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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Hypocritical lot! How can you create a society in which money is the sole determinant of success and turn round to condemn fraudsters?!

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

I forgive because of the heaviness of the burden of unforgiving. I however do not forget.

CAO.

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

If any foreigner points at me and says that Hushpuppi(I hope I spelled it right!), is my country man, I would tell him/her my name and refer him/her to Google!

(c)Chidi Anthony Opara

#2020Quotes

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

History is taking notes!

CAO.

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

No big player in the international arena will give Nnamdi Kanu full support. He and his group are not useful to their national interests. If Kanu were a warlord with oil and/or diamond, ready to buy weapons, they would be falling over each other to give him full support.

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

"First female bomber", "first male machine gun shooter", bla, bla, blaaaaa! What the heck do we celebrate?  War!  Killing!  Now,  who is our first male or female vaccine producer?  Silence? Do you now see why we're where we are?

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Does Nigeria have National Development Rolling Plan? If yes,  what is the scope of coverage? When did the plan start rolling and what is the time of termination? If no,  why? 

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Nigeria Jaga Jaga", the hit song by Eedris Abdulkarim would one day be a classic, if it is not one already!

---Chidi Anthony Opara.

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

"Spirit Of The Lord Is Moving Round Like A Magnet"--Maxi Priest and Shaba Ranks (Collaboration)

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Dr. Stella Immanuel and her friends are exposing the other side of capitalism, the ugly side which dictates that money must be made(from vaccines this time) at all cost. 

--Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

"Being cultural does not mean being right"--Chidi  Anthony Opara (CAO).

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

"Those who went to Abuja to do peaceful protest to demand for good governance and were arrested must have thought that Nigeria is actually in democracy"--Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO).

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

"Peaceful protest is an integral part of democracy"---Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO).

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Sometimes what we think is the "truth" isn't the truth.

Sometimes we confuse cleverly woven falsehoods and/or half truths as the "truth". 

However, "only the deep can call to the deep"--Obafemi Awolowo. 

--Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO) 

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Wikipedia is not really well reckoned with in the global research and intellectual circles because of the method of its knowledge productions.

The online encyclopedia is however almost right in its recent classification of Nigeria as a failed state. 

Nigeria is not a failed state yet, but it would soon be if nothing is done to arrest the fast slide!

--Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO). 

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

I always marvel at the paradox of a materially rich person wanting to be like a materially poor person! Nicodemus wanting to be like Jesus Christ! I have had to caution materially rich friends who wish that they were like me!

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Nigeria needs a revolution, not mutiny. 

Nigeria needs revolutionaries, not mutineers. 

I hope we decipher the difference!

---Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)

[Adeshina Afolayan]

Nigeria needs a revolution...

...as if a revolution solves all problems; as if a revolution necessarily succeeds as one. 

Adeshina


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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Adeshina,

(1)A revolution does not have to solve all problems, nothing does! (2)A revolution that did not succeed is not a revolution.

Thanks for commenting.

Warm regards,

CAO.

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

I have always advocated for the establishment of a "Public News Media Fund" in Nigeria, that would be used to set up and run news media platforms that would be devoid of political and other influences.

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO).

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Must churches be incorporated to function? They can shun incorporation and still operate, but I tell you, they won't and that is because incorporation has its advantages, especially to the "General Overseers". Adhering to the provisions of the CAMA law is an integral part of incorporation.

-Chidi Anthony Opara(CAO)

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Take this from me!  The Federal Government of Nigeria and its agencies would soon trigger off a mass revolt in Nigeria with their constant increases in prices of essential goods and services.

--Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO).

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Throwing up Jonathan's regime as a better alternative to Buhari's regime is a lazy person's thinking pattern. Jonathan's ineptitude made the Buhari disaster possible. 

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Instead of increasing the prices of essential goods and services in the midst of a pandemic, a government that claims a progressive credential, in dire need of fund,  should have started with downsizing Executive and Legislature bloated budgets. 

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Caiaphas who spearheaded the killing of Jesus Christ was "an ordained man of God".

--Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Most people disagree with most viewpoints of "the fathers in the Lord" but are afraid to say the disagreements in public,  not because of the "anger of God", but because of the ostracization "from the brethren".

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

The Imo state governor's detention law is null and void as a result of its inconsistencies with the provisions of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and International protocols signed and domesticated by Nigeria. 

--Chidi Anthony Opara(CAO).

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Nigeria public officials would proudly declare in this 21st Century that, "we don't do social media", whereas in the Western countries where they usually go for everything,  even the offices of the heads of governments have social media handles through which they receive messages from citizens and replies via same channels. 

--Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO).

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Literature,  though universal, provides its products with backgrounds peculiar to particular locations.  So,  African Literature is literature produced with background peculiar to Africa.

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Calm down!  Trump and his wife will recover,  the medics will fill them up with anti-malaria drugs and in a few days,  they will test negative! 

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

You agitated for #EndSARS instead of #ReformSARS, SARS is disbanded with SARS officers redeployed to other police units. Police brutality continues! This is the problem of knee-jerk and harebrained activism!

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO).

[Ibukunolu A Babajide]

Knee-jerk and harebrained activism is far better than do-nothing lethargy!  When people speak with one voice, instead of negative criticism, we should positively build on the impact of their activism and praise whatever they achieve.  However little we may think they have achieved.  For starters, #endsars can evolve into #ReformThePolice!

Human social progress is always from the great and small efforts and energies expended to change the system never on armchair critics who simply mouth change instead of actually working on the coalface!

IBK

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AN ENGLISH NURSERY RHYME

The law locks up the man or woman

Who steals the goose from off the common

But leaves the greater villain loose

Who steals the common from off the goose

 

The law demands that we atone

When we take things that we do not own

But leaves the lords and ladies fine

Who take things that are yours and mine

 

The poor and wretched don’t escape

If they conspire the law to break

This must be so but they endure

Those who conspire to make the law

 

The law locks up the man or woman

Who steals the goose from off the common

And geese will still a common lack

Till they go and steal it back

 -        Anonymous (circa 1764)

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

IBK, 

Knee-jerk and harebrained activism at best achieves hollow victory(like the one you're celebrating now) and reinforces oppression! 

CAO. 

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Frivolity should never be allowed into activism,  otherwise activism would loose its credibility as a time honoured tool for moderating maladministration.

--Chidi Anthony Opara.

[Ibukunolu A Babajide]

Chidi,

You project your shallow thoughts on me and when you are corrected, you cry wolf. 

Did I celebrate anything?  All I said is that any action no matter how you characterize it of these youths is 1000 times better than your mere intentions formulated in your arm-chair critique. 

Simple and quiet. 

Cheers. 

IBK

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

"We die here" is a mindset that must be avoided in social action (peaceful protest). Peaceful protest must be immediately preceded by dialogue if the other party calls for it. 

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

To The Nigerian Government:

Embark on institutional reforms fast before the patriotic Nigerian youth come up with that overdue demand. 

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO).

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

The present protest is physically peaceful but psychologically violent. Listen to the denials of efforts of the older generations at correcting the systemic rots and the insults.

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

One fact we must take cognizance of is that there is no prior process of screening the current Nigerian protesters,  anyone can join,  raising the possibility of hoodlums also joining. 

-CAO.

[Ibukunolu A Babajide]

CAO,

You prove the point my old friend Ojo Gordon an English teacher made many years ago to me. We learn and acquire the use of the language of the English like we acquire and display an ornament.

Look at the words you put together in your so called quote;

1. Fact;

2. Cognizance;

3. Prior;

4. Process;

5. Current;

6. Protesters;

7. Hoodlums; and

8. Screening.

Now, ask yourself, when you are going to the market, church, mosque or any public place are you screened?  Who will do the screening?

Thugs and hoodlums enter churches, homes and shops to steal. Who screens them?

Nobody screens people who join others in a protest. Maybe, you as the 'screener' will say if you are taller than Aki and Paw-paw do not attend the protest.

You can screen workers, or students or town union meetings but nobody screens protesters.

In conclusion, once the basic thought or idea you wish to say is flawed no amount of big English words will repair it. 

Cheers. 

IBK 

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

IBK, 

It is not impossible to screen protesters if that is part of the plan at the beginning. Potential protesters can also  be given orientations before the commencement of every protest. 

-CAO. 

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

God will surely punish those killing the youth of Nigeria and those advising the youth wrongly. Advice that they wouldn't give to their own children.

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO).

[Ibukunolu A Babajide]

CAO,

Too many moons behind an office desk makes you forget the nature of demonstrations. It is the assertion of your right to freedom of assembly. 

Nobody can pre-qualify you as much as you cannot do the same to another. 

Everyone has equal rights. BTW, tell me how you intend to screen?  By saying, "excuse me sir/ma, can I see your gate pass?"  You know my answer, f*ck off!

IBK 

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Every masses uprising should make provision for balance of terror. 

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Changing an oppressive system is a fight that requires strategy,  only strategic fighters win fights. 

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Do not dare and/or confront any force without a similar equal or superior counterforce.

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO).

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

IBK, 

Would the "Yellow Vests" had allowed anyone who was their unique attire to join their protests? 

CAO. 

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Sorry,  

would the "yellow vests" had allowed anyone who was not wearing their unique attire to join their protests? 

CAO. 

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[Ibukunolu A Babajide]

CAO,

You compare apples with oranges. The history and context of that protest is very different from the Nigerian one!

IBK

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

IBK, 

You insinuated that it is impossible to screen protesters. I gave example of a protest in which protesters are subjected to a kind of screening. 

CAO. 

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Why is heroism so cheap in Nigeria? Obasanjo destroyed Odi and Zaki Ibiam at the least provocation when he was civilian President, but now, he is a national hero. 

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

"I do not feel it is pedantic or ignoble to demand freedom from the opiate of clannishness and leech-brotherhood that dominates many many of our so-called avant-garde publications."-Charles Bukowski

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

The fact that the reactionaries who have been benefiting from the rot in the system which you want reformed have strategies to break your resolve to change the oppressive system,  means that you who is protesting for that change should have counter strategies. 

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO).

[Gloria Emeagwali]

What counter strategies do you suggest?

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Big business owners can close all their businesses in Nigeria indefinitely and will never be hungry,  but what about the cleaners,  gatekeepers and other low categories of workers who do not have sustaining financial savings and will not even collect this month's salary because these businesses have been burnt?

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

"Poor speech"? Did you elect a great speaker in 2015? Were there not great speakers on the ballot paper then?

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Gloria, 

Here?  No Ma.

That would be in a different setting and under a different circumstance.

-CAO. 

[Ibukunolu A Babajide]

Atiku is not a great speech reader too!

IBK 

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[Ibukunolu A Babajide]

CAO,

You posed a question. It may be a rhetorical one but it begs for an answer!

Was it Aristotle or Plato who said, I paraphrase, for questions, let fools ask, for the most foolish can ask more than the wisest can ever answer. 

Cheers. 

IBK 

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

IBK, 

Was Atiku the only other person on the ballot paper in 2015?

In your efforts to "correct" me,  you sound funny, rude and crude most of the times. 

CAO. 

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[Ibukunolu A Babajide]

CAO,

So you think I am attempting to correct you?  Sorry to disappoint you. I try to engage with what you write but when the banality is tolerable, I respond. 

Any person over 16 should not expect to be corrected in the public arena. Such a person should fasten his or her thinking cap to write what is worthy of engagement by the audience. 

I will no longer waste your time or mine. 

Cheers. 

IBK

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

You are campaigning for fundamental Human Rights and freedom of speech on social media and at the same time threatening to block anyone who does not agree with your viewpoints. 

-Chidi Anthony Opara(CAO).

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

"Notwithstanding anything contained in any other Act, law or regulation, the right of any person to access or request information, whether or not contained in any written form, which is in the custody or possession of any public official, agency or institution howsoever described, is established"(Section 1, subsection 1 of Nigeria's Freedom of Information Act) 

[Ibukunolu A Babajide]

CAO,

Always situating your reasoning out of context. The red vests were for and the yellow vests were against. The closest is like a PDP led protest with an APC counter one. 

In the current Nigerian #EndSARS protest you may go and sew yellow vests for the protesters!  Red for the Police. 

Cheers. 

IBK 

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Trump, in my opinion, is not personally opposed to Nigeria or Dr. Okonjo-Iweala in this WTO matter.  He simply want to make sure that the foreign trade policies position of whoever occupies the WTO prime post would not be detrimental to his country's foreign trade position.

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)

[Gloria Emeagwali]

Really? Well you don’t really understand the man that is Donald Trump. He wants to put up another

Casino, or Trump Tower, in South Korea  where his alternative candidate comes from, and,  add to that, he is peeved that a Black female can make it that high. That’s the kind of position that Ivanka should have, thinks he.

www.Vimeo.com/471128176

Trump A.C/D.C

(Di Mauro and Pehme)

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Gloria, 

I do not think that Trump needs a Korea as DG of WTO to be able to build Towers in Korea. 

Okonjo-Iweala is a citizen of USA. 

Ivanka Trump is also an achiever in her own right. 

Trump have had close relationships with black achievers. 

-CAO. 

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

It is of course known that one must have an appreciable level of intelligence to be able to mobilize any crowd, but what is needed to succeed is wisdom. 

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO). 

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

I live in Rumuola area of Port Harcourt, all I can say now is that we have refugees from Obigbo/Oyigbo here. These refugees, according to them are those who managed to come out.  Many more they say are still trapped there. 

-CAO.

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Non fiction writing is a craft that requires an average intelligence. Fiction writing is a creation that requires an above average intelligence. 

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Donald Trump's desperate actions in this election is helping to legitimize the desperate dispositions of African political leaders. 

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO).

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

No point belabouring the fact that Buhari, a Fulani nationalist is in power,  hence his hardline posture in handling IPOB matters as against the kid gloves with which he handles Boko Haram matters,  but Buhari won't be in power forever. 

IPOB should be mindful of the above and devise strategies to stay alive and active. 

-CAO.

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Greatness is not the absence of shortcomings. Greatness is the ability to fix the shortcomings and move on. U. S. A is a great democracy. Officialdom, Civil Societies,  News Media,  etc,  all working towards one goal. 

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Nigerian Journalists should please stop pushing out stories like "over 50 people died in the conflict" without names. This doesn't make sense.  What the world want are statistical data. Names, sex,  etc of at least 25% of those that died. This makes the reportage credible. 

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO).

[Harrow, Kenneth]

the question is, ws george floyd and aberration in a great country, being fixed by blm, or does the existence and pressure of blm indicate the country is seriously flawed?

for me  it is both. perhaps like all countries, split between venality and decency

ken

kenneth harrow

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

If have you studied the character known as Donald Trump,  you will know that he isn't contesting election results,  he is rather positioning for negotiations on a post presidency free of any criminal prosecution. 

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO).

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

The activities of three persons have given me insights into the mental make up of some Nigerians of diverse segments who are supporters of these persons. These persons are: Muhammadu Buhari, Nnamdi Kanu and Donald Trump. 

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Trump and his gang of arse kickers are trying to set up a deal situation to make a deal for post presidency zero prosecutions for themselves. 

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Problem is that the young Nigerian social media activists think that anyone who advises against their lack of strategies in correcting our flawed system is pro government and anti people. 

Changing any flawed system requires strategies not anger. 

They sound as if they are the only ones doing the fight,  something some of us have been doing before social media. 

-Chidi Anthony Opara(CAO).

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

It (Lekki killings) never happened if there were no concrete evidence, but now there is concrete evidence and so it happened. So,  next time you allege, Produce concrete evidence like CNN did. 

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO). 

[chukwuma adilieje]

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

I have not met Uche Mefor(ex IPOB deputy head) in Person, but we have been interacting online since 2015. I think that Uche is a much more strategic person than Nnamdi Kanu. 

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

IPOB mindset is programmed to regard disagreements with Nnamdi Kanu as sabotage.  Uche Mefor was part of the programming, so, he should not complain now of being labeled a saboteur. 

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO) 

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

For an educated person to think that (1)Nnamdi Kanu would achieve Biafra sovereignty by his harebrained methods (2) That Buhari would turn the battered Nigerian economy around and (3) That Trump would upturn Biden's victory, beats my imagination. 

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

By the way, Buhari's emergence as President in 2015 was one of the effects of Jonathan's ineptitude. 

-Chidi Anthony Opara(CAO)

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

The personal opinion of the British parliamentarian(on floor of Parliament)about Gowon stealing half of the money in Nigeria's Central Bank, is not enough evidence to conclude but enough to launch further investigations. Gowon's supporters defence that he (Gowon) was attending OAU meeting in Addis Ababa when he was removed from office does not hold water. 

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)

[Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju]

It was not.

It was the effect of the lust for power of Tinubu and his Southern allies.

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[Ibrahim Abdullah]

He was in Kampala not Addis. 

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[OLAYINKA AGBETUYI]

Because Jonathan is not as southern as they are.  Tinubu and his southern allies had to conspire to put the more southern Buhari in power.

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What logic!

OAA

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Thanks Ibrahim for the correction. 

CAO. 

On Wednesday, November 25, 2020, Ibrahim Abdullah <ibdu...@gmail.com> wrote:

He was in Kampala not Addis. 

On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 at 1:09 PM, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi...@gmail.com> wrote:

The personal opinion of the British parliamentarian(on floor of Parliament)about Gowon stealing half of the money in Nigeria's Central Bank, is not enough evidence to conclude but enough to launch further investigations. Gowon's supporters defence that he (Gowon) was attending OAU meeting in Addis Ababa when he was removed from office does not hold water. 

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)

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[Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju]

the Tinubu group does not seem to have been convinced they would get there with Jonathan.

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[OLAYINKA AGBETUYI]

Why should they be convinced with someone who lost the election twice and not one who lost no election?

It just doesnt make any sense to me.

OAA

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the Tinubu group does not seem to have been convinced they would get there with Jonathan.

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

What makes us think that some British Parliamentarians do not take too much "shekpe"(brandy and whiskey) before "hitting the floor"? 

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO).

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

So, Gowon went for OAU meeting in Kampala in 1975 and got removed as head of government, he sneaked into the country, went to the Central Bank of Nigeria and took away half of the money in there to London and it took a British Parliamentarian in 2020 to burst the takeaway?😀😁😂

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO) 

[Jonathan Okeke]

Certainly, it does not make logical sense. But here is what makes sense: you cannot move half of the money in Central bank in those analogue years in one day. But you can do that in a few months, and Gowon was in power for five years after the war.

Also, it should not suprise us that a lone parliamentarian is talking about it in 2020. Nigeria's yearly loot is part of some nations' foreign earnings. Patriots do not attack one of their country's sources of income. Besides, it is a bad table manner to talk while eating.

JO Chimakonam 

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

Jonathan, 

The context suggests a single takeaway to London, not a five-year long taking. 

By the way, how much was in the Central Bank in those five years? This is important so that we can determine the half Gowon took. 

-CAO. 

On Friday, November 27, 2020, Jonathan Okeke <jonathans...@gmail.com> wrote:

Certainly, it does not make logical sense. But here is what makes sense: you cannot move half of the money in Central bank in those analogue years in one day. But you can do that in a few months, and Gowon was in power for five years after the war.

Also, it should not suprise us that a lone parliamentarian is talking about it in 2020. Nigeria's yearly loot is part of some nations' foreign earnings. Patriots do not attack one of their country's sources of income. Besides, it is a bad table manner to talk while eating.

JO Chimakonam 

On Fri, 27 Nov 2020, 18:49 Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, <chidi...@gmail.com> wrote:

So, Gowon went for OAU meeting in Kampala in 1975 and got removed as head of government, he sneaked into the country, went to the Central Bank of Nigeria and took away half of the money in there to London and it took a British Parliamentarian in 2020 to burst the takeaway?😀😁😂

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO) 

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

I have a feeling that Nigeria's problems are largely due to the inability of most of her "educated" citizenry to engage in critical thinking and discourses. What one hears all over the place is shallowness. This has made it impossible for the so called educated class to mobilize the masses for the much needed push for positive change. 

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO).

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

In cases of criminality, which must be proven "beyond all reasonable doubts", any confession alleged to have been made by any accused person must be proven to have been made in a situation totally devoid of any form of coercion. 

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

I have always argued that most individuals cannot be different from the systems that produced them(there could be exceptions). So, the present National Association of Nigerian Students(NANS)leadership cannot be different from the present system that produced them.  

Comparing today's NANS leadership with the leadership of years gone does not make sense to me because the value system then is different from (the ethically challenged)that of nowadays and most of us have a share of the blame. 

Thank you for your time.

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

If the 48-year-old National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) President is really a Nigerian student, then, he is qualified for the position. 

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO).