Thursday, September 27, 2018

SV: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Kemi Adeosun Isn't a Victim, but She'sNot Alone

My only trusted and African Rabbi, Cornelius Hamelberg,

In every fifty metres of any Nigerian street, there are two churches and two mosques, yet the behaviours of Nigerians, and most especially the educated Nigerians and political elites, are inversely proportional to Godliness. As seen everywhere in the country, the educated and political elites maintain a well-cultivated religious outlook but their souls are the engine rooms of Lucifer. Therefore, let us leave religion out of this Mrs. Kemi Adeosun's NYSC palaver and concentrate on what the male babians are saying about her.


Is it true as it has been touted that Mrs. Kemi Adeosun evaded the mandatory NYSC programme? My answer to that question is, it is a lie because an evader of a programme would not have written to the authority in charge of the programme to announce her arrival in the country already in 2002. She would have been in hiding from the NYSC's authority.


Is it true that she wasn't entitled to NYSC exemption? It is a lie that she wasn't entitled to NYSC exemption partly, because she obtained her Nigerian passport in London after the age of 30 and partly because she moved to Nigeria at about the age of 35. The framers of the NYSC Act could not reasonably have meant that those who graduated at the age of 31 are too old to serve in the youth programme called NYSC but those who graduated abroad at the age of 30 but return to Nigeria at the age of 35 are young to serve in the NYSC. The real age at the point of returning to Nigeria should determine if one is a youth to serve in NYSC and not the age at which one graduated unless one intends to be enmeshed in the illogic reasoning that Mrs. Kemi Adeosun at the age of 35 is younger than another Nigerian of 31 years of age.


Did she forge an NYSC certificate of exemption? It is a lie to assert that she forged an NYSC certificate of exemption as there is no evidence to that effect.


Is it true that she would never have been a minister without NYSC? It is a lie to say that she would never have been a minister without NYSC because those who graduate at the age of over 30 are exempted from serving in the NYSC programme and they could be minister. NYSC is not a professional training and many who have undergone the programme are today jobless. Recently, I read somewhere that most of the armed robbers, kidnappers and cattle rustlers in Nigeria are jobless graduates that have undergone NYSC programme. On this NYSC, impoverished Nigerians are very sincere whenever they express their feelings about government's deceitful acronyms. When the government came with NEPA, Nigerians out of their experience interpreted that acronym as Never Expect Power Always; and when the government changed it to Power Holding Corporation of Nigeria, PHCN, ordinary Nigerians interpreted it as Problem Has Changed Name. When President Olusegun Obasanjo introduced his Poverty Eradicating Programme, PEP, Nigerians out of their experience renamed it Poverty Elongation Programme. Since 1990, participants in the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, have interpreted the acronym, NYSC, as Now Your Suffering Commences because after the course they are left to the care of God. So, why are the male babians dissipating so much energy to vilify Mrs. Kemi Adeosun when there are hundreds of financial and economic criminals preening like peacocks on Nigerian streets. To cut this story short, let me illustrate with an example.


Dr. Bukola Saraki is the President of the Nigerian Senate. Sometimes ago he was tried for false declaration of assets from which he was subsequently discharged and acquitted. Interestingly, and by his own admission during the trial, Saraki had, in 2003, in his domiciliary accounts in Nigeria N51.5 million, 2.9 million pounds sterling and 400 thousand US dollars. He owns properties in Nigeria worth more than 2.2 trillion naira. He also owned eight properties in London - all purchased around the same time in 2003 and worth more than 12.6 million US dollars. He has 15 automobiles, bought between 1997 and 2002 and ranging from Ferrari  to Mercedes Benzes with four of his vehicles being bullet-proof and all valued at more than N263 million. Before he became Governor in 2003, Saraki was worth N10.2 billion. Saraki has no factory and he has never manufactured anything for sale or export. When the Panama papers exposed in April 2016 the names of foreigners having off-shore accounts in Panama, Bukola Saraki was among depositors there in violation of Nigerian laws. I am not saying, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun is right to present an NYSC exemption certificate that turned out to be fake, rather, I contend that her offence is so minor when compared with the crimes Bukola Saraki and hundreds of Nigerian political and educated elites have committed against the people of Nigeria. Why are Nigerian intellectuals leaving leprosy to treat ringworm?

S. Kadiri     




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Dear Baba Kadiri,

Reconsider:

"A member of one synagogue said to the member of another synagogue,

" Our wonderful rabbi talks daily with the Almighty!"

"How do you know?" asked the other man

" He told me !"

"He might have been lying"

" Nonsense - the Almighty wouldn't talk daily with a liar ! "

What do find wrong with the good old Churchillian term "terminological inexactitude" ?

I'm glad that you did not inflict John 8 : 44 on our Brother...

What do the Yoruba scriptures say ?

My Egyptian friend Adel Hamza says that "a Muslim is a person who does not tell lies" - but I suspect that he is referring to his own sorrowful misunderstanding of Shia Taqiyya translated as "pious dissimulation" and the Shia doctrine of Kitman - so that if the Pharaoh of Egypt or Morocco passes an edict that (God forbid) all Shia Muslims are to be liquidated and they ask Baba Kadiri, " Baba, are you a Shia Muslim?" I'm sure that Baba would wisely reply, "As you know, I am neither a Hebrew nor an Arab and as such I am neither a Christian nor a Muslim." Maybe the Baba would omit the " nor an Arab"- so as not to cause unnecessary offence? At least Baba would have answered wisely, to save his Yoruba skin.

On the other hand if in the Hereafter he were to meet St. Peter guarding the main entrance to Heaven and St. Peter were to ask Baba, " Baba Kadiri, are you sure that you still don't want to be a Christian?" ; how would Baba plead?

Nigeria is still a secular country – is not yet " The Islamic Republic of Nigeria" which means that you don't have to hold Mr. President's feet to the fire or hold Boko Haram to account by the yardstick provided by the Quran . But it must be different for Islam's religious leaders and for people like Goodluck Jonathan and the pastors and Catholic priests who preach that they have already been saved by the blood of Jesus...

As Chinua Achebe may agree wherever he is presently, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" With that in mind, in my humble opinion, even if Professor Kperogi is often harsh in his judgment or estimation of other Nigerians we should not likewise be equally harsh with him – we should restrain ourselves from wanting to send him to the gallows, after all, even if he may be guilty of being a little haughty every now and then with regard to how fellow Nigerians unintentionally mishandle Her Majesty's English – and even though he is always hard on Brother Buhari and the APC, at worst he could be found guilty of libel and slander, in a court of law ( maybe even in a sharia court) and for all we know he has his own share of self-granted exemptions, at least he has not looted or been falsely accused of looting, and as you yourself have said, "Honest Nigerians should ignore the minor offence of Mrs. Kemi Adeosun and concentrate on immediate and accelerated trials of those who have looted Nigeria and whose cases of corruption have been adjourned indefinitely after being granted bail by the corrupt judiciary in Nigeria"

Furthermore, perchance , Professor Kperogi might see his own mistakes - or feel that he is sometimes mistaken and therefore repent ( Tawbah) by first of all taking the proverbial mote out of his own eye. Consider those who Allah loves . In my humble opinion they are also those who love Allah – and of course His creation, and remember Allah sitting or standing or lying down.

For all we know, Professor Kperogi has his own inside information – the kind that journalists usually claim, especially when they refuse to divulge their sources – sources of truth which he may have reason to believe, in which case he believes that he is telling the truth just as the dictator in Wole Soyinka's Reith Lectures The Climate of Fear : "I am Right; You are Dead "

However, if Brother Farooq were to lay his right hand on the Holy Quran and take an oath that he was telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth – so help me God - I would believe him more than if he got nervous and messed up with a lie detector test...

On whatever scale your criterion is for establishing the truth of any matter, consider the following statements:

Edward Snowden: Osama Bin Laden Is "Alive And Well In The Bahamas"

President Trump : "Today, I stand before the United Nations General Assembly to share the extraordinary progress we've made."

President Rouhani : "It is unfortunate that we are witnessing rulers in the world ride public sentiments and gain popular support through the fomenting of extremist nationalism and racism and through xenophobic tendencies resembling a Nazi disposition"

Baba Kadiri : reconsider Paul saying that (a) All have sinned, (b) there is non righteous, no, not one!

What Jesus said : "And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. "

As you are "neither a Hebrew nor an Arab and as such I am neither a Christian nor a Muslim", don't you think that it's a bit hypocritical to be quoting their scriptures?

El Rey Shango Superior Orchestra playing in Stockholm ( Fasching) on Saturday

Hopefully, having read so far, it's not a matter of

"All he believes are his eyes
And his eyes, they just tell him lies"


On Wednesday, 26 September 2018 01:52:02 UTC+2, ogunlakaiye wrote:

My dear Rabbi Hamelberg,


As you know, I am neither a Hebrew nor an Arab and as such I am neither a Christian nor a Muslim. However, I am surprised that a Rabbi of your calibre would caution me not to call a person who tells lie a liar. Since the liar in question bears a distinctive Arabic Muslim first name, lets look at what Quran admonishes the Muslims to do and not to do. Quran - Surah 2 : 42 says, Cover not Truth with Falsehood, nor conceal the Truth when you know what it is and in Surah 16 : 94 it is commanded that "Take not your oaths to practice deception between yourselves." Then in Surah 40 : 28 it is said, "Truly, Allah does not guide one who transgresses and lies." To the Muslim believers Mohammed was said to have admonished them in the Hadith thus, "Be honest because honesty leads to goodness, and goodness leads to Paradise. Beware of Falsehood because it leads to immorality, and immorality leads to Hell."


For the Hebrew/Christian believers, the Bible in Proverbs, Chapter 6 verse 16-19 inform the faithful thus, "There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him : haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community." Further in Proverbs Chapter 12 verse 22 the faithful are told that "Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord." The consequence of lying, Revelation Chapter 21 verse 27 says, "No one who practises abomination and lying shall ever come into heaven."

In Romans Chapter 3, verse 13-14, the faithful are informed, "Their talk is foul like the stench from an open grave. Their speech is filled with lies. The poison of a deadly snake drips from their lips. Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness." In Leviticus Chapter 19 verse 11 the fateful are admonished, "not to steal, not to deal falsely or lie to one another." Finally, and as if the traducers of Mrs. Kemi Adeosun were envisaged, it is said in in Psalm 31 verse 18, "Let the lying lips be put to silence which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous." 


I know that I am not diplomatic because I always want the truth to prevail. Thus, I will call anybody who tells me that Nigeria is a developing country a liar because in reality Nigeria is an underdeveloped country if we take into consideration the academic manpower and the natural resources available in the country. While thanking you for sharing your preferred wisdom with me that lie should be called fib in order to damp the effect of the word on the liar, I decide not to do like the British Parliamentarians who always say that they are misspeaking when they mean they are lying. Well, perfume can mask decay but it cannot arrest the rot.

S. Kadiri  




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Indeed, A little learning is a dang'rous thing...

Just to reiterate some of what Baba Kadiri has said, albeit in doing so, to tone down the vicious tone of the poisonous snake language just a little bit

even if that should cause some offence to Baba Kadiri who insists on calling a spade a spade, even if the perfumed prose by any other name would smell as sweet. 

Since I was a child, I have taken a strong aversion to the word lie/ liar, an aversion instilled in me by my Aunt Nelly ( Mrs John Jeffrey-Coker - Dutch woman) who taught us ( her daughter Charlotte and me) to use the more polite word "fib" instead of the brutal "lie" A few years later  one could joke about Touchstone the clown's Seven Degrees of Lying in As You Like...

Today, I take my cue from Fela who cautions some decorum in Monkey Banana :

"Fool for forty na fool forever
Na so the book people dae talk
I no go tell my brother like that "

I also take my cue from the Whip at the British House of Commons who suspended the Rev. Dr. Ian Paisley for calling another Honourable member of the House, a Tory Cabinet Minister "a liar " - in this case too , "ai noh go tell my broda like that " What's wrong with a polite Churchillian euphemism such as "transparent mendacity" // "transparent calumny" or any of the other euphemisms for "lie" ?

So, dear Baba Kadiri , please don't call anyone a liar ( even if he is) 

On the other hand rejecting Sister Kemi Adeosun's explanation is tantamount to calling her a "liar" even if , to his credit Professor Kperogi refuses to stoop so low. Likewise we should not forget that rejecting or refuting Jesus' claim to Messiahship is tantamount to accusing him and his disciples of lying. Nor can the Quran's Angel Gabriel – putatively- be absolved or exempted for saying that the Almighty does not have any children, not even figuratively speaking, when such a denial is tantamount to rejecting what the Torah says in Devarim 14 : 1 – 3 // Deuteronomy 14: 1 – 3 .

If it's word against word, what do we understand and what / who do we believe? The yada yada seems all set to continue. Once again it could be God and Moses versus the Angel Gabriel and the Prophet of Islam, once again it's word against word:

My only beef with the grammarian Farooq A. Kperogi, PhD is that he could be guilty of assuming / arrogating to himself some omniscience when he doesn't have any such quality and yet he confidently asserts without any proof whatsoever, that Kemi Adeosun "forged an exemption certificate" -as if he was there personally to witness and maybe even supervise the forgery. Baba Kadiri has asked the most pertinent question :and answered it "Did Mrs. Kemi Adeosun personally forge an NYSC exemption certificate as averred by Farooq Kperogi? So far, there is no evidence to back up that assertion."

Please take a closer look at Kemi Adeosun's very straightforward explanation of what actually happened:

From her letter of resignation :

"Upon enquiry as to my status relating to NYSC, I was informed that due to my residency history and having exceeded the age of thirty (30), I was exempted from the requirement to serve. Until recent events, that remained my understanding.

On the basis of that advice and with the guidance and assistance of those, I thought were trusted associates, NYSC were approached for documentary proof of status. I then received the certificate in question. Having never worked in NYSC, visited the premises, been privy to nor familiar with their operations, I had no reason to suspect that the certificate was anything but genuine. Indeed, I presented that certificate at the 2011 Ogun State House of Assembly and in 2015 for Directorate of State Services (DSS) Clearance as well as to the National Assembly for screening."

The question has often been asked and who will watch over the watchdogs?

Another alarmist headline: "Chinese now take command of Zambia Police Force"  - maybe that will be a more effective way to implement the rule of law and to curb corruption....

Bob Dylan : Modern Times

Charlie Chaplin : Modern Times


On Saturday, 22 September 2018 23:18:15 UTC+2, ogunlakaiye wrote:

Farooq Kperogi lied with the intention to defame Mrs Kemi Adeosun when he asserted that 'she evaded the mandatory national youth service for every Nigerian who graduated from University before the (age) of 30 and forged an exemption certificate she wasn't entitled to have in the first place… " Mrs. Kemi Adeosun acquired Nigerian citizenship at the age of 30 and returned to Nigeria in 2002 at the age of 35. She applied immediately to the NYSC for exemption to serve and that has been confirmed by the NYSC. Simple logic dictates that she would not have applied to the NYSC for exemption to serve if she had wanted to evade serving. Did Mrs. Kemi Adeosun personally forge an NYSC exemption certificate as averred by Farooq Kperogi? So far, there is no evidence to back up that assertion. The evidence before the public is that she was in possession of a forged NYSC exemption certificate. Farooq Kperogi is not qualified to determine if Mrs. Kemi Adeosun was entitled to exemption from serving in NYSC but as usual, he has usurped the power of NYSC to determine the status of her application of exemption filed in 2002.


As if Farooq Kperogi suddenly woke up from a trance to recognize that Mrs. Kemi Adeosun did not forge an NYSC certificate he wrote, "...… she deserves sympathy, not condemnation, because she was guileless victim of corrupt 'trusted associates." Is trusted associates alone that are corrupt and not the NYSC officials who received her application of exemption already in 2002 but failed to communicate a decision to her until now, and through the media? Only crooks would not be outraged by the way the NYSC handled the application of Mrs. Kemi Adeosun for exemption to serve in the NYSC programme.


Again, Farooq Kperogi complained bitterly on the jailing of 'Lebi Ayodele James who forged an ICAN certificate to move up the civil service ladder while leaving untouched Kemi Adeosun who also forged an NYSC exemption certificate without which she would never be a minister.' Farooq Kperogi is a typical Nigerian policeman who will arrest a driver in a go-slow que for over-speeding. NYSC certificate is not a professional certificate as Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN). NYSC is not needed to perform the functions of Finance Minister but in Lebi Ayodele James' case, he needed an ICAN certificate to perform as a Senior Auditor. Of course, when an aboki professor, not of economics, science or technology, but of English language, counsels that NYSC is equal to ICAN, it is just like a lottery winner giving counsel on how to build a complex financial empire. Mrs. Kemi Adeosun has accepted responsibility for tendering an NYSC certificate of exemption which she believed to be genuine. She has not stolen a penny out of the national or state treasury and her fake NYSC exemption certificate has not harmed or killed a single Nigerian. Honest Nigerians should ignore the minor offence of Mrs. Kemi Adeosun and concentrate on immediate and accelerated trials of those who have looted Nigeria and whose cases of corruption have been adjourned indefinitely after being granted bails by the corrupt judiciary in Nigeria. The horrible consequences of looters of our collective patrimony, who have actually served in the NYSC programme, are visible all over Nigeria and it is to those looters that Nigerians should direct their angers.

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This article has not supported the claim that MOST people in power in Nigeria are guilty of certificate forgery by any evidence.

It also has not supported the claim that Adeosun is providing money to the legislature because she was blackmailed by lawmakers to do so.

OAA.



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Saturday, September 22, 2018

Kemi Adeosun Isn't a Victim, but She's Not Alone

By Farooq A. Kperogi, PhD
Twitter: @farooqkperogi

There are three false but popular narratives about former Minister of Finance Kemi Adeosun's NYSC certificate forgery that need to be exploded before we move on to the next scandal in the Buhari administration's never-ending cascade of humiliating scandals. The first is that by resigning her appointment in the wake of revelations that she evaded the mandatory national youth service for every Nigerian who graduated from university before the of 30 and forged an exemption certificate she wasn't entitled to have in the first place, she showed honor and integrity.

The second is that she deserves sympathy, not condemnation, because she was the guileless victim of corrupt "trusted associates." The third is that she was the first minister to resign her appointment "in principle"—or the first high-profile public official to be caught in the web of forgery.

Let's start with the first. Kemi Adeosun didn't resign her position as minister because she had any honor; she resigned because of sustained pressure from critical sections of the commentariat in both traditional and social media platforms—and because Buhari was gearing up to opportunistically fire her in the service of his reelection politics.

She and Buhari had hoped that we would all get tired of their intentionally contemptuous silence and give up. That didn't happen. Instead, the quieter they kept, the more vociferous cries for her ouster became. About 70 days later, she yielded to pressure and buckled under. That's not honor. She would have been worthy of being credited with honor only if she admitted to her forgery and resigned within a week after news of the forgery became public knowledge.

Most importantly, though, let's not forget that forgery is a criminal offense in our laws for which everyday people go to jail every time in Nigeria. In my July 21, 2018 column titled "Between Adeosun's Forged NYSC Certificate and Ayodele James' Fake ICAN Certificate," I pointed to the blatant judicial double standard in jailing a lowly civil servant by the name of Lebi Ayodele James who forged an ICAN certificate to move up the civil service ladder while leaving untouched Kemi Adeosun who also forged an NYSC exemption certificate without which she would never be a minister.

I said, "But let this be known: No nation that punishes its poor and protects its powerful for the same offense can endure… For every second that James remains in jail while Adeosun, Edozien, and Obono-Obla not only walk free but live off the fat of the land even when they committed the same offense as he, the very foundation of Nigeria chips off. A nation whose foundation comes off piecemeal as a result of blatant, in-your-face judicial double standard will sooner or later give way."

Praising Kemi Adeosun for resigning her position as minister is akin to praising a thief who reluctantly and grudgingly confessed to being a thief only AFTER she was caught stealing and publicly ridiculed for days on end. Kemi Adeosun should return all the money she earned from Nigeria from the time she was commissioner in Ogun State up until September 14 when she resigned her position as minister. (That was what Ayodele James was compelled to do by the court). After that, she should be prosecuted and jailed like Ayodele James. That would be justice. But she has bolted out to London and will probably escape justice.

Her self-pitying resignation letter that portrays her as a helpless, unresisting prey of dodgy "trusted associates" doesn't square with the facts. In the Premium Times report that blew the lid off her scam, we learn that "Some federal lawmakers revealed… that the [forgery] was detected by the Senate during the minister's confirmation hearing. But rather than probe the issue, they turned it into a tool against Mrs Adeosun. The report linked the certificate scandal to the minister's excessive, even illegal, funding of the lawmakers, including recently funnelling a N10billion largesse to that arm of government."

This clearly shows that Adeosun, contrary to the claims she made in her resignation letter, always knew that she had a forged NYSC exemption certificate. The fact of her giving in to the blackmail of the Senate was all the evidence one needs to know that she was always aware that she had a fake document—at least for the last three years that she was minister. So she not only forged, she also lied. That's not my idea of someone who has honor or character.

But she's not alone. There is an epidemic of fakery in high places in Nigeria. Who remembers Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, former director-general of the Nigerian Stock Exchange?  I was the first person to bring it to mainstream media attention that her claims to have earned a Ph.D. in business from the City University of New York (CUNY) in 1983 and to have worked at the New York Stock Exchange on the basis of which she became the DG of the NSE were fake.

These discoveries were made by the US the Securities and Exchange Commission, which investigated her. "On January 18, 2011, I caused a search to be conducted of our student records (including graduation records) at The Graduate Center, at the request of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, to determine if Ms. Ndi Okereke–Onyiuke was ever enrolled in the Ph.D. Program in Business and if she received a Ph.D. in Business at The Graduate Center," Vincent De Luca, Director of Student Services and Senior Registrar of CUNY's Graduate School, wrote in a sworn affidavit in New York.

"A thorough search of our electronic and paper files for the names, Ndi Leche Okereke, Ndi Okereke, Ndi Okereke – Onyiuke and Ndi Lechi Okereke – Onyiuke was conducted. No record was found that Ms. Ndi Okereke – Onyiuke ever enrolled in the Ph.D. Program in Business or received a Ph.D. in Business at The Graduate Center."

 But as I pointed out in my June 25, 2011 column titled "Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke's Fake Doctorate and Professorship," "Strangely, however, no Nigerian newspaper has touched the story with a ten-foot pole."

Even the authenticity of President Buhari's school certificate is the subject of controversy. Although many classmates of the president (who detest him) have told me in confidence that he did take his school certificate exams, I can't wrap my head around why he has chosen to hire more than a dozen Senior Advocates of Nigeria over this. Isn't it infinitely cheaper, less burdensome, and more fitting to just produce the certificate than to hire expensive lawyers to defend your right to not produce it?

This is particularly curious because the London GCE O-level certificate Buhari said he has lost isn't an irreplaceable document. All he has to do is write to the body that conducted the exam and he will get a replacement within days. Why is he reluctant to do that if he indeed took the exam? Something doesn't add up.

In a way, people who are incensed that Adesoun was hounded out of office for an offense most people in power in Nigeria are guilty of have a point.

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