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Meanwhile, the Yoruba police officer innitially used by Uba and his fellow thugs to start this SHOW OF SHAME (not that I care a hoot if the equally crminal Ngige and co are removed from office via force or by lawfull means) has as predicted kicked the bucket.
By Tony Edike, Emma Amaize & Anayo Okoli, Emma Nnadozie and Albert Akpor Wednesday, January 14, 2004
*Achukwu contests Appeal Court ruling at Supreme Court
ENUGU — Mr. Raphael Ige, the Assistant Inspector General of Police who was retired last year on account of his role in the July 10, 2003 abduction of Governor Chris Ngige is reported dead. News of his death came yesterday just as Mr Nelson Achukwu who recently obtained an order of an Enugu High Court that the police should remove Gov. Ngige, filed an appeal at the Supreme Court to contest Monday’s ruling of the Court of Appeal on the issue. Mr. Ige, 56, died yesterday at the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja. He had a history of high blood pressure. He had relocated to his home state soon after his retirement. Mr. Ige was reportedly seen in Lagos and Abuja hale and hearty last week. Counsel to Mr. Achukwu, Mr. Rowland Otaru, told the Appeal Court at its resumed hearing of the case yesterday that his client had gone to the apex court over “the terrible order that was granted yesterday (Monday) by the Court of Appeal.” But the police who were directed by the Appeal Court to reinstate Gov. Ngige’s security personnel were yet to comply yesterday and this did not stop the governor from resuming work in his office in Awka. In the notice of appeal, Mr. Achukwu said the Justices of the Appeal Court erred in law when they held that the multiple applications filed by Dr. Ngige and the Anambra State Attorney General in separate courts on the same matter against the persons did not amount to abuse of court process, and wrongly assumed jurisdiction in the application for injunction against the enforcement of the decision in suit No: E/503m/2003. He said the learned justices also erred in law “when they dismissed the appellant’s notice of preliminary objection to the competence and the jurisdiction of the court when the court found that 3rd and 4th respondents filed multiple applications against the same persons on the same subject matter and all aimed at the same subject matter.”
The lower court, Achukwu added, erred in law when they exer- cised jurisdiction over the 3rd and 4th respondents motion on notice for injunction, restraining the 1st respondent (Inspector-General of Police) from enforcing the decision and orders of the High Court of Enugu State dated on the 2nd day of January 2004 in suit No. E/503m/03 Hon. Nelson Achukwu vs Inspector-General of Police & 3 ors, when the Supreme Court in the case of Saraki vs Kotoye (1992) 9 NWLR (pt 264) 156 expressly considered same as an abuse of the process of court. “The learned justices of the lower court erred in law in making an interim order of injunction restraining the Inspector-General of Police by himself through his agents howsoever from in any manner whatsoever removing the 3rd respondent from office or from preventing or further obstructing the performance of his duties as Governor of Anambra State in purported enforcement of the decision of the High Court of Enugu State dated 2nd January 2004 in suit No. Hon. Nelson Achukwu vs Inspector General of Police & 3 ors,” the appellant said. He is, therefore, seeking the following reliefs: “To allow the appeal; set aside the decision of the lower court; and an order directing a new panel to hear and determine the motion on notice and the appeal on the merit.” Meanwhile, Otaru made an application for adjournment of the motion before the Court of Appeal, to enable him procure vital documents needed for the matter while an application for stay of further proceedings of the case was filed. This is to be heard later. Counsel to Ngige, Chief Udechukwu Nnoruko Udechukwu (SAN), opposed the application for adjournment, saying it was made in bad faith, and drew the attention of the court to the appeal before the Supreme Court, adding that the application was to give them time to prosecute the appeal before the apex court. Counsel to the Inspector-General of Police, Mrs Bola Braimoh, did not oppose the application for adjournment, which was later granted by the judge. The case was adjourned to Monday, January 19.
Ngige’s security personnel yet to be restored
Meanwhile, 24 hours after the Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu ordered the police to reinstate the security aides of Gov. Chris Ngige, the police in Anambra State were yesterday yet to comply with the order. The state police command maintained that it had not received any counter order from the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Tafa Balogun, to restore the aides withdrawn from the governor following the Enugu High Court order. Gov. Ngige reported for duty at Government House, Awka at about 2.45p.m. and his Special Assistant, Media and Publicity, Mr. Fred Chukwuelobe, told Vanguard that the governor had to be careful since the police were slow in responding to the Appeal Court order. Volunteers, mainly male youths and men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, were all the security available at Government House, Awka and the Governor’s Lodge, yesterday. --------------------------------------------------
Who said the Igbo god is not alive and watching. Sooner than later, it will be the turn of the Yoruba CROOK who calls himself the president of Nigeria.
It is only when those who do want the Igbo nation be learn that NO ONE fights Ndigbo and live to tell will they have peace.
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Was Ige murdered by the OBJ government? It seems like the man knew too much and he had to be silenced the Obasanjo way.
From Daily Times:
quote:He said Ige collapsed and died before reaching the hospital where the friend said he had been to, to confirm Ige’s death.
The friend stated that Ige, who he said would have retired from the public this month if not for his compulsory retirement last July over the Anambra crisis, “must have died of heart attack.”
Recounting his last conversation with the deceased, the friend said: “he told me that the presentation of the Ngige saga was not fair to him and that if he decided to speak, the country will be shaken. He said aburo let’s find time to talk about it, but unfortunately, we never got to talk about it.”
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quote:Originally posted by addy: Raphael Ige, ex-AIG dies at 56
I guess the guy could not resist the combined assault of 'ofo' and 'ogu'. May his soul rest in peace!
Addy,
True true may this fall guy's soul rest in peace if he's truly dead.
I did'nt see anywhere the man's body in the morgue was discussed.
Aremu and his tribesmen have proven very capable of watching movies and applying some hollywood maneuvers just like IBB with mailbombs to kill Dele Giwa and Abacha with remote bombs and assasins to kill a whole host of dissenters.
An attempt to change the identity of a potential witness would not be unimaginable or improbable given the arrays of misapplications of hollywood stunts thus far demonstrated by Aremu and conveniently covered up for him by the parapo press.
Not "show me the money", but; "Show me the body"!!!
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I totally agree, SHOW ME THE BODY! Not even this cousin has said anything about the body.
quote:Ex-AIG Ige's cousin seeks probe of death
From Madu Onuorah (Abuja), Adamu Abuh (Kano) and Alex Olise (Lagos)
A COUSIN of Mr. Raphael Ige yesterday alleged in Kano that the retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) died as a result of poisoning.
In an interview with reporters in Kano, Mr. Sunday Alu called for an enquiry into the death of Ige, saying: "There is more to the death of Ige than meets the eyes."
Ige was retired after he led a team of policemen to abduct Governor Chris Nwabueze Ngige of Anambra State last year. However, renewed efforts to unseat Ngige are still ruffling feathers within the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP), the police and the judiciary.
Alu, who is a Kano-based journalist, remarked that it would not be surprising if masterminds of the Ngige saga were the ones behind the sudden death of Ige.
Noting that Ige was hale and hearty as at last week, he asserted that the late police chief must have been poisoned after a recent trip to Lagos. According to him, Ige was hale and hearty before he travelled to Lagos last week. "When I contacted his residence in Lokoja, I was told that he developed headache around 11 p.m. on Monday evening. Before he was rushed to the hospital, he gave up the ghost.
"This is Nigeria, it could be that as he wanted to open up, some persons who felt he would expose them decided to eliminate him," he said.
Alu, who hails from East Yagba Council of Kogi State, averred that recent developments in Anambra showed that Ige was used as a scapegoat by those behind the attempt to unseat Ngige.
Ige died at about 2 a.m. on Tuesday in Lokoja, Kogi State. Police sources disclosed that Ige had been subject to depression as his relations had ostracised him for his role in the Ngige saga.
It was learnt that the late police chief settled in Lokoja, the state capital and not his home-town, Yagba, after being retired from service on account of this treatment.
Ige had alleged that his abduction of Ngige was on "orders from above."
The self-acclaimed godfather of Anambra politics, Chief Chris Uba and Mr. Chuma Nzeribe were said to be among the masterminds of the abduction.
The abduction was hurriedly reversed by an order from Vice President Atiku Abubakar upon receiving Ngige's distress call.
But Ige's retirement sparked a backlash of criticisms from people who felt that the late police boss and his accomplices ought to be tried for what has been dubbed a failed civilian coup d'etat.
Meanwhile, a team of senior policemen from Abuja is expected to pay a condolence visit to the family of Ige.
Sources at the Force Headquarters confirmed yesterday that the delegation would leave Abuja today for Yegba-Lokoja, Kogi State, to commiserate with the late police chief's family.
The Force Public Relations Officer, Mr. Chris Olakpe, could not be reached for confirmation of the burial plans.
Speaking to State House reporters after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting yesterday, the Inspector-General, Mr. Tafa Balogun, described Ige's death as a "sad development."
Disclosing that he was yet to be briefed on the incident, Balogun said he had, however, asked the AIG in charge of Kogi State to confirm the report.
The IG said: "May his soul rest in peace. But it is a sad development. We heard it yesterday and we asked the AIG of the zone to go and confirm. After confirmation, we'll know the next line of action."
The security situation in the country dominated discussions at the meeting. Top on the agenda was the invasion of the North East region, especially Yobe and Borno States by a self-styled "Taleban" group.
Present at the meeting were the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Alexander Ogomudia; Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Martin Luther Agwai; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Samuel Afolayan; and Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Jonah Wuyep.
Let's not be hasty in looking at ofo and ogu. Let's focus on ogun for now.
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quote:Originally posted by Dave: My Cousin was Poisoned!
Let's not be hasty in looking at ofo and ogu. Let's focus on ogun for now. [/QB]
Dave,
(LOL) Only you! Only you my brother could have put it like that.
If this turns out to be a lie, a desperate fabrication, I'm afraid they would then have to really kill this poor guy.
As funny as the goofy efforts to pull themselves out of this mess is getting, Aremu and his demonic desperadoe hirelings are only digging themselves deeper into desperate acts of heinuous immorality and lawlessness.
They may not yet have done their worst, but many are now begining to understand the disgusting depths of their appetite for depravity.
Even those who would cover for, defend, or attempt to insulate their actions are getting uncomfortable with the very avoidable and unnecessary stench emanating from remaining in any measure of close moral proximity or association.
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Ukaobasi & Dave: Whether it is Ogun or Ofo is irrelevant One thing is for sure: whoever that defiles Igboland will in due course pay DEARLY for it!
Be on the watch, because more of such retributive cases (it might come as 'sudden' death or other calamities) will as the year progress unfold.
THOSE (be they Igbo or non Igbo) WHO DO NOT WANT PEACE FOR NDIGBO AND ALAIGBO WILL NEVER HAVE ONE THEMSELVES.
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quote:Originally posted by Nwa Aro: THOSE (be they Igbo or non Igbo) WHO DO NOT WANT PEACE FOR NDIGBO AND ALAIGBO WILL NEVER HAVE ONE THEMSELVES.
NwaAro, too true my brother.
I think it was Macnamara and Kissinger who advised Nixon to just unilaterally delare victory and pull out of Vietnam. Nixon saw the wisdom in that advise and followed it.
Aremu, in his bold march to go and redeem his sense of self worth, given the inferiority complex instilled in him by Young Igbo officers in the 50's and 60's is on a dangerous rampage and he will not be calmed.
No amount of sycophantic ego massaging has helped him to get over his insecurities (inflicted by Igbos in his mind) throughout his lifetime.
Is'nt it time to declare victory and superiority and leave Ngige alone?
Its that easy, and this is free advise coming from a hated but sympathetic Igbo. We do feel your pain.
In the meantime, I'd like to hear the ready explanation which Remi Oyo, or for that matter Tafa's own publicity secretary would have concocted, should the press seriously request to see the body or in case of a demand for autopsy.
This would turn out to be another mini-saga on its own.
All because of hounding Ngige? Uchu gbakwa!!!
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If this Ige guy is really dead, this would be the third Ige Aremu has killed, that is counting the Late Cicero, Bola Ige and his wife Atinuke.
It may do well for Aremu to recognize that Ngige is no Ige.
And that despite all that wonderful and cozy support he is getting from Ubah, Nnaji, Wabara, Achukwu, Okey Udeh, etc...
The Igbo nation is just that! The Igbo Nation. Not AD/PDP!!! where an Omisore is made senator next day and Adesanya's relatives are granted plum govt positions as a sign of solidarity and tribal self compensation.
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In their drive to do in Ngige, these bungling Tafa police are actually single handedly providing all the momentuum for self help and total independence Igbos have been seeking all along.
The longer Ngige, Anambrarians and Igbo get used to an Igboland without a leprously corrupt and tattered police force feasting on inegenes like vampires, the quicker they would begin to see the difference between self protection and occupation.
This could'nt have worked out any better to awaken the peoples drive and sense of empowerment.
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quote:It may do well for Aremu to recognize that Ngige is no Ige.
Ukaobasi,
Could it be that Mr. Obasanjo and his praise singers are mistaking the two names i.e (Ng)Ige for Ige? Minus the NG, a foreigner to Igbo Language might make that mistake. My brothers or cousins still cannot even pronounce (H)elp and the likes.
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quote:Originally posted by Ednut: [QUOTE] Could it be that Mr. Obasanjo and his praise singers are mistaking the two names i.e (Ng)Ige for Ige? Minus the NG, a foreigner to Igbo Language might make that mistake. My brothers or cousins still cannot even pronounce (H)elp and the likes.
(LOL)Ednut,
That was funny, but dont you know? Stranger things have happened.
Not to talk of in this saga where, by that funny logic If your name has ..ige, or, ige.. or even yet, ..ige.., You better watch out! else you end up on Aremus elimination squad radar.
He seems avowed to do away with all Iges, without discrimination, be you Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, or the rest.
The pattern is eerily the same: Use 'em, kill 'em. Walk over 'em.
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..As i was saying, to shed more light on the debacle at Nnamdi Azikiwe House, below is a condemnation of the Awka saga written by no less than a true Yoruba son, a member of the 'Lagos-Ibadan axis' of the Nigerian Press. Who say the Oduduwans are a hear no evil, see no evil bunch?
Raphael Ige: An obituary By Reuben Abati
RAPHAEL Ige, the ignominiously retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police, who died in his sleep on Jan. 13 is bound to be strongly remembered for a long time to come, for the curious manner in which he came to represent, in the last moments of his life, the crisis of leadership in the Nigerian state and society. The basic problem with leadership in Nigeria is the absence of what Plato calls "a substantive vision of the good", in its place is the presence in high and low places, of power-wielders who misconstrue leadership as synonymous with dominance, position, influence and the unbridled exercise of authority.
This paucity of leadership is at the centre of the systematised and continuous dislocation of the idea and images of a social contract in our time. Raphael Ige, in one unforgettable moment in recent history became the arrow-head of this process of reversal. Sidney Hook, in his The Hero in History (1943) has opined that some men are eventful, while others are event-making. Raphael Ige was both. An otherwise ordinary man in the scheme of things, a man destined for the position of an obedient civil servant, circumstances pushed him into the portals of history. For him, it is, in retrospect, a tragedy. For the rest of us, it remains an instructive experience.
This is what happened: Raphael Ige as at July 2003, was an Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of zone 9, Umuahia. On July 10, 2003, he opened a new chapter in Nigerian history and politics when he led a team of 300 policemen, in commando style to Awka, the capital of Anambra State, about 120 kilometres away. He and his men, ostensibly acting on "orders from above" forced their way into the office of the Governor, Chris Ngige. They disarmed his security aides, and subsequently abducted him. According to Ige, he had been instructed to remove the Governor from office. It was a totally unprecedented event, which was properly dismissed as an act of illegality, a violation of the Constitution, and a return of the state to the level of "primates". Ige and his men turned out eventually like a bunch of "mountain-gorillas" displaying a "dominance-oriented behaviour" that is both contrarious and anti-social. Matters were made worse when it soon became obvious that the police team was doing the bidding of one Chris Uba, a young man with enough money to wreak havoc, who was determined to remove the Governor of Anambra State by any means possible.
AIG Ige, as he then was, still insisted that he was "acting on orders from above". When he subsequently appeared before a Senate Committee investigating the incident, he repeated this line. But this defence could not protect Ige. In Section 32(2) of the Criminal Code, it is stipulated that "a person is not criminally responsible for an act or omission if he does or omits to do the act in obedience to the order of a competent authority which he is bound by law to obey, unless the order is manifestly unlawful. Whether an order is or is not manifestly unlawful is a question of law". If Ige and his sponsors had been charged for treason, they would have been found guilty. In Anomu v. the State, James Abu and Ors v. the State and Ededey v. the State, it is a settled matter that no officer of the state, purporting to be obeying superior orders can commit a crime and expect the protection of the law.
Removal (and/or abduction) of a Governor of a State by force of arms, in the manner in which Ige and his men attempted is unknown to the Nigerian Constitution, and it is therefore to that extent, an illegal and unconstitutional act. Realising the weight of the crime, and its implications for the integrity of the Nigeria Police, the Police Service Commission promptly heaped all the blame on Ige. He was recommended for dismissal, and was subsequently retired. Even public opinion was totally against Ige's misadventure. Thus, he became the scapegoat for the accumulated failures of the Nigerian Police, and by extension, the domineering conduct of the Federal Government as well as the suspicious meddlesomeness of the Presidency.
There have been many theories as to the immediate and remote causes of his death. What we know however, is that death is a certainty of life. It is an existential debt, from which no man can escape. But Shakespeare, the poet, had put his fingers on the morality of it when he reasoned that "the evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones". The tragedy of Raphael Ige's life is that no one remembers any good that he did. Born in 1947, he joined the Police Force in 1968, and rose through the ranks, serving his country in different capacities, for over 30 years, and was promoted an AIG on May 24, 2001. By all standards, he was up to that point, a successful professional. If his career had not ended disgracefully, he could have served his country in even higher capacities.
But what is now remembered is how on July 10, 2003, his career came to an abrupt and shameful end. Ige's career ought to serve as a lesson to all uniformed persons in our society, for whom the uniform has become a license for criminal conduct. They ought to realise that a nebulous response to "orders from above", cannot serve as protection for criminal behaviour. In Anomu v. the state, the accused person flogged a person to death acting on the orders of a superior police officer. He was duly charged for murder, and the court ruled that he was guilty as charged. It is for all uniformed persons, and public officials in general, to understand that they hold their positions of leadership, in order to promote "the common good" and not as a tool for political dominance through terror.
The medical doctor who attended to Raphael Ige has disclosed that he died of "heart attack". A nephew of his is alleging that he was poisoned during a recent trip to Lagos, by persons who are concerned that he might some day, choose to spill the beans. Family sources have been quoted as saying that the man was most recently duped by some fraudsters, and he died of shock. The night before his death, he was reportedly at a drinking joint with his friends, one of whom has said that Ige was otherwise hale and hearty, and at their rendezvous, he was comfortably doing justice to his second bottle of beer. Other persons have said that it is nemesis that has caught up with the late Ige, on account of his role in the Anambra debacle. In this regard, he has been accused of collecting a bribe of N25 million which he has either lost to fraudsters, or is now unable to spend. Last week, someone pointed out, Raphael Ige was one of the persons cursed by the women of Anambra in the course of a potent ritual. Could his death, be the effect of the curse at work? Whatever may be the truth, the cause of Ige's death is bound to remain in the realm of speculation, but nonetheless, this is one life and death which raises so many moral questions.
The late Ige must have been truly disturbed by the manner in which his career ended. To be dismissed from service is disgraceful enough, to be ostracised by the community is worse. According to Dr. Samuel Osanaiye who attended to him at the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja: "He (Ige) was crying profusely and his blood pressure was too high. He was drenched in his own sweat and he had difficulty in breathing. On examination, we discovered that there was acute shortage of blood to the heart, which made him very restless..." . The totality is" the man died.
Raphael Ige has left his family with an unfair burden. I imagine that anyone who bears the name, Ige, from Kogi State henceforth is bound to be confronted with that suggestive question: "Which Ige is yours? Are you related to...?" In these parts, despite the turbulence and inversions of modern life, a good name is still better than silver and gold. Ige lost out in the high-wire game of politics in which he found himself. If he had lived, perhaps one day, in the future, he could have summoned the courage to tell the truth about July 10, 2003 and the abduction of an elected Governor. Now, that he is dead, it is the entire country that has lost the opportunity to learn the truth about how an entire contingent of policemen could be used so easily to promote violence, and destabilise the public order. The Federal Government is to be blamed for its failure to subject Ige and the others, including the sponsors of their crime to due process. Ige's death points to the dangers of tardiness in the face of issues of urgent national importance. But is this not the normal pattern of government?
We live in a country that is built on a foundation of falsehood and insincerity. Since 1960, the progressive pattern has been the protection of one lie by another resulting in a national integrity crisis that affects everything else, including the lives of citizens. If Ige and others had been put to trial, a proper point would have been made that their act of brigandage is unacceptable. Chris Uba would not now be in a position, to be insisting still on "N3 billion or nothing" (!), and there would have been no such development as a Nelson Achukwu, turning a case that is disabled ab initio, into a cause celebre.
Raphael Ige's death is not exactly a form of closure; rather it re-invents the old questions" mainly about the integrity of public officials, the nature, structure and functions of the Nigerian Police, the character of Nigerian politics, the urgent need for state police and more importantly, the elusive moral values of our lives. What for example, should be the relationship between state police commands and the Governor of a state, who is described as the Chief Security Officer of a State, but who has no authority over the likes of Ige in his domain? It remains a notorious question, in search of resolution.
Meanwhile, we are told not to speak ill of the dead. If Ige indeed was suffering from a guilty conscience, which weighed heavily on his heart, now he is beyond all that. But he remains eternally guilty for not having been disciplined enough to protect his office and uniform from dishonour. Destiny has denied him the happiness of the summer of life. But was he killed because he knew too much, and had too much to bear? I do not know. For better or for worse, his life is ended.
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Those who seek to understand Obasanjo outside this realm, will always turn up empty. Rueben Abati needs to make it clearer that he has come to terms with the proper way of looking at the Yoruba animal. An un-evolved "primate," as Abati alludes to Obasanjo, should not be addressed as "the presidency."
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quote:Originally posted by addy: ........Who say the Oduduwans are a hear no evil, see no evil bunch?
Raphael Ige: An obituary By Reuben Abati
This paucity of leadership is at the centre of the systematised and continuous dislocation of the idea and images of a social contract in our time. Raphael Ige, in one unforgettable moment in recent history became the arrow-head of this process of reversal. Sidney Hook, in his The Hero in History (1943) has opined that some men are eventful, while others are event-making. Raphael Ige was both. An otherwise ordinary man in the scheme of things, a man destined for the position of an obedient civil servant, circumstances pushed him into the portals of history. For him, it is, in retrospect, a tragedy. For the rest of us, it remains an instructive experience.
This is what happened: Raphael Ige .............
The above drivel is what you get when Abati departs from the usual molue conductor mode of slapstick comedy and decides to appear "Erudite".
This "Erudite" so-called "Obituary" appears so unnatural and belabored.
What happened to:
"The Igbos went home that year and had a sad Christmas"
or something of that nature which this rabid bigot excreted from his mouth?
I suppose that was when the going was good and Bola Ige had not been exterminated like a pest. A crime which saw no vibrant sleuthing and retribution from "NADECO", and "OPC" till date.
Today, NADECO wants to help Ngige, Anambra, and Igbo.
I suppose to attain the same justice they attained for late Atinuke Ige and her family who ended up fleeing from "Nigeria", while Adesanyas wife and kids were predictably being sent off to get their cut.
Abati, good job! what a learned job! What a hero!
Where's Raphael Ige's body?
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The preparatory denials have already begun. Hopefully (from the logic guiding the nocturnal subterranean activities), the problem will go away if a state of emmergency is declared in Anambra.
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Quote: ----------------------------------- "I suppose that was when the going was good and Bola Ige had not been exterminated like a pest. A crime which saw no vibrant sleuthing and retribution from "NADECO", and "OPC" till date."---Ukaobasi. -------------------------------------
Big Guy & Ukaobasi: Good that you guys can see beyond the CHARADE contained in Abati's "Obituar". These often double-speak and chameleonic Yoruba people will never stop amazing.
Imagine an Abati who is indeed an OPC card-carring member now playing a 'friend' of Ndigbo. Tufiakwa!!
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quote:Imagine an Abati who is indeed an OPC card-carring member now playing a 'friend' of Ndigbo. Tufiakwa!! ...Nwa-Aro
Nwa-aro, I did not read anywhere in the body of the write-up that the writer was trying to court the friendship or as you gleefully put it, play the friend of Ndiigbo. A public opinion writer serves as the conscience of his profession where the line between wrong and right is not to be seen as blurred. I posit that the guy was only responding to the Anambra crisis from that perspective. Not many Nigerians share your definition of being on the side of right or wrong as being either pro- or anti-Igbo, y'know.? Isn't that one of the major factors militating against proper Igbo reintegration(how i hate that word)into the Nigerian mainstream today;? my way or the highway?
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A COMMENDATION FOR ANAMBRA AND THE NDI-IGBO
"IMAGINE"
I magine this worthless infractions by the Judicial system spear headed by ordinary cititzens and in shadow by the President.
Imagine what would have happened if Anambra was not such a civilized state.
Imagine what would have happened if this fracas would have happened in Yoruba land.
Imagine this violations between the Warri and Isekeri people.
Imagine what would have happened if this violation had happened in Hausa land.
Yes, I did imagine what would have happened...a catatrosphic/pathological mistrustful and disastrous waste of human blood by hopeless and infamous hoodlums from the west and the north. With every thing wrong with the pathos and ethos blended for mayhem. Anambra has showned to the rest of the country, their level of comprehension is above average and quite cosmic by comparison to those regions who resort to unwanton killing of innocent people as a dissent. Or rather for religious and spiritual rituals as marshalled out by Ogu or satanic verses.
Anambra people should be commended for civility and restraint. They showed that non-violence is man's greatest form of dissent. Yes, it is not over but so far the people of Anambra are in the right track. Now imagine yourself copy that?
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[ January 17, 2004, 07:50 PM: Message edited by: Waypoint1Biafra ]
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".....major factors mitigating against proper Igbo reintegration into the Nigerian mainstream...." addy
Your gloating about the ascendancy of low-standards in your nigeria under Yoruba management is noted, but what is your nigerian mainstream? The imposition on BiafraNigeria Yoruba culture of indiscipline, fraud, lazy work habits and inability to compete with the world - all features that have reduced Africa to the dark continent, and all of which are permanent features of Yoruba/Hausa management of BiafraNigeria since 1970.
Your "shofisticated" nigerian mainstream is precisely where Biafrans/Igbos do not wish to be. That no-standards nigerian mainstream of Yoruba/Hausa worldview is the wrong way to engage with the environment. No wonder it continues to impose darkness on the Dark Continent.
You should note that Biafrans fight against your mainstream nonsense, not to be part of it.
[ January 18, 2004, 06:48 AM: Message edited by: Amadi O. ]
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In another thread you called this Ngige fiasco a "quagmire" and you weanted me to comment on it. If it looks like a quagmire to you, that is because your people are too busy calling themselves Jews and other dumb names to think and act properly.
If you want to call yourselves Jews, you should at least act like Jews. Do you think that an Israeli Prime Minister would allow himself to be guarded by Arab Police officers?
Forget about the Jews for a moment. Do you know that your people are the only ones who allow non-native police officers to guard their leaders. Do you think that Igbo police officers guard Obasanjo? Do you think Igbo officers guard Atiku? Do you think that the governor of Kano is guarded by Igbo officers? Why is Ngige begging to have Yoruba and Hausa police come guard him? What are they protecting him from? Were they not the ones that kidnapped him in the first place?
We know that the Attorney General never speaks or acts indepedently. Thus, from the words of the Attorney General in the report below, we now know that Obasanjo is no longer attempting to hide his role as the mastermind of what is going on in Anambra State.
quote:AG to IG: Do Not Protect Ngige
Nwabueze: President should not control police By Lanre Issa-Onilu, Eugene Agha and Yemi Akinsuyi
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The embattled Anambra State Governor, Dr. Chris Ngige, would remain as governor but without police protection pending the determination of the substantive suit before the Court of Appeal, Enugu, says the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Akinlolu Olujinmi.
THISDAY checks revealed that the nation's chief law officer had advised the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Tafa Balogun, in a letter (legal advice) dated January 15, that the effect of the order of the Court of Appeal which restrains the IG, his agents, servants, workmen, or privies from removing or further obstructing Ngige from performing his duties as governor was "to preserve matters as they were as at the time the parties appeared before the court.
"In other words, those things that had been done pursuant to the order (Enugu High Court) will remain so until the pending motion is disposed of. This is to ensure that while the matter stands adjourned, nothing is to be done to alter the state of things," said the Justice minister.
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