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Our Girls are missing since April 15, 2014. Pray and work.

Shamefully retrogressive Anti-Polio violence continues internationally with deaths in Karachi.

The Fulani Herdsmen/Nigerian Farmers War brings more murders. A MEAT BOYCOTT LOOMS!! We need protective troop movements, not accusations that attackers are foreigners, which they are mostly NOT!

Congratulations on W/Shakespeare@400. Baptised 26/4/1564 –Died 23/4/1616. Macbeth was my WASC Literature book in 1965. Is Shakespeare dead in Nigeria?

Judges dismissed. Good. Litigants can appeal for retrial at government expense on ‘unfit for purpose’ grounds. Judges should face ‘breach of contract’ charges and must pay ‘the promotion difference in pay’ to ‘cheated’ new judges whose appointments must be backdated. For ‘DEFRAUDING GOVERNMENT’/‘FALSE DECLARATION’ they must face court.

Metaphorically, many feel serially SLAPped by Senate and NASS in general by their selfish greedy behaviour from Laws ensuring life-salaries for NASS officers to severance ‘soft landing pay’ and ‘pensions’ for few years service, to multi-million ‘SAP’- ‘Salaries Allowances Perks’- and Constituency Projects, to rumoured envelopes and Ghana Must Go bags for oversight and lobbying benefits for passage of budgets and bills to the Jeep scheme/scam arrogantly described as ‘we bought V8 not V6’ N36,500,000m/vehicle. Many politicians support the murderous political violence they employed to get ‘elected’, disgracing Nigeria. However NASS and States delayed THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN and the CHILD RIGHTS Bills. Not one NASS male/female since 1999 stepped down protesting the obscene ‘legally illegal’ NASTY ‘NASS SAP’. Increasingly the citizens’ demand ‘HOW CAN NASS BE IMPEACHED or ‘CHANGED’ or removed from its stranglehold on our throat?’  Thank God, President Buhari is an iceberg sinking the ‘Titanic Ship of Nigerian Political Corruption’ beginning with BUHARI BUDGET REFORMS.

My April 13 article said ‘’NB: NEVER SLAP ANYONE, ESPECIALLY CHILDREN, WIVES AND DOMESTICS –YOU MAY DAMAGE THEIR EYE FOR LIFE AND CAUSE DEAFNESS! YOU MAY EVEN ‘SLAP THE EYE OUT’.’’ Last week a man got ‘ONE YEAR JAIL FOR SLAPPING A LANDLADY’. HURRAY! SLAPping is assault. Judges MUST jail you. SLAPpers Beware! We demand ‘SLAP PROSECUTIONS’! Nigeria faces an EPIDEMIC OF EYE INJURIES- all violence related!

We see victims of ‘THE SLAP’ who lost vision and require major operations because of ‘SLAP Happy’ Nigerians. A ‘DIRTY SLAP’ is key to Nigeria’s instant ‘violence rhetoric’ in homes, schools and offices–converted into hotbeds of vicious conflict. MOST PLAYGROUNDS ARE ABANDONED BY ABSENTEE TEACHER SUPERVISORS AND SSS -SLAPS, STICKS AND STONES FREQUENTLY DAMAGE AND DESTROY CHILDREN’S EYES, SENT TO LEARN. A SLAP is an ‘Assault and Battery’ and Grievous Bodily Harm (GBH).

We, the citizens, SLAPped every day, SADLY WELCOME NASS MEMBERS to the SLAP VICTIMS CLUB. So because it is NASS’ turn to be physically abused, it is a national disaster? No! SLAPping by Nigerian ‘Uniforms’ is commonplace. Common gate-men SLAP happily. Petrol stations have frequent outbreaks of EPIDEMICS OF SLAPPING in the fuellessness! Do all ‘Uniforms’ attend ‘THE UNIVERSITY OF HOW TO SLAP CIVILIANS’ to add ‘DIRTY AND DEVASTATING SLAPPING’ to their CV and draconian dictionary?  Nigeria is ‘THE LAND OF One MILLION DIRTY SLAPS A DAY’.

In ultrasound practice, I painfully see citizens, even children, eyes removed, ruptured with loss of fluid, internal membranes displaced and detached like retinal detachment and vitreous detachment and haemorrhage/bleeding – from the SLAP OR OTHER DIRECT EYE TRAUMA from teacher’s stick, fellow student, parent’s belt, guardian or co-worker. Most are untreatable with blindness and financial consequences to Nigeria, themselves, families, education, work potential and driving licence acquisition. Daily, THE SLAP even adds Good Samaritans separating ‘two or three fighting’. ALL  PREVENTABLE VIOLENCE!!

As part of ‘Conflict Resolution’ and CSR, fight and fund PREVENTION MEDIA strategies and POSTERS IN A ‘NO SLAP’ POSTER CAMPAIGN. After the FIRST VIOLENT STEP – the TONGUE ATTACK, the SECOND STEP is ‘THE SLAP’ on the VIOLENT ROAD TO GBH’.

Medically, other consequences of THE SLAP can be like a boxing attack – ‘punch drunk’, remember Mohammed Ali, or the Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, CET, identified among contact sport players by Dr Bennett Omalu, a Nigerian neuropathologist. The brain, a most delicate organ, has billions of cells and trillions of connections called synapses -working 100 times faster than the computer. A fine brain and no body is better than no brain and a fine body, though they are better together!

Many people identified as ‘slow’ may have been assaulted and SLAPped by bullying parents, guardians, domestic help or school bullies. Most SLAPs are lightning snake-like cobra attacks, surprise violence giving the head a knockabout ‘side to side whiplash’ injury causing the brain to ricochet within its ‘socket’ the skull, God’s protective helmet. Soft delicate brain tissue impacts against the skull at speed causes blunt injury, tearing vessels causing bleeding which alter function, shutting down or turning up synapses. Large SLAPs impact or haemorrhages cause coma. The person may collapse days later and die with no one linking the SLAP, so THE MURDERER ESCAPES to SLAP again! A recovered SLAP victim may have recurrent headaches, become docile or hyperactive with severe bipolar mood swings depending on the brain synapse disconnections, destruction or diversion. Should we all wear ANTI-SLAP HEAD HELMETS more often – pre-emptive protection?

Now that a NASS member has been assaulted and SLAPped ‘on site’ for crossing a Prison ‘God’ convoy, expect an ‘Anti-SLAP’ Bill! Imagine what Prisons do to citizens in the ‘bush’!

Tell and teach anyone planning to get pregnant to take folic acid one tablet daily –not me, WHO and me.  tonymarinho.com for blog.

Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. We pray with what result?

Another mass murder, this time in Agatu 300+ Nigerians dead. I address this issue frequently. The total Fulani-Farmer death toll is more than for Boko Haram, in the 20,000s. In The Nation May 9, 2012 I wrote: Blood Cow Meat; Boycotts & Cow Corridors; Ethical Cow Meat; National Cow Conference?  

In addition [to Boko Haram War, we face] the Fulani herdsmen/ farmers [the Second War] with deadly disputes on the North-South cattle corridor over ‘The Right and the Wrong of Way’ through farms from social arrogance, hidden political agenda and armed robbery motivation. There is talk of ‘Economic Meat Sanctions’. Unsold, cattle would flood the North. Nigeria’s North-South Cattle Run could use trailers or trains [and grazing areas].   

What is the acceptable cost of meat in human blood – destruction of other families? We eat ‘Blood Meat’ brought to our table through misery, injury and death. We must solve this before we are forced to have retaliatory ‘Cow Meat Boycotts’. We need an ‘Ethical Meat Movement’. No one should bleed, die or be injured, mentally or physically, because we want meat to eat!

How can a Nigerian cow be more valuable than a Nigerian’s life or livelihood – second class citizens to cows! Think economics. Potholes kill Nigerians, cow meat should not! Transport and sell cow meat. But, like Shakespeare’s Shylock taking ‘a pound of flesh’ from Antonio, we also must spill not one drop of blood – human blood!

Dr Wale Okediran tackled this in ‘Tenants of the House’. The current ‘tenants of the NASS’ must suggest ranches in the North and 1-2 day North South trailer and train as an alternative to the 2 month murderous food and water trek unless the cow palaver is just a decoy and the real Fulani agenda is conquest of land and murder? President Buhari, Patron/President of Fulani farmers, Nigeria wants answers and a stop to this Nigeria’s second war.  

Dada Ayodele is a casualty of the education war! Highest scoring graduate of UNILAG, his story speaks tragic volumes of the quality of decision-making among supervisors in our educational exam system already mired in an IT debacle at the last examination. An educational system which red-flags ‘excellence’ as ‘fraud’ is wrong. His excellent pre-university results were withheld without investigation truncating his opportunity to enter university. Surely the investigative team should make an investigative phone call, have an interview or test to confirm that brilliance. What authority enables a Nigerian education body to withhold results without any investigation? Then surely this means that all our geniuses have risked results being cancelled due to educational scepticism and Monitoring and Evaluation irresponsibility? This young man lost money, time and effort by being forced to get into UNILAG through a diploma course. Surely the Minster of Education must immediately call the education body to overhaul the ‘cheating detection mechanism’, institute more fail-proof steps in future. Before any arbitrary cancellation of exam results, every case of ‘criminal brilliance’ demands an investigation panel in which the student is further scrutinised before being condemned. Elsewhere in the world we celebrate brilliance. Only in Nigeria could education authorities maliciously dismiss ‘High IQ Achievers’ as ‘cheats’. That misapplied stigma of dishonesty will taint candidate starting from loss of respect from siblings, family and ‘former’ friends and linger with the computerised exam body during other exams. A proper ‘Appeals System’ must be implemented. No ‘Too Good To Be True Result’ should be cancelled or withheld unless there is a ‘Truth Test’.

Other government people build on structures and leave their countries better than they found them. Nigeria’s political class and many other Nigerians are ‘Too Personally Greedy for Nigeria to Grow or even Survive’. We seem never to learn, no matter how many Soyinka words are written, Fela songs sung, music made, plays acted, films filmed, deeds done  or history stories told and retold. The thief will always be a thief –just more greedy each time –millions to billions totalling trillions! Will the ‘uniform’ always steal? Will the tax man always remain biblical, taking most for himself and some for government? Will the judge always be biblically corrupt?

The same old lawyers’ team, gather in black-winged gowns and skullcap wigs, unmistakably looking like vultures fattened on the citizens who are dead, deceived and dispirited. The lawyers are centre stage, nodding and shaking their heads to the beat of the adjournment and bail drum. There is nearly zero moral rectitude heartbeat, difficult to detect in their breasts and few moral fibres in their garments. They gather around suspects, ignoring the victims of crimes committed, to delay, deflect, divert the court’s attention span and defend those accused of corrupting the election process or looting the budget of incomprehensible amounts of money. And judges deliver ‘questionable judgements’. Meanwhile who defends the depressed, diseased and even dead from the theft of billions which has truncated ability, education, health, roads, power supply, housing, jobs and even lives? Perhaps the Nigerian Human Rights Commission which should take these thieves to court for Human Rights Abuse of the voting citizen?

Look at Apapa Port area Nigeria as it chokes on its own wealth blocking the arteries of human movement. It has spawned thousands of tanker trailers destroying Lagos. Meanwhile everyone knows that the only efficient seaport is one with traditional trains and railway evacuation of containers.

Our Girls are still missing since April 15 2014, we pray.

Nigeria is like a never ending drama, a thriller and murder mystery stage play, a new Revised 2016 edition of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. The ‘Feeling Of Governance’ is missing in the nation. Massive nationwide pothole-filling for ‘Zero Tolerance to Potholes’ will change the perception and also provide immediate evidence of governance especially at this time that Nigeria incompetently and stupidly lost a hardworking minister, his wife and son to preventable road carnage. No guilty verdict on the driver will reduce the ‘remote control’ responsibility of governance in the minister’s death and the death of thousands from ruptured tyres torn in Nigeria’s 10 million jagged potholes. These Nigerian potholes do not have to be here, no matter how rich Nigeria was or how poor Nigeria is. Potholes wreck nations.

There was an accident on the pothole expressway at 7.20am on Sunday March 13. A Coca Cola trailer lay on its side. A group of travellers had stopped in ‘sympathy’ and were helping themselves to 1.5 litre bottles of Coca Cola with torn labels. The single traffic personnel ignored the theft. I have seen many accidents where those helping most are usually making ‘take away’ with cellphones, money and watches. A nation that cannot fill its potholes should not go Atlantic City or another dirty airport or a tourism programme. Motorable, pothole-free roads are as much a citizen’s right as being Polio free. Pothole free roads are not a dividend of democracy. Potholed roads are a manifestation of the ‘Demons of Democracy’.

The ‘Great Expectations’ for CHANGE are wallowing, mired in the repeated disappointments of the Nine O’clock News carrying re-runs of old court scenes with new ‘accused’ actors but the same lawyers. The NNPC staff strike has crippled Nigeria. We need ‘CHANGE’ quickly. Police and Customs Uniforms, are still accused of taking money!

Why does everything Nigeria touches as government fizzle into incompetence, disappointment and nothingness? We find health, education, roads, water, supply, electricity projects and of course pension schemes all become billion naira scams. No plan works, no idea develops, no service serves the people! This results in leaving a trail of extreme poverty, truncated dreams and shattered lives for 120,000,000+ Nigerians. Is it the sun or are we just low achievers? The Arabs pay foreigners to run services. Should we?

Is it true that UCH Resident Doctors are on a warning strike partly because accreditation has been withdrawn for Obstetrics and Gynaecology post graduate courses in the formerly ‘Premier Learning Health Institution’ in Nigeria and West Africa? I declare my serious bias because I studied medicine in University of Ibadan and O&G in University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan. The loss of accreditation in a medical course is like if true, it confirms than no institution is being allowed to grow but all are not experiencing stagnation but actual decay in the ‘Learned Health Services’. The minister of health, a ‘Learned Academic’ who grew from UCH also, must be more than a little alarmed at this. He must move swiftly to ensure improved standards of UCH and all other tertiary institutions to repair the shredding reputation of tertiary hospitals across Nigeria and UCH in particular. Linking individual hospitals and departments with cooperative similar organs abroad may be a good measure as inbreeding has led to a near collapse of standards in Nigerians hospitals. Beyond repetitive court cases and oceans of wigs and gowns and ever-increasing delays, injunctions, ‘change of judge’, and bail arguments, there is no good news. The news from Ethiopia is about a new drought. Will it spread to West Africa where already les rain than usual is predicted?

Employment is coming –or is it? If the Lagos DNA Lab works. The jinx on the federal forensic laboratories was due to corruption –an annual N50million sinkhole slush fund. In Nigeria almost anything ‘laboratory’ and ‘Library’ is subject to corruption causing a stunting of facilities and services and a collapse of crime investigation. Dr Justin Uku was Chief Pathologist in the 60s at the Pathology Laboratory on Broad Street. He left at 50 for the USA to become Chief Coroner to Buffalo County. You dare not imagine the degree of cutting edge science that was in his Buffalo lab. The denigration of science by Nigeria has stunted generations of young scientists and laboratory technicians rendering them jobless and also incapacitated the criminal justice system which worldwide depends on ‘Science Evidence Based’ Convictions. Nigeria still does not know how to ‘ISOLATE AND SECURE THE CRIME SCENE’. I was at Uncle Bola Ige’s House the day after he was murdered, and at my first cousin’s Funsho Williams’ home the day following his murder and I have been at many robbery scenes. In no case was the scene cordoned off. In both murder scenes it was theatre of the absurd with increasingly important people being taken on tours. Fingerprints, photographs and handwriting have been used for 150 years. Computers and digital camera are commonplace. Nigeria has had over 10 different and ‘face and fingerprint capture’ for biometric capture. Government promised that there would be compulsory ‘Shared Information’ between security agencies. Nigeria needs a computerised crosslinked network of Forensic Laboratories dealing in DNA and all other evidence. The age of the scientific policeman may be here. Students, science graduates and police would do well to study science or go for Forensic Science Courses.

Our Girls are still missing since Oct 15 2014. We pray constantly for their return.

Enough of pitiable politics! Today it is Personal and Professorial! An ‘80 Not Out’ is indeed a milestone. But no letter from the President! It does not come to all, even when they work and pray or corruptly steal Nigeria into their personal pocket. It is in God’s hands though the devil can destroy the wickets of life, ‘a Golden Duck’. Happily it came to Professor Olajide Ajayi last weekend. Yes, he was Cricket Captain. That landmark witnessed impressive outings of a distinguished and successful family and a formidable array of ‘Ajayi Aficionados’. Professor Ajayi’s rollercoaster Odyssey is in his very readable autobiography Up & On. As one prizes open the super, sad and sinister stories that make a biography or autobiography worth reading, we expect to find life’s familiar footprints, the cruel cousin, the tear trail, the unfortunate uncle, the reasonable relation, the rude relative, the fortunate failure, the dogged determination, the foolish feud, the love and lust and loathing of life, the supreme struggle, the terminal triumph and the enviable ending that make a biography resonate with the reader.

In Up & On, Professor Ajayi traces his relationships, triumphs and trials from birth to 11 years old when he became an orphan, to octogenarian, from an uncomfortably student existence he described as ‘parasitic’ to Professor of Surgery and a distinguished professor at that. In growing up he encountered family love, sibling and parental loss, both the ‘wicked witch’ and the ‘fairy Godmother’ and climbed his first Mount Everest, mathematics excellence. He was a student with shoes but ‘no medical textbooks, no human skeleton’; penniless, who borrowed books and money from individual student friends’ generosity’, to cross the Rubicon of the second MB Examination in Medicine. We learn, still true today, the only way to overcome in mathematics is to practice –to try, try and try again. The only way to overcome ‘medical booklessness’ is to borrow books or to stand and read books in bookshops while pretending to make difficult choices between textbooks to purchase but your brain is really consuming chapters, digesting differential diagnosis of devious diseases to be copied from memory on return home- a corner in someone else’s home. We learn that you can borrow someone else’s skeleton to learn ‘skeleton’.

From witnessing a crocodile’s white underbelly being sliced up, he developed maximum skilfulness with the stainless steel super-sharp surgeon’s scalpel on the soft bellies, breasts and bottoms of patients. He made fruitful forays into the pursuit of clinical excellence, administration, teaching and incorrupt management at Teaching Hospitals and founding and upgrading medical schools nationwide. Abroad he became renowned worldwide and he conceived or nurtured many medical babies to adulthood. The West African College of Surgeons, National Post Graduate Medical College to name two, and thousands of doctors who are the better for the tough lessons taught by a tough teacher, from a tough struggling background, who we all much later learnt had a very soft underbelly. The International Federation of Surgical Colleges received his commitment and leadership. Despite an awesome reputation as an ever available ‘damn-fine’ surgeon, he fulfilled his societal duties. Having set aside his scalpel, which I had the privilege of seeing flashing in theatre lights many times, he grew his philanthropic and church work while not relinquishing medical education advancement. Obtain copies of Up & On as birthday presents and ‘reality adventure stories’ for your 15-24 year old youth at home and in university to make them appreciative of your parenting and become highly motivated with tips to overcome educational and work trials.

At 80 Professor Ajayi remains an honoured guest in many ‘younger’ homes, especially those of The Group, where his presence as a seriously big brother ‘egbon’ figure adds quality, elevates the conversation and dare I say comedy –he is a very jocular Jagunaso – close up. The nation pays this tribute to an honest, straight-talking, humorous, visionary, scalpel-wielding titan in medicine, surgery and society and a relevant role model to role models and my teacher in and out of medical school. When we respectfully say to him ‘You will live long, Sir’, he will reply with a sly twinkle-eyed smile, Have I not lived long enough’ and we re-reply Noooo! and will add You will be 100, in health and wealth, Amen! And he will say I am not sure you wish me well and we protest that he should doubt our motives. I join millions in congratulating Professor Ajayi and D, D, B and K and the larger family on keeping each other going before and since Aunty Beatrice, the ‘genetic polyglot’ left this earth. Teacher wa, E pe fun wa, Sir. PS Professor Ajayi, has a phrase- ‘You Know’ and you answer that you ‘do know’ or nod your head ‘knowingly’ even as you and he know that you do not know what he knows! He also has a unique unmistakable voice. It is a cross between authority, impatience and soothing, unless of course it is the thunder of annoyance!

He climbed many Mount Everests. Siting on this latest Mount Everest of Distinguished Age his character is not ‘to go quietly into the night’. It is the dawn of the Age of the Octogenarian. The timeless tick-tock is digital, silently ticking nanoseconds. What next Sir?

Our Girls are still missing since April 15 2014. Pray! May you have a prayerful Lent.

What we are missing. South Africa has high speed rail and 45,000Mw. United Kingdom is paying citizens to ‘go solar’. Here the Lagos Ibadan Expressway will be finished by June 2017. What about Nigeria’s power and potholes?

Governors must please prevent the ruin of states by ‘No Parking Terrorism’ by Internally Generated Revenue-driven unsupervised staff. Keeping traffic flowing does not mean that citizens or visiting drivers deserve no respect, caution, ‘No Parking’ signs, or ‘Car Parks’ and ‘Parking Lanes. ‘No Parking’ is valuable on wide roads. LET THE PEOPLE PARK! ‘No parking’ can be ‘economic sabotage’ reducing customer numbers, destroying businesses, driving visitors away and reducing taxes. We need ‘ROAD USERS PROTECTION ASSOCIATIONS’.  Governors: Drivers should not be denied rights to ‘CAR PARKS AND PARKING LANES’ on wide roads especially if they are not causing traffic jams! Most cars are owner-driven so please abolish the mischievous ‘SOMEONE MUST SIT IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT’ law?

Zika Virus, (ZikV) was discovered in Zika Forest Uganda in 1947. It is transmitted by a daytime mosquito, Aedes different from the evening/night-time Anopheles carrying malaria. It spread to South and Central America and now worldwide. It is associated with small-headed babies, microcephalus and with Guillain Barré Disease (GBD) and deaths. GBD and microcephalus babies are seen in Nigeria but Zika links have not been investigated. Nigeria is endemic for malaria, yet we do little. Even hospitals lack mosquito nets for patients. ZikV can spread through sex, like AIDS, but also by kissing. Happily, the mosquito/malaria made the colonialists prefer East and South Africa instead but we must not worship such killers. WHO has declared an emergency. Nigeria failed to do so against malaria/mosquito and typhoid/poor sanitation!

However, Nigeria must make a stand improving on the old vilified DDT spraying and wole-wole sanitation efforts from the 1950s and 60s. Unfortunately the sanitation inspector became synonymous with corruption of the uniform –concocted infringements, extortion, greed and power drunkenness = health system failure! Now Nigeria lurches from emergency campaign to campaign. Eventually such campaigns consume billions but deliver less!

Health has been a corruption quagmire in Nigeria. The HIV/AIDS International Fund fell under corruption. The Ebola Campaign also had disappearing funds but happily forced frightened Nigerians into improving sanitation in schools and markets which reduced typhoid. School sanitation has stopped, falling to previous subhuman poor levels. We are in a Lassa War, praying for no diversion of funds or inflated emergency laboratory or health equipment contracts and bribes to feed the greed of political and health officials seeking ‘what is in it for them to steal?’ and feeding on corpses of fellow citizens dying around them. Can Buhari stop medical corruption?

Nigeria has uncoordinatedly and unsuccessfully fought the mosquito to date. The only visible tactic of the war on malaria/mosquito is the sometimes corporate driven distribution of, or ‘for sale’, insecticide treated nets, ITN, which is sporadic, uncoordinated, unsustained, unmonitored and unevaluated. Nigeria’s gutters and markets are among the most unsanitary worldwide, never managed properly or sprayed to kill mosquito larva. Yet every single LGA nationwide has received at least a N750m to N3billion allocation PER YEAR during the last 10 years– mostly all stolen or diverted by governors and chairmen. We have no moral right to seek support from the Global Fund or other foreign AID organizations to do the job abandoned by thieving LGAs.

Nigerians, think ‘out of the box’ against the female ‘missquito’ which bites and causes malaria and the male mistersquito! For example why do night-duty nursing staff stations not have a protective mosquito giant mosquito net tent around them? Why do we fold away or close our nets, wasting a huge bag to capture mosquitoes? When you are not in bed why not let the net do work for you? Open one side of the net to capture the mosquitoes flying around! Before going to bed close it with the captured mosquitoes, crush them and remove them from the net. Google ‘Mosquito Capture Competitions’. Winners have captured four million mosquitoes.

Nigeria should put the Mosquito on in a multi-ministerial Hit List involving Health, Education, Youth, Science and Tech, IT Ministries to initiate, coordinate and monitor Anti-Mosquito Strategies. NUC, ETF, TEFund must direct funds towards students, under/post graduates and lecturers to disseminate and increase research to increase mosquito capture and reduce mosquito birth. The students and Nigerians must physically capture and destroy mosquitoes. HIV/AIDS is not spread by mosquito bites, but ZIKA Virus is! ‘Death to Mosquitoes in Nigeria, West Africa and the world!’ is a war task that ‘must be done’.

The collapse of the Saraki case attempting to prevent ‘False Assets Declaration’ prosecution is a Supreme Court plus with massive anti-corruption nationwide political and civil servant Assets Declaration effects. The Supreme Court Lordships will explain on Dec 12th their election judgement. Supreme Court judgements worldwide combine ‘Legal And Moral’ justice, ‘LAW= Legal and Wise’, expanding the ‘Letter Of The Law’. Supreme = ‘All Knowledge’. Judges presumably must have no allegiances, preferences or prejudices except the highest morality. Late UK’s Lord Denning was judged the ‘People’s Judge’. Hopefully Nigeria has several ‘People’s Judges’? Nigeria should not remain a chronic case of ‘The old order changeth, but the law changeth not’. ‘The Law Is An Ass’ must not apply in Nigeria. ‘In times of Change, should the Supreme Court also change?’

Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014 and their families grieve on.

Governor Ajimobi should please to use his good offices with Minister of Transport Rotimi Amaechi and perhaps Minister Babatunde Fashola to solve any historic State Vs Federal political party quarrel/rivalry which created the failure of one half of the Sango Level Crossing and Sango/UI Road, a jinx that has lasted 40 years. Do people dig it up as they create many potholes every night for traditional practices? The 40-year Sango rail-crossing traffic jam caused by the uneven iron rail line/ road interface is like a plague on the dual carriageway bringing misery to millions. Perhaps the road maintenance workers are awaiting the governor’s directive to fill the potholes by the rail line? SOS!

We must install/empower institutions to curb leaders’ corrupt – politician, civil servant, contractor, citizen and ‘any uniform’ even anti-corruption agencies like the police, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), State Inland Revenue Service (SIRS) etcetera. Why is it that Authority Becomes Corruption (ABC) in Nigeria? Why does ‘Authority = Corruption’ in Nigerian Moral Mathematics.

All Nigeria’s ‘A-Z Gates’ like Armsgate teach that the money was never government’s to ‘give out’. However government has no authority or right to misappropriate the commonwealth! These money theft crimes are mischievously called money-laundering to reduce the crime attracting a petty sentence of two years in prison no matter the ‘the laundry size’! This law needs reform but the lawmakers are mired in the quagmire of ‘questionable budget allocation and [ab-]use’. ‘Laundering’ suggests a cleaning exercise and thus a more palatable crime than stealing or robbery or ‘Financial Terrorism and Murder’, a more accurate description of the crime which kills women and children.

LAUNDERING IS ACTUALLY A THREE PART ECONOMIC CRIME 1) Conspiracy to steal from the Federal/State/ LGA citizens’ – Economic Terrorism. 2) Theft. 3) Diversion or exchange of stolen money, ‘laundering/ ‘WASHING THE MONEY’! CBN money cannot be converted to the property of the party, for political party activities, elections, gratification, inducement, publicity, prayers or parades. Stolen money should be recovered and returned to Nigerian workers as salaries and pensions, school texts for children, hospitals for women in labour wards, to fill the murderous potholes. Beneficiaries are receivers of stolen goods, knowingly or unknowingly. ‘Ignorance is not an excuse before the law’.

Members of 2015-2019 government must learn this new lesson, ‘KEEP PARTY HANDS OFF PUBLIC/PEOPLE’S FUNDS’ a lesson still ignored at state/LGA levels by all parties. Recovery of billions will improve the naira, provide funds towards the budget and reduce the deficit. It is refreshing to have a government fighting for and not denigrating the naira, not done since Buhari was last in office – ‘The Champion of the Naira’. On The Naira We Stand!’ Only Nigerians with dollars seek a toilet-paper dead naira. Bring ALL our stolen money back into the budget. We must frighten financial criminals with multiple ‘forensic accounting’ investigations of every government and private organ with government funds in it. Reduce extravagant imports, localize food and goods consumption to boost local business and reduce import bills. The Treasury Single Account (TSA) thankfully stopped the usual civil service December theft of billions in the traditional ‘End of Year/Christmas Corruption’!

We fight corruption and combat ‘legal extortion’ among draconian democracies at state level bent on ‘raising Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) funds’. There is a high ‘legal’ taxation and fees in some States where to get Governor’s Consent can attract severe fees. The taxes and contract kickbacks were mainly used to illegally fund multi-party electioneering across the country like at Federal level –‘State Armsgate’. The economy shrinks, naira falls but will costs go up or down to compensate? Will taxes go down, relieving citizens and capturing more taxable adults?  A little from a lot is better than a lot from a few.

Nigerians have tightened their belts periodically for 50 years due to the serial greed and ‘failure to lead’ and ‘failure to save’ of a greedy politics and we suffer on. Our budget is a ‘Bulk Budget’ typically African, allowing ‘bulk theft’. Foreign budgets are in ‘line item’ minute detail making for easy identification of missing money. Government theft occurs worldwide, but Nigeria’s causes murder.

OBJ’s letter to NASS and by extension to state assemblies, the ‘Anti-car’ and irresponsible ‘anti-constituency allowance’ message is more important than the messenger who has questions about Third Term bid, Ghana Must Go bags, and election anti-democracy activities. Nigerians complained, NASS ignored us. Now OBJ is speaking, NASS talks back! Beware! THIS TIME OBJ SPEAKS THE MASSES’ MIND! Nigeria’s politicians may/will soon tear off togas, breath in to hide bloated bellies, leave mansions, bury fortunes and try to hide among hungry, angry –‘hangry’ unemployed and devalued masses who will throw their ‘legally illegal’ constituency  empowerment items back in their faces! The masses are tired of waiting for ‘Politicians’ Attitudinal Change’, to follow the ‘Political Change’. The masses will gather at every house of assembly demanding ‘change’.

As government seeks to change the anti-corruption laws, introduce laws which 1) Force the accused to defend wealth or forfeit ‘wrongful wealth’; 2) The accused do not get bail if charged with ‘stealing from the public purse’ – equivalent to ‘murder’ and ‘Economic Terrorism’, 3) The guilty get sentences commensurate in length to funds stolen. As Nigeria squirms under the Supreme/Appeals Court Election Tribunal judgements seeming to support ‘Election Fraud/Violence’, guilty politicians/parties must be banned from re-runs for 1-4 years. Politicians/thugs in violent areas must be tried for murder, GBH- Grievous Bodily Harm or for altering elections.