T H I S D AY, T H E S U N D AY N E W S PA P E R ˾ APRIL 14, 2019
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LETTERS
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PMB, Zamfara and The Tale of Jabir
abir is an indigene of Zamfara. He lives in Kaduna and recently had engagements in Kebbi, Zamfara and Sokoto. For a horrifying reason associated with Zamfara – the state that will link him to Kebbi and Sokoto, Jabir could not embark on his journey. What was his reason? Fear. The fear of the unknown. The fear of being kidnapped in his beloved state. The fear of being robbed or killed on his way. The fear of hearing awful stories from citizens of the state. Fear and trepidation wrapped Jabir whenever he spared a thought of travelling for his pressing engagements. Jabir gave up; his conclusion was the journey by road was suicidal. How did we get to this level? Indigenes fearful of visiting their hometowns because of serious security challenges? Zamfara is amongst the poorest states in Nigeria. The state has lacked the sort of leadership that will steer it in the right direction. Past leaders have made little or no effort towards the growth and development of the state. And
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Yari things have really been tough for people in the state. Daily Trust of 30th March 2019 reported some scary figures associated with the insecurity in Zamfara as confirmed by the Executive Secretary of Zamfara Emergency Management Agency. The figures are 38 deserted communities, 31,402 displaced persons; also, from December 2018 to March 2019 up
to 408 people have been killed, 126 injured and 227 kidnapped. I am not surprised that some residents have resorted to the possession of arms and amulets for self defence. Zamfara is currently grappling with a number of challenges, such as unemployment, poverty, poor infrastructure, among others. All these are being compounded by the rising security challenge in the state.
These have manifested in the form of farmer/ herder clashes, banditry, cattle rustling and kidnapping. The ones we call bandits do not just live by plundering. They kill, maim and rape. They torch and raze villages. What joy do they derive in inflicting pain on their fellow human beings? Is there any satisfaction in killing or making people homeless? The agenda of the criminals is to make life difficult for Nigerians. These criminals have succeeded in creating a state of disarray. They have caused so much pain and panic in Zamfara. Families have fled their bases to avoid night attacks. The people sleep with one eye closed. The once peaceful north western state is now a danger zone. There is so much apprehension, anguish and anger in the land. Having seen how bad things are, it is a no brainer to declare these criminals as enemies of the state. With all due respect to the efforts put by security agents, they can only be applauded when things improve. Solving the security problem requires a multifaceted approach. This should involve initiatives for poverty alleviation
Nsibid Free-Masonry
ame re-numbering matrix would appear to be one of many artifice of man, learnt from osisix-feet, the tree of knowledge bearing forbidden fruit Gen3:7. A matrix of re-numbered name of bank account is a cook-up of figures. Figure out of matrix, cooked up as ready-made pottage at mess. Mess-age of pot of which, is ozimoo odibo, the elder demon-star servant Gen24:1-35. Servant that putteth forth his hand and taketh ‘Nnamchi’ his father-god by the secrets given as alms Dt25:11 Mt6:4. Secret given as amu, a sackcloth Ezek7:18, sackcloth of rainment between his thighs as wear. Swear to take a wife, to his own masters’ home on behalf of his son-god the Ra-star. Rasta-swear with what would appear to be asusu utara-nce isi ewu-ulo. Asusu, the incantation language. Languid-age of Rasta lying on, Lion in Den-mark-et of sheep, at a body-mass age. Body massage in a whirl-pool astir Jn5:1-7, stirring for sex-pool awaited later than sooner. Sauna, a Finnish steam-bath out-step from in-step to the pool of water at a season due. Seasonal-dew ‘adi-isiijiriji-anyuike’, a euphemism for snapped axe-head that fell into the pool 2kg6:5-6, axe-head to ask, tax as whot has fallen due. Dew falling as fine droplets of rain, watering man, ozoro as star, in Ezotus hide, of his skin in vapourisation Acts8:40-38. Evaporation in a smoke out
of sight, by a gradual physical change, to which all solids and liquids are subjected by a rise in temperature and drop in pressure. Pressure droplets of rain, meant to hide skin as scare-ape-goat. Escape goat, escape go-to plain in earth, planet found as Mars by son. Mass-son, mason free to build a prayer-oratory Gen11:1-7, oratory in a mono-language of the upper-room to lodge by the wharf. Dwarf known in Ehugbo as Ohamaa Lev21:20. Ohamaa the tanners’ of hide-house, oharmattan-house of horror. Ohorror a public latrine in Ehugbo, pubic laterine for stooling of Hebrew women by Egyptian midwives Exo1:16, midwifing the stool ‘nsi’. Nsi, bids of tender Dt28:54-56 Gen33:13, tender-men at restroom as zoo-ike, in the convenience Mk6:21-30, convenient day of Lords-feast. Faeces in upper-room of layer for ‘uza nna’, the fathers’ answer Acts10:1-16. Layan za-Nna, the father is a tall man. Tall is man hat, a talisman-Manhattan or BabyLon-don towers. Towers abuild with brutish pound of block-us as chilies, pounded with pestle as bricks, in aid of mortar. Brigade mortal pound of fleshy-skin in hide as the sky-ape. Skype scraping off sheets of the sky. Ski on crest of water-bed-sheet to lie as footmat in low-deeps. Diplomat that arose across as-wear of the fathers’-polo, Apolo-nnia 1cor3:6 Isa18:2 Gen27:16. Polo ima as
lie eti, Poliomyelitis, a pull-over, but never pull-out of hide in Nahor-Messopotamia, to take wife as mother ‘Nne’. Ne-ahor Den-market day for selling sheep to shearers, as a dumbration Acts8:33-27 Mk11:17. Adumbration of cast private part-iculars, of soldiers. Sold theirs as per articles of enterprise monopoly, a game of Isau as the sport of Jacob proposed in hypo-thirst of IS Jn19:28. Hypothesis proposition not derived from experiment but as a formula of Pi, Lot of Sodom. Oso-domino Pi of the lot, pi-lot cast as ration Gen19:17-1, castration of malefactors as provender of whores. Horse ride on, as aircraft of name endorsed as wishes. Endor-witchcraft of foundation-sod as pottage Gen25:29-33 1sam28:15-7 Jn19:23-30. Sodden pot, age of languid, language of assumption for argument. Augmentation of wives’-in come by Jacobs’-head to enter, as price Ga-bata Jn19:13. Gabatha-income on return-enterprise charged as-pay of Isau for re-tail. Tale told as storeys of upper-room of horror-lodge. Horology as the making of watch Neh2:10, watch made on tower, the prayer oratory as labour of his mother. Mothers’ laboratory shut with locks. Lucks of hair on Rastas’ head, charged as enter-price of abata. A battery charger of the head decapitated on be-half of the kingdom-land. Land, labour and capital as the stones of languid Peter, cast as
Paul of doubt. Doubter, Daughter of the kingdom better-half cast, of re-tail in tomb bu ili-nkwor. Tombo-liquor in cups, corpse as sobriquet for the male factors of re-production of goods at indoors-trial 2kg4:1-7. Indus-tryus-woman, to go wholesale goods ‘ogudu-manu’ to pay the enter-price of herself by sons at zoo-ike in lodge to live as epistle of us, blockaded in immortal flesh and not die, cast as a body-mass. Body-mass of Christ, Christmas of Jesus, the son-rise as east-star Mt2:2. He-rose and cross of Gabatha as a-garrison of David, Quarter-cast of virgin-har-lot, the enter-price, of awaited Isunna, sooner coming King for a bath finished, Fin-land-LORD, the Joker to ask as worth of Ibi, the Aftermath-matrics, Big-shop arcade-mix, In-divisible Threein-One, Zoo-key of Monks, hood of Pen-IS and I-thirst of IS, for a fetch of water in battle-Pitcher and the Shoulder I say head or tail, of Free-indeed Masons, Eze-amass-INRI, the Itiri-bet, Premier-Mess and Meal of pottage, Ayodine and Latterain, Philistine Dragon and Town-ship of Israel, foundationstone laid, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy, Udo-bricklayer-mansions of mt-sion, as His-story of Hosa-nna in the highest Man is tall, Amu-let into Lodge, the Ne-mess-is and The Messiah Jn8:36. ––Abili Willy, Lagos.
and human capital development. This can be done in addition to strategic security decisions and actions that are holistic and methodical. Taking care of security and welfare is the basic responsibility of governments. Regrettably, neither the state nor federal government has done well for Zamfara in this aspect. It is high time government responded better. Under this dispensation Zamfarawa are more impoverished and troubled despite always aligning with Muhammadu Buhari. In politics consolidating a base is essential. The people of Zamfara have consistently supported Buhari throughout his political career. Despite being in this dilemma, Zamfara voted for Buhari during the 2019 polls. One would assume that Buhari will take a swift approach to come to the aid of his fellow citizens. Especially his “day one fellas”. Sadly, it seems PMB has been inconsiderate to the predicaments of these people. Women are raped, men are lynched and children are orphaned. Still Buhari finds it difficult to visit Zamfara or send condolence messages. All it takes to release condolence message are mobile data/network and electricity. Are these missing in the Villa? President Buhari should take a cue from prime minister of New Zealand. A non-Muslim went to the mosque and killed Muslims. She
denied the perpetrator the notoriety he sought. She visited the bereaved and victims, making sure she respected the victims’ culture by wearing scarfs during the mourning period. She used the Muslim standard way of greeting “Salaam” in all press statements and communications. Immediately it happened she swung into action by ensuring that her government changed the poor gun laws that led to the killings of innocent Muslim worshippers. This is how a leader should act. Lest I forget, she is a non-Muslim and did not discriminate. This same PMB administration deployed a DIG, an AIG and two CPs for a re-run election in Kano State to make sure they delivered the state. At no point did they ever send these high level security chiefs to Zamfara to aid with securing the lives of innocent Zamfarawa against the senseless blood suckers. Do they really care about the safety and lives of innocent people? Are they really working for the people? We now hear that the operation Harbin Kunama is to continue and the police are also making efforts. The kneejerk approach is happening due to pressure from citizens in Nigeria and abroad urging PMB to #EndTheZamfaraKillings via the massive protests. –– Khalifa Musa Muhammad, Kaduna
Kolade Johnson and Police ' Kill And Go'
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refer to your publication on the above subject matter and specifically wish to draw your attention to the misinformed reporting of the death of Ferry Gberegbe. For the records, Ferry Gberegbe died on the 16th March at St. Patrick Hospital, Eastern by Pass, Port Harcourt from an undisclosed illness and not from any gunshot injury. Contrary to the doctored social media video, Dr Ferry Gberegbe was not shot by SARS or any one for that matter and please take a second look at the video if you have it and you will see very clearly that Ferry Gberegbe held his stomach and fell down when the shooting had stopped. Let me also inform you that the shooting you referred to was done by cultist who had come to attack the collation centre
and not the police. This is explicit in the video if indeed you watched it. Thankfully, this video was shot by the accusers and not the Police. I consider the publication unfair and partisan, intended to promote the view of Mr. Lee Meaba and his political party and interest. The maxim 'audi alteram partem' (hear the other side) applies in all cases where a lawyer undertakes to advocate on any issue of public interest. The least you should have done was to call up the Rivers Police PPRO for the police side to the incident. Posting the photograph of a public officer to promote a story that is half-truth does not do our collective effort to build an egalitarian society any good. ––ACP Akin Fakorede,akinfakorede92@ gmail.com