Month: November 2023

  • Ben Shapiro and the Quest to Exterminate the Palestinian People

    Ben Shapiro and the Quest to Exterminate the Palestinian People

     

    By Femi Fani-Kayode

    “Gaza, you BLACK woman! Gaza, you trash! Gaza you bitch! Gaza, you daughter of a huge whore, just like your mother Gaza!”- Lior Narkis.

    The popular Israeli singer Lior Narkis sang these disturbing and deeply insulting words to a wild and ecstatic crowd of dancing and cheering Israeli soldiers who received them with wild and loud expressions of joy, adulation, praise and adoration as he went on a tour of numerous Isreali military camps whilst Gaza was being bombed and a few days before they began their ground offensive.

    I am constrained to ask the American Jew, Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro), who happens to be the most notorious and prolific defender of Zionism in the west, the most unabashedly pro-Israeli columnist, author and commentator in America and a man who has enormous influence throughout the world given the fact that millions of people read his essays in the Daily Beast, value his opinion and follow him on both the social and traditional media, the following question.

    Is this the sort of rhetoric and sentiment and the type of people that you and your Zionist collaborators expect the civilised world to offer their unquestioning support and applaud?

    As someone rightly asked, why is this vile and racist singer touring IDF bases rather than facing charges for hate crime?

     

    The answer is simple: he reflects the mindset and thinking of the Zionists and their views, not just about the Palestinians and the Arabs, but also about people of colour.

     

    His songs and views are SICKENING and unacceptable and my Christian faith compels me to resist it and those that encourage and applaud it with every fiber of my being.

     

    I wonder whether you, as the greatest defender and apologist of Israeli genocide and the wholesale slaughter of Palestinian children in America today, has anything to say about this or can muster the courage and moral gravitas to condemn it?

     

    Sadly, judging from your consistently obstinate, implicitly racist, intellectually bankrupt, logically flawed, constantly shallow and habitually bigoted contributions in your inglorious column in the American Daily Wire and your handle on X, I doubt it very much.

     

    Permit me to share another relevant contribution from no less a figure than Brazilian President Lula Da Silva for your consideration as well. He said,

     

    “If Hamas committed acts of terrorism when it did what it did, the State of Israel is also committing acts of terrorism. I have never heard of children being the preferred victims in a war. The number of women and children who have been killed in Gaza is unheard of in any other war. They (the Israelis) are killing innocent people.”

    I would suggest that you carefully ponder on these profound and deeply insightful words and take them very seriously indeed because they reflect the thinking of the entire civilised world.

    Now to the point.

     

    My dear Ben, I am sharing my concerns with you in this open letter simply because I am inclined to take you more seriously than others of your ilk due to the fact that your level of doublespeak, deceit, misinfirmation, disinfirmation, historical revisionism, mendacity and propaganda are second to none and this makes you very dangerous.

     

    To put it mildly you are literally America’s version of Josef Goebels (Hitler’s Nazi Minister of Propaganda & Information) on steroids only your target audience is not just Nazi Germany or America but rather the entire world.

     

    Yours is to defend the indefensible and to justify the unjustifiable.

     

    You continue to mislead and confuse millions of people all over the world with your pro-war, pro-apartheid, ultra-conservative and ultra-Zionist essays, podcasts and social media contributions when you present falsehood as truth and truth as falsehood.

     

    Had it not been for the fact that so many gullible and naive individuals read and listen to your every word and consider them as gospel truth I would not have bothered puttng pen to paper and writing this epistle to you.

     

    However your constant disrespect and contemptuous disdain for the basic facts and plain truth when it comes to the abominable atrocities that are being perpetuated in Gaza by the Israeli Government and Armed Forces coupled with your constant bullying, armtwisting and misplaced rage and wrath visited on anyone and everyone that does not accept or propogate your false and perfidious narrative constrains me to do so.

     

    Before I go into the ugly events in Gaza permit me to
    remind you of just one example of the expression of your inherent racism and debilitating insolence.

     

    On September 27th 2010 you posted the following on your X handle:

     

    “Israelis like to build. Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage. This is not a difficult issue”.

     

    Kindly tell me what you would call this type of rhetoric if not hateful racial stereotyping and bigoted and ignorant racism in its most vulgar, crass, primitive and crude form?

    Your racial slurs against Arabs remind me of the the language employed by the Afrikaans-speaking White Boers of apartheid South Africa who regarded black South Africans and black people generally as nothing but “sub-human, low born field hands and slaves” and who described them in their apartheid constitution as nothing but the Biblical “hewers of the wood and drawers of the water”.

     

    Again your words remind me of those of the infamous Dutchman, navigator and sailor Jan Van Reebeck, who was one of the earliest Europeans to arrive in South Africa and who upon landing on the beaches of the South African Cape in 1652 referred to our African brothers and sisters as “stinking black dogs”.

     

    The truth is that those that speak and think like you are worst than the German Nazi’s who subjected your forefathers to such horrendous treatment and sought to wipe them out.

    Quite apart from that, given your racist disposition, I suspect strongly that you were conceived, born, bred and raised in the same crap and open sewage that you have accused the Arabs of living in.

     

    Now to Gaza.

     

    Permit me to begin with the graphic and moving words of His Excellency Abdullah Abu Sawesh, who is the High Commissioner for the State of Palestine to my country Nigeria.

     

    In a press statement which was released earlier this week he wrote, inter alia, the following:

     

    “The unconditional, unshakeable political, military and media support that the Israeli occupation is receiving from western countries has perpetrated the current textbook genocide and the continuance of the Palestinian NAKBA that started 1948. By continuing airing and screening the occupier’s propaganda and picking the side of the executioners, the main western media outlets are completely complicit in the current textbook genocide. On the 40th day of this frenzy textbook genocide all the news that still came from the occupied Palestinian territories and in particular from Gaza are heartbreaking. As unfortunate as it is, I have no other choice except to start with the bloody statistical figures. With the deepest sorrow the death toll among the Palestinian civilians has exceeded twelve thousand (12,000) and the majority of them are children and women. Out of more than two thousand still missing, there has been groaning still coming from under the rubble which means that some are still breathing and fighting for their lives. The casualty toll in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has also climbed up as Israeli occupying forces and settlers ratchet up their violence on Palestinian civilians, now 186 killed, including 46 children, and 2,400 injured. Hundreds of bodies of Palestinian victims are decomposing in the courtyard of Al-Shifa Hospital, on the streets and under the rubble and there is no opportunity to bury them with the respect they deserve. More than 750 journalists from dozens of news organizations signed an open letter, condemning Israel’s killing of journalists in Gaza and criticizing the Western media coverage of the aggression against the Strip. The letter, amongst many other things, said newsrooms are “accountable for dehumanising rhetoric that has served to justify ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.”

     

    Can anyone hear such words and not shed a secret tear for the people of Palestine?

     

    Can we not acknowledge and recognise the fact that there is indeed a grand plan and not so hidden agenda to externinate them and wipe them off the face of the earth?

     

    This is not about fighting Hamas or seeking the terrorists out for destruction: this is about killing or displacing every single Palestinian man, woman and child and turning their entire race into a distant and fading memory.

     

     

    What the white Americans of the old “wild west” did to the native “red” Indians of the mid western and western prairies is precisely what the Jews, the Zionists and the State of Israel wish to do to the Palestinian people.

     

     

    They wish to break them, kill them, displace them, destroy them and herd those that are left alive into barren reservation camps in the Sinai desert where they will be treated like worthless slaves and beggars and turned into feeble minded and pitiful drug addicts and alcoholics.

     

    May God forbid that this should ever happen.

     

    Yet this is precisely what degenerate and twisted little Zionist monsters like you Ben actually pray for and crave in your lust for land, power, hegemony, expansion, domination, control, subjugation, conquest, treasure, gas and oil, plenty of which lies below the soil of Gaza and off its coast.

     

    A few days ago you posted a picture of a hole in the ground on the same X account for your 6 million followers.

    You claimed that this hole is under a Gaza hospital & you alleged that it leads to a web of military tunnels below the hospital.

    As usual you have provided no evidence to substantiate your allegation or the veracity of your assertion but the truth is that such “trivial” matters like the provision of credible evidence means little or nothing to you.

    You expect us to believe what you have said and regard it as truth simply because YOU said so and YOU must never be doubted, disbelieved, denied or challenged in the presentation of YOUR so-called facts.

    Worse still anyone that challenges those “facts” in your twisted, warped and intellectually anaemic mind must be “antisemitic”, “an enemy of the State of Israel” and “a Jew hater”.

     

    Such base and infantile poppycock is rarely seen in serious public discourse or intellectual debate but of course people like you always lower the bar.

     

    The truth is that the hole whose picture you shared and passed off as a passage to a tunnel used by Hamas terrorists may well be one that simply leads to the hospital sewers or to the hospital basement.

     

    Yet you expect us, nay command us and demand of us, to believe your assertion and categorisation that it leads to a complex network of Hamas military bases & tunnels simply because you & the Israeli Defence Force @IDF have said so.

    Whatever the case, is this your justification for bombing hospitals & butchering 12,000 civilians, 6000 of whom are children in Gaza and 186 others, 46 of whom are children, in the West Bank all in 5 weeks?

     

    Is this your rationalisation for killing or causing the death of one child in Gaza every ten minutes?

     

    Is this your justification for turning Al Shifa hospital into a stinking and death-stenched cemetery for children and babies and a concentration camp filled with rotting and maggot-infested bodies?

     

    Is this your reason for targetting hospitals, killing little babies in incubators by denying them oxygen and electricity and turning them into what can best be described as little mice being prepared for the slaughter?

     

    Is this your rationalisation for slaughtering over 1/2% of the entire population of Gaza & flattening 60% of its infrastructures in that same space of time?

    As Professor Norman Finklestein, the respected Jewish American scholar and author posted on X,

    “it is now 24 hours since Israel invaded al-Shifa hospital. No sprawling Hamas command-and-control center. No arms caches in the tunnels. No secret passageways. No nothing except: DEAD BABIES IN INCUBATORS WITHOUT FUEL.”

     

    Can you Ben Shapiro or your Zionist collaborators and co-conspirators legitimately dispute this?

     

    Frankly you make me sick. You are not only a delusional & blood thirsty degenerate but you are also a psychopath who has a craving for the spilling of human blood.

    Whilst the world is sickened by the heartless slaughter of Palestinian women, children & babies you, like the twisted voyeur and perverted sexual deviant that you are, sit back in your chair, bring out the popcorn & enjoy watching it every night.

     

    You are a troubled little man who has an insatiable appetite for the spilling of children’s blood & whose secret desire is to subiect every single Arab (both Christian & Muslim) to mass murder, genocide & ethnic cleansing & wipe them all off the face of the earth.

     

    You are worse than Hamas, ISIS, Boko Haram, Daesh, Al Shabab, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah & Al Qaeda all put together because you are not only a brutal, blood lusting, merciless beast & terrorist enabler & sympathiser that has no value for life & no interest in peace but you, like Hitler’s Nazis, also seek to rationalise your unrelenting barbarity with a pseudo-intellectual garb trying to defend & present as acceptable something that no civilised or sane individual with even the tiniest modicum of humanity can EVER accept as being normal.

     

    Your hateful and provocative rhetoric and disgraceful & deeply insultng commentry about the Islamic & Christian faiths over the years & your unacceptable insults on the greatest, most noble, most righteous and most reverred Prophet of Islam, Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu ‘Alayhi Wa Sallam) coupled with your denigrating and demeaning description of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the Lord of Hosts, the Ancient of Days, the Creator of all that is, the Lord of the Universe, the El Shaddai, the Elohim, the Adonai, the Alpha and the Omega and the Resurrected Lord as “just another Jew who died for a cause” has not gone unnoticed.

     

    You are of course entitled to your views but let me tell you frankly that if every Jew had your deplorable, warped, bigoted, racist, asinine & utterly despicable mindset & deplorable disposition about the two greatest & most popular faiths on earth the world would be filled with anti-semites & Hitler would have been celebrated as a saint & a hero even though we all regard him as one of the worse monsters & tyrants that ever lived.

     

    You are the biggest & single most repugnant, perfiduous, malevolent, deceitful, malicious, insincere, wicked, malodrous, dangerous & intellectually dishonest voice in the Zionist camp today & you have made more enemies for the State of Israel by your vicious & unrelenting racism, your endorsement of apartheid, your blatant lies, your pathological mendacities & your inexplicable & unfathomable fabrications than any other human being on earth.

    I do not agree with everything that men & women like Dominique De Villepin, Professor Norman Finklestein, David Icke, Professor Naom Chomsky, Jackson Hinkle, Mehdi Hassan, Clare Daley MEP, William Scott Ritter Jnr., Colonel Douglas Macgregor, Andrew Tate, Professor John Mearsheimer, James Corbyn MP, Julius Malema MP, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Oman, Professor Cornel West, the Torah Jews, Professor Isa Pantami, Antonio Gutteras, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus & all the other pro-ceasefire, pro-peace voices say but every single one of them displays a level of logic, foresight, justice, equity, compassion, sensitivity & humanity that you are incapable of doing & they are better & far more enlightened than you in their rationalisations, reasoning & historical knowledge of the events in the Middle East and Palestine.

     

    Unlike you they do not suffer from tunnel vision and they are not blinded and encumbered by their own subjectivity or delusional emotions.

     

     

    Even the hitherto reticent Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, who all along had refused to criticise the genocidal excesses of Israel appears to have finally found the courage to join the ranks of these noble men and women, the forces of light and the legions of the righteous and speak up for the oppressed and suffering people of Gaza when, just a few days ago, he said the following during the course of a press conference. He said,

    “I urge the Government of Israel to exercise maximum restraint. The world is watching on TV, on social media. We are hearing the testimonies of doctors, family members, survivors, kids who have lost their parents. The world is witnessing this killing of women, of children, of babies. This has to stop”.

     

    Let us hope he goes even further and calls for a total and complete ceasefire.

     

    Unlike you, each of these men and women are motivated by truth & guided by their consciences and the quest for justice & fairness.

    You do not share these noble qualities, virtues or motivations.

    You are no better than a primitive, half naked cheerleader & court jester dancing naked in the town centre and attempting to get noticed like a stale & out of fashion village idiot and lady of easy virtue that is well past her expiry date.

     

    You are just a lost, irredeemable, unconciable soul that has no conscience, that has lost his humanity and moral compass and that is being paid and sponsored to write unadulterated rubbish by the pro-Israeli lobby in the United States of America and the State of Israel.

     

    By all means defend Israel if that is your decision but you do not need to throw away your humanity and fully embrace depravity to do so.

     

    Sadly that is what you have done but what the hell do you care because you sold your soul to satan years ago in return for notoriety and infamy.

     

    Hell awaits you Ben and when you get there you can exchange notes with your soul-mates and fellow beasts like Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, King Leopold 11 of Belgium, Genghis Khan, Mohammed Al Baghdadi, Idi Amin, Jeanne Bedie Bokassa, Christopher Colombus, King Herod, Pharaoh, Osama Bin Ladin, Saddam Hussein, Nebuchadnezzar, Vlad the Impaler and so many others.

     

    You will learn the hard way that supporting the evil that is being perpetuated in Gaza today by Israel will eventually have dire consequences for the Jewish state herself and indeed the entire world.

     

    I have always loved Israel and a part of me still does. Together with millions of others all over the world, I wept for her when she was attacked and brutally savaged by those that are worse than animals on October 7th and I not only condemned it but share the view that Hamas must be eradicated from the face of the earth.

     

    Despite that I simply cannot bear what the Jewish state is doing in Gaza and I hate those who are cheering them on in their barbaric slaughter of innocent civilians.

     

    Permit me to garner this contribution with a few posers.

     

    Are we supposed to stand by Israel even when she is indulging in blind, rage-induced and vengeance- motivated genocide?

     

    Are we supposed to join the Americans and say that Israel can do and get away with ANYTHING and not demand for a ceasefire?

     

    Are we supposed to clap for the Israeli Minister of Heritage when he says “anyone who carries a Palestinian flag should not be allowed to live?” or when he says a “nuclear bomb should be dropped on Gaza” or when he says “Gaza’s 2.5 million people should be pushed in the desert or sent to 100 different countries as refugees at 25,000 Gazans per country?”

     

    Is this the sort of rhetoric we are expected to espouse, endorse and support?

    Is this what criminally insane, genocidal maniacs and complicit religious bigots and messianic zealots like you Ben Shapiro expect us to embrace?

     

    Are we expected to jump with joy and applaud him when the Israeli Minister of National Security says “even those that are sharing sweets on the streets of Gaza should be targetted and slaughtered as well?”

    Are we supposed to express our approval when the Minister of Defence of Israel says “what is being done to Gaza may also be done to Beirut?”

    Is this wholesale espousal of barbarity, slaughter and savagery to be regarded as the new norm? Are we expected to accept and celebrate it?

    Is there no more sanity in the world?

     

    Are we supposed to accept it as the norm when the Israeli Finance Minister says “there is no such thing as a Palestinian nation, there is no such thing as Palestinian history and there is no such thing as a Palestinian language”?

     

    Are we supposed to hop up and down with joy and express our unending adoration when a Member of the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) is questioned about the fact that thousands of innocent Palestinian women and children are being killed by Israeli bombs in Gaza and his response was “there is no such thing as an innocent Palestinian” meaning that every single Palestinian, whether man, woman, child or infant, should be bombed, crushed and wiped off the face of the earth?

     

    Where is this hateful and genocidal rhetoric coming from and why should we shy away from challenging it?

     

    Are we cowards? Should we be filled with fear and trepidation and shy away from speaking the bitter truth about what Zionism has done to the Jewish state?

    Does the Bible not tell us that “God has not given us a spirit of fear but one of power, love and sound mind”?

     

    Does is not admonish us not to fear the one that can kill the body but “only He that can throw the soul into hell”?

     

    Today the Jews that have taken objection to others saying “from the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” and that claim that such words are nothing but genocidal hate speech and an expression of a sinister and subterranean desire to wipe the State of Israel off the face of the earth are themselves saying that Gaza and the Palestinian people should be totally eradicated.

    They are themselves wiping out Christian and Muslim children in Gaza and judging from what the Israeli Defence Minister is saying it may soon be Lebanon and Beirut as well.

     

    Does this double standard make any sense? Is it just? Is it fair? Does it not make any right thinking person sick? Is it right or proper for anyone to be talking about wiping out any race in this day and age?

    Are Israel, the Zionists and the Jews above the law and do they have the right to do unto others what they do not want others to do unto them?

     

    Has Israel not taken us down the sanguine and bloody path of carnage and madness where restraint and the application of even the most basic norms of military engagement, international law and the law of war no longer apply?

    Are crimes against humanity and war crimes against innocent civilians, including women and children, now acceptable forms of combat?

    This may be so in Ben Shapiro’s Zionist controlled insane world but not in mine.

    Today it is Gaza, tomorrow it could be your city or country. Think about that whilst you are watching the show of shame and unprecedented carnage from the comfort of your home and bedroom on CNN, Al Jazeera or the BBC.

     

    May God have mercy on us all.

     

    Permit me to conclude this contribution with the following.

     

    I have written thousands of words over the last few weeks about the horrendous slaughter that the State of Israel was subjected to by a group of savage and barbaric demons in human flesh on October 7th.

     

    The attack was unprovoked and indefensible and the carnage that it left in its wake beggars belief and was second to none.

     

    It was undoubtedly the worst and most devastating attack on the Jewish state and the Jewish people since the holocaust and I joined millions of Nigerians and indeed people from all over the civilised world of every faith, including Muslims and Christians, in condemning it and insisting that Israel not only has the right to defend herself but also a duty to totally and completely wipe out the terrorist organisation known as Hamas.

     

     

    These are all “givens” or what lawyers describe as “settled law” but what puzzles me is the fact that when some of us express our angst, disgust, opprobium and horror at the disproportionate and sickening overreaction and incontrovertible savagery and barbarity that the State of Israel is subjecting the innocent people of Gaza to in the name of fighting and crushing Hamas and the fact that we are utterly mortified by the sight of Palestinian women, children and infant babies being blown to pieces and slaughtered like sallah goats and christmas turkeys whilst in their homes, hospitals, steeets, ambulances, schools, churches and mosques and when we cry out in horror and say enough is enough and that this must stop, we are treated with disdain and contempt by the pro-Zionist and pro-Israel lobby and declared as being antisemitic, anti-Jewish and anti-Israel.

     

    Is this not absurd?

     

    Should the wholesale slaughter of Muslim and Christian babies and infants not attract the same level and degree of anger and horror as the wholesale butchery of Jewish and Israeli ones?

     

    Are they not all babies before being Muslims, Christians or Jews?

     

    Do Christian and Muslim babies, women and children not have the right to life as well and are they not worthy of being considered for protection at a time of war or should such consideration be offered to only the Jews and citizens of Israel?

     

    Does the Holy Bible tell us that killing babies of ANY race or religion is the right thing to do?

     

    Does the New Testament of the Word of God not specifically and clearly tell us that the violent abominations of the Old Testament such as ethnic cleansing, mass murder, genocide, racism, religious bigotry, injustice, inequity, racial and religious intolerance and the slaughter of our fellow human beings for ANY reason whatsoever is no longer acceptable and that instead we must treat one another with compassion, kindness, mercy, charity, forgiveness, patience and love?

     

    Does it not say that we should “suffer not the children” and that we should treat women, the young, the elderly, the defenceless, the poor, the sick and the vulnerable with kindness and sensitivity?

    Is it not for this specific reason and purpose that our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ came and sacrificed Himself on the cross?

    Did He not say that the greatest display of love is to treat our fellow human beings as we would treat ourselves and that we should be ready to sacrifice our lives for the sake of others?

     

    Did He not say that “vengeance is mine, I will repay” and that we should “turn the other cheek” when assaulted or insulted?

    Those that have overlooked these biblical admonitions and that refuse to acknowledge them or that are still stuck in the angry, violent, frightful and vengeful rhetoric of the Old Testament of the Holy Bible are truly lost.

     

    They forget that the New Testament is not only a fulfillment of the Old but was also established to ameliorate its harshness and excesses and those that think otherwise must be reading a different Bible to mine.

     

    The Christian that says that Jews and the State of The Israel can do no wrong simply because they are supposedly “God’s chosen people” and that it is alright for them to commit mass murder and kill babies is not only a lost and pitiful soul but also an accomplice to and enabler of genocide.

     

    Such a person is not a real Christian but an insensitive, misguided, ignorant and deluded barbarian.

     

    Christianity can NEVER support injustice or the murder of innocents and neither can Islam.

     

    Why should the Jews believe they can do so under ANY circumstances and get away with it? Why should they regard themselves as being infallible and untouchable?

     

    Should a Jew bear hatred or resentment for Christians or Muslims simply because his people have suffered persecution in the past given the fact that millions of members of both of these great
    faiths have stood by Israel on several occassions, defended her and acknowledged her right to exist?

    Is this not what the “two state solution” is all about?

    Was that not the basis on which Camp David and the Oslo Accords were established?

    Is this not enough to prove that not all Muslims are ISIS and Hamas and that not all Christians are Nazis?

     

    Did millions of Christians and Muslims from all over the world not sacrifice their lives during WW11 fighting against the German, Italian and Japanese Nazis whose sole purpose and intention was to wipe out the Jewish race and erase them from the face of the earth?

    Has humanity not paid its dues to the Jews by re-establishing the State of Israel in 1948 and displacing millions of Palestinians from their homeland just to do so?

     

    These are pertinent and relevant questions given what Israel is doing in Gaza and given the fact that those of us that have said they have gone too far and that it must stop are now being branded and labelled as anti-Jewish by the likes of Ben Shapiro and the Prime Minister of Israel himself, Benjanin Netanyahu.

     

    Must the barbarity and obscenity of infant and child slaughter be considered acceptable when it is perpetrated by the Jews and only condemned when unleashed on Jewish children?

     

    Is this right and proper?

     

    I think not.

     

    Surely all life and all children are precious and the burchering of ANY, regardless of race or faith, MUST be condemned by ALL.

     

    And those that think otherwise like Ben Shapiro are obviously suffering from a rare form of mental illness which needs to be exposed, challenged and contained lest they plunge the entire world into WW111.

     

    Just how long do they think the Muslim world particularly will sit by idly and watch members of their faith being slaughtered in this way?

     

    Do they not know that everyone has a limit to what they can take and that if this madness does not stop there will be a terrible and irresistible reaction which Israel may not survive?

     

    Can people like Ben Shapiro and the Jewish extremists and Zioninsts that think like him not see this coming?

     

    Can Israel fight against the whole world bar America and survive it? Will America herself risk her survival for an Israeli state that has gone rogue, lost its mind and become a terror to the citizens of the world?

     

    Do Christian and Muslim lives not matter too and is Jewish blood any more precious than ours?

     

    Again are Jewish babies more important than that of the Arabs or ours?

     

    Where is this madness coming from and why are so many egging it on in the name of political correctness and out of fear of the Jewish lobby and America?

     

    And if the truth be told this madness, hypocrisy and double standard is driving the world to the precipice of a conflagration the likes of which have never been witnessed before.

     

    I say this because the entire Muslim world is boiling with rage and anger.

     

    Nothing reflects this growing anger and grave danger better than the words of the Afghan Taliban Government when they were asked why they did not attend the recently concluded summit of Arab and Muslim leaders in Riyadh Saudi Arabia last week.

     

    Afghanistan was the only Muslim country that did not attend.

     

    They offered an explanation for their absence by writing the following on X:

     

    “Saudi Arabia sent us an invitation to which our Supreme Leader replied, ‘we don’t need an invitation: send us the location where Muslim armies will be gathering.”

    This was indeed a chilling and sobering response if I ever saw one.

     

    Thankfully Saudi Arabia withdrew their invitation after that but the words of the Afghan Government have eloquently and graphically depicted the rage and extreemly dangerous sentiments of the overwhelming number of Muslims in the world.

     

    And frankly, who can blame them?

     

    Israel needs to sheath her bloody sword and stop the carnage in Gaza and the West Bank before the more moderate Arab Governments and Muslim leaders can no longer hold the line, are swept away and the whole world is confronted with a massive and irresistible jihad in which literally millions of people on all sides of the political, religious and ethnic divide will be killed and after which the world will never be the same again.

     

    For the record it is not just the Muslim world that is enraged. South Africa, along with a number of other countries, have not just broken diplomatic ties with Israel as a direct consequence of their barbarism in Gaza but they have also called for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

     

    Clearly the clock is ticking for the Zionists that take pleasure and pride in the slaughter of infants.

     

     

    By her despicable, graphic and morbid display of savagery and her clear reflection of what can best be described as a psychopathic, murderous and barbaric disposition, the State of Israel has now become a danger to the peace and security of the world.

     

    The world is now left with a choice about what to do with her but in my view the bottom line is best reflected by the following anecdote.

     

    Consider this: when a lion runs mad and seeks to kill every single living thing because its cubs were attacked and killed by a rogue pride you can understand its rage but you cannot allow it to kill and decimate every single living thing in the jungle as an act of vengeance.

     

    You must save it from its momentary madness and violent grieving rage by putting a bullet in its head before it wipes out everything that has life including itself.

     

    That is the story of Israel and if she is not reigned in at the soonest and compelled to regain her senses that is what her fate may ultimately come to.

     

    This is a hard and bitter truth which many do not wish to acknowledge or accept.

     

    Permit me to end with the following points.

     

    On 3rd of October 2022 Hilary Rodham Clinton, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs (Secretary of State) of the United States of America and a former presidential candidate posted the following on her X handle. She wrote,

     

    “If the Russian leadership would rather not be accused of war crimes they should stop bombing hospitals”.

     

    I urge Mrs. Clinton, the lady that rejoiced when Muammar Ghadaffi was brutally murdered, to refrain from her application of double standards and cowardly and complicit silence when it comes to Gaza and offer the same counsel to the Israeli Government and to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

     

    This would go a very long way indeed in helping the situation and redeeming her utterly battered and discredited image.

     

     

    An Israeli-American activist, Miko Peled, offered the following insight about the mindset of the Israeli war machine. He said, “the Israeli Army’s entire purpose is terrorism”.

     

    Given what is happening in Gaza, the West Bank and Southern Lebanon today can anyone dispute this? Is what he has said not the bitter truth?

     

    Have the events in Gaza not proved that and provided ample evidence to substantiate Peled’s allegation?

     

    And just in case anyone is inclined to dismiss him as being delusional or just another self-hating, liberal American Jew that does not care for Israel they should consider his antecedents and noble lineage.

     

    His grandfather, Avraham Katsnelson, signed Israel’s Declaration of Independence.

     

    His father, General Mattiyahu Peled, fought in the war of 1948 and 1967 and later condemned the Israeli military for seizing the West Bank, Gaza, the Egyptian Sinai and the Syrian Golan Heights.

    This is indeed a distinguished family of warriors and achievers. They are men of truth, courage, conscience and character, they are forthright and righteous souls and they are notable heroes who risked their lives for Israel and who never shied away from speaking the truth to her leaders when they got it wrong.

    Peled is far more worthy of our attention and respect and needs to be taken far more seriously than pin size, puppet propagandists with a questionable pedigree and a thoroughly uninspiring lineage like little Ben Shapiro.

     

    On his part Major Scot Ritter, a retired US Marine and former Military Intelligence officer offered some laudable and timely counsel and advice. He posted the following on X:

     

    “the United States needs to bring this to an end. An immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the deployment of Turkish peacekeepers to protect the Palestinians from the IDF is a must. The Israelis simply don’t care anymore. They are a nation consumed with bloodlust”.

     

    Ritter has hit the nail on the head. Let us hope President Joe Biden and the Zionist hawks around him will listen.

     

    Finally President Erdoğan of Turkey issued the following warning to the Zionists and the State of Israel. He said,

     

    “I would like to speak very bluntly. Israel is a terrorist state. They consider Hamas to be a terrorist organisation but Hamas is a political party that won the collective vote in Palestine and after they won the election you have seized and usurped their rights. Israel and the US have seized those rights. Two-thirds of the 12,000 people who have been murdered by Israel in Gaza are women and children,” he said. Israel is carrying out the most heinous attack against women and children in all of history. They [Israel] have been speaking about murdering all those people using nuclear weapons so let me call on Benjamin Netanyahu: do you have nuclear weapons or not? Explain this if you have the courage! You are threatening people with atomic bombs, nuclear bombs. It does not matter what you have, you are a goner!”

     

    It appears that the quest to exterminate the Palestinian people will not go unchallenged and cannot be fully implemented without strong resistance and a bloody fight.

     

    Let us hope that Ben Shapiro and his Zionist co-travellers whose intention is to rid the world of the Palestinian people are listening.

    A word is enough for the wise.

     

     

    Sadly despite all “listening” does not appear to be on the horizon given the fact that despite the gathering clouds, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel appears to have thrown all caution to the wind and refused to even attempt to hide his bellicose and murderous disposition and genocidal intentions.

     

    He confirmed this two weeks ago when he said, with reference to the attack on Gaza, that the State of Israel was “waging a war against Amalek”.

     

    The import of this utterly chilling, frightful and utterly comment is not lost on many and it is highly instructive.

     

    For those who do not fully appreciate what he means I would suggest that they read the Old Testament of the Holy Bible which tells us that the Jews were ordered by God and therefore have a divine obligation to wipe out and exterminate every man, woman and child that is a descendant of Amalek in their quest to enter and occupy the Promise Land and establish, protect, defend and secure the State of Israel.

     

    Amalek’s descendants were collectively referred to in the Bible as the Amalekites and today they are known as the Palestinians.

     

    Can you put two and two together?

     

    Do we need any more evidence about what the intentions of Israel really are?

    Need I say any more?

     

    May God deliver the people of Gaza, the Palestinian people, the Middle East and the entire world from evil and bloodthirsty men, whether they be the animals and terrorists of Hamas, the barbaric hordes of ISIS and Islamic Jihad, the butchers and child killers of the Israeli Defence Force or the fanatical zealots and extremist disciples of the divisive, racist and cancerous philosophy and plague known as Zionism. (Flowerbudnews)

     

    (FFK)

  • CLO sues for peace over APGA, APC cold war in Anambra

    CLO sues for peace over APGA, APC cold war in Anambra

     

    By Flowerbudnews
    Enugu: The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) has urged leadership of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) and All Progressives Congress (APC) to caution their overzealous supporters to shun despicable verbal and vitriolic attacks in Anambra.

    “There should be an end to the current despicable verbal attacks to forestall and avoid the negative situation degenerating to open confrontations, unrest and blood-letting in the state,” the Chairman of CLO, Anambra, Comrade Vincent Ezekwueme, said.

    Ezekwueme told newsmen in Enugu on Sunday that Anambra political gladiators should give peace a chance by calling on their supporters, praise singers, hangers-on and sycophants to refrain from making inflammatory statements.

    According to him, political gladiators and their supporters should stop casting unsubstantiated aspersions and fake news against perceived or imaginary opponents of their principals and leaders.

     

    He noted that there had been high political tensions in the state recently following outrageous verbal attacks, insults, humiliations and abusive words between supporters of APGA and APC in the state.

     

    He said: “Although, constructive, corrective and patriotic criticism is beauty and essence of democracy and democratic governance, and absence of constructive criticism is a great threat to democracy.

     

    “Pertinently hate and fake speech is the bane and threat to democracy and democratic culture, hence the inevitable need to discard it.

     

    “It is noteworthy that the state has had enough of unrest, crisis and cries; it is in dire need of peace, unity, trust, tranquility, tolerance and mutual sharing of burdens of life.”

     

    The CLO boss called on political leaders to always ensure their supporters are civil and respect the views, dignity, interest and privacy of perceived opponents of their principals and toe the path of constitutionality, rule of law and social justice.

     

    “It is correct to say that every four years elective offices become vacant; it is left for the electorate to withdraw or renew the mandate depending on the performances of the incumbent.

     

    “Our political leaders and their supporters should think before they speak to avoid unnecessarily heightening the political tension and acrimony in the state.

     

    “It is too early to discuss, canvass or campaign for November 2025 governorship election as incumbent governor has not spent half of his four years tenure,” he added.

     

    Ezekwueme called on political leaders to concentrate and rededicate themselves to the service of God and humanity as well as provisions of elusive but much cherished dividends of democracy. /Flowerbudnews

  • Ex-lawmaker Uwak hails NLC, TUC for suspending strike

    Ex-lawmaker Uwak hails NLC, TUC for suspending strike

     

    Abuja: A former House of Representatives, member, Mr Robinson Uwak, on Sunday, commended the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) for the suspension of the indefinite nationwide strike.

    Uwak, in a statement in Abuja, said the action was a demonstration of patriotism and empathy towards ordinary Nigerians who would have been most impacted by an indefinite strike.

    The lawmaker also commended President Bola Tinubu’s government for the quick intervention leading to its call off.

    He sympathised with the President of the NLC, Comrade Joe Ajaero, over the assault meted to him during his visit to Imo in solidarity with workers.

    He also commended the security agencies for their prompt intervention and investigation into the matter towards a quick resolution of the conflict.

    Uwak equally thanked President Tinubu for approving the payment of the sum of N35,000 extra allowance to all federal workers as palliative to cushion the effects of the fuel subsidy removal and relieve workers and households in the country.

    “I have no doubt that the proposed cash transfers to 15 million households will further ameliorate the plight of the very poor and vulnerable households in the country and strengthen the social safety nets,” he said.

    NAN reports that the NLC and TUC suspended the nationwide indefinite strike embarked upon in protest against alleged brutalisation of NLC president, Joe Ajaero, in Imo on Nov. 1.The suspension the labour unions said was to pave way for more negotiations on issues that caused the strike.

    The strike was suspended because of the intervention of the federal government through the office of the National Security Adviser, NSA.

    The NSA, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, had at an earlier meeting held at Aso Rock, personally apologised on behalf of the government for the attack and brutalisation of Ajaero. (NAN)( www.nannews.ng) /Flowerbudnews

  • Yuletide: NDLEA nabs ‘Ibrahim Bendel’, wanted Abuja drug Kingpin

    Yuletide: NDLEA nabs ‘Ibrahim Bendel’, wanted Abuja drug Kingpin

    The National Durug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA on Sunday said it has arrested Ibrahim Momoh, popularly known as Ibrahim Bendel, a notorious and wanted Abuja drug kingpin, seven years after he escaped from prison custody.

     

    Ibrahim Momih was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA during a raid of his hideout at Filin Dabo, Dei-Dei area of the FCT.

     

    NDLEA said he escaped from prison custody following his conviction for drug dealing, and being a notorious major distributor of illicit substances within the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

     

    Spokesman of NDLEA, Femi Babafemi said “Ibrahim Momoh was first arrested on 27th November, 2014 with cannabis sativa weighing 385.1kgs, prosecuted, convicted and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on 22nd July 2015.

     

    “But while serving his jail term at Kuje, he escaped from prison custody on 16th May, 2016.

     

    “Following credible intelligence, NDLEA operatives on 20th November 2022 stormed the warehouse of the fleeing ex-convict, Ibrahim Momoh, and recovered 81 jumbo bags of cannabis weighing 1,278kgs.

     

    “The store was located within his poultry farm in Dei-Dei area of the FCT. Though Momoh was not around at the time, his warehouse manager, 55-year-old Ghanaian, Richard Forson Gordon was arrested, prosecuted and sentenced to two years in jail.

    The Agency thereafter declared Ibrahim Momoh wanted.

    The manhunt for the drug lord paid off on 5th November 2023 when operatives again raided his hideout at Filin Dabo, Dei-Dei area of Abuja where he was arrested with 56.9kgs of cannabis sativa and 42.7 grams of Diazepam”.

     

    In another raid in the same area of the FCT on Monday 13th November, a suspect Yusufa Ibrahim, 27, was arrested with 75.3kgs of cannabis.

     

    Meanwhile, a massive operation in the forest of Efon Alaye in Efon local government area of Ekiti state on Saturday 18th November 2023 has led to the destruction of 52,500 kilograms of cannabis sativa covering over 21 hectares of farmland while a total of ninety two bags of same substance weighing 1,380 kilograms were recovered and another 250 bags weighing 3,000kgs stored in different huts on the farm were also burnt.

     

    No fewer than 15 suspects were arrested on the farm during the operation.

    They include: Okikiri Julius, 27; Ozoemene Friday Efajemu, 31; Tosin Ibrahim, 18; Israel Samuel, 25; Godwin David, 39; Friday Isaac, 19; Ayomide Igbekele, 18; Joshua Daniel, 27; Emmanuel Nwachukwu, 19; Emeka Onyeama, 31; Ani Augustine, 27; Obasi Ogbu, 32; Orsusue Peter, 23; Daniel Emmanuel, 18; and Yinusa James, 22.

     

    In Ondo state, five persons including another wanted drug kingpin, Christopher Onyebuchi, 40, were arrested at New Bridge Compound, Idoani on Wednesday 15th November and a total of 1,945 kilograms of cannabis recovered from them.

     

    Others include: Olorunda Ojo, 52; Femi Tomoye, 22; Abdurahman Salahu, 29; and Momoh Jimoh, 31. Onyebuchi had earlier been arrested by NDLEA on 25th March 2022 with 89kgs of same substance but jumped bail after he was arraigned at the Federal High Court, Akure.

     

    Operatives in the state also on Sunday 12th November raided Upemen village in Owo where they recovered 1,834kgs of same substance with 273kgs also seized the previous day, Saturday 11th Nov at Ipesi Akoko.

     

    While NDLEA officers in Sokoto recovered 290kgs of cannabis from a female suspect, Fatima Salmanu, 20, at Gangaren Tashar, Illela Sokoto in Sokoto North LGA on Thursday 16th November.

    Their colleagues in Edo state evacuated 808kgs of the same psychoactive substance stored in a forest at Igueben on Monday 13th Nov.

     

    Not less than 231kgs of cannabis were recovered and five suspects arrested in a joint raid between NDLEA operatives and soldiers in Kwande council area of Benue state on Monday 13th Nov.

     

    Those arrested include: Denen Terhemba, 25; Liambee Iorhuna, 36; Iorhuna Sughnen, 20; Aboh Sonter, 23; and Msendoo Tyokaa, 36.

     

    While operatives in Ogun state on Tuesday 14th Nov arrested a suspect, Tony Jonah at Abule Iroko, with cannabis sativa weighing 67kgs, those in Lagos arrested Chike Agu at Ago Palace way, Isolo with 364.3kgs of Loud, a variant of cannabis.

     

    In Imo state, NDLEA operatives on patrol along Owerri -Onitsha expressway on Monday 13th Nov intercepted a truck marked XS 669KRD driven by one Orji Ifeanyi, 33.

    A search of the truck led to the seizure of 82,320 pills of opioids including Tramadol 225mg, and Diazepam as well as 32.5 litres of codeine cough syrup and 100 pieces of Molly weighing 49.62 grams.

     

    The War Against Drug Abuse, WADA, advocacy campaign of the Agency continued in equal measure in schools, markets, worship places and others across the country in the past week.

     

    Some of them include: WADA advocacy lecture for Muslim faithful at Badagry Central Mosque, Badagry, Lagos; WADA sensitisation lecture for students of Government Science College, Wase, Plateau state; WADA sensitisation lecture for students of Anglican Girls Secondary School, Ogidi, Anambra state.

     

    WADA advocacy lecture at St. Thomas Grammar School, Otan Aiyegbaju, Osun; WADA advocacy lecture for students and staff of Government Junior Arabic Secondary School, Maigatari, Jigawa state as well as students and staff of Mainland Technical College, Oron, Akwa Ibom state.

     

    Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig Gen Mohammed Marwa (Rtd) commended the officers and men of the FCT, Ekiti, Ondo, Sokoto, Lagos, Edo, Benue, Ogun and Imo Commands for the arrests and seizures of the past week.

    He urged them and their compatriots across all formations of the Agency to intensify the offensive action and tempo against drug cartels as the yuletide season approaches while maintaining a balance with their drug demand reduction efforts

  • At last, freedom for 4,068 prisoners begins from Kuje

    At last, freedom for 4,068 prisoners begins from Kuje

    The Federal Government has disclosed that it has raised N585million to be used for the payment of fines to secure the release of 4, 068 inmates across the federation

    Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, said the money was donated by several organisations as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, to the country.

    He said the first phase of the release of the inmates would commence from the Kuje Correctional Center in Abuja.

     

    The Interior Minister spoke on the sidelines of the 27th Ministerial Committee Meeting of the Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa, GIABA, which held at the State House, Abuja, yesterday.

     

    In attendance at the meeting were Ministers of Justice and heads of anti-corruption agencies from all the countries within the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS.

     

    Tunji-Ojo, who was a special guest at the meeting, said the Ministry of Interior would further collaborate with the Ministry of Justice to tackle the swelling number of awaiting trial inmates in various detention facilities in the country.

     

    He said: “While the Ministry of Justice is in charge of judicial administration, the Ministry of Interior controls the Correctional Institutions, which are transformatory centers that are meant to ensure that inmates have their fundamental rights protected. Of course, they become rehabilitated to be reintegrated back into the society.

     

    “Synergy is key and that is what we have, especially with the Justice Ministry.

     

    “The Justice Ministry and the Ministry of Interior must work hand-in-hand to make sure that the target of the judicial system comes to fruition. The target is not to punish people. It is to remodel, rehabilitate and reintegrate them.

    The Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, understands that. So, it is like end-to-end- a value chain. The Judiciary will do theirs through the courts, then, the Ministry of Interior will take it from there to make sure that they (inmates) come out better and are integrated back into the society.

    From here, I am heading straight to the Kuje Correctional Center. We are flagging off the release of about 4,068 inmates. These are people that are non-violent offenders. People that are in, due to their inability to pay fines.

     

    “I said it a couple of weeks ago that we are going to raise about N585m through CSR from corporate bodies, which God has helped us and we have been able to do that.”

  • Adeleke makes u-turn, says he didn’t suspend Osun chief judge

    Adeleke makes u-turn, says he didn’t suspend Osun chief judge

    Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has reversed himself, denying the suspension of the State Chief Judge, Justice Oyebola Ojo.

    The Governor stated that he only forwarded the resolution of the House of Assembly asking the Chief Judge to “step aside” pending the investigation of the allegation of corruption against her.

    The spokesperson to the Governor, Olawale Rasheed had in a statement on Thursday disclosed the Governor’s approval to the suspension of the CJ pending investigation of allegation against her. Another statement issued by the spokesperson the same day stated that the Governor has appointed Justice Olayinka Afolabi as acting Chief Judge with a swearing-in for his inauguration following (Friday).

     

     

    However, the swearing-in ceremony could not hold as both the Deputy Governor, Kola Adewusi, scheduled to oversee the event, and Justice Afolabi did not show up at the Executive Lounge, venue of the programme on Friday.

     

     

    However, in a statement issued by the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Kolapo Alimi on Sunday, he said the Governor has not even appointed any judicial officer as acting Chief Judge, saying he only recommended the judge to the National Judicial Council, being the most senior in line.

     

     

    It reads, “The government of Osun state has denied news reports that Governor Ademola Adeleke has removed the Chief Judge and appointed an acting Chief Judge, clarifying that the Governor had only forwarded the resolution of the House of Assembly and recommendation for an acting appointment to the Chief Justice of the Federation for decision and action.

     

     

    “With all sense of responsibility ,it is important to set the records straight that Governor Adeleke has only duly notified the Chief Justice as the Chairman of the National Judicial Council (NJC) in writing about the resolutions of the House of Assembly following a series of petitions made against the sitting Chief Judge of Osun State.

     

     

    “In the communication, Mr Governor intimated the CJN of the recommendation of the House that the Chief Judge should step aside and included his own submission for an acting appointment to fill the vacuum while the NJC reviews and decides on the petition.

     

     

    “To that end, the Governor in the same letter recommended to the CJN ,the appointment of the most senior judicial officer, Hon.Justice Olayinka David Afolabi for thorough consideration and further processing by the same NJC through the CJN.

    We urge the public to note that while the House of Assembly recommended the appointment of a replacement to the Governor in its resolution, the Governor however, toed the line of law by writing the CJN on the entire development and submitting all materials for NJC as mandated national agency

     

    We therefore wish to state categorically that Governor Adeleke has not appointed any judicial official as acting Chief Judge and nobody has been sworn in as Acting Chief Judge of Osun state.

     

     

    “Governor Adeleke is a man of due process and rule of law with a deep level of respect for the bar and the bench, the NJC and the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

     

     

    “We assure the public that Mr Governor is fully aware of the limits of his powers as well as the responsibilities of the various agencies of government and will therefore not act in any way to violate the constitution and rule of law”..

  • Rivers Govt urges politicians to invest in youth development

    Rivers Govt urges politicians to invest in youth development

    Rivers Govt urges politicians to invest in youth development

     

     

    Port Harcourt, Nov. 18, 2023 – Mr Chisom Gbali, Rivers Commissioner for Youths Development, said that investment in the youth was the best way forward for every government that wished to succeed.

     

    Gbali said this in Port Harcourt on Friday at a dinner organised by chairman, Andoni Local Government Area in honor of graduands and beneficiaries of the Andoni Maritime Scholarship Scheme.

     

    The commissioner commended Andoni council Chairman, Erastus Awortu, for his selfless service to the people, particularly youths in the area.

    “Upon assumption as commissioner, I was in Andoni few months ago, I tried relating with the grassroots and my findings were overwhelming against the backdrop that Andoni is not hospitable and peaceful.

     

    “But what I saw was a great population of youths yearning and also willing to be developed; today the chairman has contributed to filling that gap at the most appropriate time, which is why there’s a relative peace in Andoni,” he said.

     

    Earlier, the chairman noted that there were several factors that could lead to either success or failure of every government.

     

    He said that several short term empowerment Programmes existed and that such had never been sustainable but for self glorification of political office holders.

     

    “For me, this scholarship programme is the greatest achievement of my administration because, God willing, these 15 beneficiaries will all work and grow to be good ambassadors of Andoni.

     

    “The results from performances of the cadets showed that they truely merited this opportunity based on dint of hardwork and the multiplier effect is what we look forward to,” the chairman said.

     

    He enjoined the graduands to take advantage of supports from the council and the institute to ensure certification and become gainfully employed.

     

    In separate remarks, the Chief Executive of Charkin Maritime Academy, Mr Charles Wami, commended the council for sponsoring the programme….,.

  • Women Affairs Minister drags couple to court over defilement of 9-year-old daughter

    Women Affairs Minister drags couple to court over defilement of 9-year-old daughter

    Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Uju Ohanenye, has instituted a lawsuit against an Enugu couple, Mr Ifeanyi Enwelum and Mrs Christabel Enwelum, over the defilement of their nine-year-old daughter.

     

    Counsel to the minister, Mr Chuma Oguejiofor, told newsmen on Saturday in Enugu that the suit, numbered E/987/2023, was filed at the Enugu State High Court to enforce the fundamental rights of the minor.

     

    According to Oguejiofor, the suit is seeking six prayers from the court.

     

    “First, a declaration that the minor is entitled to respect for the dignity of her person and should not be subjected to torture or inhuman or degrading treatment by the respondents.

     

    “Second, a declaration that Mr Enwelum’s carnal knowledge of the minor between Jan. 2022 and June 2023 constituted an infringement of her right to dignity.

     

    Third, a declaration that the respondents’ attempt at compromising and sweeping earlier charge, Number MEN/319C/2023 under the carpet, was against the law.

     

    “That taking the minor to their residence, Number 13/15 Onoh Crescent GRA, Enugu, to live with them as if nothing had happened constituted mental, emotional or psychological torture for the minor.

     

    “We are also seeking an order of the court that the applicant in the person of the Minister of Women Affairs and the Ministry take immediate custody of the minor and cater for her needs henceforth.

     

    “Fifth prayer is a court order restraining the respondents by themselves or through their agents or privies from having anything whatsoever to do with the minor till she reaches the age of 21 years.

     

    “The sixth prayer is that respondents be made to pay N10 million damages jointly and severally,’’ Oguejiofor said.

     

    Mr Enwelum, step-father of the minor, reportedly had several unlawful carnal knowledge of her between Jan. 1, 2022 and June 10, 2023 at his 13/15 Onoh Crescent, GRA Enugu residence in Enugu North Local Government Area.

    The minor’s biological mother, Mrs Christabel Enwelum, was reported to be negligent as she did not protect her daughter from repeated penetration of her vagina.

     

    The penetrations were confirmed by Dr Samuel Ndukwu, medical practitioner at the Nigerian Police clinic, Enugu.

     

    A bail earlier granted Mr Enwelum by an Enugu Magistrate’s Court caused public outcry making the minister to query the rationale behind it.

     

    The minister queried the rationale for the bail considering the nature of the crime and the spate of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in the country, especially in Enugu State.

     

    At a news conference on Oct. 17, the minister said the Ministry would take up legal action against the couple to ensure that the minor gets justice as well as serve as deterrent to others who might want to toe the same line.

     

    “This minor has been molested severally by her stepfather who has deflowered her and given her diseases as confirmed at the hospital and by the lawyer and mother of the girl.

    The matter was taken to court, but unfortunately, a magistrate released the man on bail.

     

    “We want to know why he was released in spite of grave allegations made against him simply because the minor’s mother cried that she did not want her husband to be jailed,’’ the minister told the October news conference.

     

    “What about the voiceless girl? What about the torture and emotional pains the girl went through and threat not to disclose the molestation?” she queried.

     

    “We are suing the woman for negligence. If she was not negligent, this girl would not have suffered this thing for a long time,’’ the minister stressed

     

  • Tinubu unveils BUA’s N1bn innovation centre donated to UNIMAID

    Tinubu unveils BUA’s N1bn innovation centre donated to UNIMAID

    President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Saturday commissioned N1 billion Abdul Samad Rabiu (ASR) International Centre for Innovations and Entrepreneurship situated at the University of Maiduguri campus in Borno State.

    The commissioning of the edifice which was donated by ARS Africa Initiative is part of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of the Chairman and Founder of BUA Group of companies which have it’s co-mandate to empower, contribute, make impact, and have the opportunity to develop exceptional talents and skills in Africa.

    The commissioning of the project herald series of programmes lined up for graduation and presentation of certificates to no fewer than 33,429 Graduates and 1,698 Post- graduates who have successfully completed their various courses of study in the University since 2018 to 2021.

     

    Tinubu who was represented by the Vice- President, Senator Kashim Shettima, was also amongst Honorary Doctorate Degree recipients at the 24th Combined Convocation ceremony for the numerous contributions they offered to the growth and development of the institution.

     

    The Vice -President therefore commended BUA Group for donating the centre to the institution, which according to him, would assist greatly in complimenting efforts of the Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda (TRHA).

     

    In his welcome address, the Vice- Chancellor of the institution, Professor Aliyu Shugaba commended BUA Group led by latest benefactor, Alhaji Abdul Samad Rabiu for the gesture.

     

    He said, the Centre is important in two respects for the university, which has prioritized entrepreneurial training to physically offer the gigantic and befitting edifice for Entrepreneurial training in the University.

     

    Secondly, he added, it provides the best prospect for the necessary paradigm shift in entrepreneurial learning.

     

    “The initial Centre for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (CEED) and the Centre for Innovation and Product Development, both aimed at training of Entrepreneurs and the creation of enterprises by graduates of the university.

    However, despite the three months training provided in entrepreneurship and over 70,000 students exposed to it, the objective of creating enterprises by the students at graduation has not been realized, therefore, this new Centre is expected to remedy the situation.

    It is expected to foster a thriving innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem that encourages creativity, collaboration and experimentation.

     

    “It will provide a platform for individuals and other stakeholders launch and grow new ventures, creating a social and economic impact in the process. In future, products of the Centre will be capable of creating enterprises for self-employment. On behalf of the University I express our profound gratitude to say thank to Alhaji Abdul Samad Rabiu for his generosity and support.” Professor Shugaba said.

     

    In his remarks, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BUA Group, Alhaji Rabiu said, the gesture is part of Corporate Social Responsibility of the conglomerate and ASR Africa Initiative to assist society in economic growth and development, which the University and some other institutions were beneficiaries.

     

    He said, “the Centre comprised of digital fabrication laboratory and virtual manufacturing, mechatronics, Robotics and Drone laboratory, Incubator spaces, Innovator’s Lounge, Training rooms, External Researcher’s Den among others which will advance curiosity, knowledge and Enterpreneurship”.

    Meanwhile, at the convocation ceremony which was attended by many dignitaries at Mohammed Indimi International Learning Centre, Honorary Doctorate degrees were conferred on four distinguished Personalities, which include; the Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima GCON, His Royal Highness the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji (Dr.) Abubakar Umar Ibn Garbai Al-Amin El-Kanemi, Abdul Samad Rabiu, Chairman BUA Group and Alhaji Dr. Dahiru Bobbo the former Registrar of the University of Maiduguri for their remarkable contributions to the University and society.

     

    Likewise, Professors Emeriti were conferred on Abubakar Mustapha, Muhammad Yerima Balla and Bamidele R. Badejo.

     

    Among those who graced the occasion include; the new Chancellor of the institution, the Emir of Lafiya, Nassarawa state, HRH, Justice Sidi Bage Muhammad, Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno state, his counterpart from Yobe State, Hon. Mai Mala Buni, Maiduguri -Based Billionaire and Chairman Oriental Energy Group, Alhaji Mohammed Indimi, some serving and former ministers, national assembly members, traditional rulers, religious leaders