VAGABONDS IN POWER Volume 2

By Sir Jolly Chi Don Nwagbo

Jolly. Chi. Don. Nwagbo; an African-Canadian, is a business and financial economist. An ex-student of Loyola College Ibadan and Holy Ghost College Owerri Nigeria. He has a diploma in Italian Language at Universita Perstriani, Perugia Italy; A Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Graduate diploma in Institutional Administration (Hospital Management)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Leavitt Peak Press
• Release date: Apr 15, 2024
• ISBN: 9781962363877

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EXTRACTS FROM THE BOOK

•Biafra restoration is the only solution to end the shenanigans of oppressive leadership in Nigeria.

•The bonkers conspiracy theory blaming 5g for the corona virus

•The Biafra genocide did not end in 1970, it continued with the burning of Izon communities until today,

•Do you Know that President Obama used his position as a U.S President to war against Christianity?

•Nigeria is now the third most terrorist nation in the world.

•France to day, remains the greatest pepertrator of human right violation in Africa

•The Western Nations should be prepared now to get out of Africa for the time of slavery is over

•We do not have thinkers as Nigerian leaders but those whose interest and focus is on the national cake and they are accomplices of Lucifer.

•Should the U.S. government declare the KKK, a terrorist group?

In the bible, there is no white or black church. Jesus did not come to save skin but to save souls

•How the West lead to impovished Africa

•The roots of European racism

•We need leaders who are in love with humanity, not money

•Black lives matters too

•Black children were used as alligator bait in the American South

•…a band of misguided leaders whose favourite pastime is to plunder our collective patrimony year after year, it is the same old brigade of failed leaders.

•All these so-called elder statesmen are the people that are destroying Nigeria and looting our properties left, right and centre.

•These leaders have never been sincere with the Nigerian people. They are very greedy, selfish and without conscience. They have ended up mystifying leadership. We tolerate evil deeds and it has poisoned the whole system, even the child in the womb.

•The Nigerian maiden of Justice Sees the beauty of raw cash and smells the aroma of newly minted dollar bliss hence all the cries for judicial reform remain unheeded.

How China’s incompetence endangered the world

•Corrupt Judges are not better than armed robbers, murderers and other serious criminals. They are a disgrace to humanity.

•`At independence, Nigeria was at the same level of development as the so-called Asian Tigers: Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia, etc. In fact, we were boys while they were mere toddlers. 60years later, we have regressed to the toddler status, while they have blossomed into full-grown men.

•We the Nigerians are bleeding from all points: bunkers, importers, exporters, explorers, government officials, pastors, etc.

What if the scramble for Africa never took place

•The Cathatlic church dark history

•The father of modern gynecology purchased black women slaves and used them as guinea pigs

PREFACE

Vagabonds in Power, written by Sir. Dr. Jolly Chi. Don. Nwagbo (K.C.) is a summary of the ills of a nation plagued with poor leadership, corruption and greed. The author in the various chapters of the book exhibited a thorough and well researched revelation of a nation blessed with the best climate, abundant human and natural resources but in spite of God’s abundant blessings, the population is so impoverished to the point that most of its citizens live below subsistence level. A nation ranked as an oil giant yet the gains are circulating in the hands of a few who have successfully ensured they circulate themselves in the corridors of power, thus holding the nation to ransom to the determent of the citizenry. I praise the author for his courage and time in putting this book together. A nation at 60 is lacking adequate power, portable water and infrastructure needed for development. I see this as a reference book and good material for general knowledge to all who care to read it. I recommend the book as a MUST read for all who want to contribute towards building a new Nigeria.

By Late Frank A. Odita, (fnipr, mnim). Commissioner of Police (rtd)

CORRUPTION

Corruption is a vile disease that socks and drains the hell out of something good. Corruption in society is an evil moral infection that keeps community in a state of perpetual sickness. Corruption is a moral virus. It’s so potent, at least it host sick letoggic and unable to realise and accomplish all that are well upon us again. Where corruption thrives, poverty and not prosperity thrives. Well is grabbed into the greedy grubby hands of those who get fat on the toil of labour of good people. Corruption benefits only temporally those who participate in it. Everyone else is a victim of the theft, the deceit, the disunity and lies that corruption feeds on. You need to know that a corrupt person is stealing from you. Corruption is a filthy work and despicable act of treasurer done under the table and behind closed doors. Corruption is a disgusting shame. Corruption keeps a nation back from true development and from progress. Wise investors stay clear of a corrupt environment. They will rather put their resources in to a place where a plain field of opportunity is equal for all and not bent towards feeding the financial loss of corrupt lying cheating feeding politicians and government officials. How many wonderful development projects have been lost because the investors did not want to do business in a swamp of evil? When those great projects get to other nations, or to some other place, we all lose. Believe me when I tell you, that corruption steals from you, it steals from all of us. Corruption plunders the nation’s wealth.

Corrupt people compromise on true, equity and fairness choosing instead to feed off the short time benefit of crookedness, exploitation and financial perversion. Corruption is not just a personal matter, it’s a culture, and it’s a way of life not just for individual people but for companies, communities, governments and nations. Corrupt nations hiding behind large companies will seek to invest in other wick nations in other to take over the assets of the nations that they have invested into. They will provide financial loans to a nation for the much needed infrastructure and they will do it with the assets that they provide, they will sign contracts by lining the pockets of rotting government officials, who participated in this kind of corruption and then held hostage by their wrong deceit and greed. Corruption is nothing less than a form of theft and national rubbery. A corrupt person steals from everyone in the society. We all lose when corruption is rampant. Those who participate in corruption have chosen evil over good, lies over truth and personal gain over wellbeing of all.

To be corrupt means to be rotten, when meat is corrupt, it is rotten and it stinks. Rotten meat cannot be eaten. When a person is rotten, he is unfit to be replaced in the community. A corrupt person should be jailed in order to protect society from the file deed of a corrupt person. Government should be protecting us from the file result of corruption instead of being the proponent and participant in corruption. When corruption is systemic and a culture, and a way of live and when corruption thrives, it destroys the health of the community and the nation. Defeating corruption is a difficult thing. The love of money is the root of all evils. People who love money will do everything to get it. Those who chose to stand against corruption should be ready for war. They will be threatened, vilified, intimidated, marginalized and ridiculed. This kind of people who stand up against corruption will often fill alone as if they are the problem. Corruption can only be defeated if enough people have hard enough and decide to do something about it.

Africa needs to raise up a new generation of corrupt free young people who together and with support of one another, build a beautiful new corrupt free Africa. We need a new generation of young people to fill the places of leadership to think differently and are motivated not by greed but a genie sense of servant hood to the people of our community. The church exists to call the nation back to righteousness. We are here to lift the standard of good that God requires for prosperity and health to flourish across the land. The bible says ‘woe to those who acquit the guilty for a bribe but deny justice to the innocent" Therefor, there is tongs of fire leak up straw and as dry grass sits down in the planes so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty.

We have to be reminded from time to time, that God has created everything, therefor he owns everything. He is the final authority over everything and he has the right to determine how everything is to be managed or to be used. We own nothing and we only manage on God’s behalf. We need to be reminded that God the righteous judge, requires every one of us to stand before him to give an account for what we did with his property. With the positions and the people that he entrusted into our hands. God, the righteous judge will not allow the corrupt to dominate the poor by their evil and corrupt ways. Young Ugandans, you who hold the future of this nation in your hands, the most important message that I can give you today in this anti-corruption week is this. Never pay a bribe and never demand one. The way to kill corruption is for us to say no.

LECTURE

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CORRUPTION: THE GREATEST RACIAL CHALLENGE

It is time we spoke about the greatest epidemic of our time. No, I am not talking about Ebola. I mean Corruption. President of the United States of America (USA), Joe Biden said, Corruption is a cancer; a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budget, crowding out important national investment. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs. Its spread is rapidly growing. Either we look left and right and see in ugly black form or dressed up in pretty pink is corruption. From the roadside seller-inflating price unreasonably to the police man demanding for bribe from the unlucky driver to the Public officer declaring no money yet the purchase of the latest car. Corruption is simply the use of public office for private advantage. Government officials with their greedy eyes exploit government revenue and taxes hardly educated citizens are forced to pay in hopes of a greater future. The politicians make promises of a prosperous future just to be voted in while the poor work hard in quest for survival. After being voted into power the roads remain the same, schools are being mismanaged and the late or non-payment of civil servants’ tradition continues. New policies favoring public officers are formulated and the voice of the helpless mass is continually drowned. Cases of misappropriation of funds, no justice, demanding of bribes from defenseless citizens; these stories are endless.

Nigeria as a case study

I am from Nigeria, a country situated in West Africa. Nigeria has the largest economy in Africa but has been ranked high in corruption by Transparency International (TI). My motherland filled with diversity, bursting with culture and overflowing with natural resources is the pitiful nation ruled by corruption. It is no news that corruption is a pressing issue in Nigeria. A potent cancer has mercilessly eaten Nigeria to a state of stupor (Professor Peter Nwangwu). Research shows that corruption in Nigeria could cost up to 37% of GDP by 2030. It isn’t only present in government but in literally every sector of the society. To further buttress my point; Corruption is a dishonest or illegal behavior especially by powerful people. In other words, anyone is capable of corruption. Political corruption has led to depletion of national wealth, retarded growth, imbalanced economic development, abandoned welfare projects and infrastructure, misallocation of resources and the continuous suffering of the poor but has also brought about a new culture.

Corruption is the new norm

A Nigerian goes to an international airport in a foreign country and he is thoroughly searched because of the stereotypes that have arisen due to how deeply corruption has been rooted in the country. When the legal arm fails to catch up with corrupt public officers, the practice finds its way into the private sector and eventually the entire society. It’s suffocating to see public officers getting away with their crimes. The very legislature, which makes laws against corruption, is found to be guilty of these crimes. The judiciary saddled with the responsibility of protecting the human rights of citizens, punishing offender’s ends up taking bribes, and so justice is an infeasible term. Government workers are not paid on time or at all. They go to work with zero zeal having inadequate income for survival. So what do you think happens when they get a chance to make money to support their families even if illegal?

Corruption has now set in. Bribes are being demanded at the slightest opportunity notwithstanding the cost- infringement of another citizen’s right, a person’s life, the suffering of the poor etc. The victims are now the offenders. Soon enough all the victims engage in corruption. The disease is spreading. People accept it. What other way is there anyway? People no longer see the point of integrity. Corruption has become accepted as a way of life. No one wants to resist a culture from which they have benefitted from and people are weary from protesting against it when no change arises. After all, if you cannot beat ‘them, join ‘them. When drivers break the law and are apprehended by police officers, they need not wait to be told. Even without being asked they offer bribe. This disease is very infectious and has spread to every imaginable area. In our educational systems it is present. We have either university lecturer who demand for payment in kind or cash in exchange for good grades. Those who are undeserving of passing their exams do so with the help of manipulative methods. It has gradually found its way into sports, business, healthcare etc.

Nigeria is suffering from crisis, disunity, poverty, poor standard of infrastructure and educational systems because of this culture.

Corruption here to stay?

Allegations of corruption are made but this is met with plain denials from the offenders and swept off the table as if nothing happened. Corruption has become a part of our everyday lives that most people choose to ignore it and focus on other issues. It is upsetting that despite angry reactions and evidence from journalists, citizens and international organizations such as Amnesty International these corrupt practices still go on because the bodies responsible for punishing these crimes are corrupt themselves.

It is surprising to see someone (in power) who is not corrupt. The government in Nigeria set up an agency, The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate financial crimes and fight corruption. The EFCC has brought corrupt officials to book but how can we say we are fighting corruption when the former chair of the EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde was accused of fraudulently diverting over N1tn proceeds from corruption recovered by the agency. An analysis of the anti-corruption laws in Nigeria shows that corruption will continue to thrive in spite of the law because perpetrators do not fear the consequences. This is the same situation in many other countries where corruption is dominant.

Where are our values?

Africa is a continent rich in values. Values once upheld are rapidly being eroded. We have a saying here in Nigeria which in English is translated, ‘Be your brother’s keeper’. In other words, have love, compassion for your fellow man. Let his problem be your problem. But the Africa we see today is filled with corruption for we have ignored these age long values that bonded us as family. Corruption has led to a different meaning of humanity (the qualities that make us human, such as the ability to love and have compassion). Today we embrace sayings such as ‘survival of the fittest’, ‘Every man to himself’ which have encouraged selfishness, greed, dishonesty, lust, overshadowing values such as love, co-operation, honesty, care, transparency etc. We are willing to sacrifice the lives of others just for our silly desires and human cravings. There is no concern for the suffering that could occur as a result of our actions. This is corruption at its best. Corruption is a global issue, being it poor or prosperous, democratic or authoritarian, big or small nation.

Say No to Corruption

Corruption is the greatest ethical challenge in the world today and we need to combat it. We must say no to corruption, face it and fight it! Corrupt individuals make corrupt government. So to fight corruption there is an urgent need for good values to be inculcated in people. Confucius said, The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of a home. Charity begins at home. It is the duty of parents to teach their wards good values. Campaigns and enlightenment programs should be conducted to stir up the awareness that values are still as important as they were in the past. The failure of some parents to instill good values in their offspring has affected national development. Children need to be properly trained in order for them to say no to corruption when they are of age. In the past, corruption and other crimes were minimal in society because values were instilled. A.P.J Abdul Kalam said, If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three societal members who can make a difference. The father, mother and teacher. Prevention is better than cure. Children need to be taught on the negative impact of corruption and made to desist from such behaviors. Citizens need to be empowered by strengthening their demand for anti-corruption and encouraging them to hold government accountable. If we don’t speak up, then these crimes will never end. The most effective way to fight corruption is co-operation among nations. There is need for us to work together and see it as a global issue. It’s time we learn to be our brother’s keeper.

By Emmanuella Chisom James

A POETRY WRITTEN ABOUT NIGERIA

This is so sad. See a poetry written about Nigeria 🇳🇬 NIGERIA : The land of Generals without war, Professors without discovery, Politicians without ideology, Wealth without prosperity, Religion with-out piety, Leaders without vision, The oppressed without resistance nor worries, Courts without jus-tice, Criminals without fears, History without glory, Heroes without honour, Schools without learning, Artists without taste, Intellectuals without thought, Terrorists without identity, Appointees without roles, Hunger without famine, Change without progress, Next level without foundation, Democracy without citizens, Democracy without freedom of speech. Religion without conscience. Land of mon-ey without amenities. Unity without love, Heroes without sacrifice, Policies without plans, Crime without culprits, Saints without humility, Integrity without performance, Wars without enemies, Bil-lionaires without business, Youth without dreams, Elders without wisdom. Rulers without sense. Nigerian Politicians are genocidal thieves.

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HEAVYWEIGHT CORRUPTION INVOLVING THE FULANI NEVER GETS SERIOUS ATTENTION IN NIGERIA:

Mrs. Sadiya Umar Farouq, a Fulani woman that is a Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Social Welfare told Nigerians that she spent #600Billion feeding school kids during the lockdown but it never got this sort of attention that NDDC and Niger Delta Ministry is getting for peanut size Corruption compared to the Mountain of Corruption under this hushmummi. Again, the same woman said her ministry had spent #250Billion for palliatives to all Geopolitical Zones in Nigeria yet nobody can claim that they got a dime from such claims. Now that is #850Billion unaccounted for yet the whole of Nigeria is jolted by NDDC’s #86Billion probe and you want me to make this issue a priority to mislead the whole of Nigeria that #86 is greater #850? It’s like jailing Olisa Metu while Dasuki rests at home. Our people say that the sun shines first on those standing before it reaches those kneeling beneath them. When issues which by natural commonsense is supposed to quake Nigeria yet remain silent then know that something has gone amiss and when the one which is far less get mightier attention, then know that something grave is about to go down.

The Fulani and their allies are playing to scrap the NDDC and the Niger Delta Ministry, which received less than 1% of total oil and gas revenue, combined. They structured the NDDC Act in 2000 to function the way it is functioning by being inefficient to deliver on the development on the development of the Niger Delta Region.They put all Nigerians there as Representatives and supervisors making it a Mini-Nigeria, which is corrupt, so, tell me how NDDC will work when Nigeria has not worked? What we need concerning the NDDC and Niger Delta Ministry is reform away from the present structure that encourages corrupt practices same way we are asking for Nigeria to be restructured and not this senseless public drama to divert the attention of Nigerians and to deceive the world that corruption is being fought.

COPIED

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IS CHINA THE NEO-COLONIAL POWER IN AFRICA?

China has been successful in making inroads into Africa with reciprocal warm gestures from many African countries. China has remained Africa’s largest trading partner from 2008 onward, while the United States is its second. Even with the widespread accusations, that China is a neocolonial power in Africa – in the sense that its economic domination in Africa is increasing at the cost of some African economies and its cultural hegemony too – the political, economic and diplomatic cooperation between African countries and China continues to increase. China wants to move away from its low-end products manufacturing trend to higher-end products. China intends to build up the low-end industrialization capacities in other countries, helping Chinese companies in their attempts to go global as they set up factories in other countries, including those in Africa. Many Africans are opposed to such relocation of Chinese industries into African countries, as they fear that the attempts to set up Chinese businesses in Africa might do more harm than benefit to the African economies.

There are allegations that already African workers face ill-treatment, poor pay by Chinese companies, and that the influx of workers from China take away local jobs. The criticisms go further, in alleging that low-cost Chinese-made products that put immense competitive pressure on local industries and businesses already harm African markets. Some argue that China’s involvement in Africa benefits primarily the African elites and not the Africans in general.

There are also widespread criticisms about the growing weight of Chinese culture in Africa, particularly in the media industry. Over the last decade, China extended its media presence across all major press and electronic media in Africa. The CCTV News Channel and China Daily are examples of dedicated Africa editions.

Africa hosts a number of Chinese cultural centers and dozens of Confucius Institutes, which focus on the promotion of the Chinese language and culture. Such increasing Chinese media presence in Africa and the Confucius Institutes on the continent have been helping China to establish its cultural hegemony in the continent, negatively impacting the cultures of individual African nations. China’s increasing unfair economic domination on African economy, market and products as well as Chinese cultural hegemony – with its potential to undermine African identify sovereignty and development – make China the neocolonial power in Africa.

By Ellington Ngandu

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CHINA USES CORRUPT LEADERS OF ECONOMICALLY WEAK COUNTRIES TO MAKE INROADS INTO THOSE NATIONS.

Nepal being a case in point, suggests a report in Global Watch Analysis. Enables Chinese companies to not only further their business interests in that country but the Chinese State to surreptitiously penetrate the nation’s polity, with the objective to ensure its long-term influence. The report alleges that Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Olli’s personal wealth has increased over the years, which he, the leader of Nepal’s Communist Party, has allegedly stashed abroad. It has been reliably learnt that he has an account in the Geneva branch of Mirabaud Bank, located in a nondescript building at Boulevard Georges-Favon," writes Jacquard, adding that the account has USD 5.5 million, invested in long-term deposits and shares, yielding Oil and his wife Radhika Sakya half a million dollars every year.

Jacquard elucidates with examples of corruption charges against Oil in form of business dealings clinched with the help of Chinese. During Oli’s first stint as Nepal’s prime minister in 2015-16, there were reports to suggest that with the assistance of the then Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Wu Chuntai, he had initiated the process to invest in the telecommunication sector in Cambodia. The deal was allegedly finalised by Ang Shering Sherpa a Nepali businessperson, who was a close confidante of Oli, and with the intervention of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and facilitation by top Chinese diplomat in Phnom Penh, Bo Jiangeo. Similar corruption allegations continued to make their way into Oli’s second term.

Even as he was the Prime Minister, Oli circumvented government’s regulations in order to award projects to Chinese companies. In December 2018, a contract to set up a ‘Digital Action Room’ was given to Chinese telecom company Huawei without a competitive bid despite government-owned Nepal Telecommunication having the expertise to create such facility.

Later investigations indicated that Prime Minister’s Political Adviser Bishnu Rimal’s son had pushed for this deal in return for financial gains, the report alleges. The author also highlights another case of a project being given to Chinese company without any discussion. In May 2019, Nepal Telecommunication signed an agreement with Hong Kong-based China Communication Service for developing radio access network and another with China’s telecom equipment manufacturer ZTE for installing the core 4G network for Nepal Telecommunication. The project is worth around Nepalese Rupees (NR) 19 billion or around Euro 130 million.

In June, student protests broke out in Nepal against Oli’s regime for poor handling of coronavirus pandemic, over alleged corruption in purchase of Chinese-made personnel protective gear, testing equipment, many of which were found to be defective and over-priced.The protestors have demanded that the government come clear on the reported Nepalese Rupees 10 billion, equivalent to approximately Euro 73 million, spent in the fight against the pandemic, states Global Watch Analysis. Two investigations are already underway into accusations of Nepal’s Health Minister and several other senior advisers in Oli’s inner coterie taking bribes for purchase of medical equipment. In such a situation, while "China steadily makes inroads in Nepal, the rampant corruption offers a win-win situation of KP Sharma Oli and his Chines benefactors.

By Roland Jacquard

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A VIRUS ORIGINATING FROM CHINA EXPOSES BLATANT RACISM IN AMERICA

Is the US struggles to respond to the coronavirus? Members of the Asian American Commission held a press conference on the steps of the Massachusetts State House on March 12 in Boston to condemn racism toward Asian Americans because of the new coronavirus. John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. By calling the novel coronavirus the Chinese virus, it attaches an ethnicity to the virus that puts people of Asian descent at risk. The coronavirus had infected more than 244,000 people worldwide, with the global death toll surpassing 10,000. The novel coronavirus first detected late last year in Wuhan, China, is officially called SARS-CoV-2, and it causes a disease known as COVID-19.

Despite the scientific classifications, some people have latched onto a different name for the coronavirus, one with racist implications: Chinese virus. The PBS News Hour correspondent Yamiche Alcindor asked President Donald Trump — a regular user of the term — whether he thought Chinese virus and the less politically correct term Kung Flu might put Asian Americans at risk for racist attacks. The president said: Not at all. I think they probably would agree with it 100%. It comes from China.

Attaching the virus to an ethnicity, however, has caused people in the US of Asian descent to become targets of racism and xenophobia, with Chinese restaurants temporarily closing because of a decrease in patronage, people being subject to hostile remarks, and, in some extreme cases, some Asians being physically assaulted. And it’s not just the US where such acts of racism are being reported. An Asian man was assaulted in London as his attackers yelled: I don’t want your coronavirus in my country. The British Chinese filmmaker Lucy Sheen tweeted in February that she was told to go back to China and to take her filth back with her.

A Chinese student in Adelaide, Australia, was attacked simply because he was speaking a different language while walking down the street. Normalizing the association between the coronavirus and those of Asian descent will only cause further divide at a time when fear and distrust already run rampant. The coronavirus initially was largely referred to by the news media as the Wuhan coronavirus, a not-unusual scenario in which a novel virus is colloquially named after its place of origin (though the World Health Organization issued guidelines in 2015 advocating generic names for diseases). But while the coronavirus may have originated in Wuhan, in the Chinese province of Hubei, it has since made its way to more than 160 countries and territories. The coronavirus had infected more than 244,000 people worldwide, with the global death toll surpassing 10,000. It has affected China. It has affected Italy. It has affected Iran, Spain, Germany, the US, and more. The virus is taking enough of a toll on friends, families, and communities — there is no reason for racism to add to that. Here is why racism and xenophobia spread with infectious diseases. Trump doubles down on calling coronavirus ‘Chinese virus,’ saying ‘it’s not racist at all.’ ‘They are a very hungry people’: Fox News host fuels racist tropes about Chinese over coronavirus outbreak. Shocking video shows a New York City subway rider spraying an Asian man and yelling at him to move.

Lecture

HOW CHINA MISLED AND FOOLED THE WORLD ON CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Zee News Editor-in-Chief Sudhir Chaudhary in DNA, the world’s most popular news show, did the analysis of China’s actions.

•The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic that has brought the world to its knees with the infections spreading to 175 countries could have been stopped if China, where the virus first broke out, had taken preventive measures from the start. China has been accused of not doing enough to stop the spread of this virus and also for not alerting other countries after the outbreak. Zee News Editor-in-Chief Sudhir Chaudhary in DNA, the world’s most popular news show, did the analysis of China’s actions. The flu-like virus which has affected more than 5 lakh people worldwide and resulted in the deaths of more than 24 thousand people was first reported from China’s Wuhan in November 2019. At first the doctors thought it was just a viral pneumonia that was not being cured by ordinary medicines. Later in December 2019, it spread from mainland China to Korea and Thailand.

Reports have suggested that China tried to bury evidence that could lead to the early discovery of the deadly pathogen. Some reports claim that as soon as doctors in China detected the new virus, the Chinese authorities shut down labs and destroyed the samples of the virus. In addition, claims have been made that in China, people who rang the alarm bells about this virus were arrested or that they disappeared. The Chinese police arrested Wuhan’s doctor Li Wenliang who is said to have first reported about the virus and he later died of the infection. Recently, US President Donald Trump referred to the COVID-19 as Chinese virus to which China raised objections and vehemently denied any wrongdoing. However, China never objected to the use of Spanish Flu or New Delhi superbug or even naming the Hanta virus after the Hanatan River of South Korea but it strongly opposes for the coining of the coronavirus as Chinese virus.

Now, the Chinese government and media is claiming that the US was involved in the virus outbreak in China. On March 12, China’s foreign ministry representative Zhao Lijan claimed on Twitter that the Virus had arrived in China from the United States. Chinese officials say that during the Military World Games in Wuhan in October 2019, the US Army athletes brought this virus with them. Not only this, it was also being propagated that this virus spread in Italy before it got to China. But China has been on the receiving end of severe criticism for its negligence in dealing with this virus that has become a threat to the whole world.

By Zee Media Bureau

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1ST CENTURY US COUPS IN LATIN AMERICA

COLOMBIA, CUBA, ECUADOR, GUATEMALA, HONDURAS, NICARAGUA, VENEZUELA

During the 21st century, the US, working with corporate elites, traditional oligarchies, military, and corporate media, has continually attempted coups against Latin American governments, which place the needs of their people over US corporate interests. Soft coups, a new strategy, are a significant change from the brutal 1970s military hard coups in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, etc. A central US concern in these new coups has been to maintain a legal and democratic facade as much as possible. Successful soft coups depend on mobilizing popular forces in anti-government marches and protests. The US and European NGOs, such as USAID, NED, National Democratic Institute, International Republican Institute, Open Society Foundations, and the Ford Foundation heavily fund some revolutions. They make use of organizations professing human rights (Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International), local dissident organizations, and even liberal-left media (Democracy Now) to prepare the groundwork. Three mechanisms have proven to be successful. First, economic warfare on a country, through sanctions and outright blockades, creates discontent against the targeted government. Second, increasing use of corporate media, social media, and CIA social media to spread disinformation (around human rights, democracy, freedom, or corruption). Third, lawfare uses the appearance of democratic legality to bring down those defending their country’s national sovereignty. Related` are the electoral coups (Haiti, Honduras, and Brazil) where the US helped engineer a stolen election. Some attempted coups failed because the people mobilized to defend their governments, and because of timely defensive solidarity declarations by the Latin American bodies of the OAS, UNASUR, and the Rio Group. Today, the Rio Group no longer exists, UNASUR is much weakened, and the OAS is now fully under US control.

US Backed Coups and Attempted Coups

2001 Haiti. Haitian paramilitaries based in the Dominican Republic launched an attack on the National Palace, seat of President Aristide’s government. The attack failed, but until 2004, these paramilitaries launched numerous raids into Haiti, playing a key role leading to the 2004 coup perpetrated directly by US troops. 2002 Venezuela. The US government partially funded and backed the short-lived April coup against Hugo Chavez. 2002-3 Venezuela. Management of the state oil company PDVSA organized an oil strike, actually a lockout of the oil workers, to drive Hugo Chavez out of power. This again failed in early 2003. 2003 Cuba. Before the March 2003 US invasion of Iraq, John Bolton claimed Cuba was a state sponsor of terrorism, producing biological weapons for terrorist purposes, just as Iraq was falsely claimed to have WMDs. The US increased its anti-Cuba propaganda and increased funding to pro-democracy groups, while anti-Cuban rightwing groups escalated activities. The US paid dissident groups to organize protests, then leave for the US, where they were never prosecuted. The goal was to create the appearance of disorder. Combined with alleged biological WMDs, an international intervention could thus be requested to restore order. Cuba squashed this movement.

2004 Haiti. In an older style coup, US troops invaded Haiti, kidnapped President Jean Bertrande Aristide, and exiled him to the Central African Republic. 2008 Bolivia. An attempted coup involved rightwing leaders and some indigenous groups from Bolivia’s lowlands financed by the US. Seeking to separate the richer Media Luna region from the rest of the country, in the process they killed 20 supporters of President Evo Morales. Between 2007-2015, the NED gave $10 million in funding to some 40 economic and social institutions and to NGOs. US embassy cables showed it sought to turn social and indigenous movements against the Morales government. 2009 Honduras. Honduran military forces under orders from the US seized President Manuel Zelaya, brought him to the US military base at Palmerola, and then exiled him to Costa Rica. This began an era of brutal neoliberal narco-trafficking regimes that ended in 2021 with the landslide election of Xiomara Castro, Zelaya’s wife.

2010 Ecuador. In September, a failed coup against President Rafael Correa by military and police units backed by the indigenous organizations CONAIE and Pachakutik. The US had infiltrated the police and armed forces, while the NED and USAID funded these indigenous organizations. 2011 Haiti. Following the 2010 Haiti earthquake that killed 200,000, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton imposed Michel Martelly as president after threatening to cut off US aid. Clinton demanded that Martelly be named one of the two-runoff candidates, although not recognized as such by the Electoral Council. Despite a voter boycott, Martelly was announced as the winner of the runoff. One reason why most Haitians boycotted was that the most popular political party, Fanmi Lavalas, was excluded from the ballot. USAID, Canada, the OAS, and the European Union funded the Haiti elections. 2012 Paraguay. President Fernando Lugo was scapegoated for a land occupation confrontation between Campesinos and the police, which led to 17 deaths. He was removed from office without a chance to defend himself in a lawfare coup. 2013 Venezuela. After the April election that Nicolas Maduro narrowly won, Henrique Capriles, the US-supported loser, claimed the election was stolen and called his supporters to violent street protests. Due to the strength of the UNASUR countries at the time, the US could not convince other countries to reject Maduro’s victory. 2014 Venezuela. Led by Leopoldo Lopez and Maria Corina Machado, the coup resulted in 43 deaths and aimed to drive President Maduro from power. Again, the US could not get other Latin American governments to denounce Maduro, either in UNASUR or in the OAS.

2015 Ecuador. Between 2012 and 2015, $30 million from NED went to political parties, trade unions, dissident movements, and media. In 2013 alone, USAID and NED spent $24 million in Ecuador. This paid off in 2015 when CONAIE, thanking USAID for its funding, called for an indigenous-led uprising. Marches began and concluded in Quito with an uprising and general strike. The attempted coup failed. 2015 Haiti. A new electoral coup for the presidency was funded by the US for $30 million. Both the US and the OAS refused Haitians’ demands to invalidate the election. Supporters of opposition parties were shot with live and rubber bullets by police, killing many. President Michel Martelly has chosen successor Jovenel Moise became president. 2015 Guatemala. The US engineered a coup against right wing President Otto Perez Molina because he was not sufficiently subservient. 2015 Argentina. Argentine prosecutor Alber Nisman was evidently murdered days after he made bogus criminal charges against President Cristina Fernandez, claiming she was involved in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center. This was used to create a scandal, unseat her, and bring neoliberals back to power. The case was used to disrupt the Kirchner coalition from winning another presidential election. 2015-2019 El Salvador. El Salvador’s right-wing opposition backed by the US sought to destabilize the government of President Salvador Sánchez Cerén of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front. A conservative media smear campaign was launched against his administration, together with a surge in gang-driven homicides that the police chief said was part of a callous campaign to drive up body counts and remove the FMLN government. Sanchez Cerén and other former FMLN officials later became targets of a law fare destabilization strategy.

2016 Brazil. US-backed right-wing movements launched a campaign against President Dilma Rousseff of the Workers Party for corruption. Aided by the corporate media, they organized a series of protests in Brazil’s largest cities throughout 2015. In 2016, a massive political demonstration brought together more than 500,000 people in support of impeaching President Rousseff. She was finally impeached and removed from office in a successful lawfare coup. 2017 Venezuela. Violent protests, led by Leopoldo Lopez, sought to oust President Maduro, leading to 126 fatalities. The protests ended after the elections for the National Constituent Assembly. 2017 Honduras. The US supported an electoral coup by President Juan Orlando Hernández involving widespread electoral fraud and government killing of protesters. The US quickly recognized him as president and pressured other countries to do the same, even though the OAS itself had called for a new election. 2018 Nicaragua. US-backed violent protests, supported by anti-FSLN media and social media disinformation campaigns, sought to remove President Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas party. After two months, public sentiment turned strongly against the violent protests and they disintegrated. 2018 Brazil. Former President Lula de Silva was the leading candidate to win the presidential election but was imprisoned due to a law fare operation of the US and Brazil’s right wing, using bogus corruption charges. Bolsonaro won the election, aided by a fake news operation that sent out millions of WhatsApp messages to Brazilian voters.

2019 Venezuela. In January, Juan Guaido declared himself president of Venezuela after being assured of US recognition. On April 30, the Guaido-Leopoldo Lopez’ planned uprising outside an air force base flopped. Later, a mercenary attack from Colombia failed to seize President Maduro in the presidential palace. 2019 Bolivia. The US engineered a coup against Evo Morales, using a social media campaign to falsely claim he stole the election. The OAS played a key role in legitimizing the coup. The disastrous coup government of Jeanine Anez lasted for just over one year. 2021 Cuba. The US-orchestrated and funded protests against the Cuban government in July and November. The US sought to build a new generation of counter-revolutionary leadership by creating new independent press and social media platforms. Again, these failed miserably.

2021 Bolivia. In October, the rightwing tried to organize a coup and general strike, demanding the release of imprisoned former President Anez. The attempt was successful only in Santa Cruz province. Later, supported conservative organizations led a rally of 1.5 million to the capital, to defend the MAS government. 2021 Peru. The right-wing oligarchy used law fare unsuccessfully to unseat new President Castillo, a leader from the popular indigenous movement, seeking to remove him for being permanently morally incapable. A newer lawfare has been brought against him for corruption. 2021 Nicaragua. The US planned to repeat the 2018 Nicaragua protests, combined with a concocted campaign that the Ortega government had imprisoned US-financed opposition pre-candidates before the presidential election. This coup attempt failed but the US and OAS refused to recognize the election results. In 2022 we can expect the US to continue regime change operations against Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, and now Chile with the election of progressive President Boric.

By Stansfield Smith

FORWARD

TAKE OVER OF BRITAIN-WHO TO BLAME?

TAKE OVER of Britain who to blame for passively succumbed to the Muslim invasion?

Mayor of London ... MUSLIM

Mayor of Birmingham ... MUSLIM

Mayor of Leeds ... MUSLIM

Mayor of Blackburn ... MUSLIM

Mayor of Sheffield ... MUSLIM

Mayor of Oxford ... MUSLIM

Mayor of Luton ... MUSLIM

Mayor of Oldham ... MUSLIM

Mayor of Rockdale ... MUSLIM.

Over 3,000 Muslim Mosques

Over 130 Muslim Sharia Courts

Over 50 Muslim Sharia Councils

Muslims-Only No-Go Areas Across The UK.

Muslim Women ... 78% don’t work and are on FREE benefits/housing.

Muslim Men ... 63% don’t work and are on FREE benefits/housing.

Muslim Families 6-8 children planning to go on FREE benefits/housing.

Now all UK schools are ONLY serving HALAL MEAT!

All these were achieved by just 4 million Muslims out of the 66 million populations!!!

This is an eye opening for all non-Muslims -.

Turkey is in the present day Europe and partly in Asia.

■Apostle Paul was a citizen of Turkey because Tarsus exists in Turkey.

■Christianity existed in Turkey for about 1,023 years while Christianity has only existed in Nigeria and Ghana for 172yrs starting from when Rev. Birch Freeman came to Badagry in 1842.

■The seven churches Jesus spoke to in Revelations 2 & 3(Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea) existed in the old Turkey.

■Turkey once had the largest Christian auditorium in Europe called Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.

Apostle John took ■Mary the mother of Jesus to Turkey and till date, her room has become a tourist centre.

*TURKEY TODAY*

■Present day Turkey now has 96% muslims & 0.02% Christians (less than 130,000).

■The Haig Sophia (once largest church in Europe) was taken over by muslims and converted to a mosque for over 400yrs and later used as an Islamic Museum.

*WHY CHRISTIANITY COLLAPSED IN TURKEY*

■Emphasis on doctrinal differences weakened the Turkish church.

■Rivalries amongst denominations.

■Petty politics in church coupled with ethnic biases.

■The Turks were building big cathedrals instead of building men.

*HOW IT HAPPENED*

■Osman Ghazi discovered the disunity amongst Christians and used it to fight a Jihad that led to a mass genocide of the Armenians, the Hellen and Turks of that day. In fact, a Turkish Christian designed the weapon of war used.

■Many Christian women converted to Islam to save their lives and some were raped and killed.

■Osman Ghazi started the Ottoman Empire, which gave Muslims political post and made it a religion of the state.

*IS NIGERIA/GHANA HEADING THE WAY OF TURKEY*

■Virtually all the mistakes the church in Turkey made, the Nigerian/Ghanaian church have made it.

■We are building Cathedrals at the expense of discipling men.

■Disunity amongst churches.

■Ethnicity in the church.

■Denominational rivalry, etc.

■Sharp division along doctrinal lines.

*MORE FACTS*

■The spiritual foundation of Turkey is stronger than that of Nigeria/ Ghana and Christianity existed for over 1000yrs in Turkey unlike ours, which is just 172yrs, but Islam Radicalism uprooted it. If it happened in Turkey, it can also happen in Nigeria/Ghana if we are not careful.

■The menace of Boko Haram has destroyed many churches in the Northern Nigeria, and it may take another 200yrs to evangelize Borno State alone.

■There is a secret agenda to Islamize Nigeria and other African nations as contained in Abuja declaration of 1989.

*DON’T SAY IT CANNOT HAPPEN HERE, IF WE DON’T RIGHT OUR WRONGS AS A CHURCH*

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THE ROOTS OF EUROPEAN RACISM

The roots of European racism lie in the slave trade, colonialism – and Edward Long. Ideas of Africans as inferior, backwards and barbaric can be traced back to those justifying slavery in the 18th century. And the stereotypes still cast a shadow over the continent. This future-facing philosophy is an admirable attempt to free the spirit and imagination of the continent from the weight of its own history and the legacies of colonialism. While there is much to commend this apparent pragmatism it is, perhaps, more viable in Lagos and Kinshasa than in London or Paris. Europe’s image of Africa, although changing fast, is too firmly tethered to history to be easily or quickly recalibrated. To historians, who inevitably take the long view, the modern relationship between Europe and Africa is merely the current chapter in an enormous book. For much of the period from the 15th century till now, during which Europeans and Africans have been connected through trade, empire and migration, both forced and voluntary, Europe has viewed the people of Africa through the distorting veil of racism and racial theory. In the British case much of the jumble of stereotypes, pseudo-science and wild conjecture that coalesced to form racism arose from the political battles fought over the slave trade and slavery, during the last decades of the 18th century and the first decades of the 19th. The men who set out to defend slavery assembled a vast arsenal of new claims and old theories about black people, which they then codified, refined and disseminated through books, pamphlets, cartoons and speeches.

Racial ideas were aimed at Africans in their home continent, as well as at those in bondage in the New World. That propaganda campaign, along with the institution of British slavery itself, was ultimately defeated by the moral energy of the abolitionist campaign, and by the determination of the slaves of the Caribbean to resist their enslavement, yet the ideas about the nature of African peoples and the cultures of Africa that had been marshalled by the pro-slavery lobby lived on. Some, in subtler forms, are still with us today. Recent debates about slavery in Britain and the United States have understandably focused on the toxic legacies those systems bequeathed to the black peoples of the Caribbean and the US, the descendants of the slaves. What is sometimes overlooked is that the racial ideas of the pro-slavery lobby were also aimed at Africans in their home continent. The impact of Atlantic slavery on Africa can be measured not just in terms of underdevelopment and depopulation, but also in the way in which the continent came to be imagined in Europe in the post-slavery era, during which all but two of Africa’s nations were colonised by the competing European powers.

A man who never set foot on African soil wrote the book that, arguably, did the most to disseminate racial ideas about Africans. Edward Long was a slave owner and the son of a slave owner, his family having been in Jamaica since the middle of the 17th century. His ideas about black people and Africa were widely accepted as being rigorous and scientific, although Long had no scientific training. The book that made him famous, his History of Jamaica (1774), was not a history book but rather a strange hybrid; part travel guide, part discussion of British colonial rule and economics in the Caribbean, and part political score-settling. But it is also the classic text of 18th-century European pseudo-scientific racism. Its key sections are Long’s vitriolic denouncements of Africans as irredeemably inferior and perhaps not even human. Despite his obvious self-interest, the fact that he had spent 12 years in the Caribbean gave Long’s views a supposed authority that goes some way to explaining why his ideas had such longevity.

Though lacking any first-hand experience, he dismissed the continent as backwards, concluding that it was the source of everything that is monstrous in nature. Long’s racism was flexible enough to make the transition from being a defence of slavery to a justification for colonialism: he was a vital strand in the connective tissue that links the history of slavery to that of colonialism. Echoes of Long’s most venomous passages can be heard in books written by men of later generations who did venture to Africa; their views of the African societies they encountered were contaminated by Long and other racial theorists before their ships had even landed. Of the many ideas and theories that seeped out of the debates around slavery, the one that still casts a shadow over the image of Africa is the notion that tyranny, war and chaos are the natural condition of the continent. Long asserted that Africa was so barbaric and chaotic that Africans were better off as slaves, since slavery saved them from the worse fates that, he claimed, would otherwise have consumed them in their homelands. That idea was generated by men who were attempting to justify their trade in human beings, yet today there are still well-meaning, progressive-minded people, in Europe and in Africa, who speculate as to whether democracy, the rule of law and human rights can ever properly take root in Africa. Such views are testimony to the power of history and the potency of the race idea.

Lecture

AFRICA AND THE WORLD

WHAT AFRICA NEEDS IS AN ORGANIZED DIASPRA

IF, WORLD BANK all other institutions they make African countries jump through roofs. They know that we will never going to pay. The U.S borrows money with 1.5, 1.4 interest rate. Africans when they get the same amount of money and they are paying 9 or 10 percent. The people who a brake does not need get the brake and the people that need it don’t get it. The share survival of WB and IMF is because African countries and many other developing countries do not succeed. Their success is based on our failure that is to change. The change has to come from us Africans. We have to say that we know your game now, enough is enough, we are not playing it anymore and this is where the Diaspora comes in. There are more Ghanaians doctors in New York than in Ghana, there are more Nigerian doctors in LA than in Nigeria. What Africans need is capacity and that capacity is in the Diaspora, so we need to bring that Diaspora together so that they will understand what is going on in Africa. Diaspora’s are not going home because they do not understand the root cause of why Africa is this way today. They think that getting rid of our president will be the solution of our problem far from it. That president is going to be replaced by another one, who is going to suffer from the same difficulty environment working. So let us look at the Africa that must be free to take care of herself, that Africa that is free from exploitation from outside.

The multinationals that are stealing from Africa in broad day light, I use an example of the DRC, if you ever fly very low of the DRC, you see their planes picking minerals and flying right out. The same malty nationals are responsible for arming the youths and given them MK-16 because their satellites in the sky are telling them where the village is, there are lots of diamonds, so what do they do, arm young people, drag them up and send them to go and cut-off a few heads, the rest of the village is on the way to enable them continue to do their illegal manning. What they are saying is that Africans are killing each other, this is their game plan and these games have been played for far too long. And once we understand that, we can strategies and bring the change Africa needs and that change can only come if the Africans in the Diaspora are united. It is our organize way of saying starting with one African Diaspora set of excellence, it will be a new city, a development of hub that we can now take from there every sector is developed, take health care, how many doctors do we need in this region to take care of this many people, we pick up education, same thing, we pick up engineering, we pick up electricity how many megawatts do we need, be it solar, be it wind, be it hydro be it nuclear.

Dr Arikana Chihombori--Quao. Former AU ambassador to the US.

HOW THE WEST LEAD TO IMPROVISHED AFRICA?

In recent years, attention has been drawn to the extreme poverty that exists in many African nations. Globalization has only exuberated the gap between the Western world and developing countries; nations such as the US, and Britain continue to grow, while progress in these the third world are virtually stagnating. The unstable political and economic systems that led to the extreme poverty these African nations face are a result of Africa’s long and corrupt history, starting with colonization of Africa by the west. The colonization of Africa led to the formation of independent African states. This division led to corrupt governments, exploitation of natural resources, and a lack of economic development In the coup of Liberian president Samuel Doe, the rebel forces were paid millions of dollars by Firestone to help protect their interests during the transition of power. This led to the rise of power of Charles Taylor and started the First Liberian Civil War. Big business, like Firestone, tends to corrupt Africa’s political systems. Some government official even extorts money from the government leading to a lack of development economically in many African countries.

Mobutu is a prime example of western influence that led to extreme corruption and poverty in the nation of Zaire. Joseph-Désiré Mobutu came into power of Zaire in 1965 by staging a coup of the government with support from the US, as well as other western European countries. Mobutu continued to dictate over the country for 35 more years managing to steal a third of the countries revenue and continue to steal money even when Zaire was at the brink of collapse. Mobutu was unconcerned with the betterment of his nation and that almost led to Zaire’s fall. However, Africa is full of natural resources due to this kind of corruption many African nations are studded in their economic and political growth and still lack a sufficient infrastructure, education, and healthcare system. Without these necessities, it is impossible to keep Africans out of colonialism. Corruption that has led to an impoverished Africa. Despite the excess of natural resource and indefinite potential Africa continues to be poorest continent in the world. One in three people who live in sub Saharan African are undernourished, less than 20% of women have access to education and 83% of the world’s refugees reside in Africa. The underdevelopment of Africa is on the backs of not only the corrpt African leaders but the western societies that funded them and the big business that raped Africa of its resources with nothing to show for.

Lecture

ASABA MASSACRE IN BIAFRA LAND

More than five thousand people were murdered in Asaba Delta state by the machine gun supplied by the British government, from soldiers of the second division led by Muritala Mohamed but the person who carried the operation was no other person than Ibrahim Taiwo, a Yoruba man. They lined up every able man in Asaba was killed in one single day. That meant that our mothers were left without sons, and our wives were made widows. This operation took place in assembled the whole town and separated the boys from the man. Anywhere they went, they called the men to come out, that the war was ended, at the end, the men will be lined up and the genocide would c ommence. The Europeans and the Americans will not talk about it. After the Jews massacre by Hitler, this was the second holocaust committed and the world will not talk about it, instead the massacre in Ruwanda and Rubinga is what the world is talking about. This massacre that took place was designed by Britain that this race must be wiped out from the face of the earth. General Ironsi paid with his life while Azikiwe was disgraced into the office of Governor General and later became a ceremonial President. If you reflect of what happened in Asaba, you will understand how much Nigerians hate the Igbo race. That is why when