The Justice Eso Truth And Reconciliation Commission Report In Rivers State: Matters Arising

Thank God the report has been submitted. Since November 27th 2007, when the Commission was set up, so much has been said in the open and in other places. Many people doubted the reasons behind the setting up of the Commission. ...Read the full article.

[olusiji]

We have also heard Governor Amaechi on his receipt of the report about his desire to implement the recommendations. He has assured the people of the state that his government will not lack the courage and honesty to implement the report of the Commission. He has therefore given himself a challenge and we should support him and pray that God Almighty that brought him to the seat of power will also guide him with abundance of wisdom to carry out this task.

Rotimi Amechi was speaker for many years in Rivers State and a right hand man of Governor Odili. He saw nothing wrong when crimes were being planned and executed by those he now fight. Between them, they turned Rivers to a land of cult groups, kidnapers and murderers. How he can suddenly turn around to undue an irreversible situation as exists in that part of the Country is a lesson we wait patiently to unravel. His motive for setting up the commission is suspect, his moral strength to pursue the recommendations without bias is questionable

[Abraxas]

Hi, folks!

It is indeed a tragedy that Dr. Peter Odili, a guy who escalated from running a failed ten-bed cottage hospital that could barely break even, to governing a state that received an average of 15 billion naira EVERY single month, for 96 good months, would today sit pretty in his spider hole in Abuja, and indulge in baseless shakara, and unnecessary gra-gra, after grossly mismanaging the affairs of Rivers State to near destruction.

Worse still, is his rather unfortunate and reckless overindulgence in verbal diarrhoea, raining all manner of snide remarks, rude aspersions, and vitriolic innuendos on the person of a retired judge of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Justice Kayode Eso, all in a futile attempt at wriggling out of the Pandora's Box that he very painstakingly designed and constructed.

Here is a guy, whose unrepentantly "anti-Mbammiri" Imo State-born and bred wife, and chief source of error in his life, moved from being a mere local magistrate, to being a High Court judge in Port Harcourt, the very moment he, Dr. Peter Odili, became a Deputy Governor (under Chief Rufus Ada-George) in 1992, and also later propelled herself into the Federal Court of Appeal in Abuja, the moment he had a brainwave to join the presidential race (to Nowhere!)

It is absofuckinglutely unbelievable to even imagine that Dr. Peter Odili, (and whosoever may want to sheepishly follow him in his robust display of wilful and selective amnesia, under the inebriating influence of extreme megalomania), would have the nerve, indeed, the brazen impudence, to boldly stare straight into the eyes of Nigerians, especially the good people of Rivers State, and remain UNREPENTANT, INTRANSIGENT, and mindlessly ABUSIVE.

Let him be reminded that even Alhaji Umaru Dikko, with all his over-confidence about his capacity to launch caustic abuses at the Federal Government of Nigeria, from the safety of self-exile in the UK, even Chief Dan Etete, with all his over-confidence about his capacity to arrogantly bad-mouth the Federal Government of Nigeria, from the safety of self-exile in France, even Biafran General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu (Ikemba Nnewi, Eze Gburugburu NdiIgbo, General of de Pipul), with all his braggadocio about his capacity to confront the Federal Government of Nigeria, from the safety of self-exile in Cote D'Ivoire, ALL learned certain fundamental lessons of life, which most neophytes (like Peter Odili) easily take for granted:

There is more to life than a fat bank account! Not all the shot-term benefits of unrestrained treasury looting can buy you peace of mind! It is not how fat your bank account is that can guarantee your peace of mind. An unproductive life in self-exile, sustained by the dividends of treasury looting, is tantamount to life in purgatory, on earth! There is no safety in numbers, no matter how much sycophants would want you to believe. In short, agaracha must to return back.

29 May 2009 will mark 24 months of voluntary withdrawal from the centre of gravity of the decision-making status quo of Rivers State for Sir (Dr.) Peter Odili (JP, KSJ), Sir (Barr.) Celestine Omehia (JP; KSM), Sir (Dr.) Abiye Sekibo (JP; Knight of the Methodist Church), Sir (Barr.) Austin Opara (JP; Knight of the Anglican Church), and others, all of them currently holed up in self-imposed political quarantine in Abuja and elsewhere. Definitely, this is the route to self-imposed irrelevance in the politics of Rivers State, as far as I can see. Let us give them another two or six years of wilful ostracism and the rest will be history: AGARCHA MUST TO RETURN BACK. No shaking!

MORAL: Hi, folks! No matter what crime you may have committed, PLEASE do not ever contemplate SELF-EXILE as an option to being brought to justice. It is like HELL ON EARTH, especially for those addicted to ego massaging and fixated on sycophants: the long and torturous journey into self-imposed total socio-political irrelevance begins with SELF-EXILE! If in doubt, ask Alhaji Umaru Dikko!

Muchas gracias.

Don Juan-Carlos ABRAXAS (III)