HAITI PRESIDENT ASSASSINATED: ADIEU MR PRESIDENT.

ICHEOKU says how could such a despicable act be allowed and still possible within the United States of America geopolitical sphere of influence. That a democratically elected and still serving president of Haiti was summarily assassinated inside his home in the country's presidential palace in Port-Au-Prince capital city of Haiti and in this 21st century, previous centuries' assassinations of presidents by the CIA considered. 

It does not make sense and defies of every possible logic that Haiti's president could be murdered just like that and you wonder who else is safe in that country if their president was not. It is condemnable and it stands here condemned by ICHEOKU. It seems that the curse of Haiti never ceases giving its gory gifts and now it is the highest political office holder in the land that it has just claimed. It is sad. President Jovenel Moise was only 53 years old. Adieu Mr President. 

MAZI NNAMDI KANU THREW CAUTION TO THE WIND IN VISITING KENYA?

ICHEOKU says although this is not the time for apportioning blames, but truth be told, a man so exposed to danger and public enemy number one of the Nigerian government, who knew that the Nigerian government wanted him dead or alive, should not have traveled to any African country. Kenya in particular should have been self red-flagged because of their antecedents of arbitrary renditions and history of seizures and repatriations of self exiled citizens of other countries who are wanted by their home countries but who happen to be found on Kenya soil. 

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu should have been aware of the overwhelming influence which Nigeria exerts on the African continent because of its oil money which it spreads in great largess to majority of African countries, without which many of them would have probably gone belly up, broke and bankrupt. But he went anyway and now he is cooling his heels inside one of Nigeria's underground dungeons or rather glorified detention facility in Abuja; if not in one secret, dark and dank cave  somewhere in Sokoto State being guarded by Fulani herdsmen and their cows just for maximum effect. 

Such a personality should not have been traveling rather recklessly and not to Africa; and would have rather sent his aide to go and represent him in whatever business that sent him to Kenya. It was too risky a proposition going to Kenya which his abduction and sell off to Nigeria proves beyond any shadow of doubt. He should have learnt basic lessons 101 of freedom fighting from renown freedom fighters of the world on why they avoid needless exposures. Such usually easily provide the government they are fighting against, the golden opportunity to nab or kill them and with it, end or cripple their struggle. This is why most fabled freedom fighters usually change their "zip code" to the forest and/or bushes in order to make nabbing them difficult. 

But he was enjoying a "five star lifestyle, living in luxury apartment and jetting around in luxurious chartered private jets", which telegraphed to Nigerian authorities a bold red lettered message, "here I am, come and capture me if you can" and of course they did, admitted it took them two long years plus of careful planning. It was avoidable but we cannot and should not dwell on what could have been as now is time to figure out what lies ahead. 

It is regrettable and rather unfortunate that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu sheepishly walked into the snare of his enemy, as walking into any African country is tantamount to walking into Aso Rock. He could have as well saved himself the agonizing torture of the Kenyan government and protected his body from the unknown effects of tranquilizer by simply boarding a flight straight from Heathrow to Nnamdi Azikwe Airport and handed himself over to the first sighted uniformed officer upon arrival. Nigeria's long arm touches and reaches every nook and cranny in Africa, from West to East and from North to South. 

As a country which underwrites most African Union and many African countries' expenses, sometimes supplying some of them with power when Nigerians have no light; allowing their citizens to study free on Nigerian scholarship in Nigerian universities and colleges; providing them with manpower including jurists and technicians; building infrastructures for them such as railway lines, bridges and roads; and in some of the countries even providing them with their armed forces as well as commanding officers, Nigeria maintains a great leverage over Africa countries. So it is either Mazi Nnamdi Kanu did not do his homework on personal security very well by visiting Kenya or he was awfully arrogant in believing that he has become such an untouchable that nothing will happen to him in Kenya.

ICHEOKU watched a recent interview which Mazi Nnamdi Kanu granted a journalist during his last visit to America, which was just a few weeks before he was abducted in Kenya. The female journalist/interviewer had expressed concern about his safety and security and wanted to know why he still travels around freely and so too often; and whether he is not afraid of being captured or even killed by his enemies, particularly the Nigerian authorities. His response was rather dismissively off handedly, that people have been saying that he cannot travel to America because he will be arrested on sight. But that here he is in America and nobody bothered him, not in the plane, not through the immigration and customs which shows that he is a free man and can freely travel to anywhere, whenever he wants. He added that he is not afraid of the Janjaweed Nigerian government because what is in him is greater than them. 

Anyway, as the saying goes, the rest is now history as they ended up abducting him because he suddenly became too relaxed, otherwise why didn't they capture him since the past two years plus they have been hunting him. So, was his abduction in Kenya an otherwise avoidable embarrassment to both himself, the IPOB and other supporters worldwide to whom he was morphing into an invincible legend, which a little humility would have prevented? If he had advisers who he listens to and seeks their counseling before doing anything including traveling, would they have signed off on the Kenya trip? Would they not have figured out the high probability of his being nabbed in Kenya because of Nigeria's extensive influence on the African continent? 

Why was it not obvious to him and his inner council that every country in Africa will be looking for such an opportunity to please Nigeria with the capture of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and make Nigeria perpetually indebted to them for the favor. These impoverished African countries also know that there was a bounty on the head of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and that the Nigerian government will in addition reward them with a check with many zeros as in appreciation. So, why did he travel to Kenya or is it possible that he was counseled against it but he waved it off as "rubbish" and stubbornly traveled to Kenya anyway. Did he think that being a British citizen, that the Kenyan authorities cannot mess with him or seize him and pawn him over to Nigerian government. 

But Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not saying nor disclosing any of the underlying factors of his trip to Kenya, at least not yet. His counsel's reportage of the circumstances surrounding his abduction from Kenya left so many details out such as why he was in Kenya; why he thought it was safe for him to travel to Kenya; what did the Kenya authorities accused him of doing before detaining and taking him into custody. It also did not explain why they tortured him for eight long days and whether they were seeking to coarse a particular information from him and what the information was. 

Was the torture an effort to make him admit or confess to a crime and what crime was it that made them subject him to serious bodily and psychological torture, including physical abuse, beatings, sleep deprivation and waterboarding. Was there any petition for his arrest and detention that led to the harried experience which he endured in Kenya before he was bundled back to Nigeria. Like Jesus Christ before Pontus Pilate, did he invoke Her Majesty's sovereign as a subject of the British Crown and citizen of Britain who is not subject to Nigerian authorities. Did he seek assistance of the British High Commissioner in Nairobi and was he given an opportunity to file a petition against his return to Nigeria or was everything shrouded in illegality.

These are the issues of concern which should occupy everybody now and not that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu "deserves" what happened to him because he "insults everybody and respects nobody" and that "those who would have come to his aid were all insulted by him." This time has no room for reclamations or pointing of accusatory fingers as all hands must be on deck to secure his freedom or force the Nigerian government to deal fairly and equitably with him in incarceration. His cause is for the greater good of the people, both Biafrans and other Nigerians, who he has now opened their eyes to the impunities of the Fulani nomadic death merchants and land grabbers. The least we all should do now is to show support in appreciation for all his sacrifices and keep whatever misgivings against him in the back burner and may be get back to them later after securing his freedom.

It is obvious that some of his utterances were not convivial, but it could be that he was so incensed and overly reacting because of the Nigerian parlous situation which has made majority of Nigerians raving mad and fuming with anger. So such less congenial choice of words of his should be excused as a product of deep seated frustration caused by the Nigeria State and for which every Nigerian, in his or her right mind, should be righteously frustrated as well. What is going on in Nigeria can make anybody run literary mad, so being frustrated is a less evil in comparison. A country which is not formally at war but has such a dire living conditions worse than most countries at war. 

Although his approach and methodology could probably use some finesse and fine tuning, but it is understandable that something triggered him that made him to throw every caution and decorum to the winds, including less regard for his own personal safety. So, it is possible that he was using those "speak" to force people to pay attention to the message which she was delivering and spreading, and not necessarily because of any particular disdain or hatred he has or harbors for anyone or group or religion. He craved attention of a Nigerian people that are obstinately tuned out of their problems and went for the shock treatment with some acerbic words and foul languages to ensure that people are compelled to hear him out.

Even Jesus Christ was mad severally according to the Bible and even cursed out a fig tree as well as chased money changers out of the temple. So, we should judge Mazi Nnamdi Kanu based on the meat of his message and not the disposable bone which has no relevance to the dinner plate. He is frustrated just like millions of other Nigerians by the so many missed opportunities and he is calling attention to them and trying to make millions of "drooling" Nigerians wake up from their stupor. We should therefore not allow our sentimental attachments to needless ancient obeisance and obsequiousness to cloud our sights to the message which Mazi Nnamdi Kanu brought to Nigerians, the need to checkmate Fulani avowed domination of the country. 

The fundamentals of his message must not be allowed to be eclipsed by our distaste for his "uncouth" mannerism and/or lack of "respect for elders" such that we chose to throw away the baby with the bath water. We must not kill the messenger just because he brought a good message with a bad attitude. This moment calls for real logical discerning and the ability to sieve the wheat from the chaff; and also to understand that as humans, we are all fallible. Lets do something with his message that Nigeria could be better and run in a more equitable and just manner than it is being presently run. It is in the best interest of the plurality of Nigerians that a more functional Nigeria is berthed and with it, instead of all the agitations for separatist Nations, Nigerians will be working to build a Nigeria that will be the envy of the rest of the world or at least black Africa and stop being the pariah it presently is where everybody wants to run away from. #MNKdeservesOurSupport.

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.