Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: FW: Kenya's Supreme Court has cancelled Kenya's election, orders new election within 60 days

Lest I forget, if it were in Nigeria, Buhari's secret police (DSS) and his attack dog (EFCC), would have also discovered large sums of monies in different major world currencies belonging to the main opposition leader and his associates.

CAO.

On Friday, September 8, 2017, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> wrote:

Stockholm, Friday morning, 8th September, 2017

"If it were in Nigeria, there would have been midnight raids by a combined team of DSS and EFCC on the homes of the Judges by now under the guise of anti- corruption." (A bitter and very pessimistic Chidi Anthony Opara) … as Brother Dylan put it and we can be sure that Baba Kadiri agrees from within

"False-hearted judges dying in the webs that they spin

 Only a matter of time 'til night comes steppin' in" (Jokerman)

Well, in Benin, Voodoo is one of the official state religions  whereas in in the Federal Republic of Nigeria what is popularly/ unpopularly  known in the missionary West as "voodoo" "/"Juju" /"witchcraft" has not quite attained that kind of official status yet ;I begin with this preamble before quoting Quran and in this case the Bible ( the so called " New" testament) that, "a prophet has no honor in his own country" (in advance,  Jesus perhaps justifying his own rejection by his own people, whilst he was still alive)…as when predicting imminent future disaster/ under-development, corruption  and incompetence  politicians and commentators alike tend to put on some kind of prophetic toga ( even if Muslims among them know and understand that Muhammad Ibn Abdallah ( S.a.w.) was and is the LAST PROPHET! )

But unlike Baba Kadiri, Chidi was not revisiting the past. That was merely Chidi's devilish, nightmare premonitions about a worst case scenario in his native land. I'm as surprised as Chidi, in fact aren't we all surprised about that Supreme Court decision in Kenya  or in any other African country for that matter, where on the one hand they preach and pay lip service to "the separation of powers" even when the actual praxis is that whatever incumbent president (Brother Buhari a notable exception) most other African presidents that we know of in the present and in the past, usually have the Supreme Court in their back pockets.

However, the assassination of a key electoral officer  - with the key to the electoral data bank, that must have been the smoking gun, leaving the Supreme Court no alternative but to bite the bullet and declare the vote null and void!

Here's some revisiting the past, perhaps even reinventing that history  as Victor Oguejiofor Okafor does,  so succinctly and poignantly here  in his "Nigeria's disputed Elections and the Resulting Leadership legitimacy crisis" he said:  "In the final analysis Ex-President Obasanjo should realize that electoral crimes are also grave acts of corruption.   Gaining political office by snatching ballot boxes and by filling ballot boxes with fake votes is as unconstitutional as seizing the reins of government with the gun – and should be considered and treated as treasonable"

On Saturday, 2 September 2017 00:24:26 UTC+2, Chidi Anthony Opara wrote:

If it were in Nigeria, there would have been midnight raids by a combined team of DSS and EFCC on the homes of the Judges by now under the guise of anti- corruption.

CAO.

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