Thought For Today

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

Those analyzing President Tinubu's Palliatives should take cognizance of the following:

(1)That the money is not payment for any work done, but "PALLIATIVES".

(2)That the segment targeted earn very little or nothing prior to the palliatives and so would be relieved to get the palliatives no matter how "small". 

(3)That many workers in Nigeria do not earn up to the monthly palliatives amount in a month, so the "smallness" of the amount is an elite perspective, because they(the elite)earn so much(sometimes illegitimately)and spend so much(mostly on wants).

(4)That palliatives policies and poverty eradication policies are not the same. 

(5)That palliatives are meant to assuage subsisting situations of extreme want, not to eradicate them. 

Thank you all for your time.

-Chidi Anthony Opara(CAO)

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[Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth]

 Brilliant.you have written  what Napoleon  failed to write
Augustine. Permission  to copy on my linkedjn page

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

Instead of asking Kanu to write (in his own handwriting)from captivity to instruct his loyalists to desist from actions that cause insecurity in Southeast, why don't the government of Nigeria simply enter writ of nolle prosequi to discontinue his trial, release him and engage him to help in ending the insecurity in the Southeast.

Kanu can then as a free man reach out to his lieutenants and supporters to embrace peace.

This is not about Ekpa or about any one else. It is about what is acceptable in any civilized society.

The question now is:

Can actions taken in captivity like the instructions from Kanu under reference be considered to have emanated out of free will and so acceptable?

Thank you all for your time.

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)

[Toyin Falola]

Chidi:

The generality of the people has the right to protection and to live a peaceful life.

How to do this is the right question. And how to attain this is the approach to seek.

TF

 

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

Oga TF,

 I agree.

If however an approach that goes against the universally prescribed principle is used, agents of ethics have the responsibility to call attention to that.

Warm regards,

-CAO.

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Chidi:

The generality of the people has the right to protection and to live a peaceful life.

How to do this is the right question. And how to attain this is the approach to seek.

TF

 

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Instead of asking Kanu to write (in his own handwriting)from captivity to instruct his loyalists to desist from actions that cause insecurity in Southeast, why don't the government of Nigeria simply enter writ of nolle prosequi to discontinue his trial, release him and engage him to help in ending the insecurity in the Southeast.

 

Kanu can then as a free man reach out to his lieutenants and supporters to embrace peace.

 

This is not about Ekpa or about any one else. It is about what is acceptable in any civilized society.

 

The question now is:

 

Can actions taken in captivity like the instructions from Kanu under reference be considered to have emanated out of free will and so acceptable?

 

Thank you all for your time.

 

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

Hear the latest on Tinubu and APC from your "investigative journalist", David Hundeyin:

"They made very little attempt to present a case because their entire strategy SEEMS to be built on compromising the judiciary".

Remark: When did conjecture("seems")become a component of investigative journalism?

PS: Emphasis on "seems" is mine.

Thank you.

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

People mostly notice the things in their subsconcious minds.

These things often migrate from the subconscious to the conscious mind. 

So, if for example one inputed it into one's subsconcious mind that one's choice  presidential candidate in an election was the only one that could rescue one's country from economic problems, if that candidate did not win the election, one's mind is most likely would be telling one that the person who won and became president and his/her economic recovery policies are not good enough to do the needful irrespective of the quality of such policies.

In this situation, it is one's subconscious mind controlling the conscious mind, making that person to mostly instinctively reject policies whose qualities he/she have not really assessed.

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

If the "baddest" lawyer is allowed to operate as a lawyer in Nigeria as our pretend liberals are suggesting, we will then have "baddest" doctors, "baddest" engineers, etc.

The professions would be infested with all kinds of "baddest".

People would then be dying in our hospitals like houseflies, buildings and bridges would be collapsing, etc.

The pertinent question here is, would any of those pretend liberals engage the "baddest" lawyer if they have a serious legal challenge?

If the professionals should continue to be regulated, what should be the regulatory parameters?

Thank you all for your time.

-Chidi Anthony Opara(CAO)

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

Two or more groups in Nigeria are  contesting a pronouncement of the election umpire.

The ones the pronouncement flavoured are saying that the umpire is right, while the ones the pronouncement didn't favour are saying that the umpire is wrong.

The Judiciary is the statutory arbiter and the arbiter is in the process of determining who is right (the truth).

A campaign suddenly emerged, urging the arbiter to align to a nuanced predetermined position, which it(the campaign)describes as "truth" and goes further to trumpet "All Eyes On The Judiciary" all over the place.

Incidentally, the leaders of the campaign belong to the side that say that the pronouncement of the umpire (which is being contested) is wrong.

In this context, what do the campaigners view as "truth" and what happens if this truth of theirs is at variance with the finding of the arbiter?

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

(1)The rule of law is predicated on the principle that ALL ACTIONS of individuals and institutions must be governed by laws.

(2)In the quests for individuals and institutions to assert their fundamental rights, they should not in any way violate the fundamental rights of other individuals and institutions.

(3)Governments(constitutionally installed)have fundamental rights, including but not limited to the right to govern.

(4) Labour have the right to institute industrial actions, such industrial actions must however be conducted within the ambits of the laws. If for example, Labour during any industrial actions, make public facilities inaccessible to the public, this will be considered a violation of other peoples' and institutions' fundamental rights and so, a violation of the law. This may necessitate government intervention through its security apparatuses. 

(5)Both pro and anti government viewpoints(if done within the ambits of the laws) are fundamental rights.

[Ayoola Tokunbo]

You are on point brother.

The last destruction in Lagos during the Endsars is still having biting effects on ordinary Nigerians.

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has only the mandate of its members. It has no other mandate outside that. Any claim to speaking for non members also is a usurpation of the mandate of government.

I am a Registered Freight Forwarder for example, I work at the ports and I am not a member of any of the affiliate unions of NLC, so why can't I access the ports to interface with non NLC members like the Customs?

The ports are public facilities owned by the people(both members and non members of NLC), but held in trust for the people by government, so government have the sole right and responsibility to administer such public facilities.

[Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth]

Thanks Anthony.very sound  erudite.are you a lawyer?

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

No, "poet of the streets" rather. Apology to Marxist scholar Jaye Gaskia.

-CAO

On Wed, Sep 6, 2023, 10:10 AM 'Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafric...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Thanks Anthony.very sound  erudite.are you a lawyer?

On Tuesday, September 5, 2023, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA <chidi...@gmail.com> wrote:

(1)The rule of law is predicated on the principle that ALL ACTIONS of individuals and institutions must be governed by laws.

(2)In the quests for individuals and institutions to assert their fundamental rights, they should not in any way violate the fundamental rights of other individuals and institutions.

(3)Governments(constitutionally installed)have fundamental rights, including but not limited to the right to govern.

(4) Labour have the right to institute industrial actions, such industrial actions must however be conducted within the ambits of the laws. If for example, Labour during any industrial actions, make public facilities inaccessible to the public, this will be considered a violation of other peoples' and institutions' fundamental rights and so, a violation of the law. This may necessitate government intervention through its security apparatuses. 

(5)Both pro and anti government viewpoints(if done within the ambits of the laws) are fundamental rights.

Thank you all for your time.

-Chidi Anthony Opara(CAO)

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

Why is it that those whose viewpoints are pro Atiku and Obi are said to be doing that out of patriotism and those whose viewpoints are pro Tinubu are always accused of being induced with money?

Are the pro Obi and Atiku elements immuned from financial inducements and if they are, why can't the pro Tinubu elements be?

By the way, have the pro Obi and Atiku National Assembly members rejected the reported gifts of bulletproof jeeps and millions of naira for holidays?

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

Nobody on the opposite side have seriously challenged Wole Soyinka on his position that Peter Obi didn't win the February 25th Presidential Election.

As usual, it has been emotional outbursts all over the place.

In the process of claiming their fundamental right of freedom of speech, the Peter Obi crowd have tried to deny Wole Soyinka his own fundamental right of freedom of speech.

Suddenly, to them,  Soyinka is no longer all the things he used to be and that includes even being a writer that he is known to be all over the world with a 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature to booth.

Thanks.

[Toyin Falola]

Chidi:

In politics and political participation, all individuals have a right to their opinions. Soyinka cannot criticize the Obidients and expect the Obidients to seal their mouths. I am sure he knows this.

I cannot wake up in the morning and criticize anyone or any group and expect they won’t attack me.

The rule in politics: don’t get involved if you have no tolerance for insults and abuses. There is a Yoruba proverb: “The day you enter politics is when you will have the list of those who had sex with your mother before she married your father”!

TF

 

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

Oga TF,

Nobody expects the other party to keep silent, that is not what I am saying.

I am saying that they should not say that Soyinka shouldn't have said what he said.

Soyinka didn't abuse Obi, he said that Obi did not win the election.

I expect the other party to confine their reply to insisting that their man won the election and interrogating Soyinka's position, not insulting the man as they are doing presently.

The man said that your Obi did not win the election and your reply is; "who even awarded this man Nobel Prize in Literature?" For example, is this supposed to be a reply in the context of the issue under reference?

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[Toyin Falola]

Chidi:

Let us apply the motor park and street rules: There is no scope or boundary to insults and abuses in a fight. In a society with law and order, you regulate via defamation laws.

Jesus Christ, with his message, threatened the Emperor, whom he called a fox. If you have not thrown away your bible, read Luke 13:32, where Jesus referred to Herod as “that fox”, a deceptive person. Fast forward, when Pilate referred Jesus to be tried by Herod over a false claim that “Jesus is the King of the Jews”, Herod used his power to execute him.

Moral of the story: the “geography” of insults is not limited to rationality and the original provocation.

TF

 

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[franklyne ogbunwezeh]

Chidi,

It is disingenuous to claim that the obidients are only on an emotional trip, in relation to Soyinka's intervention a week or so ago.

That is gaslighting par excellence!

I wonder what is there to be seriously engaged with, in Soyinka's submission.

Soyinka took INEC's contested position. He just re-echoed INEC's declaration, without giving any data scaffolding that conclusion.

INEC itself couldn't even supply the data upon which it called the elections for Tinubu, hence it's stonewalling since the interrogatories started flooding in.

In addition, we cannot feign ignorance of the fact that there is no love lost between Soyinka and this young generation of Nigerians, whose aspiration for a better country, Soyinka dismissed as fascist.

Soyinka is seen by these young people, as a part of that establishment that has held Nigeria down. 

Soyinka watched genocidal language being bandied about in the build up to the election, by people exclusively from Bola Tinubu's camp, who incidentally is Soyinka's friend.

Soyinka uttered no words in condemnation of the Sam Omoteyes, Dele Alakes and MC Oluomos of Nigeria, who overreached themselves in the genocidal and fascist language they employed on behalf of, and with the full knowledge of their principal.

Soyinka never said anything to the violence that kept people from a candidate that Soyinka believes is a regional candidate. But the people that worked to prevent the Iya Chukwudis from voting were not promoting a regional candidate im Soyinka's books.

Soyinka cannot claim that this election, which INEC colluded with APC to steal, is anything but free or fair. And for Soyinka to deploy the full weight of his reputation to give an imprimatur to that heist, is really tasteless.

Soyinka never submitted anything that could be engaged with, since he never submitted facts, upon which his certainty that Peter Obi didn't win the elections, was based.

He asserted without evidence. And whatever can be asserted without evidence, can also be dismissed without evidence.

Franklyne Ogbunwezeh 

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

Franklyne,

You wondered what is there to engage in Soyinka's intervention and ended up engaging him.

The good thing is that you expressed your own opinion, which is your right and you did not resort to insults like the "Obidients", which is what my own intervention kicked against.

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Dear Chidi, 

Wishing you and President Tinubu in particular a Sweet & Happy New Year.’

I trust that you and other good, progressive forces will repudiate all the bad-mouthing and ill will being directed at Wole Soyinka by people who don’t like being told the truth, the miscreants 

These are words of Torah and I suppose the watchword of all concerned, and the plaintiffs too, including the losers who know that they lost but in the name of self-glorification and to promote doubt about the integrity of the institution known as  the Nigerian judiciary want to put up this prolonged and costly charade 

Torah : “Justice, Justice shall you pursue.”

As our Igbo Bro Franklyne Ogbunwezeh an ethicist,  w/rightly or wrongly pointed out rather triumphantly in conclusion as some kind of Q.E.D. to his his own ingeniously fabricated syllogism, “And whatever can be asserted without evidence, can also be dismissed without evidence.” 

Of course, on cloud zero, that is not how some of these religious fellows pontificate about the existence of God / Holy Trinity / son of God by Virgin Birth / ascension after resurrection etc, that ”whatever can be asserted without evidence, can also be dismissed without evidence” …

And nota bene: a mere explanation is not a proof 

So far, with regard to the outcome of this case that’s being both cussed and discussed, with all the salient points of ethnic jingoism  an essential ingredient in Nigerian politics, roots up, a feature always bubbling above and seething below the surface just like the heroic couplet that concludes Eliza Cook’s The Englishman, methinks that the onus of proof still resides on the part of the plaintiffs. 

The ball is still in their court, so to speak, and since it's a matter of dignified self-interest and of course a matter of public interest  - a matter of great concern to the general public at large, at home and abroad, to get a final, better, more favourable and most desirable judgement, to see to it that justice is done and seen to be done, Peter Obi has to actually provide the evidence that he boasted about prior to the commencement of the trial / the hearing of his election petition by the learned judges.

Not that the petition was to be assessed and the final judgement arrived at / passed  in the court of infallible public opinion, but, most probably speaking to the gallery, Peter Obi did say (verified and widely circulated) : ” I will prove that I won the Nigerian Presidential Election”

So , Hon. Mister Peter Obi, where is the proof? 

The proof is in the pudding? 

Where is the pudding? 

Bro Ogbunwezeh refers to Peter Obi as “a candidate that Soyinka believes is a regional candidate.”

Talk is cheap 

Cheap talk 

Small Talk 

Where is the evidence that Doyen Soyinka ever asserted any such nonsense? By such a short sighted definition,  de facto, anyone born in any part of Nigeria is to be deemed a “ regional candidate” when it's a matter of contesting at the national level. That Peter Obi did as well as he did in Lagos the most cosmopolitan of every inch of Nigeria nullifies such a perception that could not possibly come from one of Nigeria's most venerated elders  WOLE SOYINKA 

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Chidi,

In anticipation of demolishing some decrepit arguments by some wonk, in support of the unsupportable, Cornelius Ignoramus is wondering what could the term “regional candidate” mean in the context of the PDP constitution which has rotation / zoning as one of its holy clauses 

Maybe, at the next presidential  election the official PDP presidential candidate will hail from the South, or anywhere but the North, and, far from being a “regional candidate” whether a man or a woman or transgender, and ( in alphabetical order)  Animist, Christian, Mushrik ( polytheist) or Muslim, will prove to be a marketable commodity right across the nation that he / she aspires to be president of?

Still checking out what a serious commentator like Ebenezer Obadare // Ebenezer Obadare has been saying about history-in-the-making, the drama that’s unfolding in Nigeria 

https://www.cfr.org/expert/ebenezer-obadare

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA]

Mazi Cornelius,

Wole Soyinka is known to be connected at the highest level with Pyrates Confraternity(International Association of Seadogs).

Pyrates Confraternity is known to have the capacity to monitor the February 25th, 2023 Presidential election in Nigeria in their own ways.

So, Pyrates Confraternity/Soyinka most likely have credible information about that election.

Soyinka most likely withheld the information initially because the matter was in court.

By the way, is Soyinka Known as someone who is flippant? Who speaks without facts?

Finally, in Information Management, there is what we call credible source. Soyinka, by all indices, fits into that label.

-CAO.

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Chidi,

In anticipation of demolishing some decrepit arguments in support of the unsupportable, Cornelius Ignoramus is wondering what could the term “regional candidate” mean in the context of the PDP constitution which has rotation / zoning as one of its holy clauses 

Maybe, at the next presidential  election the official PDP presidential candidate will hail from the South, or anywhere but the North, and, far from being a “regional candidate” whether ( in alphabetical order)  Animist, Christian, Mushrik ( polytheist) or Muslim will prove to be a marketable commodity right across the nation that he aspires to be president of?

Still checking out what Ebenezer Obadare // Ebenezer Obadare has been saying about history in the making, the drama that’s unfolding in Nigeria 

https://www.cfr.org/expert/ebenezer-obadare