JACOB ZUMA NOT ABOVE THE LAW: MUST NOT BLUFF HIS WAY OUT OF PRISON.

ICHEOKU says blames Judge Sisi Khampepe for not making her order with immediate effect and marching off the former president straight to  prison, without issuing the five days grace period. It was a contempt of court proceeding which required no other further evidentiary proof outside what the presiding judge had determined were violations of the court which cannot be pardoned and must be punished. Such a commitment to prison order is usually with immediate effect, so why the judge granted the former president the period of reprieve before beginning his 15 months prison term is not clear. 

Could it be out of respect for his position as a former president of South Africa or for his leadership role during the apartheid struggle for which the former president did a 10 years prison term or because of his very advanced old age, in order to allow him time to prepare, both mentally and emotionally, get his house in order and also get his medicines and make other overall necessary arrangement before beginning his prison sojourn. Why did the judge permit this aberration of failing to commit former President Jacob Zuma straight to prison, aware of his theatrics and that such a recalcitrant defiant of the court might once again be up to his tricks and will most likely not turn himself in at the expiration of the five days. 

Now that the worst fear has come through and he failed or refused to turn himself in as initially ordered, the judge must now develop additional courage in saying to Jacob Zuma that his conduct will not be tolerated by adding more months to his already 15 months prison sentence and have Zuma marched off in handcuffs straight to prison. A matter made even more disheartening by the former president comparing the judge to apartheid era and you wonder what racist undertone is in the judgment. Jacob Zuma is a perennial flagrant disrespecter of the court process, a punishable contempt of court and he was punished, so? It is also somewhat defamatory of the person of the judge to compare her, a fellow black person, to the white oppressive government of then apartheid South Africa. She simply upheld the law and courageously said enough of his rascality and all she gets now is being accused of apartheid. 

ICHEOKU says the former president must be hauled off to prison immediately as he is a bad example and his obstinate and impetuous disregard of the judicial process in South Africa should no longer be tolerated or accommodated. The whole world is watching very closely to see if South Africa has fallen to such a lowly rock bottom that the rule of law is no longer respected and whether Jacob Zuma has now grown above the law. The five days have lapsed, the judge must now add teeth to her order by ordering the police to arrest Jacob Zuma immediately and deliver him to the correctional center to begin his prison term. The court concluded that Jacob Zuma is guilty of the crime of contempt of court and will be punished. The court has punished him by sentencing him to 15 months imprisonment, so the only thing now left is for the court have Zuma committed to prison. 

Not to do so and to allow his latest shenanigan of an "appeal" to stall his confinement will send the same otherwise avoidable message that the rule of law and administration of justice in South Africa is no longer supreme. He refused to cooperate with the commission of inquiry and said that he would rather go to prison than cooperate with a judicial process. Now that he has been sent to prison, the court must enforce its order and help him realize his preferred goal. He must not be allowed to bullshit his way out of going to prison for contempt of court for which he has been sentenced, because to do so will encourage lawlessness and chaos in South Africa judicial process as other people who might be 'similarly situated in the future will point at the Jacob Zumas example as a precedent whenever faced with court's processes. 

ICHEOKU says strongly believes that if Jacob Zuma is allowed to ignore and disregard a valid  order of a competent court of South Africa, it will shake the foundation of democracy in South Africa since rule of law is the bedrock which anchors every democracy. Imagine the lawlessness which his recalcitrance is already threatening to unleash on South Africa, with some of his thugs insisting that "Zuma is not going to jail" and that they will make South Africa ungovernable if he is sent to prison. What manner of a leader is he anyway if he is encouraging such lawlessness and wishing it envelopes the same country which he once served as its president for eight years? His sentence for contempt of court does not require extensive "trial" as he ignorantly claimed that he was "lambasted with a punitive sentence without trial"; contempt of court proceeding is a summarily weapon in the hands of the court to punish misbehaviors before the court. 

ICHEOKU says hereby rejects his notion that South Africa is sliding back to apartheid rule because he was punished for aggregated disrespectful misconducts and unbecoming contemptible attitude shown to the judicial process. If anyone is eroding any rule of law in South Africa it is Jacob Zuma who has refused to turn himself over to the police as ordered by the court to begin his prison sentence. So yes, many honest persons are accusing him of being against the rule of law as his resistance to a judge order and willful disregard to the judicial process is capable of upsetting the political equilibrium in South Africa by causing social unrest. His action is capable of causing a complete breakdown of law and order in South Africa should his supporters takeover the streets, forcing the government to react. So, yes, Jacob Zuma is against the rule of law. 

If Jacob Zuma claims that he is not afraid of going to jail because he is a veteran, he should  turn himself in to begin his 15 months prison sentence. He needs to have gone to jail since yesterday because the five days grace period granted him by the judge have ran its course. His "long detention" is not without trial because trial was summarily done by the judge as required by the law. His claim too that "sending him to jail at the height of a pandemic and at his age amounts to a death sentence" is laughable because he was oblivious of the same COVID-19 infection when he was dancing with thousands of his supporters in his country home without social distancing and not wearing a mask, in defiance of a complete total lockdown order due to rapid reinfection going on in South Africa. It was also his choice too not to get vaccinated. 

Therefore he should not be allowed to wriggle himself out of prison. He made his choice to disrespect the courts severally; he was convicted of contempt of court and he is now duty bound to serve his sentence. It is not his to decide whether or not he will "constitute himself a prisoner" because a court with authority to do so have already so determined. He should be behind bars in the interest of justice and respect for the rule of law. It is rather unfortunate that supposedly appellate papers he belatedly submitted to the court was accepted and that he will now be heard on July 12th. ICHEOKU condemns it as aiding and abetting his bad behavior and avoiding his penalty for contemptible behavior. Hopefully it will be a mere formality and he will end up being marched to prison. 

How can he assert that if it was up to him that he would once again go to jail for his beliefs as early as today, whether he come alive or not, but that he have never operated as an individual and that he is guided by the views of comrades and family. Continuing, he said that when he saw the police he wondered how they were going to get through all his supporters to get to him. What a mockery of the law enforcement in South Africa by  former president and once chief law enforcement officer of South Africa who is now tacitly encouraging a breakdown of law and order as no sensible person in a leadership position should do. Are these "comrades and family" now superior to the justice system in South Africa that what they think is more weighty than the court pronouncement. 

But as we all probably already know, filing an appeal is not an automatic stay of execution; it must be first expressly pleaded, heard and granted before it has the force of delaying an existing sentence. Therefore Jacob Zuma should be arrested immediately to begin serving his 15 months prison sentence for contempt of court and he can always be released if his appeal succeeds. Failure to do so and to allow him bluff his way out of prison will show that South Africa has joined the list of other African failed States such as Nigeria and is now a place where the rule of law does not apply and does not matter, not any more; and where the proverbial African "big" men and women are above the law. Nobody is above the law and former President Jacob Zuma is not above the law. #ArrestJacobumaNow. 

SOME QUOTES WORTH CHRONICLING.

1. “If Nigeria breaks up, the dominant ideologies in all regions, whether theological or tribal, are going to implode, and this time without a powerful force to check their domination of the minorities within their borders. We are all potential oppressors, and some of our seemingly selfless struggles for freedom are disguised pursuits of a domain to dominate others and practice our own version of dictatorship." - Kashim Shettima.

2. "If you can arrest a freedom fighter operating from a foreign land but cannot arrest terrorists and bandits operating on your own land, your own country, then something is wrong with the whole set up called Nigeria." - Samuel Ortom.

3. "I am on earth for a mission, I shall be the hand for those who have no hands, I shall be the leg for those who have no legs, I shall be the voice for those who are voiceless, even when I want to keep quiet, I cannot because the Holy Spirit is using me." - Father Mbaka.

4. "Even if we had sunk that ship, it would be hard to imagine that it would put the world on the brink of World War III because those who do it know that they can't emerge as winners in that war, and it's very important." - Vladimir Putin.

5. "it takes nothing to join the crowd but it takes a lot to stand alone with a good conscience." - Ibrahim Muhammad, Nigeria's Chief Justice.

6. "I toured the scene; it is worse than what the media images captured. The TV doesn't do it justice. It is really traumatic to see the collapse of a massive structure like that." - Governor De-Santis of Florida.

7. "If I suicide myself, I didn't; I was whacked. If I "hang" myself like Epstein, it will be due to no fault of mine." - John McAfee.

8. "When I saw his friendly, lying look, which sought me out as a voter, I was filled with disgust." - Damien Tarel, the man who slapped a president, President Emmanuel Macron of France. 

9. "Those who wield power are indispensable to any society, and so are those who will stand up to them because it helps to decide whether power will govern us or we will govern power." - Ibrahim Gambari, Professor. 

10. "Everyone wants to ride in a limo with you but only a very few are willing to take a sit next to you on a bus. I’ve learned that all the fame, money and notoriety in the world are meaningless. Television and Twitter don't mean a thing." - Michael Avenatti, convict and creepy porn lawyer of hooker Stormy Daniels.

11. “They have called me all sort of names. They said that I am a Hausa-Fulani irredentist, that I am a Jihadist and all that. Jihadist, when? Where? I am not even an active member of any Islamic organization. I am a Muslim, yes, a devote one, but I believe religion is private. Even here in this office, when it is time for prayer, I just excuse myself as if I am going to the restroom. I don’t ask anyone to come and pray with me because we will all go to our graves separately." - Mallam Nasir el Rufai. 

12. "IPOB has a majority mindset that is not minority friendly." - Remi Omokri. 

13. "Kenyan Government was deeply involved in the abduction, detention and ill-treatment of my client, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, before the illegal handover to their Nigerian counterpart.” - Mazi Ejiofor, lead counsel to detained IPOB leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. 

14. "We win and lose together." - Gareth Southgate

15. “He’s a real fighter. Guys like that are who I want to lift up. It’s inspiring to me to see this guy going about his everyday life, still loving life, still living life and never giving up hope in life. That’s a real fighter.” - Dustin Poirier on Peyton Murphy, a cancer patient.

16. "You cannot destroy the hope and aspiration of a people destined for greatness and expect them to perpetually bow down in servitude. You cannot destroy a generation of people and expect them not to fight back in demand of their freedom." - Kelechi Madu.

17. "Marriage is not rosy all the time, but it shouldn’t be tears and pains all the time either." - Uche Ogbodo. 

18. "Not a lot of people think that we could have won and, in fact, I think 40% of the people still don’t think we won." - Tom Brady.

19. “It’s dangerous to exist as a persecuted group." - Kashim Shettima

Updated 7/25/21

MAZI NNAMDI KANU'S ABDUCTION: AN ACT OF INTERNATIONAL PIRACY.

ICHEOKU says like the Chinese coronavirus, there are so many variants of the account on how Mazi Nnamdi was captured and forcibly brought back to Nigeria. So many stories have been churned out as to the manner and place of his abduction, leaving many people perplexed and wondering what truly happened. Some people said that the British government bundled him back to Nigeria. Some said that he was apprehended in Ethiopia; some said that he was captured in Kenya; some said that he was arrested in Czech Republic while in transit from Singapore/Hong Kong where he had gone to solicit support for the IPOB struggle for an independent Biafra Nation. Others placed him in Brazil, where a woman allegedly working as  undercover agent for the Nigeria government, lured him and betrayed him into the hands of Nigerian security operatives. 

The British government have denied and disassociated themselves from the abduction, claiming that they neither arrested Mazi Nnamdi Kanu nor handed him over to the Nigerian government. The Kenyan government have also come out to deny their involvement in the abduction and subsequent handover to Nigerian government. However, the lawyer of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu have visited him in detention and has now confirmed that he was abducted from Kenya in collaboration with the Kenyan government, whose security operatives abducted Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from an airport in Nairobi as he was transiting back to the United Kingdom. 

According to his narrative, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was apprehended, detained and tortured for eight days in Kenya before he was transferred to Nigerian authorities who then airlifted him back to Nigeria. It is possible too that the Kenya government was paid a huge amount of money by the Nigerian government for facilitating his abduction. But since the Kenyan government denied their involvement in his abduction and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu implicated them as the mastermind, it now behoves the Nigeria government to make the needed clarification and exonerate the Kenya government and absolve them from any complicity, by telling the world how they abducted Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and from which country andl condemn Mazi Nnamdi Kanu as lying and being out of his mind. 

Their merely saying that he was "intercepted" is not enough because they did not intercept him in a void, but from some tangible space, either in an airplane or an airport or some other place suitable for human presence and/or habitation. The clarification is also necessary to either impute liability on the Kenya government and hold them out as a lying piece of manure or debunk the account given by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. But why would Mazi Nnamdi Kanu lie about where he was when he was abducted since he has nothing to gain by implicating a country which was not involved in his kidnap. Even torturing him and injecting him with muscle relaxing tranquilizer to enable his airlift back to Nigeria is additional violation and criminal trespass of his person.

ICHEOKU says understands the hesitance of the Nigerian government in disclosing the location and country of his abduction, because that will expose such a furtive country to some backlash from incensed Nigerians, particularly Biafrans. But carrying a heist on the body of person leaves them with no much choice because what they did is criminal and illegal, necessitating full disclosure of all the involved parties. What they did amounts to international piracy which is punishable and condemnable as it has the potential of impeding free air travels and transits through airports worldwide including those in Kenya. 

How is what happened to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu any different from the Belarus forced plane landing of RyanAir jet and forcible arrest of journalist Roman Protasevich by the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko? Such acts of brigandage and forcible seizure of a human beings cannot and should not be tolerated as it will only encourage tyrants everywhere abducting people they consider threatening in unsafe manners, whenever their dirty hands can reach or they can bribe their way to securing such an outcome from greedy third party countries. President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya has proved himself vulnerable to such external influence as the story goes that he was paid $50 million by the Nigerian government for the seizure and delivery of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. It smacks of human trafficking and government gangsterism between Aso Rock and whatever its equivalent in Nairobi Kenya is. 

It is an open secret that most countries in Africa are financially supported from the coffers of Nigeria, hence Nigeria holds such a great influence in many African countries' presidential houses. Kenya is not an exception and possibly President Uhuru Kenyatta was blackmailed to sell his conscience with many zeros of Green backs.It is also possible that he did what he did in solidarity with Nigeria in the spirit of African Union, desiring to help a fellow African country solve a problem of separatist movement presently bugging it down. But whether it was purely altruistic or he was compromised, it is irrelevant; as a person legally passing through a Kenya international airport in Nairobi should not have been abducted by the Kenyan government in the first place, talk-pless of selling the person over to a third party country outside the traveler's itinerary for a handsome bargain.

The United Nations and the IATA must intervene in this matter as travelers cannot just be kidnapped and sold off to another country by a country through which they were merely transiting just like that. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu arrived in Kenya on a valid British passport with duly issued Kenya's entry visa as required. He finished whatever business that brought him to Kenya, which understandably had to do with his IPOB struggle for an independent Biafran homeland, and was on his way back to London when Kenyan security officials forcibly took him into custody at the airport. 

They tortured him for eight long days for no reason other than on behalf of Nigerian government before handing him off to Nigerian government, which sources claimed paid a whopping $50 million in bargain. He did not break any known Kenyan law and his entry to Kenya was validly made; yet they kidnapped and tortured him and handed him off to Nigeria in return for a bargained amount certain. 

This was the story of how Mazi Nnamdi Kanu ended up back in Nigeria's custodial detention after he had escaped the several attempts made by the Nigerian government's security operatives to assassinate him previously. The account came from the proverbial horses' mouth, as despite the mind altering and muscle relaxing drugs which were pumped into his vein during the whole nightmarish abduction, he still had the presence of mind to remember where he traveled to and was taken into custody from. His British passport was stamped in Nairobi with entry approval by the Kenyan Immigration Service; and so were his purchased plane tickets from London to and from Nairobi. 

So, with this aspect of the story, that it was Kenyan government that seized him and handed him over to Nigeria, now no longer in doubt, what remains for adjudication is the illegality of what the Kenya government did and why they should be punished for committing such an act of international piracy, engaging in human trafficking and profiteering from an abduction of a traveler who was merely passing through their airport. It was a rude shock to millions of Nigerians as well as millions of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's followers and supporters worldwide that the Kenyan government of President Uhuru Kenyatta could do what he did, abduct a freedom fighter in his country's airport and hand him over to a tyrannical Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria, who has been threatening to mercilessly deal with him. 

The blood-shot eyed President Uhuru Kenyatta cannot say that he is not aware of the repeated attempts at the life of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu by the Nigerian government; nor will he feign ignorance of the repressions of the Nigerian government and ongoing agitations in Nigeria which was triggered by wanton kidnappings and killings of innocent Nigerians by the ethnic Fulani murderous vampiric herdsmen. A blood thirsty group of fiends who are being encouraged and protected by their kinsman President Muhammadu Buhari; and whose criminalities are not being punished. So, on which side is President Uhuru Kenyatta anyway or does he support the genocide going on in Nigeria against Christians and other ethnic groups, one of which groups  Mazi Nnamdi Kanu currently champions their cause.  

If the Nigerian authorities have been on the trail of Mazi (Mr) Nnamdi Kanu for over two years and he has been traveling and visiting other countries, why then must it be President Uhuru Kenyatta who should sanction his abduction from Kenya and handover to Nigeria? Even the words of the Nigerian authority used in describing Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, shows their contempt for him. So what if he lived a five star lifestyle? So what if he flew private? So what if he lived in luxury? So what if he is dapper and always in designer clothes and shoes? And so what if he was decked up in Fendi ensemble when they nabbed him? 

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu represents something very great and very important and he has to look the part. He has never worked for the government of Nigeria and therefore cannot be accused of stealing Nigeria's money or looting Nigeria's treasury. So what is the Aso Rock's headache about his five star lifestyle? IPOB is the largest mass movement in the world and they sponsor the lifestyle of their leader however they see fit, so deal with it Nigerian government. 

Unfortunately, the United Nations, the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union as well as the African Union are all playing deaf and are indifferent to the presently smoldering crisis in Nigeria. They will not intervene now to help solve the problem now that it is still manageable and can be easily resolved without the need for a large scale wastage of human lives and wanton destruction of properties. When eventually, things get out of control with its attendant calamitous human displacements, all of them will start to pretend that they care about Nigerians with their pretended frantic efforts to find a resolution of the conflict and cater to the displaced. 

ICHEOKU says whether they are deliberately waiting to first sell their weapons and see Nigeria's population reduced in an ensuing conflagration, nobody knows. But whatever may be their ulterior motive or reason for their reluctance for not stepping in now to help resolve the burning issues of agitations in Nigeria, the problem on the other side, should a total outbreak of conflict ensue, will be one heck of a load for the world to bear. Wisdom demands that it will be less costly for the world and Nigeria's human capital, for them to step in now and do the needful to reduce and possibly resolve the tension building up in Nigeria. 

If it is not possible, then to peacefully divide Nigeria as was done in South Sudan, Kosovo and other places where the construct of colonialism and capitalism forced irreconcilable ethnic groups to be lumped together into one unworkable political entity. If Luxembourg with less than 650,000 people can be a country, ditto so many other European countries of less than 5 million in population, why then can't Nigeria with over 200 million people be divided into as many countries as the people desire in order for peace to reign. But as with so many reasonable people, ICHEOKU says would rather Nigeria fixed its problems of fairness and equity among its various inhabitants, than to have it balkanized. 

But if dividing Nigeria becomes the only option that will avert a very destructive inevitable war in Nigeria's future date definite, for Christ's sake, hell yes, divide Nigeria into even six countries, if that is what it will take to avert such a fate befalling the world. Whatever needs to be done to avoid an implosion of the largest concentration of black people on earth and Africa's most populous country which is home to more than 20% of African population should be done and done now. The ICC should also take notice that the governments of President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya and President Muahammadu Buhari of Nigeria are gangster governments and they engage in international piracy of kidnapping and human trafficking. 

 HAPPY JULY 4TH AMERICA!

SHE EARNED THE RIGHT TO COMPETE IN THE OLYMPICS: LIFT THE BAN.

ICHEOKU says Sha'Carri Richardson earned it the hard right way, sweat and good ole guts. She did not cheat nor slept her way through to being simply the best female runner currently in America and preparatory to the Tokyo summer Olympics. She should therefore be allowed to go do her thing in Tokyo and show the world that when she can back it up with performance, it ain't arrogance flaunting what her mama gave to her; because all that swag, she got it from her mama. What her effort gave to her, let no frigging marijuana smoking be allowed to take it away. Sha'Carri Richardson rocks, so let her rock Tokyo Olympics. Please help fight for a review of her case. It is just an ordinary marijuana use and it is legal in Oregon. #LiftTheBan. 

SHE SMOKED MARIJUANA, SO?

 BAN HER FOR WHAT? SMOKING MARIJUANA? REALLY?

ICHEOKU says if Kamala Harris could be in the White House, so could Sha'Carri Richardson go to the Tokyo summer Olympics. They are both potheads but that did not stop them from excelling in their respective careers. #UnbanSha'Carri.

HAPPY JULY 4TH AMERICA: LET STAND WITH SHA'CARRI RICHARDSON.

ICHEOKU says with a mind laden by the suspension of sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson hereby wishes America a wonderful July 4th celebration. As we celebrate the independence of the United States of America, let us continue to improve each other and not needless demoralize people who are working so hard, trying to do good for themselves and also for the country. 

Sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson should rather be encouraged and supported and should not have been banned from the Tokyo Olympics for simply smoking marijuana. The punishment is too harsh; it does not fit the "crime" and is more than the "offense" which she allegedly committed by puffing some buds smoke. 

ICHEOKU says where are all those marijuana advocates, including those profiting millions from its use, standing up and protesting the decision by USADA. It is time to stand with Sha'Carri and demand justice and fairness for her and to "un-disqualify" her and allow her to shine at Tokyo Olympics. Happy 4th everybody. #StandWithSha'Carri. 

STAND WITH SHA'CARRI RICHARDSON: ASK USADA TO LIFT THE BAN.

ICHEOKU says she is a goddess of the tracks and her sun must not be deemed just because she smoked marijuana. Kamala Harris did and so did Bill Clinton, admitted he lied about not inhaling. Where are all the feminist females of America at, standing idly by, watching and doing nothing as their fellow woman is being taken out of the Tokyo Olympics just for marijuana use? How about BLM or is she not black enough or ain't black despite voting for Joe Biden to be protected and protested for? Please let everyone stand up and get the back of Sha'Carri Richardson as smoking marijuana should not be enough reason to take away her golden opportunity at Tokyo. ICHEOKU stands with her, how about you. #LetSha'CarriRun.

SHA'CARRI RICHARDSON: IF ONLY SHE WAS WHITE AND A TRANSGENDER.

ICHEOKU says her disqualification and suspension from the Tokyo Olympics is a loss to America as her otherwise assured 100 meters gold medal at the Olympics has now been voluntarily pawned away by the action of an overzealous United States Anti Doping Agency which took her out of the competition. Even the fact that she is a black woman who is trying to do good for herself and also her country should have been an added impetus not to strike her out of the competition. She should have been allowed to participate in the Olympics which she put everything training and preparing for; as that will encourage a lot of black women to be hopeful, convinced that there is still a way out of what they are used to and consider as "normal" life in the Hoods. 

She is a role model to millions of black women whose morals will now become dampened by her suspension from the Olympics for something as trivial as smoking weed, which is somewhat normal among millions of potheads. Instead of the suspension, the agency should have made her pay a fine since smoking marijuana is no longer a crime nor seen as something so serious that it is still being frowned at. Sha'Carri Robertson represents something huge in the black community, especially to black women, and this factor should have weighed heavily in the mind of the agency before they pulled the lever. 

So what if she smoked some marijuana, afterall the use of cannabis have been somewhat legalized in one form or the other in 45 out of the 50 States in America, including in Oregon where the sprinter did the joint; not to forget, inhaled too. As far as ICHEOKU is concerned, her eyes shows that she is a habitual marijuana user and did not just puff as a relief from the pain of losing her mother. But that notwithstanding, she did not break any law by smoking marijuana since it is no longer illegal to smoke pot in America except in only five other States. So, the real question which every unbiased mind should be asking is, who wants to take Sha'Carri Richardson out of the Tokyo Olympics and why? 

Why ban her for something as inconsequential as smoking marijuana, a mere recreational pastime which does not belong to the genre of performance enhancing metabolic opioids. Why take away her Olympic dream and a guaranteed gold Olympic medal on America's table just like that, simply because of a joint? She should not have even wasted her time trying to explain anything to anybody including that she was "triggered and blinded by the emotions, sadness and hurting" by the death of her mother and took some marijuana to cope. The reason is irrelevant; taking marijuana is not a crime and that is the pedestal on which she should have rested any "explanation". 

She should have instead strongly objected to and protested the decision reached by the USADA because marijuana is not metabolic steroids, did not add anything to her athletic ability and capability; and that it is no longer considered dangerous drug, the reason it has been legalized in almost all the States in America, including in Oregon. So, why punish her for indulging in a pastime which is not illegal or has anybody or any athlete ever improved or become better in what they do just because they took marijuana. 

ICHEOKU says Sha'Carri Richardson deserves a fair treatment and should been given a break and cut some slacks and allowed to compete in the Tokyo Summer Olympics. She lost her mother at a period she was preparing, training and trying to win some Olympics laurels for the United States of America. She was hurting but kept it hidden as she had a job to do, training to win Olympic medals for Team USA. At 21 years old, she is still a very young woman whose dream should be supported and not taken away through outright harsh disqualification from an Olympics which she has prepared for and now ready to deliver on. Athletes and sports personalities use drugs and worse drugs that is not marijuana. Many of them sometimes commit very bad acts trying to beat the system to improve their performance. 

But Sha'carri Richardson did not use such drugs and neither did she smoke marijuana in order to improve her fitness and ability so that she could win gold medals in the Tokyo Olympics. She merely took some recreational marijuana as she normally does. She is a naturally gifted born athlete, a gazelle, who trained for those races all natural and without any performance enhancing drugs. Marijuana did not make her more improved and better than her competitors. This is the only controlling factor which matters in her case and which should have influenced the agency's decision in her favor, period. 

So, irrespective of whatever else that might be contained in the agency's rule book regarding permissible substances which athletes might take, including marijuana, smoking marijuana should not by itself attract such a very harsh decision. If such law exists in the agency's rule book, it should be expunged because the use of marijuana in majority of American States have been decriminalized and somewhat fully legalized. A law applies to everyone and athletes should not be singled out and punished for what ordinary citizens cannot be similarly punished for. The legalization of marijuana use in most of American States provides a legal shield to any marijuana smoker including athletes from punishment and the agency should not be allowed to be a law unto themselves. 

Like Johnnie Cochran would say, if it doesn't fit you must acquit and not convict; so if it wasn't illegal, why punish the user. New Zealand is busy spiking the ball and trying to improve their country's odds at the medal table in Tokyo Olympics by securing a berth for a full grown 43 year old man to compete as a woman in the female weight lifting segment.  But here is the United States of America agency willfully and proactively, denying America an assured gold medal in the 100 meters race by depriving a medically certified full biological female her rightly earned opportunity to shine at Tokyo Olympics and be garlanded with a shinning gold medal for Team USA. Why take such a shot at America's foot by disqualifying Sha'Carri Richardson just because she smoked marijuana. How about Laurel Hubbard of New Zealand or is smoking marijuana now considered more egregious than a man suddenly claiming that he is a female? 

This is one issue which Black Lives Matter should rightly protest and demand for the unfair disqualification of a black woman from the Tokyo Olympics to be reversed. Ditto feminist females of America in defense of a fellow female. But so far, it is cricket everywhere as BLM and all those women defenders have surprisingly gone radio silent on the matter of Sha'Carri Richardson. May be if it was the police that did the disqualification, that would have since triggered them into action and by now they would have taken over the streets, burning and looting; and demanding that Sha'carri Richardson be "un-disqualified" or they will not stop. 

They would have insisted that she be allowed to participate in the Tokyo Olympics because she is a woman and women should be treated fairly. They would have also claimed that she was disqualified simply because she is black and that it is yet another evidence of "structural" racism in America. Then add the fact that she also voted for Joe Biden in the last presidential election and therefore eminently black and should not have been disqualified on the ground that she ain't black. It is sad that a man who took hormonal drugs claiming that his mind tells him that he is a woman will be allowed to compete in the Tokyo Olympics, but a bona fide woman and a black woman for that matter, will not be allowed to compete in the same Tokyo Olympics simply because she smoked marijuana.  What an absurdity or is marijuana now more outrageous than transgender? 

Anyway, although this Tokyo Olympics opportunity to shine has been taken away from Sha'Carri Richardson, there will be another opportunity for her to shake her tail feathers in four years time.  She is still a young woman and hopefully will learn not to take whatever the agency prohibits so close to any competition next time. But that gal is fierce looking and ICHEOKU is loving every aspect of her, including her "whatever" mien. As for those body tattoos, body piercings and colored hairstyling, they suit her personality, a free spirited soul who likes being expressive. It is a way of life for her and tops it off with smoking marijuana. There is nothing wrong with that, especially as it does not effect her nor in any way inhibits her performance and athletic prowess. 

ICHEOKU says would have loved she was not disqualified from the Tokyo Olympics which will hold within the one month of her being suspended. She should hire some lawyers to protest the disqualification and see how far they can go in getting her back to the TeamUSA Tokyo Olympics roster. Her being in Tokyo Olympics would have exposed her to a lot of money making opportunities, including many products endorsements contracts. Her sun is currently shining as nobody knows what might happen to her athletic fortunes within the next four years when there will be another Olympics. 

There is something about Sha'carri Richardson that says take a look at me, I am here standing before you. ICHEOKU is emphatic that she would have moved so much products for any company that invested in her following her Tokyo Olympics performance. It is sad that the opportunity is now gone with the wind of her suspension. #LetSha'CarriCompete.

PRESIDENT UHURU KENYATTA: SIGNED OFF ON THE KIDNAP OF MAZI NNAMDI KANU?

ICHEOKU says would rather wish that he did not do it as that will forever tarnish his image and remain an indelible stain on him, his family and his country Kenya; and will forever haunt them for generations to come. How could such a youthful leader be so indifferent to the plight of millions of marginalized peoples of Biafra who are suffering untold hardship in Nigeria, which Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is championing their cause, to accommodate such a junta abduction by the murderous Muhammadu Buhari's maladministration of Nigeria of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. A man who was merely visiting Kenya and who did not break any Kenyan law nor entered Kenya unlawfully. If a visitor to Kenya cannot be safe and his security cannot be guaranteed, what then is the point of visiting Kenya. May be it is about time to call for a general boycott of Kenya as an unsafe place to visit.

ICHEOKU says wants to believe that the story is not true and at best, was the handiwork of his overzealous security agents who unofficially collaborated with Nigeria in orchestrating the kidnap to make some fast and quick easy money. But since President Uhuru Kenyatta is the president of Kenya, it means that the buck stops on his desk on everything that happens in Kenya and therefore he is responsible for the kidnap of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu which happened in his country. It is condemnable and it stands here condemned by ICHEOKU and it must be avenged. Biafrans should start an immediate boycott of everything "boycott-able" in Kenya and if married to any of their women or men, the time to divorce them is now because Kenyans have shown that they cannot be trusted. 

What manner of man is this Uhuru Kenyatta anyway that he could carry out such an illegal act of piracy against a man who was legally traveling through Kenya and on valid transit visa and who did not commit any crime against the Kenyan government. What would his late father, former President Jomo Kenyatta, do and would he be proud that his sire turned into such a turncoat that now betrays a cause so dear to a people, the over 80 million Biafrans worldwide? ICHEOKU says the denial being mounted by Kenyan Immigration chief as well as their High Commissioner in Nigeria, notwithstanding, every finger is pointing at Kenya as the country in which Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was kidnapped and until the contrary is proved, President Uhuru Kenyatta and his country people remain solely responsible for assisting Nigeria government kidnap Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

It shall not be well with Kenya's President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta for what he did. Why would he approve the kidnap of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who was on a visit to Nairobi and handed him over to his traducers, the Nigeria government. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was on a legitimate visit to Kenya in continuation of his sensitization mission about Biafra which he has been taking around the world.  Why the treachery or has he not been following the situation in Nigeria where Fulani herdsmen have been murdering, maiming, raping, burning and destroying peoples properties and farmlands. Did President Uhuru Kenyatta not aware that Nigerians are tired of the impunity of the Fulani and are agitating for a better and fair treatment for every Nigeria, irrespective of religion and tribe. Does he not know what led to the agitation, which Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is leading but one angle of it. 

How much bounty did Aso Rock place on Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and how much was personally offered President Uhuru Kenyatta for Mazi Nnamdi Kanu that he could not resist, that turned  him into a Judas Iscariot. How could he be this devilish as to betray and toy with the wellness and happiness of over 120 million Biafrans, particularly the 80 million of them Igbo people, that constitute Biafra. Just look into those blood stained bush baby eyes of his and you will see a man who is amenable and vulnerable to the persuasion of dollar bills, having first sold his country out to the Chinese. Now, selling Mazi Nnamdi Kanu out for a load of the green backs was not a big deal for him. What a greedy, bloody vermin this guy is. Is Africa so cursed that such a youthful leader refuses to see something good in freeing an oppressed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra and even to help them in achieving their desire for their own homeland where they can freely live and thrive. #ShameOnUhuruKenyatta

NEW YORK CITY'S MAYORAL ELECTION: MIRRORING NOVEMBER 3RD 2020 US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

ICHEOKU says still in doubt about what really happened on November 3rd, 2020 with the United States of America's presidential election, look at what is going on in New York City with the yet to be declared mayoral election result and be guided. It is over ten day since the election was held on June 22, 2021, yet the New York Board of Elections are still tinkering with the votes and have not declared the result. 

Apparently because the leading candidate, Eric Adams, was not supposed to be leading and at the threshold of victory because he is not the candidate of the woke wing of the party. They are searching for votes everywhere and possibly manufacturing some votes as well all in order to alter his  lead. It was done in November 3rd and it could be replicated today and some day, they will announce a "winner" of their choice after finding enough votes to back their decision. 

Eric Adams, a former police officer with moderate but rational view on how to move New York City forward, including an effective crime fighting strategy, clearly led the pack of other 12 candidates, which included one former Democratic Party's presidential candidate aspirant Andrew Yang, with thousands of votes on election night. Because he is ideologically different and to the center, removed from the crazed out extremist far left nut jobs presently in control of the Democratic Party, he is being prevented from taking a victory lap in an election which he clearly won. This Alexander Ocasio Cortez's wing of the party is hellbent on not allowing the guy win the election against their own sponsored and preferred candidate Kathryn Garcia who came a distant second on election night with a deficit of more than 100,000 votes. 

As a result, they have started their manipulating shenanigan, suddenly finding "previously" uncounted votes, some from underneath rocks, some from underneath the Statue of Lady Liberty, some from underneath Brooklyn bridge as well as from other such dark and dank crevices in the five boroughs. It is eerily similar and reminiscent of November 3rd, 2020 night when President Donald John Trump's clear lead over Joseph Robinette Biden suddenly began to evaporate as soon as the counting and collation of votes was abruptly suspended. Adding to the similarity, all the newly votes being discovered are equally breaking for his opponents, particularly for the candidate of the extremist far left who was endorsed by the wild one, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. 

Now, can those people who said that Joe Biden's White House was not a product of the Deep State's machination explain to ICHEOKU why the center right guy democrat in New York is now being prevented from claiming a victory which the people of New York City handed to him on election night June 22nd, 2021. Sadly, the Democratic Party is now being held hostage by the same beast of extremists which they cultivated in their desperate bid to get back to the White House. They made so many unsavory alliances leading up to the November 3rd, 2020 election and the Frankenstein monster is now beginning to bite their behind. Now their falcon can no longer hear their falconer and mere anarchy is being let loose inside the Democratic Party earth and their center can no longer hold. 

Even the outgoing and soon to be replaced Mayor Bill de Blasio lamented as much, stating that New York City Election Board has failed woefully in their duty to the City as the election which they conducted was flawed in so many ways. He lost his confidence in the supposed umpire and expressed so unreservedly. It is now a scenario of dog eat dog and the macabre experience inside the Democratic Party leaves much to be desired. The far left wing of the Democratic Party in New York has made it very difficult for the reasonable party members and forces every knee must bow to their extremism or nothing will be allowed in their favor. Now, even a mayoral election has been bugged down by their craziness, their wokeism of rank choice now cancelling legitimately cast votes and frustrating a duly elected candidate from declaring victory. 

Regardless, ICHEOKU says is still optimistic that the law and order guy, Eric Adams, will eventually prevail, claim his victory, be sworn in as the next Mayor of New York City and go on to become a wonderful and exceptional mayor. Hopefully too, he will deliver on his promises and  provide New Yorkers the Mayor they deserve, but which they never had in the outgoing Bill de Blasio. With an improved safety and security as he promised, New York City will once again rebound as the great and wonderful city which everyone can once again believe in and be proud of. Eric Adams will definitely be a breath of fresh air to New York, unlike the soon to be gone loathsome Bill de Blasio who brought so much pain and hardship on New Yorkers in his attempt to be woke and blacker than Joe Biden would even approve. Anyway, let see what happens. 

BILL COSBY'S CONVICTION OVERTURNED: FREE AT LAST.

ICHEOKU says the Supreme Court of the great State of Pennsylvania has finally stepped in to undo a wrong and do the right thing, for a man who was treated unfairly by a limelight-seeking and fame-obsessed prosecutor, who discarded an earlier agreement that was reached by his predecessor with Bill Cosby over his 5th Amendment rights. Everybody understands that basic constitutional right which guarantees  protection against self incrimination. 

Bill Cosby also understood this and only cooperated with the former prosecutor based on their agreement that his inalienable right against self incrimination was sacrosanct; and that he will not be prosecuted based on anything which he might say, reveal or "admit" in the civil deposition. It was signed, sealed and delivered upon which Bill Cosby agreed to testify and in the process, made statements which he would otherwise not have made and which the succeeding prosecutor then used to prosecute him, resulting in his conviction and sentence of ten years imprisonment. 

Many unbiased minds had called his conviction for what it was, an act to destroy Bill Cosby's image at whatever cost.  A government is a continuity and agreements reached by a previous prosecutor is and should remain binding on the successor. Good enough the wise Justices have intervened to end the absurdity and restored faith in dealings between citizens and the government, including reestablishing the inviolability of contracts and that contracts must be respected. It was the right thing to do in order to encourage citizens to enter contracts with government, knowing that it will be respected and honored. 

ICHEOKU says is thankful that Bill Cosby did not die in prison as his traducers wanted and wished for. At 83 years old, he should be enjoying his eclipsing golden years on earth peacefully, in the quiet comforts of his home surrounded by those who love him dearly, including his wife of so many years. He does not belong in the prison nor does the six by ten feet prison cell a desirable abode for him, especially for a man who has impacted so many lives and bequeathed so much kindness on a lot of people. He worked for his good life and should enjoy it in peace.

It is a good day in America when justice is served right and the overturn of Bill Cosby's conviction and release from prison, after serving three out of the ten years sentence, is one such justice served right. ICHEOKU says thanks to the Justices of Pennsylvania State Supreme Court for correcting the injustice done to Bill Cosby. Welcome home Bill Cosby, the all time father of America and he remains same to a lot of American people, regardless of the attempted lynching through the justice system that was used to tarnish his name and destroy his character. Kudos too to his appellate attorneys for their tenacity which birthed this verdict. It is well.

DONALD RUMSFELD DEAD AT 88 YEARS: ADIEU MR KNOWN UNKNOWN.

ICHEOKU says he was a character in absolutism, very confident of himself, optimally self assured and unapologetically American. He was a statesman extraordinaire who dutifully served his country in various capacities. While his fans say he discharged his duties excellently very well, his detractors will dismiss him as an arrogant blood thirsty cocky individual who plunged America into two needless and avoidable wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. 

ICHEOKU says loves his playful use of words, his famed "known unknown" which most people will remember him for; he sort of became a wordsmith because of it. "There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we don't know we don't know.  

ICHEOKU says Donald Rumsfeld was a  great man and will be remembered for different things and for different reasons by so many different people, depending on their respective politics. He died of infirmities of old age and now headed to the real unknown unknown that is the other side. The former two time defense secretary was 88 years old. Rest on Rummy. Adieu.

IPOB LEADER MAZI NNAMDI KANU WAS ABDUCTED BY NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT.

ICHEOKU says if it is the Interpol, every country that is a signatory to it honors the request of any other signatory country to extradite any of its citizen who it accuses of a crime but who took up refuge in the host country. But Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is a British citizen with full residential rights in Britain and is not just ordinarily taking refuge in Britain, so what happened to his British citizenship? Why did the Boris Johnson British government acquiesce to his abduction under the color of arrest and agreed to his extradition to Nigeria and not refuse the request by Nigerian government since he is a British citizen? If he was abducted from another country, when will 10 Downing Street demand his release and return back to London as a British citizen who not subject to Nigerian jurisdictional authority?

It will be abhorable if the British government does not protect a British citizen Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from his native country Nigeria's government quest for vengeance and retribution. Such indifference will only demonstrates that some foreign citizenships are not necessarily worth their weight in gold and that they do not protect their naturalized citizens with the same vigor they protect their native born citizens. What then will such naturalized citizenship still be worth when such adopted country cannot protect the holder of its such citizenship. How can Britain permit such an abominable act and not defend and protect Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from the long arm of a country from which he ran away from, denounced and disavowed before taking British citizenship; especially when he is fighting for freedom and is against human rights violations in Nigeria. 

Although the details of his arrest: how he was arrested, where he was arrested and how he was brought back to Nigeria are still sketchy, but he is now in the custody of Nigeria government in Abuja. If the statement of Nigeria's Attorney General is any guide, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was abducted from a foreign country and flown back to Nigeria in the dead of the night on June 27th, 2021. According to his office, Nnamdi Kanu has been "intercepted" and brought back to Nigeria to continue his ongoing trial after disappearing from the country. A trial bothering on terrorism, treasonable felony, managing an unlawful society, publication of defamatory matter and illegal possession of firearms. According to the AG, upon jumping bail, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu engaged in subversive activities including inciting of violence through television, radio and online broadcasts against the Nigerian state and institutions. 

ICHEOKU says the operative word here is "intercepted" which connotes that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was literally hijacked enroute a destination which is not Nigeria. He was in another country or  going there when the Nigeria government forced the issue and had him detained, handed over to the Nigeria authorities and flown back to Nigeria. It means that the Nigerian government literary kidnapped Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and forcibly took him hostage back to Nigeria. It reminds ICHEOKU of the Umaru Dikko attempted kidnap in London in 1985 when the same Muhammadu Buhari was head of State in Nigeria. The then former Transport Minister in the President Shehu Shagari government which Muhammadu Buhari military junta had overthrown in a military coup, was on self exile in London when Muhammadu Buhari's regime contracted some international kidnappers to kidnap and bring him back to Nigeria. 

They nearly succeeded with the piracy as they had kidnapped Umaru Dikko, drugged him, put him in a shipping crate and were waiting for a Nigerian plane to evacuate the load at Stansted airport back to Nigeria when they were busted. But for Umaru Dikko's secretary who witnessed the kidnap and notified Scotland Yard which sent a country wide alert, the customs would not have known to detain the plane which was about to take off for Nigeria and discovered Umaru Dikko with three of his kidnappers inside the container marked as "Diplomatic baggage." So, is it possible that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu suffered the same Umaru Dikko's experience, admitted his own succeeded as he has now been "brought" back to Nigeria. From the way he was looking, very despondent and disheveled, he could still be suffering from whatever was injected into his body. 

ICHEOKU says now that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been apprehended with the help of Interpol and flown back to Nigeria to continue with his ongoing but temporarily suspended trial, with probably an amended charge sheet to include a retinue of other charges, what becomes of IPOB. Who will step in his shoes and what is the fate of the millions of Biafran people who have invested their hope in the promise of a Biafra rebirth now that their champion and chief promoter of the Biafra project is in the custodial detention of their chief traducer, the Nigeria State. Will it be a case of cut off the snake's head and watch the rest of the body wither away or will the Nigeria State act differently in order not to provoke a resort to full armed resistance and struggle by millions of his followers. 

How will the Nigeria State play its hand going forward, aware that the world have taken notice of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and will be paying very close attention to the latest development, admitted discreetly. Unfortunately, there is no clearly discernible apparent authority figure in the IPOB who can effectively step into Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's shoes and effectively continue to pilot the affairs of IPOB. It is one sad thing about how he ran the organization so far, too much centralized authority without a functional organizational chart and instituted hierarchical order of succession, through which another leader can emerge to continue leading the struggle. 

If only he had in place, a decentralized organization without being the sole face and "administrator of IPOB, his deputy would have immediately stepped in to continue holding the forte and navigating the tiller of IPOB ship pending whatever happens. But like with so many people, there was a rift between him and his former deputy Mazi Uche Mefor and it led to the elimination of the "office" of a deputy leader of IPOB. Now, that decision has come to haunt IPOB as there is no one to automatically step in to carry the mantle of leadership in his absence. 

However, the good news is that no matter what becomes the final fate of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, whether he is hung or sent to prison for life, what he accomplished cannot be easily dismissed. He has introduced Biafra to millions of people all over the world and rekindled the spirit of Biafra in the hearts of millions of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), many of who were not even born when Biafra was first conceived and fought for. 

There is a new spirit in the land of Biafra that fervently craves for an independent State of Biafra and no amount of intimidation, kidnapping, torture and killing, including the possibility of convicting and even executing Mazi Nnamdi Kanu can ever erase. Instead it will make the agitation for Biafra more relentless as new leaders will emerge to carry on the flag and many more will still rise in the future to continue with the struggle. 

When Odumegwu Ojukwu first conceived the idea of an independent Biafra nation and went to war for it, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was still a baby in diapers. Nobody ever knew that 50 odd years later that he will rise to become a leader of IPOB pursuing the same independent Biafra business. It is evident that nobody can ever kill an idea, regardless of how many of the people sharing the idea that are killed, imprisoned, tortured, kidnapped and/or purposefully marginalized and dehumanized. The Jews thought that by killing Jesus Christ that his preaching against some aspects of Judaism will simply disappear, but look where followers of Christ have taken his message, globally. The leadership in Ankara thought that by imprisoning Ocalan that PKK will just wilt away, but PKK has not disappeared several decades after. 

Even the Catalonia agitation in Spain is still giving the government in Madrid sleepless nights, wondering what next to do to resolve the issue. Western Polisario Front is still ongoing till today, so many decades following their desire to be separated from Morocco. Yasser Arafat's PLO gave birth to a Palestinian government in Ramallah and the Gaza Strip. So yes, freedom fighting is not easy and it is not a task for the faint hearted or the 'I want it now" crowd. No, it is not a walk in the park or an endeavor which accommodates time or the consciousness of watch wearers. As Nelson Mandela once said, there is no easy walk to freedom anywhere; and many freedom fighters pass through the valley of the shadow of death several times before reaching the mountaintop of their desired freedom. 

ICHEOKU prays that this latest tribulation of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, his arrest, is the last valley of the shadow of death which he will pass through. That with it, he has made the last and final payment in the installation payment for Biafra which down payment was made by Odumegwu Ojukwu in 1966 and now he will reach the mountain top of the realization of Biafra. He has sacrificed so much personally with leading the agitation for Biafra through the IPOB and has earned the right to be rewarded with a Biafra come through. He fought the good fight and now ought to reap the reward. 

May Chukwu Okeke Abiam protect him, guard his mouth from eating or drinking any compromised edible, solid or liquid; and also put a steel shield as an overcoat over his body and make it impenetrable and impermeable to any toxins, whether injected or aerosolized. It is well with Biafra and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's name is indelibly added to the pantheons of great people to have ever walked the soil of Biafra. God be with him IJN.

ICHEOKU CONGRATULATES ENGLAND.

ICHEOKU says ate the crow as England surprised everybody by defeating Germany 2:0, the first time ever during the last 56 years of many encounters between them. So, although ICHEOKU predicted that Germany will beat England, but it was not out of an irrational projection, based on antecedent. 

Germany played their hearts out but they were not lucky to convert the many missed goal scoring opportunities. Anyway, not making excuses here, just to want to admit that ICHEOKU was wrong. Congratulations to Her Majesty's subjects, all the best in the quarter finals Brits. 

PRESIDENT JACOB ZUMA SENT TO PRISON: GOOD TIDINGS.

ICHEOKU says former President Jacob Zuma of South Africa has been sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for contempt of court. The former polygamous South African leader has repeatedly disrespected the court and flouted several orders for appearance in his ongoing corruption trial. A  rather recalcitrant behavior which the court described as "defiance and unlawful" and for which he will be punished. 

The court had enough of his misbehavior and decided to send a strong message to him by jailing him for 15 months, with the hope according to the judge, that it "sends an unequivocal message that the rule of law and the administration of justice always prevails". 

ICHEOKU says a very good step in the right direction towards instilling discipline in so many Africans. Hopefully too, it will serve as a deterrent to the proverbial African "big" men and women, who always see themselves as untouchables and above the law, and orientate them that they are not. Thank you, Judge Sisi Khampepe for courageously doing the right thing. Off to prison Zuma goes!