OBEDIENT WIVES CLUB FORMED IN MALAYSIA, HURRAY!

 

Icheoku says how about that for a change for the rest of the world which has since lost its mind regarding the rightful hierarchy in the institution called marriage. Divorce, spousal abuse, killing, fights, quarrels etc are all a result of there being no clearly identified head of family to stamp a final seal of approval on matters in controversy thus resulting in a never ending tug of war that finally crashes what was. Men trying to be what they should be and women fighting to topple and usurp the men's headship role against the laws of both God, nature and man. Icheoku says this Malaysian club is imitable and should be spread throughout the rest of the world. Nigerian women in the Diaspora who regularly wear the pant in their households with their men consigned into mere glorified nannies and house-helps should particularly take note of the Malaysian women initiative if they want to be truly happy in their marriages irrespective of who brings home the bacon. 

Icheoku understands that there is even a Nigerian women club in the Greater Dallas area of Texas USA known as "Association of Di Gbakwa Oku women of Nigeria"; if this is true, could these over-liberated Nigerian women see the wisdom in the Malaysia women example and their reasoning that the key to a blissful marriage is a happy home and that there cannot be a truly happy home without a happy man in charge of affairs; admitted with a happy woman complimenting his effort. Icheoku says how about that as a solution to the epidemic of marriage break-ups, divorces and spousal bickering; or please show Icheoku any happy man who wants out of a happy marriage? 

Way to go, Malaysian Obedient Wives Club; kudos for braving such a touchy topic, despite being the only incontrovertible silver-bullet to end most marital problems; usually as a result of there being more than two captains in a boat. Call Icheoku a chauvinistic pig if you like, but hey the truth is out now in Malaysia and denying it is simply foolhardy!

A PRETTY WIFE AND A DUTIFUL HUSBAND AT A BALL.

 Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan digging it with First Lady Dame Jonathan at the presidential inauguration ball - the first dance for the first couple. Boy did Icheoku not know that the president's wife is this pretty; admitted she looks like an alpha-female. 

Did Icheoku hear anyone swear that the Nigerian First Lady wears the pant in the house of Jonathan, president or no president. Icheoku also noticed that President Jonathan looks good with a smile and should consider wearing it more often; but the tuxedo looks rather alien to his personality or who said presidential ballroom dance cannot be held in traditional attire? Anyway the first couple look very radiant in this picture; very impressive.

520 NIGERIANS KILLED DURING POST ELECTION VIOLENCE!

Icheoku says this makes it a truism, Thomas Jefferson's statement, that the tree of democracy must be watered and nourished from time to time with blood of both patriots and tyrants. According to this great American patriot, blood is democracy's natural manure and so it happened that Nigerian democracy has used 520 Nigerians blood to stay alive. Icheoku asks, but did these Nigerians have to die and could their death have been ordinarily avoided; but for Imam Muhammadu Buhari's call on his supporters for the lynching of people who disagreed with his warped sense of self-righteousness? Icheoku says all those innocent Nigerians who were killed on the instigation of Buhari are patriots whose blood ushered in Jonathan's democratic presidency; what is missing however is the blood of the tyrant, Imam Muhammadu Buhari to complete Thomas Jefferson's assertion. What a shame!

ADAMU CIROMA AND FELLOW GRUMPY OLD NORTHERNERS' INAUGURATION BOYCOTT?

The Northern Elders Forum or aka better still Hausa/Fulani tribal senile agitators are at it again - this time, boycotting an inauguration of a president who some of them had earlier congratulated as the bona-fide winner of the last presidential election. Icheoku says it smacks of some deep rooted animosity and resentment of the holder of the office and not just mere politics that these old farts are still holding grudges long after the elections were concluded; which shows that it is hatred for the South-South Jonathan and not a denied zoning that actually motivated them. 


Ibrahim Babangida called to congratulate President Jonathan and same did Atiku; so why the boycott on such flimsy grounds of not being trustworthy? Luckily enough they are nearing their respective graves and soon will all die off with their divisive politics of tribe and religion and a Nigeria, freed of these men, will definitely be a better place for all to thrive and prosper. In their deaths will emerge a Nigeria where everyone will be judged by the content of his character and ability but not the tribe that produced him or the manner he chose to commune with his God. Ibarahim Babangida especially, a man who has held the office before has descended into a tribal demagogue speaks a lot about this human-being who has defied every attempt at deciphering his character assuming he has any. 

However, Icheoku would like to offer a piece of advise to these mallams to tread very carefully as they can easily get themselves in trouble and that they can never win any election in Nigeria except they make real peace with the rest of the country especially the South-South, South-East, South-West and North Central. As Governor Babangida Muazu of Niger State pointed out, Nigeria is bigger than any one section of the country and the fact that a person lost an election in one section does not mean that he cannot be elected president. They could still have attended the inauguration in protest and continue trying to unravel things long after; but to collectively stage a public boycott in the manner they did suggests some seething anger and any president worth his office should mark these guys with a bulls-eye and put them in his enemies list, waiting for a good opportunity to strike at them. 


Partisan political campaigns they say end with election and after the results are declared people move on with their lives and supporting whoever won; but these Adamu Ciroma bunch of tribal champions are pushing their luck rather too far by publicly antagonizing a sitting president with enormous executive powers. Icheoku says were we President Jonathan, such public snub will not go unanswered and very harshly too. At least he can start by allowing America access to Abubakar Atiku to answer for his corrupt allegations and IBB can start telling a tribunal all he knew about the Iraqi Oil Windfall. Icheoku says, since they want to keep busy antagonizing the government; may be it will be much better for them to rather keep busy defending themselves from the law? As far as Icheoku is concerned, these arrogant and powerless senile old men since crossed the line when they cavorted with the ACN and later CPC, trying to help them strategize on how to beat President Jonathan at the pools. Icheoku also believes that these self-styled northern elders have already declared war against President Jonathan and Nigerians will understand if he takes them on with a counter-offensive of his own. 

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY AMERICA!

Today as we remember our fallen heroes and heroines of war past, who selflessly paid the ultimate price to purchase for us what we have and enjoy today, Icheoku says keep them in your thoughts; because without their sacrifice, it would have been a totally different story. On this Memorial Day 2011, as you enjoy the barbeque and probably a visit at the park, renew your patriotism in the American experiment and work to improve what is; thus propagating the ideals of what we celebrate today. Today also marks the arrival of summer, so lets see some skins or have you not been working out lately? Have yourself a memorable memorial day America!

PRESIDENT JONATHAN'S INAUGURATION, BOYCOTTED BY COUNTRIES WITH REAL NET-WORTH?

 In solidarity with the Nigerian masses who were prohibited from attending their country's president's inauguration ceremony, major countries of Americas, Europe, Asia and Latin America stayed out from Eagle Square Abuja the venue of the ceremony. 

Icheoku says these major and more important countries of the world that really matter in the scheme of things, together pulled-off a no-show at Nigeria's President Goodluck Ebelesimi Azikwe inauguration ceremony and it tells a lot about low in the totem pole either this particular president or the ceremony itself is before the eyes of these countries causing them to ignore it. 

Except for a few African countries coming to pay tribute to their big brother for their allowances, no country of consequence in the world showed up. Icheoku wonders whether it was as a result of security concerns or their lack of interest in an ordinary African country's presidential function which they deemed beneath their status that made them to stay out. Icheoku is of the view that America, Europe, China and Russia, as well as countries of Asia and South America should not only be interested in Africa when there is a convenient crisis that present a perfect opportunity to try their latest weapons from thousands of nautical miles above the earth as is ongoing in Libya; but they should also show solidarity on occasions as this to celebrate something good and thus encourage the incoming president by manifesting their support. 

At least since they earlier acknowledged that the election that produced him was free and fair and should have taken a step further by showing up at his swearing in ceremony. But the cavalier manner they often treat such matters as this leaves much to be desired and such treatment makes government's antagonists stronger believing that the government has no real international support whatsoever. Icheoku says it is most likely that these countries decided to align forces with ordinary Nigerians, who were banned from the ceremony and chose instead to also stay out. Their logic being that since the Nigerian people whose president is being sworn in were banned by the same government from attending the ceremony, why should they? If the security situation is the real reason, why should they become the guinea-pigs or sitting ducks for those Boko Haram and splinter Niger Delta terrorists drawing blood of innocent Nigerians frequently. Anyway, congratulation President Jonathan and as you start the onerous journey ahead, may the good Lord guide your decisions. Now is the time to keep all the basket of promises you made during your campaign.

ADO BAYERO'S REPRIMAND OF NIGERIA'S VICE PRESIDENT IS WRONG!

Icheoku categorically denounces the reprimand of Nigeria's Vice President Namadi Sambo by the Emir of Kano and states that such conduct is a total and complete disrespect for the office of the vice president and by extension, the entire country. Nigeria's vice president is not under the authority or servitude of a traditional ruler or chief of Kano emirate to deserve being so disrespected by publicly calling him out for being a little late on a scheduled courtesy visit to the emir's palace? 

Agreed that lateness is tardiness and many people including Icheoku finds such habit distasteful; but in this situation involving Nigeria's number two citizen, the emir should have swallowed it or better still, conducted his displeasure in private with the vice president. What if the vice president never showed up at all or even cancelled such a visit or sent an emissary to represent him because matters of state will not let him out on a leisure visit to the emir's palace? What if his boss the president gave him some assignment that needed immediate attention? Icheoku says the emir forgot that there is a thing called protocol that manages the vice president activities and movements; and that the vice president does not have the privilege to just get up and go to anywhere that he pleases such as the emir palace in Kano with all the attendant security implications of visiting such a volatile place like Kano? A more circumspect emir would have in private confided in the vice president his unhappiness for keeping him waiting a little longer, but not in the public exhibition manner in which he pilloried the vice president for his lateness. 

Icheoku rejects the emir's claim to any privilege above the office and person of Nigeria's vice president and states that it should be the other way round if any, as the vice president is number two citizen and is not ordinarily obligated to visit the emir; nor does he draw his paycheck from the emirate of Kano; but only wanted to stop over at the emir's palace as a courtesy call. The same emir who could not and did not swath a fly when Imam Muhammadu Buhari reprimanded him and nearly locked him up for visiting Israel alongside the Ooni of Ife Oba Sijuawade is now puffing and huffing because Nigeria's vice president was few minutes late to visit with him? If Icheoku remembers correctly too that the late midget of Kano Sani Abacha was in the process of dethroning and banishing the emir from the Kano emirate before he was given the poisoned tea. Previously, the same Abacha earlier did away with Sultan Ibrahim Dasuki of Sokoto Caliphate, so the heavens would not have fallen if he had also laid his hand on Ado Bayero and sent him to prison or to some other God forsaken desolate hole somewhere in Cross River State rain forest to live out his life in exile. 

But now the same emir is thinking himself above and superior to the the person and office of the Nigeria's vice president to warrant publicly scolding the vice president simply for being late to his palace? Icheoku says in a civilized society, the emir would be forced to resign his office or dethroned for disrespecting the entire people of Nigeria whose vice president he publicly ridiculed. Icheoku says Nigeria and her vice president deserve an apology from the emir and we hereby demand same on their behalf for his impolite behavior towards Nigeria's second most important citizen. It is a serious matter and a timely offer of an unequivocal apology is needed from the emir as the dressing-down was not only personal to Namadi Samabo but to the entire Nigerian people whose business he was conducting in Kano before he decided to pay the emir a courtesy visit and does not deserve to be so disrespected and treated by the Emir of Kano, Dr. Ado Bayero. Icheoku says Vice President Namadi Sambo is only answerable to one person and one person only - the president of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan, his only boss and not to the Emir of Kano.

But so what if the vice president was a few minutes late to visit the emir; afterall he is not an employee of the emir nor is he beholden to the emir; but to the entire Nigeria populace which writes his paycheck. Also Namadi Sambo is not a subject of the emir which makes the emir's motive rather intriguing; except that the emir might not be happy that their Islamic Northern presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari lost the election and here was part of the beneficiary coming to his palace just a little too late. Also the emir reserves the right not to see whoever he does not wish to see just like Benin monarchy Oba Erediuwa who once refused or asked out the minister of works from his palace and should have refused to see the visiting vice president. The emir's options were just darn plenty but he choose the least edifying one - scolding Nigeria's vice president? So, who gives a damn if the vice president could not break off from his duties at Aso Rock, concerning more important state matters, to be on time to see Emir Ado Bayero of Kano; and Icheoku expects the emir should not. 

LIFE IS FULL OF SELECTIVE AMNESIA.

Icheoku likes this cartoon from the Vanguard Newspapers that we republish it here, all deference observed. It sure is the laughing stock President Goodluck Jonathan and his PDP who conveniently decide when to kill and when to resurrect ZONING within the PDP. Icheoku says but life need not and does not have to happen this way where some greedy politicians swing like yoyo just to retain certain positions? 

President Jonathan and his inner kitchen circle, not too long ago claimed that zoning was dead and should not be the overriding consideration in matters of present day Nigerian politics and got elected when it was not his zone's turn at the presidency. If zoning was going to impact them adversely, the refrain becomes zoning is dead; but when there is cheap political gain to be made otherwise, their pendulum swings in favor of the existence of zoning. Icheoku decries the shameful manner in which these folks decide the fate of zoning just to serve their personal selfish interest. Less than three months after their zoning is dead argument which helped elect Jonathan, now it is very convenient for them to similarly declare that zoning is alive once again. Icheoku asks, who knows how soon circumstances will change or present itself to warrant zoning to die again! Only in Nigeria, the land of so many intrigues!

MILDRED BAENA, SCHWARZENEGGER'S OTHER WOMAN, NOT SO CUTE?

 If Icheoku has the opportunity to ask the Terminator one question, it will be why this woman as we do not see anything particularly attractive about her for any man to loose his faculties. Anyway who knows what led to what; except it might just be an opportunistic happenstance schemed by Mildred to secure and assure her financial future as a baby-mama of Terminator's love child. Anyway, what can Icheoku tell you that you have not heard before on the issue. Yes, it appears that Mildred Patricia Baena works out too - a female Terminator that is?

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.