Inspector-General, @TunjiDisu1 Has a Duty to Discipline The DPO of @PoliceNG, "B" Division, Awka, Anambra State.
Yesterday, Franklyn Ifeanyi Onwuasoanya led Bailiffs with the judiciary in Awka, capital of Anambra State, to execute a Warrant of Possession issued by the Chief Magistrates Court in the State capital.
As they were in the process of execution, a man arrived at the premises and introduced himself as the DPO of the "B" Division of @PoliceNG in Awka.
The Police Officer ordered the Bailiff to stop the execution & leave the premises. In the absence of evidence of an order of a superior Court, Mr. Onwusoanya declined.
The police officer reportedly called for backup. When that arrived, they started assaulting the bailiffs, tore their clothes & sought to use violence to forcibly confiscate the warrant from them. It was at that point that one of them started recording the account.
After this emission, @TunjiDisu1's people may well decide to charge me under the Cybercrimes Act like they have done with my namesake in Enugu, instead of calling in their DPO in Awka to account for presuming that his uniform makes him a summary Court of Appeal.
THIS IS HEARTBREAKING
This report says that in a certain local government in Borno, 18 villagers were slaughtered because they refused to pay N1000 before they could fetch firewood from the bush.
Boko Haram taxes every villager 1k just to fetch firewood.
The WORST is that after fetching the firewood, @HQNigerianArmy were allegedly collecting additional N500 from the same people.
This means that before a villager could fetch firewood to cook food in that community, they must set aside the following:
1. N1000 for Boko Haram
2. N500 for Nigerian Army
Total: N1500
Credit: English Alhaji
This is a trafficking case, where these two suspected traffickers forcefully trafficked this 16yr old girl to mali for prostitution. The story is pathetic and one would wonder why traffickers are so wicked and heartless.
I just heard a story that almost made me m@d!💔
Ayo Adio, the ADC Candidate for the Eti-Osa House of Assembly Constituency, visited a community in his constituency to interact with the residents and sell his programmes. But he discovered that they hadn't had light for several months and were struggling to survive in darkness.
He swore to them that he'd resolve the electricity issue by clearing their outstanding bills. The following week, he visited NEPA with the community leaders. He paid off the outstanding debt and brought NEPA officials to reconnect the light.
As the electricity was restored, the community lit up in frenzied joy and jubilation. Word got to the APC representatives in the constituency. The following week, they ordered NEPA to disconnect the light.
As I type, the community is thrown back into darkness - helpless and hopeless. I can’t express how sad and utterly disgusted I feel right now!✍️
At 32 I was editing Papa Ajasco and Super Story, trying to become a director.
One night officers who had been drinking shot me through my car. I am 47 now. The hand is dead. I edit with my left hand for $10 and $20 so my children can eat. I won in court.
The police have ignored the judgment since 2015. The officer’s name is in their own report. Ayuba Philip ID 257745.
Please tag em until @TunjiDisu1 & @CspIniedu see this impunity. Thank you
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Thank you Nigerians, I am so grateful for all your voices.
We will not RETREAT until we achieve a country where every Nigerian can happily call a home.
#peterobi4president#anewNigeriaisPOssible
A leader without compassion is not a leader.
Three men seek the same office. Three different answers to the same question: where do you stand when the country is hurting?
One returned from holiday and spoke of how much he enjoyed Europe. The streets at home were flooding, prices were climbing, families were choosing between food and medicine and the story he brought back was the weather and the rest. Distance is easy. Distance does not hear the night.
Another sat in a mansion in Abuja and promised compassion. The words were correct. The setting was not. Suffering does not become lighter because it is described from air-conditioning and high walls. A promise made from comfort is still only a promise.
The third spent a night in Sokoto. He walked into an IDP camp. He sat with people who had lost homes, not talking points. Then he met the country as it actually is, group after group:
- NDC candidate and party officials
- Kwankwasiyya Sokoto
- Obidients Sokoto
- Muslim clerics
- Christian clerics
- Igbo community in Sokoto
- Yoruba community in Sokoto
- Media
- NDC Birnin Kebbi
- Students
- Strategic team
- Political associations
- Academic lecturers
No filter. No single tribe, faith, or faction. He did not summon them to Abuja. He went to them.
That is the difference between announcing compassion and practising it. One style manages the image of leadership. Another style inhabits the work of it.
Nigeria does not need another man who enjoys the view from elsewhere or who issues sympathy from a gated compound. It needs a leader who treats every community as worth the journey, who measures a night by who he sat with rather than where he slept, and who understands that unity is not a slogan, it is a schedule of meetings no one else wanted to hold.
Show up. Listen. Stay. That is the beginning of a New Nigeria. The rest is commentary.
#PeterObiIsComing
#NigeriaWillBeOK
#VoteNDC
In the Caliphate with a Message of Hope for the Poor and Unity in Nigeria.
Today, ahead of our town-hall engagements in Sokoto, Sokoto State, I had the privilege of paying a courtesy visit to His Eminence, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto, alongside my brother and running mate, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, and members of our team.
We used the opportunity of the visit to condole with him on the recent death of the Sardauna of Sokoto.
In my remarks, I emphasised the urgent need to unite and secure our nation, tackle poverty, create employment, and rebuild confidence in our country.
His Eminence warmly received us and spoke with the wisdom of a father and national leader. He recalled that he has known me for almost 46 years, since 1980, when I was in my first year at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and has maintained a cordial relationship since then.
He reminded us that leadership comes from Almighty Allah and carries a responsibility for which we will ultimately be held accountable. He also mentioned three critical priorities for Nigeria: security, poverty, and employment.
He additionally reminded us that our diversity of tribes, tongues, and faiths is part of God's creation and should be our strength, not our weakness. We do not seek to Islamise or Christianise anyone. We seek to build a Nigeria where every citizen can live safely, prosper, and have a genuine sense of belonging.
May Almighty God continue to bless His Eminence, the Sultan of Sokoto, the people of Sokoto State, and our beloved Nigeria.
A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO
Today, I took my slow self to listen to John Mahama. Who thought I wouldn’t? I was sure going to. 😂
And I heard something that made me pause.
Mahama told the United Nations:
“Every human being belongs to the human family. No race is superior. No nation is inferior.”
Then he moved to the economy.
He acknowledged Ghana’s macroeconomic improvements but said 👇
“Macroeconomic indicators mean little if they do not translate into real improvements in people’s daily lives”.
In other words, you can bring the inflation figures, GDP figures, exchange-rate figures and debt figures.
But if the ordinary person still cannot afford food, healthcare, education, housing or even a decent standard of living, then what exactly are we celebrating?
This is probably the only achievement of Tinubu’s administration where a fellow president had to kindly remind them that success is not measured by macroeconomic indicators alone.
Mahama put it even more directly: “Democracy loses its soul when it protects elite privileges while abandoning the vulnerable.”
And I thought about Nigeria.
At the same UN, our Vice President was asking for two permanent seats for Africa on the Security Council, while at the same time asking the international community for more financing and support.
You want two seats, but you are still begging for money? Who takes a beggar seriously🧐
Mr Vice president, which seat are we actually ready for; the permanent seat at the UN, or the begging seat at the table?
The Giant of Africa, reduced to asking for a bigger chair while stretching out its hand for money.
What a shame.
Emeka Chikelu: The Minister Who Refused to Give Up on His Values
In June 2003, Njikika/Anaocha/Dunukofia Federal Constituency in Anambra State elected a young man to @HouseNGR. His name? Emeka Chikelu.
Emeka was a graduate of University of @unimaid_01 & @UniOfBuckingham. His Dad, Owelle Gilbert Chikelu, had worked with Gen. Obasanjo as federal permanent secretary & would later serve #Nigeria also as Ambassador.
In July 2003, President Obasanjo tapped Emeka Chikelu as Minister of Information & National Orientation.
It was at the beginning of a period of mayhem in Anambra State, orchestrated by Obasanjo's acolytes, including the abduction of the governor, acts of untold violence, arson, assassination. Through it all, the President barely spoke.
In the midst of this, in 2004, President Obasanjo offered a high #NationalHonour to acclaimed writer, Chinualumogu Achebe. Achebe declined, memorably telling the president in November 2004: “#Nigeria’s condition today under your watch is...too dangerous for silence. I must register my disappointment & protest by declining to accept the high honor awarded me in the 2004 honors list.” He was from Ogidi in Anambra.
Folkiwing this, the Presidency sought to instruct the Minister of Information to do the dirty on Achebe. He quietly declined, reminding them by his powerful example that a job may have a #SellByDate but grounded values do not.
In a reshuffle early in the following year, Obasanjo removed Emeka Chikelu as Minister & found himself people whom he could trust to say or abuse anyone whom he wanted in the way he desired. Today, his acolytes in power in different parts of Nigeria, including especially Anambra State, shamefully re-enact the Obasanjo playbook, forgetting that they will not be in power forever. Those who credit them with knowing better mistake the book cover for its contents.
Given a choice between high office vs. his values, principle, & decency, Emeka Chikelu chose the latter. Unlike many of his peers & predecessors in high office, Emeka Chikelu has never been associated with any scandal.
There are very few of him left.
@PeterObi “People May Not Know That I And My Wife Are Godparents To Soludo’s Children.” ~ PO
THE spirit OF ENVY AND BITTERNESS THAT TOOK OVER @CCSoludo’s LIFE IS A VERY DESTRUCTIVE ONE!
@PeterObi is among top 0.000010% of good humans in all the earth!
Siddharth Kara just said it on Rogan: Britain paid the slave owners a fortune. Taxpayers finished the Bill in 2015.
£20 million.
Forty percent of the entire national budget.
Then they borrowed the money.
British taxpayers were still paying that loan in 2015.
Not 1850.
2015.
People who never owned a slave, never saw a plantation, were still on the hook for compensating men who treated human beings as property.
The Gladstones cashed one of the biggest checks.
Tens of millions in today’s money.
On top of the fortune they already extracted.
The enslaved got five more years of unpaid “apprenticeship.”
Then Britain just replaced them with Indian indentured labor and kept the machine running.
That’s the part that doesn’t make the museum plaque.
Enjoy Your day guys!
A new Nigeria is Near & Very POssible.
*Interesting! Entertaining!! & with God's help, a prophetic premonition of a New Nigeria. Inshallah!
*Interesting! Entertaining!! And with God's help, a prophetic premonition of a New Nigeria. Inshallah!
“On behalf of every Nigerian mother and family, I’m writing this open letter to FrieslandCampina WAMCO, the makers of Peak Milk, Three Crowns, Olympic and Coast Milk.
Peak Milk has been around for more than 70 years. Our mothers trusted these brands and handed them down to us, and now we are about to hand them over to our children. Suddenly, something appears to have gone wrong with these products we have trusted for decades.
At some point, we made excuses that perhaps some people were producing fake milk. But now, we have come to realise that, alongside the fake products in the market, some of the products that have gone bad are reportedly original products from your brand.
At this point, we are scared, we are asking questions, and we deserve answers.”
—Ms Dooshima publicly appeals to FrieslandCampina WAMCO.