Harry Odinzah

Road Runner | Dark Artist | Profiler

[Harry Odinzah @countopia]

@Gregory96444884 How is this the problem of Africans? This person has done nothing wrong to anyone, why dehumanize them? What awful God drives you to commit crimes against humanity in his name? Africans have abandoned REASON and focused on HATEFUL culture wars!

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@afrisagacity @RealPanon She hasn't seen her family yet, after 50+ days in kidnappers' den, her car was the very first item on her bucket list? Really ODD!!!

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@ChidiOdinkalu @elrufai @GovKaduna @icpcnigeria Even Nazi war criminals were given fair trial at Nuremberg despite their unspeakable crimes against humanity. @elrufai put his tormentors in power, however it is equally immoral to gloat at his current ordeal. Injustice against one is injustice against All!

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"Intellectual Uprising"

[Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, CGoF @ChidiOdinkalu]

According to Anambra State's @CCSoludo, during one of his visits to the Philippines, he visited a prison, & out of the 30 inmates who played a football match there, at least 60% to 70% were from the SE #Nigeria. He claims that we see the same troubling pattern in Indonesia, where 20 out of 22 of those executed were Ndi Anambra, & recently in Ethiopia, the majority of those returned to Nigeria also came from the Southeast.

The explanation, he argues, is that "our youths have been deceived by fake pastors and fake native doctors who peddle fake miracles and the lie of #Okeite'—they believe that once they use this charm, it will render drug detection scanners completely blind to the substances they are carrying. This deception is a major reason why we are now fighting these criminal native doctors who have misled & destroyed our young people."

Not for the first time, Mr. Governor does a huge service to public policy debate for which we owe him a world of thanks.

The factual foundations laid out by Gov Soludo as to the asserted over-representation of young men & women from SE Nigeria in prisons overseas are worrying & I agree with him that we need to interrogate the reasons or causes.

In doing so, we need to be careful about what Chimamanda Adichie calls the danger of a single story.

I am worried by the resort by Mr. Governor to presumptive, even presumptuous explanation for something that deserves much closer inquiry on the basis of evidence, which he seems not to have bothered to ask for or gather. His conclusions are based on anecdotal or imoressionistic material. Consular personnel at Nigeria's foreign missions or the @MFA_Nigeria could easily have afforded him proper comparative numbers - to the extent they exist - to inform his analyses, if he had asked.

Now, as an aside, the same young people whom he says indulge in all these things are the same people who tell you that "Juju no dey cross border." But let's not digress.

It is well possible, indeed likely, that some of the folks in those prisons may well be victims of their own greed for quick money. But is that where the inquiry exhausts itself? Are other reasons possible? Are there also structural reasons?

The neatness of the convenient exclusion of terrible political leadership & its consequences from Gov. Soludo's explanation should not escape notice.

It is easy to profile all these young people on ethnic grounds, and pathologise them & then proceed to wield one easy prescription for what is at best a facile, even lazy piece of diagnostic work. It is another piece of thesis in the service of irresponsible government & dissolute politics that offers nihilism or desperation to young people, instead of dignity & hope.

The question has to be asked why young people who are afforded opportunities on an equal basis with their peers elsewhere should find escape in intimations of the supernatural & fantasy. Surely, there is a deeper structural issue at the heart of the issue that Mr. Governor desires to wrestle with.

If there is a pathology here, it is of terrible politicians & government which, together, have denied a whole generation of young people of both opportunities & good example & left them victims of impoverishment to the point of desperation.

The answer is not to pathologise the young people, it is to address the generational exclusions that have condmned these young people to this fate & our failures of responsible & accountable political leadership.

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@NigeriaStories 2027 general elections in FOCUS. After feeding on the misery of the Nigerian people since May 29th 2023, here we are standing or bleeding and dying on the accursed mandate, this vampirous junta has sucked this country into, no pun intended.

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@Losheyi_22 @ruffydfire Oh so we are pretending we don't produce oil & gas in Nigeria and we have no refineries right? BAT/APC have fixed our production/refining issues as they promised in 2015 right? So why is Hormuz an issue for Africa's largest O&G country? Talk another thing bro

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@PerellClips Maybe AI provides an opportunity to have the same experience he is describing in perhaps a more immersive & profound way. AI is part of the human evolutionary Trek & despite the likely pitfalls ahead we must as Bilbo Bargins in The Hobbit; journey with hope!

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@AishaYesufu @iamHSDickson She even sounds more focused on the job ahead than the party Leader. Dickson is a Boomer and like most men from his generation, they are usually puffed up with room size ego which is why they can't understand the appeal of PO to Nigerians ...Servant Leader!

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@Ujfranc This is how they start, first attacking vulnerable gay guys & posting online with no repercussions, then they graduate to beheading teachers & kidnapping children. The maker of this video is a criminal & must face justice for dehumanizing these young guys!

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@kellybonito_BU Bandits are beheading teachers in Oyo state, you are here forming superman on these harmless young guys. 2027 you will collect 5k and vote for BAT, but Gay people are your problem? Kidnapped kids are in the bush, go & rescue them. What you're doing is a CRIME

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@Morris_Monye If one of your staff posted that letter of resignation publicly, would you just allow them back into your company ? What if @AishaYesufu and @YunusaTanko did the same, would there be a movement to propel your ambition today? Commit to a changed behavior bro

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@icons_closet You're right, however there has to be REAL contrition by the errant party for possible absolution. In Nigeria, we forgive without a commitment to changed behavior, which leads to NORMALIZATION. This dude is only here to ride the Obidient wave, ZERO contrition

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@ruffydfire Kant strikes me as a quasi-stoic diverging from the Aurelian school. His duty for duty sake captures essentially the Nigerian attitude to matrimony imbued with cognitive dissonance to Civic Duty, which is indicative of a society whose moral spine is broken!

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@tonyajah These religious leaders keep the masses docile and compliant while the crooks in power plunder the country. This script has been played over and over again. The next six months is all the time the Opposition & Civil Society have to counter this

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@Dee_9889 Kay did a poor job, he kept interrupting PO, he barely allowed him to respond to the questions. It seemed like Kay just wanted to keep hearing his own voice it was ghastly to watch. Even with all that PO was on top of his game and delivered his message!

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@KAAUTOS @mindloz08 @petezslims The question is; WHY NOT?
And please no religious fanaticism, just Scientific Facts because not everyone in 2026 believes in the confounding dogmas of the Abrahamic religions.

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@ObumRealeague @Karigwe @NigeriaNDCHQ Your equivalence with cases in UK/ Japan is weak. Nigeria is a captured state, hijacked by criminal money gangs masquerading as politicians with offices auctioned off to the highest bidder. NDC has to be different or things won't change!

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@ObumRealeague @Karigwe @NigeriaNDCHQ Read your response slowly and maybe you will understand why it's flawed. The points you just adduced is the same reason the worst of us are in politics and we are now a failing country. NDC must be different or risk being another PDAPC