The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, has described report making the rounds that the government of President Bola Tinubu is discussing with the United States of America and France for the relocation of their military personnel to Nigeria as a fake news. In a statement today, May 6, the minister said that no such proposal has been received by the Nigerian government. He said that the alarms raised in some quarters on the purported plan is “baseless and unfounded. “The Federal Government is aware of false alarms being raised in some quarters alleging discussions between the Federal Government of Nigeria and some foreign countries on the siting of foreign military bases in the country. “We urge the general public to totally disregard this falsehood. “The Federal Government is not in any such discussion with any foreign country. “We have neither received nor are we considering any proposals from any country on the establishment of any foreign military bases in Nigeria.” According to the Minister, the Federal Government already enjoys foreign cooperation in tackling ongoing security challenges in the country. “President Bola Tinubu remains committed to deepening these partnerships, with the goal of achieving the national security objectives of the Renewed Hope Agenda.”
Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court has found the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) guilty of violating human rights of a businessman, Emmanuel Yashim over the ownership of property and ordered it to pay N1 million in damages to the plaintiff. In his judgment today, May 6, Justice Peter Kekemeke granted the order in a suit filed by Yashim seeking for enforcement of his fundamental rights. The applicant, in the suit marked CV/590/2022 had prayed the court to compel EFCC to pay him N10 million for impounding his car since 2022 as damages for breach of his right. The applicant, through his counsel, Nwachukwu Ibegbu further prayed the court to order EFCC to release his Mercedes Benz GLC 300 in its custody since Nov. 22, 2022. The applicant prayed the court to declare that the continuous holding of the car without stating the offense amounted to breach of his right. He therefore prayed the court to declare such an act by the anti-graft Agency as unconstitutional and illegal. Kekemeke held that the continued detention of the applicant’s vehicle by the EFCC is unconstitutional and illegal and therefore a breach of the applicant’s fundamental rights. He therefore ordered the respondent to release the vehicle forthwith. He added that the respondent’s agents, privies and servants whosoever called are restrained from further re-arresting or impounding the applicant’s vehicle except in accordance with the order of court. “The respondent is ordered to pay a sum of N1million as compensation for the breach of the applicant’s right to own a property,” Kekemeke ruled. Source: NAN.
Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has protested to his Lagos State counterpart, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, over the reported repatriation of youths believed to be indigenes of Osun to their state of origin. Several luxury buses were reportedly seen dropping off hundreds of youth at various points at Ilesa area of the State at the weekend after they were rounded them up in several parts of Lagos State. A statement signed by the Spokesperson to Governor Adeleke, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, today, May 6, said that the Governor has asked his Lagos State counterpart to look into the matter and put an end to the incident. “The report was confirmed by an investigation team set up to confirm the veracity of the story by the Osun State Government. “The state team reported that eyewitness accounts confirmed the dropping of the youths in several luxurious buses by a team suspected to be from Lagos State. “The state’s report showed that the youths were systematically dropped at Ilesa-Akure Express junction, Breweries; Ilesa – Ibodi – Iginla to Ife Express junction; Osun Ankara Express junction; Imelu Express junction; and Iperindo Express junction. “In his interaction with the Lagos State Governor on the incident, Governor Adeleke expressed shock at the development, urging Governor Sanwoolu to look into the matter and put an end to it if the report is true,” the statement said. Raheed quoted Governor Adeleke as saying: “I spoke with my brother, Governor Sanwoolu on the matter. He too was surprised and he denied ever authorising any such action. “Governor Sanwoolu has promised immediate investigation to unravel the facts of the situation. The Lagos team will update us as quickly as possible. “I am subsequently directing our security agencies in Osun to mount surveillance in and around Ilesa to track the deported youths and their destinations. “I will update our people on this development. I urge residents to be calm while the security agencies carry out surveillance.”
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election has accused President Bola Tinubu of what he called “conflict of interest” using his son, Seyi, as his surrogate on the board of companies owned by Gilbert Chagoury.
In a statement today, May 5, by his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, Atiku he advised Tinubu to focus more on attracting real investors than adopting propaganda as a state policy.
The former Vice President noted that Tinubu’s son, Seyi, is a director on the board of CDK Integrated Industries, a subsidiary of the Chagoury Group, which manufactures ceramic tiles and sanitary towels.
He cited a report by Paris-based Africa Intelligence News Agency where it was revealed by the Corporate Affairs Commission that Seyi is officially a business associate of Chagoury, saying that it is not surprising that the Chagoury Group had become the biggest beneficiary of the Tinubu largesse.
“Thanks to quality reporting by Africa Intelligence, our suspicions have been confirmed that Chagoury and Tinubu are indeed business partners and it has been formalized with Seyi on the board of one of Chagoury’s firms.”
The former Vice President restated that it has become obvious even to the undiscerning that the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway is being done in a hurry purely because of the business relationship between Tinubu and Gilbert Chagoury, the owner of Hitech, the contractor that was awarded the contract for the highway project in contravention of the procurement laws.
“It is on record that this project is the most expensive single project ever embarked upon by the Nigerian government. The fact that it is happening at a time Nigeria is facing its worst economic crisis ever is a red flag.
“To add insult to injury, this project that is being done in excess of $13bn was awarded without a competitive bidding. From all indications, the so-called Badagry-Sokoto highway would be awarded in a similar fashion at an enormous cost to taxpayers purely because Tinubu has put his personal interest ahead of the Nigerian people.”
Atiku said that the demolition of tourist and recreational facilities and other properties within the Oniru corridor, including parts of Landmark, without ample notice, is one of the reasons foreign direct investments continue to elude the country.
He argued that rather than improving the ease of doing business, the Tinubu administration had shown to the world that his personal business interest and that of his family would always be prioritised over and above national interest.
“Tinubu has been globetrotting in search of foreign direct investments. He claims to have secured over $30 billion from various companies, but none has been forthcoming. Rather, all manufacturing firms have been posting heavy losses while some are exiting due to his poorly implemented exchange rate unification policy with even Aliko Dangote describing it as a huge mess at the recent annual general meeting of Dangote Sugar Refinery.
“The IMF in its latest report stated that Nigeria will by the end of the year become the 4th largest economy in Africa behind South Africa, Egypt and Algeria, a disgraceful development for a nation which was the largest in Africa by a mile when the PDP left the stage in 2015.
“Investors are seeing how local businesses are being treated and will not come to a place where their investments will not be protected. In saner climes, businesses such as Landmark would have been given at least two years’ notice in order for effective planning. But Tinubu’s eagerness to satisfy his business partners impaired his ability to coordinate the project properly.
“The awarding of the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway was rushed; the environmental impact assessment report was not even completed; the right of way for the 700 km stretch of the highway project was not secured; it was converted from a PPP to a government funded project within the twinkle of an eye. The N500m that was approved by the National Assembly for the project was ignored, while over N1tn was released by Tinubu’s administration without approval from the National Assembly.
“From falsely claiming to have removed subsidies to secretly paying billions monthly based on the revelation of Nasir el-Rufai, the Tinubu administration has shown a lack of coordination and transparency, failing to even explain to Nigerians why there is petrol scarcity across the country.”
The former Vice President advised Tinubu and his economic team to do less of propaganda and focus on improving the ease of doing business as this remain the surest path to sustainability.
“One of the shrewdest ways for human predators to conquer their stronger victims is to convince them steadily with propaganda that they are still free.” N. A. Scott, American author.
Every human being currently living on earth came to this world and saw the United States of America posing as the cradle of democracy, a bastion of freedom and a citadel of human rights.
For those of us in Africa, especially West Africa, and particularly those along the coastline, that America ruptured family cohesion, ties and lineage by forcefully taking our able-bodied forefathers and enslaving them, was either forgotten, forgiven, or both.
That after it was forced to abolish slavery by a changing world, it found a way to continue enslaving our able-bodied and intelligent youths in the name of providing greener pastures for them, which was either overlooked, not realised, or both.
As time went on, that it labelled those who wanted the best for their people as communists and demonised them, creating a bipolar world was either accepted as gospel truth by those who did not know the truth or parroted by those who were recruited to do that, or both.
That the then Eastern bloc (or communist/socialist countries), under the guidance of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), and its star boy, Fidel Castro of Cuba, all lined up to fight apartheid for African freedom was either lost on us or remained unappreciated, or both.
That Fidel Castro’s Cuba fought enslavers out of Angola for Angolans to taste freedom, training African youths in its universities and supplying Africa with medical doctors and free drugs while we still preferred to rush to America where we paid for everything through the nose reflected our slave mentality or lack of capacity to embrace truth, or both.
Truth is, we all grew up looking up to Uncle Sam as someone who cared for us in the third world, even when it was propping up the apartheid regime in South Africa or being a pillar of support to Ian Smith in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) and Zambia (Northern Rhodesia). Many of us did not see anything wrong in its support for Joshua Nkomo against the pan-Africanist Robert Mugabe.
For a long time, America has been working on the psyche of youths, especially in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the communist/socialist countries to make them see their society as primitive and America as modern. The youths see their cultures and traditions as backward and archaic, their religion as stories of old, and Western depravity as the new religion.
It found a way in 1989 to infiltrate and brainwash Chinese students to rise against their country, demanding “political and economic reforms and greater respect for human rights”. The protesters gathered in Tiananmen Square in central Beijing, where they were forcefully evicted by military units, who killed a lot of them.
Tiananmen Square, or Tian’anmen Square, is a city square, measuring 765 x 282 metres, in the city centre of Beijing, meaning “Gate of Heavenly Peace”. The square contains the Monument to the People’s Heroes, the Great Hall of the People, the National Museum of China, and the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong, who proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic of China in the square on October 1, 1949. It has great cultural significance in Chinese history.
America and its Western allies and propaganda machines did not allow what happened in China to be swept under the carpet or forgotten easily. It kept hammering on China’s “evil of repression”, that it emasculated and silenced the voice of the voiceless because that’s what students are. It told the world that China was an enemy of freedom, free speech, free association and democracy which it proclaimed as the only acceptable world order, despite its dalliance with repressive, autocratic and monarchic regimes, around the world.
Now fast-forward to 2024 and the pinching shoe is in America’s feet. Its students in no fewer than 15 universities and counting, with Columbia University in the lead, are protesting with the battle cry “Free, Free Palestine” for the freedom of Palestine that has been under Israel’s subjugation for decades.
America, the self-acclaimed doyen of freedom of association and speech, the guardian angel of democracy, is cracking down on the students for freely associating and using free speech to seek the freedom of another country. So far, scores of them have been arrested, some suspended, and some dismissed outright, while lecturers have been threatened with sack if they showed any sort of support to the students’ cause.
But that will hardly deter academics used to free speech as a first nature. One professor in the university bravely declared: “This is about a genocide being carried on with American money and with American weapons, against a people enduring generations of occupation.”
In a cheeky, and poignant, role reversal, Iran, which had suffered American instigation of its youths over time and had to deal with as it deemed fit, called on the US not to jeopardise democracy, freedom of association and free speech.
Shiraz University, a globally ranked university in Iran, just announced that it will grant scholarships to the students of American and European universities who have been expelled for supporting Palestine. It is also going to hire professors who have been fired or threatened with sacking for their stance towards Palestine.
Before the breeze blew and we saw the anus of the fowl, this was what America was doing to others all over the world – instigating youths against their fatherland, and when the country attempted to rein in its citizens, they would cry foul. They will then dole out scholarships, grants or work and Green Cards to those who fought against their country and its system.
In the words of Samuel P. Huntington, an American political scientist and academic, “The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion…but rather by its superiority in applying organised violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”
Now America is receiving a dose of its medicine and it has failed to behave better than those countries it accused of truncating democracy, free association, free speech and human rights abuses.
Truth, it is said, is the only one that lasts. Falsehood and hypocrisy are just as temporary as the time it will take to blindfold the people.
What America is showing the world today is exactly the echo of the time immemorial words of Abraham Lincoln, its 16th president, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared slaves forever free: “You can fool some of the people for all of the time, and all of the people for some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people for all of the time.”
Hassan Gimba is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Neptune Prime.
A Federal Government-owned University, Modibbo Adama University (MAU) in Yola, the State Capital, has dismissed three professors in its employment for alleged plagiarism. The Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Abdullahi Tukur, who spoke at the Pre-Convocation press briefing in Yola to mark the 28th Convocation Ceremony for the 2022/2023 academic session of the University, said that the three dismissed professors were found wanting and were therefore sacked. “The academicians were found guilty by an internal investigative panel set up by the University council.”
He said that stiff measures await any erring staff and student who may want to breach the rules and regulations guiding the institution.
Professor Tukur called on the Federal Government to review the Treasury Single Account (TSA) policy, describing it as a huge challenge militating against operations of Public Universities in the Country.
Minister of Education, Professor Tahir Mamman, has vowed to flush out those with fraudulently degrees from the civil service. Professor Tahir Mamman, who made this known while receiving the report of an inter-ministerial committee on illegitimate academic degrees, said: “it is possible that some are carrying fake certificates in public and private organisations and need to be flushed out.” “It is sad that someone who should come out of a Nigerian institution with a 2:1 or 2:2 is now parading an international certificate of first class. “The ministry is determined to take steps to sanitise the system,” the minister said The Federal Government had asked the committee to investigate the activities of over 100 private universities and their counterparts in Benin Republic, Togo and other countries. A media report had given details of how some degree mills took advantage of the laxity in the Nigerian system to get away with their actions. The minister expressed sadness over the discoveries of large amount of certificate fraud during the investigation, saying that the ministry would collaborate with relevant agencies to instil sanity in the education sector and rid it of fake tendencies. “We can’t afford to have the integrity of our education swayed by a few people.”
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has released the names of at least 58 former governors allegedly involved in the misappropriation, embezzlement or laundering of approximately N2.187 trillion over a span of 25 years. This amount does not include properties seized worldwide or those currently being investigated, which amount to billions of Naira. The amount of N2.2 trillion that was looted is similar to the combined budgets of Lagos State and the South-East states for 2024, totaling N2.25 trillion and N2.29 trillion respectively. This figure exceeds the budgets of the North-Central states and North-East states for 2024, which are N1.89 trillion and N1.60 trillion, by several billion. The EFCC is currently investigating, probing, and prosecuting 58 ex-governors from various regions of the country. Since the restoration of civilian government on May 29, 1999, there have been at least 170 governors serving in the 36 states of Nigeria. The 58 ex-governors who are currently or have previously faced investigations by EFCC, with alleged amounts in question, consist of: Lte Abubakar Audu (N10.966 bn), TA Orji and sons (N551 bn) Yahaya Bello (N80.2 bn) Chimaroke Nnamani (N5. 3 bn) Sullivan Chime (N450 million) Kayode Fayemi (N4bn) Ayo Fayose (N6.9 bn) Abdullahi Adamu (N15bn) Danjuma Goje (N5bn) Aliyu Wamakko (N15 bn) Sule Lamido (N1.35 bn) Joshua Dariye (N1. 16 bn) Timipre Sylva (N19.2 bn) Saminu Turaki (N36bn) Orji Uzor Kalu (N7. 6bn) Bello Matawalle (N70 bn) Lucky Igbinedion (N4. 5 bn) Musa Kwakwanso (N10bn) Peter Odili (N1000 bn) Jolly Nyame (N1.64 bn) James Ngilari (N167 m) Abdulaziz Yari (N84 bn) Godswill Akpabio (N100bn) Abdul fatah Ahmed (N9 bn) Ali Mode-Sheriff (N300bn) Willie Obiano (N43 bn) Ibrahim Dankwambo (N1. 3bn) Darius Ishaku (N39bn) Ramalan Yero (N700m) Achike Udenwa (N350m) Rochas Okoro ha (N10. 8bn) James Ibori (N40 bn), DSP Alamieyeseigha (N2.655bn) Gabriel Suswam (N3. 111bn) Samuel Orton (N107bn) Murtala Nyako (N29bn) Rashid Ladoja (4.7bn) Christopher Alao-Akala (N11. 5 bn) Abdulkadir Kure (N600m) Babangida Aliyu (N4bn) Abubakar Audu (N10bn) Idris Wada (N500m) Ibrahim Shekarau (N950m) Adamu Aliero (N10bn) Usman Dakingari and wife (N5. 8bn) Attahiru Bafarawa N19. 6bn) Jonah Jang (N6. 3bn) Aliyu Doma (N8bn) Tanko Al’Makura (N4bn) Boni Haruna (N93bn) Bindow Jibrila (N62bn) Adamu Muazu (13bn) Isa Yuguda N212bn) Mohammed Abubakar (N8. 5bn).
The President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Obong Akpabio has called on the Nigerian media practitioners to set a climate change agenda by giving special attention to reporting climate change issues. Akpabio’s advice was contained in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Eseme Eyiboh to commemorate this year’s World Press Freedom Day. Speaking on the theme of this year’s celebration: “A Press for the Planet: Journalism in the Face of the Environmental Crisis,” Akpabio charged the media to make conscious efforts in engaging in aggressive education of the people about the environment and the negative effects of climate change. “The theme for this year’s World Press Freedom Day is in sync with the global attention accorded to issues of environment and as the conscience of the society, it behooves the media to be deliberate in their reportage of climate issues. “Environment and climate are life and we must be part of the conservation of the environment for humanity to thrive before we talk about politics and related issues.” The Senate President said that the world is faced with the issue of global warming, and that Nigeria is not immune from it. He said that the media could do more in public enlightenment and education for the understanding of every citizen. Akpabio celebrated the Nigerian journalists for their sacrifices despite working under inclement conditions, promising that the 10th National Assembly will always stand for a free press in the country. “On behalf of the Senate and the National Assembly, I wish to congratulate all media practitioners, especially those who have put their lives on the line in pursuit of truth and justice. “The 10th National Assembly is committed to all that will strengthen press freedom and we will not condone anything that may trample on the rights of journalists.”
The embattled ex-governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of what he called trial by ambush. Emefiele and his co-defendant, Henry Omoile, are facing trial on a 26-count charge brought before a Lagos high court, presided over by Justice Rahman Oshodi.
At the sitting today, May 3, his counsel, Olalekan Ojo, complained that he had just received more documents (additional proof of evidence) from EFCC filed yesterday, asking the court to adjourn sitting to enable him study them. According to him, the prosecution keeps dumping documents on us at every sitting, saying: “this is a trial by ambush.” Ojo was expected to continue cross examining one of the two witnesses presented by the EFCC, John Ikechukwu Ayoh, and on his part, Adeyinka Kotoye, lawyer to Omoile, also accused EFCC of trying to ambush the defence team. But counsel to EFCC, Oyedepo explained that the additional proof of evidence was part of the documents retrieved from the phone of John Adetona, a former aide to Emefiele, who was listed as a witness and were served in preparation for the testimony to be given by Adetona before the court. “The witness (Adetona) whose device the documents were printed from has not given evidence before the court. “In preparation for his testimony which is not coming up today or May 9, the prosecution rather than waiting for the defence to formally place a demand for the hard copies, the prosecution team printed the documents out. How does that amount to prosecutorial unfairness?” He asked the judge to order the defence team to complete the cross-examination of the second prosecution witness, as the new documents do not affect the continuation of cross-examination of the witness.
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America, Iran And Abuse Of Democracy, Human Rights, By Hassan Gimba
“One of the shrewdest ways for human predators to conquer their stronger victims is to convince them steadily with propaganda that they are still free.” N. A. Scott, American author.
Every human being currently living on earth came to this world and saw the United States of America posing as the cradle of democracy, a bastion of freedom and a citadel of human rights.
For those of us in Africa, especially West Africa, and particularly those along the coastline, that America ruptured family cohesion, ties and lineage by forcefully taking our able-bodied forefathers and enslaving them, was either forgotten, forgiven, or both.
That after it was forced to abolish slavery by a changing world, it found a way to continue enslaving our able-bodied and intelligent youths in the name of providing greener pastures for them, which was either overlooked, not realised, or both.
As time went on, that it labelled those who wanted the best for their people as communists and demonised them, creating a bipolar world was either accepted as gospel truth by those who did not know the truth or parroted by those who were recruited to do that, or both.
That the then Eastern bloc (or communist/socialist countries), under the guidance of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), and its star boy, Fidel Castro of Cuba, all lined up to fight apartheid for African freedom was either lost on us or remained unappreciated, or both.
That Fidel Castro’s Cuba fought enslavers out of Angola for Angolans to taste freedom, training African youths in its universities and supplying Africa with medical doctors and free drugs while we still preferred to rush to America where we paid for everything through the nose reflected our slave mentality or lack of capacity to embrace truth, or both.
Truth is, we all grew up looking up to Uncle Sam as someone who cared for us in the third world, even when it was propping up the apartheid regime in South Africa or being a pillar of support to Ian Smith in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) and Zambia (Northern Rhodesia). Many of us did not see anything wrong in its support for Joshua Nkomo against the pan-Africanist Robert Mugabe.
For a long time, America has been working on the psyche of youths, especially in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the communist/socialist countries to make them see their society as primitive and America as modern. The youths see their cultures and traditions as backward and archaic, their religion as stories of old, and Western depravity as the new religion.
It found a way in 1989 to infiltrate and brainwash Chinese students to rise against their country, demanding “political and economic reforms and greater respect for human rights”. The protesters gathered in Tiananmen Square in central Beijing, where they were forcefully evicted by military units, who killed a lot of them.
Tiananmen Square, or Tian’anmen Square, is a city square, measuring 765 x 282 metres, in the city centre of Beijing, meaning “Gate of Heavenly Peace”. The square contains the Monument to the People’s Heroes, the Great Hall of the People, the National Museum of China, and the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong, who proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic of China in the square on October 1, 1949. It has great cultural significance in Chinese history.
America and its Western allies and propaganda machines did not allow what happened in China to be swept under the carpet or forgotten easily. It kept hammering on China’s “evil of repression”, that it emasculated and silenced the voice of the voiceless because that’s what students are. It told the world that China was an enemy of freedom, free speech, free association and democracy which it proclaimed as the only acceptable world order, despite its dalliance with repressive, autocratic and monarchic regimes, around the world.
Now fast-forward to 2024 and the pinching shoe is in America’s feet. Its students in no fewer than 15 universities and counting, with Columbia University in the lead, are protesting with the battle cry “Free, Free Palestine” for the freedom of Palestine that has been under Israel’s subjugation for decades.
America, the self-acclaimed doyen of freedom of association and speech, the guardian angel of democracy, is cracking down on the students for freely associating and using free speech to seek the freedom of another country. So far, scores of them have been arrested, some suspended, and some dismissed outright, while lecturers have been threatened with sack if they showed any sort of support to the students’ cause.
But that will hardly deter academics used to free speech as a first nature. One professor in the university bravely declared: “This is about a genocide being carried on with American money and with American weapons, against a people enduring generations of occupation.”
In a cheeky, and poignant, role reversal, Iran, which had suffered American instigation of its youths over time and had to deal with as it deemed fit, called on the US not to jeopardise democracy, freedom of association and free speech.
Shiraz University, a globally ranked university in Iran, just announced that it will grant scholarships to the students of American and European universities who have been expelled for supporting Palestine. It is also going to hire professors who have been fired or threatened with sacking for their stance towards Palestine.
Before the breeze blew and we saw the anus of the fowl, this was what America was doing to others all over the world – instigating youths against their fatherland, and when the country attempted to rein in its citizens, they would cry foul. They will then dole out scholarships, grants or work and Green Cards to those who fought against their country and its system.
In the words of Samuel P. Huntington, an American political scientist and academic, “The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion…but rather by its superiority in applying organised violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”
Now America is receiving a dose of its medicine and it has failed to behave better than those countries it accused of truncating democracy, free association, free speech and human rights abuses.
Truth, it is said, is the only one that lasts. Falsehood and hypocrisy are just as temporary as the time it will take to blindfold the people.
What America is showing the world today is exactly the echo of the time immemorial words of Abraham Lincoln, its 16th president, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared slaves forever free: “You can fool some of the people for all of the time, and all of the people for some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people for all of the time.”
Hassan Gimba is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Neptune Prime.