Free Beko Ransome-Kuti Lecture

[Chuks, Samuel]

Now you sef don see my concerns about Bashorun's Presidency of Naija.
My prayer be say make Uncle Abacha jus release MKO and settle am with
naira and kobo wey dem fit change to hard currency of him chose. You see
for this obodo oyibo of america, we dey callam settlement for pain,
suffering and emotional distress.Me i think say MKO don suffa enof.
Wettin u think?????

Yours wey dey for Diaspora.
Samuel O. Chukwuemeka
Bay Minette/Gulf Shores, Alabama

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> From: o. kasirim nwuke[SMTP:knw...@LYNX.DAC.NEU.EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 1997 5:37 AM
> To: NAIJ...@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Free Beko Ransome-Kuti Lecture
>
> Very bouyed by news of Free Beko Ransome-Kuti lecture. Good news, very
> good
> news indeed. Goes to show how far a simple but CONCRETE Naija-net idea
> can
> travel.
>
> Let us hope that the pdms as suggested will now shift, for strategic
> and
> other reasons, the focus away from June 12 and Abiola to return to
> consititutional order and Beko (as a metaphor for the gross human
> rights
> abuses of the military dictatorship). Abiola though immensely wronged
> does not sell. I wonder how much Abiola's security detail would have
> cost
> us - how many first ladies, how many first wives, how many first
> children
> etc. I wonder how Abiola would have handled the crisis in Liberia
> while
> his bread firm was selling a loaf of bread to ECOMOG troops for $6:00,
> his
> RCN was in charge of all ECOMOG telecomms, his oil company supplied
> all
> ECOMOG's fuel needs. His Presidency would have been ......
>
> Back to the sidelines .....
>
>
> okn
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>
> On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Nubi Achebo wrote:
>
> > DIPLOMATS ATTEND FREE BEKO RANSOME-KUTI LECTURE
> >
> > Diplomats from several countries and opposition activists yesterday
> in
> > Lagos attended a lecture aimed at drawing world attention to the
> > imprisonment of Dr Beko Ransome-Kuti and others jailed in the
> alleged
> > coup of 1995. Ransome-Kuti, a former leader of opposition group
> Campaign
> > for Democracy was convicted by the General Patrick Aziza Coup
> Tribunal for
> > being an ''accessory to treason''. In a key note speech delivered at
> the
> > residence of the prodemocracy campaigner, venue of the lecture,
> retired
> > Col. Yohana Madaki in an apparent reference to military incursion in
> > governance said ''Our country has been held hostage by moral
> bankruptcy''.
> > ''We are here not only to weep for Dr Ransome-Kuti, but to weep for
> our
> > country which has been held hostage. We are here to sympathise with
> fellow
> > Nigerians as a nation which has been starved of morality, whose
> image has
> > been systematically damaged before the world, whose liberty, freedom
> and
> > virtues have been truncated, rubbished and smeared by the forces of
> > darkness that have invaded our country for the last decade''.
> Speaking to
> > the media after the event the United States ambassador to Nigeria
> Walter
> > Carrington expressed satisfaction for being present. ''I am happy
> today
> > that my colleagues and I have been able to make ourselves present. I
> have
> > great respect for Dr Beko Ransome-Kuti and a lot of people in my
> country
> > respect him and I have come to represent them''. Present were
> envoys from
> > Brazil, South Africa, Norway, Italy, Germany, Austria and Namibia.
> The
> > human rights community was represented by the president of the Civil
> > Liberties Organisation Mrs Ayo Obe, Olisa Agbakoba CLO's former
> president,
> > Mrs Ladi Olorunyomi who was earlier in the year detained by the
> regime in
> > lieu of her husband exiled in the United States and Mrs Bose Mba
> whose
> > husband a journalist was jailed for alleged complicity in the 1995
> coup.
> > Controversial special duties minister Alhaji Wada Nas had accused
> the
> > diplomats who attended the lecture of plotting to use the occasion
> to seal
> > Nigeria's expulsion from the Commonwealth. ''The peculiar aspect of
> this
> > Lagos meeting is that certain diplomats and the high commissioner of
> a
> > hostile African country are to attend and the meeting is being used
> to seal
> > Nigeria's expulsion from the Commonwealth'' Nas said.
>