THE COMING JUDGEMENT ON PALACES
TRADITIONAL RULERS AND CRIMES IN THEIR DOMAINS
“…Look, those who dress in fashionable clothes and live in luxury are in royal palaces,” Luke 7:25
As a matter of fact, are there any criminal activities in any part of Nigeria, in their domains that they are not aware of – and in most cases, to which they are not accessory/complicit?
Unarguably, every crime in Nigeria takes place within a traditional/political (kingdom/emirate/district/community/LGAs); policing (Zone, state, wards, police station) and constituents (constituencies/senatorial districts) jurisdictions.
And in all of these policing units, there are sub-authorities who must be held to account whenever there is/are crime/s in these otherwise policing units/sub-units – amongst such pockets of authorities/sub-authorities are the kings, district heads (Serikis, Lawanis; Baales; Alaje, Yala for elders, Ndichis, Igbo for elders, community leaders; chairmen/chairpersons of LGAs; NURTW chairmen (but why no chairperson of NURTW yet?); RTEAN; Divisional Police Officers (DPOs); District Police Officers (DPOs); Wards Police Officers (WPOs – create one); Constituents Police Officers (CPOs- create one); Commissioners of Police; Chief Security Officers of States (CSOS – Governors), and in each of the 774 Local Government Areas – there should now be created - Crime Commissioners (CCs), who will work alongside the LG Chairmen/Chair Persons to combat crimes in their Local Council Areas.
The nation must now begin to run an INCLUSIVE AND PARTNERSHIP POLICING SYSTEM (IPPS), where all these sub-authorities meet weekly/bi-weekly/monthly or quarterly with the police to discuss policing and crime matters in their areas of jurisdiction – and these must include the rogues/crooks/worms/vulture who pass for Legislators (Federal and States) and Senators, who after having collected constituency allowances and constituency Projects Funds would jet off to Dubai, marry more wives and keep more concubines, in addition to spending these monies on extravagant living. And there must be serious consequences whenever a crime takes place in a sub-policing unit with a sub-authority in charge.
If all traditional rulers have been keeping an eye on their own areas of jurisdiction/kingdoms/emirates/autonomous communities, not a single person in their domains will ever go into crime of the current magnitude for obvious consequences, despite the current high and very worrisome level of unemployment in Nigeria.
Is the unbridled dissipated lifestyle of some of these traditional rulers different to that of any typical Nigerian out there showing off their wealth without working to who may care to deify them – amongst such include Adeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II of Ile-Ife, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi of Kano, Lamidi Olayiwola III, the Alaafin Oyo, the self-conceited and ever bleaching Oluwo of Iwo, Abdul Rasheed Adewale Akanbi who should now consider growing up, including all the others who are wont to be displaying under-aged girls as their wives or latest addition to their harem of concubines, in addition to posting their obscene limousines and palaces on the social media. Their extravagant lifestyles are not only obscene and irksome, but are very bad examples for young people, especially those looking up to them as role models.
In time past, traditional rulers were symbols/epitome of moderation, but not so anymore. Their frequent pestering of elected officers and other political officials for contracts and such other unrapturable possessions are nauseating to all homo sapiens.
TRADITIONAL RULERS AND THE ABANDONMENT OF PROJECTS/CONTRACTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY AND IN THE OTHER SUB-SECTOR OF THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY
As a matter of fact, most of the road construction contracts, including other types of contracts are given to traditional rulers, as if it is a divine right to do so by every government in power (EGIP), even when they know too well these royal buffoons don’t have any experience of construction.
Not just the giving of contracts to them that are irksome and very offensive to simple sense and conscience, but the fact that in hundred out of hundred cases, after the full amount had been collected by their royal nonsense, the projects are abandoned, whilst at the Ministry of Works and Housing, the files of such projects reads: PROJECT/S COMPLETED!
Is there any Government in power (AGIP) that has not awarded and re-awarded the Lagos-Ibadan Express Way again and again, since it was first constructed?
The reader must be reminded here that I was Head, Environment, Property and Development Desk at The Punch Newspapers for many years and Editor, Real Estate, Environment and Property Desk of The Observer whilst doing my National Youth Service in the former Bendel State, in addition to being a Columnist! Therefore, the above information regarding who gets which contracts in Nigeria, why, how, where and how executed or not at the end of the day, is an insight knowledge of the nation’s construction industry, which is still based on the principles of the WINNER TAKES ALL!
What is more, as a former Executive Secretary of the Foundry Association of Nigeria (FAN) between 1997-2000, I worked very closely with the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) and collaborated with them on many projects, including being a member of the Core Committee of the National Technology Summit, and I was the Chairman of two of its sub-committees – Publicity, Products and Exhibition.
Regarding my one-year national service at The Observer, all I had written under my regular column: FOR POSTERITY as a corps member Columnist make up my first published book: THE DIAMONDS ARE HERE.
And when I look back today, I feel very fulfilled that I did not dishonour or desecrate my holy ground of service during the one-year national service done whilst in my twenties.
But what do you see today?
Answer: Irresponsible and very highly materialistic young persons, who next to money, they give people around them the impression that all they are here on earth for, is to live fast, chase girls, pursue money, join cults and other secret/evil societies – always in a hurry as if running after Noah’s Ark; and because they often want to arrive at their lives’ ports (destinations) before the time appointed, they often try to out-do/out-run God, running away from Him like Jonah.
Consequently, they more often than not shipwreck on their way to Tarshish, when that Great Voice from the Excellent Glory, specifically asked them to go to the Nineveh Mission Field.
Lamentably, some of them unlike Jonah, never got to have a second chance to make a U-turn and head back to their Nineveh Mission Field! What a pity! And need I here remind young Nigerians and all the young peoples of the world about that eternal cautionary wisdom that goes thus: LIVE FAST, DIE YOUNG.
All young persons who will chance to read this very piece of mine may want to travel to the Nigerian Observer in Benin City, Edo State, for the records of my achievements during the one-year national service are still there.
Even if not there, repeat even if not there anymore, they should get hold of a copy of my book: THE DIAMONDS ARE HERE.
I have not written in this manner since I began public writing back in my University days at Great Ife, but the Spirit of the Lord has guided me thus, because I’m in tears presently for our country, Nigeria, Africa and the world.
Unfortunately, as tears well out of my eyes for this generation of young people, both in Nigeria and in the nations as I write, some of the nation’s Moses, Joshua and Esther are the ones doing crimes – drugs, crimes of all sorts, terrorism, pastoral terrorism, kidnapping, armed robbery, banditry, prostitution, including making themselves available to the politicians and political officials in Nigeria as instruments of violence and death, at a time when every Hanan is graduating from a Western university and flying in a Presidential jet, as well as, every Yusuf riding very irresponsibly, on bikes worth millions of Naira, whilst every Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai and Muhammadu Buhari are to the talakawas preaching: SHARIA & BOKO HARAM!
But if I could tell my fellow Nigerians the utmost word of truth, that would be that this nation cannot exist for long as one country, especially with one half, democracy and the other half, sharia. Therefore, let the word go forth to my fellow Nigerians, and also, let it be told to the children of the future generations of Nigeria that whilst John Odey Aduma coursed through this great land of limitless opportunities, he never failed to let it be known to the North (the Fulbes, Hausas and the Kanuris) that either the North must finish sharia or sharia will finish the North. A word should be enough for every the shariocrat.
STILL ON MY FIRST PUBLIC LECTURE AT URHOKPOTA HALL IN BENIN CITY ON AGUST 29, 1990
In fact, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Erediauwa, the late Oba of Benin, sent the late Prince Eweka to represent him at the Public Lecture I had delivered at Urhokpota Hall entitled BENDEL EXPOSITION: OUR FUTURE IS NOT BLEAK, BUT VERY BRIGHT – A MESSAGE OF HOPE, whilst Dr.Godswill Ogbogodo, the then Commissioner of Education, Bendel State delivered his own lecture, which was a topic chosen by me titled: NYSC AND NATION BUILDING.
Before going to deliver that lecture which was jampacked with corp members and members of the public, I was warned by our editor, Mr John Oseze-Langley and colleagues such as Imoni Mac Amarere, now of AIT, Ike Okonta because I was saying there was hope in what they then considered as a hopeless situation.
Mr Langley in fact, asked colleagues in the then Features Department of The Observer to warn me about such a misadventure, saying to me personally: “If they push you down from the podium kill you, my hand no dey-o. I go say I warned you before going, but you no listen. In a situation when everybody dey suffer, you dey say there is hope.”
I’m delighted to let the readers know here that that public lecture of mine was not only very successful, but the copies were rushed by corpers present and members of the public, and I was asked specifically by fellow corps members to photocopy page 12 of the lecture which was on agriculture and sent to the then Head of State, General Ibrahim Gbadamosi Babangida. It was televised on the State TV, reported in the newspapers and on the State radio station.
THIRY YEARS LATER UNDER BUHARI, WHAT SHOULD I, AND WHAT WILL I TELL THE NIGERIAN PEOPLE?
In like manner, my fellow Nigerians, in case there is anyone out there who like my colleagues in the Features Department of The Observer did 30 years ago that there was no hope for Nigeria, I hereby very vehemently counter that kind of pessimism by saying here again, after 30 years that THERE’S HOPE FOR NIGERIA; and were I to return to deliver another public lecture at Urhokpota Hall in Benin City, it will still come with the same title: OUR FUTURE IS NOT BLEAK, BUT VERY BRIGHT – A MESSAGE OF HOPE!
And if there be any my fellow Nigerians agonising in solitude or rather soliloquising or even hallucinating at this time, asking thus: Is there a hope for a Nigerian like me in present day Nigeria and in the coming days, months and years, when things unarguably will get worse in and for Nigeria/ns?
In answering this my fellow Nigerian, I say a big and resounding “yes”, and again I say: YES!
HEART-TO-HEART TALK TO ANTI-NIGERIAN ELEMENTS ENGAGED IN UNNIGERIAN LOYALTY
It is the candid opinion of this writer that all the traditional rulers, especially Brigadier General Sa’ad Muhammad Abubakar III, the reigning Sultan of Sokoto should start behaving properly and bear allegiance to the Nigerian State and truly now assume their proper role as fathers of all Nigerians.
Sada MUST bear in mind that he can ONLY be a Sultan in Sokoto in Nigeria, and NOT in Saudi Arabia/UAE or in any of the Sunni Muslim majority nations, to which he mostly bear allegiance, for he is the face of the current fervent of Sharia in Nigeria, hiding at the background to stoke the fire of disunity, only to come out openly to fake Nigerianism!
This is crass doublemindedness, and a man in his position must not behave thus.
Since the inception of his reign in 2006, this writer has never failed to remind Sada that he is the Sultan of all Nigerians living in our Sokoto, and not, repeat, and not the Sultan of Muslims in Sokoto, but of ALL NIGERIANS AND THEIR FRIENDS WHO LIVE IN SOKOTO.
Sada has ONLY NIGERIA to call his country and home, and not Saudi Arabia/UAE or any Muslim majority nations.
Again, to Alhaji Sa’adu Muhammad Abukar III, a voice from the Excellent Glory says, Son of mind will you not bear my message to the Sultan?
And I reply: “Sovereign Lord, I sure will bear your message to the Sultan undiluted.”
Then He who is the Creator of the heavens and the earth says to me: “Therefore, say to the Sultan: ““Thus says the Lord God Almighty, a double-minded person is unstable in all their ways.”” James 1: 8.
Unarguably, the present generation of the Fulbe, Hausa and Kanuri elites/oligarchs/cabals, most of whom are descendants of earlier centuries terrorists together with this generation of traditional rulers, particularly emirs, who have been promoting, encouraging and financing or collecting money from the Middle East (Saudi Arabia/UAE) in the core North and some parts of the North Central have remained the most unpatriotic, satanic/evil and wicked emirs/traditional rulers Nigerians have ever known and they have been engaging in unNigerian loyalty, collecting money from the East (Saudi Arabia/UAE) to promote jihad/terrorism and what Mallam Aminu Kano had referred to as the FAMILY COMPACT RULE.
NORTH WEST: OF TACTICAL ATTACKS, KIDNAPPINGS AND BANDITRY
Nigerians and the world would recall that for many years I had been drawing their attention to the fact that whilst the terrorists were concentrating their jihad in the North East and in the Middle Belt with attacks/bombings initially in Kano, Abuja and Kaduna – back and forth attacks, they had strategically left the North Western Axis untouched, then still cocooned in its innocence.
It was then my intelligence conclusion just as it is still now that the jihadi planners were/are in high places directing attacks as carried and being carried out by the commandeered Almajiris.
Fellow country men and women, after having so exposed the planners and the executors of this barbarity which to them is an ENTERTAINMENT SPORT, they suddenly embarked on what I had referred to in my earlier writings as TACTICAL ATTACKS in the North West.
Without hesitation, the nation and the global security community (GSC) are hereby warned not to allow themselves to be deceived because by this sudden change of tactics/strategies, the jihadi planners and their foot soldiers were out to give the impression that not only the North Eastern sub-national polity was being attacked or under attacks, whilst leaving out some sub-polities in the North, particularly, Rehoboam Muhammadu Buhari’s North Western sub-national polity!
Now I’d like Nigerians to take a hard and reflective look at the patterns of terrorists activities in the Northern Nigeria sub-national polity of the Nigerian Federation and ask themselves this question: why is it that in the North West sub-national polity, what merely have been ongoing since the change of tactics by the terrorists and their fellow jihadi enthusiasts are just cases of kidnappings, banditry and cattle rustling, whilst in the North East and the Middle Belt sub-national polities, there have been endless bombings and mass abductions and raping, especially in the Christian-dominated communities?
Curiously too, whilst in the former West Central, Kogi State axis has been receiving poundings from terrorists, herdsmen and the so-called bandits, the Ilorin emirate has been spared. Is this just an oversight or a tactical strategy/plot?
Think, fellow Nigerians! Fellow Nigerians, think! Peoples of the world, think!
North Western States of Nigeria
SHARIA HAS MADE THE NORTH WORSE AND IS RESPEONSIBLE FOR ALL THE WOES, EVILS, TERRORISM AND OTHER RELIGIOUS ERUPTIONS IN THAT SUB-POLITY OF THE NIGERIAN FEDERATION
But since they surreptitiously enlisted Nigeria in that evil club - the OIC in 1986 as they collectively advised Ibrahim Gbadamosi, BABA OGBOMOSHO to so do, eventuating in the introduction of Sharia in1999, in 12 Northern States – with 9 States having full Sharia, and three others, partial Sharia, is the North any better?
What is more, Zamfara, where it was kick-started by that notorious Islamist/extremist, Ahmad Rufai Sani Yerima has since been ravaged by unparalleled poverty and overtaken by terrorists, bandits and other organised criminals, both from within and without.
And in just a matter of moment, Hamas and Hezbollah who have already arrived to help their Brethren against the Sunni Muslims will complicate the ongoing conflagrations in the North.
Enter, Peter Tosh (Singing):
Downpresser man
Where you gonna run to
Downpresser man
Where you gonna run to
Downpresser man
Where you gonna run to
All along that day
You gonna run to the sea
But the sea will be boiling
When you run to the sea T
he sea will be boiling
When you run to the sea
The sea will be boiling
- PETER TOSH
- STIRRINGS OF THE IMMINENT TALAKAWA REVOLUTION
Additionally, what they all don’t seem to be aware of presently is the fact that in just a matter of moment, the monsters they have consciously and deliberately created and unleashed on Nigeria and the Nigerian people will like the Frankenstein monsters turn round to devour/consume all of them and raze down their palaces built on blood, their obscene mansions/castles, where they gather; and in collusion with their so-called Brethren, the Muslim Ummah to plot and do detestable things against our Nigeria, the Nigerian people, particularly the Christians.
The good news is that in just a twinkle of an eye, they will be consumed by the imminent mystical fire and the fire of the revolution that will come upon the whole of the core North – and NOT, repeat, and NOT one of their SHRINES OF BLOOD, which they erroneously call palaces will be left standing (!) – for the DAY OF THE LORD UPON THE NORTH and all of its wicked leaders is at hand.
----ECHOES OF THE NEW MIDDLE EAST. HA! HA!
THE ROLE OF THE TRADITIONAL RULERS IN LIGHTING THE FIRE OF THE MUCH-NEEDED MORAL REVOLUTION IN NIGERIA
Also, they must as a matter of national exigency kick-start the much-needed MORAL REVOLUTION/RENNAISANCE from their individual little corner – their various domains/kingdoms and be content with the little they have, and more than anything else, be God-fearing, for godliness with contentment is great grain – 1 Timothy 6:6!
Traditional rulers in Nigeria have been encouraging and promoting corruption by selling undeserved and non-existent, but hurriedly created traditional titles to crooks and the corrupt in Nigeria. This must stop immediately.
Did not Lamidi on the 14th of October 2017 honouered a notoriously violent man, whose tribal militia group were labelled a terrorist organization by the American Government?
With this singular act of criminality, what example has Kabiyesi Lamidi Adeyemi set for the present generation of Nigerians, especially Nigerians in his immediate South West Region?
In a sane society, the Government (the Presidency) ought to have stopped the Aare rubbish title, and proceed thereafter to query Lamidi Adeyemi or investigate him to see whether he has been complicit or otherwise in all the murderous atrocities and other forms of violence which the Oodua People’s Congress – the Yoruba’s Alternative Armed Forces (YAAF) have been associated with since 1993; for the OPC and Afenifere – whether renewal or antediluvian were/have (been) the very reason for the formation of other ethnic/tribal militias and ethnic/regional associations such as Arewa People’s Congress (APC), Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and such other tribal and militia organizations in modern Nigeria – and there is none of the so-called tribal warlords that is not already a multi-billionaire.
Can IGP Adamu now see how stupid he had been in his recent romance with that ethnic vampire and jingoist in the name of partnering with him and his group to combat crimes in South Western Nigeria? The whole of the international security community froze for that crass stupidity and high-level absurdity.
Lest I forget, can Oba Lamidi Adeyemi now face the nation and the world and tell them what really happened to Ashipa Oyo?
The same Lamidi who refused to stand up at the National Youth Festival in 1993 when the National Anthem was being played. His kinsman, Ernest Shonekan was at the Liberty Stadium, and this writer was then on the National Youth Committee that organised the National Youth Festival under Mama Youth – Mrs Lolade Oki, with Air Commodore Emeka Omeruah (rtd) then as Youth and Sports Minister.
Whilst investigating the gruesome hacking to death of the late Asipa, in which I was led to the forest where he was killed, right in his palace a strange thing happened – an elderly man, one of the many Nigerians whose lives have been wasted in the name of tradition, his age I should put between late 80s and early 90s went to one of Lamidi’s daughters – guessing her age to be 10 or eleven then, and said to this Lamidi’s little girl: “Omoba, Omoba, ebi pa mi” (Yoruba for daughter of the king/princess, daughter of the king - “I’m hungry”).
I was so embarrassed and annoyed in equal measure such that I screamed out with tears welling out of my eyes and said: “This is unAfrican!”
In Africa, it is rather the princess who should go to such an elderly man and cry of hunger and not the other way around.
Despite these glaring errors of judgement by Oba Adeyemi, it must be told to the nation and recorded for posterity that during my investigation of the circumstances that led to the gruesome murder of the then Ashipa Oyo in the forest, this writer very pleased to discover that the monarch’s private secretary at this time was an Igbo man! Can this be emulated by the other traditional fathers?
SEEK YE FIRST THE POLITICAL KINGDOM OF NIGERIA AND ITS CONTINUITY AND ALL OTHER DEMOCRACY DIVIDENDS SHALL BE ADDED UNTO YOU
My dear Nigerians, what is the political kingdom of Nigeria like? To what then shall I compare the political kingdom of Nigeria? It is like an egg which a child holds either tightly or loosely and whichever way falls from his hand and breaks such that it cannot be gathered and put together anymore.
THE HOUSE OF NIGERIA: FRAGILE, HANDLE WITH CARE
Therefore, take heed that you do not hold this your egg too tightly or loosely, lest it suffers the self-same fate. Hence, I say to you: seek you first the political kingdom of Nigeria and its unity and all the other dividends of democracy shall be added unto you.
MY ONE AND ONLY CRY FOR BELOVED NIGERIA
Stay together, grow together;
And win together.
Stay apart, grow apart;
Grow apart, fall apart;
Fall apart, die apart;
O Lord God Almighty,
In your eternal holy presence,
Let this, therefore, be my one and only cry:
GIVE ME ONE NIGERIA OR I DIE.
CHRISTIAN LIVES MATTER: A MESSAGE OF GOD TO REHOBOAM MUHAMMADU BUHARI
(Dedicated to Reverend Lawan Andimi, Leah Sharibu and all the Christian Community in Nigeria…stand strong, stay strong and do not fail to comfort one another at this time because they that faint in times of adversity small is their faith)
“… and the gates of Hades will not overcome it,” Matthew 16:18
Before Jesus, the nation of Israel – God’s covenanted people were persecuted by kings such as Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar, but they were not able to wipe them off the surface of the earth!
And just as the kingdom of darkness learnt that God would come to His earth in the likeness of man, Satan and his armed forces got their MOABs at the ready to kill Baby Jesus even before He was born.
When He was born, Herod like Muhammadu Buhari today, wasted many innocent lives of babies, yet he was not able to kill the God who had come in the flesh; the Pharisees plotted and plotted, but like Herod they failed, Caesar tried and with the help of judas Iscariot got the son of man arrested, killed only his body and afterwards nailed him to the Cross. But whilst yet the satanic world and the Romans basked in the europhia (General Sanai Abacha, for euphoria) of their deluded victory, the third day, the son of man arose from the grave as death could not hold him captive!
Ever since the resurrection and the subsequent return to the Father in heaven, kingdoms after kingdoms had come and gone, caliphate after caliphate, including the most recent – ISIS, had come and gone; one tyrant after another who fed the saints to their beasts in public arenas or in the wild had come and gone; empire after empire had come and gone, but today as I look up to heaven with tears in my eyes and a great sorrow in my heart in this wilderness wherein I currently dwell as a prophet of God on behalf of fellow Nigerians, particularly the children of God in Nigeria whom Rehoboam Buhari and his evil brethren have turned to suya, a Voice from the Excellent Glory assures me: “Son of man, why weep you? It is the blood of the saints that had advanced the gospel across centuries, but nevertheless, let every Muhammadu Buhari, Muhammadu Sa’adu Abubakar III, Sultan of Sokoto, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Emir of Kano, Nasir el-Rufai, Abba Kyari, Mamman Daura, Abubakar Malami, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Rauf Aregbesola, Miyetti Wahala, Miyetti Katakata and all their brethren in the Muslim world – the Arabs/UAE, both Sunnis and Shi’ites be made aware that the church of Jesus marches on intractably as they all conspire and confederate to wipe out Christianity from that God’s beloved nation, even in the House of NIGERIA.”
- Johnny Boy
ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM.
** *The Voice of One crying in the Diaspora…proudly leading the NATIONALISTS UNITY MOVEMENT OF NIGERIA (NUMON).
