and according to her account, she had just entered the suite and so she was most likely still within a very close proximity to the entry or door way to make a quick exit and run from an advancing pervert? Now a none-consenting Nafiss waited there or was she transfixed there until Dominique traversed the distance from the bathroom door to where Nafiss was standing while watching him approach, to grab her boobs and buttocks? Where was her screaming protestation or slap on the cheek of Dominique as is common with women when resentful of a man's conduct or statement? 

Continuing her tale of victim-hood, Nafiss said she escaped or rather broke free of Dominique's choke-hold and still waited near enough or did not run away far enough for an out of his mind Dominique to catch-up with her and then dip his wee-wee into her mouth? Tell that to the marines otherwise where were her bite marks on Dominique's manhood in protest of a forced rendering of a blow-job? Many a girl or woman Icheoku know or have studied over the years would in a heartbeat bite off Dominique's pee-wee under the alleged circumstance; but none of that happened resulting in Dominique reaching an orgasm which presupposed that the mouthing lasted for some time, no matter how fleeting? Then the story gets better; after Dominique relieved himself, Nafiss still stood there and waited for him to start ripping out her pantie-hose? Icheoku says either this woman felt scorned after what consensually happened or she is bad at telling her story as the sequencing and time seems at odds with a scenario of such violated sexual dalliance or liaison? 

Concluding her inept story, Nafiss said she finally broke free and reported the encounter to the hotel's management; but the watching-world were not told if Nafiss was in tears when she came to make the report and whether her mood was rushed or calm; and the manner of making the report? Was Nafiss in control of her self and faculties as she narrated her ordeal in the hands of the rapist Frenchman which tells a great deal about her veracity, as people known to have been sexually molested or violated are always very frantic and hysteric. Did Nafiss follow procedure such as going through her supervisor who then took it upstairs; and before that did Nafiss confide in a friend, colleague, family or any other close pal and who advised her going to the management since the shame and ridicule would many a time persuade many women victims of rape to keep quite and pretend as if nothing happened? Was Nafiss aware or rather mindful when she made her complaint to management that the management might not take kindly to such negative publicity for the swanky hotel viz a viz the caliber of guest that doles out $3000 per night to keep them company and in business? For a person freshly raped, why did she not call 911 immediately but chose to follow procedure of first going to the management? Simply put, Icheoku thinks that the whole account of what transpired is too choreographed to be true - either it was a consensual encounter which bargain fell through or somebody is not stating the incident correctly. 

But that is by the way as Icheoku just decided to play the devil's advocate and momentarily wear the hat of Dominique's defense attorney Braffman. Now, does Icheoku support or in any way condone what happened, nope; as Icheoku hates any form of violence especially to women and children. Moreso sex is readily available and can also be purchased - just ask former New York State Governor and now CNN presenter Elliot Spitzer; so why rob a person what you can buy especially when you are the International Monetary Fund honcho? Icheoku does not get it and suggests that the defense lawyers should explore the insanity angle to their defense as Dominique probably had a momentary blackout and was reasoning through his anus to have embarked on this journey of infamy. Like the rest of the world, Icheoku will keep a date with the story of the trial of the Frenchman in New York, who instead of being a good ambassador to France decided to sexually violate an American resident and for this, Icheoku agrees that Dominique Strauss-Kahn should be sent away and for a long time; provided he committed the said crime. 

As a flip closing remark, Icheoku asks where is Oprah on this - showing her 'O' support for another woman victim of men's chauvinistic-tinged crime? Just asking, since Icheoku believes that Nafissatou Diallo could use some of the big 'O' help in this matter; not only for the sympathy and support of millions of women world-wide; but to help her with her with the jury eventual civil suit against a French pervert named Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Just one more thing, provided that Dominique will not now while on bail have the time and opportunity to commit suicide to avoid further humiliation, Icheoku believes Dominique Strauss-Kahn's bail was appropriate and the conditions/terms quite adequate. However Icheoku disagrees with his sympathizers in France and the New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg who are of the opinion that Dominique should not have been shown looking haggard and unkempt and in shackles; as according to them it is too sensational especially since he has not been proved guilty? Icheoku asks how about thousands of blacks and other minority crime suspects that are paraded daily in orange jumpsuits and leg-irons in addition to body shackles or is Dominique a superior criminal suspect to these other crime suspects? Icheoku does not just don't get it - such sympathy for a sexual molester; but since America nearly sent a president to prison for a sexual dalliance with an intern and it was consensual; a similarly situated Frenchman is toast, moreso when he allegedly took it without the consent of the victim. Just one quick and final thought, has the Frenchman yet registered as a sex molester or better still, rapist?

KATHY HOCHUL WIN, REPUBLICAN ATTEMPT TO END MEDICARE REJECTED!

 Icheoku says if the result of the special election held in a heavily conservative Republican Congressional District 26 in upstate New York near Buffalo is a testament of what awaits the Republican Party in 2012, then it is honky-dory for rationality. A Democrat, Kathy Hochul, won the district which has never gone any other party than the Republican Party for over 50 years thus sending a clear direct message to Paul Ryan and the Republicans that no one messes with Americans' Medicare! Re-echoing Kathy's thank you message, Icheoku says District 26 sent a strong message they believe in that medicare is a no go area when it comes to axing some projects to coral burgeoning government spending. Her election victory becomes so sweet as the Democrat not only trounced Republican Jane Corwin but also a Tea Party candidate Jack Davis; suggesting that the tire may have come off the wheel of the insurgent Tea Party? Icheoku says congratulations to congresswoman elect Kathy Hochul and the Democratic Party; and now lets welcome election 2012.

1967 BORDER LINES ARGUMENT, IS ISRAEL BEING SIMPLY DIFFICULT?

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has joined issues with American President Barack Obama by categorically rejecting the president latest road-map to peace. The president had called for the return to the 1967 border demarcations as a solution to lasting peace; while on the other hand Netanyahu flatly rejected it as being indefensible? Icheoku adds what is there to still defend when the president of the United States, in addition, have practically guaranteed the defense of Israel from any foreign attacks. 

Icheoku says looking at the condescending manner Netanyahu was looking at the president and how rudely he flatly rejected the president's proposition, it is possible that some members of US government are giving Netanyahu false hopes that Israel will prevail in the long run with having their way with this president as they have done with all previous ones. It is wrong negotiating conditions to make it my way or the highway for the other side. First Israel rejected a freeze on further construction of houses and expected Palestine to continue to negotiate? Now they also rejected another possible road out of the wood and expects Palestine to continue to negotiate? Icheoku asks, what does the Israelis really want Palestine to negotiate with, when themselves have remained obstinate to every suggested way out of an impossible quagmire bogging down the Middle East peace process. Icheoku regrets that such stringing out by the Israelis might lead to another return to insecurity of intafada and peradventure another all out war in the Middle East; especially now that the people have a voice on how they are governed with the Arab Spring currently underway and having lost their good friend Hosni Mubarak of Egypt? Icheoku says, please, please and please Israelis, the world wants you to be dead serious in preventing an implosion of the whole Middle East so negotiate you have to as those who make the peaceful impossible make the violent inevitable. Your security is guaranteed by America so what is the ruse about an indefensible 1967 border lines?

JOSH FERRIN, A BOUNTIFUL FIND AND A BOUNTIFUL ACT IN BOUNTIFUL UTAH!

In Bountiful Utah, a man, Josh Ferrin, found a bountiful - a $40,000-plus stash in an attic of a house he had just closed on, his first house ever; but decided not to keep it. According to the story, Mr Ferrin gave the money back to the previous owners children because the home's previous owner, Arnold Bangerter, who died last November and left the house to his children did not leave the money for him? In his own words, "I could imagine him (the previous owner) in his workshop. From time to time, he would carefully bundle up $100 with twine, climb up into his attic and put it into a box to save. And he didn't do that for me." Icheoku asks, how did this man know the intention of the previous owner which could have been to make a surprise anonymous bequeath to whoever takes possession of the house? How does this Mr. Ferrin know that the previous owner did not intend that the money should be used for the renovation of the run down house which he purchased probably in an auction; and for its upkeep? Lastly, how did Mr Ferrin known that the previous owner intended his children to inherit the money, otherwise why did he not disclose its existence to them before he died? 

What if the previous owner intended that the money be congruous to inheriting the house and that any of his children who takes possession of the house should automatically be the natural recipient of the money. Further that the money becomes a gift based on the happening of a condition subsequent of keeping the house in the family and that it should fail if his survivors decide to offload the family pride which he bought since 1966? Sometime it is just very difficult to impute intent on such deceased owner, who probably preferred a total stranger to inherit his stash than his biological children? Icheoku asks, does anyone even know whether the children were there for their old man when he needed them most to help him live out his natural life or were they the never-available children who never helped their mom and dad in their old age? But like Rumsfeld said, there are so many not knowns and so  many things we know that we don't know; so the very decisice intent of this previous owner regarding this money was interred with him when he died without disclosing its existence. Icheoku says, it was purely the magnanimity of Mr. Ferrin that these children got this stash.

Anyway, while Icheoku commends this saintly act of Mr. Ferrin; we are afraid that he will remain the artist he is and for a long time as he declined a fortune that smiled at him? Icheoku do not know about you; but many a person will jump for joy that mother-luck finally remembered to pay them a visit, since the house probably was sold and purchased "as is" including the right to all its contents? And funny enough, the son who received the cash from the finder (Icheoku thought that a finder keepth), never considered it conscionable enough on his part to give Mr Ferrin some of the money in appreciation of his good deed? May be he was not even close to his dad while he was alive and was glad that finally something dropped from that old man; and internally questioning the wisdom of Mr. Ferrin giving back what was ordinarily, rightfully his to keep. Icheoku hopes he also did not think Mr. Ferrin is an idiot for letting a fish in his hook go? Hopefully someday, this Mr Ferrin will win the lottery and Icheoku hopes he will not reject it or willingly, throw away the winning numbers' ticket. Just pulling your legs as this is what honesty really looks like - in the midst of less, a man barely getting by, gave up a bountiful; but only in Bountiful, Utah, United States of America! Way to go, Mr. Ferrin!

NATO SHOULD QUIT LYING ABOUT THEIR LIBYAN MISSION!

 

In explaining why NATO warplanes destroyed several Libyan naval and maritime assets, Rear Admiral Russell Harding, deputy head of the NATO-led air war on Libya said, "Given the escalating use of naval assets, NATO had no choice but to take decisive action to protect the civilian population of Libya and NATO forces at sea!" 

Icheoku retorts that it is about time the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation man up and tell the world why their mission in Libya is imperative and quit throwing up these "protection of civilians" excuses or are those civilians being killed in Syria not also civilians or civilian enough worthy of NATO's protection? It is also noteworthy that Libyan so called civilians are armed to the teeth with military grade assault weapons while Syrian civilians have no weapons at all? So Icheoku asks, as between Libyan civilians and Syrian civilians, who is more civilian? Anyway, what a world we live in that is full of the more you look the less you see; as the world is yet to definitively made to see or understand the rational behind NATO's double standards as it affect Libya and Syria situation.

CNN'S DON LEMON GAYNESS IS AN OPEN SECRET; SO WHAT IF HE IS CROOKED?

The last time Icheoku checked the opposite of straight is crooked and if any person is not conforming to society's accepted norms, he is said to have wandered off the reservation or better still crooked? CNN's Don Lemon has stepped out of the closet where he has been hiding all these years; except that people that know, knows that there is something girlie and gay-ly about the presenter? 

Icheoku says now that CNN presenter Don Lemon has braved it and emerged out of the closet to confirm what every observer has since suspected, when would the other suspected CNN anchorman Anderson Cooper also step forward to either rest the case or deny what is highly probable? Icheoku is not judgmental as to who anyone chooses to love or go to bed with; but just be straight about it and do not pretend otherwise or just tag along because society expects a particular behavior of you. While Icheoku congratulates Don Lemon for coming out, we hereby urge all other CNN "born this ways" to just stop the pretense and own up to who they truly are or prefer to love. America, we now have another Gay Nigger; except that he is not black enough if you get my drift!

TACTICAL BLUNDER AS BUHARI'S CPC SUSPENDS ALL ITS SOUTHERN OFFICERS!

Icheoku says when you think you have heard the last of the Islamist Muhammadu Buhari and his Northern Islamic Party, the Congress for Progressive Change, here comes another bombshell. The CPC has suspended all its South-South and South-East party chairmen and at a time it is before an election tribunal alleging that elections were massively rigged in those areas, and in favor of PDP's President Goodluck Jonathan. Icheoku says if really Muhammadu Buhari rose to the rank of a General on merit and not through Northern Nigeria gangsterism which protects its own, may be he should have known what a tactical blunder in out-flanking an enemy. Now the same party chairmen who would naturally be principal witnesses to his petition, since the matter arose from their states, are being suspended and you ask yourself at whose detriment but the CPC and its election petition. Were Buhari very smart, he should have known better and tolerated them through his petition.

AMERICA DID NOT HATE BIN LADEN? - GW BUSH.

In a manner reminiscent to the befuddle attempt by Sollozo to explain away to Michael why his side shot Don Corleone in the movie Godfather when he said, "what happened to your father was business;" former president GW Bush said the campaign to track down Al-Querida leader Osama Bin Laden was done not "out of hatred but to exact judgment!" Icheoku says any reason is good enough for taking out terrorist chief Bin Laden and the world can now peacefully move on without his sword of Damocles hanging on every one's neck any longer! It does not matter what the underlying reason was - whether out of hatred, revenge or simply just delivering an overdue judgment to him. What matters is that Osama Bin Laden is dead, killed by an American using an American gun and with an American bullet in retaliation for his perfidy of 9/11 on American soil and against Americans! What a good riddance of a bad rubbish, the killing of Osama Bin Laden really is.

SOUTHEAST IGBOS EARNED THE RIGHT TO THE SPEAKERSHIP!

Icheoku says the demand for the Speakership of the House of Representatives by the Southeast Igbos is right, fair and legitimate; and therefore none negotiable. The Igbos earned the right to the speakership by reason of their total, complete, unalloyed and overwhelming support for the PDP during the last election. So the Speakership, Igbos get; case closed! Icheoku reiterates that Igbos world-over are united in this demand and on it they stand; their stand is indivisible and indissoluble, period. Get it President Jonathan and the PDP?

DENIAL OF SPEAKERSHIP, IGBOS SHOULD DECAMP TO APGA IN PROTEST!

Icheoku says Southeast Igbos have no inheritance in the government of President Goodluck Jonathan, so to your tents O'Igbos! Not the president, not the vice president, not the Senate President, not the Speaker of the House and not even the party chairman which was previously zoned to them? Every thing has been taken away from them as if they do not matter in Nigeria and we are talking about one of the three largest ethnic groupings in Nigeria? So tell Icheoku what is the Igbos doing in the PDP when no one is ready to recognize their contribution thereto and reward them accordingly with a position of authority. Even ACN controlled Yoruba Southwest is benefiting more with the current zoning arrangement than the Southeast Igbos, with both the speakership as well as Board of Trustees Chairman in their zone? So what logic is behind the present zoning of offices and Icheoku wonders why? The solution is simple, the Igbos should move en-mass out of the PDP and join All Progressive grand Alliance party and adopt same as the igbo regional party since those henchmen in PDP are being both irrational and unreasonable. Icheoku says, NO SPEAKER, NO PEACE and NO PDP in Southeast Igboland any more!

DECLARE PAKISTAN A HOSTILE COUNTRY - AFGHANISTAN'S SECURITY CHIEF.

Icheoku says Pakistan is amply qualified and long overdue to be so declared a hostile country to the United States of America and all other peace loving countries of the world. They proliferate weapons of mass destruction through their Kahn and are known to be the world's number one harborer of terrorists. 

Their Madrassa indoctrination centers called schools are second only to Saudi Arabia in number as well as militancy. They have been fueling insurgency in Afghanistan thus jeopardizing American soldiers trying to stabilize that country. They sent terrorists across to India just recently and their stance on Kashimir is of general knowledge. They created, supported and are still supporting the Talibans and to add insult to injury, provided a safe heaven for Osama Bin Laden in their army garrison-town of Abbottabad where the terrorist honcho was recently tracked down and sent to meet with his seventy-two virgins? What more can a country do before it qualifies for the designation of an unfriendly and threatening country? For providing comfort to the enemy, Icheoku says Pakistan is eminently qualified to be targeted in the war against terrorism under the category of those who harbor terrorists. Therefore Afghanistan's former intelligence chief, Amrullah Saleh, is darn right that "Pakistan should be recognized by the United States as a hostile country." If they try to bar NATO or America from the use of Khyber pass, we invade them or better still settle for our drones; afterall the man who caused the war on terror has been killed so we do not necessarily need to be on the grounds any longer either in Afghanistan or Pakistan talkless of using the Khyber pass; so they can stuff their Khyber pass in their you know what! Just replace Iraq with Pakistan in the world's axis of evil trio!

REPUBLICANS IN DISARRAY, THEIR MESSAGE IS LOST IN TRANSLATION?

Republican Presidential candidate wanna be, Mitt Romney, while serving as governor of Massachusetts, signed into law a universal health care for the state. Another Presidential dreamer, Newt Gingrich, as a congressman supported mandate for everyone to buy into medical insurance? Even "The Heritage Foundation" also previously supported a general medical insurance for all with everyone chipping in to make it affordable. These various positions on the way forward with the country's healthcare were simply harmonized by President Barack Obama and combined it in his Health Care Reform Law; but he is Barack Obama and can never do right by these people; hence it must be repealed. Icheoku says please Republicans, do not throw away the baby with the bath water and also consider the message irrespective of the messenger as your hatred for the President might be beclouding your vision so as not to understand that it is previously held positions that the Health care knitted together.

IKE EKWEREMADU SHOULD SACRIFICE OR BE SACRIFICED!

Icheoku says the general interest of a whole is greater than the selfish interest of an individual. Igbos of Southeast should therefore not allow Ike Ekweremadu's selfish interest in retaining the deputy senate president to jeopardize their overall interest in heading at least one arm of the government.A deputy senate president has no authority except as may be delegated by the senate president added to his collection of juicy mind-boggling allowance as deputy senate president and his constituency allowance of over 150 million Naira every quarter? Therefore Icheoku sees no reason why Ike Ekweremadu has not summarily addressed a press conference intimating his willingness to resign his office as deputy senate president if that will make way for an Igbo speakership of the House or even the senate president. It is called sacrificing for the general common good of a group; but regrettably, the days of selfless politicking is long since gone in Nigeria and expecting such from this man might be a wishful thinking under the Nigeria "chop I chop" political landscape. 

The Igbos have earned the right to partake in this soon to be constituted government and no one or a thing should try to deny them that; not even Ike Ekweremadu, whose selfish interest in retaining the deputy senate president seat seems to be controlling his actions thus far; otherwise why is he not in the vanguard of those Igbo leaders demanding justice for the Igbo Southeast in the zoning of party offices? How can any sane and unselfish human-being advocate or prefer the retention of the deputy senate president seat for the Igbos as opposed to that of Speakership or even the Senate Presidency itself. An Igbo Speakership is a demand which the whole Igbo race, both home and in the Diaspora jointly make and Icheoku says failure to meet this demand will tell a lot about President Jonathan's fabled "Igbo-ness" as well as PDP's love for the Igbo Southeast. This demand is unconditional and the Yoruba Southwest opposition and CPC sympathizer cannot and should not benefit more than the Igbo Southeast loyal party men and women in the distribution of political party offices! Enough of this bullcrap and where is those Igbo governors providing leadership on this quest for Igbo Speakership now?

SCHWARZENEGGER SLEPT WITH NANNY, REASON FOR DIVORCE?

The reason why the marriage of the Terminator to a Kennedy clan member fell apart was because Arnold Schwarzenegger impregnated their house help and fathered a child outside matrimony. Cheated wife Maria Shriver could not take or stand the fact that her husband slept with her maid as the insulting competition for her husband with a maid was too unbearable; so she kicked the Terminator to the curbside. Icheoku asks, what is it with men; especially the high and mighty that engage in stupid sex such as Arnold with a cleaning lady? Anyway the phallus has no brain nor mind of its own and most times is a hunter of opportunity that plugs as it goes. 

ZONING OF POLITICAL OFFICES, SOUTHEAST IGBOS IN THE DOG HOUSE!

Icheoku says now that the election-war has been fought and won with the support of the Southeast Igbos, naively led to believe that they mattered; it is time to share the spoils of war and they have once again been told to take a hike or better still to go "Dick Cheney" themselves. 

The loot of war or better still political offices have been distributed and once again, no meaningful office was allocated to the Southeast Igbos and you wonder what other humiliation could be more this - visited by these Nigerians on the Igbos of the Southeast? The marginalization is simply becoming unbearable - not the president, not the vice president, not the senate president, not the speaker and not the party chairman; yet the Igbos are one of the three largest ethnic groupings in Nigeria and they overwhelmingly voted for the party in power, the PDP. Even the Yoruba Southwest which have naturally gone the opposition with their regional party ACN, fared better in the distribution of the PDP largess, as they clinched the speakership; despite having absconded from the PDP completely, the result of the presidential election notwithstanding. Icheoku says the Yoruba Southwest which even preferred the Northern Muslim party, the CPC to the PDP and would have voted for the CPC but for a failed alliance is now being rewarded by the PDP in lieu of the Igbo Southeast?  How does anyone explain the inexplicable that a people who fully, totally and completely voted for the PDP throughout the election is now being shafted while the recalcitrant or borrowing President Jonathan's own words those "rascals' who threw PDP under the bus are being wooed and rewarded with a premier office of the Speaker of House of Representatives?


So, why reward a renegade group while punishing a loyal group; except to maintain and continue t propagate the institutionalized marginalization of the Igbo people in Nigeria; which remains alive till today and in a Nigeria currently being ran by a Southsouth President Goodlucky Jonathan. Icheoku says the sudden tale of 'being mindful of the religious diversity' in Nigeria in the distribution of party offices seems to be an after-thought as the same consideration was said to have died when President Jonathan ran and was elected president despite the fact that it was the turn of Northern Muslims at the presidency. But suddenly, it is now convenient to throw up the dust of religious diversity as a shroud to the real issue of a hatred of a people; and thus use it to deny the Igbos their rightful place at the table of power and prevent them from partaking in the government which they contributed heavily to install. So where is the fairness Nigerians, the Peoples Democratic Party and President 'Goodlucky' Ebelesimi Jonathan?

The same President Jonathan who is now waving the flag of religious fairness as a benchmark for the distribution of party offices did not or choose to ignore same criteria when he personally ran and won the presidency, despite that it was not yet Southsouth Christian's turn at the presidency? The same President Jonathan ignored the same consideration when he constituted his presidential advisory committee with a Christian chairman Theophilus Danjuma as well as a christian vice chairman Benjamin Nwabueze. Also in 1979 second republic, Nigeria had a vice president Alex Ekwueme, Senate President Joseph Wayas and Speaker Edwin Umezoke - all Christians from the then Southeast and the heavens did not fall. So what suddenly changed or became so egregious in 2011 to necessitate that the Igbos rightful position must be sacrificed at the alter of religious diversity? These Nigerians said the Igbos will be compensated with the glorified position of the Secretary to the Federal Government, a none first-charge office without a commanding  authority; a kitchen-staff position of little or no importance who is under the overbearing Chief of Staff who calls all the shots. Icheoku wonders why the PDP did not give that lesser position to the Southwest since their support for the PDP was practically none existent and for President Jonathan, shallow at best. Why would the first always be the last such that a people whose support for the PDP and President Jonathan was deeply rooted and groundswell, should be denied their right of first refusal to a Speakership in preference of the Yoruba opposition specialists? What message is being sent by this - that loyalty should not be rewarded or that treachery pays? 

Icheoku however blames the Igbos of the Southeast for not being politically astute enough; unlike their other counterparts in the Nigeria experiment, who peremptorily force the hands of their political suitors and extract every mileage possible therefrom, before ever throwing in their support for him/her. The Igbos, politically speaking, are like horny prostitutes who bend over as soon as there is any proposition of some sort, no matter how trifle; and without first securing the best possible bargain to protect their interest under any circumstance. Now they are crying blue murder because they have been once again been treated with the same levity all their demands are met in Nigeria and by none other than the same President Jonathan who is supposedly Igbo? This brings to the fore the issue of MASSOB's president Uwazulike who is still being persecuted by the Nigerian authorities despite the fact that every other ethnic militia's leader, including the notorious MEND and the dreaded OPC are all walking free in Nigeria; but Igbo's Uwazulike is still languishing in prison just for speaking out and he never killed anyone or blown away some human-beings in Abuja or some pipelines in the Niger Delta?

Conversely, Icheoku asks, should the Igbos even be heard or seen to be complaining that they did not get any meaningful bargain for their support of the PDP and President Jonathan, when one of their own, President Goodluck Ebelesimi Azikwe Jonathan, is the president? Afterall they accepted that farcical premise during the last presidential election and threw in their all in the Jonathan for president's quest; and at the earliest opportunity and without first ever totally considering the implications or prudently weighing their options completely. What a petulant attitude that beguiled this race into supporting President Jonathan in the last presidential election without first reading the handwriting on the wall that a Jonathan's presidency will automatically spell doom for whatever agenda they might have, either now or in 2015. Did Icheoku hear somebody say that the Igbos just got shafted again and have been shortchanged by the Igbo-haters of Nigeria Plc, who used and dumped the Igbos again as always; as they denied the Igbos a seat at the table of power? Icheoku says if the Igbos could be treated with such levity and so heartlessly dealt with this time in the distribution of political offices, despite their enormous contribution to making the party in power as well as President Jonathan succeed, who knows what fate awaits them in 2015, when they supposedly should produce the next Nigerian president? Except that then, Mr Fix-It Tony Anenih will once again arrogantly decree that there is no vacancy at Aso Rock as the Southsouth still have four more years of their eight year term to serve out!

Icheoku is persuaded by some school of thought which said that the Igbos of the Southeast mortgaged whatever claim, right or interest they might have had to the 2015 presidency of Nigeria when they naively accepted that President Jonathan is one of their own and wholly supported his run for the presidency in 2011. Continuing they said, it will therefore be crass idiocy and impetuous argument for the same Igbos of Southeast to later turn around to covet or desire "another turn at the presidency" in 2015 or any other office of importance now in 2011 when they have, through the proxy of their own President Jonathan, taken their turn at the highest office in the land - the presidency? What more can they ask for - they have the presidency and they have it now? You're right!

Finally, Icheoku maintains that the Igbos of the Southeast deserves as of right, either the Speaker of the House or the Senate presidency as no other region in Nigeria contributed more to the success of President Jonathan and the PDP as they did. Moreso this will ensure the real diversity in the distribution of power among the Nigeria political tripod that will be inclusive of all the major tribes as well as the minority that now occupies the presidency. The Igbos of Southeast was the first major group to first openly adopt and pledge their total unalloyed support to President Jonathan's presidential candidacy. This was even when such an idea was not popular in Nigeria and when the loyalty of the president's own Southsouth people was still very much in doubt with some of their governors not sure of what to do with President Jonathan's planned run - it being against the odds of coming from the minority and since it was not yet their turn to produce the president? So to now just kick the Igbos to the curbside after the job was done and during the time of harvest is the utmost inglorious ingratitude ever conjured up by the cancerous brains of these PDP high-ups in Nigeria. This gross injustice done to the Igbos will further cement the notion that the Igbos have no rightful place in Nigeria and that they are simply tolerated as just the baboons that do the work while the rest of Nigerians are the monkeys that chop harvest? If Igbos have no right in Nigeria and not good enough to seat at the table of power, why not let them go their way as an unwanted people; otherwise redress the situation and let the Igbos become equal partners in the Nigeria project. 

Icheoku says such blatant poking of finger in the eyes of a people is not only bad but is very provoking, insulting and demeaning to the entire Igbo race. It is about time Nigeria called a time-out on their mistreatment of the Igbo nation in the interest of peace and national unity. Icheoku urges Igbo people to, in the event their demand for a meaningful position in the incoming government is not met by President Jonathan and the PDP, defect en-bloc to the APGA and let Nigeria devolve to the 1979 regional political parties affiliations/arrangements. Like the Yoruba Southwest which have gone wholly to their regional party the ACN, Igbo Southeast should adopt APGA as their own regional party and luckily enough the APGA now has two states in Southeast Igboland of Imo and Anambra State  and will likely grow to five barring a redressing of this apparent injustice by the PDP. The Hausa/Fulani Sharia party CPC will continue to operate as it is and as the name implies; while the PDP can then be left alone for the rest of those minorities currently running it? That is the only meaningful message that would be more quickly and easily understood by these unfair-minded Nigerians whose sense of judgment and fairness is imbecilic. They should be told bold-faced that they cannot continuously take Igbos for granted in Nigeria scheme of things and not be challenged and that Igbo support/votes is of no less value when compared to any other group in Nigeria. It is just complete lunacy the treatment Southeast Igbos get in Nigeria and in the hand of supposed fellow Nigerians and country men and women. It is ridiculous! Icheoku asks, all these circumstances considered, is there anyone still out there in Southeast Igboland who still maintains that President 'Goodlucky' Ebelesimi Azikwe Jonathan is Igbo; moreso when he cannot or could not or would not or simply refused to protect an Igbo interest at the center? Please give Icheoku a break with this President Jonathan's 'Igbo-ness, which idiocy of claim can only be equated with the Irish now claiming President Barack Obama!'

TERMINATOR'S MARRIAGE TERMINATED, ARNOLD PARTS WAYS WITH MARIA!

This should not ordinarily be a moment of hi-fives or showing of well lit-up gleaming eyes or bleached set of dentition; no, but a time of soul-searching and pondering whether the thing called marriage really works? How could a seemingly perfect and happy marriage surprisingly just come crashing down like a pack of cards? But divorce is usually the afterburners  of a long festering dead or comatose relationship that  the couples have tried to fix but hopelessly could not; hence the final resort to "your tents o' partner! 

Icheoku thought the Terminator and the Kennedy had a blissful marriage but just remembered that was the same facade Al-Gore and Tipper put up for a very long time before their bubble busted just recently too. Anyway, shit happens and so it is that another Kennedy has once again bolted out of her marriage and thus terminated her marriage to the Terminator? Icheoku asks, was it a result of governor's blues that did it for this couple as the Kennedy lost her prime first lady status as result of the Terminator no longer being the governor or she just got fed up that her hubby cannot properly pronounce California? Whatever be the case, Icheoku affirms that divorce or separation is still a far better and preferred option than a Scott Paterson butchering his wife Lacy and her unborn child, just because he was tired of the yoke of marriage and wanted out; admitted he had also planned to elope with Amber Fry? 

Now that the marriage of the Terminator to a Kennedy is over and it is official, the decoy word of separation used notwithstanding, Maria Shriver can now go do her thing including illegally driving while yapping on a cell-phone without a hand's free device; while the Terminator can as well check into a movie studio for some more action-hero bangs. Icheoku asks, what the hell rocked the seemingly happy marriage of the Terminator to a Kennedy or better still, a Kennedy's niece? 

The Terminator and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife of 25 years, Maria Shriver, a Kennedy, just announced that they are separating or should Icheoku say separated - a jargon for a divorce that the details is yet to be worked out? Yet someone said that marriage works and you wonder where and how? The couple have all that anybody could dream of - fame, fortune and name recognition including four lovely children; yet their marriage hit the rocks? It would appear that humanity was never meant to marry one another as we are all individuals, hence we feel bottled up by marriage, sharing the same space with one particular individual day in day out and for however long? It is boring, boring and boring; the reason why every married person wants out but many lack the courage to just take that one step out and walk away to freedom! Icheoku says, may be the only real solution to all the pangs of marriage is just not to do it in the first place than purchasing a one-way ticket to splits-ville later.

MADE IN NIGERIA WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION, ARMS DEALERS WANTED?

Icheoku says this is what transfer of technology looks like in a country, which did not sustain the gains recorded in Biafra during the civil war with Ojukwu buckets (ogbunigwe) as well as other milestone innovations like crude oil refining etc. Now in the 21st century, this "pistol" is all that is possible and you say to yourself, seriously? Icheoku must remind visitors that the cartilage was manufactured elsewhere otherwise it would have equally been of a crude quality.