Saturday, December 31, 2011

Boko Haram!!! War Against Western Education, War Against Chop I Chop, or War Against Nigerians?


            Whilst it may be tempting to assume that national committees and/or commissions are needed to quell the embers of terrorism from the sectarian onslaught of Boko Haram, we ought to realize that ad hoc assemblies and clichés are not panaceas for this insurgency. Make no mistake; Nigeria is officially at war with Boko Haram and their sympathizers who have out rightly declared tactical guerrilla warfare against the nation. Consequently, for the first time in our history we are faced with an escalation of combat that is not brought about by core injustices such as government sponsored indiscriminate killings, ethnic marginalization, environmental degradation, national discrimination, and disregard of treaties. The listed factors were the ingredients that brought about the Nigerian/Biafra genocidal war of the 1960’s and the Niger Delta militancy at the dawn of the 21st century. Instead what we have in Boko Haram the fanatical Muslim group is a war to Islamize close to 150million Nigerians with 250 ethnicities, over 200 languages, varying religious and traditional affiliations.   
            Though the disingenuousness of Boko Haram is palpable and evident to any primary school pupil in Nigeria and around the world, the nuance of their style can not be underestimated by the President Jonathan’s administration. Under the hypocrisy of wanting to do away with western education, civilization, and religion, they want to enslave Nigeria and Africa with their bondage and/or version of Islamic thuggery. As Africans that have sold their birthrights, Boko Haram and their supporters have conveniently expunged their memories of the Trans Sahara Slave trade that began before the Trans Atlantic Slave trade. In Boko Haram we await the utopian nation state like Saudi Arabia, the same Saudis who sent their troops to hound down and murder peaceful protesters in Bahrain and Yemen. Saudi Arabia has the dubious distinction of warmly welcoming African dictators including Idi Amin of Uganda and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia with red carpets.
            On the other hand if we refuse to surrender and be led by the Fulani and/or Kanuri Muslims we are to be subjected to the plight of Southern Sudan, Darfur, and Somalia. In this ungovernable terrain which was well articulated by the likes of Dictator Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Atiku Abubakar, and Mallam Adamu Ciroma, the Disunited Nations of Nigeria will remain insecure and under siege by these group in northern Nigeria. These so-called elite politicians detonated the political bombs which have ensured our current situation when they made commentaries and prophesies during the 2011 presidential elections encouraging the current violent events. After igniting the flames of animosity these so-called leaders are now paying lip service for the need of peace while 99% of northerners are suffering from poverty and corruption.
            Ironically it was the utterances of some in the 1% elite group of northern politicians especially through the Northern Political Leaders Forum NPLF that legitimized Boko Haram and took them from a northeastern fringe group to a regional terrorist operational organization. The likes of Buhari, Atiku, and Ciroma hegemonic messages gave Boko Haram and their sympathizers the license to execute the mass carnage on nearly 1000 defenseless individuals after the 2011 elections. The dead comprised of many innocent student volunteers involved in the National Youth Service Corps NYSC program. They have also tried to mask their pretentious sectarian plans with the fight against corruption and injustice. But Nigerians are not fooled by their rhetoric because we are knowledgeable about their plans to continue the institutionalized corruption and injustices that were introduced into the nation’s polity by the Northern Military Industrial Complex NMIC. The goals of these selfish politicians’ remains to cloak their antecedents of mismanagement and their attempts are hijacking the government with religious dogmas. 
            Thus, they insist that the United Nations of Nigeria should be an Islamic country which is governed by both the Kanuri or Fulani tribes and their surrogates. Boko Haram lacks the moral character to fight against unaccountability and impunity in the Nigerian government because their financial sponsors are the same so-called leaders that engulfed the past and nascent Nigerian administrations with irresponsibility and corruption. At no time has Boko Haram demanded accountability from the Northern Nigerian ruling class that have dominated the nations military, political, and economic spheres for more than 40years of our 51years of existence as a British amalgamated protectorate. They have rejected the application of non-violent civil disobedient strategies like we have all witnessed on the African and Arab streets as a result of the 2011 Arab spring/awakening.
            Instead Boko Haram has used the same playbook of impunity that was evident during the Dictators Babangida, Obasanjo, Abacha, and Abubakar administrations to intimidate the Nigerian nation. They speak of an amoral society but proceed to inflict mayhem on law abiding Nigerians including non fanatical Muslims, Christians, Traditionalist, and others. They introduced drive-by shootings, drive-by bombings, IED’s, and suicide bombings in Nigeria on a commercial scale as a means to cause turmoil and traumatize the country. Concepts like Islamic Banking, Sharia Law, and Western Education are used as templates for killing innocent civilians all over the northern states. Those of us that have actually sat in western classes and challenged western patriarchy, white supremacy, double speak, and imperialism, wonder why we should enthrone another reprehensible slave master’s ideologies on the African continent.
            Irrespective of the camouflaging of issues by some north politicians and Boko Haram, we in the social justice activism and human rights fields in Nigeria and around the globe see through their sectarian domination agendas. We view the killings and bombings of ordinary Nigerians as a hindrance to the structural changes which we are fighting for in the country. While it could be argued that years of corruption and injustices are oblivious bombs that claim casualties, the introduction of total terrorism does not advance changes in any regard. It entrenches the five decade long status quo that we are trying to reform brick by brick with our call for transformations, accountability, and inclusive governance. In the past some of us have condemned the extra judicial killing of the Boko Haram leadership by the President Umaru Yar’Adua’s administration. We challenge members of the Boko Haram organization to not justify their repugnant acts on the basics of retaliatory tact.  
            During this time last year my family met a family at the National Museum in Lagos from Florida that was visiting Nigeria for the first time with their teenage children. Apart from coincidentally seeing President Goodluck Jonathan in a church in Abuja, the major highlight of their trip was how they narrowly escaped the Boko Haram Christmas bombings of 2010. Sadly these attempts to “arabmail” and Islamize Nigerian through bombs and propagandas are still in full effect. The sponsors of Boko Haram and their murderous machines need to realize that their objectives would be circumvented by the Nigerian people. There will be no coup d’états to allow them to come back into government through back channels. They should look inward to address the needs of northern Nigeria. Northern billionaires and millionaires who have benefited from the largesse of the Niger Delta Black Gold (Petroleum) should use their resources to address mass underemployment and illiteracy. Hard and soft power should be brought to bear on Boko Haram, their cheerleaders, and their sponsors. Henceforth the national government should stop subsidizing trips/Hajj to Saudi Arabia.
Instead those resources could be used to set up industrial, agricultural, and technological zones in the north. State governments in the north should be charged with addressing issues of draught, deforestation, desertification, and irrigation in the north. I agree with Niger state governor Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu that the federal government needs to stop playing games with the sponsors of Boko Haram and prosecute them now. President Jonathan we understand your desire to avoid conflict and drama but you need to rise up to the occasion and stop these barbaric attacks and evolving carnages. We applaud your attempts to encourage an open and free society with varying views. Lesser and myopic leaders could have gone after their critics and detractors since the inception of their administration. Dr. Goodluck and Vice President Namadi Sambo standup and confront Boko Haram before they achieve their self fulfilling prophecies which is the balkanization or “clanalization” of the Nigerian society.
Our government needs to comprehend the stakes and not use the same lackadaisical approach they have used for the corruption and impunity problems in Nigeria, to tackle this terrorist madness. Governors and local government chairpersons in the north should be immediately compelled to account for all their federal government allocated expenditures. Checks and balances are to be activated to make sure we abate the status quo fleecing by the so-called elites. We have to make sure that some of them are not using the playbook of Governor Dr. Peter Odili who looted the Rivers State treasury and sustained corruption and turmoil in the Niger Delta. The Sultan of Sokoto Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar who is also the head of Jama’atu Nasril Islam in Nigeria and the officials within the Borno Emirate should either become partners in the fight against these massacres or be forced to immediately step down. Rather than champion Islamic banking to further complicate matters why not embrace the Bangladesh Grameen Bank micro-credit system to assist with the eradication of gender discrimination and poverty in northern Nigeria? The Sultan has criticized the crackdown of the Boko Haram terrorist organization in the pass, but he ought to know that no persons or positions surpass the lives of innocent Nigerians.
            In conclusion the educational system of northern Nigeria needs to be revamped into a Pan-African curriculum. These changes have to start from the nursery schools all the way to the primary, secondary/tertiary, and university levels. The school of thought of using Quranic schools and madrasas as the primary education institutions in the north needs to be phased out. Since the current federal government appears compromised and ineffective with prosecuting some of our criminal ex-military officers/rulers and criminal politicians with all the probable cause and preponderance of evidence that denotes their crimes, we may openly offer them amnesty in exchange for using some of their loots for the public good. Let us encourage these barawos to repatriate our monies from Dubai, Sharm el-Sheikh, London, Switzerland and other money laundering capitals and invest in the northern people to improve health, educational, and employment outcomes. If these policies are not explored we may become a nation of psychopaths/sociopaths running around and killing each other. When our different tribes begin to actively use reprisal attacks to deal with the Boko Haram cancer, then forget about justice and transparency and open up the zoos.
Happy Kwanzaa, Happy New Year

Dedicate to- The victims, survivals, displaced persons, and families of all the northern Nigerian terrorist attacks.

               Nnamdi Frank Akwada MSW, BA is a Social Justice Activist
Executive Director African Diaspora Institute and US African Cultural Festival
Washington DC Coordinator: Let There Be Light In Nigeria- Nigeria Million March

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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Among Libya's homeless

This is Injustice and Mass Punishment for all to see. Are these the vestiges of democracy in action? Albeit officially sanctioned segregation and discrimination in Libya in broad view. What is the difference between these actions and the Israeli actions in Gaza?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3dcnmY6r30&feature=player_embedded

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/africa/2011/12/19/among-libyas-homeless

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Nollywood, Hollywood, and the African Diaspora

              Nollywood refers to the West African centered movie industry that germinated from South-Eastern Nigeria in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. It presently comprises of a decentralized tapestry of film production outfits from Nigeria to Ghana, other regions of West Africa, and the African Diaspora. Most credible and knowledgeable movie industry buffs rank Nollywood as the 2nd largest production outlet in the world behind Bollywood the Indian motion picture industry and in front of Hollywood the North American motion picture business headquartered in California. In Nigeria, the film industry arose as a progressive social marketing rebellion against the dictates of the Lagos and Abuja television aficionados who controlled the various means of national and state cinema productions.
            Erstwhile to the contemporary revolution and creation of Nollywood, Nigerians were saddled with the Structural Adjustment Program SAP of the Dictator Ibrahim Babangida’s administration. A bright idea that enabled the khaki boys and their civilian stooges with the assistance of the International Monetary Fund IMF to place the nation in economic austerity while they, the so-called 1% elites went about to chop the turkey and to chop the turkey’s bones. As a result, financial constraints became the norm at the Nigerian Television Authority NTA and the military boys alias Northern Military Industrial Complex NMIC de-funded the cultural dramas and productions outfits that shone critical lens at their maladaptive governments. When our coffers were drained to buy mansions outside the country and build palaces in Nigeria by corrupt officials, the inventiveness of the first apostles of Nollywood took hold.
            Consequently, the same talented folks in the industry that grew up watching television classics like New Masquerade, Village Headmaster, Things Fall Apart, Behind the Clouds with Nosa, Try Me from Aba, and Inside Out from Port-Harcourt retreated to the Southeast. They were forced into the corner because the nation no longer had the annual National Telefest competitions which showcased dramas and documentaries from all the regional NTA stations. Nigerian Telefest introduced some of us in the south to the Olumo Rock at Abeokuta in western Nigeria and Argungu Fishing Festival in Kebbi northern Nigeria for the first time. But the quintessential nail was placed on the coffins of NTA programming after the weekend Sunday 6pm show –Tales By Moonlight was unceremoniously taking off the air. Tales By Moonlight was the show that gathered and united children from various regions of the United Nations of Nigeria to the national village square tube. With the demise of these artistic outlets, some venturists from the south got the epiphany to produce local movies with funding, marketing, and distribution from investors in Aba and Onitsha. They declared their independence from the military juntas and their civilian surrogates.              
Preceding this breakthrough the Nigerian populace was also inundated with movies from India such as Sholay, Nagin know as snake girl and from China /Hong Kong with films like Snake in the Monkey’s Shadow and the initial epics from Bruce Lee. I vividly remember other little kids in my living room and around our house in Port-Harcourt lining up to get a glimpse of these movies. My older cousin Reginald Anyanwu (may our ancestors and God bless his soul) was the ring master. He must have garnered the wrath of many parents and/or families of child street vendors, who abandoned the goods in their trays for a chance to be kids. Of course we were also captivated by the British and American movies such as Simon Templar (The Saint), The Avengers, Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em with Frank Spencer, Charlie’s Angels, Hawaii Five-O, and Sound of Music. Most of these were frequently shown on our national and local channels or gotten through VHS tapes.  
            Fast forward 20-25years and Nollywood films are being sold in landmarks retail establishments in the western hemisphere such as 7-Eleven stores. Indeed the Nigerian movie industry has derived mass appeal in Africa and among the African Diaspora. Young first and second generation African immigrants in the west are introducing their high school mates, universities, and graduate school colleagues to the Nollywood phenomenon. It is no secret that this movie industry has warmed up the hearts of other Africans to be more understanding of Nigerians and the baggage that we present. One could argue that Nollywood stars such as Genevieve Nnaji, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, Sam Efe Loco, and Nkem Owoh have unwittingly promoted Nigeria and Africa positively like other cultural educational entertainment icons such as Fela and 2Face Idibia.
Despite the aforementioned strides, the responsibilities on the shoulders of Nollywood cinematography are enormous. As the largest Black owned, controlled, and sponsored vessel to depict African and Black culture, education, and entertainment, the onus on them is great. The reality is that the Nigerian and Ghanaian movie industry and their tributaries surpass the reach of Black Entertainment Television BET, Centric TV, and TV One which are African American mass media enterprises that are located in the United States. Ironically, Nollywood might be unconscious of their exposure and conscientiousness in the global market. Otherwise how do they explain characters that only preach against piracy while completely ignoring the issues of parental and viewers rating systems? Some of us in the African Diaspora who are eager to introduce our children to African cultures think it is unwholesome for us to watch actors with limited acting skills resulting to gimmicks such as racial and sexual expletives. These words are used especially to pad their way through roles, without warning to the audience and devoid of context. Whatever happening to saying Waka, Shege, u de bonbonro cigar? Have we lost these Pidgin English lingos that were used to convey rage and jest some years ago?
Indeed some of us in the African Diaspora are of the view that using the N-word and I wana wana language does not serve the image of the industry and deviates from the foundations of Nollywood. We want to see the African movie business take up issues of corruption, impunity, transparency, poverty, tribalism, injustice, self-hate, religious intolerance, racism, ineptitude governance that have bedeviled most people of black hue for centuries. African cinema needs to challenge Hollywood racism, stereotypes, biases, and prejudices that have been ingrained in the psychics of millions worldwide through the Minstrel Shows of the 1940-50’s and the Tarzan movies. The Minstrel shows had depictions of black and white people painting their faces as black as coal to lampoon African descendents in a cesspool of racism. In the nearly 100 Tarzan movies the systematic themes are so repulsive in their sustenance of European and white hegemony. 
In May of 2010, CNN Anderson Cooper reconstructed the infamous Doll Test conducted by psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark in1947 and found out that the perception of how African American and white children view blacks had not changed after more than half a century. The black kids and white kids in the contemporary experiment still characterized the black dolls/faces with negatives attributes. This is because of the overt socialization messages from institutions like Hollywood and other western businesses and retail organizations. They have a tendency to operate as though people of African decent are invisible and/or do not exist in non-positive reinforcement avenues. It was interesting to watch Mr. Cooper querying the kids, parents, and experts like Professor Eric Dyson on this subject when the media and some children books are the primary culprits in spreading this self-hate and external hostiles/prejudices. Nollywood could actually be a vehicle to mitigate and end these stereotypical and bias perceptions within the African Diaspora, Africa, and the world.
There ought to be the green lighting of more progressive and socially conscious projects between the Africans in Nollywood and the African Diaspora. These strategies can encourage projects springing up between the African motion picture industries and the likes of Shari Carpenter, Spike Lee, Marlies Carruth, Tyler Perry, Ayoka Chenzira, and Robert Townsend. Hopefully Ice Cube can also come on board and stop making caricatures of Africans in his movies – “I don’t get gig with that shit.” In the same vein Usher Raymond and Alicia Keys will not soil a beautiful music video like My Boo with a trigger motion when African cab drives in the United States have been on the receiving end of senseless violence. Anyway the foray into cooperative work and responsibility will help heal the mindset of numerous Africans in the Diaspora. When black children in the United States are called Africans in school they will stop recoiling and thinking/feeling it is an insult worst than even the N-word. For example, discredited Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain and US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will rather submit themselves to a “high tech lynching” than get caught answering African Americans. Cooperation between Nollywood and the African Diaspora may also lead to some dynamics in which our African American relatives whose economic might is among the top ten in the world, become partners in our attempts to rid the African continent of our corrupt and ineffective regimes.
            Moreover, the potentials are enormous for Nollywood if they decide to form these strategic and tactical alliances. There is going to be tremendous improving in the writing expertise and film productions of the African originated and lead industry. Nollywood will expand to include graphic and computer animations to counteract the downbeat influences of Hollywood on our children. African Diasporas in Europe, Asia, South America, Antarctica, and North America are sources of cultural infusion and technological knowledge that can sustain Nollywood for ages. One of the goals of the movie business in Africa should be to broaden their reach and improve societies along the way with peoples originated progressive messages. Instead of pursing the lifestyles of African dictators, Hollywood skewed glamour, and the so-called African corrupt elites (alias the 1%), their goals should be the systemic reintegration of the worldwide cultural lenses with media voices that are affordable to ordinary people. It is imperative for Nollywood to be at the apex of challenging what Bob Marley called Mental Slavery and what Fela termed Colonial Mentality.          
Happy Kwanzaa

Dedicate to Mr. Malcolm X, Dr. Maulana Karenga, and to my cousin Mr. Reginald Anyanwu who resided in Ghana, South Africa, and Mozambique before his death.


                 Nnamdi Frank Akwada MSW, BA is a Social Justice Activist
Executive Director African Diaspora Institute and US African Cultural Festival 




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Monday, December 5, 2011

Let There Be Light In Nigeria- Nigerian Million March 2

             Amidst the preparations and subsequent Let There Be Light In Nigeria- Nigerian Million March rallies that took place in Nigeria, United States, and Europe on Monday October 24th 2011, it became clear that if corruption is one of the dominant cancers in the polity of the United Nations of Nigeria, our electricity and energy infrastructure underdevelopment has emerged as one of the cankerworms of our endemic chronological problems. The issue of electricity in Nigeria is so contaminated with scandals and scams that the Nigerian Ambassador to the United States Professor Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye, graciously conceded this truism when he granted us an audience at the Nigerian embassy in Washington DC on the day of the rally.
            During the impromptu meeting with attendees of the Nigerian Million March which quickly evolved into a nearly thirty minutes interview, our ambassador spoke about commissions and omissions in the electric sector. Chief Adefuye informed us about the lack of competent technocrats during the President Olusegun Obasanjo administration; and how despite their zeal and the allocations of monies, their intentions did not match their stipulated outcomes. The Let There Be Light In Nigeria group was told about how machineries for the power sector got abandoned at ports due to lack of good roads and adequate transportation resources. Our courteous ambassador spoke about contemporary developments in the light generating process and the invitation of international investors to work in conjunction with competent/experts like Professor Barth Nnaji the Minister of Power and the Power Holding Company of Nigeria PHCN.
            Notwithstanding, we need to examine the relationship between education and competency, individual industry-greed and our public good-integrity. Why is this important, some might ask? We need to be objective enough to provide checks and balances. Case in point, it has been disclosed that the former Treasury Secretary of the United States secretly committed $7 trillion to save the largest banks in the US and that he gave his Wall Street friends, hedge fund managers, and Goldman Sachs colleagues insider tips about a partial United States government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Nigerians ought to have independent institutions and individuals that will check the excesses of government officials. We have to place individuals like Professor Barth Nnaji the Minister of Power, Mr. Olusegun Aganga Minister of Trade and Investment, and Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Minister of Finance under a fine microscope. Despite their educational prowess and perceived competence, we need to ascertain the corporate cultures of the institutions they have been aligned with and the roles they assumed in their prior organizations. For example, we need people that are more eager to strip monopolies and subsidies that are directed to our so-called elites than those that are willing to dismantle pseudo fuel subsidies from the Nigerian masses.
            Although Ambassador Adefuye is proud of the contemporary administration for not appointing politicians but rather technocrats to sensitive positions, we need to insist that when it comes to electricity and other infrastructures, individuals are aboveboard. Professor Nnaji should not be working for the interest of Geometric Power Limited or for his personal advantage during the unbundling process of PHCN. Similar scrutiny should apply to Mr. Aganga the former hedge funds Managing Director for Goldman Sachs in London. Goldman Sachs has gained notoriety for strong-arming and ruining many economies around the globe, through insider trading, credit swaps, and hedge fund financial marketing/gambling instruments which are more insidious than the much maligned 419 advanced fee fraud scams. Our Finance Minister, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala the former second in command of the World Bank needs to come under the same checks and balance lenses. We ought to remember that the roles of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in the developing economies do not exult confidence.
Moreover, there should be much resources and energies on overseeing the potential conflict of interest of personalities in government, as Professor Adefuye reported that the Nigerian federal government is expending on cleansing ghost workers from payrolls. The urgency of transparency in the electricity and energy ventures cannot be overemphasized in lieu of the provision of $1.5 billion investment funds by the US Export-Import Bank EXIM to Nigeria. We should not succumb to conditionalities such as the eradication of so-called fuel subsidies because we need stable electricity. The United States agricultural sector is heavily sponsored by the US tax payers. In Nigeria we have independent petroleum exporters and importers who have a blank cheque of monopoly. 
Conversely, there needs to be a simultaneous appraisal and reckoning of previous electricity projects in order to objectively affect the plans of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. We need to know the exact expenditures on the power sector by the President Obasanjo’s and Dictator Babangida’s administrations. This was the situation that resulted in the public spate between both men some months ago. Any transformational government worth a salt would investigate both generals instead of acquiescing to the position of a referee to the detriment of Nigerians and the truth. Where are the members of the National Assembly to investigate and sort out these harbingers of our electrical and energy problems? Maybe they are still dithering over their greedy and reprehensible wages, allowances, and bonuses.    
Some have speculated that the death of Chief Bola Ige the former Attorney General and Minister of Justice and former Minister of Mines and Power was related to his attempts at cleaning up the National Electric Power Authority NEPA now known as the Power Holding Company of Nigeria PHCN. The former minister was swiftly moved from the power ministry to the judiciary at the height of his assessment and revitalization plans for electricity in Nigeria. It is on record that foreign investment capitals were sourced during his tenure in the Power and Mine ministry. Though Chief Ige ruffled many with his tenacity on a host of issues such as the bickering in the Alliance of Democracy Party and the opposition to Sharia law in northern Nigeria, some people are of the opinion that his death reveals the nexus between electricity-energy in the United Nations of Nigeria and corruption-impunity.
            Our “Let There Be Light In Nigeria” movement needs to transition from the exclusive electricity issue to include the fight against cover-ups, corruption, injustice, inhumanness, and insecurity in Nigeria. The “Light” we seek should be a synonym for the lack of transparency and the impunity that clouds our vision and development. As a movement this is the time to pivot and address the other basic issues of development in Nigeria, a clarion call of the Lagos rally whose members were subjected to harassment by the Secret Service in Nigeria. In the United States members of the US uniform secret service that are responsible for protecting embassies arrived to question us but left after some observation period. This was before we exhausted our 2 hour rally and got to seat down with the ambassador flanked by some staffs.
            Another talking point that Professor Adefuye stressed apart from competency and expertise was the identification of potential investment partners in the power generating projects. But the names that were mentioned such as General Electric and Halliburton are organizations that have a checked past and begs for more oversight from our legislators. One wonders why the new National Assembly class (members and senators) have not stood up to elucidate these problems. Where are the so-called progressive members of the Action Congress of Nigeria and the Congress for Progressive Change, have they all been compromised? We have a laundry list of actual survival subjects and not phantom kerfuffle on same sex relationships like some of our so-called 1% elites will have us believe. When I came back to Nigeria at the beginning of the year with my family and traveled through Lagos, Benin, Onitsha, Owerri, and Port-Harcourt, we were not threatened by homosexuals. Instead we were confronted with unreliable electricity, noise and air pollution from generators, climate change in terms of no harmattan, gas flaring, and burning of refuse; lack of portable water, inefficient hospitals, and deathtrap roads. Therein should lay our moral and just outrage by the National Assembly, Presidency, and the general public, not political distractions and theaters.

Interview with Professor Adefuye- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srguguG_360
                                                         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xourKS0pJWA



Dedicated to: Chief Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu - Ikemba of Nigeria

             Nnamdi Frank Akwada MSW, BA is a Social Justice Activist
Washington DC Coordinator: Let There Be Light In Nigeria- Nigerian Million March Project www.nigerianmillionmarch.com
Executive Director: African Diaspora Institute and US African Cultural Festival 


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Let There Be Light In Nigeria- Interview with Professor Adefuye