Saturday, June 11, 2016
KADUNA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN- BY GEORGE MAKERI
Some of those unscrupulous APC scoundrels we call brothers in Southern Kaduna mischievously refused to consider the continual arrest of our gallant youths by the El-Rufai police; the consistent kidnap, rape and sometimes, murder of our mothers and sisters by El-Rufai's fulani kinsmen; the regular assaults and murder of our fathers, children and grandfathers and etc in Kajuru Local Government area by El-Rufai's herdsmen, as postulated in the previous episode of this series - but they were quick to observe that Emanuel Francis was not death. The APC gremlins quickly stole the opportunity to scream foul over what they perceived as a blunder from us. It didn't occur to the APC goblins that the fact that Emanuel Francis is alive, is simply a miracle. Emanuel Francis himself said he didn't know how he made it to St. Gerald Hospital. That means, he fainted from the stabs and blows and his assailants thought he was death and left. However you want to look at it, that was a murder case. An attempted murder is murder, whether the victim lives or dies. They went with the intention to murder their victim and they did. That Francis survived today is a testimony. He survived to tell us why he was attacked. If he were death, we wouldn't have known it was a case of not joining the Muslims to fast during the month of Ramadan that resulted to his murder - just like we don't know what resulted to the murder of another Francis whose corpse was found in a tank belonging to Faz Oil, a company he worked with, along Television road in Kaduna on Thursday June 9, 2016. The circumstances surrounding the murder of this Faz Oil Francis remains a mystery to this day. This Faz Oil Francis was a 25-year old welder who went missing since May 27th 2016. Because the dead stay dumb, we may never know the circumstances leading to this Francis's death. We may never know why he was killed. It may be because he was a Christian, or because he was accused of a blasphemy based on a religion that wasn't his.
Let me digress a little. What those terrorists Muslims who assault Christians based on blasphemy are refusing to understand is; a Christian can denigrate the person of the prophet of Islam and that Christian has not blasphemed - this is because Christianity does not recognise the prophet of Islam even though I am not advocating that Christians should do so. Only Muslims can blasphem if they attack the person of the prophet of Islam - this is because Muslims should know better. For a Christian to become a Muslim, he has to recite the 'Shahada'. The Shahada is an affirmation that there is only one God and the prophet of Islam is his prophet. No Christian believes in the 'Shahada', which is one of the pillars of Islam; why then must Christians be subjected to the dictates of a belief they don't share? This is reprehensible and barbaric. If that be the case, Muslims blasphem against Christianity all the time. Anytime a Muslim say Jesus is not the son of God (which is one of the Islamic beliefs), he has blasphemed - should he then be assaulted by Christians for blasphemy? Christians understand that Muslims will always blasphem against Christianity based on Islamic beliefs. Muslims too must understand that Christians will always blasphem againsts Islam based on Christian beliefs. This mutual understanding is essential for a peaceful co-existence.
Now back to the matter. Why was the Faz Oil Francis murdered? Governor El-Rufai has a duty to burst this cases as the chief executive officer of the state. The murderers of Emmanuel Francis and Francis Fax Oil must be brought to face the wrath of the law. The governor himself made such pledge during his campaigns - he said nobody will kill another and go scot-free; thus it beats me how the murderers of yet another Francis Bello Obemeasor, working with Royal Cross Hotel Kakuri, who was murdered on March 19th, 2016, at around 9 am, are still at large. It sure beats me even more, because these victims are all Christian boys.
What are the APC imberciles from SK saying about these murders? Nothing, but they were quick to tell us that Emmanuel Francis was not murdered as I earlier posited. That a miracle kept Emmanuel Francis alive to tell us his tale doesn't mean he was not murdered. He was murdered simplicita.
If the El-Rufai police could arrest Adara boys in Adara land while his fulani kinsmen kidnap, rape and murder Adara young girls and women even as they shoot down Adara men; what is stopping his police from finding and apprehending the terrorist murderers of Emmanuel Francis and Francis Bello Obemeasor all this time? All these are making me to take seriously the substitute for our great slogan by Comrade Senator Shehu Sani that Kaduna Will Be Grave Again. Is El-Rufai gradually making Kaduna a grave for Christians? Is that why he told Channels that Christians are just 30%? Is this statement a message to some underground forces commissioned to commit atrocities against the Christians in Kaduna State? I will join the Comrade Senator to advise the governor to use the water of River Kaduna and build the Kaduna of his dream - and if it's blood he needs, to use the blood of the many crocodiles in River Kaduna; but the governor must desist from allowing his kinsmen to use the blood of the Adara people or any other people.
If Mr. Governor cannot do it, he should simply tender his resignation. He has failed and has failed woefully for failing to secure the people, whose lives and properties he has, as a primary obligation, swore to safeguard when he took the oath of office 29th May 2015.
5 most powerful men that runs Buhari’s presidency.
President Muhammad Buhari, since assumption of office on May 29, 2015, has gotten some trusted hands around him that he delegates duties to with specific instructions.
Post-Nigeria, through a thorough investigation, gathered that with such huge national duties in their care, these individuals wield huge influence on the seat of power.
1.Theophilus Danjuma
He is one of Nigeria’s most influential and respected senior military officers ever. Danjuma is a power broker and always sought after by successive governments. He is extremely wealthy.
That he was one of the major sponsors of Buhari’s Presidency is not a secret. With an interest in oil blocs, Danjuma, is believed to have played a major role in the emergence of Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, as the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and as the Minister of State, Petroleum Resources.
To further prove their closeness, Danjuma’s wife, Mrs Daisy, was the Chief Presenter at the public presentation of Mrs. Buhari’s book, ‘The Essentials of Beauty Therapy. A Complete Guide for Beauty Specialists.’
2. Abba Kyari
He is the Chief of Staff to the president. He is another power broker. The elderly man has the ears of the President, no doubt. He plans Buhari’s schedule, who to see, and who he should not see. He also plans his movement, in case he will be going out of the seat of power.
Apart from the traditional roles of a Chief of Staff, Buhari made it mandatory that ministers must go through Kyari, if they desired any contact with him. This is in clear departure from what was obtainable in the recent past, when ministers had unfettered access to their principal, the President.
As he walks a distance of about 100 metres from his office to the President’s office at intervals, Kyari, always holds tenaciously to office files, that may contain national secrets. He does not release his documents to anybody, including his security aides.
3.Babachir Lawal
He is the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. He occupies a powerful position on the ladder of Nigeria’s powerful rulers.
Lawal, by virtue of his position, serves as secretary to important government organs, such as the Federal Executive Council, FEC, and the Council of State.
As government’s scribe, Lawal, carries out supervisory functions on some government departments and agencies. Very outspoken, he does not hide the big influence he wields in the administration.
He is also, said to have the ears of the president.
4.Lawal Daura
Another strong man in this administration, is the Director-General of the Department of State Services, DSS, Lawal Daura.
He was appointed by Buhari in July, 2015. Lawal has a clear mandate to re-organise the DSS, which is believed to have been dragged into the murky waters of politics ahead of the 2015 general elections.
However, under him, officials of the DSS were stripped of their constitutional roles of protecting the President.
Daura, who has a close relationship with the Buhari, joins the president often times for the Friday Jumat services that always hold inside the mosque close to the President’s office.
5. Mamman Daura.
Another major power broker in the presidency is his nephew, Mamman Daura.
He is immensely close to the President, hence, he has inputs in many of Buhari’s major decisions, including appointments.
Although, he holds no political office in this dispensation, Daura, is often seen with the president and travels with him. He is believed to have considerable input in the choice of those who emerged as ministers, especially those from the North.
Daura’s influence in government did not start today. Himself and Buhari belonged to a group called, “Kaduna Mafia”, which was a croup of young Northern Nigerian intellectuals, civil servants, business tycoons and military officers, residing or conducting business in the former Northern capital city of Kaduna, during the end of the First Republic.
The group was said to have thrived on a network of power alliances, among northern aristocrats and government sympathisers, who favoured the group’s pro-Northern and Islamic bent.
President Barack Obama's tribute on Mohammed Ali the greatest!
Muhammad Ali was The Greatest.
Period. If you just asked him, he’d tell you. He’d tell you he was the double greatest; that he’d ‘handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder into jail.’
But what made The Champ the greatest—what truly separated him from everyone else—is that everyone else would tell you pretty much the same thing.
Like everyone else on the planet, Michelle and I mourn his passing. But we’re also grateful to God for how fortunate we are to have known him, if just for a while; for how fortunate we all are that The Greatest chose to grace our time.
In my private study, just off the Oval Office, I keep a pair of his gloves on display, just under that iconic photograph of him—the young champ, just 22 years old, roaring like a lion over a fallen Sonny Liston. I was too young when it was taken to understand who he was—still Cassius Clay, already an Olympic Gold Medal winner, yet to set out on a spiritual journey that would lead him to his Muslim faith, exile him at the peak of his power, and set the stage for his return to greatness with a name as familiar to the downtrodden in the slums of Southeast Asia and the villages of Africa as it was to cheering crowds in Madison Square Garden.
‘I am America,’ he once declared. ‘I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me—black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own. Get used to me.’
That’s the Ali I came to know as I came of age—not just as skilled a poet on the mic as he was a fighter in the ring, but a man who fought for what was right. A man who fought for us. He stood with King and Mandela; stood up when it was hard; spoke out when others wouldn’t. His fight outside the ring would cost him his title and his public standing. It would earn him enemies on the left and the right, make him reviled, and nearly send him to jail. But Ali stood his ground. And his victory helped us get used to the America we recognize today.
He wasn’t perfect, of course. For all his magic in the ring, he could be careless with his words, and full of contradictions as his faith evolved. But his wonderful, infectious, even innocent spirit ultimately won him more fans than foes—maybe because in him, we hoped to see something of ourselves. Later, as his physical powers ebbed, he became an even more powerful force for peace and reconciliation around the world. We saw a man who said he was so mean he’d make medicine sick reveal a soft spot, visiting children with illness and disability around the world, telling them they, too, could become the greatest. We watched a hero light a torch, and fight his greatest fight of all on the world stage once again; a battle against the disease that ravaged his body, but couldn’t take the spark from his eyes.
Muhammad Ali shook up the world. And the world is better for it. We are all better for it. Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to his family, and we pray that the greatest fighter of them all finally rests in peace.
Ethnic profiling: Nigerian Army confirms Sack of 200 'pro Jonathan' officers
June, 2016.
Nigerian Army spokesman, Colonel Sani Usman
After The Trent broke the news of the summary sack of 200 military officers who leaned towards former President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 elections, the federal government and Nigerian Army went into panic mode.
Army authorities made frantic phone calls to The Trent requesting that the story, which was published as breaking news at about 12 midnight be withdrawn. Of course, the requests were denied because the news story is based on facts.
In panic, the Nigerian Army spokesman, Colonel Sani Usman issued a statement confirming our report which indicated that soldiers – mostly from the South South and South East region, with a few from the North Central, region – were profiled for allegedly being “pro-Jonathan” and dismissed from the military.
The statement signed by Colonel Usman and delivered to The Trent by email says the Nigerian Army has compulsorily retired some of its senior officers who have been investigated for being “investigated for partisanship in the 2015 general election” and for alleged corruption, the usual crime of all victims of President Muhammadu Buhari’s parochial and sectional government.
The statement released at about 12.43am on Saturday, June 11, 2016, says that some of those retired were major-generals, brigadier-generals, colonels, lieutenant-colonels and a major.
“The Nigerian army wishes to inform the general public that quite a number of senior officers of the Nigerian army were retired from service yesterday,” Colonel Usman said in the statement.
“Those retired were mainly some major generals, brigadier generals, colonels, lieutenant colonels and a major.
“Their retirement was based on service exigencies. It should be recalled that not too long ago some officers were investigated for being partisan during the 2015 general election.
“Similarly, the investigation by the Presidential Committee investigating defence contracts revealed a lot. Some officers have already been arraigned in court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).”
Usman appealed that Nigerians “should therefore not read this out of context”, saying “the military must remain apolitical and professional at all times”.
Ethnic Profiling In Buhari’s Army.
There are indications on Friday, June 11, 2016 that about 200 military officers may have been sacked by the federal government through text messages (SMS) over their alleged loyalty to former President Goodluck Jonathan during the 2015 general elections.
They affected officers were said to have been carefully selected for backing Jonathan during the last 2015 general election.
Further checks in the military establishment in Abuja, also hinted that military officers who were believed to be loyal to the former national security adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki were also affected in the mass sacking.
The list showed that they were mainly from the South East, South South and a small percentage of them were from the North Central region of the country.
The development which is already causing some ripples in the military, according to political analysts, could cost the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration public goodwill.
A source said, “It is being seen as an act of ethnic card to checkmate those officers who were seen as posing danger to the federal government and it was resolved in the presidency that they should be weeded out.”
But the concern as some observers also said was the implication of the sack on the psyche of the military institution and the public which was felt capable of truncating the nation’s democracy as the “systematic sacking “ of over 200 top military officers mainly from the southern part of the country was a decision difficult to defend by the federal government.
“The affected officers were sent text messages relieving them of their jobs and they were directed to pick their sack letters at specific locations without any reason given for terminating their appointments,” said a source in the presidency which pleaded anonymity.
According to the source, the move allegedly masterminded by “some hawks“ in the presidency was aimed at weeding out all officers who were perceived to be loyal to the last regime and deemed to have played one role or the other favourable to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan in the last presidential election.
“The game plan is to remove all vestiges of the old regime, particularly those officers considered to be too intelligent and smart to challenge the status quo.
“Buhari is weary of being toppled a second time, given his ugly past experience. But unknown to him, this latest move of indiscriminate sacking of senior and middle level officers has divided the military and created rumblings in some quarters,” the source stated.
Credit : The Trent.
Friday, June 10, 2016
Muslims Youths assault Christian for eating during Ramadan.
Francis Emmanuel, a 41-year-old man, was on Tuesday assaulted by some youths in Kakuri, a community in Kaduna state, for not observing the Ramadan fast.
Emmanuel, a carpenter, said the youth who were passing by, saw him eating at his work station, and approached
He said they descended on him after he explained to them that he is not a Muslim, revealing that he did not know how he landed at St. Gerald Catholic Hospital, stillalso in Kakuri, where he has been responding to treatment.
“I went to buy wood that I would use to work, and on my way back, I decided to buy what I will eat,” he said.
“As I was eating, about six boys came to me and asked me whether I am a Muslim or a Christian, but I did not answer them. They asked me why I was not fasting, and it was at that point that I told them that I am not a Muslim.
“Before I knew what was happening, one of them slapped me. As I stood up in order to escape, the rest surrounded me. They started kicking me, using knives and other dangerous objects to attack me.
“Nobody could come to my aid because of the weapons in their possession. At some point, I lost consciousness. I don’t even know who brought me to the hospital.”
The incident happened less than a week after Bridget Agbahime, a 74-year-old trader, was murdered in Kano over alleged blasphemy.
Danladi Yerima, secretary-general of the northern zone of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), condemned the incident, wondering why such could happen in Kaduna which has been relatively peaceful in recent times.
He urged security agencies to arrest those behind the incident and charge them to court.
Nasir El-Rufai, Kaduna state governor, has also expressed concerns over the development, asking the police to arrest the culprits.
“This is of very serious concern to the state government, before Ramadan began, we warned everyone to observe the tenets of his or her religion, without forcing it on anyone or taking the law into their own hands,” he said when he visited the victim in the hospital.
“This is a case of which people have taken the law into their own hands and I have directed the commissioner of police to make sure that the boys that did this are arrested and prosecuted for what they have done.”
Samuel Aruwan, spokesman of the governor, also issued a statement on the incident.
“There is no compulsion in religion. It is a free country, and that means no imposition of faith or religious practices on anyone,” the statement read.
“We sympathize with our fellow citizen, Francis Emmanuel. We have assured him that we will not allow anybody to violate his right, or that of any other citizen. The Kaduna State Government is resolute in its stand that all criminals, including those who try to hide under Christianity or Islam, will be tackled and prosecuted.”
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