TARABA CRISIS IS GENOCIDE AGAINST THE FULANI, SAYS NIGERIAN ARMY GEN

Nigerian Army Gen says attacks on Fulanis in the Mambilla was genocide committed against Fulani in Taraba aimed at wiping them out!

IS TOO LATE TO RESTRUCTURE NIGERIA. ANKIO BRIGGS

 Prominent resource control crusader, Ankko Briggs, has backed down on her call for the restructuring of the country. Briggs said making such move at this time in the life of the nation was too late. She rather called for the parting of ways by the different sections of the country. In a position made known on Wednesday amid the call for restructuring by several prominent individuals and groups, Briggs said the restructuring of the country should have been long done before the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan or the National Conference held in 2014. She said at the time, nobody understood why she stood on the side of restructuring the country. Now Briggs said that call is coming too late. She said what will work for the country at this time is for the different regions to go their separate ways. Briggs said: “Going by the figures, the North is getting over 60 per cent of the total local government allocations and even when we come to the states as well they also receive far more than the Southern states. “Again, if you go to the National Assembly, they are far more in numbers, especially in the House of Representatives, and so by the time there is a motion or bill, which they are not in support of, ends up being frustrated or not being passed at all. “A good example is the PIB that had to spent over 10 years in the National Assembly. “How can this continue?” According to the renowned advocate for resource control in the Niger Delta, the time for restructuring Nigeria was long gone owing to the fact that it had become another political tool in the hands of the ruling elites, whose plan is to increase revenue allocation to some parts of the country currently agitating, but then retain the same form of governance, which has bred institutional injustice in the country. Briggs said: “For me, calling for restructuring now is too late we want to go our separate ways because you see what they are calling restructuring is not what restructuring is. “Restructuring to them is that the status quo should remain and perharps a little increase in revenue to agitating regions, but the real restructuring is when everybody keeps what you have, even if it is only water that you have, and if you can sell it, sell it. “So anything apart from that is not restructuring. “What is federalism? “This is where you have the states, which are the federating units. “So a federation means that every component is autonomous to itself within that nation. “So how can the Federal Government be interested in building hospitals in Abia State or building a university in Rivers State? “Nigeria is a good example of how impossible to run a government. “How can one man alone, who is of a different culture, language, religion run or oversee the rest of the people of over 400 ethnic groups as if he is overseeing his own personal property or estate? “He cannot do it right because he doesn’t know my culture and so how can he make decisions that will be 100 per cent appealing to me because the things I would put into consideration if I am to make the same decisions will be totally different. “People even say that I don’t fight other people’s battle, but that is not true. “I can fight the Igbo man’s battle because I understand his way of life and culture to a very large extent because my grandmother is Igbo and I can speak Igbo language well too, I can understand them, I can work with them and if I am working with them and I make decisions for my people and Igbo people, I won’t go wrong because I know what to do. “Now reverse the case and ask me to make decisions for the Hausa-Fulani man or the Muslim man, I will make a terrible decision and this is because I don’t understand them. “So this is what we are saying that someone who doesn’t understand a people cannot make any good decision for them. “If this simple conditions are not met, governance will fail and that is what has happened in the real sense, it has failed in Nigeria. “The then military leadership under General Abdusalami Abubakar had a rare opportunity of gathering Nigerians together to come up with a document meant to be the constitution, but it was bungled because what happened was that one man just sat down and made sure that the document was written to favour a particular section of the country and he called it the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The Nigerian constitution is the only constitution in the world that tells a lie against itself and its people, when its first sentence says: ‘We the people.’ “That statement is a lie. “There was never a gathering of any people or group of persons to discuss any constitution. “Do you also know that the constitution was designed to work against people who are not Muslims as the word Islam, Muslim, Sharia or Mosque was mentioned over 200 times, while the word Christian or Church was never mentioned in the constitution? “And you say that same constitution is meant for all of us?"

Foreign gay lover escaped been lynched in ejigbo, lagos.

A foreigner, simply identified as Mr Zcent, has escaped death after he visited his prospective gay friend he met on facebook to advance his sexual lust in Lagos.

He was brutally attacked, battered and dumped at the Catholic Church land at Ori-Oke in Ejigbo area of Lagos by the attackers.

The incident happened at the weekend after Zcent left his Lagos Island home and visited the friend in Ejigbo whom he had talked into gay practice through facebook.

When he arrived in Ejigbo where he and his friend had fixed an appointment, he was suddenly surrounded by some youths who had already knew his mission in the area.

when he arrived, he was forced out of his car and taking to the Catholic Church land where he was stripped, tortured, disgraced and left to his fate.

It was the police who saved the day for him after the matter was reported at the Ejigbo Division.

At the Ori-oke area where the incident happened, the residents confirmed the attack, saying that the man wanted to engaged one of the residents into gay practice through facebook.

He was pressurising the friend to come to his Lagos Island home for the sex romp and promised to pay him certain amount of money in dollars.

However, the friend declined and invited him to come to Ejigbo where he reportedly mobilized some youths and attacked him.

IKEMBA The foundation of Biafra

Yahya Jammeh, a better negotiator to his political allies than Goodluck Jonathan

After 22 years as a dictator, Yahya Jammeh was ready to relinquish power but not without a deal to protect him and his political allies from political harassment by the incoming administration.
Immediately, it was announced that he had lost elections to the opposition candidate, Adama Barrow, Jammeh called Barrow in a televised session to concede. He stressed that Barrow needed to work with him for a peaceful transition of power but Barrow did not seem to get Jammeh's political tone. He suddenly began holding public talks and stressing that he would probe and prosecute Jammeh when sworn in.
This was a grave mistake by Barrow and Jammeh was not going to allow anyone pose a threat to his freedom after power. He announced that he had rejected the election results due to suspicions of abnormalities. The world went berserk calling for Jammeh's head yet Jammeh was unmoved. He knew exactly what he wanted.
After weeks of unwillingness to relinquish power, ECOWAS stepped in to negotiate but to no avail. Jammeh waited until a deal was reached before accepting to step down. Below are some of the points reached in the deal:
1. ECOWAS declared that they would halt any military operations in The Gambia for the sub-regional body to continue the pursuit of the peaceful and political resolution of the crisis.
2. ECOWAS, the AU, and the UN, in the deal, made a commitment to work with the new Gambian government to pave the way for Jammeh's return to the country at any time he chooses in line with international human rights legislations and his right as a Gambian citizen and former president.
3. The three bodies also promised to ensure that countries that elect to host Jammeh and his family during the temporary exile period are not made to endure harassment, intimidation, sanctions and sundry pressures.
4. The new Gambian government was urged to provide assurance that supporters and members of Jammeh's government are not subjects of intimidation or harassment.
5. According to the details of the deal, the international bodies also made a commitment to work with the new government to prevent the seizure of assets and properties lawfully acquired by Jammeh, his family, cabinet members, government officials and supporters of his political party
6. The ousted dictator was equally assured by ECOWAS, the AU, and the UN that the government of his successor would enact legislations inimical to the treatment of himself, his family and supporters with dignity.
Take note of numbers 4,5 and 6. Jammeh ensured that the deal secured not only his freedom and that of his family but also that of his political allies.
In one deal, Jammeh avoided what happened to Charles Taylor, Ghadaffi, Mubarak and What is happening right now to Goodluck Jonathan.
This is what Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan could not do for even his family members.
After peacefully conceding and relinquishing power to Buhari, Goodluck Jonathan, his family, relatives and political allies have been constantly persecuted by the Buhari led administration till date. Some for seemingly justifiable claims and others for false and baseless accusations. The list of those persecuted are endless including Patience Jonathan, Nigeria's immediate past first lady and wife of Goodluck Jonathan.
So while you lambast Yahya Jammeh and while I agree with you that he is not an example of a good leader nor can he fit into the shoes of Goodluck Jonathan's leadership strides, always remember that he is a better leader to his relatives and political allies than our own Goodluck Jonathan is to his relatives and allies.

Comrade Phils