Sex for mark scandal: update from the VC

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Toyin Falola

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Apr 11, 2018, 4:57:14 PM4/11/18
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OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY ILE-FE, NIGERIA.

PRESS RELEASE

Re: Audio Recording of an Academic Staff Sexually Harassing a Female Student

The attention of the authorities of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife has been drawn to an audio recording, now trending on the social media, of a telephone conversation ostensibly between one Professor Akindele and a female student of the University. The recording suggests that the lecturer was demanding sex in return for grade which clearly amounts to sexually harassing the lady.

Since the matter came to our notice, the University has begun the process of identifying the characters involves in this apparent breach of its regulations, the Code of Conduct for the University Community and the Anti-sexual Harassment policy, in full compliance with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and procedures of the University. To this end, the University has set up a high-powered committee to investigate the allegation and submit its report within one week. Anyone found culpable will be dealt with decisively.

I wish to assure the general public that Obafemi Awolowo University has zero tolerance for sexual harassment. The University considers sexual harassment as a serious offence contrary to its Code of Conduct for the University Community and against the Anti-sexual Harassment Policy of the University. It is totally and morally reprehensible, and the University will never condone such act by any staff or student.

Once again, I wish to reiterate that no one found culpable of this serious misconduct of sexual harassment will go unpunished.

Thank you.



Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede
Vice-Chancellor


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So the vice chancellor of a university, and one of Nigeria oldest universities at that, actually wrote this embarrassingly error-ridden news release? Na wa o! Couldn't he get someone to proofread it for him before sharing it with the public?

On a more substantive note, though, the VC doesn't seem to know the difference between sexual harassment and sexual assault. There's a HUGE difference, and I think he meant sexual assault where he mentioned sexual harassment. Engaging in sex with a student in exchange for grades isn't sexual harassment; it's unvarnished sexual assault.

Farooq

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Farooq Kperogi, PhD
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Journalism and Emerging Media
School of Communication & Media
Social Science Building Room 5092
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Kennesaw State University
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Office phone: 470-578-7735
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Ololade Bamidele

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Apr 12, 2018, 2:29:40 AM4/12/18
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It's actually sexual predation.

Moses Ebe Ochonu

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The problem, learned friends, is that there is little or no literacy on Nigerian campuses on sexual assault and harassment matters in Nigerian universities. They're just improvising, winging it, as the Americans would say. The VC's statement is the usual fluff. Did you notice that he couldn't even suspend the lecturer involved pending the conclusion of investigations? Did you also notice that he used the word "ostensibly"? That one even cracked me up a bit. And yes, Farooq, the man's grammar, particularly his punctuation, is off. And this word salad: "The University considers sexual harassment as a serious offence contrary to its Code of Conduct for the University Community and against the Anti-sexual Harassment Policy of the University." The statement reads like one of those ineffectively officious and perfunctory bluster routinely produced by Nigerian political leaders when confronted with an embarrassing problem they have no will or capacity to solve.

Meanwhile, I leave you with this post from Facebook. It's a rather depressing story culled from the wall of Offor Honest.


Sex for grade 

One lady who should've done NYSC two years earlier was in my set because a Professor in her department, swore to make her stay on until she agrees to give him a piece of her. Tired of her harassments, she too vowed to teach the man a lesson of a lifetime. 

She agreed to sleep with the lecturer but in his office. The horny bastard dived at the offer and when the girl asked to give the Prof a blow job, the man was so happy that he spread his legs wide apart in anticipation of a happy hour. The bitter girl dug his teeth into the man's dick and kept biting, the louder he screamed, the deeper her teeth probed into the man's penis. The man not only lost his job, but also probably lost the full use of his joystick. 

My friend was dating a beautiful girl in our class who would go on to be his wife. This bullish Professor who was good at everything else but his job, noticed the girl in our of his classes and decided to make her his professorial research interest. He did everything to woo the girl including threatening her. To make matters worse, the Prof was assigned to her as her project supervisor. He helped her but wanted something in return. The girl was defiant and the man was livid. 

My friend was marked out for victimization. The old man felt slighted that the pleasure he was being denied, was what my friend was enjoying. 

On the day of our project defense, my Friend delivered a salutary performance which earned him a wild ovation from student. We were yet to finish clapping when the Randy Professor who was also in charge of the project defense went into a fit of tirades. Everyone was shocked, his fellow lecturers watched with dismay as he berated the entire class for daring to celebrate what was a good presentation. 

The randy Professor failed my friend and it took the intervention of his supervisor who insisted that my friend had done a good research, to get him off the hook. Even at that, he got a paltry D for all his efforts. 

Our universities are littered with lecturers who trade grades for sex or money, sometimes even both. The result is certificate wielding graduates with little or nothing to show for their qualifications. We have graduates that are poorly trained and ill equipped to face the world. Some, graduate with the mindset that they can buy their way through life, and the sad thing is that they indeed do.

The likes of Professor Akindele do not belong in the classroom. They are a threat not only to our girls but also to the teaching profession and to education. They defile the ivory tower with the lecherous character and debase what should be a profession reserved only for nobles.





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Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

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Apr 12, 2018, 2:54:39 PM4/12/18
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The various social media responses indicate its  a terrible situation. Very, very sad.

So many of these stories are emerging. A related response from one Facebook poster is asking those who have memories of positive lecturers, in contrast to the bad ones,  to share them.

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Prof. Farooq, your differentiation between sexual harassment and sexual assault made it clear that the VC choice of word is correct and not otherwise as you seem to claim. The sexual act between the said Professor and the student has not been performed but only advanced. No engagement or sexual contact yet.

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Chidi Anthony Opara

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So, how did they become Professors?

CAO.

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The powers that be are extra sensitive about any references to His Majesty Kperogi's freedom with Her Majesty's mother tongue but do not want to extend any similar courtesy to Baba Kadiri.
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My post beneath would appear to have been refused for publication. Can you find anything wrong in it?





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Alhaji Farooq, the self-imposed father of English language, is here again to reduce a serious issue not only into a misuse of English vocabulary but by extension to impugn on the integrity of the Vice Chancellor of the OAU whom he ridiculed as writing 'this embarrassingly, error-ridden news release,' which according to him exposed the VC of not knowing the difference between sexual harassment and sexual assault.Correcting the choice of word used by the VC of OAU, the Mai-Gida of English language wrote, "Engaging in sex with a student in exchange for grades isn't sexual harassment. It's unvarnished sexual assault."Professor Braggadocio of English language is, for reasons best known to him, out to correct the OAU's VC choice of word where there is none to correct. Here follows excerpts from the published telephone conversations purported to be between the female student and the male Professor of the OAU in order to prove that the choice of word by the VC in describing what was alleged to have happened between the female student and the male professor is the most appropriate :-

Lecturer: Let's have the first one today and then we will do another one tomorrow. Is our agreement not five times?

Student: Is it B that you want to give me or C? Will it be five times you will knack me?

Lecturer: That's what I will do.

Student: Professor, you know what? Let me fail it. I can't do it five times. For what nah? No worry. Thank you, Sir.

Lecturer: You are welcome. 

Was the lecturer engaged in sex with the female student according to the published telephone conversations alleged to be between the female student and her lecturer? The answer is capital NO. Rather it is obvious that the female student refused to engage in sex with the professor for the purpose of transforming her exam failure to pass. Thus, the student was not sexually assaulted as Nigeria's father of English language, Professor Farooq Kperogi, would want the VC of OAU to write. Factually, the female student was sexually harassed by the lecturer but she rebuffed the sexual harasser.  


However, I cannot understand why it should take one week for a committee to find out if Professor Pastor Richard Akindele actually committed the act of sexual harassments he is being accused of. At most, it will take ten minutes to check the call loggs in the telephone of the female student to know if he dialled the telephone numbers of Professor Akindele and at what time and on which date. In this age of Nollywood Actors, it cannot be ruled out that the voice of Professor Akindele was imitated by an actor on a telephone that does belong to him. Professor Akindele too should be prepared to submit his telephone to the OAU authorities to determine if he ever engaged in telephone conversations with the female student and at what time and on which date. Even if he were to erase the female student's telephone number from his phone, it is technically easy for the telephone service provider to retrieve it. I doubt if a Professor would talk as portrayed in the manuscript of the alleged telephone conversation. But let's wait and see, a week will soon be tomorrow.

S. Kadiri 





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On Thu, 12 Apr 2018, 19:38 Salimonu Kadiri, <ogunl...@hotmail.com> wrote:

My post beneath would appear to have been refused for publication. Can you find anything wrong in it?





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Alhaji Farooq, the self-imposed father of English language, is here again to reduce a serious issue not only into a misuse of English vocabulary but by extension to impugn on the integrity of the Vice Chancellor of the OAU whom he ridiculed as writing 'this embarrassingly, error-ridden news release,' which according to him exposed the VC of not knowing the difference between sexual harassment and sexual assault. Correcting the choice of word used by the VC of OAU, the Mai-Gida of English language wrote, "Engaging in sex with a student in exchange for grades isn't sexual harassment. It's unvarnished sexual assault." Professor Braggadocio of English language is, for reasons best known to him, out to correct the OAU's VC choice of word where there is none to correct. Here follows excerpts from the published telephone conversations purported to be between the female student and the male Professor of the OAU in order to prove that the choice of word by the VC in describing what was alleged to have happened between the female student and the male professor is the most appropriate :-

Lecturer: Let's have the first one today and then we will do another one tomorrow. Is our agreement not five times?

Student: Is it B that you want to give me or C? Will it be five times you will knack me?

Lecturer: That's what I will do.

Student: Professor, you know what? Let me fail it. I can't do it five times. For what nah? No worry. Thank you, Sir.

Lecturer: You are welcome. 

Was the lecturer engaged in sex with the female student according to the published telephone conversations alleged to be between the female student and her lecturer? The answer is capital NO. Rather it is obvious that the female student refused to engage in sex with the professor for the purpose of transforming her exam failure to pass. Thus, the student was not sexually assaulted as Nigeria's father of English language, Professor Farooq Kperogi, would want the VC of OAU to write. Factually, the female student was sexually harassed by the lecturer but she rebuffed the sexual harasser.  


However, I cannot understand why it should take one week for a committee to find out if Professor Pastor Richard Akindele actually committed the act of sexual harassments he is being accused of. At most, it will take ten minutes to check the call loggs in the telephone of the female student to know if he dialled the telephone numbers of Professor Akindele and at what time and on which date. In this age of Nollywood Actors, it cannot be ruled out that the voice of Professor Akindele was imitated by an actor on a telephone that does belong to him. Professor Akindele too should be prepared to submit his telephone to the OAU authorities to determine if he ever engaged in telephone conversations with the female student and at what time and on which date. Even if he were to erase the female student's telephone number from his phone, it is technically easy for the telephone service provider to retrieve it. I doubt if a Professor would talk as portrayed in the manuscript of the alleged telephone conversation. But let's wait and see, a week will soon be tomorrow.

S. Kadiri 





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The powers that be are extra sensitive about any references to His Majesty Kperogi's freedom with Her Majesty's mother tongue but do not want to extend any similar courtesy to Baba Kadiri.
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On Thu, 12 Apr 2018, 19:38 Salimonu Kadiri, <ogunl...@hotmail.com> wrote:

My post beneath would appear to have been refused for publication. Can you find anything wrong in it?





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Alhaji Farooq, the self-imposed father of English language, is here again to reduce a serious issue not only into a misuse of English vocabulary but by extension to impugn on the integrity of the Vice Chancellor of the OAU whom he ridiculed as writing 'this embarrassingly, error-ridden news release,' which according to him exposed the VC of not knowing the difference between sexual harassment and sexual assault.Correcting the choice of word used by the VC of OAU, the Mai-Gida of English language wrote, "Engaging in sex with a student in exchange for grades isn't sexual harassment. It's unvarnished sexual assault."Professor Braggadocio of English language is, for reasons best known to him, out to correct the OAU's VC choice of word where there is none to correct. Here follows excerpts from the published telephone conversations purported to be between the female student and the male Professor of the OAU in order to prove that the choice of word by the VC in describing what was alleged to have happened between the female student and the male professor is the most appropriate :-

Lecturer: Let's have the first one today and then we will do another one tomorrow. Is our agreement not five times?

Student: Is it B that you want to give me or C? Will it be five times you will knack me?

Lecturer: That's what I will do.

Student: Professor, you know what? Let me fail it. I can't do it five times. For what nah? No worry. Thank you, Sir.

Lecturer: You are welcome. 

Was the lecturer engaged in sex with the female student according to the published telephone conversations alleged to be between the female student and her lecturer? The answer is capital NO. Rather it is obvious that the female student refused to engage in sex with the professor for the purpose of transforming her exam failure to pass. Thus, the student was not sexually assaulted as Nigeria's father of English language, Professor Farooq Kperogi, would want the VC of OAU to write. Factually, the female student was sexually harassed by the lecturer but she rebuffed the sexual harasser.  


However, I cannot understand why it should take one week for a committee to find out if Professor Pastor Richard Akindele actually committed the act of sexual harassments he is being accused of. At most, it will take ten minutes to check the call loggs in the telephone of the female student to know if he dialled the telephone numbers of Professor Akindele and at what time and on which date. In this age of Nollywood Actors, it cannot be ruled out that the voice of Professor Akindele was imitated by an actor on a telephone that does belong to him. Professor Akindele too should be prepared to submit his telephone to the OAU authorities to determine if he ever engaged in telephone conversations with the female student and at what time and on which date. Even if he were to erase the female student's telephone number from his phone, it is technically easy for the telephone service provider to retrieve it. I doubt if a Professor would talk as portrayed in the manuscript of the alleged telephone conversation. But let's wait and see, a week will soon be tomorrow.

S. Kadiri 





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On Thu, 12 Apr 2018, 19:38 Salimonu Kadiri, <ogunl...@hotmail.com> wrote:

My post beneath would appear to have been refused for publication. Can you find anything wrong in it?





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Alhaji Farooq, the self-imposed father of English language, is here again to reduce a serious issue not only into a misuse of English vocabulary but by extension to impugn on the integrity of the Vice Chancellor of the OAU whom he ridiculed as writing 'this embarrassingly, error-ridden news release,' which according to him exposed the VC of not knowing the difference between sexual harassment and sexual assault. Correcting the choice of word used by the VC of OAU, the Mai-Gida of English language wrote, "Engaging in sex with a student in exchange for grades isn't sexual harassment. It's unvarnished sexual assault." Professor Braggadocio of English language is, for reasons best known to him, out to correct the OAU's VC choice of word where there is none to correct. Here follows excerpts from the published telephone conversations purported to be between the female student and the male Professor of the OAU in order to prove that the choice of word by the VC in describing what was alleged to have happened between the female student and the male professor is the most appropriate :-

Lecturer: Let's have the first one today and then we will do another one tomorrow. Is our agreement not five times?

Student: Is it B that you want to give me or C? Will it be five times you will knack me?

Lecturer: That's what I will do.

Student: Professor, you know what? Let me fail it. I can't do it five times. For what nah? No worry. Thank you, Sir.

Lecturer: You are welcome. 

Was the lecturer engaged in sex with the female student according to the published telephone conversations alleged to be between the female student and her lecturer? The answer is capital NO. Rather it is obvious that the female student refused to engage in sex with the professor for the purpose of transforming her exam failure to pass. Thus, the student was not sexually assaulted as Nigeria's father of English language, Professor Farooq Kperogi, would want the VC of OAU to write. Factually, the female student was sexually harassed by the lecturer but she rebuffed the sexual harasser.  


However, I cannot understand why it should take one week for a committee to find out if Professor Pastor Richard Akindele actually committed the act of sexual harassments he is being accused of. At most, it will take ten minutes to check the call loggs in the telephone of the female student to know if he dialled the telephone numbers of Professor Akindele and at what time and on which date. In this age of Nollywood Actors, it cannot be ruled out that the voice of Professor Akindele was imitated by an actor on a telephone that does belong to him. Professor Akindele too should be prepared to submit his telephone to the OAU authorities to determine if he ever engaged in telephone conversations with the female student and at what time and on which date. Even if he were to erase the female student's telephone number from his phone, it is technically easy for the telephone service provider to retrieve it. I doubt if a Professor would talk as portrayed in the manuscript of the alleged telephone conversation. But let's wait and see, a week will soon be tomorrow.

S. Kadiri 





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Thank you Cornelius for your response. You have not seen any outrageous in what I wrote but blaming censorship on the fact that Malam Farooq is an idol worshipped by the Moderator. While the Moderator has the right to censor any unpleasant post from publication, I think decency demands that the moderator should inform concerned person about why a post is being refused.


Malam Farooq elevated sexual assault to be a higher crime than sexual harassment in his bid to demean the integrity of the vice Chancellor of OAU, whereas his real intention was to correct the unintended grammatical blunder contained in the Press Release issued by the OAU on behalf of the VC. A sentence in the Press Release stated thus, "Since the matter came to our notice, the University has begun the process of identifying the characters involves in the apparent breach of its regulations, Code of Conduct for the University Community and the Anti-sexual Harassment policy, in full compliance with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and procedures of the University." The obvious typographical error, involves instead of involved, that turned out to be a grammatical blunder became a big issue for Malam Farooq which was why he taunted the VC for not allowing someone to, at least, proof-read the Press Release before sending it out. However, he was not bold enough to challenge the VC for the grammatical blunder, hence he resorted to twisting of words implying that the VC does not know the difference between sexual harassment and sexual assault. He is a man with extreme inflated self-perception.


On Friday, 6 April 2018, Professor Jibrin Ibrahim posted on this forum a communique titled 'Drift Towards Chaos' and signed by some other people. This is what Malam Farooq wrote about the communique on the same day : What business does Yakubu Aliyu have being in this group? His name, for me, vitiates the credibility of the whole group and disinclined me from reading the Communique. Yakubu is an unapologetic ethno-regional chauvinist who is beholden to narrow fissiparous loyalties. He is a disreputably vile, visceral and unthinking propagandist for the incompetent Buhari's government. I distrust anything he is associated with. From the afore-cited, it is obvious that  Malam Farooq was not commenting on the contents of the communique but on the  person of one of the signatories to the Communique, YAKUBU ALIYU. Yet, his post was published. What a wonderful world.
S. Kadiri






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Alagba Kadiri.

I think I understand why your post may not have been publushed: it is a direct attack on another forumite in account of their views in a sneering manner. If anyone writes any post about you in such manner if I have the power to censor it I would not hesitate.

It's one thing for Farooq to write the way he did about a third person outside the forum its another thing to write such about S. Kadiri.

You may disagree with wha tFarooq has said about OAU VC but there are other ways to frame that disagreement without reducing the debate to mutual personal attacks



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Thank you Cornelius for your response. You have not seen any outrageous in what I wrote but blaming censorship on the fact that Malam Farooq is an idol worshipped by the Moderator. While the Moderator has the right to censor any unpleasant post from publication, I think decency demands that the moderator should inform concerned person about why a post is being refused.


Malam Farooq elevated sexual assault to be a higher crime than sexual harassment in his bid to demean the integrity of the vice Chancellor of OAU, whereas his real intention was to correct the unintended grammatical blunder contained in the Press Release issued by the OAU on behalf of the VC. A sentence in the Press Release stated thus, "Since the matter came to our notice, the University has begun the process of identifying the characters involves in the apparent breach of its regulations, Code of Conduct for the University Community and the Anti-sexual Harassment policy, in full compliance with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and procedures of the University." The obvious typographical error, involves instead of involved, that turned out to be a grammatical blunder became a big issue for Malam Farooq which was why he taunted the VC for not allowing someone to, at least, proof-read the Press Release before sending it out. However, he was not bold enough to challenge the VC for the grammatical blunder, hence he resorted to twisting of words implying that the VC does not know the difference between sexual harassment and sexual assault. He is a man with extreme inflated self-perception.


On Friday, 6 April 2018, Professor Jibrin Ibrahim posted on this forum a communique titled 'Drift Towards Chaos' and signed by some other people. This is what Malam Farooq wrote about the communique on the same day : What business does Yakubu Aliyu have being in this group? His name, for me, vitiates the credibility of the whole group and disinclined me from reading the Communique. Yakubu is an unapologetic ethno-regional chauvinist who is beholden to narrow fissiparous loyalties. He is a disreputably vile, visceral and unthinking propagandist for the incompetent Buhari's government. I distrust anything he is associated with. From the afore-cited, it is obvious that  Malam Farooq was not commenting on the contents of the communique but on the  person of one of the signatories to the Communique, YAKUBU ALIYU. Yet, his post was published. What a wonderful world.
S. Kadiri





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Dear Baba Kadiri,

  1. Thou shalt not exaggerate

  2. Methinks that thou doth protest too much

One of Professor Toyin Falola's forte is his eulogies that have been posted in this forum - a genre in which he is superlative, unsurpassed , and I read everything, have read some of the best and worst - and not only of “African” Literature. Here is my library and today one of my most prized possessions is ETCHES ON FRESH WATERS

I hold our moderator Professor Falola and his daughter Bisola and Viki Bahl who sometimes also deputises for him in such very high esteem that I object very strongly to your twisting what I said  

The powers that be are extra sensitive about any references to His Majesty Kperogi's freedom with Her Majesty's mother tongue but do not want to extend any similar courtesy to Baba Kadiri.”

to mean that I Cornelius Edward Hamelberg

have not seen any(thing) outrageous in what I wrote but blaming censorship on the fact that Malam Farooq is an idol worshipped by the Moderator”.

Baba Kadiri, no matter the extent of your own exasperation , you yourself certainly do not believe that “Malam Farooq is an idol worshipped by the Moderator” ?

Take note: In my view, Oga Kperogi is neither a professor of electricity who produce darkness only nor a “ flesh-coloured Christ that glows in the dark”

You should not mistake Oga Falola's generosity of spirit for idolatry or Yoruba ethics subsumed by a larger consumer Nigeria, for licentiousness ( “But in Nigeria, we read the Ten Commandments on a Sunday. We govern ourselves on Monday by the Eleventh commandment: my will be done. And on Tuesday we pursue the 12th Commandment: thou must grow rich at any cost.”)

True, I did not see anything ”outrageous” in what you wrote, but to attribute the earlier suppression of your post to any insinuation that ” Malam Farooq is an idol worshipped by the Moderator” is certainly outrageous , and even on a suicide mission not enough reason for you to protest about any ”slings and arrows of outrageous fortune”. Having followed your argument very tightly and considering Professor Richard Akindele certainly not guilty unless proven otherwise, I would say that suppressing any voices raised in his defence - even in an explanatory role of what could have actually transpired ( a set up) - is tantamount to a suppression of the possibility of an open hearing, in the name of justice.

At base, The Swedish Academy is now in turmoil because of some sex scandals - and that too is not to be taken merely at face value ( accusations etc.) but each and every accusation has to be thoroughly investigated .

I for one relish reading Oga Kperogi's articles and always look forward to your lambasting of “Napoleon in rags and the language that he used “. Now, if I were to propose something as grotesque as “ You are guilty of iconoclasm and hereby sentenced to 100 lashes on the bare bottom and laying your belly down, flat on the ground in abject apology to Falafel & Peperoni” how would you feel? Outrage, I suppose...

I myself was once reprimanded by Olayinka Agbetuyi , for following in your footsteps, in having our fun at Baba Kperogi's expense - an excess of the gross, oft-repeated title “ Professor of Buckingham Palace English” which is really far too blunt; I suppose that in a forum entirely composed of Englishmen ( Professors of Palace English) one would have to be more subtle , lay a better depth charge to sabotage such a one and any ridiculous colonial self-image (subtle and iconoclastic like Paul Theroux, Joyce Cary ( Mr. Johnson) V.S. Naipaul ( The Mimic Men)

Having mentioned Englishmen , well here's agood one , at lesat anti-colonial and anti-imperial and one that I also enjoy reading : https://bernardjporter.com/

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Dear Rabbi Hamelberg,


Blessed are the exaggerators for they shall help to make chameleons show their true colour, no pawn intended.
Blessed are the protestors, for they shall never call hypocrites diplomats.
I wrote to seek your opinion if there was anything wrong in my post that caused it to be rejected by the Moderator. You stated in your non-hypocritical response thus : The powers that be are extra sensitive about any references to His Majesty Kperogi's freedom to Her Majesty's mother tongue but do not want to extend any similar courtesy to Baba Kadiri. My interpretation of your lackadaisical response was that you did not find anything outrageous in my post and its rejection might have been due to the fact that Malam Kperogi is an idol worshiped by the Moderator. Since you take offence in my interpretation, I tender my unreserved apology to you and beg you in the name of your Jehovah to accept my newly reframed  interpretation of your response which is as follows : You have not seen anything outrageous in what I wrote, but the powers that be on this forum are extra sensitive about any references to His Majesty Kperogi's freedom with Her Majesty's mother tongue but do not want to extend any similar courtesy to, me, Baba Kadiri. 
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Salimonu Kadiri

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Oloye Aigbetuyi,


You wrote, "It's one thing for Farooq to write the way he did about a third person outside the forum, it's another thing to write such about S. Kadiri."  
Professor Jibrin Ibrahim that posted the Communique of his group containing the name of Yakubu Aliyu on this forum, to the best of my knowledge, is not an outsider. The content of the group's Communique is what matters and not the personalities contained in the group. Forum's members and outsiders should be accorded the same fundamental human respect of not being demeaned at all times as forum members. 

At 14:12:00 hours of Tuesday, 1 November 2016, the following was what Farooq posted about me on this forum : I don't get to read Salimonu Kadiri. Since about a year ago I've directed my server to automatically trash his emails. I have no patience for the incredible depth of obtuseness and ignorance that emanates from him. No one, I think, has the right to be that astonishingly clueless and still imagine himself fit to participate in discussions on a list like this. I would encourage you to ignore him. Most people on this list that I know ignore him. Others read him purely for comic relief. I personally can't stomach his comical obtuseness. I am a forum member and he wrote this because a reference to me was made by another forum's member in his engagement with him. Farooq's outburst was never censored. It is noteworthy that just as he considered me unfit to participate in discussions on this forum, so has he considered Yakubu Aliyu unfit to belong to Jibrin Ibrahim's group. One wonders from where Farooq has derived the power to decide who is fit to belong to a list serve or a group of intellectuals.

Earlier on Tuesday, 1 November 2016, at 05:38:00 hours, Farooq taunted a member who advocated that forum discussions should be about issues that could promote cultural and economic development of Africa in this manner : You take yourself.... and what you do here ... too seriously. You think you can help Africa's cultural and economic 'burns' by what you write here? Seriously? Is this list serve some supernational African government that can solve Africa's problems?. If you want to solve Africa's problems, get off the list and go do something about it. Good luck to you. When one encounters an intellectual autocrat and experience his empty platitudes and chest-beating boastfulness every time, one is willingly or unwillingly forced to adapt the same behaviour. My dilemma here is that you want me to be clean after wrestling with a pig.
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Alagba Kadiri.

As they say'it takes two to tango" I remember the events you cite very clearly.  That was in 2016. As you recall I was myself described by him as vulgar. I know most people on the forum don't see me as vulgar and I know I am not. So I let it bounce of my back like water off the back of a duck.  I searched my posts to see why he could come to that conclusion then realised it was at the height of my excitement in re-inventing a way of analysing popular music globally away from the classical model that I juxtaposed the chords I 'Sweet Mother's with Marvin Hayes 'Sexual Healing.  My intention was fully academic but I guessed he must have thought it was the titillating nature of the lyrics rather than the chords that attracted my attention. I moved on to other things.

I have sensed from his postings he has reappraised his style and now knows attacking members of the forum needlessly is not productive.   This is the spirit in which I now see things and which informs my current attitude.  I feel it is pointless to be intetminably rancorous.  I think our collective postings will be more manageable if we adopt this approach.   We all live and learn.  This is why I think we should not blame the moderator for wanting us to move on.

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Oloye Aigbetuyi,


You wrote, "It's one thing for Farooq to write the way he did about a third person outside the forum, it's another thing to write such about S. Kadiri."  
Professor Jibrin Ibrahim that posted the Communique of his group containing the name of Yakubu Aliyu on this forum, to the best of my knowledge, is not an outsider. The content of the group's Communique is what matters and not the personalities contained in the group. Forum's members and outsiders should be accorded the same fundamental human respect of not being demeaned at all times as forum members. 

At 14:12:00 hours of Tuesday, 1 November 2016, the following was what Farooq posted about me on this forum : I don't get to read Salimonu Kadiri. Since about a year ago I've directed my server to automatically trash his emails. I have no patience for the incredible depth of obtuseness and ignorance that emanates from him. No one, I think, has the right to be that astonishingly clueless and still imagine himself fit to participate in discussions on a list like this. I would encourage you to ignore him. Most people on this list that I know ignore him. Others read him purely for comic relief. I personally can't stomach his comical obtuseness. I am a forum member and he wrote this because a reference to me was made by another forum's member in his engagement with him. Farooq's outburst was never censored. It is noteworthy that just as he considered me unfit to participate in discussions on this forum, so has he considered Yakubu Aliyu unfit to belong to Jibrin Ibrahim's group. One wonders from where Farooq has derived the power to decide who is fit to belong to a list serve or a group of intellectuals.

Earlier on Tuesday, 1 November 2016, at 05:38:00 hours, Farooq taunted a member who advocated that forum discussions should be about issues that could promote cultural and economic development of Africa in this manner : You take yourself.... and what you do here ... too seriously. You think you can help Africa's cultural and economic 'burns' by what you write here? Seriously? Is this list serve some supernational African government that can solve Africa's problems?. If you want to solve Africa's problems, get off the list and go do something about it. Good luck to you. When one encounters an intellectual autocrat and experience his empty platitudes and chest-beating boastfulness every time, one is willingly or unwillingly forced to adapt the same behaviour. My dilemma here is that you want me to be clean after wrestling with a pig.
S. Kadiri     






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Dear Baba Kadiri,

Let me reframe my response to be a little more agreeable with your judgement: I find nothing outrageous in what you say about Malam Kperogi in this instance and I have never found any of your responses to him to be at all outrageous. It could be that he is one of our moderator's holy cows - perhaps the holiest from the various herds of Fulani cattle.

Mallam Kperogi has not himself been circumspect when lambasting Presidential Brother Muhammadu Buhari, but who knows how many of Mallam Kperogi's opinions have been rejected by the moderator without our hearing as much as a squeak or a squeal from Kperogi?
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