THE REAL MURDERERS OF DEBORAH IN SOKOTO

[Salimonu Kadiri]

​Nigerian political elites in government have always been engaged in negative religiosity which implies that they, all the time, preach what they don't intend to practise and will never practise. In the Pentecostal/Islamic ruled Nigeria, the elites preach to the masses, God/Allah is the Greatest but in practice and actions the Christians say the Almighty Lords, dollar/pound-sterling/euro are the greatest while the Muslims never say Allah Akbar but dollar/pound-sterling/euro Akbar, meaning those currencies are the greatest Lords. They worship those currencies and they commit always heinous atrocities in order to acquire those currencies. 

As stated in the scripture, Abraham's wife, Hagar gave birth to Ishmael while Sara, also the wife of Abraham gave birth to Isaac. Ishmael was the father of Islam while Isaac was father of Judaism and Christianity, commonly identified as the Abrahamic religions. Neither Abraham, Hagar, Sara, Ishmael nor Isaac were Black Africans and they did not speak or understand any African language. Evidently, they communicated in Hebrew and Arabic. The Christian and Islamic religions are not indigenous to Africa of which Nigeria is a component. Before the advent of religious imperialism in Nigeria, each ethnicity had a word for their creator quite different from the Hebrew God and Arabic Allah. Arabi-sized and Islamic-sized; Europeanized and Christianized, Nigerians remain in the moving world as nuts on the wheel stationary while the wheel rolls on. The power and impact of religious imperialism that have disrobed Nigerians mentally and cinctured their thinking process make them think that they are Arabs who must murder any Nigerian who does not bow to the Arabic Allah or prophet.

Ignorance is a disease which can only be cured through education and acquisition of true knowledge. Those who help to proliferate ignorance, especially about Islam, are the past and present governments of the twelve Sharia states in Northern Nigeria. The murderers of Deborah in Sokoto are proliferators of ignorance within the Islamic North. Nigeria is not a theocracy; hence, it is governed by the Constitution and Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as enacted and signed into law by the President. Sharia Laws and its applications are inferior to the Constitution and any enacted laws of the National Assembly signed by the President. However, the Constitution and enacted Federal Laws have hitherto been violated by the Sharia laws ruled states in Northern Nigeria. For instance, the Child Rights Acts 2003, signed into law by President Olusegun Obasanjo limited the age of marriage in Nigeria to 18 years. Part III, Section 21 of the Acts states : No person under the age of 18 years is capable of contracting a valid marriage, and accordingly a marriage so contracted is null and void and of no effect whatsoever. Part III, Section 22 prohibits the betrothal of children and states that no parent, guardian or any other person shall betroth a child to any person. A contravention of either Section21 or 22 would attract a fine of 500,000 naira (equivalent in 2003 to £2,046 or $3,133) or imprisonment for a term of five years or both. Ahmed Sani Yerima was Governor of Sharia Laws ruled Zamfara State between 1999 and 2007, after which he retired to the Senate as Law maker. In 2010, Senator Yerima married to a ten-year girl and proudly claimed that, being a Muslim, under Sharia Laws he was entitled to paedophilia. Some NGO's filed a court case to determine if Sharia laws superseded the Child Rights Acts 2003 and Section 18 of the 1999 Constitution which make education free and compulsory for every Nigerian child up to junior secondary school. Till date the case is yet to be listed for hearing. In fact, all the 12 Sharia States in the North refused to adopt and sign the Child Rights Acts 2003. Since Northern Nigeria is a haven for male paedophiles, millions of women in the north are either suffering from Vesico-Vaginal Fistula (VVF) or Recto-Vaginal Fistula (RVF). VVF or RVF occurs as a result of the tear between the birth canal and the rectum or bladder leaving a woman incontinent of urine or faeces or both, especially because the girl-child organ is not yet ripe for child birth. For reasons best known to him, Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, on November 22, 2021, adopted and signed into law the Child Rights Act 2003 and in the same Sokoto State, a female student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Deborah Samuel, got her life brutally terminated by a gang of miseducated Muslim male-baboons on the pretext that she had insulted their Arabic prophet.

It should now be made known, once and for all, if Nigeria is to be governed by the contents of the Bible/Quran and Sharia laws or the Constitution and criminal laws of the country. During the APC presidential primary of Wednesday, December 10, 2014, Muhammadu Buhari addressed a letter to the delegates of which the last paragraph reads, "I do not intend to rule Nigeria. I intend to democratically govern it with your help. I seek a Nigeria where CHRISTIANS and MUSLIMS may practise their faiths in peace and security, a Nigeria that is just and where CORRUPTION no longer trespasses into our institutions and national behaviour; and a Nigeria where our diversity could be used for our national prosperity. Almost seven years in office, if Christians and Muslims can practise their faiths in peace and security, why was Deborah, a Christian, murdered by Muslim hoodlums?

S. Kadiri 

    

[Cornelius Hamelberg]

This is one of the most provocative diatribes ever posted to this forum, this time, by none other than the veritable Baba Kadiri,  his wrathful self  loaded with contempt, his pen spitting fire and full of aspersions: 

“Those who help to proliferate ignorance, especially about Islam, are the past and present governments of the twelve Sharia states in Northern Nigeria.”

 How can Baba Kadiri say such a thing? I followed the learned discussions on a Nigerian Yahoo Group in the months leading to Zamfara adopting Sharia and the pro-Sharia justifications were impressive, the more sceptical prevarications against Sharia in a still secular Nigeria were of course more cautious and we have since then been witnessing some of the problems that they were convinced were bound to follow…. 

If only Baba Kadiri would have supplied us with evidence to show how Nigeria’s  Twelve Sharia States “proliferate ignorance”.

Baba Kadiri had also better revise the use of the word “inferior”, in this sentence: “Sharia Laws and its applications are inferior to the Constitution and any enacted laws of the National Assembly signed by the President”

I doubt that this is applicable in all areas of a Muslim's life….

And, may I kindly remind Baba Kadiri,  “ Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour”  and bearing false witness against an honourable Nigerian Senator is what Baba Kadiri does when he wants us to believe that “In 2010, Senator Yerima married to a ten-year girl “when the truth of the matter is that Ahmed Sani Yerima married a 13-year-old Egyptian girl  - and this happened in 2009, and it happened outside of Nigeria…

 Baba Kadiri had better get his facts right and thereby avoid bearing false testimony even against those of whom he may strongly disapprove. 

Loonta

[Cornelius Hamelberg]

Venerable Baba Kadiri,

I’m writing this in another idle moment, whilst waiting for your reply to my first rejoinder. 

Do you know one of the differences between the Prophet  Moses Alaihi salam and Rasulullah, Sallallahu alaihi wa salaam ? 

The former became a prophet when he was 80 years old, whereas the latter became a prophet at 40 years of age. 

Jesus on the other hand returned to eternity at the age of 33….

I’m now more than a few centimetres closer to you, not because of what you said this evening but because just before I called I had been listening to some more Elaine Pagels, to be precise, her take on “The Truth About the Book of Revelations, casting some doubts on the whole apocalyptic contraption, especially now that Finland and Sweden are said to be heading into NATO, and some of the preachers are telling us that we are now living in our last days. It may please you to know that, happily, Profesor Porter doesn't think so. Looka here at his Sweden and NATO

 He once asked me if I believe in Divine Intervention. I believe that if Russia really gets serious about our little strategically important island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, it should be in place for even the atheists to pray for some Divine intervention if they should also want to take Stockholm…

About the spouse of Senator Yerima, she must now be 26 years old, and hopefully still his legally wedded wife, or do you and the Nigerian constitution only legitimise the marriage retroactively, starting on the day when she turned eighteen?  

As you may have noticed, I have not been too hard on you, for example, I have nicely side-stepped your blasphemies and not accused you of heresy either. I leave you to the tender mercies of the Northern Muslim elites if they choose to respond to your tarring and feathering them with unforgivable shirk - worshipping other gods, foreign gods for that matter, in the shape of the American dollar and the British pound sterling. At least you have been decent enough to leave out the Swiss franc and the yen of China.

I wonder what kind of dialogue you have had or have been having with the Almighty  - and through the medium of which language, since you have been requesting that He or She ( according to your grammatical gender conception of the appropriate use pronoun to apply to the Deity) should address you in your mother tongue - or the mother tongue of your ancestors. BTW,  in what language do you speak/ say your prayers to Olodumare? No worries, according to the Rabbis, the Almighty understands all languages ( Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit, Pali, Farsi, Yoruba, Gause, Igbo, Zulu, Mandinka, Wolof,  Lingala, Fulani and  I can assure you, He is surely more advanced than any Professor of Her Majesty’s English at  Balliol College, Oxford, speak less of some riff raff from Bayero or the House of the Rising Sun which is in New Orleans, Louisiana. 

I pray that you agree with me, that at least, God is not a racist …

 For your own good, I should like to point out to you that it’s incongruous that you should associate Islam/ the practitioners of Islam with anything like “ignorance” if only you should take the pains to understand that with the advent of Islam the age of Jahiliyya supposedly came to an end. 

 However,  the wealth and money problems that you highlight, is nothing new to the Islamic polity -  Ojogbon Falola mentioned in one of his posts last week, that 

“The third Caliph credited for writing the Quran had so much respect for Jesus and Christianity. This Caliph was himself brutally murdered, like Jesus.”

 First of all, historically speaking  this “ third Caliph”  can in no way  be ”credited for writing the Quran “, and secondly, it is this Third Caliph that gave rise to Islam’s first socialist in the person of  Abu Dharr al-Ghifari

When you survey Muslim leadership in Nigeria, where do you place the late great Mallam Aminu Kano?

On Sunday, 15 May 2022 at 22:28:14 UTC+2 ogunlakaiye wrote:

[Cornelius Hamelberg]

Venerable Baba Kadiri,

About being careful with our words, eloquent language etc, consider this :

Moses tells G-d: “I am not a man of words, neither from yesterday nor from the day before yesterday….” (Shemot 4:10) It was that humility that made him worthy of being G-d’s messenger and teacher to humanity. A man of no words? Today we call the Torah the Five Books of Moses. That’s a lot of words. Read more in this week's article: A Time for Silence

https://www.facebook.com/100045373800611/posts/539954877526968/?sfnsn=mo

So, we see that from the Almighty’s point of view it’s not got anything to do with little grammar from Oxford or Big Grammar from Bayero

I don’t know how these Biblical proverbs translate into Yoruba, “ Idle hands are the devil's workshop; idle lips are his mouthpiece” but we find plenty of evidence of these kinds of idleness, everywhere, including what’s just happened and is still happening in Sokoto 

In idle anticipation of what more you’re going to say ( precognition) let me start with the tail-end of your submission, your rhetorical Parthian shot  which was,

 “Almost seven years in office, if Christians and Muslims can practise their faiths in peace and security, why was Deborah, a Christian, murdered by Muslim hoodlums?”

And what would you not have to say about the hate crimes that have been ravaging the United States of America, since the Declaration of  Independence up to the latest shootout at Buffalo, who do you want to hold responsible for the massacre, Adolf  Hitler, Adam & Eve, the Ten Commandments,  Joe Biden the sitting President of the US, all those who sat  before him or those who wrote 

“ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”?

In the department of crime and punishment, what are /should be the consequences  - the legal consequences of what happened to Deborah, in Sokoto? To begin with, one would have thought that she should have known better about what to say and what not to say with reference to Islam’s Most Beloved Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wa salaam: one would have thought that she/ you/ me/we would at least try to abide a little by the sacred old formula, “ When in Rome, do as the Romans do”  -  ditto when you’re in Mecca/ Sokoto/ Mogadishu/ Islamabad/ Gaza…

 In the age of fake news & false testimonies, it’s difficult to ascertain what’s true, such as this alleged  “Full transcript of what Deborah said that angered Muslim students” What we do know is that  where sensitivity is high,  “provocation is next to madness “ and the law of karma / retributive justice etc dictates that  “as you sow, so shall you reap”

At least here’s a reliable report about the reaction of Dr Aliyu Tilde to the stoning of Deborah. As far as he is to be judged in all other contexts, I’d say that Dr  Tilde is to all intents and purposes an enlightened, educated & aware, 21st century  Muslim. I have been following his blog and have also been following him on Facebook for a good number of years now and first caught his reaction on Facebook all of which you can read here 

 I might as well take up these three outstanding matters, here: 

 Re. - Islam’s Third Caliph  Uthman Ibn Affan- “ This Caliph was himself brutally murdered, like Jesus”

 The fact is that he was not the only one that was murdered,  - in his case and in the case of his predecessor Umar Ibn Khattab too, they were not crucified, like Jesus. Here’s a list of the Twelve Imams, alaihim salaam : Eleven of them were murdered. 

Also interesting about The Canonisation of the Quran  

About three decades ago I spent a week at the Central Mosque library in London, checking out among other things, Bell’s The Collection of the Quran 

If most of the above is  all too depressing, hopefully, Baba Kadiri & I are more or less on the same page here: Foolish for Finland & Sweden to Join NATO

On Sunday, 15 May 2022 at 22:28:14 UTC+2 ogunlakaiye wrote:

[Salimonu Kadiri]

​Thank you, Menahem Hamelberg, for correcting my mistake that Ahmed Sani Yerima did not marry a ten-year-old girl but a 13-year-old girl. Since I am not a sexual maniac, it is repulsive to me, as all normal parents should be, that a 49-year-old man can mount, sexually, on a 13-year-old girl as a wife in the name of religion and under the pretext that a mensurating 13-year-old girl is ripe for motherhood. According to the Child Rights Act 2003 enacted by the National Assembly and signed into law by President Olusegun Obasanjo, the minimum age to get married in Nigeria is 18 years and a breach of that law attracts conviction, fine or imprisonment or both. Section 18 of the 1999 constitution actually goes further to compel parents or guardians to register their children for free and compulsory primary education up to junior secondary school. Failure to abide by that provision of the constitution of Nigeria attracts a conviction to, a fine, or imprisonment or both. What more, Section 10 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria prohibits the adoption of any religion as a State religion. Yet, the constitution and laws of Nigeria are being trampled upon by chest beating rogues masquerading as politicians and shameless thieves masquerading as religious crusaders.

You are also correct that Ahmed Sani Yerima purchased his 13-year-old wife in Egypt after paying a dowry of $600, but he brought the child-wife to Nigeria and lived with her in Abuja where only Federal laws are valid. Abuja the Federal capital of Nigeria where Yerima, the paedophile, was a Senator was not under Sharia law. If the baby-wife of Yerima is now 26 years as you asserted somewhere else, that will not diminish the crime of causing her to suffer Vesico-Vaginal Fistula and Recto-Vaginal Fistula due to illicit penetration of her sexual organ at unripe age. While Yerima was Governor of Sharia ruled Zamfara State, he had the arms of some chicken thieves amputated according to Sharia Laws. After the end of his tenure (1999-2007), he was charged at a Federal High Court in January 2016 for stealing N1billion meant for developmental projects in Zamfara. He also diverted another N684 million, alongside with other accomplices. As the trial proceeded the actual amount stolen by Yerima from the Zamfara treasury rose to N4 billion. Yerima was granted 100-million-naira bail and his case had since been adjourned sine die. Had Yerima been tried by the Sharia law, the religious hypocrite would have lost his arms four billion times for worshiping naira instead of Allah.

The burden of the Sharia law is felt mainly by the ignorant downtrodden masses, especially, in the twelve Sharia law ruled states in the North while the political class(elites) steal with impunity and blame the extreme poverty of the people to the wish of Allah. In 2000, immediately after the adoption of Sharia laws in Sokoto state, a man by the name Buba Jangebe was sentenced to a right arm amputation for stealing a cow. The Governor of the Sokoto state, 1999 to 2007, was Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa. When his tenure ended, the EFCC investigated him and discovered that he, in collaboration with others in his government had stolen the sum of N15 billion naira including 52 million naira set aside for Sokoto state school of Quran study. On Tuesday, 15 December 2009, a Sokoto High Court presided over by Justice Bello Abbas denied Bafarawa bail but his lawyer approached an Abuja Federal High Court for his release. The Abuja Federal High Court presided over by Honourable Justice Donatus Uwaezuoke Okorowo ordered the release of Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, the sharia advocate of applied arm amputation of thieves, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice. Once Bafarawa was released, the motion on whether he should be tried by the Federal High Court or Sokoto High Court suffered series of long adjournments. Noteworthy, is that a Christian non-Hausa/Fulani ethnic Judge prevented a Sharia law Muslim practitioner from being tried for state robbery. Bafarawa's state robbery case, like all similar cases in Nigeria, began to snail speed until June 29, 2017, when Justice Bello Abbas of Sokoto High Court discharged and acquitted Tukur Alkali, Bello Isah, Isah Sadiq, Habibu Halilu Modachi and Muhammadu Dingiyadi from further criminal proceedings based on a pardon granted to them by the Governor of the State, Aminu Tambuwal while their trial alongside Bafarawa for swindling Sokoto State the sum of N15 billion was still ongoing. Ironically, Governor Tambuwal is a Lawyer and he knew quite well that his power to pardon criminals could only be exercised after conviction and not while trial was still ongoing. Attahiru Bafarawa and the rest of his co-accused swindlers were finally set free. The same Attahiru Bafarawa, as a prayer contractor, received the sum of 5 billion naira from NSA Sambo Dasuki to travel to Mecca to enlist the service of Muslim prayer warriors to pray for the success of President Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian of Ijaw ethnicity, in the March 28, 2015 presidential election. Nigerian leaders are never divided by ethnicity and religion when it comes to plundering public funds and impoverishing the masses. And their unexplained wealth is attributed to God/Allah/Jesus/Mohammed. Nigerians are victims of locust invasion and blood sucking leeches perpetrated by pretentious Muslim/Christian believers in government. 

Nigerian traditional rulers, religious leaders of the Christian and Islamic faiths, and public servants at the MDAs have distorted work ethics as they have all become thieves armed with pens, signing and doctoring figures to produce fictional developments. Consequently, Nigerian youths in the North have turned to cattle rustling, banditry, religious fanaticism and, above all, kidnapping for ransom. In the South, the youths are into rituals where close relatives are slaughtered for quick and plenty money without work, or either in illicit drug trading or internet scamming. In the North, the Islamic religion has been counterfeited and youths there have been indoctrinated with false Muslim doctrines that do not exist in Saudi Arabia. In his 20 August 2021 eulogy on the late Ahmed Joda, Professor Jubrin Ibrahim cited Joda's article published in the Daily Trust of 9 April 2014, on the Almajiri issue in Northern Nigeria. He, Joda, pointed out that the actual meaning of Almajiri (singular) and Almajirirai (plural) is student and students respectively. However, because the way the system has come to be viewed in Northern Nigeria, it conveys a meaning of "beggar children," not its real meaning of seeking knowledge. "These children are not actually in Quranic Schools learning Islam and imbibing its teachings. They are children born and abandoned by their parents. They are children, at their most tender and vulnerable stages of their lives, uncared for by their parents and unrecognized by the authorities and society. They grow to adulthood without parental care or guidance that every child is entitled to. No one knows, or cares, where they sleep, with whom they interact or what kind of life they lead. Their permanent abodes are in the motor parks, market stalls, brothels and drug and drinking joints. Few, if any, are actually in the so-called Quranic Schools. This is the society we are breeding," wrote Ahmed Joda. Muslim leaders in the North encourage child-pride marriages and rearing of children that are eventually thrown into the streets with the belief that Allah will take care of them. But Muslim leaders themselves don't rear children for Allah to nurse up. I will give a typical and common example. On Thursday, 20 July 2017, the Sultan of Sokoto, who is the Supreme leader of Nigerian Muslims and a strong advocate of Sharia law in Nigeria, His Eminence, Saad Abubakar III, was in the United Kingdom to attend the Graduation of Fatima Abubakar, his daughter, from a London University and not from the Islamic Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He got his daughter educated in a secular society not governed by Sharia law and where educational curricula is not mixed with Islamic education. Fatima never wore hijab or any Islamic attire and Sultan Abubakar never married off his daughter at the age of 13. If I meet some Arabs and tell them that Allah is not my God and Mohammed is not my prophet, they will understand me because I am not an Arab. On the contrary, if I happen to tell the grade three Alimajirirai at the ramshackle College of Education in Sokoto that Mohammed is an Arab prophet and not my prophet, the dark Almajirirai with black brains that image themselves as Arabs will go on rampage and will be ready to commit murder as they did to Deborah.

S. Kadiri 

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[Cornelius Hamelberg]

Venerable Baba Kadiri,

Your grievances are many. I'm soon off on a walk with Better Half (who by the way is distressed by the venom that you express)  when I get back, I'll address the rest of your concerns about the main matter, the beef, your beef 

As Jesus is reported to have said, “ Before Abraham was, I am!” 

I asked Pa Google, “At what age did women get married in  Biblical Times ?”

The whole world, including the Islamophobes, is aware of this aspect of Islamic history: The Prophet of Islam's marriage with Aisha

This event predates  the Convention on the Rights of the Child

True, times have changed, even in Nigeria, everything does not remain the same

In today’s Nigeria, LGBT is a problem that sooner or later, under the benign forces of modernism & global determinism could be woven into the Nightmare Nigerian Constitution.

 Do I hear you say, “God forbid!”? 

The Venerable Baba Kadiri is also aware that for all Muslims, the Prophet of Islam, Sallallahu alaihi wa salaam is the gold standard, the role model par excellence, in all things. Therefore, once again, you and other non-Muslims, including those who self-identify as so-called Muslims and at the same time say that they are “not religious” have to be more circumspect and more careful in making certain kinds of pronouncements when judging, from the point of view of ethical relativism bordering on kufr, of the kind we encounter in Ibn Warraq, precisely the kinds of perceptions that the Holy Quran says lead to the bottomless pit. 

You could refresh your memory with the first 20 verses of  al-Baqarah: The Cow

Your main point is that Nigeria is a secular state and not a theocracy and that in all aspects, the Holy Nigerian Constitution supersedes the Sharia Laws that operate in the twelve Sharia states of Northern Nigeria,  even with regard to the minimum age at which a female may be legally married according to Muslim Law.  and I suppose that the main legal school in operation in those Northern States is the Maliki Fiqh, just as I know that there is a high rate of divorce among the Hausa also mostly regulated by Sharia Law  at least up to the time I was diligently studying the five legal schools on Nikah circa 1986-1987, long before Zamfara went Sharia under the not so Holy Nigerian COnstitution which is also under the throne of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

[Cornelius Hamelberg]

Venerable Baba Kadiri,

The Prophet of Islam's marriage with Aisha is a beginning point of reference in this discussion. 

As the Quran tells us, “The Prophet is closer to the believers than their selves, and his wives are (as) their mothers”. 

This is understood to mean that they should be respected, and venerated. In spite of the  Gospel genealogies, we don’t know at what age Mary was betrothed to Joseph, whether she was over eighteen years of age or not, or if indeed she was only 12 - 14 years old when she gave birth to Jesus,  nevertheless, In Christianity, the mother of Jesus, is respected. In the Eastern Orthodox Church as Theotokos and in Roman Catholicism she is especially revered as the Blessed Virgin Mary.  

It should please Christians to know that the Mother of Jesus is held in very high regard in Islam.

I'll be reading your letter over, very carefully, before responding

 

On Wednesday, 18 May 2022 at 00:45:53 UTC+2 ogunlakaiye wrote:

[Cornelius Hamelberg]

Baba Kadiri,

I’m not feeling too good. Got the sad news yesterday that after a short illness Dr Per Wennerholm, my good doctor for the past ten years, had passed away. May his soul rest in peace…

In the past three days, so much has happened but at least Nigeria is still alive and thriving even if the pessimists are mumbling & grumbling about Nigeria’s resurrection - as if (God forbid) Nigeria had died, and of course, the culture workers brigade ( underpaid chauvinists) are promising us a renaissance. But the anti-corruption Brigade, where are they and what are they promising? Zero tolerance for corruption has to be the backbone of the renaissance/  the revolution/ evolution into the New Nigeria. Perhaps we should tell the Pentecostal pastors that even as they have transited from the so called “Old Testament “, to the “ New Testament”, so called, so too it’s high time that the sleeping giant, the Old Nigeria shakes off slumber from his eyelids and move, boldly forward, ready to pounce, like a tiger

In this thread your main beef has been the current government, even holding Brer Buhari personally responsible for  Deborah Yakubu’s fate, at least that’s the impression you give via these your final words, that “Almost seven years in office,  if Christians and Muslims can practise their faiths in peace and security, why was Deborah, a Christian, murdered by Muslim hoodlums?”

Jibrin Ibrahim’s bombshell comes as a surprise, his imponderable, albeit as yet,  tentative final judgement on the Buhari era, that “ his ( Buhari's) legacy might well be that of running the most corrupt regime in the history of Nigeria “ What? 

But what else to expect when the war is not yet over and we are to assume that the war is still in progress, since Major General Buhari Nigeria’s Commander-in-Chief has not yet announced a ceasefire in his ongoing “war against corruption”, nor has he confessed to the nation that the alleged war has been hopelessly compromised and sabotaged from within, by some senior mafia agents camouflaged as anti-corruption police and justices of the peace, precisely as you put it, and you were not mincing your words when you said that “dollar/pound-sterling/euro Akbar, meaning those currencies are the greatest Lords. They worship those currencies and they commit always heinous atrocities in order to acquire those currencies.”

Don't you see a ray of hope in EFCC Arrests Ahmed Idris, or is it too little, too late? 

At least Muhammadu Buhari was honest and was being honest when from the vetý beginning he told us, “ Don’t expect miracles “, although even when he was busy saying this some of us Buhari-ites were still unshakably convinced that history was going to confirm that he is indeed Nigeria’s Messiah who wiped out corruption, crushed Boko Haram, united the Naija nations under a Federal umbrella and led pastors and Muslim prayer leaders alike, unto the New National Prosperity, for everybody…

Talk is cheap and cheap talk is not what we need even though cheap talk, “valfläsk” and breakable promises are what we’re going to get from the 48 candidates who wanna be president of Nigeria. I think that they are so many, even though most of them know that they have little chance of winning, but it could be a feather in their hats as later on even though he only garnered less than 2% of the national vote,  he (she/ they)  could make some chest-beating boast in places like Beijing, London, Washington, “I contested the last Presidential Elections in Nigeria”  and may even add, “ but, I lost because, as everybody knows, the election was rigged!” 

 It would seem that Atiku Abubakar is out - has already lost after he withdrew his condemnation of the stoning of Deborah Yakubu, BTW, he strikes me as being both cowardly and untrustworthy. Why did he condemn the execution in the first place, only to withdraw it for fear of  Muslim reprisals from the North, on election day - one more reason for Egba Brother Olusegun Obasanjo to say “ God will never forgive me if I support Atiku for President” 

Hopefully, no matter what, ex-President Obasanjo will never forgive himself if he supports his former vice-president Atiku for President, probably because he more than anybody else knows what he’s talking about, just as Brother Obama can testify to some quality and calibre when supporting his former vice president Joe Biden for president of the United States. 

 The second half of the Book of Daniel could set you  thinking of NATO Sweden 

In the Holy Bible, we also  have Obadiah: God's judgement on Edom

I see that 2,000 Zelensky’s heroes of the Nazi regiment have been taken as prisoners of war but that has not been reported in TASS or Russia Insider  

Otherwise what else is happening? 

A month ago President Nana Akufo-Addo defends Ghana's 'not terrible' economy on BBC Africa 

More wahala is on the horizon with the latest news about the Monkeypox virus, which to be sure is going to be linked to Africa, or as coming from the planet of the apes….

On Wednesday, 18 May 2022 at 00:45:53 UTC+2 ogunlakaiye wrote: