PRAISE BE TO THE ALMIGHTY WOMEN AND MEN OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION

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Salimonu Kadiri

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Jan 13, 2022, 11:26:19 AM1/13/22
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​It started on December 19, 2021, in what I believed was constipation which would dissolve on swallowing two pills of laxative. I was mistaken as the constipation turned into  a serious stomach ache in the night of 20 December to 21 December 2021. Towards mid-day my wife drove me to our local healthcare delivery centre, where I was examined by a lady Doctor who decided at once to refer me to one of the University Teaching Hospitals, situated about 50 kilometres to my location. Not only that, she ordered for a government subsidised taxi to transport me to the emergency section of the University Teaching Hospital.

So closed to the Christmas, I panicked in the assumption that I might die in the que before I could see any Doctor because of shortage of personnel. I was wrong. At the reception I was quickly registered after presenting my ID card. Within ten minutes of arrival blood samples were drawn for analysis and the usual covid test was performed on me. The nurse informed me that an X-Ray of my stomach had been booked by the Doctor for two hours later. After the X-Ray, the Doctor had to wait for additional one hour to get the results. While waiting I was given pain killer pills. Towards the evening, the Doctor came to tell me that the X-Ray showed a tract of obstruction in the large intestine which would be operated the following day. Thus, at 11:00:00 hours, European time, on 22 December 2021, I was operated. I was not discharged from the hospital until 27 December 2021. I returned to the local healthcare delivery to get the stitches removed on January 5, 2022 and I am now on my legs and feet. Praise be to the almighty women and men of the medical profession that snatched me from the claws of death.

Back to life, I discovered that I have missed some interesting discussions on this forum among which is, who is Nigeria's Desmond Tutu? Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu of South Africa died on 26 December 2021 and, traditionally and culturally, we have to mourn his death even though it happened at overripe age. The best way for the living to mourn the dead is to learn from the mistakes committed by the dead and the good things done while alive. Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu wrote two books, 'No Future Without Forgiveness (1999) and  The Book of Forgiveness ( 2014).'  These books were written in defence of his role as the Chairman of South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1998, after the fall of Nazi regime in South Africa and the emergence of Black majority rule. When South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission, chaired by Desmond Tutu, began its work in 1998, Nelson Mandela and other members of the ANC who had been on the U.S. list of terrorist since 1948 because of their fight against the Nazi regime continued to remain on the list of terrorists, notwithstanding that Mandela recieved Nobel Peace Price in 1993. It was not until June 2, 2008 that the U.S. officially removed Mandela and the ANC from its terrorist list.

At the South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, it was revealed that the same heinous crimes committed by the German Nazi medical Doctors during World War II were also committed against Black South Africans by the racist regime. On June 9 and 10, 1998, Dr Schalk Janse van Rensburg, a director at the South Africa's Roodeplaat Research Laboratory gave evidence about lethal toxins developed and used against Black South Africans. The laboratory manufactured cholera organism for use in  black townships and against antiapartheid demonstrators. Dr Rensburg gave a list of murder weapons developed at the laboratory and were applied mainly on unsuspecting Black South Africans. It came to public knowledge that South Africa's head of Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme was Dr Wouter Basson. In 1981, Dr Basson participated in a federal conference in San Antonio with army officers from the United States, West Germany (as it was then known), Japan, Britain and Canada. In 1987, the U.S. sent a Califonia-American M.D., Larry Ford, to South Africa to train microbiologists at the Roodeplaat Research Laboratory. Dr Wouter Basson openly bragged that the structure of the chemical and biological war programme in South Africa was based on the U.S. system where they the South African Nazi doctors learnt the most. Ironically, none of the Nazi doctors in South Africa, in the name of reconciliation, was ever convicted. Whereas, on August 20, 1947, the U.S. single-handedly sentenced seven Nazi doctors to death by hanging for conducting medical research on Jews without their consent. The death sentences were executed on June 2, 1948 in Landsberg prison, Bavaria. In Africa, we continue to reconcile with our exploiters, oppressors and persecutors. Rest in peace, Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu.
S. Kadiri   

Ibrahim Abdullah

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Jan 14, 2022, 3:45:13 PM1/14/22
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E pele.

Best wishes,
IB
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Gloria Emeagwali

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Jan 16, 2022, 5:00:16 AM1/16/22
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Salimonu

I was about to wish you  a speedy
recovery but  it seems that  such a wish is superfluous. You are back on
your feet and  doing well. 

Even so, let me extend  my best regards, and wishes for splendid health, happiness, and well-being   in 2022.

Gloria


On Jan 14, 2022, at 15:45, Ibrahim Abdullah <ibdu...@gmail.com> wrote:

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Salimonu Kadiri

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Jan 16, 2022, 5:00:29 AM1/16/22
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​Thank you, Mallam-Professor, Ibrahim Abdullah. I have passed the stage of pity (E Pele) health wise. I narrated my health challenge to explain my coming late into the thread, *Who is Nigeria's Desmond Tutu?*

As you might have observed, Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah, has been nominated or identified as Nigeria's Desmond Mpilo Tutu. I find the nomination striking. If Tutu was chairman of the truth and reconciliation commission of South Africa that decided to forgive and reconcile with South Africa's Nazi regime, Kukah was the spokesman of the 13 members of the self-appointed National Peace Committee led by the ex-military dictator and Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar. The self-styled National Peace Committee sought and received Buhari's audience in Aso Rock on August 11, 2015. That was two months and 13 days after Buhari assumed office as the President. The spokesman of the National Peace Committee, Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah, told the media that the 'purpose of the visit was to urge Buhari to tread cautiously in his fight against corruption.' For Buhari's response see the following link.
The trial of former public officers who looted the national treasury and stashed the funds in foreign banks will commence in few weeks. President Muhammadu Buhari disclosed this, yesterday, when ...

In the online Sahara reporters of 7 October 2015, Kukah reminded Buhari that he was overthrown in 1985 as a military Head of State in 1985 while sincerely fighting corruption. But Nigerians who were supposed to gain by his anti-corruption war did not pour into the streets to protest and condemn the overthrow of their hero. Buhari would appear to have listened to Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah and has reconciled with the corrupt. Alas, Nigerian victims of corruption have graduated to become armed robbers, kidnappers and bandits.
S. Kadiri

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Salimonu Kadiri

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Jan 16, 2022, 2:36:08 PM1/16/22
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​Thank you, Gloria. Due to the power of those great women and men of the medical profession, I now feel like ÀKÀLÀMÀGBÒ, the bird which Yoruba people believe has a thousand-year span of life.
S. Kadiri

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Biko Agozino

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Jan 16, 2022, 2:36:25 PM1/16/22
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E pele o. We did not know that you had bad belle. Happy survival. 

Compare your preference for punitive justice, that is generally reserved for the poor, with restorative justice - which calls for policies benefitting the survivors of historic wrongs. Forgiveness is not only for the other but also for the benefit of the self, nothing is unforgivable, said Tutu. What is missing from Truth and Reconciliation is Justice, not in the form of punitive justice, but in the form of reparative justice, decolonization, and penal abolitionism.

Biko

Ibrahim Abdullah

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Jan 16, 2022, 2:36:34 PM1/16/22
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Alagba---Mo ti gbo. Se alafia leh wa.

Ibukunolu A Babajide

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Jan 17, 2022, 4:41:34 PM1/17/22
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Dear Salimonu Kadiri,

I am so sorry to read about your intestinal obstruction.  I wish you a full recovery.  I also read about Afis having a motor vehicle accident in Gbongan.  I also was admitted between 30 December and 3 January, but I am out and about now.  I wish you and Afis (and his temporary driver) well and please take great care of your dear self.  You are very dear to us all here.

The Desmond Tutu question was, "Who is Nigeria's Desmond Tutu?"  I gave Bishop Hassan Kukkah but the discourse went in all directions and I would be grateful is you suggested a Nigerian who could be the Desmond Tutu equivalent for Nigeria.

Cheers.

IBK


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Ibukunolu Alao Babajide (IBK)

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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