Archive for September 2016
Written by Charly Boy
The latest unconfirmed gist heating up the social media is about former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, who is spitting fire on EFCC for freezing her accounts containing about 6.3 billion Naira, claiming that she is being deprived of her right to her hard-earned money.Yes o, however you wan look am, she worked for that money!Why are people suddenly upset? Isn't it the same Naija people who have been shouting, "bring back our corruption", since the country slipped into recession?Dia ris God ooooo!!!Since 1978 or so, we have been living on corruption money, and hailing the thieves. Haba Naija, I tire for una.Abegi make we hear word and make we read something useful on this social highway. Una dey provoke say dem see billions for Mama Peace account. And so?When will we ever learn?Yes, a country deserves the kind of leadership it gets because those who rule us are from amongst us, they are not from Ghana or Togo. How many times will we let a thief into our house? The first time should be enough. The second time, lets take that as one chance. The third time means we are stupid. If we, the followers are not like our leaders, why haven't we done anything to stop the looting of our resources??Countries that don’t have brave youths, prosecutors, fearless judges, good policing and fearless citizens will instead, have plenty of thieves, many killers and even stupid leaders.Since we have settled for people deceiving people and it has become our way of life let's roll over and die or accept everything we see that assaults our intelligence and impoverish us.Wetin???For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?We have been living on corruption money long before now and we didn't care. I know that looters will be looted, while time and tide will make most of us mercenaries.For long, our leaders have used deception and misdirection as their tools. We don’t believe in hard work, when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.As for us the masses, we are all waiting for our turn to steal something from some place, Kai, our mumu is vexing me joor.So how can we effectively create this new dawn when most of us are all guilty.Now Baba has come to fight corruption, but I can swear that he is alone in this fight. Because most of the people in his kitchen are corrupt. Yes o.Till there are grave consequences for people who break the law, people who steal public funds, known corrupt people who are till today in leadership positions, nothing will change. This too will come to pass and nothing go happen. Dem go settle, and back to business as usual.Has anyone one been thrown into prison since this war on corruption started? My people, abegi, make we use our brain.I just pray that one day one day, there will be no hiding place for people who ruined this country. For those who took what they didn't earn, may judgement await them!It is only from then that things will begin to truly change.The injustices stink...tufiakwa!!!I don talk my own sha.- Area Fada (Charly Boy)
The long arm of the law caught up with an okada rider identified simply as Daniel On Wednesday in the Otukpo area of Benue State, after he allegedly r*ped an eight-year-old girl in his room on Ogiri Okoh Street, to a point where the girl became unconscious.
It was learnt that vigilantes from Igbanonmaje arrested the suspect after the girl’s mother learnt of the wicked act. After the girl became unconscious, the suspect poured water on her to resuscitate her, after which he sent her home.A resident of the street on which the victim’s mother lived, told The Punch that the girl explained that Daniel forced himself on her after he had told her to help him buy food.The resident said the mother became suspicious when the girl came back home, walking with her legs apart.The victim’s mother was said to have raised the alarm, after the girl said Daniel inserted his manhood in her and did not know anything again.“She said by the time she woke up in his room, he saw the man pouring water on her.”After vigilantes in the area were reportedly alerted, they went in search of Daniel and arrested him a few hours later.The suspect, a native of Ado area of the state, claimed that even though he had tried to r*pe the girl, he left her alone because he could not penetrate her.“Because my manhood was too big for her, I could not penetrate and had to leave her alone,” he said.Daniel had been handed over to the police. Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Moses Yamu, confirmed the incident, stating that the victim was now in police custody.He said investigation was till ongoing on the case.
President Muhammadu Buhari has explained how and why Nigeria got into trouble. He blamed the country's woes on the failure of his predecessors to save for the rainy days.
He was in New York addressing top rate Nigeria professionals in the United States of America, whom Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Diaspora Matters and International Relations, described as "15 of the best people God ever created."Among them are top flight aeronautics engineers, physicians, I.T experts, a judge, a policewoman, entrepreneurs, an import specialist at Customs and Border Protection, professors, two straight A students and many others.Buhari said: "I am very pleased with this meeting...Wherever you go in the world, you find highly competent and outstanding Nigerians. They not only make great impact on their host countries and communities, their financial remittances back home also help our economy, particularly at a time like this, when things are down."We got into trouble as a country, because we did not save for the rainy day. For example, between 1999 and 2015, when we produced an average of 2.1 million barrels of oil per day, and oil prices stood at an average of $100 per barrel, we did not save, neither did we develop infrastructure. Suddenly, when we came in 2015, oil prices fell to about 30 dollars per barrel.“I asked; where are the savings? There were none. Where are the railways? The roads? Power? None. I further asked; what did we do with billions of dollars that we made over the years? They said we bought food. Food with billions of dollars? I did not believe, and still do not believe.“In most parts of Nigeria, we eat what we grow. People in the South eat tubers, those in the North eat grains, which they plant, and those constitute over 60 per cent of what we eat. So, where did the billions of dollars go? We did a lot of damage to ourselves by not developing infrastructure when we had the money."Talking of our military, they earned respect serving in places like Burma, Zaire, Sudan, Liberia, Sierra-Leone, and then, suddenly, that same military could no longer secure 14 out of 774 local governments in the country. Insurgents had seized them, calling them some sort of caliphate, and planting their flags there; till we came, and scattered them."We raised the morale of our military, changed the leadership, re-equipped and retrained them; USA, Britain, and some other countries helped us, and today, the pride of our military is restored."Boko Haram ran riot, killing innocent people in churches, mosques, markets, schools, motor parks, and so on. And they would then shout Allahu Akbar. But if they truly knew Allah, they would not do such evil. Neither Islam, nor any other religion I know of, advocates hurting the innocent. But they shed innocent blood, killed people in their thousands. Now, we have dealt with that insurgency, and subverted their recruitment base."President Buhari also said that "those who stole Nigeria dry are not happy. They recruited militants against us in the Niger Delta, and began to sabotage oil infrastructure. We lose millions of barrels per day, at a time when every dollar we can earn, counts. It is a disgrace that a minimum of 27 states, out of 36 that we have in Nigeria, can't pay salaries."
A housewife Rofiat Hussein has asked an Ojaoba Sharia court of arbitration in Ibadan to dissolve the 9-year-old union with Nurain, her husband, based on s*xual starvation and neglect.Narrating her ordeal, she said her hubby neglected her in every area of marital life, including s*x.“There had been little or nothing to cater to the growing responsibilities in the home, especially the educational needs of the children.“I pleaded with him to give me a portion of his shop to start selling some things, but Nurain rejected the idea. I then told him that I secured a teaching job in a private university and it did not go down well with him.“Nurain and I were products of that same university for our degrees, but I have since proceeded for my master’s and I am even on my Ph.D programme now.“Nurain has not shown any understanding over this, but instead quarrels with me for no reason.“During the last two Ramadan fasting periods, Nurain did not even know that I existed. My lord, Nurain has locked up our bedroom that could serve as a point of meeting for any s*xual activity.“I have since reported him to all his relatives, but nothing has changed.”The Cable reports that the estranged hubby was not in court to react to his wife's allegations. Rofiat and Nurain reside at Odo Ona-Elewe area of Ibadan.Court President, Hamad Tiamiyu asked Rofiat to support her allegations with witnesses. He said the witnesses, who must be five, must have three females and two males or vice versa.She was also directed to put her claims in writing. The case was adjourned to September 29.
