Peter Ayemoba, 50, of New Golden Prime Street, Rafin-Sanyi in the Suleja Local Government Area of Niger State was recently arrested by the state police command after a complaint by his relation that he was sleeping with his two daughters who are now 22 and 20 years old. He admits to ENYIOHA OPARA that he has been sleeping with his daughters since they were 15 and 13 years old respectively
You were arrested for sleeping with your daughters, for how long did that happen before your arrest?

I started sleeping with my daughters seven years ago; I lost my wife in 2013, a situation that made me to start sleeping with my daughters. The death of my wife got me confused that I don’t even know when I started sleeping with my daughters. In fact, I don’t know what came over me. After my wife’s burial, I started having a deep affection for my daughters; I would go to their room and play with them until it metamorphosed into having sexual intercourse with them on a regular basis.

I was sleeping with them separately but with their consent and it continued until I was arrested. Honestly, I cannot explain how I could do that to my own daughters but there was a spirit that kept on telling me that I wasn’t the first man that slept with his daughter, so I should not worry too much about it.

When my daughters rejected my overtures, I normally told them that I wanted to be closer to them since their mother was dead; and at times, I threatened to kill them and commit suicide if I didn’t sleep with them. One day, I referred them to the Bible passage about how Lot had sex with her daughters and was not punished by God. I told them intercourse between father and daughter was normal and in the Bible.

Were you having sexual intercourse with them for ritual purposes?

God knows I will never use my daughters or any of my children for ritual purposes; any father that does that is subhuman and evil. So, I will not do that. I am a father of six children – two daughters and four sons. I love them so much that I cannot harm them, let alone use them for rituals. The internal source of wisdom would never forgive me if I do that.

Just as I said, the death of my wife got me devastated to the point that I didn’t know what I was doing. What I suspect is that somebody must have placed a curse on me because what I did for seven years is not normal, to be frank. What I did after my wife died was to bond with my children and they became closer to me until gradually, I started sleeping with the girls, but it was not for ritual purposes.

Did you not marry after the death of your wife?

Yes, I got married few years after my wife died. My daughters forced me to remarry so I could satisfy my sexual urge because my actions were abominable.

Despite that, I still made love to them at the slightest opportunity or when my new wife was not at home. It went on like that until I was arrested by the police. It is quite unfortunate. Honestly, what is happening to me is not normal; I need to sort myself out, either physically or metaphysically so that I will have peace of mind.

Considering what you did to your daughters, do you see yourself as a responsible father?

It shows that I am an irresponsible father to the core. Do you know that people have been asking me if they are truly my biological daughters? I don’t know what made me have sex with my biological daughters for seven years repeatedly. I deserve any punishment meted out to me as far as this case is concerned. I suspect that somebody wants to destroy me.

How many times did your daughters abort your babies during the seven years?

Honestly, I don’t know. Moreover, I don’t follow them around. I’m surprise none of them conceived after several years of having sex with them. It beats my imagination but girls of these days are something else when it comes to that. Again, I’m really surprised; they might have been taking drugs in order not to put the family to shame.

Was your second wife aware that you were sleeping with your daughters?

She was not aware because it was a secret between me and my daughters. Nobody knew about it until it was reported to the police. Their stepmother did not bond with them; she was treating them like strangers and because of that, they were not close enough to discuss matters like this.

Now that your wife knows you were sleeping with your daughters, is she planning to divorce you?

Definitely, I need not be told that she will leave me. She was sharing me with my daughters; I don’t think she will accept that. I’m sure she would have moved out of the house by now. The worst offence you can commit against a woman is sleeping around, let alone sleep with your daughters. It is a mortal sin that would never be forgiven. I think I have insulted human race and I’m ruined.

Did your four boys know you were sleeping with their sisters?

My daughters are older than my sons but I don’t think they knew, otherwise they would have confronted me. As I said earlier, it was a secret between me and my daughters and now that they know, I’m sure they will not like to have anything to do with me again. I don’t think I will step into my house again; it was the work of the devil. I think I wrote a letter to the devil and he replied me by making me to sleep with my daughters. It is unbelievable.

Did you hypnotise your daughters so you could sleep with them at will?

No, I did not. I bonded with them for years and they believed what I told them about having sex with me so I could not have hypnotised them. They voluntarily and willingly accepted to be having sex with me anytime I demanded it. What baffles me is that over the years that we were having sex, we were happy, but all of a sudden, they reported the matter to a family member who brought us to where we are (police station). Maybe my cup was full so the law should take its course; I am ready for any eventualities.

Do you think your family and community will ever forgive you?

It is a difficult question to answer, but the truth of the matter is that I will be banished. I’m from Agenebode village in Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State and I own a block industry in Suleja, Niger State. My people will kill me if I travel to my village; they will not accept me and they will not forgive me because what I have done is an abomination to the gods of our land. -PUNCH

By Sola Omoniyi Omoyajowo

Action proves who someone is, words just prove who they pretend to be…

It has never been recorded that mere words and promises kept a a relationship.

But action serves as a fertile land where LOVE and Marriage germinate.

If someone is really into you, you don’t have to keep begging for calls, text, or to spend time, the person will do it if you’re a priority.. It just flow naturally. Forced love is not love. If it takes only you to tango, then you’re in the wrong place. You can’t be in a relationship and be dating yourself. Love is a place of solace, not a place of hurt.

You struggle in a relationship, when purpose is fake..

Because every serious date will eliminate fear, doubt, confusion and stagnation…

You don’t remind a serious minded man ” when are you coming to see my parents, what are we doing or Where is the relationship leading us to?

No! When purpose is real; marriage becomes a priority.

The best thing to spend on your relationship is ” Time” If you can’t invest your time, you can’t grow your relationship.

When One Is Really Into You

~ Whosoever you’re begging for attention and care is not dating you.

~ If he/ she doesn’t invest time and attention, he/she doesn’t have plans for the future..

~ If his words does not correspond with his actions, he remains fake..

~ if the foundation is built on lies, such relationship can’t stand the test of time..

~ If there is no care/ giving, such relationship should be questioned..

~ If your zeal to build your relationship is taken for desperation…
( There is no future with the person)

• No matter how you pet a heart that’s not ready, you will remain a nagging woman..

~ If you’re begging for communication; you’re dating who is not dating you..

If you beg for love, you will also need constant begging to maintain it.

Be mindful of who you invest your time and resources on..

When someone treats you like an option, kindly remove yourself from the equation.

When someone is not into you, don’t force it to work. The wrong person will make you feel like you’re asking for too much. No matter how good your intentions are, the wrong person will always make you feel like you’re the problem. The wrong person will make you question your worth. The signs are always there, do not let emotions blind you. If the relationship is not working, don’t be the last person to leave.

Love is wise!!!

Who Do We Trust Again As Killer Of Uwa Confessed That He was Sent By A Pastor?

What is happening now in Nigeria is so heart wrenching as no one could be trusted. We have heard the story of a boyfriend who organized his gang to killed his girlfriend for ritualistic purpose.

Earlier this year a certain young man was set ablaze at Ibadan for killing his bosom friend for ritual purpose.

At Akure in a certain church called sotitobire, a little boy was killed for ritualistic purposes right in the church, Nigeria as turned to something else and everyone is now scared to trust somebody.

So was the story of a young Nigeria lady named Uwa, she was a student of microbiology at the University of Benin, about for days ago she was murdered in a church while she was reading.

Her death has caused great confusion in Benin-city, but due to the help of the Nigerian assiduous policemen who swung into action, the culprit was apprehended about a day ago.

What now jarred our sensibility about this case was that the culprit has confessed the person that sent him to kill the deceased, and we were amazed to know that it was the pastor of the church who sent him to do the evil act.

According to Peter Kalusky who happened to be a member of the Dss who arrested the culprit, said the culprit as confessed without hiding anything for them

Peter Kalusky, revealed that the suspect who he referred to as Chibuzor, has fingered the pastor, in connection with the crime.

Here’s the account of what Peter Kalusky tweeted;

“He Said the Pastor Paid him to Do it. We Suspect the Pastor wanted to make his Church Famous. We suspect the Pastor wanted his Church to Trend. The Pastor set young Girl up. Police are going to pick the Pastor up, Federal Government will take over the Church building soon.

“Miss Uwa, may she Rest In Peace was clearly set up. Chibuozor said he was offered N1 Million last two weeks, but then the money was later increased to #1.5m”

Now that the secret has been revealed who are we to trust?

The pastors are not to trust again as all sorts of evil are found in their hands.

Most prison in Nigeria now is full of criminals in which Muslims marabouts and pastors are half of the inmates because they are have been involved in one crime or the other.

Who do we trust in Nigerians?

It has now become a problem for you to carry your problems to your pastor because he will never give you the best advice.

Many marriages have scattered because of the evil influences of the evil pastors out there.

I know God will make Nigeria great but all these evil pastors should not go scot-free Nigeria Government should also stop to jail them, whoever kills should be killed in return.

Kola Olawuyi, The Investigative Journalist Who Exposed Reverend King

Today, I remember and pay tribute to Kola Olawuyi, one of the best investigative journalists that lived in this country and a figure that loomed large when I was growing up.

When Kola Olawuyi died in 2007 at the age of 44, I knew quite a few people that shed tears. My mother was one of them. The man once ruled the airwaves with his Iriri Aye radio program that I grew up to.

When it’s 8pm on Fridays in the South West, it’s normal to see a lot of people huddled up around radio sets in street corners, homes and electricians’ workshops as they listened to Kola Olawuyi’s program. It was a weekly ritual we grew up to.

Kola Olawuyi was larger than life. The number of cases he tracked down and brought to life have not been done by anyone else around here since his death.

No one has had that kind of confidence since. Reverend King’s case was brought to light by him. Churches whose owners buried people alive in their buildings as rituals to draw crowd.

A lot of cases of abused children and people claiming to be witches to hurt others. Aja ile (underground killing houses) stories where kidnappers’ dens were raided by him and brought to light.

Blood ritual killings and ritualists in the south west. Heck, there was a woman called Malaika that said she was God and created everyone and could do what she liked with anyone until Kola Olawuyi dragged her to light, and more.

The man was fearless and appeared unstoppable. Listening to him was scary and exciting.

On one hand you admired his courage. On the other, you feared for his life. It wasn’t surprising then that when he died, a lot of people’s default setting was “Oh, they got him finally.”

Perhaps even he had that thought at the back of his mind, hence, at the end of every show, he’d always say: “Aa ma be obe nii besu, atelese a bena wo. Eni ba ni a ma bo nikan lawa o ni de ba nle” (loosely translated: we’ll always go out to work. It’s those that don’t want us to return that we won’t meet when we return).

His life was a mystery too. Even though he was a member of the Redeemed Church, the number of occultic cases and ritual killers he too

By

Sola Omoniyi Omoyajowo

This might be a little cozy, but I have a feeling a lot of people out here needs to hear this;
When you meet a soulmate, you don’t need anyone to convince you that true love exist.

However, if you want to experience true love, don’t Lean on emotions and words rather face reality.

It takes a strong person to keep a long distant relationship, a strong, disciplined and sold out to Jesus person, because this ministry is not for babies at all, there are just too many selfless sacrifices to be made. But before I go further I want you to know that Distance isn’t a big factor in a relationship, communication is. But most of all, commitment is the most important one.

For instance, you cannot be in a long distant relationship and lack the spirit of communication, unless you just want to waste your time and the precious time of your partner, valuable time that you both would have used to learn entrepreneurship skills 😀.

Communication is everything over the miles. It is the real definition of love in a long distant relationship. You must love talking by force. You must love calling. You must love texting. Simply put, you’ve got to be baptized in the art of calling, texting and chatting, else the relationship cannot be sustained. Right next to this is also the spirit of listening. And this is even the difficult part. Since you cannot see each other face to face to read body language and observe their expressions, you have to be gifted in reading between the lines of their every word, carefully paying attention to the full stops and commas, pauses and breaks, including the ability to descern when something is bothering them and when they need more attention. Boyy it’s a difficult job, to fully understand and relate with another person through the thin threads of a telephone.

But more importantly, you need the annointing of patience and discipline in other for you two to pull it through…

Some nights you are going to need trust to love your partner the next day.

Some nights you are going to need self discipline to stay faithful the next day.

Some nights you are going to need a whole lot of patience to keep starving yourself in other to stay committed the next day. I know here you understand what I mean. A whole lot of patience to say no to a harmless happy hour.

Then, the boss of them all, you are going to need to make a lot of financial commitments. It is not a choice, this one is compulsory. Whoever said that love don’t cost a thing had no idea what he was talking about. “For God so love the world that He GAVE …” You have to really be a giver;
Your time,
energy,
Mental resource,
Prayers,
money,
money,
Money,
More money,
And again I say, money.

The calls and text messages are not going to take care of itself, would it? You’ve got to buy airtime credits, and stay talking on the phone for long. Normally you will feel no pressure when your data subscription expires, but when you have a baby, you cannot be comfortable without data for a day, cos you know how much social media helps you two stay in touch. The sacrifices required in a distant relationship are not for babes, you just know you cannot invest this much on something you are not ready to see through to marriage.

How about giftings? Father Christmas will not send him gifts for you. You have to save up to put up love suprises for your partner. Depriving yourself of your pleasures, to make sure you do what you have to do.

Did I mention how extremely creative you have to be with your romance? You know you cannot say I love you the same way you said it last month? In fact, you can both be calling each other and talking on the phone everyday for hours and still not be communicating anything. This ship is just so, hmmm, halleluyah.

Lastly, I want you to know that it is not distance that break relationship. It is not distance that make partners cheat. It is lack of emotional maturity, commitment and discipline. Every relationship is a risk, no one knows the one that will be successful but two committed partners can share one umbrella and weather the storm together.
This is my take!

Here are some of the news that you should not miss this morning:

1. Police lament absence of COVID-19 job allowance, face masks, others
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2. LASG gives conditions to reopen churches, mosques, others
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3. FIRS chair ignores Buhari’s directive, retires nine directors
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4. Pastors fined N5,000, bag three-hour community service
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5. Five nabbed for beating Ogun peacemaker to death
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6. Oyo shuts company where 30 workers tested positive
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7. CBN naira defence depletes foreign reserves by $3.17bn
   bit.ly/2X6dttJ
8. FG impounds British aircraft in Lagos, begins investigation
   https://bit.ly/2ABkEm1
9. We have paid FG $13bn for gas purchase – NLNG
   https://bit.ly/3bFkoiL
10. Family accuses DPO of shooting policeman dead
    https://bit.ly/3fYBrQi

With the appointment of Ibrahim Gambari as General Buhari’s new Chief of Staff, sycophants have gone into overdrive. They are falling over themselves to praise him in terms so annoyingly untrue and underserving.

I am not surprised. It is after all the Nigerian way. Our peculiar brand of politics is powered by stomach infrastructure.

However, I will not sit and watch these desperate carpetbaggers pass off Mr. Gambari as some wunderkind. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Mr. Gambari is anything but competent. Yes, due to his ethnicity (Fulani) and his family name (he comes from the Gambari ruling Fulani house of Ilorin), Ibrahim Gambari enjoyed a rapid rise through Nigeria’s civil service.

The truth, however, is that, like his kinsman, Buhari, he owes his rise not to merit, but to the nepotism and the favouritism that has given priority access to people of his pedigree, above and beyond other Nigerians of equal or much better qualifications.

Mr. Gambari’s clay feet was exposed by no less a personality than the erudite and cerebral Ms. Condoleeza Rice, who was then the US Secretary of State under President George W Bush.

The then United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki Moon, had sent Mr. Gambari, who had filled Nigeria’s quota as Undersecretary of the United Nations (for Political Affairs) to Burma (now known as Myanmar) as a special envoy.

Mr. Gambari so screwed up that mission that the US demanded his “dismissal” for his ‘embarrassing’ and ineffective handling of the job. This is contained in a leaked WikiLeaks cable.

Quoting the Guardian of UK, “The US was also disappointed with the UN special envoy to Burma, Ibrahim Gambari and the cables reveal how the then US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, ordered the US mission at the UN to work for his removal”.

The US was so concerned about Mr. Ibrahim Gambari’s inappropriate claims that they stopped just short of calling him a liar.

Miss Rice, in the cable, called on Mr. Ban Ki Moon to “dismiss” Mr. Gambari, while saying that this “should occur as soon as practical.”

“We have no wish to embarrass Mr Gambari and have no intent to link any removal with a lack of progress in Burma, but we would ask that you find a way to terminate gracefully his participation in this particular mission,” Rice wrote.

Shortly after Ms Rice’s cable, Mr. Gambari was removed and after that sidelined at the United Nations. And this is the man that they are dusting up and selling as the next best thing after sliced bread?

To show you how naive and narcissistic Mr. Gambari is, he later gave an interview and claimed that the US ‘plot’ to remove him failed, because he was given a bigger office.

His exact words were “’I was simply re-assigned to a bigger and more sensitive post where I currently serve.”

That someone could be so gullible and naive is not the point. The issue is that despite his hubris, this fellow has been elevated to perhaps the most important office in Nigeria, other than the office of the President.

If you read the WikiLeaks cable, and I encourage you to read it, you will see that Ms. Rice suggested for Mr. Ban Ki Moon that rather than embarrass Mr. Gambari, he should simply be reassigned to another less sensitive office. In other words, that he should be promoted into obscurity, where he would no longer be able to embarrass either himself or the United Nations.

I sincerely urge my readers to research these issues I have raised (they are in the public domain). Do not take my words for it.

However; this is only just one side of the Gambari saga. The other is that his appointment further betrays General Buhari’s nepotistic tendencies. I love Fulanis, and as a bachelor, I dated Fulanis, I almost married one. My wife could be mistaken for a pure and thoroughbred Fulani because of her nationality. My only interest here is equity.

General Buhari appointed Ibrahim Gambari, a 75-year-old Northern Nigerian Muslim (a Fulani from Kwara. NOT Yoruba, as erroneously ascribed in the media by Buhari’s paid professional disinformers) as Chief of Staff.

Already, the heads of the Executive, Legislature, Judiciary, Defence, Army, Police, NSA, DSS, NIA, DMI, DIA, NPS, NCS, NIS, and EFCC all Northern Muslim men. This is against the Federal Character Act.

The question I ask is this: Is Nigeria a Muslim Brotherhood?

Some may see the name, Agboola, and assume, incorrectly, that Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, is a Yoruba. Not so.

Ibrahim Agboola Gambari is Fulani. The Fulani of Ilorin have a long established tradition of bearing Yoruba names. However, that does not make them Yoruba. For example, Olusola Saraki was Fulani. Read his words below.

“My great-great grandfather originated from Mali and I am talking about some 150 to 200 years ago. And they are Fulani.”

As a matter of fact, Ibrahim Agboola Sulu-Gambari (the full name) is from the Sulu-Gambari Fulani lineage that traces its origin to Alimi, the Fulani scholar that overthrew Afonja and installed himself and his heirs as Emirs in Ilorin, a previously Yoruba town.

Even the current Fulani Emir of Ilorin has a Yoruba middle name. His full name is Alhaji Ibrahim KOLAPO Sulu Gambari. He is not Yoruba. He is Fulani, like Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, who is his uncle, (not his brother as some reported)

The Fulani practice of adopting local names and culture into theirs is a commendable policy that the Romans practised before them. After defeating the Greeks, the Romans adopted Greek names, gods, and practices. It will stun many people to note that some so called ‘Christian’ doctrines, practices and holidays are actually of Greek origin, and imposed on Christendom by the Roman Catholic Church. But that is a story for another day. Today, we focus on Gambari and Buhari.

Also:

• General Buhari is 77 (head of the executive)
• Justice Tanko is 66 (head of the judiciary)
• Ahmed Lawan is 61 (head of the legislature)
• The average age of Buhari’s ministers is 55
• The minister of youth is 54

Yet, Buhari appoints a 75-year-old his Chief of Staff. This is even as 60% of Nigeria’s population is below 30.

On a lighter note, I commend General Buhari for being a listening leader!

We complained of Abba Kyari’s age (67), and General Buhari heard us and improved on the age by appointing a 75-year-old to succeed a 67-year-old!

In Buhari’s Nigeria, the young die so that the old may live!

‪It is a case of the closer you are to the grave, the closer you are to power. Our youths now study history in our leaders, not in our schools! Nigeria is fragile because she is young, while her leadership is fragile because it is old! ‬

Is it that General Buhari used the popular Ancient and Modern hymn book in school, but he only memorised the ancient part. That is why he keeps appointing ancient ancestors in a modern world to govern a nation with a youth bulge!

Even Buhari’s minister for youths, Sunday Dare, was born in 1966. He is 54 years old. That is what youth means to Buhari! Anyone below the age of 70 is a youth in General Buhari’s eyes. That is why he called Osinbajo ‘my son’!

Is Nigeria a gerontocracy (government by the aged)? Is Buhari addicted to only aged men like him? What is happening here? This appointment is wrong on every level!

Surely, Nigeria can have a more representative government than this. Thank God I am not Igbo, so when I talk about the marginalisation of the Igbos and other minorities, no one can point a ginger of self-interest at me.

Let me just cite an example of how this administration shows its brazen anti-Igbo agenda.

The Presidential Task Force on COVID19 released a statement stating that President Buhari personally ordered them to import the Madagascan homeopathic coronavirus cure for trials in Nigeria.

Well, that sounds tickety-boo on the surface. But I encourage my readers to delve beyond the surface.

Why would the regime of General Buhari import the herbal coronavirus alleged cure from Madagascar, without first trying out Professor Maurice Iwu’s cure? Doesn’t charity begin at home anymore? Or does charity only begin at home for the likes of Ibrahim Gambari and not for people with names like Maurice Iwu? Is it because Iwu is an Igbo 5 percenter? Is it a sin to be an Igbo man in General Buhari’s Nigeria?

The man, Iwu, has said that General Buhari’s government has not even shown an interest in his cure, talk less of contacting him. Yet, the Buhari government can fly 3,300 miles to Madagascar to import their herbs! I repeat, is it a sin to be Igbo in Nigeria?

If this is how we want to treat them, then perhaps, like Pharaoh, we should let them go. We cannot continue to make Nigeria inhospitable for them and make it inescapable to them at the same time. We must choose one. We either make Nigeria hospitals to Igbos, or we make Nigeria escapable for them.

Not a single Igbo in the leadership of the

• Executive
• Legislature
• Judiciary
• Military
• Paramilitary
• Civil service

And these are the institutions upon which nations are founded. Yet, bootlickers like Oby Ezekwesili and Rotimi Amaechi won’t ask their masters’ question. It takes a non-Igbo like me to ask of it is a crime to be Igbo in Nigeria?

Oh, by the way, here is what Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, said about Ibrahim Gambari on July 12, 2008:

“When you are we on a slave’s errand, do it as a freeborn”, another Yoruba saying. Gambari enslaved himself to please his paymasters. Now, 13 years later, the shackles are still tied round his neck, threatening to asphyxiate him. Bootlicking grovellers fail to learn. Old sins have long shadows.”

Today, Femi is the one BOOTLICKING the Gambari he called a BOOTLICKER!

Sad! May I never be in a position where I have to lose my soul to gain the world, in Christ’s name!

Reno’s Nuggets

I have been a presidential spokesperson. I have exchanged calls and texts with Presidents, Vice Presidents and other VIPs. Take it from me. No one is ever too busy to take your call or respond to your text. You are just not important enough to them. I can prove to you that that person who has not responded to your call or text is not too busy, and is only ignoring you because you are not a priority. Send them a text saying someone mistakenly credited you with $10,000 that was meant for them. They won’t text back. They will call you in 2 seconds!

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Reno Omokri

Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Avid traveller. Hollywood Magazine Film Festival Humanitarian of the Year, 2019.

Ibrahim Gambari is a Buhari/Abacha/Babangida’s collaborator who has just been named as Chief of staff in replacement for Abba Kyari

If the Abacha repressive regime were a soccer team, Professor Ibrahim Gambari would be one of the “1st eleven players” or at least a quarter back on the reserve bench in the government squad.Though Abacha didn’t play soccer, he certainly sat on a killer squad that faced down members of the opposition-all lovers of democracy, and ordinary Nigerians in and out of Nigeria-while his bestial reign lasted.

Professor Ibrahim Gambari, who some people claim is an intelligent man, used his ‘intelligence’ to defend the draconain policies of the Abacha regime while he was Nigeria’s Permanent Representative at the United Nations. He was one of Abacha’s equivalents of the “goebel” representing the infamous dictator with a vigor and a propensity that could only be found in fascist Italy of old. He was once quoted as saying, “Nigerians don’t need democracy because democracy is not food. It is not their priority now.” As more pressure mounted on the Abacha regime from all corners of the world, Professor Gambari became more notorious and ruthless in defending and deflecting attacks against Abacha dictatorship.

I remember his many appearances on cable news channels, especially after Abacha murdered environmentalists and author, Ken Saro-Wiwa following what can be described as a kangaroo trial. Professor Gambari stoically denied that the Abacha regime had committed a crime; he labeled Saro-Wiwa a “common criminal” who had engaged in the murder of some Ogoni elders. It was Gambari and Tom Ikimi who went all over the world to convince and blackmail governments of nations opposed to the killing of Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 8. They tried in vain to convince the governments of some countries, but it was also clear that they may have succeeded in blackmailing some countries into silence or acquiscence. There are claims that Professor Ibrahim Gambari had access to the Nigerian treasury; he had limitless resources to do what ever he wanted in the name of protecting the Abacha regime.

After the demise of Abacha, his other co-dictators and collaborators were put in their place: Call it the Nigerian Hall of Shame. Professor Ibrahim Gambari has not been touched, he has not been called to account. Unlike the Useni’s, Mustapha, and Gwarzo, he did not appear before the hapless “Oputa Panel” to explain his ignominious role. Instead he was elevated by Kofi Annan, the United Nations Secretary-General, to the position of Under-Secretary and Special Adviser on Africa at the UN. The reasons are not far-fetched. Kofi Annan wasn’t too keen on democratization efforts in Nigeria; he was already in cohorts with the Abacha regime through his son, Kodjo, who was involved in the oil business in Nigeria. Kodjolives a life of opulence in Lagos. There had been rumors Gambari was the link between Abacha, Annan and their businesses.

Even after the death of Abacha, Kofi Annan’s visits to Nigeria were primarily to prevail on Chief M.K.O Abiola to forget about his June 12 mandate. He didn’t care about Abiola’s freedom so he quietly went to meet him in jail and asked him to ‘fuggetabutit.’ It is a known fact that Prof. Gambari had briefed Annan adequately about the real deal.

20 YEARS AFTER, YOUR MEMORY LIVES ON ADEBISI ADEJOLA

It’s 20 years since you departed this world to the great beyond and it got me thinking and remembering back to my late father and how we also shared a lot of bonding through his life time philosophy, farming and teaching career.

I knew the pain of losing my dad will perhaps never leave me. I imagine it will ease with time and I process and get through it, but I don’t suspect I will get over it. How can I? How can i get over a person who has been there since before I was even aware of myself?

The life of my dad, his influence, his energy is inextricably linked to mine and I now take comfort in that. I take comfort in knowing that my dad is no longer in pain. That suffering is no longer something he has to endure.

My dad, Adebisi Adejola will forever be in my heart until the day it stops breathing and I am grateful that I am becoming a more fully realized human being, a more caring, compassionate, and empathetic person because of my dad. Still, I would forfeit any wisdom for the sake of having him back.

I lost my dad on 8th May, 2000 as a teen but I am fully aware that I lost you only in body, not in the spirit. This is by far the most painful and heart-breaking, heart-ripping and life-altering experience I have endured even as a teen but I do my best to remain grateful and comforted knowing how much my beloved dad positively affected the lives of others.

He was the most sincerely altruistic person I have ever known with no attachment to material things – he would literarily give you the clothes he was wearing. All you had to do was mention you liked something and he would immediately insist on giving it to you.

How many times did I have to tell my dad, “No, I don’t need anything, Dad, I am good, Keep it for yourself.”

My dad loved to dance, farm and loved to make people laugh. All he ever wanted to do was make other people feel comfortable and make sure they were not feeling left out. I know it’s because he knew what it was like to feel left out.

My dad left an impact on every person he met even as a church steward, even strangers (who didn’t stay strangers very long because he was just so damn friendly). The love my dad spread on this earth continues to grow and will live on, and that is the ultimate measure of my human being.

Exactly this day twenty years ago, he passed on even when he was planning to do his house fencing and called on the contactor and slumped while he was handing over the money meant for his house fencing, we pour water on him to revive his soul and with immediate effect rushed him to the nearest hospital for comprehensive medical attention but all efforts were lost as my bad said goodbye to this world before getting to the hospital.

Even though I knew something was wrong with him the moment he looked at my face when I visited him during school break time the same day he left.

He said, “son, make sure you abide by my teaching and outshine my person, live life as simple as you could, don’t get too attached with material things and see rendering assistance and making people smile your life philosophy.”

He added, “be the light unto the world and pursue anything that you feel comfortably attached to as there lies your honor.”

But as a teenager, I don’t know it would come so soon. I was hoping I would have more time to get acquainted with the idea of death and what it means for those of us left behind.

Now, I am beginning to understand just how naïve my existence was before I was forced to comfort death’s discourteous blow.

Not only was my dad gone around 3:30pm on Monday 8th May, 2000, but a best friend, a mentor, and my hero. the man that would sit us down to watch NTA news at 4pm.

My dad ended up being my hero in life, and I am thankful that he was a good enough person for me to call him that. I am also grateful for every memory we shared, news related or not.

My only hope is that I can be as good person as him, so that I can get up to heaven, and see him again someday.

Dad, I know you are up in heaven and I love you and miss you very much and still think about you this day. I only hope you are very proud of your son, who is doing his best in life to keep your memory alive.

It’s been twenty years that you died, many would recall how good you were.

When you were alive, you were greatly celebrated. In death, how many of people can honor you?

At the flimsiest of excuses, many who benefited from your good deeds and benevolence have since abandoned your cause, how many people now remember that you had children? How many of those that you tutored and mentored now know what has become of your children?

They have become successful and have since moved on. In any case, your Children: Toyosi, Adebowale, Adebola, Adegbenga, Adeyemi, Adekemi, Adeseun and Adedamilola that you left at one and half year are not doing badly.

Adebisi, in appraising your life and death, I learned among other things that goods should be done for the sake of GOD and not for the beneficiaries because in one’s absence, not many of the beneficiaries of one’s kind gestures will remember them.

When I woke up this morning and meditated over the lessons of your life and time, I decided to let go and also hope that others might feel aggrieved for whatever reason, rightly or wrongly.

In the meantime, sleep on Adebisi omo Adebinu…

Adebisi Oooooooooo
Ijesa Modu Aponoda
Omo Eleni Ateka
Omo Eleni Ewele
Ijesa ki ri idi Isana
Ile ni eru baba wa ti mu ina r’oko
Ijesa Losin tolotolo,
Eru tiwa lo n sin pepeye
Omo Owa, Omo Ekun
Omo Olomi Meji Ajipon Ni isale odo
Okan Abumu, ekeji abuwu
Omo won ni idi aragba
Omo Adebimu orun re oooooooooooooooo