GOVERNOR CUOMO SHOULD FIGHT ON: IT'S ALL ABOUT 2024 DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES.

ICHEOKU says suddenly the #MeToo saga is back now that Joe Biden have been successfully installed in the White House despite Ms Tara Reade's effort to #MeToo him. New York State's Attorney General said that she believes the eleven women who came forward to accuse Governor Andrew Cuomo of sexual improprieties, but why was Tara Reade not believed when she similarly accused Joe Biden or is she not a woman? Could there possibly be a gender bias against the governor or are we supposed to believe that the attorney general completely checked her intrinsic human disposition and propensity to take sides. But if Governor Andrew Cuomo indeed truly "sexually harassed multiple women, and in doing do, violated federal and state law", why was he not arrested immediately and charged with the offense? 

So, they reviewed thousands of documents, interviewed 179 witnesses and there were 11 women who came forward to say #MeToo. These women inspired Attorney General Letitia James, she believed them and thanked them for their bravery; but where is the justice for them when the governor will not be prosecuted? Where is the justice for the governor who was not represented at the investigation nor had the opportunity to confront the witnesses and his accusers. When did a crime discovered during a "civil in nature" investigation become non prosecutable? Something definitely does not add up with the narrative, suggesting that there is more to the ongoing hunting of Governor Andrew Cuomo than meets the eyes. It might have something to do with the 2024 Democratic Party's primaries, in an effort to take him out now, being a potential formidable for to a Joe Biden's second term run. 

ICHEOKU says is strongly leaning on the side of "alternative realities" as both sides most likely misunderstood and misinterpreted their interactions, akin to the six blind men of Hindustan who went to the zoo to see the elephant. As it appears, one of the accusers supposedly is a "mind reader" and knew that the governor was "trying to sleep with her" even though he did not "explicitly" say it, but implied that she was old enough. ICHEOKU says old enough for what exactly? Does "being old enough" restrictive in interpretation? Is "old enough" incapable of being interpreted with so many other connotations outside sexual dalliance? What if the "old enough" was "old enough" to get another top job elsewhere or go to graduate school or marry and have children or even buy a house or establish a business of her own. 

Nobody is denying that women does not know when a man is making a "come on" at them; but to exclusively pin a remark "old enough" down to only for having "sex" with the governor is rather too narrowly interpreted, especially when a man's career and reputation are at stake. To punish a person for such a very subjective innuendo is rather too harsh as it should require some more intrusive act by the governor rather than mere personal perception of the accuser. Saying that someone is "old enough" does not rise to common "attempt" and even falls drastically short of "preparation" if a crime were to be grounded. People ask such intrusive personal questions all time to people who are close in their close quarters, colleagues, workers, employers, employees, bosses, friends and families. It behooves on the "offended" party to summarily call the attention of the questioner and ask them to stop immediately, telling the "questioner" that the line of questions is out of bound and not acceptable or agreeable to her. It is only when the questioner persists that it then rises to offensive harassment, but not before that. 

If the governor engaged in "unwelcome and nonconsensual touching", made numerous "offensive comments" of a "suggestive and sexual nature" and created a "hostile work environment for women", on whose perception of what took place were all these based? The women, of course; except that no one has asked the governor his state of mind while these things were taking place to truly ascertain his intent while conducting these "hostile" interactions with these women. Why has none of these traducers of the governor listened to his own interpretation and explanation that majority of what took place was his "way of doing friendly banter?" Why does nobody believe the governor or are men not supposed to be believed the same way women are believed? 

The governor said that he "never touched anyone inappropriately" nor "made inappropriate sexual advances" to the women. He also admitted that he "do kiss people on the forehead, cheek and hand", but that such contacts are not sexually premised. So, where is the benefit of doubt being extended to the governor as to his explanation that he acted jovially and innocently in these interactions. The governor said that he never knew at the time of the interactions that he was making anyone feel uncomfortable; that he never meant to offend, hurt or cause pain to anyone; that he feel terrible sorry that some of the women felt uncomfortable, hurt and pain from their interactions; and that he feel embarrassed and bad about it. So, why is his explanation not enough and sufficient to assuage all the "hurt, pain and discomfort" felt and suffered by these women. 

There is definitely something more going on. It increasingly looks like a "take him down now" before 2024 is the play. His risen profile following the peak of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic and unceasing attacks of then President Donald John Trump enamored him to the hearts of millions of democrats, many of who started a campaign then to even replace their candidate Joe Biden with the governor. As is the case with politicians, they are killer sharks and they do not tolerate any threat to their position. Governor Andrew Cuomo is most likely being harangued now in order to gut him before 2024 and diminish his viability as a likely Joe Biden's opponent or replacement candidate. So, it is possible that behind the scenes manipulators are working overtime to kneecap him and render him unfit and unsuitable for a 2024 presidential run.

Ironically, the same Joe Biden who did not withdraw from the 2020 presidential election following Tara Reade's #MeToo attack against him, is now asking Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign and you ask yourself based on what? Such a call is simply laughable especially coming from Joe Biden as it is a case of a kettle calling the pot black. ICHEOKU says wonders if Joe Biden in his head, lives in a morality free zone. On which legs is Joe Biden standing anyway in asking Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign just because some women interpreted their interactions with him differently from his own understanding of it? 

At least majority of their interactions happened in public with other people around, unlike Joe Biden who Tara Reade alleged waylaid her, lifted her skirt and inserted his finger into her vagina. With his own #MeToo medallion hanging on his neck, Joe Biden has no moral grounds whatsoever to even condemn Governor Andrew Cuomo, talkless of asking him to resign. But it is largely a political hit job in an effort to take the governor out now before he takes Joe Biden out of the 2024 Democratic Party's presidential primaries. 

Anyway, ICHEOKU says the governor should continue to fight on in order to clear his name. He should dare his traducers to charge him to court for a crime and have the opportunity to interrogate the witnesses as well as the accusers. But unfortunately, such a scenario might never come up because the attorney general has no case against the governor, otherwise she would have charged him. Sexual harassment is a crime but declining to prosecute in this case only shows that she has no prima facie crime against the governor, talkless of meeting the heavier burden of proving it beyond reasonable doubt. She has no evidence except the "interpretations" of some women of their interactions with the governor, majority of which took place publicly. These are not crimes because crimes are not a subjectively based understanding, they are expressly codified.  

ICHEOKU says were the allegations to have met the threshold of punishable crimes or convincing acts of sexual perversion, would have been in the front asking for the governor's "head"; but they did not and it does not matter how the women later decided to interpret them. It is unfortunate that #MeToo has become such a weapon of mass destruction of men and many men have since fallen as a result. Governor Andrew Cuomo must remain strong and resolute, not succumb to their sword of intimidation; and should not resign because the interactions he had with these women were not horrendously unwanted as to rise to the level of sexual harassment. 

Therefore, to the call for his resignation, he should stand his ground and not yield even an inch to his traducers and for additional effect, can always remind them that Joe Biden did not resign when Tara Reade threw her own #MeToo dart at him. A matter made worse because Tara Read was nearly completely ignored and her case was not even investigated nor accorded much airtime in the media. Nobody among these now now calling for Governor Andrew Cuomo to commit a political harakiri ever lift their voice to ask Joe Biden to step aside last year when Tara Reade raised up her own #MeToo flag. Such a selectively indignation is to say the least very hypocritical and not fair to any man being hounded by the #MeToo felines after Joe Biden was passed over. It is 2024 election, stupid!

PRESIDENT ASHRAF GHANI LIED: TROOPS WITHDRAWAL WAS NOT SUDDEN.

ICHEOKU says like a bad workman who quarrels with his tools, he is pointing elsewhere as his woes. Instead of looking inward at his crass incompetence which left him flatfooted as the Taliban threatens his presidency, the man who loves to adorn his Ahmadzai Pashtun tribal regalia is now blaming America for doing something which was long overdue. What is abrupt or sudden or hastily or speedily in a 20 year notice of intention to withdraw forces from Afghanistan or did he think that it was going to be an open ended engagement of United States forces in Afghanistan. 

Any rational man and a president for that matter, should have anticipated that a day certain would come when all the "foreign" troops in Afghanistan will withdraw and then made preparations in advance for that eventuality. He should have raised a well trained fighting force army of one Afghanistan, incorporating into it all the various militias in various regions of Afghanistan. He should have also embarked on a mass orientation of Afghanis to lure them away from the Taliban. He should have also allowed American forces the free hand to kill enough Taliban and that way, put the fear of God in them never to again raise up arms against the Afghanistan government in Kabul. 

He should have also outlawed or banned the Taliban, declare them a terrorist organization and proscribe them from Afghanistan and made being a member of the Taliban a death sentence offense. He should have, for added measure, threaten them that he will authorize Americans to nuke them if they don't put down their arms. Within the seven years he has been president, from Barack Obama to President Donald John Trump and now Joe Biden, he should have cuddled America more and showed American troops in Afghanistan much love. But no, he continued from where his predecessor, Taliban Hamid Karzai, stopped and continued to criticize every collateral damage, no matter how minutiae and unintended. His desire was to be seen as the Grand Imam of Afghanistan and a leader who knows best what is good for Afghanis. 

Unfortunately, his showboating has brought him and his country to the cusp of annihilation in the hands of the Taliban, who vowed that his time as Afghanistan president is over and that they will bring him to justice. possibly by hanging him in the city center of Kabul. The Taliban said that the Afghanistan nation has decided to prosecute the national traitors and bring them to justice and declaration of war on them, making false accusations against them and also providing false information about them cannot prolong President Ashraf Ghanis' life, inshallah. If the Taliban does not speak for the majority of Afghanistan people, why is their message spreading so fast and support for them growing in such large numbers that many Afghanis are joining forces with them, fighting and dying, against the government in Kabul? 

If Taliban is not the preferred government by Afghanis, why are Afghanistan soldiers defecting to them, with weapons turned over and thus increasing the firepower at the Taliban's disposal? Those Talibans are 100% Afghanis and they are more popular than the government in Kabul as shown by the rapid manner in which they are taking over villages, towns and cities. It  shows that the government of President Ashraf Ghani is unpopular and does not represent the majority of the people of Afghanistan; and in a democracy, majority rules. So, instead of President Ashraf Ghani making excuses that the speedily deteriorating situation in Afghanistan was caused by the abrupt withdrawal of American troops, which he warned Washington against, he should rise up and live to the oath of office which he took to defend  Afghanistan from all enemies, foreign and domestic. 

As he correctly pointed out, the protection of Afghanistan people is his duty and nobody else, not even the departing American troops. Therefore, as he promised, let him now live up to it, maintain it and in any other event, including his inability or incompetence to meet the expectations of Afghanis, his office let another take. He should resign now and run away into exile or bravely face the fate which a victorious Taliban will surely administer to him, an assured hanging in the public square in Kabul. Former President Hamid Karzai deserves to be dealt with too, except that he is a closeted member of the Taliban himself and might be spared the noose because of some "sacred" blood allegiance. 

There is something about those Afghanistan leaders that spells "cannot be trusted." They are two faced and they play hanky-panky with their society as well as those "foreigners" who came to help them secure their country. Their time of reckoning has finally come as the Taliban will very soon hold them accountable. They should be left to their own device, to defend and protect Afghanistan and if they cannot, because of various tribal disloyalties and sabotages, then let Taliban take control, mete out justice to them as only the Taliban knows best how to; and then forcefully unite Afghanis using their time tested instrumentality of harsh Islamic imposed extreme sharia order. 

Good enough, Afghanis have been surviving for thousands of years and they will still keep on surviving and even possibly thrive under the Taliban, regardless of whatever repression they may be forced to live under. Afghanistan's neighboring countries are definitely supplying the Taliban weapons, logistics and funding; so why hasn't Kabul done something about it, using good neighborliness diplomacy. But no, instead of finding ways to break the backbone of the Taliban by cutting off their lifeblood, the leaders in Kabul are embroiled in old tribal disloyalties and ancient treacheries to the detriment of the Afghanistan. The Taliban are having a feeding frenzy on the disunity in Kabul. Anyway, tired of Ashraf Ghani's excuses, will revert when it  finally falls to the more popular and much loved by Afghanis, Taliban.

AFGHANIS HAVE NO LOVE FOR THEIR COUNTRY: SO TALIBANS CAN HAVE IT.

ICHEOKU says a close observation of the category of Afghanis fleeing in the face of Taliban's continuous advance reveals one disturbing fact. Pictures and videos seen so far reveal that majority of those fleeing are able bodied young men and women, a group which usually constitute the fighting age of any society or country. If this group of people are fleeing, who else is supposed to confront the Talibans. Who else is supposed to protect and defend Afghanistan from being once again captured by the fundamentalist jihadists, who want to reimpose on Afghanistan their medieval way of life and raw understanding of Islam. 

Who do they want or expect to stand up against the Talibans and/or even die defending their country for them if they chose to run away rather than stay and fight? Is it their aged parents or the unappreciated foreigners who have already sacrificed a lot in blood and treasure for more than two decades defending them? Is twenty years not enough time already for them to have firmed their backbones, man up and stand up to the Talibans? Why are they not volunteering to be recruited into the Afghanistan army and join in the effort to keep the Talibans at bay, defeat or even crush them for good; and in that way secure their country forever. 

Do they not know that they owe a sacrifice to their own children and children's children, a future Afghanistan that knows peace and which lives in harmony and prosperity. If foreigners can bleed and die for their Afghanistan, why not themselves, since Afghanistan is for Afghanis and no one else. Majority of the foreigners who were defending Afghanistan belong to the same age bracket as those Afghanis fleeing in droves through boats and all manners of other transportations such as donkeys and camels as well as by foot into Eastern Turkey. They are fleeing instead of fighting for their country and you ask yourself what is wrong with this young Afghanis. 

Why have they become so cowardly and very indifferent to having a secured country where they can live in peace and thrive; and have instead chosen to abandon it to the Talibans. What will they tell their children is the reason Afghanistan fell to the Talibans and they no longer have a country where they can freely exist without being subjected to archaic practices of ancient Islam. It is disheartening to see this particular group of Afghanis abandon their country just because their freeloading on America and the negligible allies of the "willing" finally dried up. 

ICHEOKU says Joe Biden remaining resolute on ending American troops presence in Afghanistan is one decision that might attract him additional votes if he runs in 2024. It is a right decision, having correctly read Afghanis' plan of enjoying a never ending American troops presence on their soil protecting them. They did not want to ever grow up or mature into a formidable country, capable, willing and able to take charge of their affairs. They do not want to do the heavy lifting necessarily required in having a country which they can truly, indeed call their own and proudly so. 

Even their foul mouthed former President Hamid Karzai is no where to be found leading his Afghani people in battling the Talibans. After all he said against America, accusing American troops of al manners of war atrocities against his people, it is surprising that he has not yet adorned military fatigues and with AK47, charging against the Talibans. But it is obvious that he cavorts with the Talibans and it also appears that majority of Afghanis love their Talibans, otherwise why are they not fighting them with fervor instead of fleeing. Therefore, in the unfortunate event Afghanis allow the Talibans to overrun their country, so be it. 

ICHEOKU will not break a tear for such an outcome because it appears that Afghanis are not serious about having a peaceful and secured free country that will not be under a Taliban imposed acute Islamic bondage. Nobody can love Afghanistan more than Afghanis themselves, so as they lead so should everyone else follow in the matter of Afghanistan security. It is the responsibility and duty of Afghanis to safeguard, defend, protect and secure their country. They can source weapons but the manpower is strictly theirs; or the mercenaries which they can hire. No more American blood and treasure for Afghanistan and on this, Joe Biden's lead is germane. 

ABBA KYARI ON HUSHPUPPI'S SPEED DIAL: CORRUPTION RUNS VERY DEEP IN NIGERIA.

ICHEOKU says crime does not fester and thrive in any society without the active connivance and sometimes even participation of the society's police and other law enforcement officials. Therefore it is not surprising that the infamous Internet conman and social media negative influencer, Nigeria's Ramon Olorunwa Abbas aka Hushpuppi of Dubai, the "Billionaire Gucci Master" ratted out Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari as an accomplice to his crimes. He also allegedly mentioned a famous local blogger who claims that she became a "billionaire" just by writing a gossip blog which is pedestrian at best; a former Senator whose wealth could not have been ordinarily acquired merely from being a Nigerian senator and also an online "morality pastor". 

So, yes, the FBI could not have successfully petitioned for warrant of arrest of the police chief unless there are some incontrovertible evidence linking him to some criminal activities as revealed by Hushpuppi which the court reviewed and found credible enough and which met the probable cause threshold to warrant issuing same. Desperate for a plea deal, Hushpuppi must have persuaded the FBI by the weight of evidence which he produced in order to make them want to deal. 

Anyone who is conversant with the United States of America premier crime fighting bureau  knows that they hardly accede to plea bargain unless there is a convincing reason to do that. Most of their cases are usually successfully prosecuted to conviction of the accused, so they have no incentive to make plea deals. It is usually only when they have some bigger fish to net that they accept a plea bargain by a smaller fish, who is desperate for a reduced term of imprisonment because all Federal sentences run their full term, unless commuted by the president. Therefore Hushpuppi must have been persuaded by his counsel to give up all his criminal accomplices, aiders and abetters, in order to get a reduced term in prison.  

It does not matter what some Nigerians are saying in defense of the police chief implicated in Hushpuppi's criminal enterprise. The only thing that matters now is for him to start getting ready to navigate the intricate web of the United States of America justice system where judges are not bribed and prosecutors are not easily compromised. His saying that it is a "lie" or that he was just a friend with Hushpuppi will not fly nor be enough as there are paper trails and electronic signatures which the FBI have in their possession before they persuaded the judge to grant the warrant of arrest on the police chief. 

The police chief must therefore explain what connects him to Hushpuppi and what the various amounts traced from Hushpuppi to him were for. If they were payments, for what services? If they were gifts, for what? Birthdays, wedding or "friendship" gifts? He must also explain the numerous phone calls and messages which both of them exchanged; as well as reason fo his trip to Dubai to visit the Billionaire Gucci Master. Equally important is the SOS phone call which he claimed he received from Hushpuppi and whether it passed through normal police procedures. Was it received and processed through official police channel or through Abba Kyari's personal direct line, asking him to do the needful for a reward of a certain percentage of the recoverable. 

Who were the other officers involved in arresting Mr Kelly Chibuzor Vincent as directed by Hushpuppi? Was the incident, the complaint, arrest and interrogation formally recorded in official police crime data base or was it a hush hush, side job, which he did outside the chain of command and official police investigatory duty, for which he was rewarded handsomely. But we will not know the answers to many of these questions unless he is extradited to the United States of America, interrogated by the FBI, put on trial and cross examined; assuming that he will testify and not plead the 5th.

Coincidentally, Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari seems to enjoy the company of  "business" men of questionable income sources. He once went to Dubai to visit Hushpuppi, the Billionaire Gucci Master. He hung out with the Invictus Group Forbes magazine rated youngest "billionaire" Obinwanne Okeke who is now doing ten years term in a United States of America prison for Internet fraud. Just recently, he was at Obi Cubana's mother's funeral extravaganza at Oba and even wore a matching uniform with the Cubana mogul. So, why was he at Oba and what was his business being there and if it was on invitation, what business relationship exists between him and the Cuban Group. There is no other plausible relationship between them except that it is a continuation of his pattern of giving cover for criminal activities.

Now, with Hushpuppi and the Invictus fella captured, many people who are questioning the sources of Obi Cubana's wealth are now more invigorated and doing some arithmetics, adding the numbers, with Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari as the common denominator. Hushpuppi once passed off his fraudulent activities as real estate investments. Obinwanne Okeke once passed off his own Internet fraud as new Media and real estate investment. So are we seeing another likely to be unmasked Obi Cubana passing off his own "money secrets" as night clubs and show businesses? It is also deducible that the two businesses are the preferred methods of laundering money by criminal organizations. 

But time will tell as no crime ever goes unpunished. Hushpuppi and Obinwanne Okeke never knew few years ago that their run on the criminal freeway will meet a dashed hope so soon. So for now, lets just suspend our disbelief that "hard-work" minted Obi Cubana's wealth. Until the United States of America caught Hushpuppi through the Dubai authorities, many gullible Nigerians believed that "real estate" made him a wealthy man; ditto Invictus Obinwanne Okeke. Currently, the same Nigerians now believe that Obi Cubana made his money through hard-work as he claimed and you wonder why wheelbarrow pushers are not all extremely wealthy. So, until he is similarly unmasked someday, we shall grant him the title of the "Hardest Working Man Alive in Nigeria." 

But before these newbies, there were the Ezegos, the Fred Ajuduas, the John Nebolisas, the Ade Bendels, the Emeka Ofors, the Nwudes and all other 419 scions who rode the streets and highways of Nigeria with unabashed impunity, serenaded by minstrels and accompanied by stretched motorcade convoys and police escorts. Nigerians were told similarly then that these fraudsters were international "business men", but where are they all now? Time humbles everything, including very idiotic and undisciplined louts who flaunt what they are supposed to be circumspect and discrete about. But in a land of abject poverty, their only concern is how to impress the vainglorious and use corrupt police officers for maximum effect. 

How rich are these people anyway or is it a case of in the land of the blind where the single eyed is the king? What exactly is their wealth portfolio? How many payroll do they sign off each month? How many financial statements have they filed in the past five years and how much did they pay in taxes? How many industries have they built? How many research foundations have they endowed? What legacy will they leave behind? Aliko Dangote is building a $10 billion refinery and someone else is busy, happily bankrolling a $200 million funeral through the proxy of "friends". A matter made worse because he is supposedly "educated" but chose to live such a life of advertised profligacy. 

it is what Nnamdi Azikwe Jr once referred to as primitive wealth, popularly called "money miss road"; otherwise imagine the number of people which such amount of money would have empowered in a society with nearly 58% unemployment rate and where so many children go to bed every night on hungry stomachs. ICHEOKU criticized Jeff Bezos for wasting resources on a junket to the edge of space, but at least he has Amazon and employs hundreds of thousands of people. But these fellas? Anyway, back to Hushpuppi and his Abba Kyari runs man.

Anyone who is conversant with Nigerian Police Force knows that some of them collaborate with criminals and sometimes even participate in criminal activities as the criminals themselves. This is the reason crimes are not regularly solved in Nigeria because those tasked with solving crimes are themselves the criminals or are facilitating the crimes themselves for a percentage cut in the proceeds. Hushpuppi is not the first criminal to enjoy the services of a police officer in Nigeria for an agreed payment of a fee and he will not be the last. So, instead of all the effort to confuse Nigerians by declaring his innocence, Abba Kyari should prepare for the United States justice system because a United States of America judge would not issue a warrant for his arrest unless there is convincing evidence of probable cause of a crime which implicated him. 

It might be in telephone calls, texts and other electronic messages, bank account information and money transfers which Hushpuppi ponied up which were then investigated and collaborated before the FBI successfully secured a warrant for his arrest. The Justice system in America, unlike Nigeria where some financial inducements can easily influence outcomes, is not as compromised. So Abba Kyari most likely have a case to answer which persuaded the court to finally issue a warrant for his arrest on a third try by the prosecutors. It shows that they were able to finally meet the threshold of probable cause based on substantial evidence of Abba Kyari's complicity in the fraudulent schemes of Hushpuppi. 

International financial crime always leaves paper trails or electronic signatures; so it will not be enough for Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari to merely "deny" any involvement in Hushpuppi's criminal activities or try to explain it away as merely "aiding a friend in need" who later paid some money for some traditional outfits made by his tailor. He will need to do more to explain his innocence, admitted the prosecution has the onus to prove what they are alleging. But as a high ranking police officer, he owes the Nigerian public a satisfactory explanation about  his involvement with world's notorious fraudster Hushpuppi. What business brought them together and how did Hushpuppi obtain his private personal telephone number. 

Many people know about the Nigerian factor and how men and women of means easily influence outcomes in Nigeria. With their money, they easily have their way with anybody who gets on their wrong side and upon an agreed sum paid to corrupt police officers, such people can easily disappear never to be seen or heard from forever. It is extrajudicial killing and Nigeria police are notorious for it. As commentator observed and ICHEOKU completely understands, "there is nothing to be surprised about the allegation that Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari was involved in some fraudulent activity with Internet fraudster Hushpuppi." So many police men and women in Nigeria, from rank and file to the topmost, are somewhat involved in aiding and abetting crimes. The only reason Hushpuppi is being held is because he was arrested outside Nigeria, otherwise he would be moving around freely if he was in Nigeria with even police escort for effect. 

Since the Nigeria Police Force has reaffirmed its commitment to the pursuit of justice and the strengthening of its professional relationship with the FBI and other international crime fighting partners, the only thing now expected of them is to immediately turn over to the FBI their wanted suspect, Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari. There is a valid warrant for his arrest for  money laundering activities involving Hushpuppi and Nigeria has no choice in the matter because they have a treaty with the United States for cross extraditing criminals. If at the end, he is found not guilty by the court, he will, as a matter of course, be reinstated to his duty position. 

But until then, he has been grossly compromised and is no longer fit to continue to serve as a policer officer, especially one entrusted with such a very high profile position as Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the Inspector General of Police Task Force. Such a position requires optimum integrity and unblemished candor, both of which a suspect in a crime whose warrant of arrest has been issued, no longer possess. Abba Kyari should be suspended immediately or placed on leave from the Nigeria Police Force until the final resolution of the matter. Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari is now a shame of Nigeria as the Nigeria underbelly of police corruption has gone international because of him. It is shame. 

MARTINE MOISE'S NEW YORK TIMES INTERVIEW: WHAT SHE IS NOT TELLING.

ICHEOKU says Haiti's bereaved First Lady and widow of slain President Jovenel Moise has not come clean with what happened to her late husband. Although she has been trying so hard to get ahead and stay on top of the story, but each time she tries, she ends up throwing more curve balls than clarity, into exactly what happened on that fateful tragic night when gunmen murdered her husband in their bedroom in Port-Au-Prince. 

Previously, we were told that she was at the corridor beside their bedroom entrance door where the assassins stormed their home. Now, the story has changed as she tells us that her late husband asked her to lie on the floor beside the bed and you wonder which husband, fearing an immediate armed intrusion in their bedroom and harm to his wife, would ask her to lie down on the floor beside their bed. 

Every husband would naturally implore their wife to run and go and hide somewhere far removed from their bedroom. At least if the husband had time to make two different telephone calls to two different security officers, it means that she had time to have ran away from the bedroom into hiding. She also said that she went to their children's sleeping area, woke them up and hide them in a bathroom with their dog. So, why did she not hide with them in that bathroom or at least hid herself somewhere else instead of rejoining her husband in their bedroom to be told later to lie down on the floor. 

How could assassins who were firing their automatic machine guns from shoulder or waist level, strike someone who was lying on the floor first, before riddling the body of a person who was standing up, after making the frantic SOS telephone calls to security officers. Why did they wait in the bedroom to be killed and not take any evasive action such as hiding, to at least delay the inevitable and help them buy some time before the summoned help arrived. If they only shot her on the arm and elbow, how did blood get into her mouth since such happenstance usually occurs as a result of internal bleeding and no part of her torso or thoracic region was breached by the assassins bullets. 

If as she "recalled", her mouth was filled with blood and she was unable to breath, how did she have the presence of mind to remain still and pretend to be "dead" while the assassins ransacked their bedroom drawers. How long can someone hold their breath, especially one that her mouth was full of blood? Even if she breathed through her nostrils, did she not make gargling sound because since her mouth was full of blood, that leaves her with only her nose for both breathing in and breathing out. She also failed to tell us if the lights in their bedroom were on or off. She also said that the only thing she saw before they killed her husband were the assassins boots and she then closed her eyes and did not see any other thing else. 

Yet she said that they shot her first which means that she did not close her eyes when they shot her otherwise she wouldn't know who was shot first. So, where beside their bed on the floor was she lying down; was she lying supine or sideways; otherwise how could bullets fired randomly not penetrate her body but only wounded her arm and elbow? It shows that her gunshot wounds were specifically and methodically placed and was not as a result of random firing by unknown assailants who stormed their bedroom to assassinate the president. There is more to the story than she is telling and she needs to be placed on the investigation list, at least as a person of interest, with vital information in the assassination of her husband, the former president of Haiti Jovenel Moise. 

She closed her eyes and did not see anything else, her mouth was also full of blood but she maintained her composure throughout the ordeal and even when the assassins shone a flashlight on her eyes? It is a difficult narration to believe and will require the suspension of logic and disbelief to accept her story as the true account of what actually took place in that bedroom on that fateful night of July 7th, 2021. It is extremely difficult, if not humanly impossible, the excitement of the commotion considered, for her to pull off such a composure under such stressful circumstance. Moreso, how could assassins who riddled her husband's body with bullets and made sure that he died, not spend similar effort riddling her body with bullets and made sure that she died before evacuating from the scene. 

Someone with mouth full of blood, her eyes firmly shut closed and lying motionless on the floor, listened as the assassins ransacked the room, speaking Spanish as they searched methodically for something in her husband's files and saying that's not it, that's not it, until finally that's it". We also assume for the sake of this piece that it was not all of the assassins that conducted the search and that the whole thing took a while, at least more than some seconds. So why did, at least one of the assassins, hear her grunt or breathing and made sure that she was dead too before they left? As they filled out, one of them stepped on her feet and waved a flashlight over her shut-closed eyes, which possibly was to signal her that she can now get up and continue play-acting her part as an assassination survivor? 

Why would paid assassins "thought" that she was dead, instead of confirming that she was dead by also riddling her upper torso with bullets as they did to her husband; or even putting some pointblank shots into her cranial walls. ICHEOKU says agrees with her but to the extent that the central question remains not only who ordered and paid for the assassination of her husband, but also what role did she play in it? What role did Haiti security hierarchy also play in it too? If the 18 Colombians and several Haitians so far detained as suspects killed the president, why did the president's security detail sign off on it? 

It is irrelevant whatever their motivation was, including whether one doctor and pastor Christian Emmanuel Sanon conspired with Colombia mercenaries to kill the president because he wants to seize political power. Where was the over 30 security agents who make up the president's protection unit? Why was none of them killed or at least wounded that night while defending the president? And yes, the rich and powerful always hold sway in every society and they do not take kindly to any elected official including a president wanting to disturb their groove. So, Haiti is not an exception and their rich and powerful oligarchs possibly had a hand in the assassination but there is still a lot of grey areas not being illuminated by Martine Moise. 

This is a woman who conditioned her interview with New York Times on their non disclosure of her hiding location somewhere in Southern Florida, yet she declared that she is not afraid of her husband's killers. Why then did she want her location off record if she is not afraid that his killers might want to finish her off. The only possible explanation is that she knows them and that they will not hurt her; because they did not hurt her when they could have easily done so inside her bedroom in Port-Au-Prince on July 7th, 2021. Also, her desire for her location not to be exposed could be that she possibly wants some quiet time to nurse her hand back to life; but then, how did New York Times get invited to do the interview? 

ICHEOKU says her story does not add up. It is either that she is still suffering traumatic memory lapses or she is trying to cover her role in the entire scheme. According to her, they were asleep when gunfire jolted them to their feet. Then she ran to wake her two children up and made them hide in a bathroom, hurdled with their dog. What type of dog would not bark after sensing danger and harm coming to their owners? Her husband then grabbed the telephone and called for help; and she still had the presence of mind under panic to use "Honey" while asking him who he called? He then told her that he found Dimitri Herard and Jean Laguel Civil and they told him that they are on their way. 

Then the assassins entered the house "swiftly and unencumbered"; and the husband told her to lie down on the floor so that she would not get hurt. That's where I think you will be safe he told her, but he did not prefix his own statement with "Honey" or "Darling"? If a burst of gunfire came from outside their bedroom, why then did the bullets strike her first? Was she already lying down on the floor as instructed or was she still standing up when the gunfire penetrated their bedroom? How long did the operation last and how many files did her husband have with him in their home that they could so easily find what they were looking for on the shelf. If what they were looking for was that valuable, why would the president just leave it lying on the shelf and not in a safe or strong room? 

And yes, everybody should have died that night, but everybody did not die because it was somewhat an inside job with somebody very close to the president involved and fully participated in orchestrating his assassination. Now, she wants to run for president herself and you wonder whether it is her reward for her role in the killing of her husband. ICHEOKU says whatever vision President Jovenel Moise may have had for Haiti would have been better fulfilled with him alive and piloting the affairs of Haiti and midwifing the vision. But as it turned out, he had none, the reason Haiti was stalled and remained an all motion and no movement society throughout his presidency. 

Anyway, Martine Moise needs to come completely clean with everything she knows about the assassination of her husband President Jovenel Moise and what role, if any, she played in it. But until she does, the shadow of a black widow will continue to hang over her because all the circumstances considered, it could not have been just mother luck that kept her alive; with only precisely placed gunshot wounds on her arm to show for it. It does not make sense, especially when her husband's body was riddled with bullets and they saw her lying down there beside the bed. ICHEOKU strongly believes that she was shot only after her husband was murdered and on the part of her body of her choosing, just to make it look as if she was also a victim. 

Her story does not make sense and the place of her gunshot wounds does not conform with a random gunfire shots, moreso for a "victim" who was lying down on the floor. But the world might never know the depth of the conspiracy that actually killed President Jovenel Moise as the same people who possibly acted in concert are now doing the investigation. Only an expanded team of investigators, comprising of world experts, can truly unravel what happened in Port-Au-Prince on that deadly night of July 7th. So, until that happens, whatever anyone says about the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, including the tale by moonlight being pinned by his widow, Marine Moise, should be treated as pure hogwash. It is sad.

PIERS MORGAN QUESTIONS SIMONE BILES MENTAL ILLNESS: SHAME ON HIM.

Piers Morgan said that there is nothing heroic about quitting but forgot that the same goes both ways; and that as he was pointing a finger at Simone Biles, the rest of his other fingers were pointing back at him. The fat British slob has no grounds whatsoever to stand in making such a statement, having himself quit before when he stormed off a live British television programming simply because someone deflated his ego and checked his megalomanic streak. 

It is therefore hypocritical of him to attack the Olympic gymnast for succumbing to the demons of mental illness, upbraiding her for "chickening" out from the Tokyo Olympics.. Piers Morgan should be the last person to complain about anybody quitting from something and many other people have severally quit from something, including their jobs or professions, because they cannot handle the pressure anymore. Simone Biles was not the first and she will not be the last; but it is always good to know when to call it quits in the interest of someone's health, mental or phial or both. 

But Piers Morgan's attack appears to be prejudicially motivated, possibly because he has something against women particularly when they are colored. First, it was Meghan Markle and now Simone Biles and you wonder whether their skin color triggered him and had everything to do with his unwarranted criticism of a mental health sufferer. What a shame of Britain to have such a loudmouth who does not know when to hush. Perhaps he cherishes the attention which he gets each time he vents so idiotically, the reason he pounces on every opportunity that presents themselves for him to be the news. It is very pathetic of him that he finds such controversies so satisfying that he deliberately stews in them nearly frequently. 

But to attack a mental health sufferer in this way despite her well known record of not easily shying away from challenges or "quitting", which made her the global superstar she is, who holds so many records in gymnastics, shows that Piers Morgan deliberately courts controversies and not that he genuinely believed that Simone Biles "quit" because she was not having a fun-filled day. A person who could attack his former friend, President Donald John Trump, just to get on top of news coverage is a person who would do just anything to stay in the news and he did it with his attack on mental health and questioning, if indeed Simone Biles had mental issues. It is sad. 

ICHEOKU condemns the Brit for making such unguarded statement and without a care in the world how that might even add to the mental anguish which Simone Biles is currently undergoing. Why make a bad matter worse or is it not enough for him already that a world class Olympic gymnast who trained for a competition gave it all up as a result of something which she cannot control. But instead of showing sympathy and understanding, it is to taunt her by doubting her and further exacerbating the whole matter. Piers Morgan has shown by this that he is simply heartless and possibly have no heart at all and if any, may be one made of stone or even cold tungsten. What a fella the Brit really is; a very despicable fellow.

JUMMAI NACHE: A COVID-19/PFIZER VACCINE DOUBLE AMPUTEE NEEDS HELP.

ICHEOKU says is an advocate of vaccination and continues to urge people to get vaccinated against the coronavirus disease. The vaccines are largely safe and millions of people have already got their shots without much side effects and in the very few exceptional cases where side effects resulted, they are comparatively, small. However, this is not to discountenance that some few people had serious adverse reaction to the vaccines, and now suffering from all manners of health issues including uncontrollable body quaking, trembling and convulsion, hearing loss, impacted vision and in some extreme cases, the loss of limbs. In some rare cases, some people died following vaccination as their body reacted so violently to the vaccine and could not handle it. 

Although the instances of this extreme adverse effects is relatively negligible compared to the millions of people who did not react to the vaccine adversely, but one death or one adverse reaction, is still one too many as nobody expected to die or lose their limbs following a vaccination. It should not be a case of running away from the frying pan and ended up inside the fire as people want to be inoculated against the Chinese killer virus and not be killed in the process. Such an outcome was not the bargained for benefit that motivated their presenting themselves to be vaccinated. Therefore the government in conjunction with the pharmaceutical companies involved should set up a fund from which compensation could be paid to those people who got the opposite of their bargain and were left holding the short-end of the stick; or worse still ended up in the grave yard, sent there not by the coronavirus but by the vaccine which was meant to prevent such an outcome.

The government and vaccine producers can easily undertake this as the insured and insurable risk will be drastically limited to only those who suffered loss of limbs and/or death as a result of taking the coronavirus vaccines. Such beneficiaries should be strictly limited to only those who did not have coronavirus disease prior to getting their vaccination and subsequently developed such a life threatening or compounding problems such as amputations of their legs and/or arms. The number of such sufferers will not be too many and such a step will also help incentivize and encourage those who are still squeamish about getting their shots, to take that leap of fate, fully aware that should anything happen to them as a result, such as incapacitation or even death, that their loved ones will be compensated.

Life as we know it is hard and it becomes even harder when loved ones, due to no fault of theirs, suddenly become incapacitated or even die; leaving behind a lot of hurt and un-fillable void. Worse still if they are the breadwinners of their household and their family is left foraging for sustenance and survival. Many people, if given the option to die from the coronavirus or die from the vaccine, would readily go for the former; a  matter made even worse when their demise is preceded with long suffering hospitalization, intubation, amputations of all their limbs and all other things done in trying to prevent the inevitable, which they eventually ended up succumbing to. Why would anyone want to go through all the problems first before getting there, instead of just getting it over quickly by getting there as speedily as possible. It does not make sense, not at all.

The case of the Minnesota woman Jummai Nache is so heartrending that nobody would wish it on their worst enemy. A loving wife, mother, medical worker and a Christian who went for her second shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on February 1st only to be rushed to Urgent Care on February 6th following complaints of chest pain. A day later on February 7th, she tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus disease and her condition took a turn for the worse as it deteriorated so quickly, leading to intensive care hospitalization and oxygenated intubation,. Her two legs were subsequently amputated as a result of irreversible damage to circulation to her lower extremities. She suffered massive blood clotting, respiratory difficulties, weakness of heart muscles, reduced red blood cells and inadequate blood supply to her body organs and organs  inflammation. 

Although she is out of the intensive care but her medical woes are not over yet as she will soon also lose both of her hands which are set for amputations as well. Imagine a life of a quadruple amputee, all possibly because of COVID-19 and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. However, since she did not react adversely to the first shot of the vaccine and did not have coronavirus then or during the two weeks waiting period soon thereafter, it becomes arguable whether it is still plausible to attribute her adverse condition to the vaccine? But since she still got infected after completing her vaccination with the second shot and then reacted this badly, what possibly could have caused it? ICHEOKU says it must be a case of someone being extremely unlucky because were it due to the vaccine, she would have been struck immediately upon getting her first shot. It therefore must be as a result of complications from COVID-19, but why was she still infected after getting her two shots?

Anyway, she is one very unfortunate lady as she did everything right by getting her shots, yet ended up getting COVID-19 and suffering such devastating health complications. It is people like her that makes the need to set up a compensation fund imperative in order to assist people who due to no fault of theirs ended up with such debilitating health issues. The government in Washington DC as well as in Minnesota and also the city of Minneapolis should give this woman all the assistance which she needs paying her medical expenses as well as life going forward. Her case is where her representative Congresswoman Ilhan Omar should be in the forefront  soliciting for help on her behalf. Their church Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention have already taken a good step by setting up a GoFundMe page for her and hopefully many people will be touched by her story to surpass the set goal of raising $500,000 towards her medical bills and upkeep. Please visit her GoFundMe page today and help as much as you can - #GoFundMe for Jummai Nache.

MAZI NNAMDI KANU: A NO SHOW AT COURT BUT STILL A VERY LUCKY MAN.

ICHEOKU says on a grand scheme of things, not being brought to court is still a much better option than being deep sixed or missing without a trace and being searched for by his family and the IPOB worldwide family. Therefore no matter how measured, weighted, diced and analyzed, being confined in the slammer for another three months until October 21st is still a far better outcome, the disappointment notwithstanding, than being in the bottom of the Indian Ocean or covered up by sand dunes of the Sahara desert or even in a shallow unmarked grave somewhere in Abuja. These were "options" available to the Nigeria gangster regime of Muhammadu Buhari, but they chose to bring him back to Nigeria alive to "continue" with his prosecution. 

So, the government or rather junta of Muhammadu Buhari can lie all they want that it was for lack of transportation or as they put it, "logistics" that frustrated their bringing Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to court, but time will eventually resolve all gray areas. Needless to add that they had "transportation" when they took him from Abuja airport following their successful abduction of him from Kenya to wherever hellhole they are keeping him in and also had "transportation" when they re-arraigned him in court shortly after bringing him back. But suddenly, all the vehicles at the disposal of the DSS became immobilized and none could transport Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to court despite that the DSS had about one month court notice since June 19th of the scheduled July 26th 2021 due date for his taking of plea. 

Like the full dictatorship which Muhammadu Buhari is gradually morphing into, disrespecting the court is usually a hallmark of dictatorships. They intentionally and purposely refused to bring Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, an accused who is in their custody and who was ordered to be brought to court in order for the court to take his plea. But the good news is that they have already admitted that they "intercepted" him and have already brought him to court once and also held a press conference and media sessions to chest-beat themselves on his capture. He is in their custody and his safety and upkeep is now their total responsibility. Ndigbo, IPOB, other meaningful Nigerians as well as the international community expect the Nigerian government to take this responsibility very seriously by protecting Mazi Nnamdi Kanu with every fiber of their being. 

Time flies by quickly and before too long October 21st will come around and hopefully then, they will have "transportation" with which to bring Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to court and produce him to take his plea. It is only delayed but cannot be avoided; admitted they did what they did just to defer the day certain and in order to punish him further with additional two months detention without trial in their attempt to break his will to carry on the Biafra struggle. But he is a man of great resolve and if his antecedents are any indicators, he will tough the two months out, convinced in the rightness of his cause and in order to continue presenting the face of a leader on whose shoulders lie the fate of over 80 million Biafrans yearning for freedom from the Nigeria State.

Anyway, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is in fact actually lucky that he was taken alive from Kenya and brought safely alive back to Nigeria. That God shepherded him throughout is by itself a miracle worthy of celebration, his kidnap and 8 days of torture in Kenya and then the 5 hours flight from Nairobi to Abuja considered. He is merely in custody, but still breathing, still ingesting and still getting hydrated. Those mercenaries who lured him to the airport parking garage could have easily put a bullet in his head right there and left his body to be found later as a victim of unknown killers. They could also have killed him in captivity and dumped his body into the Athi river or Tana river; or even the Indian Ocean or put him in a roadside garbage dump to be trashed or discovered as another victim of gun violence in Nairobi. He could also have succumbed to the torture which lasted for 8 long days and his body promptly disposed. 

But none of these happened; he survived Kenya and was handed over to Nigeria authorities who came to Kenya and took him back to Abuja in a private plane. His handlers could have easily thrown him out of the plane over the desert of Sudan or Chad and no trace of him ever found; but they decided otherwise and proceeded to land him safely in Abuja. They could have also injected him with a heart attack inducing drug or lace his drink with cyanid on the plane and watch him die an agonizing  painful, slow death. Then, touched down and quietly bury him in an unmarked grave in Abuja and sworn to oath of secrecy, case closed. Thereafter, the government would make a renewed call for his capture or surrender, placing a fresh bounty of $500 million on his head as a reward for anyone who will give the government his current known address and/or help the government capture him and bring him back to Nigeria, aware that the bounty will never be collected. 

Any of these would have spared the Nigeria government the opprobrium for the method they used in bringing the IPOB leader back to Nigeria. However, the Nigeria government chose differently and brought him back alive to Nigeria which shows that the killing of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was not their priority and primary objective. It is also possible that they brought him back alive to Nigeria purposely to satisfy their ego, show that it can be done and to send a strong message of the fate which awaits anyone who dares challenge the government. Further, that irrespective of their location or believe of personal invincibility, that the long arm of the Nigerian government can still reach them and grab them. 

It is possible too that they brought him back alive to Nigeria as a personal vendetta and to diminish him before his IPOB followers as now a captive of the "failed Zoological Nigeria State. That despite his braggadocio, he was still trapped and captured just like an ordinary rat by the same "failed zoological Fulani government of Nigeria." Yes indeed, the Nigerian government deflated Mazi Nnamdi Kanu by bringing him back to Nigeria alive, in handcuffs and leg chains, just like a common criminal. They made his capture personal, tired and frustrated with his calling Nigeria a "failed zoological republic" and constantly stating that Buhari was dead and buried in Saudi Arabia, and that one "Jubril el Sudan" is the impostor in Aso Rock. He became a pain in their butt and they became desperate to shut him up and then went all the way in to capture him.  

So, yes, governments all over the world have been kidnapping people, both their citizens and non citizens alike. Once, a government perceives or rather determines that a person has become a  security threat or too embarrassing to them, they make a play at nabbing the person or even permanently shutting the person up through assassination. So, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not the first person nor will he be the last person to be ever kidnapped by a government. Even before Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Nigeria government under then military head of state Muhammadu Buhari  in 1985 attempted to forcefully bring Umaru Dikko back to Nigeria from London following a successful kidnapping of him. 

Not too long ago, four Iranian security agents were indicted in a New York court for their role in plotting to kidnap and forcefully return back to Iran an Iranian journalist Mash Alinejad, an activist and critic of the Tehran regime who lives in Brooklyn New York. Some other countries do not even tangle themselves with the niceties of kidnapping and forceful return of such dissidents; as they consider that too risky, a waste of time and needless expenditure of valuable resources. They simply neutralize them on the spot whenever the opportunity presents itself. Russia is one such country which does not border itself with such a waste of time. Poisoning of tea with isotopes, body contact delivered poisons and hanging them in a make believe suicide are some of their preferred methods of getting rid of such "nuisances" and "enemies" of the Russian State, 

In February 2017, North Korea secret agents assassinated the wanted brother of their Leader Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong-nam, with a VX nerve agent, a body contact poison, inside Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia. Lets not also forget the compromised tea which they gave MKO Abiola in Abuja in order to permanently shut him up over the unresolved June 12th mandate. Israel too does not bother bringing such targeted persons for elimination back home, they summarily just waste them wherever the opportunity presents itself, including their recent assassination inside Tehran of an Iranian nuclear chief scientist. The targeted assassinations of Abu Nidal and other Palestinian hitmen who carried out the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes are also on record.  

So, yes, all the circumstances considered, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu should consider himself a very lucky man as he could have been simply disappeared from the face of the earth, never to be seen or heard again from; forever silenced and frozen out without a trace. Countries regularly hunt down people who they feel are a threat to their national security or even perturbing their peace of mind; and yes, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was one such person who Abuja was tired of his "pestilence" and wanted him shut up for good. So, they set a perfect trap for him and he recklessly walked into it. He was safely brought back to Nigeria and put in a dark, dank underground custodial detention, with no more access to the Internet and with that, he was put out of commission and out of circulation, at least for now. 

As he spends his time in detention, introspecting and thinking about his recklessness and that lapse in care for his personal security, going to meet some people at an underground parking garage in Nairobi Kenya, without bodyguards or other companions, he should also count his blessings that he survived the ordeal in Kenya and was brought back to Nigeria in one piece. It means that there is still hope that someday, he will still have the opportunity to continue with his freedom fighting. Although the ideal saying is that "he who runs away lives to fight another day," but as a correlative, he who is in detention will be freed someday to continue the fight; whenever that some day ends up being. All he can do now is to keep maintain his sanity, keep hope alive, and pray that law and political pressure, nationally and internationally, would persuade the Nigerian government to curb their vengeance. 

Where there is life, there is hope. He will still have an opportunity of continuing his fight for Biafra liberation and possibly someday, live to see his dream come through with a Biafra restored. But he should now focus his energy on surviving detention and not fret too much about any other thing, including any fantom rescue or a British intervention which will spring him out of detention.    It is possible too that the British government and Kenya government and Nigeria government planned and orchestrated the whole thing. Fearing backlash in London, 10 Downing Street possibly want to end the tension being generated in Nigeria by signing off on his abduction as governments do all sorts of wheeling and dealing beneath the surface. 

Anyway, ICHEOKU still commends the Nigerian government for not being blood thirsty ruthless by sparing the life of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and bringing him back safely to Nigeria. Hopefully, the government will allow the courts the free hand to determine his fate or better still, resolve it politically through a compromise. May be instead of yielding to his demand for a full restoration of Biafra through an organized referendum, the government should agree to a restructured Nigeria where the regions will be granted a near full autonomy as truly federated regions which will accommodate the sentiments which fired up the agitation. ICHEOKU says if it is offered, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu should accept it as a full measure and in complete satisfaction of his agitation, in lieu of a sovereign State of Biafra and continue to count his blessings that he did not disappear without a trace. October 21st, we now await.

JUST DO IT: GET VACCINATED, PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP ALREADY DID.

ICHEOKU says what do you have to lose getting vaccinated and what do you have to gain by still holding out and refusing to get your life's shot in the arm when majority of the people have already got theirs. President Donald John Trump did; Sean Hannity did and so also did Tucker Carlson. The vaccines are safe; they are free and millions of people have already received their shots and they are still here with us, not dead nor deformed or too sickly as a result. 

Therefore, to still be holding out on whatever ground does not seem to make sense at all, at least not any more; since the vaccines have proven themselves very effective against the Chinese coronavirus disease. Do not let an otherwise avoidable death cause your family and loved ones a lasting pain, sorrow and anguish; at least do it for them. Many people held out on getting the vaccines for a very long time, afraid that the vaccines might be killer shots, but it eventually turned out that they are killer shots only against the Chinese coronavirus disease. Millions of people have been saved from the coronavirus disease and spared from untimely death as a result of the vaccines. So, do not set back the hands of the clock of the progress being recorded in the war against the coronavirus by foolishly still becoming a statistic when you would have been saved. 

Nothing else justifies the continuing resistance and vaccine hesitancy; and if it is because of Dr Anthony Fauci, just ignore him and go get your shot. Dr Anthony Fauci did not make the vaccines and couldn't have compromised them or came up with bad products, admitted his messaging has been all over the place, causing more confusion than giving clarity and thereby inducing more fear than confidence in the vaccines. Many people expected Joe Biden to have since fired Dr Anthony Fauci for all his misleading statements which brought about the hesitancy.   But as it stands right now, anyone waiting for when Joe Biden will fire him before getting their shot, might probably get the coronavirus disease, because Joe Biden's hands are inextricably tied and he cannot dare make Dr Fauci mad, less the machinations of November 3rd will come unraveled. So, borrow a leaf from Nike and just do it. Go get vaccinated.

430 AMERICANS KILLED IN ONE WEEK: IT IS WAR, DEPLOY THE TROOPS.

ICHEOKU says American forces are deployed in so many countries principally to help protect them and also prevent them from killing themselves. The primary argument against bringing American troops back home from Afghanistan is that Afghanis will restart killing each other once Americans forces are withdrawn from the country. So, yes, Talibans are Afghanis and they are killing their fellow Afghanis, fighting a government run by Afghanis in Kabul. The same equally reason goes for other places with various insurgencies throughout the world where American troops are deployed and stationed. 

But in America, American gunmen are running around killing fellow Americans at such a rate that it is nearing the level of "insurgency", so, when will American troops be deployed in the homeland to help protect the American people and prevent these lunatic Americans from the continuing killings of their fellow Americans. Enough of the covering up and pretending as if everything is honky dory in America because it is not as too many American people are losing their lives to senseless shootings. Nearly 1000 shootings in one week with 430 Americans killed and over 1000 others injured, is such a drastic record that everybody in America should begin to seriously ask what is wrong with a system that permits her citizens to be summarily wasted in this manner by preventable gun violence. 

Why are Americans so angry and mad at each other that they readily resort to shooting one another with such viciousness any time they have a disputation or disagreement as to kill over 430 Americans just within one week. What is wrong people or is this blood letting now an acceptable way of life that people just shrug them off until the next incident or they too become victim added to the statistics of the madness. It is time to heavily and mercilessly crackdown on this tragic recurring decimal which has enveloped America as no one is safe anymore in America. Bullets do not have eyes, especially stray bullets, which normally mistake their intended target for a hapless innocent victim including little children. 

A total of 915 shooting incidents were recorded in America just between July 17 and July 23 which left 430 people dead and 1007 others injured. Such a record telegraphs a strong incontrovertible message of nation in distress, suffering from serious gun violence crisis. It is time Washington DC rose to the occasion and look inwards to fixing the problem, no matter what it will take. American people's lives ought to be saved and it is their duty to prevent these blood shedding going on in America. Although, this proposition might not be attractive to the Deep State military industrial complex because it will not be profitable for them because light arms and not bombs will be needed, unlike foreign wars and interventions; but they should take pity on American people, whose lives and the lives of their loved ones are continuously being lost and threatened by these gun violence. 

The authorities should tune out all the political correctness and wokeness noise and crackdown heavily on the ravaging gun violence. It does not matter whose interest will be jeopardized in the process as American people are dying at an unacceptable too high numbers and the authorities are duty bound now to put a stop to it. The government should consider deploying some of those troops returning home from Afghanistan to some of these cities now under siege of gun violence to help bring it under control. If it means cracking some heads and breaking some kneecaps, so be it; but enough of this senseless shootings and wasting of innocent lives. They should just end it however possibly achieved.  

ICHEOKU strongly believes, for example, that if the streets of Southside Chicago is fully saturated with soldiers, that those thugs running around with guns and killing and maiming people will have a very limiting space to run around and pull their triggers. But unfortunately, these politicians running the affairs of the country are rather more interested in how to retain their power base instead of effectively policing the cities. Some of them will not even allow their city's law enforcement officers to do the enforcement for which they were hired and paid for. 

Whether it is because of the color of majority of the victims of these street gun violence that made the authorities to be less concerned or that they are using it to depopulate certain people in America, ICHEOKU cannot say for sure. But whatever the reason, the government should not wait any further to try and stem the tide of the scourge. If the government could care enough about Afghanis who are several thousands of miles away in Afghanistan to want to keep American troops there to protect them, why is caring for American people in America a difficult task to perform. 

American Lives Matter, whether black or hispanic or latino or white or asian or indigenous. Therefore American government must prioritize American lives over any other lives anywhere as their primary mandate is to protect Americans from their enemies, foreign and domestic. These thugs running around the streets, shooting, killing and wounding American people inside America are domestic enemies and should be approached as such. Let the government also suspend the politics of "domestic terrorism" and refocus its energy on the real domestic enemies of America who are the real terrorists, terrorizing American people with guns. 

Enough of the madness. At 430 gun-killed Americans last week alone, if nothing is done to checkmate these trigger pulling lunatics, the death toll might become embarrassingly too high by the time the year ends. Each time Joe Biden has the opportunity to tell the story, he harps on the tragic loss of his son Bo Biden to cancer. It hurts to lose a child and these other parents whose children are being daily lost through senseless shootings are equally hurting and other parents need to be exposed to suffering the same experience of lasting agony and pain. These guns do not fire themselves, people do; and these people are known and could be fished out from those communities that are plagued by them. 

It is also disheartening that community leaders as well as religious leaders in these communities are not shouting to the government to do something about the rapidly deteriorating situation in their communities. Even BLM which seems to get their mojo only when it is a white police officer involved shooting of a black person is not lifting a finger about this scourge. Then you ask yourself, how about these folks being killed everyday by their fellow folks who share their skin pigmentation or does their lives not matter? What is department of Homeland Security doing about it or is the homeland which they are securing only at the airports. Better still, let the government create another department and exclusively task it with getting these trigger happy thugs off American streets. 

With 43,000 gun deaths recorded last year 2020 despite the coronavirus lockdown and now, the more than 24,000 gun deaths already recorded this 2021, what else does anyone, including the government, needs to see before understanding that shootings of Americans by Americans in America have reached an epidemic proportion. That Americans are at war with each other and why is the authorities not raising hell about it or is it because none of them have been affected directly to make them feel the pain which these bereaved families are going through. Please say no to the madness; put an end to the senseless gun violence in America. Let the government do whatever it takes to arrest the spiraling out situation without any further foot-dragging. #EndTheKilling.

USWNT MADE IT RAIN AND IT RAINED GOALS IN SAITAMA: DEFEATS NEW ZEALAND 6:1

ICHEOKU says they acquitted themselves very well with a routing defeat of New Zealand and are now back in contention at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics women soccer championship game. A total of 11 goals went into the nets, 10 for United States of America women national team with 4 disallowed and 1 consolatory goal for team New Zealand. Hopefully, they will maintain their rediscovered form and finish off Australia and enter into the quarter finals and make it all the way.

ICHEOKU says wishes team USA well; admitted team Sweden is still the team to beat in the competition because they are stronger and better as is seen so far. Team Sweden's game against Australia was simply beautiful and they will either win the championship or at least play in the finals. But hey, Go USWNT!

Just an side, why have feminists females allowed men to tell them what to do by coaching their female soccer team? What a man can do, a woman can do even better, their battle cry goes. Women kick the ball; women officiate the matches; so why not insist that women coach the teams. This will help sustain the "struggle" for equality in the never ending battle of the sexes as it is "mansplaining" for a man to "dictate" to women how they should play their women soccer. These feminists should insist that women soccer be left for women and make it a complete female affair and that females must coach women soccer teams. But to bring in a man to replace a woman as a coach seems to have set the movement back. Anyway, just our opinion. Go USWNT.

HUNTER BIDEN CASHES IN ON HIS DADDY'S OFFICE: GOES ARTS WOKE.

ICHEOKU says it is suddenly now ok for crackhead son of Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, to sell his artworks for hundreds of thousands of dollars; but it was never acceptable for President Donald John Trump's sons to run their family's hotel in Washington DC. It is the same way they went radio silent on the 25th Amendment now that the White House chief resident actually manifests clear mental incapacity, bothering on delusion. It is also noteworthy that the Emolument clause which they hounded President Trump with because of the Trump Hotel in Washington DC is not implicated in these artworks.. 

But how often do curators fork up $500,000 for a piece of artwork by an unknown artist, especially one whose only credential of fame is being a crackhead and son of Joe Biden? If it is not  often and assuming such ever happens, what then are these arts "curators and enthusiasts" paying for, disguised as artworks? Are these art lovers, collectors, aficionados, enthusiasts and curators possibly funneling bribe money through a son to purchase influence in his father's White House? Like laundering drug money, can bribe money be somehow laundered and parceled off through payments for artworks? The amounts of money being paid for Hunter Biden's "artworks" surely looks like another Ukrainian Burisma scandal, but this time on arts steroidal overdrive. 

Hopefully, Hunter Biden is not also jonesing and getting his fix from paint fumes because once a crackhead always a crackhead and paint is a known source of getting high. Nobody will say anything about Hunter Biden inhaling glue or rather paint fume, but were it Sha'Carri Robinson that inhaled ordinary marijuana smoke, they will summarily ban her from the Tokyo Olympics. It is on record that Hunter Biden did not attend any arts school nor received any training in arts, yet his nondescript artworks are selling for such high amounts of money. For those who might want to defend him that it is a natural talent, ICHEOKU says, so, why did it remain latent until his father was installed in the White House by the Deep State?

But hey, it is the Bidens and their actions are insulated from ever being examined. They are another untouchable family in America who can do no wrong just like the Clintons. Imagine the uproar which it would have generated were it Eric Trump that suddenly became a "world famous" artist whose works are valued at half a million dollars. What the fake news media have done in America with their selective narrative and bias righteous indignation is hideous. To paraphrase Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana, If not for double standards, fake news media will not have any standard at all. Not even George W. Bush's artworks ever fetched such staggering amounts and Hunter Biden waited and only launched his artistry once his daddy got into the White House. A very interesting move one would say and it appears that he learned very well from his Ukrainian mentors/advisors/partners.