IBRAHIM KPOTUN IDRIS: THE ABANDONMENT OF DUTY
PART THREE
SERIES: BUHARISM AND THE SWIFT URGENCY OF NOW
Can Nigerians not yet see that the children of today's Generals, serving and retired already form the next generation of the nation's Generals?.The names of their General-fathers are the yardsticks by which competitive performance, military intelligence and strategy are measured in the armed forces and the police of today in Nigeria. This is how best to run a national institution!
IBRAHIM KPOTUN IDRIS: THE ABANDONMENT OF DUTY
PART TWO (continued from 21/10/17).
BUHARISM AND THE FIERCE URGENCY OF NOW
CONFLICT OF INTEREST, THE ABUSE OF OFFICE AND THE CANNIBALIZATION OF THE FUTURE
"The police should relate with the public, but not as in partnering to establish a broadcaster, buy the police operational vehicles, build barracks, doing actual business together as pooling resources together to do business, doing such other dirty deals, save training and development, payment of their salaries by private citzens who of course, without mincing words are thieves, amongst them those still stealing the nation blind, and the ex-robbers, ex-drug pushers, ex-kidnappers who have now veered into seeming legitimate businesses."
BY DON OKEREKE, SECURITY CONSULTANT AND ANALYST
The United States of America designates every October as ‘’National Cyber Security Awareness Month’’ (NCAM). Initiated in 2004, the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a collaboration between government —the U.S. Department of Homeland Security — and private industry — the National Cyber Security Alliance, and other partners. The National Cyber Security Awareness Month campaign is aimed at raising awareness about the importance of cybersecurity (safeguarding digital information) and to increase resiliency in the event of an incident. The United States President, Mr. Donald J. Trump proclaimed the October 2017 National Cybersecurity Awareness Month a while ago at the White House. The National Cybersecurity Awareness Month campaign is now a global call to action. Canada, Europe and other countries have joined the fray. Africa, nay, Nigeria must take a cue.
IBRAHIM KPOTUN IDRIS: THE ABANDONMENT OF DUTY
PART 1
SERIES: BUHARISM AND THE SWIFT URGENCY OF NOW
In the face of the current high crime rate of all sorts ravaging every nook and cranny of the Nigerian State, it's very shocking to know what preoccupies the small mind of the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Kpotun Idris of the national police is not how to combat all these by partnering with all the communities in Nigeria, expanding the frontiers of crime fighters, upgrading policing in Nigeria from its primitive and antedilluvian policing to international standards of effective policing, befitting a multicultural, multi-lingual Nigeria and making the nations's police become representative, buying state of the art policing equipmemt and gadgets, including drones and helicopters, body armours and body worn cameras for the police, building habitable barracks, having police stations that are of international standards, coming up with befitting uniforms, looking at the welfare status of the police, buying new vehicles, encouraging graduates and women to take to a career in the police service, embarking on researches, training and development, and moving the police from its current people-unfriendly/bestial/jungle-like status to a people-friendly one, etc, but to embark on an egostical ingloriousness of wanting to open a separate broadcaster for the police community in Nigeria.
BY DON OKEREKE, SECURITY CONSULTANT/ANALYST
Introduction
The age-long reverence for places of worship and religious leaders is increasingly eroding around the world. The unprecedented security threats to places of worship are diverse and alarming. They include: terrorist attacks, kidnapping of religious leaders and congregants, theft of relics and offerings, arson active shooter incidents, amongst others. An active shooter is an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area. Victims are selected at random. Event is unpredictable and evolves quickly. I will cite some incidents to buttress the fact that places of worship, religious leaders are no longer venerated nor spared by men of the underworld.
At about 8:30am on September 8, 2017, three gunmen posing as worshippers invaded St. Thomas’ Catholic Church, Onilekere, Ikeja, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria and shot the Parish Priest, Rev. Daniel Nwankwo at close range. The incident took place after the priest concluded morning Mass. In Imo state, Reverend Father Cyriacus Onunkwo was on September 1, 2017, abducted and subsequently killed in cold blood by his assailants. An police ex-corporal, Mr. Jude Madu, is one of the five suspects arrested for masterminding the abduction and killing of the priest.
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Until now, until now (sobbing), Mother
In our delusion we had thought
we were protected, safe and secure
in your bossom of love.
And basking in the glory of this security
we carried on in our own very complacency
and self-confidence
...the Myanmarians must aim at being their brothers' and sisters' keepers and must learn to build an egalitarian society of fraternal proximity, where faith, ethnic nationality, creed, philosophy, ideology, colour of one's skin do not matter, but what really does matter is that they are all Burmese and human beings or they will perish like fools.
BY IDRISS ZACKARIA
On a joint interview broadcasted on Sunday with French media - RFI, TV5 World, and the daily Le Monde – conducted in the Chadian capital N’Djamena - the Chadian president Idriss Déby Into has warned that Chad “will be in the obligation to withdraw military operations in Africa if nothing is done” to assist financially the countries which are going through a severe social and economic crisis, referring to the 1,400 Chadian soldiers serving with the UN’s MINUSMA force.
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SERIES: BUHARISM AND THE FIERCE URGENCY OF NOW
A treatise on pastoral jihadism, islamism, arabism and cultural imperialism in Nigeria
(Ephesians 5:14)
THIS HOUSE IS OUR HOUSE, THIS COUNTRY IS OUR COUNTRY, THIS NATION IS OUR NATION, OUR NIGERIA IS OUR NIGERIA, NOT THEIR NIGERIA...THEREFORE, LET US JOIN HANDS TO RECREATE IT TO FIT THE NIGERIA OF OUR DREAM, LET US REMAKE IT, LET US JOIN HANDS TO MAKE A BETTER NIGERIA!
PART 14
"Since 1914 the British Government has been trying to make Nigeria into one country,but the Nigerian people themselves are historically different in their backgrounds,in their religious beliefs and customs and do not show themselves any signs of willingness to unite.Nigeria unity is only a British invention"-Alhaji Tafawa Belewa.
THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF CULTURAL, LINGUISTIC, RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL HOMOGENEITY OF A NATION STATE
LIKE CATTLE EGRETS AND COWS...A TOAST TO NIGERIAN UNITY AND BROTHERHOOD
Psalm 133
1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;
3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
SERIES: BUHARISM AND THE FIERCE URGENCY OF NOW
Never in the history of all polities and democracies had a party so enjoyed a 100% goodwill as the APC did, whilst campaigning and on actually capturing power, but gone ahead to squander it on the altars of complacency, incurable crass insensitivity, divisiveness, authoritarianism, politcal aggrandizement, vendetta, grandiose greed/avarice, nepotism, regionalism, stupendous corruption, favouritism, hereditary privilege, religious bigotry, violence to national psyche and actual blood-lettings, cultural ethnocentrism and imperialism.
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SERIES: BUHARISM AND THE FIERCE URGENCY OF NOW
PART 13
WHY THE FULBES WON'T SETTLE DOWN FOR A SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE LIKE THE REST OF HUMANITY AND SUBSEQUENTLY GIVE UP SUBSISTENCE PASTORALISM AND EMBRACEE ECONOMIC PASTORALISM IN ORDER TO PROMOTE SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICALLY COMPLIANT LIVESTOCK FARMING IN NIGERIA
1. The desire to keep a an archaic/obsolete/antedilluvian/medieval tradition which has now outlived its use by date, so expired, hence the continuation of it usage is causing the whole country a very bad side effect.
In the last 24 years this has always been my worry and after all the 'grammar' that did follow all my investigations I had always expressed my doubt about the sincerety of the prominent Fulbes, especially Muhammadu Buhari to let go nomadism and embrace modernity with all of economic and scientific pastoralism/modern livestock farming.
Food for thought: ‘’Treat the surrendering Biafrans well or risk their children rising’’
Preamble
Any news-savvy individual not ensconced under the rock, not living in another planet in the last couple of years will attest to the strident publicity, increasing appeal of the Biafra independence movement. In addition to the #BiafraAt50 Anniversary cum a very successful sit-at-home order by Biafra campaigners which took place on May 30, 2017 and completely shut down the entire southeast and parts of the south-south, on Aljazeera, July 5, 2017, Aljazeera’s The Stream featured a programme titled - #Biafra50YearsOn: Is Nigeria's secessionist movement re-emerging? Coincidentally, the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, also did a broadcast on July 5/6, 2017 titled -Biafra at 50: The war that changed Nigeria. As the global awareness ramps up…the plot thickens and Nigeria increasingly looks like a country on the brink. Similar to his gung-ho military approach to the renewed militancy in the Niger Delta which subsequently petered out through deft diplomacy, President Buhari’s miscalculation, whimsical and ultra vires incarceration of Nnamdi Kanu transformed him into a folk hero with an impressive global cult following. Dyed-in-the-wool proponents of Biafra independence movement proclaim that Biafra is a fait accompli. They affirm that there is a spiritual dimension, a ‘’God factor’’ to the affairs of Biafra. Now to the crux of this discourse.
BY DON OKEREKE, SECURITY CONSULTANT/ANALYST
Introduction
More than one hundred years after disparate nation states with dissimilar cultures, religion, and values amongst others were forcefully amalgamated by British colonialists for administrative convenience, hegemonic aggrandizement and fifty years after a three year civil war, Nigeria simultaneously grapples with insurgency, terrorism, militancy, instability, and recurring agitation for the balkanization of the country. Most of the issues that led to the Nigeria-Biafra civil war were glossed over, remain unresolved. At the end of the civil war the then Head of State, General Gowon bandied the three R’s - reconciliation, rehabilitation and reconstruction - which turned out to be mere clichés, unfulfilled promises. There was no reconciliation, no rehabilitation and definitely no reconstruction. My father told me how they were given only twenty pounds irrespective of how much they saved up in the banks. They moved on but the scar endured. Fifty years after the Nigerian civil war, Ndigbo of southeast Nigeria don’t have a sense of belonging in Nigeria. They are alienated, marginalized and subjugated as a conquered people. In the United States, pupils and students are taught about the American civil war but in Nigeria where it appears we have a phobia for history and the truth.
SERIES: BUHARISM AND THE FIERCE URGENCY OF NOW
PART 7
*Contd from PART SIX published on April 5, 2017
IN SHARP CONTRAST TO THE NIGERIA HIGH COMMISSION, A PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION OF HOW MY COMPLAINTS TO EE WAS HANDLED AND STILL BEING INVESTIGATED
"10 November 2016
Dear John
Re: ......(My home line)
"I write regarding the issues you raised on 06 2016 concerning a landline fault that had not been fixed. During your conversation with an advisor, an engineer was booked for 11 October 2016. I just want to make sure the issue has now been resolved...
"I can appreciate the frustration this issue has caused you. To enable us to move forward and bring the matter to an amicable resolution, I would welcome the opportunity to speak with you to obtain your views and feelings on this matter...
"Your complaints will remain open for the next 7 working days. After this point, if you have not made contact I will close the complaint on your behalf. However, should you still have any outstanding queries or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me...
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Yours sincerely"
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