Owerri - THE Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) says it fully endorses the current attempt by Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State to flush thugs and miscreants out of the markets and parks, but the group says the crusade should not be an excuse to persecute innocent citizens who also happen to be members of the organization.
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A combination of negative factors was responsible for the current political scuffle between President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
The Establishment, which selected Obasanjo to handle the post-military transitional period, was not exactly motivated by wholesome intentions. The same sectional agenda that led to the annulment of the June 12 election won by Chief Moshood Abiola also informed the selection of Obasanjo when Abiola was murdered in prison. Obasanjo was meant to hold power for a very brief period of not more than four years and promptly return it to his sponsors. He was chosen because he could be "trusted" to deliver. He did it before.
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The first part of this essay was published in our last edition. Enjoy the concluding part today
THESE people will appear in a serene village, drag down anything on sight, spread themselves out in the village, with bullets heard falling on roofs. This is followed by continued outbursts of heavy gun fire amidst pointless smashing of things and rounding up of innocent people who manage to survive. They leave behind huge bonfires and wailings from the bereaved. Our parents in retirement usually want to shut themselves away from the noise of the city. Not anymore. They have to reckon with this madness. You can imagine how bad it is when you contemplate the deal old people in the Western countries get. Among my friends here is one whose apartment is associated with a prescribed form of speech modification. Reason is his neighbour's 90 year old mother whose nerves may no longer be able to absorb even normal rattling. In our case, all the tranquillity that nature gives to a village is upset. It is not as if our villages are unaccustomed to these intrusions by strangers. Forty y ears on, the leaves and insects have to tremble before the Nigerian Janjawids.
Lagos - There once lived an American business magnate named Randolph Hearst. Hearst was known to be a blunt brash fellow who used to call a spade a spade.Perhaps, he was being influenced by the enormous wealth he had made from his various business ventures, or maybe Hearst was just being his usual self.
Awka - The Nigerian Police yesterday announced the transfer of over 3000 officers and men serving in Anambra State, in response to a call by the state government
Addressing lawmakers at the State House of Assembly, Commissioner of Police, Mr John Haruna, said the transfer is with immediate effect, while replacements would be drawn from different parts of the country.
Bulldozers belonging to the Lagos State government are set to roar again as two other sub-standard buildings identified as belonging to the developer of the collapsed house at Ebute-Metta would soon be pulled down.
RESIDENTS of 51A Coates Street, Ebute-Metta Lagos - which also belongs to the developer of the building which collapsed in the area recently- were busy last Tuesday moving out their belongings from the building in compliance with a recent directive issued by State Ministry of Works.
Akwa - CHAIRMAN, Board of Trustees of All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke has faulted Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State on the handling of crisis in the state.
But the governor said, his government was on course in ridding the state of undesirable elements.
Lagos - Anambra indigenes in the United States have declared their support for Governor Peter Obi's actions to rid the state of hoodlums in Onitsha.
Speaking under the aegis of Anambra State Association, U.S.A (ASAUSA), the group, in a statement signed by its National President, Prince Jimmy Asiegbu, described Obi's action as a frontal confrontation aimed at ridding Onitsha and its environs of elements engaged in acts of public gangsterism and criminality against the peace, law and order of the "Anambra citizenry, and the orderly life and development of the state."
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Antwerp - since life itself is not static, the successes and failures in life are prone to changes. Leaders must watch the changes in their people, and be able to adapt the change process to implement dynamic stability. And that underlines the need for the Nigerian leadership to be mindful of the sensitivities of the post civil war generation. For leadership without conscience or high purpose is, at best, empty and, at worst, the deepest evil to scar the human story.
Awka - Police in Anambra State yesterday paraded 40 suspected members of Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and vowed to dislodge hoodlums from the state.
This came as the State House of Assembly urged the government to reactivate the State Vigilante Services (AVS) due to the worsening security situation in the state.
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