Kashim Shettima nomination as APC VP candidate – ultimate plans for handover to Boko Haram?

 by Eze Eluchie,

 

Is the nomination of Kashim Shetima, a close buddy and erstwhile colleague in the Bornu State Cabinet of Boko Haram founder, Muhammed Yusuf, as Vice Presidential candidate of the APC indicate the culmination of efforts by the current regime to hand over the realms of power in Nigeria to Boko Haram terrorists? This question is quite germane considering the advanced age and publicly observable poor health of the APC Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.

 

We must recollect the following facts:

1.      It was Kashim Shettima, as Governor of Bornu State Government who directly overruled the written instructions of the Federal Government to relocate the students of all schools participating in the West African School Examinations and NECO Examinations away from the frontlines of Boko Haram activities. The infamous Chibok abductions took place within exactly 4 weeks of the Federal Government order being disobeyed.

2.      Within days of the Chibok ‘abductions’, whilst rebuffing efforts by the Federal Government to unravel what actually transpired in Chibok, the Governor Kashim Shettima was crisscrossing the capital cities of Western capitals deviously politicizing the terror attacks on Chibok – by the time the Goodluck Jonathan realized what was happening, they had permanently lost face and relevance before the international community, and the fall of the said Federal Government was merely a matter of time.

3.      Oddly, no government employee (Chibok school official) was abducted by the terrorists, who allegedly carted away over 300 students in unknown number of trucks to unknown destinations.

4.      On February 28^th, 2013, Kashim Shettima had led the infamous *walk of infamy* down major streets of Maidugri, alongside some opposition elements to show solidarity with Boko Haram and thus invincibility from attack by the terrorists – on a day several Nigerian soldiers had been killed in bombing attacks undertaken by Boko Haram in the Bornu State capital.

5.      In the period when Boko Haram was allegedly in control of his State, Kashim Shettima kept on collecting all due allocations for all Local Government Councils of Bornu State (despite the alleged control of such areas by BH

 

Proper auditing of any connections between this Kashim Shettima fellow and extremist Islamist terrorist organizations, inclusive of Boko Haram, ought to be undertaken by requisite security agencies, domestically and internationally, to ensure a surreptitious handover to terrorists is avoided.

 

 

Picture: Kashim Shettima, APC VP candidate

Closure of Schools for COVID-19 for almost 2 years: The World Failed the Children of Uganda!

 By Eze Eluchie, Esq.

 

As the world rails against the Taliban’s for stopping teenage girls and above from attending schools, it has just emerged that in Uganda, under the guise of COVID-19 protocols, the government of Museveni had stopped all schools from operating for almost 2 years!

 

How was this possible?

 

Millions of Ugandan children were denied education under bogus efforts to curtail the spread of COVID-19 and the world kept silent?

 

Where were the #UNICEF #UNIFEM #UNDP #UN #AU #ECA #EU #Commonwealth #ICC when this Crime against a generation, crimes against nature and Crime Against Humanity was being perpetuated? And what were the NGOs and CSOs in Uganda doing whilst this travesty lasted?

 

Why was it possible for the Ugandan President and his Ministers and anybody from that government to travel outside Uganda? And to what purpose would such a trip be claimed to have been made? What were the development partners of Uganda engaging the government for? #USAID #DFID and so on? Were these agencies aware and merely looked the other way? Were they complicit in these crimes?

 

The actions of Museveni’s regime to deny Ugandan children education for such a long period, with its attendant consequences of wasted childhood, diminished life expectations and values and stunted lives qualifies as a Crime Against Humanity under Articles 7 (1) c, e, f and k of the Rome Statute.

 

The closure of Ugandan schools for such a long period when nearly all students in the impoverished East African country do not have access to online education facilities and the top brass in government who had the capability to move their children to other countries to continue their education, can be described as a deliberate vicious attack effected with knowledge of the dire consequences the attack will have on Ugandan children.

 

The ICC has convicted persons for crimes against humanity on far lesser charges, this crime against the children and peoples of Uganda is one that the perpetrators must be held to account if indeed the raison d’etre of the ICC and the Statute of Rome has to make any sense.

 

This crime against the children and youths of Uganda, is one that cries ffor and deserves international justice.

 

 

 

Picture: Children in a school in Uganda and a picture of President Museveni.

Terrorist attack on Nigeria Defense Academy: A Monumental National Embarrassment

by Eze Eluchie

 

PRESS RELEASE BY THE IGBO NATIONAL MOVEMENT (INM) ON THE TERRORIST ATTACK ON THE NIGERIA DEFENSE ACADEMY, KADUNA.

 

The Igbo National Movement (INM) views the audacious attack by terrorists on Nigeria’s premier institution for the training of military and security officers, the Nigeria Defense Academy, by terrorists, which resulted into the killing of two officers, the abduction of one officer and the injury of several officers and soldiers as a monumental source of national embarrassment and concern. The embarrassment and concern is made more manifest when the international dimension and status of the NDA, as a center where military officers and security personnel from across Africa and the Middle East are trained, is factored in.

 

The INM frowns at the reference to the vile characters who perpetuated these attack as ‘bandits’. This was the same appellation given to the terrorists who shot down a Military Jet a few months ago. We all, Nigerians and interested members of the international community, must be alive to the reality that vicious international terrorists with capacity to take down military jets and storm military formations are now in operation in Nigeria.

 

In condemning the terrorists actions at the NDA, INM is also worried by the lackluster response of the Federal Government to the attack, particularly when compared with the overly robust and drastic reactions by the same government to attacks which occurred in the South East region.

 

Of particular mention is the response of the Federal Government to a so-called jailbreak at the Owerri Federal Correctional Center during which over 1,800 prisoners were allegedly released by spurious persons who, the President, the Army Chief and Inspector General of Police, termed without the slightest investigations or proofs being presented, as members the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra Eastern Security Network (IPOB/ESN). The President had whilst convalescing in London (where he was when the alleged jailbreak occurred), immediately ascribed the jailbreak to IPOB/ESN and promised to ‘deal with them in a language they will understand’; the IGP followed up by ordering his men to shoot-at-sight and crush ruthlessly, any members of IPOB/ESN, and on their part, the Military deployed hundreds of troops and military air arsenal to Imo State. All these cumulated in unleashing a period of mass atrocities, killings and rape and maiming of peoples of Imo State, a devastation which the peoples of the State are yet to recover from.

 

In contrast, absolutely nothing has been heard from the President, his Service Chiefs save for a terse statement from the NDA media office that the military is in pursuit of the terrorists.

 

INM calls upon the Federal Government to ensure that the real terrorists who threaten the peace and stability of the Nigeria State are effectively tackled by the authorities and the Government should refrain from conduct which fuel suspicion that the Federal authorities are in any way sympathetic, abetting and or complicit with unwholesome terrorist activities under any guise.

 

INM further calls for more devolution of responsibilities as it regards security to the State and Local Government areas and even to the extent of involving Communities as critical stakeholders in ensuring security. In recognition of the fact that the Federal Government, in whom all armed security authorities is currently vested in, has severally proved to be incapable of securing and guaranteeing the security of lives and properties of Nigerians, INM supports the call by the Governor of Katsina State, that Nigerians be allowed to arm themselves to safeguard their lives in the face of increased insecurity in the country.

 

 

Graduating Cadets at the Nigeria Defense Academy, Kaduna