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A granddaughter of Nelson Mandela, who remains seriously ill in a Pretoria hospital, has said she is hurt by a continuing family feud.
Family members have been in dispute over the reburial of the bodies of three of Mr Mandela's children.
Ndileka Mandela was speaking to the BBC on the eve of Mr Mandela's 95th birthday.
She also described how difficult it had been for the family to cope with his critical illness.
The dispute has pitted 16 members of the Mandela family, including his wife Graca Machel, and local chiefs against Mr Mandela's eldest grandson and traditional tribal chief, Mandla.
They went to the Mthatha High Court on 3 July to force the remains of three of Mr Mandela's children to be exhumed and returned to his home in Qunu, in Eastern Cape province.
Mandla had moved them two years ago to his homestead in Mvezo, 22km (14 miles) from Qunu, apparently without consulting the rest of the family and elders of the AbaThembu royal house, of which Mr Mandela is a member.
"Blood is thicker than water” Ndileka Mandela
An affidavit filed with the court alleged that Mandla had relocated the graves to ensure that Nelson Mandela would be buried in Mvezo.
The remains, now reburied in Qunu, are of Makgatho Mandela, Mandla's father who died from Aids-related diseases in 2005; Thembekile, who was killed in a car accident in 1969 and was the father of Ndileka Mandela; and Makaziwe, Nelson Mandela's first daughter who died when she was nine months old.
Ndileka Mandela said the argument over the graves was unfortunate but would not split the family as "blood is thicker than water".
"It was something that we did not want to take in the public space but because of who we are it was, it did spill over to the public space," she said.
"There is no way that I can never forgive but it's just that right now I'm still hurting."
Ndileka Mandela, an intensive care nurse by training, also complained at the intrusive nature of media questioning since Mr Mandela was admitted to hospital with a recurring lung infection on 8 June.
She said relatives had been asked "Is it over with Mr Mandela?" and "Is he on life support?"
The dispute has become increasingly bitter, with Mandla accusing some individuals of "jumping on the Mandela bandwagon" and "trying to sow divisions and destruction" in the family.
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Former Nigeria international Taiwo Taye has been indicted in France on tax fraud charges and a Marseille court has begun a judicial procedure to seize his €600,000 mansion based in Allauch, a French commune situated east of Marseille.
The 28-year-old defender played six seasons at Olympique Marseille between 2005 and 2011 before joining Italian giants AC Milan.
French fiscal authorities say the player did not pay income taxes in 2008 and 2009 as well as property taxes in 2011 on his 900m2 home, which they say will be auctioned at €200,000, three times lower than its market value.
In a statement released on Tuesday in Marseille, the tax office said Taiwo, who recently joined Turkish side Bursaspor, owes €1,025,000 in taxes, but can apply through his lawyer for instalment or delayed payment if he is not financially fit to settle at the moment.
The onetime terrific left back earns €2 million per annum.
Taiwo was not present at the tax office and was not represented by a lawyer. He is yet to respond to the charges.
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Nigeria have said they are ready to tackle hosts Cote d’Ivoire on a synthetic pitch in a 2014 CHAN second leg qualifier.
The home-based Eagles beat their Ivorian counterparts 4-1 in the first leg played at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium in Kaduna earlier this month.
“We learnt from the leadership of the NFF that the game will be played on artificial turf and I must say we were delighted because we will give our all on such a pitch but we are keeping our plans close to our chest,” team co-ordinator Emmanuel Atta said on Monday.
Head Coach Stephen Keshi and his assistants were calm over the development because according to team secretary, Dayo Enebi Achor, “Anything they want to throw at us we are sure we have capable hands led by Keshi to counter them.”
The Eagles will resume training on Tuesday morning at the FIFA Goal Project Abuja and will train once in the morning until otherwise decided.
Meanwhile, Super Eagles goalkeeper and skipper Chigozie Agbim was the first to arrive camp on Monday afternoon as the training camp opened for the return leg of the CHAN qualifier final round against Cote D’Ivoire in Abidjan, July 27.
Agbim was soon joined by the likes of Godfrey Oboabona, Azubuike Egwuekwe, Benjamin Francis, Rabiu Ali and by dinner time almost all the 24 players invited for the crucial tie have reported.
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CAIRO — Egypt’s interim president, Adly Mansour, on Tuesday swore in a new 34-member cabinet dominated by liberals and technocrats.
Some of the new faces had served in previous cabinets, including under ousted president Mohamed Morsi. But the body was devoid of any members of the powerful Islamist parties that held the majority in Egypt’s first democratically elected parliament, as well as the presidency, until a popular coup deposed Morsi’ s government on July 3.
Heading the new government is Interim Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi, an economist. Army chief Gen. Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, who announced Morsi’s ouster on national television and had earlier promised that the military would stay out of politics, kept his job as Egypt’s defense minister and assumed the additional role of deputy prime minister.
Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim, whose ministry had refused to protect the offices of Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood in the weeks leading up to the coup, also retained his post.
Ahmed Galal, a U.S.-trained economist, is Egypt’s new finance minister. Nabil Fahmy, a former ambassador to the United States, will serve as foreign minister.
The cabinet also includes three women.
A spokesman for Mansour said earlier Tuesday that Egypt’s interim leaders had offered cabinet posts to members of the Muslim Brotherhood and that the Islamists would participate in the new government. Brotherhood leaders, however, dismissed that claim as a lie.
The ultra-Islamist Nour party, which backed the coup that ousted Morsi, also declined to participate in the new cabinet. The party pulled its support from the new government after Egyptian security forces killed more than 50 pro-Morsi protesters at a pre-dawn sit-in last week.
Rights lawyers say Egyptian authorities have arrested hundreds of people in the wake of last week’s violence. Authorities arrested more than 400 more people Tuesday in connection with clashes that raged between Morsi supporters and the police overnight on Monday.
The deadly clashes erupted on Cairo’s streets not long after a visiting U.S. diplomat hailed what he called a “second chance” for Egyptian democracy after Morsi’s ouster.
Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns, the highest-level U.S. official to visit Cairo since the coup, signaled Washington’s readiness to stand with Egypt’s new leaders. Hours later, hundreds of thousands of Morsi supporters shut down major roads and highways in central Cairo and the coastal city of Alexandria, and police launched barrages of tear gas to clear them.
By Tuesday morning, at least seven people were dead and more than 260 injured, according to the state-run Middle East News Agency.
Ramses Square in the center of Egypt’s capital quickly turned into a battle zone early Tuesday, as clashes broke out between Morsi supporters and police who were joined by plainclothes men hurling stones at the protesters from an overpass.
About 300 Morsi supporters took shelter inside the al-Fateh Mosque as clashes flared in Ramses Square early Tuesday. The protesters remained inside the mosque Tuesday afternoon, but they said they planned to leave soon. No police or security forces remained in the vicinity.
Millions of Egyptians took to the streets at the beginning of this month to call for Morsi’s ouster, prompting the July 3 coup that ended the one-year tenure of the nation’s first democratically elected president. Since then, thousands of men, women and families, many of them from Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood, have held a sit-in outside a mosque in eastern Cairo. The protesters have vowed to stay until Morsi is reinstated, and Brotherhood leaders have called for expanding a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience.
On Monday, Burns appeared to underline a shift by the Obama administration in the past two weeks, from warning against unseating a democratically elected president to throwing Washington’s weight behind the backers of the coup.
“The United States is firmly committed to helping Egypt succeed in this second chance to realize the promise of the revolution,” Burns told a small group of reporters after a day spent meeting with members of the new interim government, including Sissi, the army chief and defense minister.
“I am not naive. I know that many Egyptians have doubts about the United States, and I know that there will be nothing neat or easy about the road ahead,” he added.
Underscoring the challenge facing the United States, Burns was rebuffed by representatives of both the group that led the popular uprising against Morsi and the ultraconservative Islamist party that could benefit from the ouster.
Sharaf al-Hourani and Amer Shakhatreh in Cairo contributed to this report.
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The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has denied the international observation mission, the Carter Center, accreditation to observe elections at the end of this month, although over 50 foreign observer missions have been invited to monitor the polls. Some of these include known ZANU PF allies who endorsed the flawed run-off election in 2008.
The globally accepted observer mission, founded by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, has observed 94 elections in 37 countries. It is comprised of experts from a range of countries.
But ZEC Chairperson Rita Makarau wrote to the Carter Center on Tuesday informing them their application had been declined, despite having received indications by all major political parties, in a previous trip, that the Centre would be welcome to observe the polls.
ZANU PF is on record saying it will not invite countries that maintain sanctions on Zimbabwe to observe the elections. To this end Britain and the United States are among the countries excluded and in Europe only Russia, Belarus and Serbia have been invited. Most of the countries invited are members of the African Union and SADC, while others come from Asia and Latin America.
John Stremlau, who heads the Center's peace initiatives, told SW Radio Africa that they are an international independent NGO.
"We have had our differences with US administrations – Republican and Democrats – over such things as having direct dealings with Hamas in Palestine or the Maoists in Nepal, who are important stakeholders to any progress towards peace.
He said the ZEC decision is very surprising, given that they had received very positive signals from various ZANU PF individuals, especially when an assessment team had visited Zimbabwe earlier this year.
Stremlau, who led the observation mission in the recent Kenyan election, said they had 52 observers in their mission and many of them were from around the world.
He said: "The presence of international observers is not to interfere but to bear witness, to ensure that the process is faithful to the basic principles that the international observer groups at the UN all agreed to back in 2005, including clear and fair secret ballots and no intimidation. Clearly ZEC had a different view."
Stremlau said he is glad that there will be a large delegation from the African Union and from the Southern African Development Community, but said that the 'proof will be in the pudding', and hopes that even the domestic observers will be given complete freedom to allow them to assess the quality of the election.
A statement issued by the Carter Center also said: "A peaceful and transparent election that reflects the will of the people is the right of all citizens in a genuine democracy. International election observation is widely recognized around the world as an important measure to promote such transparency.
"Perhaps even more importantly, impartial and nonpartisan citizen observation groups have a critical role to play in promoting transparency and electoral credibility, especially in Zimbabwe."
Meanwhile another US based organization, the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights (RFK Center), says state authorities in Zimbabwe have engaged in a pattern of suppression that specifically targets groups engaged in voter registration, education, and mobilization initiatives, with just weeks to go before the watershed election.
The group recently released a report entitled, "A Promise in Peril: How Widespread Rights Violations Undermine Zimbabwe's Elections."
Jeffrey Smith, an advocacy officer for the RFK Center, said the report hopes to shed light on the situation in Zimbabwe as around elections time there is typically a world event that diverts attention from what is happening in Zimbabwe.
"There is always something that takes the eye off the ball in Zimbabwe. In 2008 it was the post election violence in Kenya and right now it's the massive unrest happening in Egypt. We hope that with our findings people will start paying attention to the happenings on the ground, as these are potentially watershed elections."
Smith said although Zimbabwe is not seeing the same amount of violence in previous elections there continues to be systematic political intimidation, especially in the rural areas, including the banning of shortwave radios, arbitrary detention of activists and widespread violations against freedom of expression and access to information.
He said it is surprising that the ZEC refused to accredit the Carter Center but allowed countries with a very "chequered" human rights and democracy history such as China, Belarus, Ethiopia, Sudan, Venezuela and Cuba.
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A PRESIDENTIAL election run-off pitting bitter rivals President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister (PM) Morgan Tsvangirai once again is one huge possibility that could emerge from the political setting that has evolved in recent weeks, The Financial Gazette can report.
In terms of the country's supreme law, a run-off becomes necessary only when none of the contesting Presidential candidates has garnered 50 plus one percent of the vote.
In the March 2008 synchronised election, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) leader got 48 percent of the presidential vote ahead of the incumbent's 43 percent but could not be declared the winner since his tally fell short of the required threshold.A run-off presidential election that followed in June of the same year was declared a sham after the MDC-T president pulled out owing to election-related violence, resulting in the ZANU-PF leader running uncontested.
To end the contestation for power that followed the inconclusive poll, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) along with the African Union had to nudge ZANU-PF and the two MDC formations to form a unity government, which expires this month.
But analysts this week said the political dynamics in Zimbabwe have metamorphosed into a complex numbers game in which none of the major political players would garner 50 plus one percent of the vote.
They said whereas the emergence of Simba Makoni's Mavambo/Kusile/Dawn (MKD) movement a month before the March 2008 elections could have played a part in diluting the numbers for both ZANU-PF and the MDC-T, a replay of that scenario could be in the offing after Welshman Ncube's MDC and Dumiso Dabengwa's ZAPU agreed to work together, making them a formidable force in the coming election.
In the 2008 election, Dabengwa and Ncube's MDC threw their weight behind Makoni. Five years on, they have struck some form of a smart partnership that leaves out Makoni, who has since thrown his lot with PM Tsvangirai.
Observers said the tie-up between Ncube and Dabengwa builds another influential bloc in Zimbabwe's unpredictable political terrain that could eat into ZANU-PF and the MDC-T's support base.
While the alliance is seen having little national appeal, it may chip away the MDC-T's dominance in the three Matabeleland provinces of Bulawayo, Matabeleland North and South.
This is at a time when PM Tsvangirai is unlikely to extract any political capital from his alliance with Makoni and Reketayi Semwayo of ZANU-Ndonga whose political formations seem to have lost the momentum of the past.
With President Mugabe having successfully resisted reforms demanded by SADC and his rivals in the coalition government by employing delaying tactics, his ZANU-PF party is going into the polls under an environment that favours them.
But both ZANU-PF and the MDC-T shot themselves in the foot by dividing their supporters and officials following embarrassing primary elections held recently. The primaries were characterised by widespread imposition of candidates, vote buying and other irregularities that divided their supporters ahead of crucial elections.
Both parties are now desperate to unite their supporters and officials with only two weeks remaining before the July 31 polls. Indications are that the independent candidates that emerged in the aftermath of the emotive primary elections might also eat into their votes.
While ZANU-PF has been working round the clock to persuade its candidates to reverse their decisions to stand as independents, the MDC-T has some firefighting to do as some independent coalitions are emerging. A new grouping, the Independent Candidates Coalition (ICC) led by Redcliff parliamentary constituency aspirant, Aaron Chinhara, has since been formed.
ICC has more than 15 aspiring candidates vying for parliamentary seats and several others contesting council elections. Other members of the coalition include MDC-T's Felix Mafa Sibanda, the outgoing Magwegwe lawmaker who is ICC's spokesperson and Gweru mayor, Tedious Chimombe, the coalition's organising secretary.
During the 2008 polls, the MDC-T lost six seats in the Midlands alone which it could have easily won had parallel candidates not been fielded. The coalition has, however, said they would only campaign for Tsvangirai for president.
Political analyst, Gideon Chitanga, said the failure to strike an election deal between the two MDC formations was also likely to split votes among their two coalitions, triggering a run-off since none of the parties, ZANU-PF included, was likely to garner the 50 plus one percent of the vote that would allow outright victory.
Chitaga said petty squabbling among the major parties and continued division may also cause voter apathy, especially among those people who are simply party sypathisers and not hard core supporters of any political party.
"For such people to go out to vote they need something exciting and stimulating to get them to go to vote," he said.
Another analyst, Ricky Mukonza, also postulated that neither ZANU-PF nor the MDC-T would garner the required 50 plus one percent of the vote, making the possibility of a run-off real in the forthcoming plebiscite.
"When Simba Makoni got eight percent that denied the MDC-T outright victory in the 2008 March election, it must be noted the Makoni vote was predominantly as a result of support from the then MDC-Mutambara, now MDC-Ncube.
"The situation has not changed much, if anything, the MDC-Ncube vote might have marginally increased owing to their campaign," said Mukonza.
"If this is true, it can be reasoned that in the event of a run- off, MDC-Ncube holds a sway vote which MDC-T will have to sweat for to get. A coalition between MDC-Ncube and ZANU-PF is unlikely. The other possibility is that of a second Government of National Unity after a first round of inconclusive results," said Mukonza.
Despite Tsvangirai saying a pact for a grand coalition involving Ncube's party was still possible, this week MDC spokesperson Kurauone Chihwayi scoffed at those suggestions saying the MDC-T had approached his party with dirty hands and the door on a pact had already been closed.
"The MDC-T Nicodemusly visited some of our leaders and made some silly proposals that we threw into the dustbin because it was not worth discussing.
"They approached us with dirty hands and devilish intentions for purposes of misleading Zimbabweans into believing that Tsvangirai would be the sole opposition candidate. The MDC-T had almost three years to talk to us but they chose to approach us in July 2013," said Chihwayi.
"It is not correct that we are talking to the MDC-T, their efforts have been overtaken by events. Professor Ncube was nominated by the party's 12 political provinces and the party will not allow him to withdraw. The coalition issue with Tsvangirai is now water under the bridge, the deal is now dead. They can have Makoni and Semwayo who do not have even dead donkeys to vote for them; We are not going to lose sleep over the so called Manicaland deal."
After weeks of wrangling over the date of Zimbabwe's presidential elections, the parties have finally started to campaign amid lingering concern over ghost voters, electoral reforms and how the country will finance the polls.
The July 31 election is seen as an important test of whether the country can move forward on a more stable path, and in doing so attract desperately needed investment, or whether it will return to the violence and chaos that has characterised other polls over the past decade.
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Roberto Calderoli is condemned after speech in which he also said Cécile Kyenge should work as minister 'in her country'
The Italian prime minister, Enrico Letta, has condemned as unacceptable comments made by a senior rightwing senator in which he suggested the country's first black government minister had "the features of an orangutan".
Cécile Kyenge, an eye surgeon who was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo but has Italian citizenship, has faced repeated racial slurs and threats since being appointed minister for integration by Letta in April.
She was once again on the receiving end of grossly offensive comments on Saturday when Roberto Calderoli, a former minister under Silvio Berlusconi and senate vice-president of the Northern League, told a rally in the northern town of Treviglio that Kyenge would be better off working as a minister "in her country".
According to the Corriere della Sera, which reported the event, he added: "I love animals – bears and wolves, as is known – but when I see the pictures of Kyenge I cannot but think of the features of an orangutan, even if I'm not saying she is one."
The remark provoked horror from the rest of the Italian political class, especially in Kyenge's centre-left Democratic party. In a statement, Letta said the remarks were unacceptable. "Full solidarity and support to Cécile," he added.
Asked about the comments, Kyenge said it was not up to her to call on Calderoli to resign, but hoped all politicians would "reflect on their use of communication". "I do not take Calderoli's words as a personal insult but they sadden me because of the image they give of Italy," she told the Ansa news agency.
Ever since she was made minister in Letta's fractious grand coalition government, Kyenge, 48, has been the target of much criticism from the League. Some of it has been directed at her policies, particularly her desire to change a harsh citizenship law to make it easier for Italian-born children of foreigners to gain full nationality before they are 18.
But some of it has been very personal and vitriolic. Mario Borghezio, a member of the European parliament for the League, said in April that Kyenge wanted to "impose her tribal traditions from the Congo" and branded Letta's coalition a "bongo bongo" government. "She seems like a great housekeeper but not a government minister."
In June a local councillor for the League was ejected from the party after she posted a message on Facebook suggesting Kyenge should be raped. Referring to an alleged attempted rape in Genoa, Dolores Valandro wrote: "Why does no one rape her, so she can understand what the victim of this atrocious crime felt?"
Asked on Sunday to explain the latest slur, Calderoli insisted he had been joking. "I was speaking at a rally and I made a joke, an unfortunate one perhaps," he told Ansa. "I did not want to cause offence and if Minister Kyenge has been offended I apologise but my joke came in the context of a much broader political speech that criticised the minister and her politics."
This is not the first time that the 57-year-old has caused controversy. In 2006 he quit the government after going on television in a T-shirt emblazoned with cartoons of the prophet Muhammad – a move credited with inspiring deadly riots outside the Italian consulate in Libya.
Later that year, after Italy's football team beat France in the World Cup, he said the opposing side had been made up of "niggers, Muslims and communists". In 2007, he called for a "Pig Day" protest against the construction of a mosque in Bologna.
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The more the beneficiaries of this colonial fraud called Nigeria make believe that all is well with Nigeria, the more they attract doom, odium, and opprobrium to that name Nigeria. Please tell me what makes us one Nigeria if not for the colonial interest that the slave masters amalgamated all the countries they invaded within “Oduduwa Republic”, “Republic of Biafra” and also “Arewa Muslim Nation” and called them Nigeria. Our cultures are irreconcilable, our religions and mode of worships are poles apart, our mentalities are so different and even our languages are absolutely strange to each other. In 1947 Chief Obafemi Awolowo said "Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no Nigerians in the same sense as there are English, Welsh, or French. The word Nigerian is merely a distinctive appellation to distinguish those who live within the boundaries of Nigeria and those who do not." Nobody has got that audacity in Nigeria now to say contrarily to the above declaration. In 1948 Mallam Abubakar Tafawa Balewa said “Since 1914 the British Government has been trying to make Nigeria into one country, but the Nigerian people themselves are historically different in their backgrounds, in their religious beliefs and customs and do not show themselves any sign of willingness to unite. Nigerian unity is only a British intention for the country." This testimony came from the first Prime Minister of the fraud called Nigeria. Can you be more catholic than the Pope? We are just incompatible – no love, no tolerance and no similarity by all ramifications. One of the creators of this fraud and harm called Nigeria Sir Peters Smithers who was a cabinet minister during the colonial regime admitted the wickedness of the British colonists when he said in 1998 "The
creation of Nigeria involved forcing several different ethnic, cultural and religious groups into one political structure. In retrospect of forty years, it is clear that this was a grave mistake which has cost many lives and will probably continue to do so." Yes, it has cost more the lives of the Igbos and their properties than any other nation in the fraud called Nigeria. “Ndi Igbo” are made scapegoats at any crisis in the north; call it politics or religion they have always been provocatively at the centre of massacre and their properties looted and destroyed without anybody held responsible.
The young and the old faces of the man who led the Biafrans to war Emeka Odimegwu Ojukwu.
The Igbos love him and respect him.
We have not forgotten what led to the Nigerian Biafran war and how Chief Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the great “Ikemba” of Nnewi, the “Eze” Igbo “gburugburu”, and the man who saw tomorrow had tried to save the future of his
people from the agony that awaited them in this forceful marriage, but was betrayed by some people who had not kept to their promise out of ignorance of what the future was holding and out of selfishness. We have equally not forgotten how the Igbo pregnant women cried and died in pains when their wombs had been wickedly opened with cutlasses and their children had been brought out cruelly during the war. It is equally painful to remember the deaths of our children as a result of malnutrition.
We have not forgotten that at the end of the Nigerian civil war, it was declared “no victor, no vanquish” by the then head of state, General Yakubu Gowon. But what followed after the declaration was a systematic disenfranchisement of Ndi Igbo. Every Igbo man was inconsiderably given only twenty pounds to start life, while their properties were jealously and wickedly confiscated and declared as abandoned properties.
In retrospect, immediately the British colonialism ended, the Igbos dominated Nigeria’s economy. Irrespective of the callousness of the federal government of Nigeria to them, they were the true patriotic symbol of one Nigeria because there was no city you would go to that you did not see the presence of an Igbo man through his business or landed properties. They were the mechanism in which development had stood in almost all the cities of the federation called Nigeria. Any city you go to in Nigeria now without seeing big presence of an Igbo man run for your dear life as that city is doomed.
The first ceremonial president of Nigeria, the “Owelle” of Onitsha, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe said in 1964 “I have one advice to give to our politicians. If they have decided to destroy our national unity, then they should summon a round table conference to decide how our national assets should be divided before they seal their doom by satisfying their lust for office. I make this suggestion because it is better for us and many admirers abroad that we should disintegrate in peace and not in pieces. Should the politicians fail to heed this warning, then I will venture the prediction that the experience of the Democratic Republic of Congo will be a child's play if ever it comes to our turn to play such a tragic role." This was a man that was respected for his stand in one Nigeria, a true son of Igbo land and an emblem of Nigerian unity, but one Nigeria failed him even in death.
Ken SaroWiwa … “In my innocence of the false charges I face here, in my utter conviction, I call upon the Ogoni people, the peoples of the Niger delta, and the oppressed ethnic minorities of Nigeria to stand up now and fight fearlessly and peacefully for their rights. History is on their side. God is on their side.” "Lord, take my soul, but the struggle continues" and he was hanged.
The Nigerian people seem to have been subdued to stoicism otherwise the injustice in Nigeria is stinky that no free mind can stomach. Go to Ogoni Land in Rivers State you will pity the people: No road, no good school from the federal government, no good water to drink, no hospital, no jobs, no future and yet Ogoni people are very rich in oil. Ken Saro Wiwa alongside nine other Ogoni indigenes were unjustly roped in a kangaroo court and cruelly hanged by the then federal government of Nigeria for crying out against injustice to their people. The situation is not different in other parts of Niger Delta. Most people from Rivers and Bayelsa states are fishermen but because of the pollution of the water with oil they cannot fish again but the federal government does not seem to care. Some Igbo states are part of the oil producing states in Nigeria but were excluded as such by the federal government of Nigeria until they had to fight for their inclusion. The Igbo speaking states have the worst federal road network in comparison to other geo-political zones in Nigeria. The River Niger Bridge situated at Onitsha in Anambra State which is the only major source of entrance and exit from Igbo land to other parts in Nigeria is about to collapse. The attention of the so-called federal government had been drawn through memos, conferences and articles etc. to this disaster waiting to happen over the years but to no avail undoubtedly because the Igbos are the people involved, therefore, they could all perish at that bridge, as for us (the federal government) we do not care. General Olusegun Obasanjo had been hailed and thanked during his time as the president of Nigeria when he had told the world that the contract of re-constructing the River Niger Bridge had been awarded and that work would soon immensely commence. How many years today since Obasanjo left office and the death trap of River Niger Bridge remains unattended? Those that have benefited or are still benefiting from this colonial fraud should be informed that the River Niger Bridge will not by the grace of God collapse at the moment luxurious buses conveying innocent citizens for their legitimate trips are on that bridge but rather on the day those beneficiaries of this fraud called Nigeria that have refused to do justice to that bridge will be blaring their sirens to scare us the ordinary citizens away and as soon as they are at the centre of that bridge then the news and the new history with the River Niger Bridge will be recorded.
This is the Onitsha head bridge that can sink any minute.
The political imbalance in Nigeria is too big even for the blind to see. Why must everything about the Igbos be unjustly politicized? Igbo speaking areas have the least number of states in Nigeria even though they are the most populated tribe, but more states were created in the less populated north. Why is it that the northerners are favoured in everything in this country? Retrospectively, the British people started what many people today have tagged political robbery against the southern Nigerians because they rigged Nigeria’s first election by manipulating everything in favour of unprepared northerners according to available records. 12 days after British colony, Ahmadu Bello had this to say in 1960 “The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great grandfather Othman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities in the north as willing tools and the south as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us and never allow them to have control over their future." This statement implies that if Abiola had been a northerner that he definitely would have been allowed to be the president of Nigeria in 1993 and probably may still have been alive today if his death had not been destined. The allocation money meant for the then newly created local governments in Lagos state under Governor Bola Tinubu was withheld by the then federal government of Nigeria under President Olusegun Obasanjo. It is very disappointing to note that Olusegun Obasanjo is a Yoruba man yet he tried to use his power to hinder the progress that was coming to Yoruba land because of dirty politics just to satisfy the northerners which he was still not able to do. But go to the north, they created more local governments for themselves and legalised them without anybody raising eyebrows, they manipulated even the national census by counting cows, fowls and their brothers/sisters from Niger Republic as Nigerians just to maintain the political suppression. As a result of this dishonesty they are more in number in the National Assembly and the House of Representatives. Tell me how you can pass a successful bill if that bill is meant to correct the injustice which they see as normal and birthright. They hide under the shadow of religion to cause us pains and because they derive joy from our sorrow that is why they always kill us at every little provocation. They are trying to make us hewers of wood and drawers of water in the midst of plenty and because they are not president Nigeria must be on fire. In this glaring cruel injustice, this misguided chorus of one Nigeria cannot stand. Therefore, divide this country now in peace and let “Boko Haram”, “Oduduwa Republic”, “Republic of Biafra”, “Arewa Muslim Nation” or more to go, if we are not ready to face the reality that we all must make a compromise.
It does not matter who is at the helm of affairs in the hoax called Nigeria, the situation of the Niger Delta people or the Igbos will never change because that Aso Rock is like a secret cult, when you are there your hands are tied and therefore obliged to join the overwhelming erroneous chorus of one Nigeria to the detriment of the Niger Delta people. President Goodluck Jonathan is a core Niger Delta man from Ijaw, watch out if there will be much difference in the state of infrastructural development in the Niger Delta regions after his term.
The whole idea about Nigeria was based on lies and deceit by the British people and I consider it evil until the so-called leaders decide to pick up political courage to address the injustice, the Niger Delta or Igbo people will continue to pay the supreme price for one Nigeria.
Sunny Okosun of a blessed memory sang in one of his songs “Which way Nigeria? Since many years of our independence we are still finding it hard to stand. How long shall we be independent before we reach the promised land?” We can never get there my departed brother, under this shamble and fraud arrangement. The Igbo people have demonstrated enough willingness to be together with other tribes than other tribes of Nigeria. Therefore, shedding of the Igbo’s blood, looting and destruction of their properties for one Nigeria is no longer acceptable.
Margaret Thatcher said in 1998 that “It is difficult to govern a country like Nigeria. It is artificially created, divided into Moslem north, Christian and pagan south." Yes, she was right, but who created this artificial country? She forgot that she was part of the evil that brought the different nations together as one Nigeria and benefited from the fraud more than any other individual. Though I acknowledge the truth but we don’t need her sympathy.
I was angry and disappointed to read in one of the Nigerian national newspapers where the IG of police tagged the Boko Haram members as cowards. Please, Boko Haram members are surely not cowards. Macmillan English Dictionary describes coward as “someone who is not brave enough to fight or do something difficult or dangerous that they should do,” the real cowards are the Nigerian police force and Nigerian leaders who know the people behind the killing of innocent citizens in the north but they are afraid to touch them.
The federal government is not sincere with the handling of the Boko Haram issue because most of the military or police men/women they are using against Boko Haram from the north are members themselves who give them tip off on how to escape which the federal government knows. How can Boko Haram find its way deep into the overall head office of the Nigerian police force without an insider? This is incredible! Nigerians are no fools and I will not be too surprised if they find their way into the Presidential Villa Abuja. Therefore, the committee the federal government formed now because of Boko Haram is not necessary and as such ill conceived just to deceive you and me. It is also a shame that after the Boko Haram group turned down the offer from the Aso Rock for negotiation that the federal government turned round again on 04.08.2011 through the Secretary of State Pius Anyim who said that they are not ready to negotiate with a faceless group like Boko Haram which is contradictory to what the IG of police had earlier told us, then I ask, who is deceiving who? If they are sincere let them send military men from the east, west or south to the north and see within two weeks if Boko Haram would not be a story of “once upon a time”. But some northern military men who do not understand good English are always selected by the federal government and brought to the old eastern part of the country to waste the lives of the citizens of that part with impunity whenever there is an uproar, probably because of the harsh government policy towards their plight. The massacre of Odi people from Ijaw in Delta state is still very fresh in our memories.
It is also agonizing to hear that the federal government of Nigeria was pleading with Boka Haram for dialogue. On 05.07.2011 the IG of Police told us that some of the arrested members of Boko Haram will not be charged to court because the federal government has decided to handle the issue politically. What an unfortunate statement! Contradictorily non-violent MASSOB members are brutalized, killed and imprisoned for just exercising their civil rights through peaceful demonstrations and there is nothing wrong in such callousness. This jailing and killing of armless and defenseless MASSOB members is an annual event. The harassments and arrests of Raphael Uwazuruike continue at will by the so-called federal government of Nigeria at any statement he makes and this can no longer be tolerated. Therefore, we the unrecognized voices of concerned “Ndi Igbo” all over the world demand with immediate effect the unconditional release of all MASSOB members detained or imprisoned since our Igbo elites have refused to speak.
From every signal, the northerners want one Nigeria not because of their love for us but because of the oil money. If peradventure oil or gold is discovered in any part of the northern state today, which I pray for, the Emirs, the Babangidas, the Buharis, and the Atikus will gather to pronounce “To your tents, O Israel.”
Before the election that ushered in President Good Luck Jonathan into office in 2011 the “Coalition of Atiku Northern Supporters (CANSU)” had this to say in 2010 "We wish to state that we support the position of our mentor, Turaki Abubakar, that what Nigeria needs is not a peaceful change. … This is no threat. Boko Haram will be a child’s play compared with the action our members can take. We have been patient enough. And enough, they say, is enough. … The presidency is our right. The fact that we bowed to pressure to allow a southerner, Chief Obasanjo, who has now turned to be a betrayer and a disgrace to us, to become president in 1999 does not mean we do not know what to do to reclaim our right. …We are happy that Turaki has now seen reason with us that what Nigeria needs is violent change and not a peaceful one.” Where are love, peace and equity in this statement? So some northern BIG RATS who are good candidates any untrained lawyer in Nigeria could bring to ‘Kirikiri’ have equally recruited the northern youths into believing that the presidency is their birth right.
Nigeria stands to gain a lot in unity, but every day indicates in the direction that it is not workable because of selfishness, dishonesty and greed. There is a lot of nepotism, tribalism and hatred in this fraud called Nigeria as a result of so many evident factors like cultural different backgrounds, religious beliefs, incompatibility and intolerance.
My dream Nigeria is a Nigeria that may never be. My dream Nigeria is a Nigeria where there will be tolerance, honesty, peace, unity and love; a Nigeria where you can live in any state or town without fear of your life because of your religion or ethnicity; a Nigeria where we will do away with the stereotypes that an Igbo man is too cunning, a Yoruba man is a betrayer or a Hausa man did not go to school etc.; a Nigeria where we will honestly tell ourselves the truth that we were forced by the British people to come together but also recognize the fact that since faith has brought us all together that we could as well live in harmony and peace if we all sincerely agree to make sacrifices and sit down to fashion out the mode that will make our aspirations fairly attainable; a Nigeria where you can gain employment anywhere as long as you are qualified for it without regard to “godfather”, ethnicity, religion, gender or disability etc. This is my dream Nigeria. This is the ideal Nigeria we all should strive to achieve, a Nigeria I would staunchly believe in.
Nigeria as it is presently constituted is a fraud built on falsehood and it cannot stand under the present arrangement, until our leaders pick the political courage and convene a national conference where we will decide on how to make the centre (federal government) not so attractive like it is now by allowing each federating state to develop according to its pace and to have greater percentage of its natural resources, but also making the centre very strong enough to hold the federating states together as one Nigeria. Until this is done, all the federating units of Nigeria will continue to be threatened. Under this threat Nigeria is staggering, under this threat I see danger and under this threat with the unfolding events I am forced to say that Nigeria as an entity may not survive for too long and even if it does, it looks like the bomb will explode during or after the 2019 election.
Africa’s first Noble Prize Winner for literature, Professor Wole Soyinka said in 2004 "I consider that Nigeria is on the verge, on the brink of a massive implosion that will make what's happening in the Sudan a child's play.? We know there are movements for secession in this country. We know that everybody is preparing for the contingency of breaking up. … ” But before it gets to this massive implosion point please let us separate in peace and not in pieces.
Do not forget that no matter how long it takes a stammerer he must surely pronounce his name. We are waiting for maturity to eat the bearded fruit as Chinua Achebe would put it for the triumph of might over right is only temporal.
Divide Nigeria in peace now or address the injustice and balance the equilibrium for tranquility to reign!
I join millions of people all over the world to congratulate South Sudan people on their independence.
Anthony-Claret is a software Engineer, entrepreneur and the founder of Codewit INC. Mr. Claret publishes and manages the content on Codewit Word News website and associated websites. He's a writer, IT Expert, great administrator, technology enthusiast, social media lover and all around digital guy.
Hon Aminu Bello Masari was former Speaker of the House of Representatives between 2003 and 2007. In this interview with GBENGA OKE, he responds to issues of insecurity in the North and assertions of ambivalence by northern leaders, the preparedness of the All Progressives Congress, APC for the political battle ahead and the crisis that has recently enveloped the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF. Excerpts:
It is alleged that majority of Northern leaders are ambivalent on the Boko Haram insurgency. Why?
If you want to exploit people, deny them education. And in the North education is being denied to the public because public schools there have collapsed.
The only schools functioning are private schools but how many parents can afford it? Secondly, the public health system has also collapsed. So now people have to provide water, security, education, health care system and every other thing for themselves.
Today, the North is known for its agriculture business and over 80 per cent of northerners rely on agriculture and agriculture today cannot thrive without the input of government, which includes supply of fertilizers, good quality seeds.
All these things have disappeared. As I am talking to you today, a 50 kg bag of fertilizer costs about N5,000. How many people can afford it? And some state governments like the state where I come from, for the last 30 days or more, people have planted and up till now government has not distributed fertilizer, when will they distribute it?
The type of people that we put in office is not reflective of the reality on ground and my belief is that for you to provide responsible leadership there must be good, free and fair election.
In Nigeria, people who won election were denied and leadership was given to those who did not win. How do you expect those who did not win to have respect for ordinary the person when they know at the end of the day it was not ordinary people that put them in power and it is not ordinary people that will put them in power again?
So unless we address these fundamental issues of justice and fairness, we will know no peace because there is no peace without justice.
Do you foresee anything like the Arab Spring happening here?
Do you think that was not going to happen if the fuel subsidy protest was not discontinued? You can see people all over Lagos, Abuja, Port-Harcourt, Kano and Kaduna rose up to the occasion and if they had not rescinded their decision and the rally in Lagos and other places were allowed to continue, it could have developed into something. So for anybody to think it cannot happen in Nigeria, such person is deceiving himself and it is a huge joke. It can happen if certain decisions taken by government are not favourable to people.
This Arab spring is not only limited to Arabian nations, bad governance and bad election can lead to such uprising.
It will happen here except certain things are done and we are moving towards that because the alienation and deprivation are growing and when they grow to certain level, surely something must give way.
In Nigeria today, there is no justice and fairness. So, no man can control what is happening unless we address the fundamentals and provide leadership at state and local government levels that are truly elected by the people and which will be held accountable by the people.
Really, the attitude of leaders here in the North will have to change and our lifestyle will have to reflect the reality on ground.
Governors and local government chairmen today behave like emperors, doing whatever they like with the wealth of the people because they depend on Federation Account and not Internally Generated Revenue (IGR).
This issue is not about religion, sectionalism and hostility it is about leaders short-changing their people. It is happening all over the country but worse in the North because we have denied our people education.
Can you imagine a governor that has not provided basic requirement of primary education, but was going to spend billions in feeding people during Ramadan?
This is a contradiction. Give them good education and they will find their level. How can we stop this insecurity when a local government chairman with his appointees is patronising private institutions? So, they have no confidence in what they are supposed to be doing.
There is no responsibility in leadership and it is a failure for governors, local government chairmen, councilors and other political appointees to send their children to private schools, when they refuse to send their children to public institutions, it means those schools are bad.
For me, this is an indictment on them to provide good and quality service to the people they govern and that is why there is no accountability.
We can overcome this insecurity situation but if we do not lay a sustainable foundation, it will recur and maybe this time, it may not be on religion but between the rich and the poor and the rich will be determined by the type of clothes he wears, house he lives, car he drives and the area he lives.
There is this argument by some Nigerians that APC interim leadership is being dominated by Muslims. What is your reaction to it?
This is the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign and let me tell you, we Nigerians start looking for good a leader, let it be a Christian or Muslim. If we allow ourselves to be divided along religious lines, this country will not move forward. If there is bad governance by a bad Muslim, is it only Christians that will be worse for it? No, it is all Nigerians that will be worse for it.
President Jonathan is the President today and a Christian, the bad policies, bad governance and the insecurity taking place, are they only affecting Muslims?
Bad governance is bad governance and it affects everybody irrespective who is at the helm of affairs.
So I think we better start thinking of how we are going to produce a good leader for our country irrespective of the religion they proffer. As a Muslim, my Quran taught me God will support a just leader be it a Christian or Muslim but God is not with an unjust leader even if he lives in Saudi Arabia.
For us, it is not about religion but about those who will provide good leadership. By the time all necessary registration processes are completed, Nigerians will realise APC will be a different party, it will be a party that will produce credible leaders, we will be a party that will be answerable to the people and serve the people and not the current situation.
Responsible leadership
We are going to play by the rules, we are going to be a just party, we are going to be an inclusive party and we are going to provide responsible leadership and responsible governance through APC.
To what extent do you think the APC alliance will go given failed past alliances?
What is about to happen will be the first of its kind in Nigeria. This is not an alliance but a merger of three major opposition parties and some sections of APGA and DPP.
What we are seeing is not an alliance but a merger of major political actors to form a strong party to challenge the PDP dominance of government in Nigeria since 1999.
So, this is the first time we are having a merger since 1999 to become one, by the time the certificate comes in, there wont be CPC, ACN, ANPP but APC.
So it is a merger and not alliance and history has been made because this is the first time in Nigeria where parties form a merger and produce only one political party.
We believe with the commitment shown by leaders of each of the parties in the merger, there is a strong resolution that we need alternative governance and the only way to achieve that is through the merger of these parties to become one in order to form one manpower, capacity, resources to challenge the PDP who control the government at the centre.
Given the general clamour for power shift in the North and the recent assertion by Governor Babangida Aliyuthat the North will negotiate power shift, does the APC have a position on the issue?
First, whatever they are doing is a PDP arrangement. Let them sort themselves out, I don’t like to comment on what PDP is doing but what I will ask is whether we are still seeing a softening opposition by the Governor of Niger State because once he says they will negotiate, it means they will accept something which was totally opposite to what he was saying some two months ago that they produce another candidate.
I read it but I was a bit confused about what he meant that they will negotiate power come 2015. Is it a softening opposition because they keep saying there was an agreement with President Jonathan to do one term, so are they now saying they will negotiate with Jonathan.
I am a bit confused about what he is trying to say unless he is trying to be like all big men we know that speak from both sides of the mouth. For us, when we are fully registered, we will produce leaders according to the constitution of the party.
So are you saying APC won’t cede the presidential ticket to any particular zone?
We will produce leadership according to the constitution that is submitted to the Independent Electoral Commission, (INEC). We have outlined how to go about producing our leaders, so we will go according to the provisions of the constitution to produce our leaders and candidates in all the elections in Nigeria come 2015.
APC formation
For us in APC, justice and fairness is the issue and I think the issue of rotating the presidency is because there is no justice and fairness on the part of those ruling us. But in APC, we are going to be just and fair to all Nigerians and at the end of the day, by the time we produce our leaders and Nigerians see their quality, they will know that we have produced leaders who are going to govern irrespective of religious beliefs because Nigerians will be treated justly and fairly.
What is your take the crises rocking Nigerian Governors’ Forum?
First, you will have to ask yourself what the Nigeria Governors’ Forum has added to the quality of lives of an average Nigerian. It was formed to protect the governors themselves and they also use it to influence the Presidency on what they want. It is for themselves not for me and you or other ordinary Nigerians. So before you even delve into the fight of the NGF, what does the forum represent?
It is a club and they are doing it for the aim of protecting themselves from prosecution, protection to be part of government, they are not talking about how to better the lives of ordinary Nigerians. All these are not part of their agenda. It shows they are neither here nor there.
Secondly, when they had an election and there was somebody who won and they refused to recognize who won, you want to recognize the person that lost. Why?
Because you felt the person that has won come 2015 will not support you to get elected. What is your business with that because not all governors in the forum are members of your party? When you have a leader of the PDP governors’ forum, you should be contented with that. What is his business with governors’ forum, which involves all governors irrespective of their parties? What is the business of the President and the PDP?
I don’t even care even if they dissolve the forum because I know the body does not add value to the polity or the lives of the people. If you could remember when I was in PDP, when I led the PDP reform, we fought the governors’ forum because we want the party to stand with the people and those PDP governors made sure the reform was killed and we were squeezed out. We told President Jonathan that time that this elephant called governors forum will grow to the extent that nobody will be able to control them. I think it is bad that 36 governors will conduct an election and they cannot uphold the election.
So what does that portend for the country?
The outcome of the NGF election has shown clearly what the PDP is planning for 2015 elections and we are ready for them. These are the reflections of 2015 and these governors are the ones to lead elections in their various states. Look at them and hear them talk.
One of them said he will not attend another regional meeting. Look at him who got elected on the platform of another party, he won and decamped to another party and he is talking about morality, this can only happen in Nigeria.
Governor Yuguda was elected on the platform of All Nigeria’s Peoples Party, (ANPP), he left there and joined the PDP and this is somebody talking about morality.
Anthony-Claret is a software Engineer, entrepreneur and the founder of Codewit INC. Mr. Claret publishes and manages the content on Codewit Word News website and associated websites. He's a writer, IT Expert, great administrator, technology enthusiast, social media lover and all around digital guy.
President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party has viciously dismissed a claim contained in an alleged document which says Mugabe has planned to assassinate South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma together with his outspoken spokesperson Lindiwe Zulu who Mugabe a few days ago labelled a “stupid, idiotic woman” and also a “little street woman.”
The document which claims to have been written by an intelligence detail claims that Robert Mugabe hired Lebanese marksmen to travel to South African and coordinate the killing of Zuma and Zulu.
The document written in staggering broken English, also alleges the assassins were also hand in glove with Zambia’s president Michael Sata who it says they met just before crossing the border to meet Mugabe, a development which if true also incriminates Zambia’s president.
The document reads in part:
“Mugabe promised the six Lebonese [sic] an undisclosed fortune in cash if they succeed in getting rid of the two who [sic] South Africa senior officials who are giving him a lot of trouble.
Names of the six could not be established, but they entered into the country via Zambia in the last few days, where they had previously held a close meeting with [president] Michael Sata before travelling into Zimbabwe.”
When contacted, ZANU PF spokesman Rugare Gumbo dismissed the document as rubbish:
“It is all rubbish and hogwash to think a head of state like president Mugabe would set up something like that. We have a disagreement with Lindiwe Zulu but it would not go to that extent,” he said.
Anthony-Claret is a software Engineer, entrepreneur and the founder of Codewit INC. Mr. Claret publishes and manages the content on Codewit Word News website and associated websites. He's a writer, IT Expert, great administrator, technology enthusiast, social media lover and all around digital guy.
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