Re: Fw: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: [NaijaPolitics] Re: [NIgerianWorldForum] - Fw: Phillip Emeagwali

[toyin adepoju]

Ikhide,

I see this LSAT test paper  that references Emeagwali's achievements is from Emeagwali's website.

Does anyone know what country this exam was set in?

I want to ask the compilers of the question on Emeagwali the sources of their information.

I want to find out why I cannot find information on Emeagwali on academic fora.I want to know why I cannot find evidence of his work being discussed by scientists.

Thanks

Toyin

On 21 September 2010 16:26, Ikhide <xok...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Moses,

 

To give you an example of how bad the Emeagwali virus is, a passage about him just made it into the LSAT ;-) At least here they didn't call him the Father of the Internet. The man is a genius sha, I give it to him.

 

Enjoy ;-)

 

http://emeagwali.com/education/law-schools/Emeagwali_LSAT_Law-School-Admission-Test_Sample-Questions.pdf

 

 

- Ikhide

 

[Ikhide]

Toyin,

 

Thanks. This fraudster, Mr. Philip Emeagwali must be stopped at all legal costs. Father of the Internet indeed!

 

- Ikhide

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Thanks Ikhide.

The approach I am adopting is that of writing to every academic and scientific organization and every scholar who mentions his achievements  so as to as find the sources of their information.

From there,I will investigate those sources.

Then ideally,one should communicate with scientists in the relevant  fields to get their views.

Then perhaps one could ask TIME,CNN and the White House what their own sources are. One also needs to ask those companies supposedly using his work to verify if that is the case.If it is,what publicity have they given to this fact?

Then one can decide the next step.

If Emeagwali really has those achievements then he is being neglected by the scientific community because I have seen only two scientific reference to his work and they seem to be in connection with the Gordon Bell prize although I need to look more carefully.

As far as I know,those most qualified to pass judgment on his work are specialists in science and industry.Its important to hear from those who may be acquainted with the work.If they are not acquainted with it,then we should ask why.

Thanks

Toyin

On 23 September 2010 21:18, Ikhide <xok...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Toyin,

 

The Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) administers the Law Schools Admissions Test (LSAT). Their contact information is at:

http://www.lsac.org/AboutLSAC/contact-lsac.asp.

 

I strongly suggest that we all write to the LSAC to complain about this travesty and explain patiently to them the monumental fraudster that Mr. Philip Emeagwali is. The man is obviously suffering from delusions of grandeur, which is unfortunate. However to the extent that he is hurting our reputations, the man must be stopped. Toyin, I would be happy to sign on to any correspondence that you craft to go to the LSAC and any other reputable organization that has been snookered by this buffoon. There is hope; already several institutions are pulling his nonsense down from their websites. We must not relent until this man repents. I have copied the LSAC on this email. They should know that their last LSAT examination was tainted by the devious antics of that fraudster called Mr. Philip Emeagwali. If the LSAC does not investigate this fraud, I am prepared to go to the American press on this. The man is endangering the test scores of tens of thousands of youngsters. This is an outrage.

 

http://emeagwali.com/education/law-schools/Emeagwali_LSAT_Law-School-Admission-Test_Sample-Questions.pdf

 

How can the LSAC be so snookered/ All they needed to do was google the fool.

 

- Ikhide

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[Ikhide]

Toyin,

 

The Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) administers the Law Schools Admissions Test (LSAT). Their contact information is at:

http://www.lsac.org/AboutLSAC/contact-lsac.asp.

 

I strongly suggest that we all write to the LSAC to complain about this travesty and explain patiently to them the monumental fraudster that Mr. Philip Emeagwali is. The man is obviously suffering from delusions of grandeur, which is unfortunate. However to the extent that he is hurting our reputations, the man must be stopped. Toyin, I would be happy to sign on to any correspondence that you craft to go to the LSAC and any other reputable organization that has been snookered by this buffoon. There is hope; already several institutions are pulling his nonsense down from their websites. We must not relent until this man repents. I have copied the LSAC on this email. They should know that their last LSAT examination was tainted by the devious antics of that fraudster called Mr. Philip Emeagwali. If the LSAC does not investigate this fraud, I am prepared to go to the American press on this. The man is endangering the test scores of tens of thousands of youngsters. This is an outrage.

 

http://emeagwali.com/education/law-schools/Emeagwali_LSAT_Law-School-Admission-Test_Sample-Questions.pdf

 

How can the LSAC be so snookered/ All they needed to do was google the fool.

 

- Ikhide

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[toyin adepoju]

Thanks Ikhide.

The approach I am adopting is that of writing to every academic and scientific organization and every scholar who mentions his achievements  so as to as find the sources of their information.

From there,I will investigate those sources.

Then ideally,one should communicate with scientists in the relevant  fields to get their views.

Then perhaps one could ask TIME,CNN and the White House what their own sources are. One also needs to ask those companies supposedly using his work to verify if that is the case.If it is,what publicity have they given to this fact?

Then one can decide the next step.

If Emeagwali really has those achievements then he is being neglected by the scientific community because I have seen only two scientific reference to his work and they seem to be in connection with the Gordon Bell prize although I need to look more carefully.

As far as I know,those most qualified to pass judgment on his work are specialists in science and industry.Its important to hear from those who may be acquainted with the work.If they are not acquainted with it,then we should ask why.

Thanks

Toyin

On 23 September 2010 21:18, Ikhide <xok...@yahoo.com> wrote:

[toyin adepoju]

Cornelius,

Please help us to give credence to your claim that " Emeagwali is well known in the American scientific community".

Why cant I find his name in any scientific fora except with reference to the Gordon Bell prize?

If he is well known to any scientific community that should not be the case.

If he has truly achieved all those things credited to him in the LAST exam then perhaps he is being wronged by the scientific community by their keeping silent on his great achievements.Not to talk of those industries using his work.

Please Cornelius,help us with links to scientific bodies and scientists who credit Emeagwali's  achievements  and whose central sources of information are not Emeagwali's website.

The issue is relevant to listserves dealing with science becease he is a scientist.It is relevant to sites dealing with professionals because he is described as an engineering professional.It is central to Nigerians and Africans because he belongs to those categories.It is vital to humanity because he is human.

thanks

Toyin

On 24 September 2010 13:40, Peoples Conel <con...@yahoo.com> wrote:

 

Toyin,

Before we go too far in this subject, could you please let us know where you reside and a brief background of yourself? Am not sure you are qualified to challenge the LSAT and their choice to pick subject for their Exams. LSAT is a credible institution and will not randomly pick subjects that are deemed real for examination fun. It is not a Nigerian institution where anything goes. Emeagwali is well known in the American scientific community, indeed there are lots of Nigerians that have contributed immensely to the American and world science community who are not shouted all over. Even if in your imagination Emeagwali has done nothing to satisfy your curiosity, I doubt this forum is a place to discuss his person to the point of calling him fraud when you have no proof. I am not sure if you have taken the LSAT exam, I have. What are Emeagwali's fraudulent activities, can you list them?

Cornelius

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"Can someone tell me why this is subject here and the credibility of those hauling attacks at the man who is not new in the scientific community of the American institutions?"

Cornelius.

Cornelius,

Can you please direct me or anyone interested to the "scientific community of the American institutions" that reference Emegawli's work?

I am having difficulty finding them.

The only credible reference I have seen so far to his work by science or industry  is a reference at the IEE,the association of electrical and electronic engineers,I think,and they seem to be referring to his winning the Gordon Bell prize,which award is a well known fact.I will take a closer look at the reference.

The other reference I have seen to his work from a scientific institution or personality,apart from participants in the current debate on Nigerian centered listerves,is from a list of Black scientists at the University of Buffalo,if I remember the university name correctly.

That reference is problematic because practically all,if not all the sources it gives for its information, are  from Emeagawli's web site.

My understanding of scholarship, particularly in science,is that the scientist  draws on the work of the other scientist  being studied but reaches an independent assessment.

Its such assessment from fellow scientists  I want to find.

If he has truly achieved what is credited to him on the US LSAT exam and other non-scientific sources then he is being neglected by the scientific community with its being so difficult to find anything written on his work  by other scientists or even references to his work  by  scientific and technological industries.

I anticipate any information you have of fellow scientists, academic institutions and industry referring to Emeagwali's  work.

Thanks
Toyin

On 24 September 2010 02:34, Peoples Conel <con...@yahoo.com> wrote:

 

What seems to be the problem here people? Who is having problem with Emeagwali's achievements and its use is America LSAT test? I read name callings and things as fraudster etc but not a concret commentary ti dispute what is credited to the man Emeagwali. Can someone tell me why this is subject here and the credibility of those hauling attacks at the man who is not new in the scientific community of the American institutions?

Cornelius

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[Emeagwali, Gloria (History)]

The most disturbing thing to me is that Philip Emeagwali had the audacity to place my photo

 next to his- by cut ‘n paste  wizardry-  to make the fraudulent claim that I was his wife.  I stumbled on  a newspaper that

innocently bought into the lie and was able to get an apology from the editors.

 

 

For the last few years I have had  a disclaimer on my website at:

www.africahistory.net

 

What a jerk! What a fraudster! He should be stopped.

 

Professor Gloria T. Emeagwali

Prof of History and African Studies

[toyin adepoju]

I have been waiting for your response to this.When doing a search for Philip Emeagwali's name in my university's database of academic publications the only Emeagwali I came across consistently  was yourself.

The only reference I saw to Philip Emeagwali was in   an article from a scholar in the intersection of the humanities and science who mentioned him as making a contribution to the Internet.I have written her to ask her source for that claim but I have got no response yet.

I get the impression you are a historian and philosopher of science.Could we know,if in the course of you research you have come across reports of and assessment of Philip Emeagwali's work by scientists  in academia,industry or independent research?

The only credible  references I have encountered on his works so  far in such fora is at the IEE website,the site of the electronic and electrical engineers association,if I remember well,and the only reference seems to  be to his Gordon Bell prize win.

The only reference that seems to come from  a scientific academic  source is the one at the database for Black scientists at the University of Buffalo(?) but all its references,as far as I remember,are from Emeagwali's site.

The other academic reference is that in the LSAT exam paper and we hope that body  will soon inform us of the source for their description of the nature and significance of his work.

All other references are from journalists and politicians,the last being the Clinton reference and the others being from the BBC,CNN,and others.

I and others have been able to ascertain that we cannot find any reference to him in the records of the US Patent Office.This suggests he has no patents registered in the US.If he has any patents,as he has earlier stated,then they would be registered elsewhere.

It is now necessary to examine the claims  about the  specifics and significance of his achievements in computing and the best sources for that are scientists and scholars of science.

As advised by a scientist whose opinion I sought,I will search Emeagwali's website for descriptions and assessment  of his work by independent scientific  sources.If I cannot find them,I will request that he direct me to any such sources.

Thanks

Toyin

[Ikhide]

The most disturbing thing to me is that Philip Emeagwali had the audacity to place my photo

 next to his- by cut ‘n paste  wizardry-  to make the fraudulent claim that I was his wife.  I stumbled on  a newspaper that

innocently bought into the lie and was able to get an apology from the editors.

 

 

For the last few years I have had  a disclaimer on my website at:

www.africahistory.net

 

What a jerk! What a fraudster! He should be stopped.

 

Professor Gloria T. Emeagwali

Prof of History and African Studies

 

Prof,

 

Interesting. For a long time I thought you were his spouse. And then I started spying your disclaimer and my heart went out to both of you, I thought you had suffered a painful, perhaps bitter divorce. Little did I know that the scammer had cut and pasted you into an imaginary marriage. The man is a loser. What breaks my heart is the feverish defense of his fraud by people who are supposedly learned. They are basically saying, so what if he lied about his achievements, his degrees, his marriage, and has delusions about being Father of the Internet, must man not wack? And they wonder why things are the way they are with us.

 

In the video below, please watch "Professor" "Dr" Emeagwali making fools of his supporters in his own words. Hear him bask in the adulation of winning the Nobel Prize of computing, of having two masters and a PhD, of being the father of the Internet, etc, etc. Listen to him and you will be filled with compassion - the man actually has delusions of grandeur.

 

Enjoy.... I am done with this fool. And his posse of foolish supporters:

 

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMFy9sBLFQQ&feature=related 

 

- Ikhide

[Moses Ebe Ochonu]

"hey are basically saying, so what if he lied about his achievements, his degrees, his marriage, and has delusions about being Father of the Internet, must man not wack? And they wonder why things are the way they are with us."

You're too generous Ikhide. His supporters are also saying: his fraud has not hurt anyone personally; it is a victimless fraud; has he been arrested?; misrepresenting yourself  (even for pecuniary gain) may not be fraudulent; etc etc. This whole Emeagwali discussion was as depressing for me as it was eye opening. It opened a window for me to see just how impossible it is now in Nigerian discourse to forge any clear consensus on what used to be straightforward matters of right and wrong--ethical and unethical. The infinite reduction of such simple clear-cut matters of good and bad to a dead-end, farcical debate about degree, circumstance, effect, and nature of the fraud makes one weak with hopelessness.

I saw this video several years ago. Not all of it; it's too painful and embarrassing to watch for me as a Nigerian. I just watched the first 4 minutes or so again. Did you hear the "father of the internet" say that he accessed the 65,000 processors that he purportedly used to "invent the connection machine" (which he claims is the bedrock of internet technology) over the internet? That was hilarious in its absurdity. I thought the man invented the internet. How come he was accessing things over the internet and supposedly relying on the internet for his experiments even before he invented had it? Or was this a different internet from the one he invented? That's why they say a good liar has to have impeccable memory. The deluded fool invented the internet; yet his "invention" depended on an already existing internet, on which he claimed he relied for his experiment! The man is to be pitied. What a clown!

 

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[Wassa Fatti]

The Philip Emeagwali story or saga is becoming a disturbing factor to some of us, despite the fact that some of us were in doubt about it. I always assume since reading  Gloria Emeagwali's book about three years ago that she was a biological sister to Philip Emeagwali. I can't believe that Philip Emeagwali has made a fraudulent claim on her being. My apologies to those I disputed and reguested evidence regarding the deceptive nature of Philip Emeagwali. I now believe that Philip Emeagwali needs to seek help. Lot of Black folks will be traumatised by these exposures, be assured of that.
Wassa
 

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:04:12 -0700
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[Pablo Idahosa]

I feel little gratification in once having been gatekeeper against this man,� but chagrined at the time in not doing enough. �� A number of years ago when I directed African Studies, I had� leaders from a "Black"� student association come to me with a letter from this man's organization,� requesting that he come to my University to speak� about the "Father of the Internet". I had also received an e-mail from him outlining his schedule of fees for his inspirational talks. I flatly refused the students' request/claim, authoritarian academic that I� am,� insisting that this statement couldn't' possibility be true, and� I trashed and junked� his e-mail, knowing, or believing,� his claims to be so outrageously silly as to not eve warrant� a nasty, chastening reply. If I had a dollar for very charlatan that comes across my desk, or through my e-mail,� requesting to talk,� or requests from gullible students, wanting to find black heroes behind the invention, evolution and making of the world through the vaunted or absurd claims claims of some� would-be,� or sometimes even actual academic or innovator money-maker, I too would be wealthy.

�My regret, however,� lies in not following it up (how many of us have this time-- maybe I should drop one my other hobbies for this?); in doing the research on his website, and, as people are doing now, posting his false claims on the internet. Having seen this video, I cringe at� the embarrassing Pan-"Afrikan" infantile, therapeutic� achievism that afflicts so many black people world over-- the need to find heroes that result in a cathartic sycophancy of anything achieved by black folks. I can understand this racial psychotherapy amongst some young people; however,� that� mature adults could have been taken in by this fraudster is beyond me.� I'm also sorry and appalled for my Sister Gloria's name being dragged into this. She has shown enormous dignity the face of all of this, when others might have hired a lawyer.

Incredible, but let this be a lesson to all of us.


PLEI

�On 29/09/10 6:23 AM, Wassa Fatti wrote:

The Philip Emeagwali story or saga is becoming a disturbing factor to some of us, despite the fact that some of us were in doubt about it. I�always assume since reading� Gloria Emeagwali's book about three years ago that she�was a biological sister to Philip Emeagwali. I can't believe that Philip Emeagwali has made a fraudulent claim on her being. My apologies to those I disputed and reguested evidence�regarding the deceptive nature�of�Philip Emeagwali. I now believe that Philip Emeagwali needs�to seek help. Lot of Black folks will be traumatised by these exposures, be assured of that.
Wassa
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To: usaafric...@googlegroups.com

The most disturbing thing to me is that Philip Emeagwali had the audacity to place my photo

�next to his- by cut �n paste �wizardry- �to make the fraudulent claim that I was his wife. �I stumbled on �a newspaper that

innocently bought into the lie and was able to get an apology from the editors.

�

�

For the last few years I have had �a disclaimer on my website at:

www.africahistory.net

�

What a jerk! What a fraudster! He should be stopped.

�

Professor Gloria T. Emeagwali

Prof of History and African Studies

�

Prof,

�

Interesting. For a long time I thought you were his spouse. And then I started spying your disclaimer and my heart went out to both of you, I thought you had suffered a painful, perhaps bitter divorce. Little did I know that the scammer had cut and pasted you into an imaginary marriage. The man is a loser. What breaks my heart is the feverish defense of his fraud by people who are supposedly learned. They are basically saying, so what if he lied about his achievements, his degrees, his marriage, and has delusions about being Father of the Internet, must man not wack? And they wonder why things are the way they are with us.

�

In the video below, please watch "Professor" "Dr" Emeagwali making fools of his supporters in his own words. Hear him bask in the adulation of winning the Nobel Prize of computing, of having two masters and a PhD, of being the father of the Internet, etc, etc. Listen to him and you will be filled with compassion - the man actually has delusions of grandeur.

�

Enjoy.... I am done with this fool. And his posse of foolish supporters:

�

�� http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMFy9sBLFQQ&feature=related�

�

- Ikhide

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[Olabode Ibironke]

Moses,

 

Long ago, I bought a drug after seeing what I thought then was a convincing interview of a medical practitioner on 1000 secrets that medical doctors do not want you to know. I got sick from using the drug and shared my story with a friend at Wisconsin, Madison, who told me he also bought the same drug I was describing and went on to explain that those guys, although they perpetrate their crimes in broad day light on TV, are actually charlatans!!! We cannot stop commenting on the tabloids each time we are at a store, and the blatant lies they peddle about the high-ups. Emeagwali belongs to a broader culture of self promotion and aggrandizement...; (remember Hillary Clinton’s story about coming under fire during her trip to  the Czech Republic, or something?) My question is why this society has allowed that culture to thrive as if it is a normal part of society? The usual explanation is that law enforcement have better things to do than go after these folks but I increasingly begin to think that there is a genius in allowing these incredulous claims a space…. What do you think?

 

Bode

[Ayo Obe]

Honestly, the scientiests and IT and computer specialists will know whether there is any substance in Philip Emeagwali's claims about his fatherhood of or unclehood or second cousin twice removed-hood to the Internet.  Perhaps there is some 'wriggle room' there - though since it seems possible to trace the only sources that appear to acknowledge the great man's greatness back to the great man himself it is probably 'wriggle' only in the sense of the fish on the hook.

But when a man claims a wife that he never married as his!  I mean, come ON!  That is doing it a bit too brown!

Ayo

[Gben Silver]

 

Ayo,

Your conclusion is apt “doing it a bit too brown”. You have succeeded in nailing Phillip in his “wriggle room”. It was timely that Prof. Emeagwali (the real one) came out with this fact. It is appalling that a man can stoop so low.

 

Dasylva

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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Phillip Emeagwali's Fraudulent Activities Have Tainted the LSAT

[Moses Ebe Ochonu]

Ahhh, Bode, those late night, early morning alternative medicine informercials! When I wake up early or retire late, I sometimes watch a few minutes of those for entertainment. The "interview" is part of the show, the act. The interviewer is part of the fraud. They even make the background look like Larry King's CNN studio! It is all designed to look like an actual interview with a genuine medical expert. In fact there is a notorious character that is the king of those frauds--one Kevin Traddeu (sp), who has been convicted several times in several states, has paid fines and served short jail terms. But he's still at it. When the Feds shut down one operation, he moves into another remedy or therapy. And they say it's all legal until a crime is actually committed. The explanation that I've gotten is that it's all legal until there is a complaint by an injured patron or by a group of them explicitly alleging fraud--that is, deception for monetary gain or a failure to deliver on the agreed-upon terms of the transaction. Unfortunately, for folks like you, there may be no recourse since these fraudsters are so smart as to cover themselves in endless disclaimers cleverly disguised in their packaging and on the bottom of the screen. They essentially say that you willfully assume a risk by trying out their "experimental" therapy, etc. They use lawyers to submerge their operations in legalese and legal ambiguities. That's why it's so hard to convict them or secure long, harsh sentences when they're prosecuted. That's the part that really gets me. The sentences for white collar crimes (even those involving millions of dollars and life savings) are so absurdly light in America that they are in my opinion incentives for fraud. What stops our "medical" informercial king from simply setting aside a few millions from his fraudulent haul for legal defense and for the payment of the paltry fines that conviction normally attracts? He can budget for those pesky troubles and still continue to operate, which is what he has done over the years.

The proliferation of academic fraud is for me even more troubling. A few months ago, I read a Chronicle of Higher Ed article on a woman who got a job at a major university by claiming falsely to possess a first degree. She was actually a high school dropout or graduate. She rose through the ranks and became dean of admissions! Her employers said she slipped through the cracks of their scrutiny but the truth is that no one bothered over the years to check the claims on her resume, and on the many occasions when the came up for promotion and had to undergo reviews, no one revisited her claims. I think her fraud only came to light because, emboldened by getting away with it for more than two decades, she applied for a much higher profile position (can't remember the details). I am sure there are several such folks in the academic world; maybe not in mainstream academe but in administration. By all accounts, she did her job very well and was well loved by everyone who worked with her. Owning up to the fraud, she said she just learned on the job and became good at it. Resumes are routinely embellished, padded and sometimes falsified outright. That's why it is no longer sufficient to simply state truthfully and blandly what your qualifications and previous experiences are in a CV or resume. We now have resume coaches and counsellors--even professional resume writers who will rewrite your resume for s fee to make it more appealing to employers. What they do mostly is to raise your profile by exaggerating and adding luster to your achievements and experience. It is now a part of the fabric of our capitalist culture. Emeagwali's fraud has to be understood partly in that context; those cultural, institutional, and societal enablers created a perfect environment for his deception to thrive, although I do think that in terms of moral responsibility for his actions, he alone should bear it.

So, yes, I do believe that there is a broader culture of self-promotion, deception, profit-motivated lies, impersonation, and self-misrepresentation into which Emeagwali's scam can be analytically inserted. I want to read it as one expression of capitalist excess, the abusive dark side of the fanatical promotion of enterprise and entrepreneurship. I do believe that increasingly the line between legitimate/ethical enterprise and its darker, seamier cousin is blurring, aided, in my opinion, by the marauding global march of capitalist triumphalism. That said, I do also believe that there is something historical and transcultural about the cultural tolerance for what some would describe as "harmless, enterprising fraud." In America, the cultural idiom of the "snake oil salesman" is a key site for investigating this cultural provenance of exaggeration and over-promotion. Note that the snake oil salesman, though a universal American figure of fraud and misrepresentation for personal gain, is an integral part of American capitalist lore, implicitly structuring many discourses on American ingenuity, self-help, enterprise, and can-doness. In Nigeria, the notion of two moralities--one for the home and one for the sphere outside the home (Peter Ekeh's and others)---comes to mind. This ambivalence is a very instructive one. Many human communities, especially capitalist ones sometimes do not seem to know when to draw a line between outright fraud and fraudulent enterprise because they fear that attacks on home-grown fraudulent enterprise might be construed as an attack on the spirit of enterprise and self-help that defines their self-image. Therefore, often, they let the law do the job for them. Unfortunately, the law cannot anticipate all forms of criminal ingenuity and is often not malleable enough to stop people like Emeagwali and Tradeu unless its letter or spirit is explicitly violated.

[Sulaiman Adebowale]

A comment by a Louis Alozie on the Business Day piece left me in stitches for a while:
 
"Philip Emeagwali has not responded to all these claims that he's a fraud because he is under a high level classified status.His major accomplishments have been for the United States Government which translates to his silence.Those classifying him as fraud cannot get anything from him,"
 
http://www.businessdayonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13751:philip-emeagwali-and-the-nigeria--50-honour-roll-&catid=96:columnists&Itemid=350
 
But what is equally most worrisome, along with what Prof Ochonu has elaborated well on why we need to be straightforward even if it hurts, is the slant by some that how come Nigerians are the ones exposing and highlighting this case when he remains highly regarded in America. By inference, they argue that if American media has not dug this up, he must be genuine, and the Clintons of this world cannot be fooled so easily. I find that stance quite disturbing because it pervades thinking in Africa on what consitutes a legitimate discourse, particularly in scholarly enquiry: It has to come from Europe or America, the West, then it can be taken seriously. If a rookie journalist from the New York Times et al writes something about this, it must be true etc... bla bla. The element of self denegration in such thinking is really pathetic.
 
I hope Emeagwali respond quickly by being more honest about his accomplishments. This could be herculean of course because he has built his career and reputation, an entire life, on some of these 'achievements'. He sure needs a fresh start and he can get one by setting himself free for once. It is rather tragic in a way, but he can redeem himself from today.
 
Sulaiman Adebowale



 

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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:01:41 +0100
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Phillip Emeagwali's Fraudulent Activities Have Tainted the LSAT
From: ayo.m...@gmail.com
To: usaafric...@googlegroups.com

[eiwe...@hunter.cuny.edu]

Charlatanism, self-promotion, and self-aggrandizement are common elements in all human societies. They not right but they exist. To ask why "this society has allowed this culture to thrive" is to assume that this society is somehow different, and may be superior to other societies. Philip Emeagwali is only operating in a culture in which such frauds exist and pre-date him.

Personal choices of how to conduct oneself is just that - Personal. We Africans and especially Nigerians must stop this implicit and sometimes explicit habit of blaming Nigeria as a society for the flaws and foibles of individual Nigerians.

There are no flaws which we routinely ascribe to Nigeria that are not found in any other society. The scale may be different due to conditions of scarcity and underdevelopment, but corruption, crime, fraud and even manipulative ethnicity and sectionalism are not qualitatively different because of the scale in developing countries.

Individuals should be held responsible for their actions.

Ehiedu Iweriebor

[Chidi Anthony Opara]

Honestly, when the Emeagwali expose blew, I viewed it as one of those
Euro-American right wing inspired conspiracies to shoot down a black
hero, especially when the target have been hinting at the superiority
of African and Arab civilizations with historical facts.

This mindset came about mostly as a result of the Bill Clinton and Al
Gore endorsements and the endorsements of some supposedly credible
governmental and non governmental organizations. I had also read where
the man openly claimed to be some kind of consultant to the Pentagon
without any known rebuttal from the organization. There were also
insinuations that his inventions are of security nature and so are
classified. Naturally one felt that his accusers here could not have
had better information than those who have endorsed him.

Moreover, the evidences came piecemeal and the attitudes of the
initial accusers with the exception of Toyin Adepoju were largely
personal.

I am however reviewing his standing in my estimation considering new
evidences and the personality of the new accusers. In any case, I
still look forward to the conclusion of Toyin Adepoju's
investigations.

Chidi Anthony Opara

http://www.chidiopararesume.blogspot.com

On Sep 29, 3:01 pm, Ayo Obe <ayo.m.o....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Honestly, the scientiests and IT and computer specialists will know whether
> there is any substance in Philip Emeagwali's claims about his fatherhood of
> or unclehood or second cousin twice removed-hood to the Internet.  Perhaps
> there is some 'wriggle room' there - though since it seems possible to trace
> the only sources that appear to acknowledge the great man's greatness back
> to the great man himself it is probably 'wriggle' only in the sense of the
> fish on the hook.
>
> But when a man claims a wife that he never married as his!  I mean, come
> ON!  That is doing it a bit too brown!
>
> Ayo
>
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <
>

> emeagw...@mail.ccsu.edu> wrote:
> >  The most disturbing thing to me is that Philip Emeagwali had the audacity
> > to place my photo
>
> >  next to his- by cut ‘n paste  wizardry-  to make the fraudulent claim that
> > I was his wife.  I stumbled on  a newspaper that
>
> > innocently bought into the lie and was able to get an apology from the
> > editors.
>
> > For the last few years I have had  a disclaimer on my website at:
>
> >www.africahistory.net
>
> > What a jerk! What a fraudster! He should be stopped.
>
> > Professor Gloria T. Emeagwali
>
> > Prof of History and African Studies
>

> > *From:* usaafric...@googlegroups.com [mailto:
> > usaafric...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Ikhide
> > *Sent:* Thursday, September 23, 2010 4:18 PM
> > *To:* usaafric...@googlegroups.com
> > *Cc:* LSA...@LSAC.org; toyin.adep...@googlemail.com; meoch...@gmail.com
> > *Subject:* USA Africa Dialogue Series - Phillip Emeagwali's Fraudulent

> > Activities Have Tainted the LSAT
>
> > Toyin,
>
> > The Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) administers the Law Schools
> > Admissions Test (LSAT). Their contact information is at:
>
> >http://www.lsac.org/AboutLSAC/contact-lsac.asp.
>
> > I strongly suggest that we all write to the LSAC to complain about this
> > travesty and explain patiently to them the monumental fraudster that Mr.
> > Philip Emeagwali is. The man is obviously suffering from delusions of
> > grandeur, which is unfortunate. However to the extent that he is hurting our
> > reputations, the man must be stopped. Toyin, I would be happy to sign on to
> > any correspondence that you craft to go to the LSAC and any other reputable
> > organization that has been snookered by this buffoon. There is hope; already
> > several institutions are pulling his nonsense down from their websites. We
> > must not relent until this man repents. I have copied the LSAC on this
> > email. They should know that their last LSAT examination was tainted by the
> > devious antics of that fraudster called Mr. Philip Emeagwali. If the LSAC
> > does not investigate this fraud, I am prepared to go to the American press
> > on this. The man is endangering the test scores of tens of thousands of
> > youngsters. This is an outrage.
>

> >http://emeagwali.com/education/law-schools/Emeagwali_LSAT_Law-School-...

>
> > How can the LSAC be so snookered/ All they needed to do was google the
> > fool.
>
> > - Ikhide
>

> >  ------------------------------
>
> > *From:* toyin adepoju <toyin.adep...@googlemail.com>
> > *To:* Ikhide <xoki...@yahoo.com>; naijapolit...@yahoogroups.com; Nidoa <
> > ni...@yahoogroups.com>; nai <naijain...@googlegroups.com>;
> > naijaobser...@yahoogroups.com; naijaelections <
> > naijaelecti...@yahoogroups.com>; naija_it_profession...@yahoogroups.com;
> > nigerianworldforum <NIgerianWorldFo...@yahoogroups.com>
> > *Cc:* meoch...@gmail.com; usaafricadialogue <
> > USAAfric...@googlegroups.com>
> > *Sent:* Thu, September 23, 2010 2:17:19 PM
> > *Subject:* Re: Fw: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: [NaijaPolitics] Re:

> > [NIgerianWorldForum] - Fw: Phillip Emeagwali
>
> > Ikhide,
>
> > I see this LSAT test paper  that references Emeagwali's achievements is
> > from Emeagwali's website.
>
> > Does anyone know what country this exam was set in?
>
> > I want to ask the compilers of the question on Emeagwali the sources of
> > their information.
>
> > I want to find out why I cannot find information on Emeagwali on academic
> > fora.I want to know why I cannot find evidence of his work being discussed
> > by scientists.
>
> > Thanks
>
> > Toyin
>

> > On 21 September 2010 16:26, Ikhide <xoki...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Moses,
>
> > To give you an example of how bad the Emeagwali virus is, a passage about
> > him just made it into the LSAT ;-) At least here they didn't call him the
> > Father of the Internet. The man is a genius sha, I give it to him.
>
> > Enjoy ;-)
>

> >http://emeagwali.com/education/law-schools/Emeagwali_LSAT_Law-School-...

[franklyne ogbunwezeh]

Did Philip Emeagwali claim someone as his wife? Where is the evidence. Has the man talked? If he has, I need to know what he said. I never heard this man claim to be the father of the internet. It has always been ascribed to him. All I head him say is that he did a calculation in 1989 that was up to that time not the case. I need information on the claims he made. Can someone direct me accordingly. Franklyne Ogbunwezeh * ************** *************** ****************** *************** *********** What constitutes a disservice to our faculty of judgment, however, is to place obstacles in the way of assembling truth's fragments, remaining content with a mere one- or two-dimensional projection where a multidimensional and multifaceted apprehension remains open, accessible and instructive. Wole Soyinka, Between Truth and Indulgences --- On Wed, 9/29/10, Gben Silver <gbens...@yahoo.com> wrote:

[Moses Ebe Ochonu]

Bolaji Aluko (a Professor of Engineering who is well acquainted with the esoteric particulars of the subject matter of Emeagwali's fraud) talked about some of our people wanting to be conned. That is a compelling way to put it. Indeed many of our people invite the fraud. They make themselves available emotionally and psychologically to be conned, presenting themselves as willing, blissful victims of the Emeagwalis of this world. When you condition yourself not to question anything about your kind or to celebrate the claims of people in your racial community without scrutiny or elemental mental filters, you set yourself up to be conned by fraudulent racial kins who prey on their people's desperate need for heroes and achievers, an obsession with racial heroism that takes root because those who instrumentalize it have unconsciously internalized the racist lie that blacks have no scientific achievements/achievers to point to and want to naively counter it with evidence to the contrary. Hence the  sheepish credulity with which they approach folks like Emeagwali.

Pablo captures the malaise quite eloquently with these words: "the embarrassing Pan-"Afrikan" infantile, therapeutic  achievism that afflicts so many black people world over-- the need to find heroes that result in a cathartic sycophancy of anything achieved by black folks."

Racial therapy is a dangerous enterprise because it emotionalizes what should belong to the realm of reasoned skepticism and intense interrogation. Claims are usually tested, but not when they're mediated by the tyrannical culture of unquestioning racial solidarity. Because it emanates from a cathartic impulse, this culture rarely brooks actual, subtle accomplishments, which are usually not of the self-promoting, self-aggrandizing type. Consequently, our real scientific heroes and achievers are ignored while the fakes take center stage.

Very sad! It's the reason why we're discussing Emeagwali today instead of Professor Dabiri, who just won a McArthur Genius Award.

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Pablo Idahosa <pida...@yorku.ca> wrote:

I feel little gratification in once having been gatekeeper against this man,  but chagrined at the time in not doing enough.    A number of years ago when I directed African Studies, I had  leaders from a "Black"  student association come to me with a letter from this man's organization,  requesting that he come to my University to speak  about the "Father of the Internet". I had also received an e-mail from him outlining his schedule of fees for his inspirational talks. I flatly refused the students' request/claim, authoritarian academic that I  am,  insisting that this statement couldn't' possibility be true, and  I trashed and junked  his e-mail, knowing, or believing,  his claims to be so outrageously silly as to not eve warrant  a nasty, chastening reply. If I had a dollar for very charlatan that comes across my desk, or through my e-mail,  requesting to talk,  or requests from gullible students, wanting to find black heroes behind the invention, evolution and making of the world through the vaunted or absurd claims claims of some  would-be,  or sometimes even actual academic or innovator money-maker, I too would be wealthy.

 My regret, however,  lies in not following it up (how many of us have this time-- maybe I should drop one my other hobbies for this?); in doing the research on his website, and, as people are doing now, posting his false claims on the internet. Having seen this video, I cringe at  the embarrassing Pan-"Afrikan" infantile, therapeutic  achievism that afflicts so many black people world over-- the need to find heroes that result in a cathartic sycophancy of anything achieved by black folks. I can understand this racial psychotherapy amongst some young people; however,  that  mature adults could have been taken in by this fraudster is beyond me.  I'm also sorry and appalled for my Sister Gloria's name being dragged into this. She has shown enormous dignity the face of all of this, when others might have hired a lawyer.

Incredible, but let this be a lesson to all of us.


PLEI

 On 29/09/10 6:23 AM, Wassa Fatti wrote:

The Philip Emeagwali story or saga is becoming a disturbing factor to some of us, despite the fact that some of us were in doubt about it. I always assume since reading  Gloria Emeagwali's book about three years ago that she was a biological sister to Philip Emeagwali. I can't believe that Philip Emeagwali has made a fraudulent claim on her being. My apologies to those I disputed and reguested evidence regarding the deceptive nature of Philip Emeagwali. I now believe that Philip Emeagwali needs to seek help. Lot of Black folks will be traumatised by these exposures, be assured of that.
Wassa
 

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:04:12 -0700
From: xok...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Phillip Emeagwali's Fraudulent Activities Have Tainted the LSAT
To: usaafric...@googlegroups.com

The most disturbing thing to me is that Philip Emeagwali had the audacity to place my photo

 next to his- by cut ‘n paste  wizardry-  to make the fraudulent claim that I was his wife.  I stumbled on  a newspaper that

innocently bought into the lie and was able to get an apology from the editors.

 

 

For the last few years I have had  a disclaimer on my website at:

www.africahistory.net

 

What a jerk! What a fraudster! He should be stopped.

 

Professor Gloria T. Emeagwali

Prof of History and African Studies

 

Prof,

 

Interesting. For a long time I thought you were his spouse. And then I started spying your disclaimer and my heart went out to both of you, I thought you had suffered a painful, perhaps bitter divorce. Little did I know that the scammer had cut and pasted you into an imaginary marriage. The man is a loser. What breaks my heart is the feverish defense of his fraud by people who are supposedly learned. They are basically saying, so what if he lied about his achievements, his degrees, his marriage, and has delusions about being Father of the Internet, must man not wack? And they wonder why things are the way they are with us.

 

In the video below, please watch "Professor" "Dr" Emeagwali making fools of his supporters in his own words. Hear him bask in the adulation of winning the Nobel Prize of computing, of having two masters and a PhD, of being the father of the Internet, etc, etc. Listen to him and you will be filled with compassion - the man actually has delusions of grandeur.

 

Enjoy.... I am done with this fool. And his posse of foolish supporters:

 

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMFy9sBLFQQ&feature=related 

 

- Ikhide

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[Olabode Ibironke]

But isn’t one right to expect, or even, presume that societies that claim to
be exceptionally founded on the rule of law will indeed protect its public
from charlatans? Shouldn’t one be surprised to discover the naïveté of such
presumption? Shouldn’t one then seek to know what the existence of this
phenomenon mean both for the claims to exceptionalism and for our own
perceived tension between the phenomenon of fraud and the rule of law?

Bode

-----Original Message-----
From: usaafric...@googlegroups.com
[mailto:usaafric...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
eiwe...@hunter.cuny.edu
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 12:03 PM
To: usaafric...@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Phillip Emeagwali's Fraudulent
Activities Have Tainted the LSAT

Ehiedu Iweriebor

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[Olabode Ibironke]

 

If I might add, isn’t all the stories we grew up with about the tortoise both a simultaneous denunciation and celebration of fraud? In fact, the celebratory aspect of some of these stories far outweigh the so-called disapproval. In essence, you are right that “[societies] sometimes do not seem to know when to draw a line between outright fraud and fraudulent enterprise.” It may very well be that they have discovered that there is no line to be drawn between genius and fraud, and that itself is genius!!!

[Okey Ukaga]

“Did Philip Emeagwali claim someone as his wife? Where is the evidence.”

-         Franklyne Ogbunwezeh

 

Franklyne:

Did you actually read Gloria Emeagwali’s email below, which says in-part the following?

“…Philip Emeagwali had the audacity to place my photo next to his- by cut ‘n paste wizardry-  to make the fraudulent claim that I was his wife.”

While reasonable people can argue about some aspects of Phlip Emagwali’s (bogus) claims, “water don pass garri” in this case. I beg, make you no defend the indefensible –oh.  

 

Regards,

Okey Ukaga

 

---

,  I stumbled on  a newspaper that

[Mobolaji ALUKO]

 

Franklyne Ogbunwezeh:

 

You are one of the greatest deniers, and quickest accusers of Igbo ethnic bias, bigotry and hatred when the issue of Emeagwali is brought up.

 

Now you ask for evidence about wrong wife claim, when the victim herself wrote here to your own reading:

 

QUOTE

 

The most disturbing thing to me is that Philip Emeagwali had the audacity to place my photo
 next to his- by cut ‘n paste  wizardry-  to make the fraudulent claim that I was his wife.  I stumbled on  a newspaper that
innocently bought into the lie and was able to get an apology from the editors.
 
 
For the last few years I have had  a disclaimer on my website at:
www.africahistory.net
 
What a jerk! What a fraudster! He should be stopped.
 
Professor Gloria T. Emeagwali
Prof of History and African Studies

 

UNQUOTE

 

 

And when from interview to TV interview, he is proclaimed "Father of the Internet", and he puts the poll - with him winning it - on his website, you still ask for evidence?

 

There you have you....

 

 

Bolaji Aluko

Shaking his head

[Emmanuel Franklyne Ogbunwezeh]

Okey Ukaga, 

Since when did a question metamorphose into a defense?

If Emeagwali is a fraud, He must be exposed as such. All I asked is to be directed accordingly with evidence. How is that a Defense? 

Franklyne Emmanuel Ogbunwezeh, PhD.

[Anunoby, Ogugua]

Definitive and verifiable evidence that Phillip Emeagwali falsely claimed a woman as his wife when in fact the woman is not his wife, cannot be a disclaimer by the woman claimed as wife.

This is not to say that Phillip did not make a false claim.

The point being made here is that Franklyne Ogbunwezeh is well within his rights to  request evidence of the false claim that informed or necessitated the disclaimer.

 

oa

 

From: usaafric...@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafric...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Okey Ukaga

Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 12:48 PM
To: usaafric...@googlegroups.com

[Okey Ukaga]

Ogugua and Franklyne:

 

I see your points. Over to Gloria Emeagwali. Take care.

OU

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From: usaafric...@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafric...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anunoby, Ogugua
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 4:17 PM
To: usaafric...@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Phillip Emeagwali's Fraudulent Activities Have Tainted the LSAT

 

Definitive and verifiable evidence that Phillip Emeagwali falsely claimed a woman as his wife when in fact the woman is not his wife, cannot be a disclaimer by the woman claimed as wife.

This is not to say that Phillip did not make a false claim.

The point being made here is that Franklyne Ogbunwezeh is well within his rights to  request evidence of the false claim that informed or necessitated the disclaimer.

 

oa

 

 

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[Wassa Fatti]

Mr. Franklyne,
There is a philosophical saying in Africa that asserts that the cheapest thing to sell is lies. If Philip Emeagwali claimed to be the father of the internet, who are we to deny? He however need to understand that the hardest thing to also keep or hide is the truth. So those who knew Philip Emeagwali will surely state the truth about whether he gave humanity the internet or not. It is just naturally part of human reality and nothing more. His case is a sad one. I have communicated with individuals who knew Philip Emeagwali as far back in Nigeria and in the USA. They spoke highly of him and they stated that he is a smart and very intelligent individual who does not need to make such a claim of being the father of the internet falsely. They said he could have used his masters degree to do a lot and be a pride of Africa rather claiming for something he is not or has not achieved. In the black world, many believed that he is the father of the internet and in the UK and many parts of Europe, diasporan black kids are taught about Philip Emeagwali. I returned from Oslo only few weeks ago and even there I have seen African children with photoes of Philip Emeagwali in their school bags. If he can have audacity to protray professor Gloria Emeagwali as his wife on a Newspaper, well, he is capable of creating a false image about himself that could be damaging to all of us as African educators. So understand that Gloria Emeagwali was the victim who stated that Philip Emeagwali protrayed her as a wife by manufacturing the image through technological wizardry. That is a clear evidence to show that there is some thing smelly with Pihilip's self promotions.
Wassa
 

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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:33:58 -0400

Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Phillip Emeagwali's Fraudulent Activities Have Tainted the LSAT

From: alu...@gmail.com
To: usaafric...@googlegroups.com

[Emeagwali, Gloria (History)]

      To  Ogugua and Franklyne et. al.

 

      For more information on this matter contact my lawyers

      Mellon Hickey& Capuano LLC at 203 757 9821

 

     Thank you for your concern.

 

     Professor  Gloria Emeagwali

[Anunoby, Ogugua]

Thank you Gloria.

 

I state again that there is no suggestion that you claim is not true.

 

The fact remains however that you made the claim about false portrayal on this forum.

The burden of proof lies with you and not your audience. You should present any evidence that you have in support of your claim on this forum.

Thank you again.

 

oa

[kenneth harrow]

this is pretty silly. how do you prove that you have not been someone's wife? produce the certificate of non-marriage? wouldn't he be the one to show the certificate? her denial in court, absent his proof, would strike me as a valid claim
ken

Kenneth W. Harrow
Distinguished Professor of English
Michigan State University
har...@msu.edu
517 803-8839
fax 517 353 3755

[xok...@yahoo.com]

Their disgraceful conduct is beneath contempt of course. The good news is that these are not scholars in the real sense of the word. They are happy graduates of the same school of quackery that Philip Emeagwali graduated from. They are from the same savage tribe of 419 practitioners. The savagery is embarrassing to them only and it diminishes them only. These barbarians are not used to being held accountable; women and children are free slaves to cater to their silliness simply because they are in possession of an alleged phallus. Some people do not qualify for a response; that is why many of us ignore them. They are largely the product of a broken system, not-too-bright Nigerian male children born into a war they did not ask for. It is obvious; I leave them alone out of compassion. They are the same fools who ask the raped to show proof that they have been raped. I would ask, where is the outrage? But then, that would be assigning them space in the coven of our shared humanity. No way. To hell with them. Let them go buy aso-ebi with Philip Emeagwali's lying, thieving, fraudulent 419 face on it. And let them wear it with pride. They and Philip Emeagwali are a disgrace to their race. Every one of them. We are not part of their race. Amen.

- Ikhide

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From: kenneth harrow <har...@msu.edu>

Sender: usaafric...@googlegroups.com

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:35:45 -0400

To: <usaafric...@googlegroups.com>

ReplyTo: usaafric...@googlegroups.com

[franklyne ogbunwezeh]

Dear Prof. Gloria, The principle remains that whoever asserts must prove. No one is refuting your assertions until you are not able to substantiate it. If Philip Emeagwali is a fraud, he must be exposed for what he is. But I am a fan of evidence based assertions. If someone is bold enough to commit that serious fraud of claiming you as his wife, when he is not married to you, I would like to see where he did that because the seriousness of the whole thing makes a simple assertion notoriously inadequate as proof for that infraction. If someone claims I am her husband when he neither married me nor knew me from Adam, I am going to be suing his ass off for all it is worth. You have some evidence that he did what you asserted. All I asked for was that you help your readers in assessing this man by availing us of the evidence you have. Asking me to contact your lawyers does not cut it because your lawyers were not the ones who made the assertion. Franklyne  Ogbuwnezeh

* ************** *************** ****************** *************** *********** What constitutes a disservice to our faculty of judgment, however, is to place obstacles in the way of assembling truth's fragments, remaining content with a mere one- or two-dimensional projection where a multidimensional and multifaceted apprehension remains open, accessible and instructive. Wole Soyinka, Between Truth and Indulgences

--- On Wed, 9/29/10, Anunoby, Ogugua <Anun...@lincolnu.edu> wrote:

[franklyne ogbunwezeh]

Ken Harrow, Are you reading right at all? Philip Emeagwali allegedly made this claim. And Gloria Emeagwali had this evidence. What is wrong in asking to see the same evidence of this claim she has in her custody? If Philip Emeagwali succeeded in conning us all, we would like to see evidence to that effect to help us revise the perceptions of him that we bought. I would like to see solid evidence to strip a man of his pretensions. Are we now indulging this primitive mindset of crucifying anyone who asks a question, like is Bolaji Aluko's stock in trade when he is peddling cant?

Franklyne Ogbunwezeh * ************** *************** ****************** *************** *********** What constitutes a disservice to our faculty of judgment, however, is to place obstacles in the way of assembling truth's fragments, remaining content with a mere one- or two-dimensional projection where a multidimensional and multifaceted apprehension remains open, accessible and instructive. Wole Soyinka, Between Truth and Indulgences

--- On Wed, 9/29/10, kenneth harrow <har...@msu.edu> wrote:

[Chidi Anthony Opara]

It is important that we eschew hysteria and approach this Emeagwali
saga holistically, that way we will solve the problems of fraud(419)
in all ramifications, cross border prostitution, drug trafficking,
etc, that have been ascribed to us, Nigerians, nay Africans. That way
we will move forward in the fight to clean the stable.

I view the Emeagwali saga the same way I view allegations that some
Nigerians in Diaspora falsified their particulars, including marriage
certificates to obtain residency permits in the countries where they
reside. These are allegations, they may be true or false. I have
always insisted that those who bring forward these allegations should
be the ones to prove them beyond all reasonable doubts. Even if proven
to be true, they are part of the frailties of human race.

I chose to believe Funmi and Gloria, because of my perception of their
personalities arising from their conducts here(I hope I would not
regret this), but that does not mean everybody must believe them,
after all, whatever opinion I have about their persons is my business.

The Philip Emeagwali expose is a statement about us as human beings,
not only about Nigerians or Africans, certainly not only about the
Fulanis, Edos, Nupes and/or any other ethnic nationality for that
matter. We can only correct this defect by approaching the matter with
an open mind. Being hysterical and trying to take advantage in any way
would only present us as incredible. That would certainly compound the
problem.

Chidi Anthony Opara

http://www.chidiopararesume.blogspot.com

[Wassa Fatti]

I do not see the reason why Gloria Emeagwali will fabricate such a serious allegation against Philip Emeagwali and risk tarnishing her own reputation. What is she going to gain/benefit from such allegations? My advice  to Gloria  Emeagwali is simple: do not provide evidence without consulting your lawyers first. The slightest mistake here could put your reputation in jeopardy. If you do not believe this; just google Philip Emeagwali. I have no doubt that you have the evidence and providing it/producing it is to your own benefit. Do not rush to produce it without consulting your legal reps. Remember that we are still arguing or debating this issue on the internet "fathered" or "invent" by Philip Emeagwali. Be careful.
 
Wassa
 

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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 01:13:02 -0700
From: ogbun...@yahoo.com

[Anunoby, Ogugua]

A careful read of my contribution below makes clear that I was not requiring Gloria Emeagwali to produce evidence that she was never Phillip Emeagwali’s wife. I requested evidence that Phillip Emegwali made the false claim that he (Phillip) was accused of.

One suspects that some forum participants are loose handed. It is always advisable to get the hang of what one wishes to comment on.

 

oa