GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Saturday, July 24, 2021

TOKYO 2020 OLYMPICS: AN OLYMPICS LIKE NO OTHER, MIGHT AS WELL NEVER HELD.

ICHEOKU says that the Tokyo Olympics is holding is an indication of the misplaced value of the International Olympics Committee and the Japanese National Olympics Committee on financial gains over peoples lives and the original ideals of the Athenian gift to the world to bring the world's people together in celebration through sports. Having postponed it before, why not just postpone it again or even indefinitely until such a time that the Chinese coronavirus would have been effectively, fully controlled and to the point that it is no longer threatening civilization and not infecting people so much. 

The essence of the Olympics is to celebrate humanity through sports, so what is the point holding the Olympics when humanity cannot celebrate themselves, rejoicing, backslapping one another and mixing and mingling freely. The Tokyo Olympics is so weird and generally not Olympics like that some of the rules of engagement or rather non engagement mirrors an Olympics that is steadily looking like a sterilization camp rather than a gathering of the world's best athletes using sports to celebrate world's people. It is so bad that not even medals will be hung on the athletes by Olympics officials; rather they will pick the medals up themselves and then do with it whatever they please. 

Even Olympics condoms which are being distributed among the athletes are specifically "marked" to be used only when the Olympics games end and possibly in their own respective countries but definitely not in Tokyo. Then add the cardboard sleeping beds for the athletes which is to ensure any extra weight on it will lead to its collapse; and you wonder why persons bent on making out cannot simply lay sheets on the floor and get on with their thing, since sex is not bed exclusive. Then there is the fleeting seconds allowed for chatting up fellow athletes and the food which must be chowed down in seconds as well. There is also the empty stadiums and arenas where athletes will perform without spectators or fans cheering them on. 

They literary took the Olympics out of the event and it is not a case of where one half loaf is better than none; no, there is no loaf at all in this case as the supposed half loaf is biscuit and not bread. So, why still proceed with the Olympics if it must be held in such an austere and sterile condition; and not defer it to such a future time when it can be held the proper and right way which Olympics are know for. 

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics was supposed to have held last summer 2020 but never did because of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. The coronavirus is still with us in 2021, so why hold it now? If it was postponed once, why not postponed it again and until when society is freed of the coronavirus scourge, however long that might be. Japan would have been given the right of first refusal to host it before it moves to any other host country. Such an outcome would have been much better than holding an Olympics which is a mere shadow or rather a ghostly apparition of a typical Olympics.  A Tokyo Olympics with no fans, no tourists, no spectators, no fun and no world's peoples from every part of the globe singing kumbaya in celebration of one another in peace, harmony and joyfulness is not an Olympics in the strict sense of it. 

But the show must go on as fat cats are eager to recover as much money as they possibly can from an investment which is already looking every inch bankrupt. The Tokyo Olympics is going to end up in near total complete loss for host country Japan, its National Olympics Organizing Committee as well as the International Olympics Committee. So, all these factors considered, why then still proceed with it as no prudent mind will make such a decision unless there is something which they have not disclosed yet that shows the merits outweigh the demerits of proceeding with the Olympics under the circumstances.

ICHEOKU says the Tokyo Olympics was marred even before it started in cost overruns, many scandals including the president Yoshiro Mori being forced out because of political correctness wokeness due to a statement that "talkative women tends to make meetings last too long." Then the president of International Olympics Committee Thomas Bach called Japanese people Chinese and dismissed such an egregious misconstruction without apologizing in Japanese; unlike John Cena who profusely apologized to China in Cantonese for mistakenly referring to Taiwan as an independent country. There was also the scandal with the music director and the comment about Nazi and of course Sha'Carri Richardson's was banned for inhaling marijuana which Kamala Harris also did, but which Bill Clinton only puffed on it but did not inhale. 

Anyway, fireworks does not make an Olympics; it is the interactions and records that are broken as well as other interplays among the athletes such as the one for which condoms are freely supplied. It also includes other extracurricular activities and the many pictures and videos taken with newly made friends and places traveled and explored outside the Olympics village quarantine zone. It also includes the food, drinks, parties and cultural experiences shared and taken in, none of which will be part of the Tokyo 2020 experience. So, what manner of Olympics will it be anyway without all the pomp and pageantry usually associated with Olympics games. Many people are tuned off and not watching as they have more life challenging issues in this days of COVID-19 and other overwhelming natural disasters plaguing the world. 

ICHEOKU is watching only the USWNT to see what happens next after their abysmal performance against Sweden. Hopefully they will extend the watching time or son of man will be signing off with their exit from Tokyo. The other person who would have deserved time spent on the couch is unfortunately not participating in the Olympics because of a foolish decision against inhaling marijuana which will cost the United States of America an Olympic gold medal in the women 100 meters race. Sha'Carri Robinson should not have been banned for inhaling marijuana smoke and if it was because of the rule and the rule is the rule, the rule should have been waived for her as the rule was waived for two Defense Secretaries, the present and another one in the past. But hey, the games have begun and may the medals count reward those countries who are better than the others. 

Friday, July 23, 2021

HUNGARY STRONG: EUROPEAN UNION MUST STOP THE BULLYING.

ICHEOKU says not even a husband and wife living together under one roof have shared values that are 100% in tandem with each other. So, why is the European Union forcing and blackmailing Hungary to an "all or nothing" deal on the issues of homosexuality and diluting their Christian society with Islamism. Why must Hungary be made to agree to this two issues as a precondition to accessing EU funding, when they are an independent country with entrenched values rooted in their Christian beliefs and ideological standing. It is akin to asking a person to first forsake his family before the person can draw on a membership benefits of a club. 

So, what if such are in the charter of the European Union; why not place more emphasis on realizing the core objectives of why the club was set up. The European Union was primarily set up as one hub for all economic activities and travels in Europe; so why the deviation to rather mundane issues which are rather personal to the 27 member countries respectively. What has homosexuality and Islamism got to do with a member country being in good standing? Must the other European countries which have been smitten by the nut job, leftist, woke culture now force other remaining and still sensible European countries to also join them in their mass suicide. Even Jim Jones did not force his 900 followers to drink the cyanide laced cool-aid in the 1978 Jonestown Guyana massacre, he merely persuaded them. 

So, why is the European Union being so mean and indifferent to Hungary's peculiar religious and cultural way of life and now deploying threats of withholding of financial assistance and economic deprivation as weapons of pressure. Of what benefit will homosexuality and islamism be to Hungary anyway that the European Union is forcing them to accept them? If those other countries which have lost their backbones, capitulated and under the scourge of the two experimentations find the two oddities acceptable to them, so be it. But the EU must allow other countries which still have sound minds and good heads on their shoulders to maintain their way  of living and keep the two strangers out of their own immediate geographical space. 

Like Hungary has repeatedly stated, they are not against anyone from being whatever they want to be; but they want their children not to be indoctrinated with certain unnatural absurdities such as certain lifestyles which are better kept personal and not forcibly foist on the society as an acceptable way of life. They also want to keep their society safe from Islamists terrorists attacks and frequent slaughtering of their Hungarian citizens. ICHEOKU says Hungary reserves the right to be accommodated because despite political correctness, same sex is still largely seen as an abnormality and an act so unnatural that the animal kingdom still holds it off and not partaking in it because it is an aberration. Even the plant kingdom too understands this fact and respects it through pollination. 

But since not every one in any given society is sane, so it is expected that there will be some queers in every society; but that does not make it alright to hold up such lifestyle as the new normal and/or natural. The human gnome and body cells sometimes make some mistakes by replicating diseases causing cells, but that does not mean that these streaked cells should then become acceptable and allowed to dominate the good cells including occupying the discussion space. Why teach children about homosexuality and not allow them to grow up and find it out by themselves if that is what they want. Also, since the logic of "born that way" is also prevalent in the society as an argument in support, no child therefore needs to be indoctrinated to since the gnome will naturally trigger as they become matured. 

ICHEOKU says has nothing against anyone being expressive about whatever works for them; but believes that there is nothing in particular to be proud about or celebrate about homosexuality, because it is not an honor to be one and it is not a status that is earned. Nobody celebrates being normal and straight because it is the gold standard; so why celebrate the freaks of nature, who all things considered, should be feeling different because they are indeed different. Therefore, what is there to celebrate, except that they want to always be in peoples face trying to provoke ruckus where none exists. 

The good news however is that homosexuality has been as old as the world and so many people either know a person or have or had an uncle or an auntie who is "somehow" different. Even the Bible has a record on homosexuality in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. So nobody is saying that homosexuals should not exist, but that they should not force their lifestyle on the rest of society through propaganda and aggressiveness, in an attempt to supplant what is normal with rather their queerness. It is this overstepping of natural boundaries that Hungary is not allowing the European Union to help gay lobbyists forcibly achieve in Budapest, because it is both against their Christian faith and traditional beliefs. Hungary does not hate anybody who is differently orientated.

As to Islamism which is rapidly engulfing Europe, nature abhors a vacuum and because of abandonment of Christianity by Europeans, Islamism swooped in to take dominion. Unfortunately, the same Europe which brought Christianity to the rest of the world now have fewer Christians than the other continents which they took their "religion" to, including Africa and Asia. It is also probable that there are fewer Christians in Europe today than there are Muslims, with many churches already converted to Mosques and many more mosques still being built. It is also true that no church foundation has been laid in Europe in the recent past, if not in this 21st century. 

Although ICHEOKU is a spiritualist and not a religionist, but decries the European indifference to the Islamization agenda being implemented in Europe. A matter more disturbing because it is accompanied with a jihadi's violence which summarily murders innocent people just because of who they are. A lot of islamist killings have been going in France, United Kingdom and Germany, instilling fear in the populace and making the people anxious with attendant health risks of hypertension, high blood pressure and even heart attacks. But what do they do, instead of finding a way to proactively protect their citizens, they are busy preaching "accommodation" and one Europe while the Islamism financiers in the Middle East and Asia are laughing them off for being clueless and so naive not to read the handwriting on the wall. 

Hungary does not want its population to be similarly victimized by a religion which sheds the blood of innocent people just to make their point, the reason they are jealously guarding their immediate borders from Islamist penetration. This should be respected by the European Union as Budapest knows best what is in the best interest of Hungarians more than whimpering bureaucrats in Brussels. There is free movement in the European Union, so anyone who feels "unwanted" in Hungary could always relocate to any of the other 26 countries in the Union and in that way the problem is solved. So let Hungary be allowed to remain Hungary, unless the EU wants to force it out of the union just like they did with the United Kingdom. 

Why does the 27 countries still even maintain their respective names and governments, instead of dissolving into one United States of Europe. It shows that some nationalistic prides are still recognized and must be respected, including giving to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's. If Hungary does not want to disorientate Hungarian children with teachings and indoctrination of homosexuality and/or to import Islamists terrorists into their country to cause them harm, so be it. Europe must wake up to what is staring them on the face or they will someday wish they did, when it would have become too late to abort. Political correctness and wokeism is gravely weakening Europe and might eventually, someday, be their Titanic. #HungaryStrong. #StandWithHungary.

Thursday, July 22, 2021

3:0 TROUNCING OF USWNT HUMILIATING: BRING BACK COACH JILL ELLIS.

ICHEOKU says not even the purple hair Megan Rapinoe could save America from the shame of falling 0:3 to Sweden in the women soccer game opener of Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. How did it happen that a team with an unbroken record of 44 winning streak, suddenly folded up just like that and allowed Sweden to so summarily humble them like that in Tokyo. It is Sweden for crying out loud, trumping a defending world champion USA for that matter. It is to say the least, simply dumbfounding and ego deflating.

If it was a 0:1 loss, may be that would be understandable as their having a bad day without soccer luck being on their side. But to concede  three goals without scoring even one goal is simply inexplicable and to some extent, even deserves an investigation to see what went wrong and how to put a bandaid on it. It is possible that the team was having some psychological problems and other issues, such as serious infighting and personality conflicts which impacted their performance and overall coordination on the field. Something definitely was wrong with the team judging from their below par play reflected in so many missed passes and lackluster kicks when in front of the goalpost. They need to fix whatever the problem is if they hope to rebound from the shocking humiliation  and make it through the competition, especially if they want to retain their crown. 

Whatever happened was largely technical and occasioned by a management team which failed woefully and could not read the match correctly to enable them make necessary substitutions that would have rebooted the team and achieved a different outcome. For instance. USWNT's Jersey number 7 Tobin Heath should have been replaced much earlier as she was not in her element. She missed a lot of scoring opportunities and was very angry throughout the match which led to her not playing at her usual terrific capacity. Even substituting Crystal Dunn was another technical mistake as the problem was in the center forward offense which could not and did not convert the many goal scoring opportunities that were presented to them. Why she was removed was beyond ICHEOKU as she was brilliant throughout the game and saved the team with her fantastic tackles. 

ICHEOKU says the Swedish team outplayed and outflanked the American team in practically every department, but majority of the blame goes to coach Vlatko Andonovski for his failure to read the game properly and adjust the pattern of play accordingly. There were changes which he ought to have made much earlier which he failed to make or made too late into the game. There were also too many dribbling and even in front of a yawning goalpost that were not necessary. Some of the players held unto the ball for too long and longer than would have impacted the outcome differently. 

Candidly speaking, Megan Rapinoe has in fact outlived her utility and usefulness in the team as she no longer possess the killer instinct and warrior fighting spirit which made her a tireless robot in her glorious days. She has now become an unneeded extra weight to the team bordering on a distraction to the team and needs to go; or at most, not allowed more than ten minutes playing time in any game. ICHEOKU says does not want to go into her extreme left liberal woke politics and personal lifestyle choices, which have cost the team so many fans; and speaking of her hair, did she go to the Tokyo with her personal stylist as she is definitely outdoing the late Prince in the color purple department. 

Anyway, lets hope that they will summon themselves up on Saturday and redeem themselves by making the game with New Zealand a complete routing walkover. If in any event, they suffer another loss to the Kiwis, their coach, Vlatko Andonovuski  should be summarily fired right there on the field without even giving him the respect of superintending the next game with Australia. ICHEOKU strongly believes that World Cup winning coach Jill Ellis would have corrected the obvious mistakes immediately after the first goal and would have guided the team to a victory over Sweden. Something went awry and needs to be fixed by the Saturday game, including settling any infighting among the women. It was difficult suffering through the 90 minutes plus of a total and complete Swedish domination as they literally walked all over the American ladies; and were also more physically conditioned than the Americans. 

Alternatively, coach Jill Ellis should be flown immediately to Tokyo to serve as a consultant assistant coach to Vlatko Andonovoski through the remainder of the game. But whatever happens, the team must not allow themselves to be sent out of the Tokyo 2020 competition as the country needs something to hold unto. American people needs something they can unite on, since the politics of the November 3rd, 2020 election and the coronavirus vaccination has torn them apart as never before and the chasm is becoming unbridgeable too wide. Losing the Saturday game to New Zealand is not an option and both the coach and the ladies need to understand this clearly as they walk into the pitch by on Saturday. Like Jesse Jackson would say, lets keep hope alive and pray that the God of soccer stays with them on Saturday. It is sad.

PURPLE RAIN, PURPLE HAIR: WHEN PURPLE FAILED RAPINOE.

ICHEOKU says even the purple lost its lustre in a 0:3 drubbing that Megan had to cover her face in shame. It is sad. Hopefully, USWNT will pick up their pieces and take it out on New Zealand come Saturday. 

However, a mere eking out of defeat over the Kiwis will not be enough; only a statement-making resounding defeat will suffice in order to atone for the sin of the woeful loss to the Swedes. Go USWNT. Go Rapinoe, Go!

CHINA FLOODING: WORST THAN GERMANY?

ICHEOKU says although we might never know the actual number of people that perished in the flood because the Chinese Communist Party are too secretiveness, but the flooding in China definitely looks worse than the Germany flooding. Our heart goes out to the Chinese people who are itnaudated by flooding which has so far killed 33, a number definitely doctored considering that over 100 million people live in the worst flooded zone alone. It is sad what a world trying to pull itself out of devastating Chinese coronavirus is now being forced to deal with. It is sad.

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

JEFF BEZOS' "BEST DAY EVER " WAS A MERE TEN MINUTES TO EDGE OF SPACE.

ICHEOKU says it was the best day ever of his life, but to millions of starving peoples around the world, including women and children, as well as thousands of people who work for Amazon at barely a minimum wage, it was just an egotistic junket of wasted funds which would have been better applied to where it would have brought much added value benefit to human beings. But it is his money and he chose to spend it how he saw fit, in a ten minutes blast off to the edge of space at 66 miles high altitude. 

The Jeff Bezos' rocket off was not quite popular among many of Amazon workers, some of who wished that he never came back but for the rocket to take him all the way to Jupiter or even Mars and for him to stay there forever. Some of them too would have preferred that Jeff Bezos reflected his gratitude for their labor, which paid for his vainglorious trip, through wage increases as mere "thank you" do not their bills pay. 

Jeff Bezos gave $100 million each to Van Jones and Jose` Andres for their "courage and civility" but not even a dime in pay raise to the workers who are producing the wealth for him; probably because working for Amazon does not demonstrate "courage and civility". Yet when some of the workers in Alabama demonstrated some "courage and civility" by trying to unionize, the same Jeff Bezos fought it to a stand still. There is something somewhat sketchy about the doling out of this millions of dollars, but definitely a good payday for both lucky fellas.

ICHEOKU says compared to Richard Bronson's Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin was rather cramped and does not have enough clearance for the weightlessness somersault maneuver. The Virgin Galactic plane-like model is of a better design than the circular Blue Origin which sequestrated every person in the same tight space. Anyway, the opportunity which Jeff Bezos provided the awesome 82 year old astronaut Wally Funk to finally make her dream of going to space come true was indeed very commendable. It was good that the team safely launched and safely made it back to earth. Congratulations to all of them, including those who made it possible.

GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM WILL NOT BE RECALLED.

ICHEOKU says the Republican Party in California has nobody who could beat Governor Gavin Newsom come September 14th, 2021 scheduled recall election. Not Larry Elders, not transgendered Caitlyn Jenner and not any of those unknown quantum lining up to stake their hat in the game. So, on September 14th, Californians will vote to retain their hardworking governor and say no to those wannabes and that they are right by their Governor Gavin Newsom. 

Tuesday, July 20, 2021

HAITIAN PRIME MINISTER CLAUDE JOSEPH FORCED TO STEP DOWN.

ICHEOKU says whether it was the same country or countries and/or the cabal inside the Haiti security organization which masterminded the assassination of President Jovenel Moise that sent him the "cease and desist" notice, their message definitely got through to the acting Prime Minister. They spoke to him in a language which he understands and he understood very clearly that they meant business and that they are not joking when they threw their weight behind his opponent. 

The former interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph have always known that it was the "wishes" of the late President Jovenel Moise that Ariel Henry become the new prime minister. The Prime Minister also have always known too that it was in the "best interest" of Haiti that there is just one recognized authority in Port-Au-Prince and that having two people struggling for power as Haiti's Prime Ministers is not in the "best interest" of Haiti. So what suddenly changed that jolted him in such a manner that he lost his will to soldier on and continue the struggle for power? What forced him to finally step aside, as ICHEOKU is not buying the "I was not pressured into steeping down" malarkey. 

It is either they read him the riot act or his role in the assassination of the president became quite evident and they used it to blackmail him into dropping his ambition. It is evident too that a man who was only some few hours ago, emphatically contending that he is the sole legitimate authority in Haiti power structure, that Ariel Henry was not sworn in and therefore lacks the authority of State, could not just suddenly make a u-turn, change his mind, and now say that Ariel Henry was the "last and final wish" of the late president and that he wants to honor and respect it. He was definitely prodded as there is always more than meets the eye in power politics. But whatever maintains Haiti internal security and prevents the country from plunging  into a complete cataclysm is a welcome development, however achieved. 

However, the United Nations Organization needs to step in and take over the investigation of the assignation as the current "investigation" might not get to the root of the assassination. A  consortium of international investigators drawn from Russia, China, EU, UK, America and some African countries should be raised and put in charge of the investigation, if the world wants to know who actually signed off on the assassination of the Haitian President. Presidents do not just get killed like that and Haiti being within the United States of America geographical sphere and political influence, it does not make sense that all the planning, mercenaries and weapons movements logistics as well as money transfers could go undetected except they were  intentionally allowed to slide. 

So, without an expansion of the investigation to include the participation of other outside countries, whatever current investigation that is being carried out might also be swallowed by the same sink hole which swallowed and made it impossible to detect all the road traveled, prelude to the assassination. A story has come out too that the president made many frantic "save his life" calls to Haitian security outfits but none was responded to within the over thirty minutes that elapsed between his first call and his assassination. Why would a presidential protection force and its backup be so faraway removed from a president's residence that it took them over thirty minutes to respond at gun fired SOS mayday calls by the president. It is also on record that none of his security detail and member of the presidential guard was killed or even wounded defending the president. No pictures have emerged either of the blown up doors, both to his home and his bedroom. So, who is fooling who and who is covering up the true story.

ICHEOKU says strongly believes that the wife had a heads up about the attack otherwise why was she not also similarly "riddled with bullets?" She was also conveniently, "coincidentally" outside the bedroom at such ungodly hour of the night when those "gang" struck. What was she doing outside their bedroom since she couldn't have gone to use the bathroom at the exact moment and most master bedrooms are usually ensuite. Why would the assassins leave an eye witness? Why would they allow her to choose where she wants her own gun shot wounds? On her arm and thighs, all superficial glazing wounds without any serious bone and/or major arterial damage. It needs the suspension of disbelieve, the circumstances considered, to accept that the wife was not complicit in the assassination. 

It is sad listening to the narrative that some "gang" carried out the assassination as it is increasingly becoming obvious that it was a foreign power sanctioned palace coup just to get rid of President Jovenel Moise. Further, the story that one of the assassins was on phone with a third party who was helping him identify the president is a tale by the moonlight balderdash. First President Jovenel Moise is a world wide recognizable public figure; second, he is a very tall person even bothering on being lanky; and third, no other male will be sleeping inside his master bedroom in his own home and only man was found in the bedroom. It is also given that through the planning, training and rehearsal stages, that so many videos and photos of him were  extensively circulated, shown, studied and memorized by the assassins. 

So, it is a baloney trying to once again hoodwink society by throwing the focus off his wife with this bunkum narrative that one of the assassins was on phone with a person helping him to identify the president. They did not dynamite the doors, so who let them in? The wife was in the corridor by the doorway entrance to their bedroom watching her husband get assassinated. How could her late husband be frantically making calls for security to come to their aid and she was busy milling around in the corridor. At least, common sense would have required her to seek a place to hide, even if inside the closet or in the bathroom or in the toilet or even underneath the dinning table. Lastly, how could a home of a president not have an escape duct or a hardened and reinforced hiding place of temporary shelter pending the arrival of the summoned SOS. 

Anyway, the story so far coming out of Port-Au-Prince challenges every logical deduction and reasoning. But the stepping down of interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph, whose 30 days extended term of June 15th expired on July 15th, is still a good development regardless. At least, it has reduced tension between his group and the Ariel Henry's group; and has generally removed some steam in the boiling conundrum of Port-Au-Prince. Now, let Haiti bury their slain president and hopefully expand the ongoing investigation by inviting other countries to participate in it. This is the only way they can get to the root of the matter and indeed truly unravel the real forces behind their president's assassination. It is sad.

Monday, July 19, 2021

MARTINE MOISE CHOSE NOT TO FLEE: A BLACK WIDOW OR A GRIEVING WIFE?

ICHEOKU says the widowed First Lady of Haiti abruptly ended her hospitalization in Miami Florida where she was being treated for gun shots wounds she received during the assassination of her late husband, the former Haiti's President Jovenel Moise and returned to Haiti. It was unannounced, leaving many people wondering if the internecine power struggle going on in Port-AU-Prince has taken a turn for the worse that she decided to wade in. Possibly, she wants to assert a claim of title to the presidency or better still, demand that she be allowed to finish what was left of her husband's term in office. She couldn't have just returned to Haiti, having not yet fully recovered, unless there was a burning reason necessitating it and possibly too, because she wants to be on the driver 's seat of the unfolding developments.

The fact that she returned wearing a bullet proof jacket shows that she strongly believes that her husband's assassination was an inside job and that she does not trust Haitian security authorities with her life; despite all the attempts made by them to refocus attention on some "gang" members and their hired mercenaries from Colombia. As ICHEOKU has always maintained, a president of a country cannot be so easily killed just like that, in his own home, on his own bed and inside his own bedroom. Where did all the presidential guards and security details go and if they were becoming overpowered, why did they not call for back up and if they did, why were they not dispatched and if, what took them so long in getting to the scene. They have not told the world how many presidential guards died defending the president; so yes, Martine Moise is righteously suspicious of the Haitian security apparatus. 

ICHEOKU says how could those assassins "riddle her husband with bullets" but very methodically, carefully and selectively only inflicted "superficial" wounds on her arm and thigh? Then an "angel Gabriel" suddenly appeared from nowhere to rescue her and rush her to a downtown to the General Hospital to bandage her up before she was medevacked to Fort Lauderdale and subsequently taken to Miami's Jackson Memorial Trauma center. There is a lot of gaps that needs filling up and further explanations; including how gunmen could swarm a bedroom where two people were sleeping and riddled one body and left the other practically untouched and both were supposedly lying under covers of bedsheets and/or blankets. How did they know at which position on the bed, inside a supposedly dark sleeping bedroom, to point and direct the muzzles of their automatic rifles, except somebody guided them? 

Unfortunately President Jovenel Moise is no longer available to speak on what happened as dead people don't talk, admitted they sometimes do through in-depth forensic investigation. Hopefully, the FBI will zero in on this apparent discrepancy and interrogate Madam First Lady Martine Moise to see if they can make her squeal. There is a lot of things that does not make sense in the whole tragic drama which is still unfolding in Haiti that they could easily pass for most unlikely coincidences. Exactly two weeks after Haiti's Supreme Court president Rene` Sylvestre died from "coronavirus" on June 23rd, a new Prime Minister designate Ariel Henry was named on July 5th but not sworn in. Then, two days later on July 7th, President Jovenel Moise was suddenly assassinated. 

Meanwhile, the incumbent Prime Minister Claude Joseph still has about eight days left in his mandate which was renewed on June 15th for 30 more days to expire on July 15th. It is also worth noting that the president of the Supreme Court was hospitalized since February 19th before suddenly succumbing to his illness on June 23rd. So, the question is why was the new prime minister not sworn in immediately or was his term to start upon the expiration of the incumbent Prime Minister's extended term, on July 15th? This will be the most reasonable interpretation of the situation; except that some ambassadors in Port-Au-Prince have now thrown themselves into the whole mess by backing the yet to be sworn in Prime Minister and bucking the current Prime Minister, who is legally and constitutionally in charge and whose term is yet to expire. 

ICHEOKU is of the opinion that Prime Minister Claude Joseph should continue to lead Haiti as the legitimate Prime Minister and not let those foreign countries who are trying to meddle with internal affairs of Haiti and who probably were the real mastermind of the assassination, succeed in forcing upon Haiti an unmanageable existential crisis. If the late president intended for the designate prime minister to resume his office immediately, he would have arranged for the next ranking Supreme Court Judge or Vice President of the court to swear him in immediately following the announcement. But he did not and the designate prime minister was not sworn in, which shows a deliberate intention on the part of the late president that the new prime minister will begin his term on July 15th. 

But as the world awaits the final resolution of the power vacuum in Port-Au-Prince, it is important that Martine Moise is closely looked into, to see if she had any role in what happened to her husband. Prime Minister Claude Joseph should also be fully investigated and so also does the entire Haiti top security apparatus deserve being looked into too as well. A country's president does not and cannot be so easily killed just like that without active involvement of some insiders. You can call it a palace coup if you like, but something is very fishy in the whole story of the assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moise. May his soul trouble all those who conspired to kill him and succeeded in carrying out that execution; and may he never rest until they are all brought to justice. 

Sunday, July 18, 2021

SUNDAY IGBOHO'S SURRENDER WILL BENEFIT ODUDUWA NATION AGITATION.

ICHEOKU says whether the message was received and its impact felt will be known in due course. Time will also tell whether the Nigerian government successfully intimidated Sunday Igboho into silence and inactivity, which the added measure of declaring him wanted was purposed for. He has gone into hiding but unfortunately, he is so attached to his base and cannot survive outside his base for long. 

Without his base, he will be feeling like a fish out of water which will make capturing him much easier or even hasten his surrender. Unlike other people who have at one time of the other been forced into self exile, including Gani Fawehinmi, Bola Tinubu and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu until his recent capture in Kenya, Sunday Igboho is not an exile material. He is a traditionalist who strongly relies on his juju which does not work abroad and he has a very limited education and vocation to pursue a life in exile. 

The purpose of the DSS raid was to break him and deprive him the will to carry on with the agitation for an independent Oduduwa Nation. They want to isolate him from the rest of Yoruba people and leave him hanging dry; and it seems they scored on that note as so many Yoruba people have gone radio silent since the raid. It is possible too that the Nigeria government first got the blessings of Bola Tinubu and other leading Yoruba Obas and personalities before they struck at Igboho's house. The DSS also seized his amulets and without them, he now fears for his life; which has forced him into hiding. But for how long can he hide without being caught or possibly even betrayed by a Yoruba person or at worse, being killed. 

But can he escape from Nigeria and go into exile until such a time when the country becomes conducive for him to return or at least until Muhammadu Buhari serves out his term in 2023? It might be difficult as he did not plan for such a contingency and he does not have a well oiled and functioning organization that would risk it all to help him escape from Nigeria and also caters for him outside Nigeria. He was surprised by the raid and the seizure of his amulets, destruction of his property and the killing of his two very close lieutenants left him devastated and the shock will be with him for a while. A traumatized and most likely now penniless Sunday Igboho was shafted by the raid and recovering enough to strategize on the way forward will not be an easy task. 

But if ICHEOKU were to advise him, will recommend that he surrender and hand himself over to the Nigerian government without any further delay, go through the whole process of arrest, detention and trial; and watch himself acquire a status which he does not have currently. He will become a larger than life personality and endear himself more in the hearts of millions of Yoruba people. He will become a bona fide Yoruba hero who paid the price for their liberation and they  will appreciate him more because of the sacrifice. Another good news for him too is that Yoruba have a good number of very senior lawyers, many of who will volunteer their service for him as soon as he surrenders. It comes with the territory as most people always want to identify with a hero and many of these lawyers will readily jump at the opportunity to be seen as  defending a Yoruba defender. 

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was a few years ago an unknown quantity and relatively a nobody until the Nigeria government made him a world recognizable personality by the mistake of arresting him in his hotel room in Lagos. Thereafter IPOB grew in number and many more people rallied around him as a person who was doing something on behalf of the people and being penalized as a result. They took his cause as their own cause and that was exactly how Muhammadu Buhari created the "Frankenstein monster" Mazi Nnamdi Kanu that has become a wishbone in the neck of Nigeria today. Without Muhammadu Buhari giving Mazi Nnamdi Kanu the huge profile, "an existential threat to Nigeria" and giving oxygen to his IPOB organization, may be the organization would have since fizzled off alongside Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. 

But Buhari erred by providing him and his IPOB the fuel and rocket with which they launched into the stratosphere; and the invasion of his Afaraukwu Ibeku country home where over 28 IPOB were killed boosted their profile and it became fully established that the people were ready to die for the cause of Biafra restoration. What other manner of commitment is stronger than blood sacrifice and once done, many more people continue to lay themselves up to be sacrificed at the alter of the Nigerian State by confronting the Nigerian authorities, Army, Police, DSS, Navy, Customs and with it, IPOB and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu are now world wide names. With death fear is forever removed, otherwise what else can any government do to intimidate a people who are ready to die for a cause which they believe in. 

So, this is the fate which beckons on Oloye Sunday Igboho and he should take it with both hands now by surrendering himself to the Nigerian authorities and not give them a reason to waste him and be easily forgotten. He should transcend that fear of being detained or even being killed and watch himself transmute into a hero of the ranks of Obafemi Awolowo.  By going into detention on behalf of the Yoruba people, he will secure his insurance against even being killed by the Nigerian government. He will thereafter become the property of the entire Yoruba people whose cause he is fighting for and they will make sure that no harm comes to him in detention; and that he is protected and that he will not be another MKO Abiola without consequences. 

He was lucky to escape when the DSS raided his home and should count his blessings that the killer squad of the Nigeria government did not find him when they called because they would have summarily eliminated him at sight. That was their primary mission objective, otherwise they would not have come at such odd hour of the night with guns blazing. The two men they killed were also on their "elimination" list and they killed them in cold blood, with one of them shot at the back of the head while reciting his Islamic Koranic verses Muslim prayer on a mat. The DSS could have killed the rest but they were not on their to kill list and the destruction was purposefully maximized for a "shock and awe" effect; and to intimidate the agitators out of commission. But he might not be as lucky next time, the reason he should surrender now and not allow himself to be killed like a stray dog.

The shedding of blood at his home was a necessary sacrifice for the agitation and it should strengthen and take it to the next level. But first, Sunday Igboho must surrender in order for it to come full circle. His detention will force the Yoruba controlled media to go into an overdrive and it will also awaken other rather lukewarm Yoruba personalities into bracing the agitation. It happened with IPOB where despite the Nigeria government's killing of over 4000 Biafrans so far, they have not deterred IPOB nor diminished their resolve on the renewed clamor for an independent State of Biafra. The killing of the two Sunday Igboho's men is a much needed shot in the arm for the Oduduwa Nation agitation, but Sunday Igboho needs to do the needful by handing himself to the Nigerian government without any further ado and watch what follows next. #SundayIgbohoSurrender.

Saturday, July 17, 2021

PRESIDENT TRUMP: IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON FROM THE NOVEMBER 3RD 2020.

ICHEOKU says the case has been made about the election and it is time to move on with a future-focused talking point and campaign messaging. It is already well established and MAGA Nation understands that Joe Biden did not win the last November 3rd 2020 presidential election, at least not fairly; his being in the White House, courtesy of the Deep State's machination, notwithstanding. But the fact remains that he was sworn in and on the seventh month of his four year term; and except there is intervention by God or his obvious incapacity deteriorates to a point of functionless, he will be in the White House until 2024. Therefore, continuing to waste time on rehashing the stolen November 3rd 2020 election is an exercise in futility, bordering on whining and increasingly becoming more of a nauseating irritation. 

Even in the most unlikely event, what is already known is conclusively established, there is no way of removing Joe Biden out of office. Impeachment is not even an option because high crimes and misdemeanor covers acts while in office and not the manner of getting into office. Of course the democrats control the House and such an article of impeachment will NEVER be conceived nor drafted. Therefore, it is past time President Donald John Trump and the MAGA Nation moved on, aware that nobody is paying attention anymore to the same now worn out and almost cliched rehash of a stolen November 3rd election. 

The energy should be spent rather more wisely on the shortfall of the Joe Biden's administration in preparation for the next election. Identifying their lapses, failed promises, veered off target and other unfilled potholes of the Biden/Kamala administration and harping on them constantly will pay a better dividend than the continuing rehash of "We won that election but it was stolen from us" refrain. The Democratic Party exploited so many loophole of the electoral process to pull off the steal and put Joe Biden in the White House, so the effort should now be concentrated in making sure that they will never succeed again. Also, how to checkmate the Deep State and the liberal fake-news media from pulling off such a heist again should be part of the priority.

As ICHEOKU once said, the November 3rd 2020 election was fixed long before the election date of November 3rd, through ballot harvesting and stuffing of votes by the democrats. It is a political game which the Democrats have perfected over the years and they deployed it maximumly during the last election and to the chagrin of Republicans, who were caught flatfooted and in fact, napping. By the time they realized what was going on, it was already too late as the Democrats already have bagged the election and every attempt they made at catching up or leveling the playing field was unsuccessful. So it was rather a failure to do by the Republican Party rather than what the democrats did that cost President Donald John Trump the White House.

So, yes, Ronna McDaniel shares hugely in the blame for the unfavorable outcome of November 3rd, 2020 election because she wasn't ready for the big play of managing a national election and the Democrats had her for lunch. Her performance was so abysmal that she could not even win her State of Michigan which she won in 2016 and ICHEOKU still wonders why she was allowed a second berth at the Republican National Committee chairwomanship. Whether she even actively connived with or sort counsel of Trump hater in chief, her uncle Mitt Romney or the Deep State got to her, ICHEOKU does not know; but her performance was nothing to write home home about and she should not have been given a second chance at the RNC topmost position. Reward her for what? For losing? 

Friday, July 16, 2021

GO GET YOUR CORONAVIRUS SHOT TODAY: QUIT PLAYING WITH YOUR LIFE.

ICHEOKU says the reference point for all MAGA Nation is President Donald John Trump, his family and the FoxNews voice box. All these people have already got their coronavirus shots. Therefore anyone still holding out and refusing to get their own shots is playing to the gallery of extreme far right. It is not cool to continue to remain obstinate as over 200 million American people have got at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine. It shows that the vaccines are safe as majority of Americans have the vaccines in their bodies already and they are not suicidal. 

If the vaccines are defective or poisonous, then majority of American people's health have already been compromised. So, why do you want to belong to the tiny minority of "wise guys and gals" or do you want to live forever; assuming all of us who have already got the "poison" will die? What fun will there still be in such a tiny population country, assuming all of us perish as a result. But we are still here and we are not going to die because of the vaccine. Remember that the majority is always right and majority of Americans cannot be that stupid. They have received their coronavirus shots which shows once again, that the majority is right about the vaccine. So, go get your own shot today and become part of the right majority. 

ICHEOKU says Dr Anthony Fauci is the reason for the vaccine resistance as anti-vaxxers do not trust him. As long as he remains the face of the vaccination effort, many of these resistant people will not get vaccinated. Joe Biden should therefore sack Dr Fauci and replace him with a more friendly and more convincing face if he wants these unvaccinated people to queue up for their vaccination. But Joe Biden cannot afford fire Dr Fauci because Dr Fauci is the reason he is in the White House and it will be too expensive for Joe Biden to tick off Dr Fauci because he is a part of the Deep State machination that made November 3rd possible. But hey, just forget Dr Fauci and his ouch-look and go get your own vaccination right away. If not for yourself, please do it for your family and loved ones. #GoGetYourShots.

GERMANY FLOODING: 90 DEAD AND 1300 MISSING.

ICHEOKU says it is yet another evidence that the Biblical flood story of Noah and the Ark most probably happened. But regardless, it has been one disaster after disaster throughout the world, from mud slides in Japan to California wildfires, Miami building collapse, flooding and storms in America, to hotel collapse in China, to assassination of Haiti's president, to ZumaRiots in South Africa and now the latest flooding in Germany. 

Are these signs that the world is suddenly coming to an end as "believers" would like to interpret them? ICHEOKU says it is doubtful as Jesus Christ said that no one knows the hour; admitted he also added that there will be some signs, begging the question, are these the signs then?

Anyway, ICHEOKU wishes Germany all the best as they pull themselves back from the flooding event; and to South Africa, God's speed in ending the disastrous ZumaRiots which has been very devastating to the country. As to all the other places experiencing one form of disaster or the other, may God provide them with the fortitude to cope and soldier on. All everyone can really do in this world, especially with no fix it solution to many of these disasters, is to just to keep on keeping on, until whatever comes first. It is well.

BIG OR FAT: DON'T A DIFFERENCE MAKE.

ICHEOKU says whether it is a FAT LIE or a BIG LIE, it depends on who is giving the narrative and conducting the explanation of what happened on November 8th 2016 and November 3rd 2020 respectively. The "Russian Collusion" is a Fat Lie to MAGA nation and so is the "2020 rigged election" a Big Lie to the folks on the other side of the political divide. 

Both sides do not believe the accusation that their candidate cheated in the presidential election, hence the LIE which they usually chorus in response each time the allegation comes up. 

The only difference between them is the qualifiers which they used in their denials, FAT and BIG; but that does not make one denial true and the other denial false. So, whether one belongs to the "Big Lie" crowd or the "Fat Lie" crowd, their conviction tells them exactly the same thing, that a lie was told, propagated and propagandized against their candidate. This is the only thing that really counts; so, Joe Biden and his crowd of supporter should be apprised of this, that a lie is a lie, whether BIG or FAT, period.

Thursday, July 15, 2021

SOUTH AFRICA ZUMA RIOT: JACOB ZUMA SHOULD SPEAK TO HIS SUPPORTERS NOW .

ICHEOKU says with 77 persons already killed and over 2000 others arrested, and properties running into billions of Rand now destroyed, looted and burnt, it is time for the government of President Cyril Ramaphosa to crackdown heavily on the rioters and end the ongoing madness in South Africa. Nothing justifies the level of lawlessness being witnessed in South Africa, especially the loss of so many lives and the ensuing existential threat to an economy already burdened with heavy unemployment and the Chinese coronavirus disease. 

Jacob Zuma should, without any further ado, foot dragging or needless delay, speak to his supporters and order them off the streets and end the destruction going on in South Africa. It was obviously instigated, sponsored and organized by his Jacob Zuma Foundation and their issued statement collaborates this assertion. No rational and responsible elder statesman, especially one who once led South Africa as president, would remain silent, watching the ongoing wanton destruction in South Africa and not do something immediately to bring it to an end. A matter made more incumbent on him because he is the reason for the riots and he could have easily disassociated himself from it and denounced them as hooligans. He therefore needs to speak up and forcefully demand that the riots end immediately.

ICHEOKU says nothing, including securing freedom for the imprisoned Jacob Zuma, is worth sacrificing 77 South Africans and the level of destruction being witnessed in South Africa. Jacob Zuma must therefore rise up to the occasion, stop being selfish about it and put an end to it. Enough of the madness already. He should implore his supporters to sheet their swords and end the mayhem because they are hurting themselves by destroying their country and their means of livelihood. Imagine the damage the madness is doing to South Africa in the eyes of the world; South Africa which used to be the last hope of black Africa as a place where law and order exists and which is conducive for investments. Which prospective investors will now not see South Africa in a different light? 

With a 47% unemployment rate, South Africa could definitely use every help which they can get from any investor in reducing the ticking time bomb which their economy has become. So, why supply a fuse to the situation with this Zuma riots in addition to a coronavirus which has returned with vengeance in South Africa. Now, the government will be burdened further with the cost of the riots in addition to managing a nearly flatlined economy and the coronavirus. Then add insurance companies which will be forced to increase premiums to offset their loss, assuming the cost overruns of paying the insured businesses doesn't first force them into bankruptcy.

As it stands now, the trajectory South Africa is not encouraging: they are bedeviled by their xenophobic attacks and now this added destructive riots; looting, burning and destroying foreign investments in their country. They are making their country unlivable and unattractive a place for people to want to come or even continue to live in and very soon, everyone who can might be forced to move out of South Africa. The plummeting situation in South Africa need to be brought under control so that safety and security can be restored immediately to South Africa. 

It is in everyone's interest, especially the impoverished black folks who are spearheading the ongoing riots. They are the ones whose jobs will disappear first and without jobs, meeting their basic needs will be impossible; a risk which they possibly did not think through first before activating their own Black Lives Matter cells and visiting on South Africa similar iniquities as their benefactor America's Black Lives Matter made America suffer last summer 2020.

Unfortunately, Jacob Zuma's Foundation released a statement threatening the continuation of the riots until their leader Jacob Zuma is released from prison; begging the question doesn't the foundation believe in the rule of law? If so, what is the South African government waiting for to revoke their license and declare them an unlawful organization since they are supporting and somehow sponsoring the breakdown of law and order in South Africa. They want to  blackmail the government with destructive riots into releasing Jacob Zuma from prison and making it a condition to ending the mayhem. According to them, "peace and stability in South Africa is directly linked to the release of President Zuma with immediate effect" and you ask yourself why is the foundation still allowed to operate in South Africa when they wish South Africa ill and wants to destroy it.

ICHEOKU says the government must treat their blackmail as domestic terrorism and extirpate it immediately. It is a national disgrace and stands counter to everything which Nelson Mandela stood for and died for. It seems that Jacob Zuma did not learn anything of intrinsic value from the icon of South African freedom struggle. It is adding insult to injury for Jacob Zuma's Foundation to make sure a statement, in addition sponsoring the riots. It is imperative therefore that Jacob Zuma call his rabid dogs off the streets of South Africa and end the mayhem forthwith. President Cyril Ramaphosa must not give in to the blackmail and should take his responsibility of protecting South Africa very seriously, by using every means possible to bring the worsening situation under immediate control. Enough of the bleeding. #ZumaEndTheRiotsNow.

THE RULE IS THE RULE: ONLY WHEN IT INVOLVES SHA'CARRI RICHARDSON?

ICHEOKU says does "the rule is the rule" reasoning given in justification of Sha'Carri Richardson's disqualification from the 2021 Tokyo summer Olympics for inhaling ordinary marijuana smoke, which is legal in so many States including Oregon, only applies to sports, particularly the Olympics. 

The current Defense Secretary was confirmed despite the "rule is the rule" which prohibits appointing former military officers as Secretary of Defense so soon following their disengagement from active service. Even Mad Dog Mattis got the same waiver as well. 

So how is Sha'Carri Richardson's case any different from these two men or is "the rule is the rule" not of general application or applies to sports differently from Defense Secretaries? If the "rule" was waived for both men, why was it not also waived for Sha'Carri Richardson? Has gender got anything to do with the disparate treatments and because she is a woman and a black woman for that matter? #LetSha'CarriRun.

THE POPE IS OUT OF HOSPITAL: HURRAY.

ICHEOKU says Pope Francis is a very lucky man, his surgery went well and he celebrated two football championships: one for his native Argentina winning COPA America 2021 and the other for his papacy seat Italy winning the UEFA EURO 2020. What a lucky fella and he is an avid  profound lover of football or rather soccer. All the extra happiness will help speedy up his recuperation from the surgery. Congratulations Mr Pontiff.