Dear Salimonu Kadiri,
I am so sorry to read about your intestinal obstruction. I wish you a full recovery. I also read about Afis having a motor vehicle accident in Gbongan. I also was admitted between 30 December and 3 January, but I am out and about now. I wish you and Afis (and his temporary driver) well and please take great care of your dear self. You are very dear to us all here.
The Desmond Tutu question was, "Who is Nigeria's Desmond Tutu?" I gave Bishop Hassan Kukkah but the discourse went in all directions and I would be grateful is you suggested a Nigerian who could be the Desmond Tutu equivalent for Nigeria.
Cheers.
IBK
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Ibukunolu Alao Babajide (IBK)
(+2348061276622) / ibk2005@gmail.com
AN ENGLISH NURSERY RHYME
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from off the goose
The law demands that we atone
When we take things that we do not own
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine
The poor and wretched don't escape
If they conspire the law to break
This must be so but they endure
Those who conspire to make the law
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
And geese will still a common lack
Till they go and steal it back
- Anonymous (circa 1764)
On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 at 18:26, Salimonu Kadiri <ogunlakaiye@hotmail.com> wrote:
--It started on December 19, 2021, in what I believed was constipation which would dissolve on swallowing two pills of laxative. I was mistaken as the constipation turned into a serious stomach ache in the night of 20 December to 21 December 2021. Towards mid-day my wife drove me to our local healthcare delivery centre, where I was examined by a lady Doctor who decided at once to refer me to one of the University Teaching Hospitals, situated about 50 kilometres to my location. Not only that, she ordered for a government subsidised taxi to transport me to the emergency section of the University Teaching Hospital.
So closed to the Christmas, I panicked in the assumption that I might die in the que before I could see any Doctor because of shortage of personnel. I was wrong. At the reception I was quickly registered after presenting my ID card. Within ten minutes of arrival blood samples were drawn for analysis and the usual covid test was performed on me. The nurse informed me that an X-Ray of my stomach had been booked by the Doctor for two hours later. After the X-Ray, the Doctor had to wait for additional one hour to get the results. While waiting I was given pain killer pills. Towards the evening, the Doctor came to tell me that the X-Ray showed a tract of obstruction in the large intestine which would be operated the following day. Thus, at 11:00:00 hours, European time, on 22 December 2021, I was operated. I was not discharged from the hospital until 27 December 2021. I returned to the local healthcare delivery to get the stitches removed on January 5, 2022 and I am now on my legs and feet. Praise be to the almighty women and men of the medical profession that snatched me from the claws of death.
Back to life, I discovered that I have missed some interesting discussions on this forum among which is, who is Nigeria's Desmond Tutu? Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu of South Africa died on 26 December 2021 and, traditionally and culturally, we have to mourn his death even though it happened at overripe age. The best way for the living to mourn the dead is to learn from the mistakes committed by the dead and the good things done while alive. Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu wrote two books, 'No Future Without Forgiveness (1999) and The Book of Forgiveness ( 2014).' These books were written in defence of his role as the Chairman of South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1998, after the fall of Nazi regime in South Africa and the emergence of Black majority rule. When South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission, chaired by Desmond Tutu, began its work in 1998, Nelson Mandela and other members of the ANC who had been on the U.S. list of terrorist since 1948 because of their fight against the Nazi regime continued to remain on the list of terrorists, notwithstanding that Mandela recieved Nobel Peace Price in 1993. It was not until June 2, 2008 that the U.S. officially removed Mandela and the ANC from its terrorist list.
At the South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, it was revealed that the same heinous crimes committed by the German Nazi medical Doctors during World War II were also committed against Black South Africans by the racist regime. On June 9 and 10, 1998, Dr Schalk Janse van Rensburg, a director at the South Africa's Roodeplaat Research Laboratory gave evidence about lethal toxins developed and used against Black South Africans. The laboratory manufactured cholera organism for use in black townships and against antiapartheid demonstrators. Dr Rensburg gave a list of murder weapons developed at the laboratory and were applied mainly on unsuspecting Black South Africans. It came to public knowledge that South Africa's head of Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme was Dr Wouter Basson. In 1981, Dr Basson participated in a federal conference in San Antonio with army officers from the United States, West Germany (as it was then known), Japan, Britain and Canada. In 1987, the U.S. sent a Califonia-American M.D., Larry Ford, to South Africa to train microbiologists at the Roodeplaat Research Laboratory. Dr Wouter Basson openly bragged that the structure of the chemical and biological war programme in South Africa was based on the U.S. system where they the South African Nazi doctors learnt the most. Ironically, none of the Nazi doctors in South Africa, in the name of reconciliation, was ever convicted. Whereas, on August 20, 1947, the U.S. single-handedly sentenced seven Nazi doctors to death by hanging for conducting medical research on Jews without their consent. The death sentences were executed on June 2, 1948 in Landsberg prison, Bavaria. In Africa, we continue to reconcile with our exploiters, oppressors and persecutors. Rest in peace, Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu.S. Kadiri
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