Thank you Kenneth,
Your admiration for freedom of the press as practised in Nigeria vis à vis the Saturday column of Farooq Kperogi's diagnosis of President Buhari's as a dementia-plagued was what attracted my involvement in the discussion. As I am not engaged in any disparagement with Farooq whatsoever, your assumption that I am soliciting for your support against him is not correct.
My point of departure on this matter is your own established fact, whereby you stated, "I know freedom of the press isn't absolute; I know people might print untruths." For me, to expose untruths in a published material by Farooq is not a personal attack. I stand to be corrected on that.
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salimonu
my posting re farooq's column had to do only with freedom of the press. please don't ask me to get in between you and him in your disparagements of each other.
i'm not sure how others on the listserv feel about the personal attacks, but i am made uncomfortable by them. as for the issues at stake over buhari's competence, i have no insight or knowledge. the only countries on which i feel safe pronouncing are rwanda and burundi, and most people on this list are not terribly interested in them.
ken
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Kenneth,
Your negative reaction to the claim of Farooq Kperogi earlier that his Saturday column in the Nigerian Saturday Tribune newspaper, had forced Aso Rock cabal to compel Buhari, a dementia-plagued, insentient old geezer who masquerades as 'president' to address the nation on the new Coronavirus, has been obliterated by your acceptance of his own version of the truth. For all we know, Mallam Farooq Kperogi is not a physician and, even if he were, President Muhammadu Buhari is not his patient. Granting that Kperogi were a qualified physician and Buhari were to be his patient, the Hippocratic Oath that all medical doctors normally swear to uphold makes it unethical for Kperogi to make public the health condition of Buhari without his consent. Here, Farooq Kperogi has usurped the right of a professional medical practitioner to declare Buhari demented without conducting any medical examination on him.
The truth which you seemed to have learnt from Farooq Kperogi is his diagnosis of Buhari as a dementia-plagued and insentient old geezer, which is just a repetition of part of his previous medical diagnoses on Buhari. On what did Farooq Kperogi premise his truthful dementia diagnosis of Buhari? Kperogi answered the question self as follows, "Buhari's *Kovik One Nine* Pronunciational Mishap Proves My Saturday Column." According to Farooq Kperogi, the way Muhammadu Buhari pronounced COVID-19 in his broadcast to Nigerians on the new Coronavirus is what depicted Buhari to him as a dementia-plagued. It is very plain that not even a logopaedic wizard in English can differentiate the pronunciation of the alphabet, C, from K as claimed, spelled and credited to Buhari by Farooq Kperogi in KOVIK instead of COVID. The President, obviously pronounced COVIK instead of COVID but Farooq Kperogi has mischievously distorted Buhari's audio-vision pronunciation of COVIK to KOVIK. It is not unlikely that in Buhari's mother tongue the pronunciation of the last alphabet in COVID is pronounced K just as when English speaking Oyo, Ekiti and Ijesha persons of Yorubaland usually pronounce, for instance, the word Church as Source. Normal Nigerians understand Buhari's English dialect and accent. Furthermore, Farooq Kperogi as an eccentric Associate professor of English language took offence in Buhari's pronunciation of nineteen (19) as One-Nine. For decades a fraudster has been referred to in spoken English in Nigeria as a Four-One-Nine criminal, in reference to the special 419 criminal laws. It is never pronounced Four-hundred and nineteen but 4-1-9. The US incidents in which some hijackers crashed their planes on 11 September 2001, is always referred to as 9/11 incidents, orally or written, and no one has ever attributed Americans pronunciation of 9/11 incidents to dementia. When in his televised broadcast, Buhari read COVIK One-Nine every normal Nigerian understood him as saying COVID-19 and nothing else. Farooq Kperogi self grew up, and received all his education in Nigeria before becoming academic migrant in the US and as such he can only mimic American nasal sound of speaking English. And no matter how much he struggles to twist his tongues to produce the American nasal sound in spoken English, he will always be recognised for not speaking in the accents of a person from either the Northern or Southern part of the US. His Arabic name, Farooq, is spelled and pronounced by most Nigerians as FARUKU. The word Yoruba is spelled and pronounced by the Benin and Urhobo as Yonuba. Buhari speaks English in one of the various dialects and accents of that language in Nigeria which does not make him a dementia just like anyone pronouncing the name Farooq as Faruku.
Following your submission that what Farooq Kperogi wrote about Buhari would have caused him death or imprisonment if he were to write such things about presidents in Rwanda, Burundi, or DRC, Farooq responded : If I lived in Nigeria, the same fate that befell Burundi journalists might have befallen me too; The government has mulled (actually planned, according to insiders who revealed this to me) assassinating me here in the US; They invent libellous smears against me in hopes that they will get me to stop writing about their ineptitude and fascist excesses. When I read this, I was compelled to consult medical dictionary to look for the description of Farooq Kperogi's self-portrayed character. Therein, I found narcissism which is subdivided into three basic personality types (1) Narcissistic personality, defined as a person characterized by excessive self-love and self-absorption, unrealistic views about one's own attributes and little regards for others. (2) A paranoid personality, defined as a person who denies real self because he/she sees it weak and inadequate and therefore invents a grandiose (big) self-image and pretends to be it. The paranoid wears a mask of existential importance and wants other people to collude with him/her and see him/her as important. When the paranoid feels belittled and demeaned, he/she gets angry at the person he/she thinks is degrading him/her. He/she is always fighting with people and accusing them of doing what they have not done; he/she is suspicious and does not trust anyone. (3) Anti-social personality : I skip this since its definition is not relevant to the subject at hand. Farooq Kperogi has not only invented a grandiose self-image but also invented a threat to his life by the government of Nigeria because of his constant diagnoses of leaders of the government with wishful illnesses. From the invented platform he proceeded to exhibit personal symptoms of hallucination i.e. hearing and seeing things that do not exist, and delusion i.e. believing in things that are untrue. His hallucination and delusion caused him to assert that the Nigerian government actually planned to assassinate him in the US because of his writings against the government but the paranoid claimed his insiders (spies) within the government revealed the purported plan of assassination to him!! Yet, the Nigerian Tribune where Farooq Kperogi regularly used to publish his journalistic junks is in Nigeria and if the government has considered his writings damaging or obstructive to its interests, it would have taken necessary actions against the newspaper. While the Nigerian government, like other countries of the world, is concerned about curtailing the spread of COVID-19, the primary concern of those beset with brain aneurism is how bad COVID-19 has been pronounced in a television broadcast by Muhammadu Buhari and not measures being put in place to protect lives. And for the quack to proceed to diagnose Buhari a dementia on the basis of his pronunciation of COVID-19 is to me insane.
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ah. it's always good to learn the truth. sometimes it is the hard way!! so sorry they are after you like that.
i know freedom of the press isn't absolute; i know people might print untruths, etc. but we learn to rely on certain sources, and if they were not out there for us to read and evaluate, we'd be left in the dark.
keep on shining your light.
ken
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Ken,
School of Communication & Media
If I lived in Nigeria, the same fate that befell Burundi journalists might have befallen me, too. But my geographic distance hasn't even given me complete "immunity." The government has mulled (actually planned, according to insiders who revealed this to me) assassinating me here in the US.
An entire government-sponsored online troll factory called the Buhari Media Center has been created and unleashed on me. They invent libelous smears against me in hopes that they will get me to stop writing about their ineptitude and fascist excesses. Hasn't worked and won't work.
The Nigerian domestic media has been effectively tamed. So there's nothing to make a song and dance about here.
Farooq
Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.
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"The nice thing about pessimism is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised." G. F. Will
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 2:08 PM Harrow, Kenneth <harrow@msu.edu> wrote:
say what you will, a country that permits free press to exist is apt to be more just in the long run since govt abuses have a chance of being reported on and seenby the people.]farooq wrote of buhari, below, "After so much pressure, which my widely shared Saturday Tribune back-page column added to, the Aso Rock cabal finally forced Buhari, a dementia-plagued, insentient old geezer who masquerades as "president," to address the nation today on the new Coronavirus."
if he had written the equivalent of the presidents in rwanda, burundi, or the drc--cases about which i know--he'd be dead or in prison, and the president would continue to do as he pleases with no public check on his actions.
i have always been impressed by the nigeria press, ever since living in cameroon in 1977-79 where there was no free press whatsoever. when i went over to nigeria and saw the guardian and other papers, i was astounded.
you all should know about one troubling recent case in burundi: the iwacu 4. https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/02/04/burundi-journalists-convicted-flawed-trial
if you want tohelp, write a letter of protest to the burundian authorities. here is the url for the amnesty action: https://www.amnestyusa.org/urgent-actions/urgent-action-update-journalists-sentenced-to-imprisonment-burundi-ua-149-19/ken
kenneth harrow
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Buhari's "Kovik One Nine" Pronunciational Mishap Proves My Saturday ColumnSunday, March 22, 2020
Buhari's "Kovik One Nine" Pronunciational Mishap Proves My Saturday Column
By Farooq A. Kperogi
Twitter:@farooqkperogi
After so much pressure, which my widely shared Saturday Tribune back-page column added to, the Aso Rock cabal finally forced Buhari, a dementia-plagued, insentient old geezer who masquerades as "president," to address the nation today on the new Coronavirus.
Although his speech was pre-recorded, (which means it wasn't live), his handlers couldn't get him to retake the portion where he mispronounced COVID-19 as "Kovik one nine"! And the video clip of the mortifying pronunciational disaster was shared on social media by Buhari's paid social media aide by the name of Bashir Ahmad.
Incompetence is supposed to be the strong suit of the Buhari regime, but they've shown themselves to be incredibly incompetent at even being incompetent!
More crucially, though, the video is powerful, irrefutable evidentiary proof of my assertions (which I repeated in my Saturday Tribune column) that Buhari is too wracked by the ravages of dementia to even know what's happening around him, much less in the world.
There's no sentient, living being on this earth today— and certainly no world leader—who doesn't know that there's a global pandemic tipping over the world that is called the new coronavirus or COVID-19. Watch the video below:
Apparently, his speech writer avoided "coronavirus" because Buhari's dementia-inspired speech impediment would make him slur the word. COVID-19 is easier to say, yet Buhari bungled it. He obviously had never heard it said anywhere even when it's the most commonly heard word on earth now.
That is all the evidence you need to know that Buhari is practically in the land of the living dead. As I said in my Saturday column, Nigeria is currently presidentless.
Postscript:
Buhari's social media aide, Bashir Ahmad, took down the video clip of Buhari's 27-second broadcast a few hours after this post, which went viral on social media. But the video has already been downloaded and shared by millions of people. As usual, Buhari's handlers chose to close the stable door after the horse has bolted!
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Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorJournalism & Emerging Media
School of Communication & MediaSocial Science BuildingRoom 5092 MD 2207402 Bartow Avenue
Kennesaw State University
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