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20 Oct

DO NOT RELENT

By championing the idea of Judicial Commissions of Enquiry to look into the atrocities of SARS, government plans to imprison the people. Government intend to trap the people, then unleash the chain, and lock the door, and throw away the key.
Do not fall for it.

The reform of the police is a function of the structural redefinition of the state. It cannot be resolved by a Commission of Enquiry or the National Assembly - SARS. The Assembly has been consumed by greed. It cannot do good.

The character of the police is a derivative of the values that guide the state. The actions of the police that birth the rising protest is an interpretation of the character of the state. The killer SARS is a representation of Buhari’s character.

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@eobilo

16 Oct

#ENDSARS: A SENATE PRESIDENT IN DIRE NEED OF EDUCATION

From the reaction of the leadership of the Senate, the ongoing agitation for a new Nigeria loses its essence following the acceptance and implementation of the “demands” of End-SARS-Movement.

I arrived at this interpretation after reflecting on the Thursday 15 October 2020 call by the President of the Senate, Mohammed Lawal for protesters to stop the movement to redemption having gained the confidence of government to disband the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).

Speaking in the senate, he argues:

“The government has responded, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad has been disbanded. All the five demands of the protesters have been accepted... I believe that when protesters’ demands are met, their goals should have been achieved. Therefore,

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@eobilo

16 Oct

NATIONAL REBIRTH

Members of the political leadership class in Nigeria are not selfish for pursuing their own good but because of their hatred of the common good. They are dead to the people because they live only for themselves.

This is the reason Nigerians must watch carefully the ongoing process to reform the police. Such a leadership cannot effect reforms in the general interest. They will engage in fireworks to show they are responsive.

They will come up with committees for reform, running from pillar to post to impress their angry people. Once tension is doused the situation gets worse. VIGILANCE!
To improve the character of this leadership requires courage and the conviction that a new order is possible.

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edmund obilo

@eobilo

23 Sep

DID THE NORTH PLAN TO BREAK AWAY FROM NIGERIA?

Britain handed over the command of the Nigerian army to indigenous soldiers in 1965. The outgoing General Officer Commanding (GOC), Major General Welby Everald had preferred Brigadier Babafemi Ogundipe to succeed him,

but his recommendation was rejected leading to General Aguiyi Ironsi, the most senior officer taking charge of the army.
When another opportunity came for Ogundipe after the bloody July 1966 coup, he was overlooked again because it was felt he will not be able to control

soldiers from the north who were not ready to take orders from a Head of State of southern extraction.
The executioners of the July coup are Murtala Mohammed, Theophilus Danjuma, Martin Adamu, Shittu Alao, Musa Usman and Joe Garba and others. After a successful coup they wanted

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edmund obilo

@eobilo

19 Sep

@SplashFM1055

STATE AFFAIRS 19 SEPTEMBER 2020
@SplashFM1055
8-11am

Everywhere you go, Nigerians are sparkling like diamonds in the pack, whether in academia, business, innovation, music, movie, entertainment, fashion and culture... All these properties make us unarguably the most prosperous

black nation in the world and Africa’s largest economy.

— Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday 16 September 2020

Edo Election:

Election would be conducted in the 2,627 polling units in 192 wards in the 18 LGAs of the state. INEC put the number of registered voters at 2,210,534.

483,796 PVCs were not collected.
l1,726,738 voters are eligible to take part in today’s election.

Godwin Obaseki, of Peoples Democratic Party against (PDP) against Osagie Ize-Iyamu of All Progressives Congress (APC).
14 parties are fielding candidates for the poll.

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17 Sep

THE TRAGEDY OF VICTORY
(On-the-spot Account of the Nigeria-Biafra War in the Atlantic Theatre)

The book is a chronological narrative of the war that lasted from July 6, 1967 to January 15, 1970.
With about 500 photographs and maps, the book dwarfs all other previous

publications on this subject matter in terms of depth of facts, coverage and accuracy.
The author brings to the fore the well-organised and efficient Third Marine Commandos, earlier commanded by Col. Benjamin Adekunle (with Lt. Col. G. Alabi-Isama, as the Chief of Staff) that

already controlled the Atlantic coast from Bonny to Calabar before Col. Olusegun Obasanjo's arrival as the new commander .
This most revealing book is in three parts. The first part is an account of the author's early life and his first encounter with the army.

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