Auden: "The few shall be taught who want to understand
Really real: I was sure that Victor Oguejiofor Okafor would have and should have taken some flak for saying that "seizing the reins of government with the gun … should be considered and treated as treasonable" and I guess that the guilty ones according to him should thereby face annihilation by firing squad? If the people are suffering endlessly, in a country saddled with a corrupt government and sitting on top of the pile is a president for life, one rigged election after another, should it be OK for a redeemer army-man to intervene with the aim of restoring democracy and ending the shuffering and shmiling?
About the beginning/ beginnings, "the first cause" and all that jazz, there's this Joel Osteen joke about the scientist who challenged the Almighty . Nowadays, not only the scientists, even some of the historians of today are challenging the scriptures about the age of mankind for example, since according to the Hebrew calendar we are now living in the year 5,777 since the creation…
And just as we have listened patiently to Alagba Falola's philosophical excursions into the theology of what can and what cannot be done with history in spite of the well-known ideogram, " With God all things are possible" not to mention several instances of God's Divine Intervention in the history of Israel - the flood, the burning bush, the ten plagues, the birth of the Israeli nation at Mt. Sinai, at some time God defying the very laws of physics by making the sun stand still, so too in the world of nature, "necessity is the mother of invention " applies and that is why and how we have coups : The sometimes divine intervention or intrusion if you like, of The Military into politics such as Blaise Compaoré's coup of August 4, 1983 which freed Captain Thomas Sankara from prison and installed him as President of Burkina Faso. Later, another wannabe redeemer, Brother Buhari - as General Muhammadu Buhari and his side-man Major General Tunde Idiagbon on the last day of 1983 just as Flt. Lieutenant Jeremiah Rawlings before him, also on the last day of 1981, with the intention of changing the course of history - from what had been occurring in the past, changing "the system" ( the old corrupt system) by trying to create a better alternative future – at the cusp of the old year and ushering in the new beginnings, some real " Happy New Year"…
Chidi, the guises are many – in some other West African country more than a decade earlier, the president's attack dogs would not have " discovered large sums of monies in different major world currencies belonging to the main opposition leader and his associates" – in fact they "discovered" a large cache of explosives and ammunition in the garage and house of some prominent opposition leader or other ( planted there by the Pa of course) so that he could go on national television – show up the evidence and start wailing that the treacherous and treasonous opposition leader and colleagues had confessed plan to blow up the presidential villa and the house of parliament : therefore in the interests of peace and stability in the beloved country, and to rid the beloved country of such vermin, they should be deserving of the death penalty, either death by hanging or by lining them up to face the musical firing squad, fait accompli
On Friday, 8 September 2017 15:39:25 UTC+2, Chidi Anthony Opara wrote:
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 <cornelius...@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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