The Confidence-Artistry Of Governor Fashola In LagosTo govern is to populate▬South American statesman
He is different, unique, from other governators in Nigeria. Head full of ideas. Because he started his governorship with beautiful visions, or spoken concepts, it appeared that at last a non-typical governor has come. He was embarking on certain projects without first presenting them as favours to the electorate, unlike most others of his peers. One of his conspicuously unique ways is: he does not make siren noise. But with all his SANity, his surgeries on Lagos city is emplacing certain tumours while displacing certain others of the city. May be, his instruments were not sane, not sterile.
Now, take a tour of Africa, especially those areas that constantly receive aids…and see and hear for yourself. Come to Lagos, Nigeria. At first you will notice that Mr. 'Tunde Fashion is working: he's doiung some of what his peer governors usually refuse to do; making living more valuable to the governed. You'll also hear that he raises funds for the rehabilitation of destitutes; that he is conducing the enactment of laws against child-labouring. By Justness, he has opened the doors of elementary schools wider so that those who want, may enter. But soon you will notice that behind these forwardnesses, are almost equal backwardnesses. Some counter-measures, some insanities, are concurring with the governors SANity (he is an awardee of senior advocacy of Nigeria) In some instances, the governor would seem to be just a typical Nigeian governator endeavouring at grabbing glory in inglorious things. Let us leave out the road furniture (photo-cell powered lamps) he installed. Many of them have gone defunct again.
The government of Fashola encourages people to climb mountains, and almost simultaneously places multiples of slippery roadblocks in the tracks. The man came to be governor and seem to have made it his duty to hound the unprivileged folk off their businesses. He gave law enforcement jobs to ex-convicts (K.A.I; LASTMA;et sequentia...) who are clearly unrepented. While thousands were being bull-dozed away from their livelihood, these robbers hiding in government-sanctioned authority are becoming millionaires from pillaging others. Anyone who can get some bull dozers can become eligible demolition contractor. They continue their criminal endeavours in uniforms. Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI) is actually a ferocious addition to the number of uniformed association of buccaneers of Nigeria.
The refurbished murderers' markets, he still calls rehabilitation centres. Particularly, that outfit in one of the swampy bushes in Majidun, Ikorodu, is more of a market of dealers in human body parts than it is of a rehab' centre. Can they, the managers, tell the world where the stretchers do carry the terminally ill inmates to? Why are almost all the inmates looking terminally ill despite many personal and corporate goodwill donations of company owners and miracle-success insurers (mostly women) who come to insure their success in life by donating food, clothing…to the inmates? Can they present any ones that ever got rehabilitated there? Even drug-dousing children of big politicians, who never died or disappeared there, because they must be accounted for, do not get sane there. Sane people get mad; mad people get madder… The law about child-labouring is as unenforce-able as it is inane in any Nigeria of now (2009). How could it be, when many of the parents of the same children granted free-of-charge schooling are having their economy extinguished by government thugs? At best, it would be too selectively enforced. Why won't under-aged children go hawking groundnuts and banana when their parents have been disaccomodated in the economy?
Many of these displaced people may not survive long. How could they? They have never had a good economy. The fragile one they have is being destroyed by a popular governor. Was it not in a northward flight away from Lagos that 67 persons perished recently…people who would not have boarded cattle trucks had they not been eoo inhumanely displaced in Lagos?
Economy is life. GDP is statistics. Take the economy (away) from people and you have taken the people away.
Echoes Of USA's Foreign Policy The U' States has a hard-honed aim of controlling the world, the whole world. She would do so by all means, including controlling the population and mentation (chemically or electromagnetically affecting the thought and behaviour ) of the world's peoples. She employs all sorts of semi-truths, deceptions and brutalities…towards this. Less advanced nations are prime targets.
Operating an ideo-economic system that, by theoretical concept, commodifies everything; and forbids heart-felt charity (not aids), and encourages deception and exploitation, the same US sends aids to other nations…
Check it out: How many of the aid-dependents are stepping up out to better standards from beggarliness?
That uncharitable institution called World Bank is owned by the USA. Cigarette warms who call themselves governors and presidents of Africans go to mortgage Africa's peoples to the imperial schemers there. The banks sponsor developmental projects that discriminatively develop more penury… People who are already down are targets of state-sponsored pressure to go down; to go further down. Nigerian authorities are always diehard clients of the world bank. I think this tallies with the World Bank's owners' policy of pocketing the world by making peoples ever helpless, ever inordinately dependent… Mr. T.F., the chief of Lagos is popular some inhumanities of his field leutenants...
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Fashola's Confidence-Artistry In Lagos
Nigerian Role Model
The Nigerian Role ModelĖ k'abọ Sannu da zuwaNnọọ
Welcome into a tip of the Nigeria's side of the confusive -isms of today's social world. Welcome to nigeria's socio-sphere..
Gender-equalityism, girl-childism, women-empowermentism, women-rightism, seven-point-agendaism, National-developmentism, rule-of-lawism, due-process-ism, operation (vision-) 20-20-ism, poverty-eradicationism, stakeholderism,… Yes, nigerian Nigerians are full of things.
When I asked Mr. Kwame Osei, a Ghanaian with whom I (re) entered Lagos city, what he found most exciting about Lagosians we'd come across so, he said he was somewhat confused: that the word "exciting" is an under-qualifying adjective. It had to be updated to be current. "Okay! What else, even unexciting, other than the indescribe-able extra…of the people of Lagos? " Nigerians work too hard; and hurry too much." " How do you mean; in this city so full of centers of relaxation and fun, and other services for winding down?" With his frightening jumbo spectacles on, he looked up at me from his desk… "Nigerians generally have no time for relaxation or recreation." " What further do you mean?," I demanded. " What I mean…what I mean is that most people here work at their work and work at their plays as well." He expressed further his views and feelings, saying that Lagosian-Nigerians labour at everything with unmitigated intensity; and almost invariably for for maximal financial profits. They, even the official functionaries, behave like extreme pessimists who have no hope of anything than what they see and touch and possesse. Those out-of-occupation engagements Nigerians embark on are actually their other massive, full-profit investments. Investment. Not recreations. They spend all their time calculating money-income. When I attempted to argue against his expressions, he said that, may be, I was still too naïve to understand the systemic spirit that engenders such 'hard working' as of Lagosians. That such mentality is both aspiritual and dishonest. It constitutes people into embodiments of greedy restlessness. They subconsciously belong into different strata of victimizers. It was from him that I heard for the first time the correct pronunciation of the words "naïve" and "naïvéte"
A preacher-man visited me occasionally. An intelligent man. Widely traveled and educated. He wanted to "conscript" me into his Eden Ministries. "Why not reciprocate me one day? Come to Eden Chapel,"he sometimes said to me. "Nigeria is blessed. And is going to be the natural home of every Black person. Join us to receive the blessings of god being bestowed here."
One day, he came to me and proposed the writing of a book on how to improve arable agriculture in Nigeria. What he had seen in SouthAfrica excited him. I told him that such work had been done abundantly by many authors. My heart's desire is to find a large piece of land where I would practice those arable cultures. My preacher-companion, emphasizing the ,monetary gains I could make from the book, urged me to write our own. I jokingly asked him, "Pasteur, if I make such a huge amount of money, what shall we do with it?" "You make your money and get out of this goddamned nation!," he barked back at me in reply. This was from Nigeria's Socio-sphere in Lagos .
A young man was coming to borrow money from me. Small amounts; almost daily. I was not moneyed but initially I obliged him. Then I questioned him and started refusing him his request. He told me that they were being owed a couple of months' salary in the company where he worked. The Oga kept promising and failing to pay them. "Ah-ah! ," I said in a faked annoyance, "Won't you people let the oga know that your blood is fast drying up?" My debtor-neighbour said they had pestered their master several times, even threatening a strike. Then, one day, some men in military uniform arrived in the office. Their leader warned the workers to stop troubling his manager, otherwise he would sack them all, and they'd forfeit the salaries; that the company is new… I wanted to find out who the military officer was; whether he was born a stone or his body and mind made of cold steel. I discovered the military officer was an airforce man, hired solely for that intimidatory duty which he performed…Further probing showed that the 'new company' owed its workers not because of lack of fund or profit, but because of the extravagancy of the of the owners. They belonged in a club where weekly, and sometimes twice per week, they each paid ten thousand (10,000) naira for the pleasure of viewing some young women dance stark naked. Plus other expenses for live fornicatory pleasures. How much were the workers owed? Monthly, an average of 7760 naira; the lowest salary was 6000 naira (about 48 dollars) at the time.
The last word the manager spoke to the workers before disappearing was: "Life is a survival of the fittest." This happened in Lagos, just near the rail-line (Airport) mart.
A preacher-man took me around recently. We walked, trekked. When we came by one compound (in Magodo) he stopped to greet the gateguards. We looked. What did we see? The compound was like a car-dealership garage. About ten cars were parked therein. Hummer jeep, Camry et cetera. All expensive. Nine of them, partially shaded with large tarpoline sheets, were humming . My evangelizer later told me theat the baale ( traditional chieftain subordinate to Oba) acquires the cars not for use on the road. He makes sure that any new and expensive brand of car arriving in Nigeria is added to the number, so he could gloat and boast that there's no new car that he does not own. The least expensive of the cars, according to the preacher, is worth just more than 7,000,000 naira (about 50,000dollars). He employs two mwne solely for warming the engines…from morn' till 'noon. Outside, by the sound of the engines, one would think the compound a factory.
The place I go to bargain for recyclable stuff is near elites mansions in the estate. Sometimes what happens in any of they surrounding compounds flash across the high , barbed-wire-secured, walls so we comprehend. There are compounds with a house maid; there are with retinue of maids. Sometimes, commands are heard being barked at the maids. Although of elementary school age, most of the women-servants have their time unnecessarily filled with domestic assignments. Schooling is not part of the agenda for them. Only one thick ma'am is the exception exception I have seen. She interacts with her servant very kindly. This a zone of elites…
Gradually, I formed the opinion that the gender-equalitarians, girl-chidists, women-empowermentists…are hoodwinkers; sheer hypocrites. A tiny exception exists. The women among them are status conscious elitists; newsbook activists. What are genderly equitable in having young women, one' daughters' age-mates, at one's beck and call? Lots of responsibility, little rights; little or no going to school or acquiring some out-of-domicile skills. About a couple of months previously, I observed a Chinese angling in one of the less polluted swampy streams in Lagos, with his special equipment. Soon, people, mostly okada (commercial transporters using motorbikes) riders, gathered to watch the amazing way the man was hooking fish out of the water. Soon the Okada men conspired to… "Take that thing, take it from him!" one of them commanded in a piggy, gruntling voice, obviously a pretention to sound as fearsome as possible. "Why should he come from far away China to catch our fish here?" I soliloquized: "This is a flash of NigerDelta." Happily, none obeyed that commander, not even those conspiring with him though they all agreed that the Chinese should be stopped from harvesting their fish.
Exceptional Dishonesties With ExceptionsWhat's, or are the typical Nigerian's gods?I think I should say flash cars, expensive electrical and electronic gadgets, exorbitant jewels and cosmetics…One may not know it until one is closer to the so-called elites through school or other ways. Some Nigerian city elites love their cars more than they do their children. If placed between the two as options to choose from, he or she would forgo the child for the car. This is extreme case anyway. Yet the love of car is very deep in the Nigerian's psyche.
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N’est-On Plus En Sécurité Au Biafra?


Ị bata Ọnicha ọ dị ka anyị nwe’ kọfiu uoo!…Ọ bụghị kọfiu; ndị ajọ mmadụ erika oo…!
{Aux personnes entrant en Onitcha on semblerait que nous y observons de couvre-feu…Pas de tout. Des méchants et méchantes s’augmentent de nombre et d’activités par trop…}
▬▬Déedé One-day (musicien)
En février 2000, quelques personnes d’origine du sud Nigéria vivants à Adamawa, s’effrayés de les émautes sanguinaire de Shar’ah alors ayant lieux aux Kadouna et Kano, s’apprêtaient vites et sont allés
chez eux au sud. Quelques jours plus tard, un d’entre eux, marchand de gin installé près de la ville de Michika, a retourné avec d’air douloureux.
Qu’est-ce qui s'est passé?
On les a attaqué presque chez eux. Les voleurs, plusieurs des hommes et une femme selon lui, n’ont pas pris pitié sur les femmes à bébés ou les enfants affamées et fatiguées. Au lieu, ils leur ont désignées Ọkụkọ ndị Hausa (les poules appartenants aux gens d’Haoussa), une allusion de la situation dont qu'ils sont à la merci de les fanatiques du nord.
En avril la même année, quand la plupart de les négociants qui ont voyagé pour s’enfuir de la conflagration de Shar’ah sont revenus, quelqu’uns d’eux racontaient des contes semblables à ce qui nous avions déjà entendus: des vols à main armé.
Ça m’a inquiété.
J’ai ecouté de les gens d’origine de nord qui aussi ont échappé des attaques de revanche au sud. Au travers de leurs itinéraire vers le nord, ils n’ont rencontrés qu’une bande de voyous locaux environ l’état de Benoué. Ceux-là avait été pleine des inconnus, d’autres tribus, parlant une langue très étrangère. Même que la people du sud lorsqu’ils étaient au chemin à chez eux au sud…
J’ai appris tard que touts les victimes du flibusterie au sud, ceux qu’on a appelé les poulets de Haoussa, sont les biafrains, tous. Egalement, ils ont été attaqués dans des territoires biafraines, par leurs concitoyennes qui leur ont données de nom derisoire: ọkụkọ …les poules que les Haoussa prennent et égorgent quand ils veulent…
Cela m’a désolé.
En 2006, Monsieur Pierre Obi, le gouverneur d’Anambra a invité des milice armées de Nigéria à venir résoudre des querelles entre quelques syndicats ouvriers et entre leurs racoleurs (voyous). J’en ai pensé que cela fus une méprise exécutif très coûteux; que monsieur Obi a fait d’une décision gravement mal. Cet homme, ne sait-il pas qu’au Nigéria, il y a d’une sentiment répandu de haine contre des gens de groupe ethnique d’Igbô? Autrement dit: ne sait-il pas qu’il y a d’antiĬgbôïsme ( la phobie á l’ encontre d’Igbô) au Nigéria?
Des meurtriers en uniformes, d’entre lesquels se trouvent des maintes qui ont toujours d’animosité envers l’Igbô, vinrent à résoudre les querelles. Douzaines des persons sont tuées. La plupart d’eux n’ont pas fait partie de les conflits. Des femmes sont violées aussi. Plus nombreux sont blessées.
Ce temps-là était une belle occasion pour eveiller de l’hostilité contre le movement pour l’actualisation de l’état souverain du Biafra (MASSOB en anglais), une milice sans d’armes qui prônait l’établissement de la souveraineté nationale de Biafra. On les a enlèvés (des membres de MAESB), amènant les aux chambres de torture en Abouja et d’autres places.
Recement, des événements à Anambra prêtent de justification à le gouverneur Pierre Obi. Il semble que plusieurs ou très nombreux de biafraines manquent de clairvoyance; ils chargent des leurs frères en le vaisseau d’ordures. Ce sont des étrangers qui les porteraient au dépotoir pour eux.
Dès décembre 2008 à août 2009, des centaines de gens ont été frappés par le nouveau vent de crime…
J’avais l’attente de venir au Biafra souverain, d’Asuncíon, à l’avenir proche, rejouissant puis d’avoir venu au pays de les gens qui ont luttées pour survie; malgré qu’ils n’avaient pas reussis de la guerre, ils ont surveçu jusqu’au moment. Mantenant je me suis effaré…
Actuellement, la vie et des biens sont de moins en moins de sûreté dans les territoires du Biafra.
Les biafraines, sont-ils bus de le vin du Nigéria, un pays de gens de mauvais foi? Quand on parlent de «Nigerian style» (au façon nigériane), on signifient «par la voie de malhonêteté; au méthode frauduleux ».
Des maintes de biafraines sont nigérianisés. Aux eux, la vie est l’argent. La vie c’est l’argent’ d’autres n’importent pas. Seulement d’importance c’est l’argent ou ce qu' en contient. Cependant, la région de Biafra se classe parmi des capitals de crimes du monde.
Vols à main armé sont devenus communs et plus sanguinaire, perpetrés encore anonymement. Des extorsions et des chantages de toutes sortes s’y trouvent beaucoup.
Quatre-cent-dix-neuf (four-hundred-nineteen (4-1-9) en anglais), le nom élégant qu’on a donné à les actions d'obtenir des choses, surtout d’argent, par la voie de supercherie bien coordonnée; dont le ya’oo-ya’oo (supercherie au internet) s’y compris…
Il y a egalement de négoces avec des produits frelatées, produits faussement simulées qui sont parfois dangereusement contaminées, sous l’etiquette de les uns authentiques. En plus, il y a l’avidité qui se trouve presque naturellement dans des commerces legaux. Ces sont à part les vols qu’on souvent fait dans la cercle du gouvernement, qui ainsi qu’autres maux sociales, amènent indirectement de souffrances et de morts injustifiées aux les gens.
Au Bamako, mes amis Zougrana, Zongo, Nabaogo et moi, nous avons rencontrés dans un côté proche d’un gare routier d’une groupe des jeunes femmes, manifestement frustrées. Elles étaient en rade. Par leur vernaculaire, nous les avons reconnu: elles sont venus du Nigéria. Une d’elles, evidement biafraine, a parlé à une autre en haute voix (on semblait qu'elles feraient de querelles) qu’elle n’a jammais décidée de rester célibataire jusqu’au moment (elle a d’apperance de plus que quarante ans). C’était sa mère qui lui avait empêchée de se marier. La mère-là a chassée tous ses soupirants avec des demandes dépensières.
Le crime le plus dénué d’anonymité au Biafra actuel c’est le rapt des personnes pour demander des rançons. On souvent voit les photos de les victimes; parfois celles de les criminels aussi. Des bébés, les vieux, n’importe qui, on pourrait l’enlèveraient sans pitié. Quelqu’uns de les victimes sont parfois tuées pour rituels diaboliques. Beaucoup d’argent à rançons!
Les flibusterie et les enlèvement s’arrivent en multiples de fois journellement .
Recement un riche boiteux à Lagos a voulu voyager à son village. Il téléphonait à son ami à Cotonou. L’ami lui dit d’être sur le qui-vive quand il arrive sud-est Nigéria; puis il lui a souhaité de bonne voyage.
Le boiteux alors téléphonait encore sa famille au village par la moyenne de mobile. Tout de suite, on lui a raconté un bref catalogue de les personnes qui ont été kidnappés. En fin, on lui a recommandé (conseillé) de ne pas bouger.
L’augmentation sans précédent de crimes violents ayant lieu au Lagos, en Ibadan, à la ville de Bénin, au PortHarcourt et d’autres villes du Nigéria constituent d’un trop dossier de volume. Entre toutes, les régions biafraines font davantage…
Est-ce que les martyres de Biafra, morts ou vivantes, ont travaillées et encore travaillent en vain comme les héros de Nigéria d’aujourd’hui? Où est l’esprit de Biafra? Où sont la bienveillance et le courage moral dont lesquelles une population de dix-sept millions de métayers se poussaient à faire d’accueil aux deux millions de refugées qui étaient soudainement dénuées de gagne-pain, en 1966 et 1967, tel que le Croix Rouge italien ne trouva pas de travaux initialement? Se signifie-t-on que, si une autre 1967 s’arrive encore, des gens vivants ou venant au Biafra qui ne prêtent pas à faire de violents crimes seraient de destin funeste, aux mains de quelque biafraines, leurs concitoyennes? À Dieu ne plaise!
Quelques gabonais d’origine de Biafra m’ont raconté de petit part de ce qui ont pris lieu…
Rien se passe sans d’histoire. Les villains événements qui se passent au Biafra pourraient être la recolte dû à des années de la cultivation d’arrivisme dans des cœurs des jeunesse…
Les acteurs sont extrêmement sophistiquées. Leur avidité est sans précédent.
Cinquante million (50,000,000) naira. C’est environ 334,000 dollars!
Trente million (30,000,000) naira, à un autre cas. De plusieurs d’étendards, cent mille (100,000) dollars sont plus que ce que des centaines millions d’ouvriers africaines jamais gagnent pendant la durée de vie…
Une situation dont quelques multi-billionaires vivent entre des millions par millions de gens indigents est presque d’une curiosité honteuse.
*Quelqu’uns apprennent comment faire des choses malfaisantes pendant leurs enfance.
L’immense majorité de criminels est de ce genre.
*D’autre commencent à faire de crimes en essayant à remplir des desirs gonflés (…ma mère veut porter de tissu dépensière cette année. Je lui doit l'amener…)
*D’autres en plus, font de crimes provisoirement parcequ’ils sont frappés de privation. Ces sont souvent les petits criminels.
*Quelque temps, des gens du pègre sont en mission de vengeance. Ils peut-être avaient été subis de certains injustices radicaux, tel que: emprisonement de personne qui n’a pas fait de mal; meurtre d’un gagne-pain ou d’un être aimé…
Pas plus d’espoir?
Eh bien. Lorsqu’on a mis au publique la scandale diabolique d’Hotel Otokôto en Owerri, septembre 1996??, il s’apparaît initialement comme si tous les habitants d’Owerri étaient des cannibals. Les agents de police étaient autant plus s’occupés d’argent que de la loi. C’était les gens laïques qui ont poussé pour la justice, à l’égard d’apprehender les coupables, avec des protestation ardents. Les coupables sont arrêtées. Mais avant de poursuite judiciaire, un des principals coupables a mouru au commissariat de police. Probablement il a été eliminé afin de cacher quelques faits qui pourraient impliquer des agents de police.
C’était comment l’on a appris que les actes sanguinaire et diaboliques n’étaient pas de coutom là. Ils étaient d’aberration occultique de quelqu’uns peu nombreux.
Quoique, les méchantes peuvent se nombrer en dizaines de milles; des gens qui font pas d’injustice violent ou d’autre actes mauvais pourraient se nombrer en dizaines de millions. Donc, j’attend la renaissance de la bienveillance et de la santé moraux, à même si on seraient de genre qui avait descendu sur la ville d’Onitcha environ 1998 et 1999, durant les mois que le groupe qui se nommé Bakassi Boys y étaient de garde...
Mantenant je continue de poser la question: Est-ce qu’on n’est plus en sécurité au Biafra?
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
The Merits Of Boko Haram In Nigeria
BOKO HARAM The casualties are those who are dead; they are well out of it.--John Pepper ClarkThere is, recently, a numerical densification of security personnel in Lagos and the next-by towns prompted me to forward this piece. There was fear of Boko Haram.They incubated for years, they and other such groups, as if they were nursing missionaries for a new explosion of spiritual re-baptization. Eventually, they bloomed and brought forth their fruit: it turned out that it was the same things that are eating both the spirit and flesh of Africa and many other peoples and places, that they've been nursing: zealous ignorance and destructive violence.They have zeal for God but not according to good knowledge which breeds wisdom, and first of all respects life to the utmost.The Islamic sect, Boko Haram ( pronounced: /gbộkō haraamm/), a name signifying book taboo, in short, which went on genocidal rampage in Nigeria in late July and early August, came on stage too nigerianly, on an intensely discrepant world view.Going about massacring people for belonging in modernity, they defeated themselves philosophically and rationally even before they got defeated physically, or nearly so, by their frightened compatriots.They teach that the Occidental educational and socializational systems are taboos, forbidden in the holy writ of Qur'an.These doctrines and their forceful attempt to impose it on other peoples, who by Justness, do not do them any harm in living, is fiercely inconsistent with the holiness they wanted to preserve.Or, the people are hungry (discontented). This might be a case of religionized hunger strike. Typical Nigerians generally religionized everything, from the noble to the ignoble.. They especially use God as the packet in packaging their immoralities and immodesties….Or, this people, as always, religionized their bloodthirst…If a teacher has to beat people to make them believe that he is a teacher, then he is not one. So also any religio-worship system that has to be imposed on people is either useless or useful but undesirable to the people.To me, illiteracy and innumeracy are harams themselves: two of the biggest non physical harams harssing the peoples of W. Africa in particular…The computer: computer-dependency and computer-addiction have virtually killed the faculty of creative imaginativeness in the exposed proportions of this generation. The computerized youth of Nigeria redefine poverty as any life outside elitist extravagancy. Unskilled people perpetrate crime with their unskilledness; skilled people use their skill to perpetrate crime too, and turn around to say that government did not provide jobs. But this is human factor, or better, Nigerian-Ffactor. For example; the sacred and miraculous event of giving birth to babies has become bastardized by some people recently. Some young women now procure pregnancy for sale! Human factor. It is not the pregnancy that is bad. It is those who get it for bastard purpose. Anyone, modern or ancient, sufficiently immoral could do that..The GSM equipment: The GSM equipment they used in coordinating themselves and the engined vehicles they used in transporting themselves are all of modernity.Medically, from Djibouti to Dakar; from CapeTown through Windoek or Walvis Bay to Tunis, the modern way is better…Pre-colonial Africans lived more healthfully than this post-colonial, fast-fed generation. But they did not know how to combat diseases effectively. Although some extra-selfish medical practitioners of different specialties do now unite into exploitative cartels, maintaining the presence of medical diseases and disorders while pretending to be eliminating them. But this is a different case. The removal of which will never call for the removal of literacy.There may be starkly illiterate bone reconstructors, fracture healers, in some pristine villages. There's a universe of effectiveness they could add on if they could personally infuse literate-ness and numeracy into their calling. Fraud is bad and is heightened with literacy. But the presence of thorns does not make the rose un-beautiful. Certainly, one cannot be medically very effective and responsive, even for one person only ,nowadays without some modern literacy.Does one need reasoning or faith to see that literate nations are better culturally; especially in the aspects we call science, technology, which are of course, faith exercised. Spirituality and materialism also work better with literacy…Just as conscience cannot be legislated , the conscience of 'free' people must regulate or regiment itself. Although the Qur'an does not mention such things as democracy, science…, it does not, by inference, condemn or prohibit them. The Qur'an, the Sunah, the Hadith…for the believer, contain a range from absolute obligation to absolute sin (prohibition). In between are things ( commissions and omissions) that are praiseworthy but not necessarily obligatory or rewardable; permissible but not rewardable, and not necessarily praiseworthy; reprehensible but not necessarily punishable. None of these is literacy and non-Arabic education. Even Shar'ah has some moral requirements for its establishment. We may need faith in our living. But we don't need any to see that some Islamic states now make their vaccines, fertilizers, tractors…Modernity is ever present. Yesterday is modern to the day before, just as tomorrow is to today. Destructive or injust part of modernity have to be culled out. But book…Even the holy prophet, Mr. Muhammad, injoined his earliest followers to read, read, study! That was before they Quranic canon were selected and assembled. In otherwords, they were to study Greek and Hebrew and Af-RiKan (ancient Egyptian) literatures. Islamic (Arabic) scholars preserved many of what there are in today's written history.And other inconsistencies of Boko Haram.Yet, with all their inconsistencies and mal-adventures, the Boko Haramateurs are really the sort of people who may change Nigeria or parts it positively, if only they would indoctrinate themselves towards civil socio-political change, not murderous fanaticism. And if only they would live it out, exemplify it, bring forth the socio-material and spiritual benfits… to the unforced awareness of others.There are things genuine faith does that intelligence and intellect alone do not do. One of them is uniting people for a purpose or purposes. Yet genuine faith is never without intellection. Those who rush to force others to believe in the Holy Creator show by the force they use that they themselves have not started believing…But the often assumed view that murderers are only those who destroy life by direct action may not stand…In reality, murderers include those who kill by omission; that's, by inaction or indirect action.Those who physically kill others, whether by the naked strength of their naked limbs or by instrumentation, are often mere field lieutenants.Someones elses are really guilty of this blood shedding surrounding Boko Haram adherents.Were I a fanatic, able to muster such un-materialistic courage and conviction that somethings are wrong with the Nigeria of now, and should be corrected, I will not go daggering people. Nigeria is full of real harams. These harams I will fight with the utmost vehemence. Violence might be involved once it is in the reasoned faith of the believers in the cause, but only in the defence of liberty, justness: which make up worthy human dignity.Here are some of the harams.▶Injust ImprisonmentNigeria's prisons house criminals as well as good people whose destinies are being unmistakenly sealed in ruin, just for some powerful real criminals outside to have their way. All those being kept in jails for not participating in crime must be liberated.Some men started awaiting trial at 46. Now they are 60-plus of age. A young man got to be awaiting trial at 16. Now, he's 30, with his scraggy beard; and his case has not even been heard for the first time.▶Rehabilitation CentresRehab' centers and orphanages, especially those in the cities, are mostly markets for dealers in human limbs and pieces. Fetish ritualist-murderers. Typical example is one in Ikorodu. Their powerful clientele of moneybags and politicians shield them often from both the law and public outrage.Only genuine institutions by persons with rehabilitative charcters should be allowed.▶▶▶Police StationsThe Nigerian police itself is a sweltering haram; one of the biggest harams in Nigeria. It should be forced to stop detaining people for no offence and for no investigation's sake. Ransome-motivated abductions have been happening in Nigeria for long, in low profile, before the armed unions of the far-south made it international. Police agents habituated arresting and detaining people for nothing's sake than to collect bails from them. Many people have had precious weeks, months of their life wasted in police cells just because some armed, uniformed, lawless agents wanted extra-illegitimate fund for their prodigal living.If they arrest you when you could not pay the bail immediately, they detain you in anticipation of your kins coming in search of you.Luckless ones who ask loud questions are mown down in accidental discharge or other concocted cover-ups. Sometimes they frame the detainee to cover their track…Of course, this is a brand of robbery, the trade best known and most practiced by Nigerian elites. Robbery.**Poverty Eradicationists and Women EmpowermentistsAll those who go or come to make dupes of naïve villagers, especially women, in the name of empowerment must be forced to restitute. Here(Nigeria), women empowerment is or has become a beautiful name for an ugly intention. Excepting few genuine ones, these women empowermenters come to the villages with sophisticated dishonesties from the cities and announce the advent of ultra-paradisaic living to the poor folk."Look at me. As I appear so will you and even better, the rest of your life. Your children and grandest children will continue to benefit…Only you have to pay a token for these forms."The "token", of course is often a big deal to the simple farmers. In one instance, many managed to pay for the forms. And that was the end. The empowermenters disappeared foever! Women against their fellows. These and their collaborators: local chieftains?, local police agents, local government FirstLadies , must be forced to refund and restitute…There are lots of things needing redress in Nigeria, most of them man-established harams, some, natural but remediable societal deficiencies. Especially in education and physical environment.This Boko Haram episode (more of such are ahead) and the scheduled furtherance of genocide in the Nigeria Delta which is imminently gathering moment in the guise of amnesty*, continue to show us that the Nigerian state can protect the people but willingly does otherwise. Did you know the stupendous amount of resources spent, and the brutality invested in decimating these mal-nurished, under-armed sectarians, some of whom (especially the acclaimed leader) would have given us fresh facts or ideas of what should or should not be done for betterment, had they been taken to court alive? How many title-bearing robbers (governors, represent-á-thieves,etc. ) have ever been frightened, let alone dealt with? How many gun-bearing robbers and ritualist-murderers,unless anonymous ones, are queried genuinely…even half in the measure of what was done to Boko-Haram people?☼There's a lot of indication that the government isn't sincere.Plus the armed agencies already benefiting hugely from the conflicts. They are itching and endeavouring to make it continue…. |