GUNMEN SHOT DEAD A BUSINESSMAN INSIDE THE CHURCH

The serenity town of Ijebu-igbo, in Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State, stood still yesterday when gunmen invaded St. John Anglican Church, Oke Sopein, and shot dead a 70 year old  businessman, Otunba Tola Okuneye, A.K.A. Ajagajigi.

According to an eyewitness, who pleaded anonymity, said: “When the Pastor started his sermon around 11am, about 10 boys came in and went straight to where ‘Ajagajigi’ sat and shot him on the head.
“We were shocked and everybody was jittery as the service ended abruptly. Some people, especially, the elderly people, are still in shock as I am talking to you now.
“No one can say anything about his death. He is not a politician. If he were one, we would have thought that his political opponents carried out the act. The church has been deserted, except some few people who were with the Pastor.”

The Ogun State Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi confirmed the tragic incident, said the investigation had commenced on the incident, He however explained that it would be too early to link the incident to politics, adding that an autopsy would be carried out on the body.

Meanwhile, the governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosu Governor Amosun  during a condolence visit to the family of the deceased and the scene of the incident has assured that government will do its best to get the killers of Otunba Okuneye.

The governor said: “The heinous manner with which the life of a good citizen, who had invested in security, was terminated is uncalled for. I don’t know why men of the underworld will terminate the life of a man who will not hurt a fly. They even went as far as carrying out the dastardly act in the sacred house of God.’’

The governor was accompanied by the state Commissioner of Police, Ikemefuna Okoye; Director, Department of State Services, Mr. S. Charanchi, and members of his cabinet.

A son of the deceased, Gbenga Okuneye and Presiding Bishop, St John’s Anglican Church, Oke Sopein, Ijebu Igbo, Rt. Rev. Gbetogo Kuponu, thanked the governor for the visit and concern.

Otunba  Kola Okuneye is survived by six wives and over 20 children

MOSES OLUKAYODE: 8-YEAR OLD SENSATIONAL 'TALKING DRUMMER' WIZKID

8 year old sensational talking drummer (GANGA) wizkid, Moses Olukayode, is a British-born, Nigerian. Watching Moses playing talking drum is like watching the Belgian eating chocolate! Born of Nigerian parents, his father Superior Evangelist Olukayode Akande ,is a reverend in the vine-yard of God, while is mother M/ C Olabisi Olukayode is a worker too in the Lord’s vine-yard.

This wonderful, talented wizkid is a blessing to his family, the church of God and to his generations. As a kid, he loves  playing ‘Talking Drum’ more than guitar or piano which his peers always yearn for! His passion for talking drum can really be appreciated if you see him on stage performing.

Moses is a worker in the vine-yard of God, his working for God is not coincidental as his parents are both church workers, while his sisters are all in the church choir.

Truly, Moses is a wonder kid; he is well loved and respected by his older colleagues’ drummers, friends, family and the church of God. This handsome boy needs our prayers’ and encouragement. What else can i say? Than to say i love you my boy, keep it up.

DELE GIWA: A CLEAR CASE OF CONSPIRACY AND ASSASSINATION

Dele Giwa (16 March 1947 - 19 October 1986) was a Nigerian journalist, editor and founder ofNewswatch magazine, who was killed by a mail bomb in his home on 19 October 1986. The assassination occurred two days after he had been interviewed by State Security Service (SSS) officials.
Background

Sumonu Oladele "Baines" Giwa was born on 16 March 1947 to a poor family working in the palace of Oba Adesoji Aderemi, the Ooni of Ife. He attended local Authority Modern School in Lagere, Ile-lfe. When his father moved to Oduduwa College, Ile-Ife as a laundry man, he gained admission to that school. Dele Giwa travelled to the USA for his higher education, earning a BA in English fromBrooklyn College in 1977. Giwa's second marriage, to Florence Ita Giwa, lasted 10 months. He later married Olufunmilayo Olaniyan on July 10, 1984, and they were married until his death in 1986.

Dele Giwa and fellow journalists Ray Ekpu, Dan Agbese and Yakubu Mohammed founded Newswatch in 1984, and the first edition was distributed on January 28, 1985.A 1989 description of the magazine said it "changed the format of print journalism in Nigeria [and] introduced bold, investigative formats to news reporting in Nigeria". However, in the first few months of the administration of General Ibrahim Babangida, who took power in August 1985, the magazine was shamelessly flattering. It printed his face on the cover four times and even criticized "anyone who attempted to make life unpleasant for Babangida".Later, the paper took a more hostile view of the Babangida regime.
Assassination

In an off-the-record interview with airport journalists, Lt. Col. A.K Togun, the Deputy Director of theState Security Service SSS had claimed that on 9 October Dele Giwa and Alex Ibru had organized a media parley for media executives and the newly created SSS. Togun claimed that it was at this meeting that the SSS and the media executives reached a secret censorship agreement. Under this agreement, the media was to report any story with potential to embarrass the government to the SSS before they tried to publish same.

Giwa had been invited by the SSS to their headquarters for the first time on September 19, 1986 after writing an article in which he described the newly introduced Second-Tier Foreign Exchange Market (SFEM) as "God's experiment" and suggested that if SFEM failed, the people would will stone their leaders in the streets. Giwa was interviewed and his statement taken by two SSS operatives. He was later taken to meet with Lt Col Togun, the deputy director of the agency in his office. Togun is reported to have told Giwa that he found nothing offensive in the story as Giwa had also stated in the same story that he was hopeful that Babangida seemed determined to make SFEM work.

According to Giwa's neighbour and colleague, Ray Ekpu, on October 16, 1986, Giwa had been questioned over the telephone by Col Akilu of the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) over an allegation that Dele had been heard speaking to some people about arms importation. SSS officials reportedly summoned Giwa to their headquarters again on 16 October 1986, and on the next day Ekpu accompanied him to the SSS headquarters for the interview. Lt. Col Togun accused Giwa andNewswatch of planning to write the “other side” of the story on Ebitu Ukiwe who was removed as Chief of the General Staff, to General Babangida. The magazine had published a cover story titled, "Power Games: Ukiwe loses out", in its October 20 edition which was on sale on October 13, 1986. 

Togun also accused Giwa of planning to import arms into the country and of claiming to have promised that Newswatch would employ the suspended police public relations officer. Ogugbuaja claims that on 16 October 1986, a bomb was defused by the police bomb squad at his official residence. Ogugbuaja also said that he suspected that his phone might have been bugged because Giwa and Ray Ekpu in one of their telephone conversations with him had indeed promised to employ him in Newswatch if the police dismissed him. 

Ray Ekpu also believed that their houses and phones may have been bugged because he did discuss employing Ogugbuaja in Newswatch with dele Giwa over the phone only; he said that he found two bugging devices in the cover of two books inside his study. Lt. Col. Togun that he wasn't aware of the fact that Akilu had already questioned Giwa over the gun running allegations the day before, which came up while he was questioning Giwa about the allegation.

Giwa reported the interrogations to his friend Prince Tony Momoh who was then the Minister of Communications, Giwa had told Momoh that he feared for his life because of the weight of the accusations levelled against him. According to Ekpu, Momoh "dismissed it as a joke and said the security men just wanted to rattle him"; Momoh promised to look into the matter. On 18 October Giwa also spoke to Admiral Augustus Aikhomu, the Chief of General Staff who said he was familiar with the matter and also promised to look into it.

Later on 18 October, a day before the bombing, a staff of the DMI had phoned Giwa's house and asked for his office phone number from his wife Funmi. This same person from the DMI later called back to say he couldn't reach Giwa at the office and then put Col Akilu on the line. Ekpu alleges that Akilu asked Giwa's wife for driving directions to the house and when she asked him why he needed the directions he explained that he wanted to stop by the house on his way to Kano and he wasn't very familiar with Ikeja, he also offered that the President's ADC had something for Giwa, probably an invitation. According to Ekpu this didn't come as a surprise because Giwa had received advance copies of some of the President's speeches in the past through Akilu.

On 19 October, Giwa phoned Akilu to ask why he had been calling his house the previous day, Akilu was alleged to have explained that he only wanted to tell Giwa that the matter had been resolved. Ekpu says Giwa replied Akilu that it wasn't over and that he had already informed his lawyer, Chief Gani Fawehinmi to follow up on the matter. Akilu then told Giwa that there was no need for that, that it wasn't a matter for lawyers and that he should consider the matter resolved.

About 40 minutes after the telephone conversation with Akilu, a package was delivered to Giwa's guard (the accounts of which vehicle was used to deliver the package vary). When Giwa received the package, he was with Kayode Soyinka the London Bureau Chief of Newswatch. 

The package exploded, mortally wounded Giwa and temporarily deafening Soyinka, who had excused himself to the rest room shortly before Giwa was supposed to have attempted opening the package. Giwa was rushed to the hospital where he eventually died from his wounds.
Investigation, Litigation and Controversy

On 20 October, the day after the bombing, the government convened a press conference presided over by Augustus Aikhomu. Before the press conference started, all press photographers, foreign journalists, and Nigerians that worked for foreign news media were ordered out. Those left behind were told that the briefing was "off the record" and Aikhomu would not be entertaining any questions.

Aikhomu then went on to ask Ismaila Gwarzo, the Director of the SSS and Haliru Akilu to render their accounts of what had transpired between Dele Giwa and their agencies in the recent past. Gwarzo confirmed that the SSS had invited Giwa for questioning over allegations of gun running. Akilu on his part confirmed that he had called Giwa's home on 18 October to ask for directions to the house so he could stop over to see Giwa while on his way to Kano through Ikeja airport. Akilu also said that he had wanted to visit Giwa at home to "prove a Hausa adage that if you visit someone in his house, you show him you are really a friend.” Ekpu claimed that he remembered Gwarzo saying that the killing was "quite embarrassing" and also that Tony Momoh had described it as "a clear case of assassination"; later he was quoted saying, "a special probe would serve no useful purpose".Graffiti of the time implied a belief that the SSS had been responsible.

In a newspaper interview years later in retirement, Chris Omeben who at the time was the Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) in charge of the Federal Investigation and Intelligence Bureau (FIIB) at Alagbon, on his part recalled that he was the second officer to have handled the case file after he had taken it over from his predecessor at the FIIB, Victor Pam. Omeben explained that he had done what any competent investigator would have done in unravelling the circumstances surrounding the death of Dele Giwa. He went on to say that he had examined the crime scene and found it suspicious that the toilet adjacent to the blast site which Kayode Soyinka alleged he was occupying when the explosion occurred had also suffered damage from the blast but Soyinka was left unscathed. 

Omeben described the force of the explosion to have been strong enough to blow out the steel bars over the toilet window (burglary protection), which in his own assessment made Soyinka's story less convincing. Omeben also claims he requested to interview Dan Agbese, Ray Ekpu and Kayode Soyinka. Of the three, only Agbese turned up, he was later to find out that Soyinka had fled the country.However, Soyinka has come out to reply Omeben and accused him of spreading deliberate falsehood with his comments on him on his involvement with the parcel bomb incident. In an interview he granted The Nation newspaper of Lagos of Saturday, January 19, 2013, Soyinka strongly denied that he ran to the toilet when the bomb exploded. He said he did not know where Omeben got that false information from. When questioned, Soyinka requested to not be required to relive the experience again.

Omeben also alleged that he was being pressured into naming Babangida and Akilu as suspects when he yet had no evidence linking them to the crime. Some of this pressure led to the formation of a special squad to investigate the case, the squad was headed by Assistant Commissioner of Police Abubakar Tsav. Omeben alleges that the then Inspector General of Police Gambo Jimeta has asked him to leave the case with the Tsav team out of anger at how messy the whole situation was getting.
Omeben also spoke about certain "fixations" in the minds of the general public about the case, in his own words "...There is the tendency for people to make up their minds as to what they want to see or hear. It may not necessarily be the truth and once they are so fixated, every other thing that somebody else would say would not mean anything to them. Dele Giwa’s case suffered such a fixation".

In testimony that he gave on 3 July 2001 before the Justice Oputa led Human Rights Violations Investigations Commission (HRVIC), Tsav alleged that the government stonewalled his investigation into the assassination. Tsav claimed that he was not granted permission to question key actors involved, including Tunde Togun, Ismaila Gwarzo and Haliru Akilu. He also said that he had requested that the privileges of these officers be withdrawn so he could take their statements and conduct a search of their offices and residences for items of evidential value but this request was denied. Tsav averred that in his final report, he had concluded that there was enough circumstantial evidence to accuse the duo of Togun and Akilu of conspiracy to murder but still the government did not make these two officers available for interrogation or a voice identification as he had requested.

Tsav claims that he handed the case file back to Chris Omeben. Tsav alleged that none of his recommendations were implemented, the case file was never returned to him and that there was no evidence that the case was transferred to another officer or agency. Tsav said he believed Giwa was killed because he believed Giwa was in "the way of some powerful forces".

After the investigation stalled, various conspiracy theories arose to explain why Giwa was killed. One of the most popular and still the most enduring has been the Gloria Okon connection. Gloria Okon was a Lady who was arrested in 1985 by the National Security Organization (NSO) at the Aminu KanoInternational airport on suspicion of drug smuggling. Soon after, the NSO alleged that she had died in custody, the government subsequently constituted a commission of inquiry to investigate the matter.
Conspiracy theorists allege that Gloria Okon was a drug mule working for the wife of General Ibrahim Babangida who was then the Minister of Defence in the regime of General Muhammadu Buhari. 

The theorists allege that during interrogation by the NSO Okon had claimed that she worked for highly placed Nigerians, in particular Babangida's wife. The theory goes on that Babangida spirited Okon out of detention to the United Kingdom, sold the public the ruse of a dead Gloria Okon and that Dele Giwa happened upon Okon on a trip to the UK where she told him her story. The story goes on that armed with this information, Giwa tried to blackmail the now Military President, Ibrahim Babangida and this was why he was killed. 

This blackmail theory might not be unconnected with the off-the-record interview that Lt Col A.K Togun gave to airport correspondents of the Guardian on 27 October 1986. In the interview, when asked about Dele Giwa's killing and the suspicion in the public that he was killed by the government, Togun was quoted as saying "...one person cannot come out to blackmail us. I am an expert in blackmail. I can blackmail very well. I studied propaganda so no one person can come and blackmail us after an agreement...". Togun's statement was in the context of the secret agreement reached by Giwa and other media executives at the October 9 meeting, he seemed to accuse Giwa of reneging on the agreement leading to Giwa being invited for questioning on 16 October. Theorists also allege that Babangida's drug running activities were brought to the attention of the Buhari-Idiagbon regime which led the regime to slate him for retirement on 1 October 1985. They also say that it was his impending retirement that inspired him to plan the coup that toppled Buhari in August 1985.

Giwa's colleagues at Newswatch have debunked this theory and deny any link between Giwa, Gloria Okon and Mrs. Babangida. In a Newswatch interview marking the twenty fifth anniversary of the magazine, one of the founding partners of the organization Yakubu Mohammed explained the Giwa-Newswatch-Gloria Okon link. 

Mohammed claims that Dele Giwa had not been writing any Gloria Okon story and that the closest Newswatch got to a Gloria Okon story was at one of the magazine's editorial conferences where a Newswatch reporter, Bose lasaki, who was a niece to President Olusegun Obasanjo spoke about a "rumour" making the rounds to the effect that Gloria okon had not died in detention but had been spirited out of the country. Mohammed claimed that Lasaki's story was dismissed off-hand but that she was asked to find out more about the rumour. Lasaki was alleged to have returned for the next editorial conference the following week and declared that there was no substance to the rumour. Mohammed alleged that Giwa was not at any of these meetings. 

The Ibrahim Babangida drug running angle was also called into question by revelations made by the embittered former head of the National Security Organization (NSO), Alhaji Mohammed Lawal Rafindadi. In 1985, following a request by the Supreme Military Council, the NSO under Rafindadi investigated Babangida and found him complicit of forgery and activities inimical to national security.

 This issue arose as a result of Babangida and his in-law, Mr Sunny Okogwu's interest in an arms manufacturing venture inKaduna called Black Gold. The SMC, based on the NSO's findings slated Babangida for retirement.The only witness to the events shortly before the bomb exploded, Mr Kayode Soyinka had alleged that the package had a label with the seal of the Nigerian President and also claimed that the label indicated that it was form the office of the president.

 However, no other witness has corroborated this claim, Giwa's 17 year old son, Billy, who had delivered the package to Giwa has never corroborated this claim. Mr Soyinka's testimony about the events prior to and after the bombing have also been brought into question, there have been accusations made to the effect that he might have been the same person that detonated the bomb by remote control as he was not injured in the explosion.

Mr Soyinka is also alleged to have given conflicting accounts of the events to the Police and media outlets, he is also accused of fleeing the country while investigations were ongoing.To the accusation of fleeing the country, Soyinka has this to say in that his interview with The Nation (Saturday, January 19, 2013): "Dele was very close to his mother. He did not joke with her at all. It was an honour for me to have met her. 

The last time I saw her was at Dele’s burial in their village near Auchi, in Edo State. I was there live with my wife contrary to the erroneous story of Babangida’s government’s mischief makers who tried to deceive the Nigerian people in order to exonerate the government from the assassination of Dele Giwa, saying that I had fled the country. 

They deliberately spread all kinds of falsehood, ignoring even newspaper reports and pictures of myself and my wife in attendance at the burial. And mind you, how could I have fled the country? My wife and children were not in Nigeria with me when the bomb exploded, they had to take the next available flight to Nigeria to join me. 

Yet, Babangida’s men said I fled the country. And my family and I remained in the country throughout the whole period of the controversy and burial arrangement. We returned to London together through the former British Caledonian Airways, through Muritala Mohammed Airport. There was no way we could have left quietly. We were accompanied to and seen off at the airport by friends, including the Newswatch editors, and family. The airline people recognised us. Our two children were still small then. The air hostesses took them from us, played with them, and they were asking me if I was feeling better – knowing the trauma one must have been through in the past weeks, and took us straight and right inside the aircraft, even before checking in other passengers. Yet the Babangida men kept saying, even till today, that I fled the country. Can you imagine?"

Giwa's lawyer was also accused of prematurely accusing the government of Dele Giwa's murder thereby truncating the investigation into the case, Newswatch Magazine in a November 5, 1986 edition disowned Fawehimni.

The subsequent court cases instituted by Fawehinmi against the government to enable him try the case as a private prosecutor after the Director of Public Prosecution, Mrs. Eniola Fadayomi had refused to prosecute based on the evidence available were mostly unsuccessful. 

An excerpt of the Judgement by the then Lagos State Chief Judge, Justice Candido Johnson reads thus "...Even if one considers the reasonableness of time, I would say that the incident that gave birth to the death of the late Dele Giwa is not only unique in its form but also complex and would require sufficient time to conduct detailed and balanced investigation, a report on which the appropriate authority would reasonably act. 

The timing here appears hasty and premature. It appears impulsive without giving reasonable time and chance for a detailed and balanced investigation into this sordid incident. In the circumstances and having regard to the review made above, it is my ruling that this (ex-parte) application is misconceived and it is therefore dismissed. Leave to apply for mandamus is hereby refused.”

Fawehinmi went on to the Supreme Court and got a favourable judgement which enabled him go back to the Lagos State High Court, this judgement also mandated the Justice Candido to recluse himself from the case and appoint another judge to hear the case. On 23 February 1988, Justice Longe ruled that the two security officers, Lt. Col Tunde Togun and Col. Haliru Akilu could not be tried for the murder of Dele Giwa.

 In his ruling Justice Longe averred among other things that,"...the Attorney general did not oppose the objection raised by counsel to the ‘accused’ persons, Chief Rotimi Williams, on the ground that the information was filed by private prosecutor (Chief Gani Fawehinmi) when the information had not been completed and especially when the ‘INFORMATION IMPLICATED ONE OF THE PROSECUTION WITNESSES’(Kayode Soyinka)...the proof of evidence before the Court was mere HEARSAY…. Based on the evidence available before the court, it will be an abuse of the process of court to call the two security chiefs for trial. 

The information is therefore quashed accordingly.” Kayode Soyinka was represented in court by Kayode Sofola SAN, representing the chambers of Kehinde Sofola SAN, that succeeded to getting the court to rule as frivolous the reference to Soyinka being "implicated". The court also ordered that cost be paid Soyinka by the 'accused' persons.

In 2001, General Ibrahim Babangida refused to testify before a national human rights commission about the Giwa murder. Babangida, Hakilu and Togun went to court and obtained an order restraining the commission from summoning them to appear before it. The Chairman of the commission commented that the commission had the power to issue arrest warrants for the trio but decided against this "in the over-all interest of national reconciliation".

In 2008 along with other activists such as Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and Ken Saro Wiwa, the Government ofNigeria named a street in the New Federal Capital Abuja after Dele Giwa.

CULLED : WIKIPEDIA 

FOLLOW-FOLLOW CHRISTIANS:MY PEOPLE PERISH FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE

When i read a story about One Alphonsus Ezie, a 56year old prophet with the Celestial Church of Christ Igando District, Lagos State , according to PM news that was  arrested  by the police for tricking his congregation with a false prophecy.

The Prophet it was gathered had on a Sunday service prophesied seeing some members of his congregation travelling to European countries for greener pastures and coming back home successful. He tricked all those interested in making the prophecy fulfilled to meet with his other conspirator, Mr Samuel, a travel agent, to help them with their travel papers. To round the story up, the travel agent vanished with their hard earn money!!!

Be that as it may, the churches in Nigeria have failed a lot of people, the economy situation of the country, couples with the high level corruptions and the rate of poverty have turned majority of the people to seek spiritual assistance from this churches,  alas, what they met in the hands of some of this so called ‘man of God’ are unprintable!!!

In Imo state, a catholic priest Rev Okono Joseph of St Peter’s Parish of Owerri Catholic Diocese in Imo State, was arrested with 20 others for stealing and buying babies. These children were sold ranged from N450,000 to N750,000 depending on the sex of the child. A male child attracted higher prices .The Rev claimed that  he was involved in only two deals which fetched him only N46,000 interest

Sometime ago, the devotional publisher, Rev. Chris Kwakpovwe and his wife, Pastor Mrs. Dolapo Kwakpovwe have taken a grand step forward in locking of horns together in an explosive brawl on the true ownership of their popular Nigerian Christian devotional book “Our Daily Manna” ODM which was fallout of their ongoing divorce suite on adultery against the cleric. This man and woman of God that needs to lead by example are now washing their dirty linen in the public!

We saw and read a story about one of the top leaders in Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church Worldwide, popularly referred to as ‘Special Apostle/Prophet I.T. A’ that was caught red-handed pant down and photographed by the husband of one his member   on his matrimonial home around Abidap Hotel at Abesan Housing Estate, Ipaja. This is another case of Wolf in Sheep skin.

The story of Walter Ese and Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo of COZA is still fresh in my memory. Where Walter Ese claimed that she had an affairs with the ‘man of God’, in her own words, she said ‘he had told me to feel free with him and loosen up. I found myself strolling to sit on his laps. At that moment, I felt like a little girl who was experiencing something her mind couldn’t fathom. He asked me to kiss him and all I could think about was seeing him preach on the pulpit back in COZA Abuja, Nigeria, which was my home church. He again said ‘feel free Ese.’ And asked again, that I kiss him.

A few hours later, let’s just say, we were rolling under the sheets. It felt as though my mind had paused. I am not saying I was jazzed, (although it’s possible I was in some trancelike state and didn’t know it but I just was so afraid that I couldn’t say or think otherwise.) That was the beginning of this affair. A sexual affair that went on for a little over a week, DAILY

NATIONAL CONFAB DELEGATES DID NOT FAVOUR MUSLIM...SULTAN

Ebele Goodluck Jonathan’s theatre company called National Confab can be liking to Chief Moses Olaiya’s ‘Alawada  ‘where you can expect anything in term jokes, hilarious, ribs-cracking laughter etc.

This led me to issues raised by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, when he led eminent Nigerian comprising of the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Ibn-Garbai; a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Lawal Uwais; and a former Head of Service of the Federation, Alhaji Yayale Ahmed to Aso rock on the issue that the 

National Confab delegate did not favoured the Muslim!!!

The Secretary-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs  Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, who spoke for the group said:

“We just felt that we must convey the feelings of the Muslims in Nigeria to Mr. President and he has given us his words to re-assure the Muslim community that he is a genuine and committed Christian who will not be unjust to others.”

.“May be because you are not a Muslim, if you were  one, you  would know the feelings of the Muslims presently about the composition of the National Conference,” he concluded.

 “What is most disturbing is that the Muslim leadership and Islamic groups have called the attention of the President  to this matter but he has paid no attention to it.

 “We are however worried that the process of selecting participants to the conference has been observed to have thrown away all known dictates of fair representation in a democracy, which will no doubt affect the credibility of the outcome of the conference. Although, democracy is a game of number, this has not been respected.

“We find it a great disregard and disrespect to the conscience of the Muslims that of the 20 delegates of the Federal Government, only six are Muslims. No Muslim is deemed fit to make the list of the Nigerian Economic Summit

“In fact, in the representation of the security agencies, Muslims have been so unimaginably short-changed with only one Muslim out of the six retired military and security personnel.”

My questions are what is a Muslim or been a Christians got to do with good government for God sake, are we not all citizen of Nigeria, it is also in the record that majority of the so-called selected delegates are between the ages of 65-75 years!!!  All these old brigades should have give the space to young vibrant, productive Nigerian, who will never sleep in a public gathering.

The people that are suppose to go and deliberates on the problems facing majority of Nigerian like, unemployment, insecurity, redistribution of the national wealth between the rich and the poor, true and authentic federalism, complete devolution of power, self determination for the minority groups, resource control, Local Government policing, creation of political institutions that would enhance economic development, and challenge of leadership, education, housing, health care and other meaningful things that will make the life of ordinary citizen better,  went there to talk about religion. This issue of religion is what they always use to cause the problems  and division in the country today.

Chief Richard Osuolale Akinjide, second Republic minister and the father of the current minister of state FCT, Jumoke Akinjide, is one of the tired senior citizen, this is year 2014 and not 1977 when he was a vibrant lawyer, am so sure if it had been 1977, he would never get tired not to talk of sleeping at the forum of this magnitude. You can see him in the picture above where he is he observing the call of nature.

The National Conference members’, how do you do in Abuja?

MIMIKO: CAPO DI TUTTI CAPI..STORY OF AN ANTI-MORAL LEADER

The above title captured my attention on facebook; by the time i went through and also saw Pa Joseph Fagbola’s comments on it, i then realised that this is a serious matter that must be exposed to general public to debate.

I will love to make a reference to a particular book ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell , where Snowball a character in that book, also one of the influential figure in that animal kingdom announced that; ‘all animals are equal’, within tinkle of an eye they changed the law into; ‘all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others’

With these two laws: ‘all animals are equal’, this particular law is meant to cajoled  and deceive the public ,while ‘all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others’ is meant for the elites, the cabals, the rouges , the cultists that rule the majority.

‘’It is for this reason, that I am shocked to learn how Governor Olusegun Mimiko, who is expected to show good example for others to follow, because he is ruling by the ticket of Labor Party where merit should always be given the pride of place, has not only made his blood brother Prof Femi Mimiko, the full time Vice Chancellor of the Ondo State University at Akangba, and also doubles as the Acting Deputy Governor at the same time. As if that is not bad enough, the same Prof. Femi Mimiko is also selected as one of the representatives of Ondo State in the on-going National Conference at Abuja. Is he saying all the other people with political strong-will and intellectual endowment in the State have now been afflicted with osteoporosis, which has decreased their bone mass with decreased density and enlargement of bone spaces, thus producing porosity and frigidity in them, as a result of which they lack the required agility to do those jobs?’’(Joseph Fagbola)

However, i will love the general public to read Mr.Maxwell A Adeleye’s write-up bellow:

‘’In the edited words of Egalitarian Danthi Allegieri, pit of hell is the constituency of those who sees immorality and chose to go on criminal silence.

Country people, a never-seen-before immorality were recently perpetrated by a custodian of power and affluence in the South Western Nigeria. He’s a trained Medical Doctor that has abandoned his Clinic for Politics since the aborted 3rd republic.

Country men and women, welcome to the world of Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, the Governor and paramount ruler of the oil rich Ondo State.

Now the main point: Governor Mimiko was asked by the federal government to nominate three Delegates for the ongoing entertainment nick-named National Conference at the National Judicial Institute, Abuja. The Cinema show will take at least, 12 weeks before it is concluded.

To the surprise of all and sundries, His Excellency Nominated His Younger Brother, Femi Mimiko, a University Don who double as the Acting-Deputy Governor of Ondo State and the full time Vice-Chancellor of the state owned University situated at Akungba-Akoko.

As If that is not enough, his Excellency Dr. Mimiko also nominated 3 sitting Commissioners to complete his three nominees. The Commissioners are to be away in Abuja for the next three months without a Deputy to act in their absence. They are also to Miss the State Weekly Executive Meeting for the next three months.

It is on record that Mimiko, with the support of all his Commissioners, has not Commissioned a project since he was re-elected as Governor in October 2012.

Before I proceed, I wish to avow for the sake of clarity that the three nominees of Mimiko, most especially his immediate Younger brother, Professor Mimiko, are eminently qualified to represent an entity at any occasion; however, I wish to affirm without any prejudice or fear of intimidation that the nomination of Mimiko Jnr. and the two Cabinet members in Mimiko’s government is immoral, Aba-Moronic (apologies to Victoria Ohaeri) and a great disservice to the good people of Ondo State.

I wish to ask that who will perform the roles of the ministries of the two Commissioners while they will be away doing the biddings of Mimiko at National Conference?

Assuming that the Septuagenarian Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Alli Olanusi will now have an ample of opportunity to prove his competence in the absence of Mimiko Jnr., please, who perform the constitutional roles of Professor Femi Mimiko at Adekunle Ajasin University (AAUA) for the next three months? Oh! The Deputy Vice-Chancellor? I was reliably informed that the theory that the late President of Nigeria, Umaru Yar’adua applied for Goodluck Jonathan when the latter was his Deputy has been applied to decimate the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of AAUA! The poor Varsity Don reports to office daily to read Newspapers! Nothing else! He’s dutifully incapacitated as I write!

Without much ado, as a public affairs commentator, I consider Governor Olusegun Mimiko’s action as the height of insult and assault on the intellectually rooted, grounded and globally respected minds from Ondo State.

As at the last time I checked on the National Universities Commission’s Hansard, Ondo State was in 5th position amongst the states with the highest number of professors in Nigeria!

Now, I wish to ask with a sense of modesty that must it be Professor Femi Mimiko?

Lastly, let me state that assuming without conceding that the mainstream media have been oiled to go on criminal silence over this height of immorality, as a Change Agent, I refuse to be bought over!

Once again I ask, Why is it always Mimiko?’ Maxwell A. Adeleye writes from, Magodo, Lagos.

POLICE OFFICERS ARE NOW DOING BOY-BOY JOBS IN NIGERIA...KAI

If you ask the Inspector-General of Police the number of men and officers in active duty in Nigeria of today, I can bet anything he would not be able to provide any good answer.

However, according to rough estimate, we have close to 400,000 policemen in Nigeria today but alas; the level of insecurity is more dangerous than it was in the last 5 years. Nowadays, kidnappings are rampant, ritual dens everywhere, baby-making factories are now the lucrative business in Nigeria!!!

 But, how can there ever be adequate security in Nigeria when our policemen that we’re paying with tax-payers money are now doing boy-boy jobs in the house of politicians, escorts to 419, washing cars for big men and carrying bags for their wives?

I am quite certain that functions are not part of police duties but house boy and house girl work! Inspector-General of Police need to wake-up for his responsibility and repositioning the Police force.