The good thing is that if not for tinubu's indifference towards these happenings, most Nigerians wouldn't be aware how much of an abysmal failure he and his government actually is.
BATUK: BRITAIN'S COLONIAL GRIP IN KENYA
BATUK: The White Man’s Burden in Kenya is not just a documentary about a British military base where soldiers roll around in the dirt for six months before returning home to the UK. It is a documentary about abuse of power, occupation of indigenous land and the unfinished business of colonialism.
For decades, ordinary Kenyans living around BATUK have raised allegations of abuse, sexual violence, ecological destruction and impunity, while one of the world’s most powerful former colonial powers continues to operate freely on Kenyan soil, handing out small amounts of compensation whenever evidence of alleged crimes reaches the media.
At the centre of the documentary is the story of Agnes Wanjiru, a 21-year-old Kenyan woman who was tortured, killed and dumped in a septic tank, while British soldiers mocked and ridiculed her death on social media. One soldier posed in front of the septic tank and posted, “If you know, you know.” Others joked about the five-month-old daughter she left behind, posting imagery of a baby beside a gravesite.
But the story goes beyond Agnes and her tragic killing and the shocking behaviour of British troops thereafter. The documentary asks deeper questions:
How did Britain maintain a military presence in Kenya, the very same year the country supposedly gained independence?
Why are foreign troops still training on stolen land while local communities continue to suffer?
And above all, why does the Kenyan government allow all of this?
Laikipia County, currently in the spotlight because of plans for an Ebola quarantine facility for US citizens, is the very same county where the BATUK military base is headquartered. This documentary helps connect the dots about why Kenya’s political elite remain so willing to cede sovereignty to foreign powers like Britain, and why they may be willing to do the same again with the United States.
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There's absolutely nobody in advocacy for tinubu for trust or genuine believe in him and a better Nigeria. It's usually:
Tribal
Political
Financial, and/or
Religious reasons
It all boils down to stupidity not logic, never intellectual, virtue or equity!
There are some very powerful people pulling the strings behind the scenes on this legal issue over airtime lending in Nigeria, trying to stick their straw into a market worth an estimated N400b annually. These people are close to the president, and are wielding tremendous power and distorting the entire economy in ways that would have embarrassed a post-Soviet Russian oligarch in 1994.
I’ve been actively aware of this matter for over two years now and the time may have come to tell the full story of how Idris Saliu Alubankudi, and his brother Shamsudeen Saliu 'Shamz' Alubankudi - both very close to Bola Tinubu and his family - have built one of the biggest and most powerful state corruption enterprises
in the entire history of Nigeria.
These men are attempting to capture the systemically important foundations of the entire Nigerian economy - specifically telecoms and ICT - and turn their 3 year-old corruption enterprise into a sort of Nigerian chaebol. You have never seen anything like it before.
You will be hearing the names 'Idris' and 'Shamz' a lot in the coming few days. Also don’t forget their family name 'Saliu Alubankudi.' It's an important part of the story.
This is no different from
"if APC gives me 20k next election, I'll collect and vote for them. If I vote for the right person, tinubu would still rig it and win, who will win will win, so no need."
"If I get a chance to join the kidnappers today, I'll do that immediately.
The country is hard, and I've only known suffering all my life. I need to save myself and my family."
I overheard a bike man saying that to his fellow bikers, while I was standing at a junction this morning.
And from his facial expression, I can swear he was definitely not joking.
This really makes it difficult to say whether Nigeria can ever become better.
Try and watch @realJudebela's Power and Plunder YouTube series, especially the Murtala and Babangida episodes.
If you're completely illiterate about your country's historical context and place in the geopolitical world, you won't be afterwards.
I won't elaborate.
It’s Children’s Day. Around the world, children are with food, with friends, with families. In Nigeria, under Tinubu, a child is more likely hungry, out of school, or kidnapped for ransom.
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@odcruize@ItsNancyAdaeze@Wonderofpips Yeah, I totally get you.
I just want y'all to know it's like this everywhere (definitely at different proportion).
Also I agree our corruption level is higher, however, we blow our trumpet, even louder.
With Nigerians there's more of a dysphemism than actual figures.
@odcruize@ItsNancyAdaeze@Wonderofpips This is just who you are and the people around you.
I meet so many good and wonderful people everyday in this same wicked world.
@dg_krypt@segoslavia Lol
I've known about it for more than 10 years. That's how it operates.
I'm always fascinated by it, especially considering it has no pungent odour; how do they all just relocate or disappear, not dead.