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26/04/2021

THE BLUNDER BETWEEN EEDRIS ABDULKAREEM AND FESTUS KEYAMO SAN

Now permit me to begin by stating unequivocally here that both Eedris and Keyamo were comrades in the same struggles. Festus was once an activist for good governance but today he is in the worst Government ever in the history of Nigeria and he's lost his voice. Eedris was an advocate for good governance but today he's struggling to be part of the worst Government ever in the history of Nigeria and out of frustration from being carried along he's now vocally critical against the said Government.

In the yore days of Keyamo's activism he was sent behind bars and eedris made sure to lament over it in his all time hit single Nigeria Jaga Jaga.
But those years are long gone today and those activists have long retired of their activism like the saying goes, if you can't beat them, join them.

Now Keyamo became a minister in the temple of oppression and corruption called Federal Government of Nigeria and Eedris approached him severally through correpondence and physical meeting soliciting to be taken aboard and eventually begging for "alms" from his fellow comrade who failed him, refused him and denied him. In his frustration Eedris went back to the studios to release another version of Nigeria Jaga Jaga and this time made sure to sign out by stating that the same Keyamo he lamented for in the first edition 17 years ago was now feasting with the oppressors.

In reaction nay retaliation Festus Keyamo SAN released evidence of his chat with Eedris where the song activist was begging him for money and for political favours.

Both men have blundered greatly, in morality, but one of them has blundered in law. Sadly, it is the one who should know better. Festus Keyamo.

By releasing the said chats the Senior Advocate of Nigeria has violated the fundamental right to privacy of his friend and comrade as guaranteed by section 37 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
It reads:

"The privacy of citizens, their homes, correspondence, telephone conversations and telegraphic communications is hereby guaranteed and protected."

The implication of this provision is that the chat between Eedris and Keyamo is protected as private correspondence between the two from being exposed. It is a joint ownership. One cannot make public of it without the direct or indirect consent of the other. The only exception to this is where one of the owners denies the existence of such chat (correspondence) at that point Keyamo would have been duty bound to reveal it to prove its existence.
Releasing the said chat in reaction or retaliation to a fair and public comment made about him by his fellow comrade or acquaintance to embarrass him is less than petty.

In fact, the protection of our privacy as regards correspondence and telephone conversation is so serious that even the media houses and individuals themselves who have shared it on the media are all respectively liable! Hence, the very reason, I cannot accompany this write up with them.

The smart thing for Keyamo would have been to dismiss the Eedris' revived activism by accusing him of blackmail or even calling him a frustrated beggar. Eedris being a proud and arrogant short fuse with short memory as well would have denied being a beggar. Boom! To prove that he's a beggar who has importuned the life out of Keyamo arrives the chats!!!

In this case Eedris merely accused Keyamo of abandoning his former anti corruption stance to become a principal member of a corrupt regime. Every Nigerian who was around during Keyamo's days of crusade against bad governance would have wondered how Eedris managed to release a redo of Nigeria Jaga Jaga without mentioning the man who was behind jail in the first release and now part of those sending activists and innocent Nigerians to jail and early grave today.

Alas, Eedris doesn't need to be a desperado to sue Festus Keyamo for an enforcement of his fundamental rights to privacy when the courts reopen. Come to think of it, how is Festus Keyamo SAN able to sleep at night knowing that the courts he use to run to for the sake of his life and that of other Nigerians has been shutdown for weeks now at the instance of the misgovernance of a Government he's now eating fat from?

I write as Comrade Ewa Okpo Edmund II
Street Lawyer, Arbitrator & Literati
08061579995 arrest me if you like!

13/03/2021

PWAN REAL ESTATE GIANTS CELEBRATES 9TH ANNIVERSARY IN STYLE

As Chairman, Dr Onwumere, gives out cars, cash, other gifts and promises to create One Million Millionaires and more

Nigeria's finest Real Estate network marketing Giant; Property World African Network (PWAN) yesterday Friday 12th March, 2021 celebrated her 9th Annual Convention in Style, at the prestigious Ibom Hall Uyo, Akwa Ibom State with pomp and pageantry.

The colourful event which brought together thousands of PWAN staff, Business owners and Associates from various parts of the world provided avenue for reunion, impartation of more knowledge and sharing of various gifts ranging from brand new cars, cash and other items to hardworking and committed members of the group.

Speaking at the well attended event with the theme: Sharing The Vision, the Chairman of PWAN Group, Dr. Augustine Ozioma Onwumere who explained that the company which started from a humble beginning in 2012 without an office or even a home for the visioner is now proud to disclose that they have over sixty locations in Nigeria with over 500 staff and 80,000 PWAN Business Owners (PBO’s).

He described himself as a living proof of the PWAN Group testimonies and further disclosed that multiple millions of people are already benefitting from the vision of making their home ownership dream a reality. Dr Onwumere added that PWAN has become both a ministry and movement God placed in the hearts of people. He explained that his mission is to empower and turn around the fortunes of millions of Nigerians by making them multi-millionaires.

According to the Chairman, “my personal website is Mr. Empowerment.ng, I want to empower One Million Nigerians to become multimillionaires, when I get to One Million, I will increase it to Ten Million”.

He disclosed that PWAN will transform Akwa Ibom State and impact positively on her economy and estatics by empowering people and building exquisites estates appealing to the State Government to partner the group by providing titles for their massive lands in the state.

“PWAN started when I was just looking for three hundred thousand naira to rent an apartment, and I didn’t want to go around begging. I have always like doing business and started early at 8 years with my father. I left him at aged 27 and have been in the street after my University Education to survive. While on the street I was also reading and learning and I had the opportunity of being poor for several years which afforded me the time to create the blueprint of what people needed to succeed in life”.

Onwumere said that PWAN Group has distinguished itself by giving free training to people in various ways and various locations stressing that outside property selling, they inspire learning into people describing the people whose lives have been impacted positively as their biggest adverts.

He described their compensatory network system as unique and free of any acrimony which leaves beneficiaries satisfied and united in pursuit of the company’s goals.

Also speaking the Group Managing Director Dr. Jayne Obioma Onwumere who described herself as the carrier of the vision which the Husband took to the next level recalled the dire times they faced at the beginning and urged those facing challenges of homelessness to brace up for better future.

According to her, “we are no longer going to hold back the great news anymore, it is like pregnancy even when you say nothing it announces itself. The vision of PWAN Group is to make home ownership a reality for all”, She expressed happiness that the vision the group has enlarged with many people sharing in the dream and bettering their lives.

The Group Managing Director recalled their humble beginning saying: “for two and half years, my husband and I were homeless, we sleep from one home to another, sleeping in places we pay N500 to pass the night. And there were times we had no place to sleep at all. Even the little capital he got at a time to start up our business was stolen from us but it never weakened our determination to excel.

We keep struggling, believing and worshiping the only true God until fortune smile on us”.

Dr. Jayne Onwumere said PWAN has witnessed lots of movement and growth urging members to go ahead and share the vision of the group “Let’s tell people about the PWAN way which is a better way, let’s share hope, lets share faith and above these let’s share love. It is really time to share the vision”, she said.

The Managing Director PWAN plus team and a leading coach in PWAN Home Ltd. Dr. Julius Oyedemi said PWAN is unique in its approach to business and relationship with both clients staff and members.

He said the group is fully in Uyo to eliminate the housing deficit in the city and also enrich individuals who believe in what PWAN is doing. “PWAN networking business is real and no Ponzi Scheme, the people of Uyo are advised to take advantage of the opportunity provided by the group. We have heavy presence in the South East and South South Regions and in the sixteen states of the Country. People should believe in themselves”.

The Group Executive Director PWAN Dr. Michael Okonkwo described the 9th Anniversary Celebration as awesome and unique.

Okonkwo who said the theme of the event is "Sharing The Vision" and noted that the mission of the group is making home ownership a reality.

“ Uyo is one of the cities we are investing in and we have over nine affiliates estates in Uyo. We are glad we are achieving the dream of making home ownership here a reality”.

Okonkwo said the PWAN group also train, teach and empower people on how to own lands houses and homes for themselves and their future generation.

“We empower a lot of people all over the world even Nigerians in Diaspora are benefiting from this. Today from anywhere in the world, you can do business with us and have 100 percent returns on your investment in few months.

The event in which several members left with brand new cars, various sum of money running into millions of Naira as bonuses for their superior performance and other gifts was anchored by a popular comedian and Compere Okey Bakassi.

21/10/2020

THE END SARS PROTEST AND THE REST OF US

I said it the other day, there are three parts and players to any protest anywhere in the world. The Principle, the Politics and the Pecuniary.
The principle part has to do with the Patriots who are the principals of the movement pursuing a genuine cause.

The Political part has to do with those who use the protest to achieve their own interests other than the true motif of the agitations. They support it, using it to blackmail and corner those in authority. They can go as far as toppling a government with it. Meanwhile they're not in sync with the agitations of the protesters. They sometimes pose as sponsors or volunteers. They even lead the protest in some extreme circumstances. They seldom ingeniously oppose the protest beginning on whose favor they intend to curry. Some use it to gain popularity to rise politically and otherwise.

The Pecuniary part refers to those who will take advantage of the first two. Struggle merchants. They supply essential services to the protesters and some extreme services to the Political players. Protesters will eat, rehydrate, warm themselves etc. Protesters may at some point need to look violent to discredit them or so. Someone has to render these services. Some people who pose as protesters and/or leaders of protests are in these category. Hijackers, infiltrators and attackers of protests are ordained for this calling.

Background knowledge of these parts and players puts anyone leaving his home or job to join any protest for any good cause on notice that he is subscribing to an uninsurable social risk.

The Arab spring is an excellent example. People protesting for genuine cause in their country were used to mob and topple their governments in the interest of the western powers. Some people benefited with power and money but those countries aren't any better today.

We've seen fellow student leaders snitch on their comrades to gain favour from the administration. Some of us have had our own share of the bitter part of students unionism in our days in school. We have experienced all three parts severally.

Nigerians are by now used to labour leaders calling for labour action whenever they are broke only to call off the action after filing their pockets while dining with the Government in the name of agreements. Then they will repeat it again claiming that Government has reneged. It ruse plays on.

The present protest is a genuine call beyond stopping police brutality but a wake to responsible governance. No sane Nigerian can argue against this call. Not even those in Government.

But truth be told some struggle merchants and Political elements have apparently blended in to the point of near total hijacking of the cause.

President Buhari in his independence day address forewarned of these days.l when he bleated
"...Democracy, the world over and as I am pursuing in Nigeria, recognizes the power of the people. However, if some constituencies choose to bargain off their power, they should be prepared for denial of their rights."

He ostensibly had security intelligence of an impending protest but what he did not know was the form it would take and how genuine it would be.

Government almost like God knows everything. No civil unrest can last beyond 48 hours without government complicity. This protest isn't unconnected with 2023 ambition of some people within the present corridors of power. While Nigerians are genuinely clamouring for their deserves welfare wolves in sheep clothing are amongst us.

Take Tinubu for instance, his plea to call off the protest may jolly we'll be a charade to create plausible deniability for his surrogate patronage of the protest.

We protesters must know that not all who stand with us are actually standing for us. Ordinarily, it would cost the Government lesser to agree to 50% of the protest demands than to fight the protesters. The federal government on one hand is ready to burn the entire nation than to be seen as losing to the masses. That is Buhari's own way of not negotiating with terrorists like Uncle Sam. But the same government negotiates with bandits and Boko Haram terrorists.

Some greedy elements have compromised or smeared the integrity of the cause like in Uyo where a Governor's innocent refreshment dough became spondulicks for a few. Unbeknownst to them, they only slaughtered their credibility not the cause.

In other states like Edo a Prison break is poorly and hurriedly staged. In Lagos, curfew is imposed, CCTV Cameras are disconnected and lights taken out at the lekki tollgate converge of the protest and what follows is only logical. Mayhem! State sponsored terrorism. Protesters Slayers activated. There are video clips of thugs receiving instructions from state security agents and running into state security vehicles. These elements are not imported into Nigeria. They are fellow Nigerians suffering the same malaise the protest seeks to cure, our very own brothers and sisters ready tools in the hands of our enemy.

But very worrisome of these are those who in the light of all of these accuse the protesters of violence. Most of them do so out of pathetic partisanship, only a few do so from the innocence of their ignominy. Obviously, our family and friends have become our willing traducers for our oppressors.

Most worrisome however is the possible outcome of these attacks. The next stage. Will the protesters disperse or will they reinforce albeit peacefully or otherwise? If we stop the protest now for fear of deaths, trust me, these people seem to be willing to run a killing spree, it will be the end of us. Nigeria may never get better even if we vote out the present leaders tomorrow; their replacements armed with the hindsight of today will be even worse.

If we continue, nevertheless, it may be at the cost of our lives and businesses but it may bring down the nation to its knees and the government lying on its belly flat on the ground.
It is not enough to clap people to their deaths with our tweets and social media posts. Perhaps we all may have to enter the streets now. They are more civilians than military and paramilitary officers. We out match them on a ratio of thousands to one. They are more civil protesters than hoodlums. We out match them in hundreds of thousands to one.

Perhaps the churches and mosques, banks and companies, secretariats and parastatals, etcetera and etceteras may all have to empty into the streets for the protest politicians and protest merchants to give way for the actualization of the protest principles. End police brutality and bad governance simpliciter.

I am Comrade Ewa Okpo Edmund,
Street Lawyer, Arbitrator and Literati
And I'm available for arrest!
08061579995

26/06/2020

LAUGHING AT ADAMS OSHIOMOLE'S APC AND THE REST OF NIGERIA

'Really can't wrap my mind round the sudden excitement of PDP and pro-PDP folks over the kerfuffle in APC.
I mean, what's happening there that hasn't happened in PDP before? Or should I add "s" to the "before" just for emphasis of the fact that PDP has walked that tenebrific path more than once?

If for anything, men and brethren of the PDP fold should be mortified by the fact that the APC imbroglio is coming this early. Nobody fancies early ej*******on. Except you're standing in line to take over.... Damn too early for any adversary to cashout any political dividends therefrom.

Election is in 2023 and APC is in total disarray in 2020? Three good years ahead! A child born now would have crawled, walked, teethed, talked and even be in kindergarten in three years time. More than enough time for a sensible devil to cut deals with the heavens. If he pulled it on Job in the bible those folks can do even better over A*o Rock.

So if they get their acts right, in three years time they'd put their house in order. To such reality, PDP doesn't stand a chance against them. Nigeria doesn't. Ask me why and I'd tell you for free. O' lest I forget, please don't liken the furore in Buhari's APC to that of Jonathan's PDP. Obviously, Otueke was exceptionally clumsy in human conflict management. Daura has proven otherwise. Though both are "clueless" in other aspects of stewardship.

PDP itself is a disaster on cue. A political volcano overdue for eruption. The brewing cold war of dissention is palpable. The type of the cost of two consecutive presidential elections in successive sabotage. Especially the 2019 outing that nobody has deemed fit to mention let alone addressing. Sincerely, I don't comprehend why PDPians are pretending like 2019 presidential polls was only massively rigged by President Muhammad Buhari without a contributing proportional sabotage from his destiny helpers in PDP.

Truth be told, if PDP doesn't take a break from it's otiose suffering and smiling act to address it's own demons headlong and early what happened in 2014/15 which repeated itself in 2018/19 election will be child's play in 2022/23. A combined proportion of the nPDP and Ali Modu Sherrif debacle will replay a calamitous de javu.

Matters arising from the past outing must always take preference over any other business. Will the PDP follow Party-centric or Niger-centric zoning system?

As far as the South in the PDP and Nigeria generally are concerned 2023 presidency is their turn. Big Problem you say? In that problem lies a bigger problem. Which South? The South South believe the nation owes them a tenure from Goodluck Jonathan's truncated presidency. Hence should be allowed to finish the chew.

The South East know they deserve to have a shot at the presidency. Since the beginning of this current democratic regime in 1999 the closest they've come to A*o Rock is a trick of serially botched Senate presidency.

At least both South South and South East seem to agree on one thing; that the Southwest has had their one very good turn in Obasanjo's Presidency plus a bonus of Osibanjo's Vice Presidency.

Alas, the Southwest proudly disagrees with above. To them they are the South and no one else. Ostensibly, there seem to be no David from the militant South South and merchantile Southeast to match the Goliath of the foxy Southwest.

The twists are even more twisted. The North in PDP are of the notion that the President Muhammed Buhari's Northern Presidency is of the APC's North (whatever that means) and that the PDP North are yet to have their turn which was short-lived in President Yar'Adua and subsequently shortchanged by Jonathan. What a convenient grudge!

Meanwhile, the likes of Kwankwazo, Saraki, Tambuwal and Lamido hold the view and strongly so that Atiku has had more than enough chances with the presidency with a record serial losses and should therefore give way for others.

Nigeria is a scrambled and partitioned political enterprise. So has it been from the yore days of colonialism; a fraud without end.

Fellow PDPians I hope with these few points of mine I've been able to impress on you the reality that there is nothing exciting about the confusion and fall of Adams Oshiomole in APC to the benefit of PDP and Nigeria. Laughing at their show is preparing to clap for them when the show is over while we go back home to wait for yet another premier. Until PDP wakes up people like us will mourn for them. Nigeria weeps.

Ewa Okpo Edmund II
Street Lawyer, Arbitrator & Literati.
08061579995

27/04/2020

ME, MY DAD AND MY EDUCATION

I got admission into Secondary School when Navy Town Secondary School, Ojo, Lagos operated the "fail in JSS1 and go policy". The idea was for the JSS 1 students to always be freshers. No old student amongst them to corrupt or influence them in anyway.

It was a hideous policy to us. A kill joy! One would spend years of tortuous Primary School terms dreaming of becoming a Secondary School Student only to arrive and be told that they can't wait to throw you out. Now, as if the reproach of failing and leaving the school wasn't enough, what followed thereafter was the real death deal. Navy Town Primary School, which I attended, will not accept you in primary 6. You'd have to go to primary 5. And that's if that class isn't too full already by the head master's assessment. Nigerian Navy Primary School and Naval Officers Wives Association Primary School that prided themselves over public schools won't accept you in primary 5. You'd have to go to primary 4 or it's equivalent and that's depending on whether that class isn't full by their pride and wickedness.

The private schools around like CBN and Stepping Stone weren't any different. So when you fail in JSS 1 you end up in primary 4. It's like falling asleep mistakingly in an aeroplane and waking up inside a wheelbarrow in a ghetto slum. By this time those who were in primary 3 when you were in JSS1 are practically your class mates and by the time you get back to JSS1 your original JSS1 class mates would have written their Junior WAEC. It's that terrible. You're only permitted to fail from JSS2. What a permission.

I skipped primary 6 by writing the common entrance examination in another school and eventually got the admission into JSS 1A, Navy Town Secondary School Ojo. Boy! I didn't care about their crazy policy. I cruised my new status like there was no tomorrow. I played from dawn to dusk. And everyone around was sure I was going to fail especially the class mates I abandoned and was now "forming secondary school student for". Annoyingly, I had to walk through my primary school compound to get into the secondary school while the pupils, my erstwhile mates, would be screaming "Ewa, Ewa, mumu (stupid) boy, you don forget your class?"
"Class teacher dey call you, come back here!" They threatened to beat me up, accused me of impersonation, disillusionment and all sorts of absurdities.

Interestingly, those far more intelligent and studious than my humble self had failed and fallen from grace to grass. I wasn't even studious. They were sure I'd be cast from grace to w**d! I wasn't sure I wouldn't fail myself. I just went about my frolicking the way I liked. On one of those days, my elderly cousin who was three classes ahead of me in the same school stumbled on one of my test sheets. An abysmal performance. "You think you're still in primary school where you answer questions with common sense right? Look here, in secondary school you read your notes, read your text books and use what you read to answer questions." He scolded me.

Actually, I wasn't doing so badly in primary school but I won't lie, I wasn't taking the first positions. Once in my nursery school I luckily took the 1st position and fell to 2nd position the next term, that was Majos International Nursery and Primary School, Surulere, my mother, an Efik princess, beat me like I stole her husband. The child who took the 1st position didn't have two heads she thundered. What happened the next term surprised her. It was the end of the whole matter. From that day forward I never took anything close to first five position in the class. If almost being the best was a crime then why try to be the best? Become the best and there's so much pressure on you to maintain it. Thank you, I don't want again. Yeah, I'm a natural deviant. Disciplinary measures can sometimes be counter productive on me. I naturally find myself doing the things I'm asked not to do as a kid. Truly, it was a dangerous job bringing me up. God bless those poor parents and guardians.

Navy Town Secondary School Ojo then didn't conduct examinations in first term. I don't know about now. We wrote four continuous assessments in first term and no result sheet is given. Thank God! Then we write three continous assessments and an examination in second and third terms. We took our result sheet home with us on both terms. Second term result came and I took 45th position in a class of over a 100 students. My father was in far away Liberia on peace keeping mission. Poor naval officer of a father. But don't pity him please. He was a tyrant! Maximum despotic ruler of a father. If you think the fail and leave policy bad enough wait till you meet my Dad's. The man attempted to murder me from far away yonder at the news of my result. He wrote me a letter meant to deal with me. A total waste of time.

My naval officer Dad had told us that he's obliged to send us to school but that it wasn't an obligation. What a way to confuse your kids. He told us how going to school in his time was war and laborious. He practically sent himself to school with some assistance from his eldest brother. They had to fight their way through a village to cross a river in that village to go to school in yet another village. So they went in groups and left weekly only to return to hustle Garri, palm oil and fish for the next week. And here we were schooling in luxury. "I don't have anything for you to inherit from me when I die apart from this school I'm sending you. But the day you fail any class that day your education ends." And if there's anything the military is good at it's keeping promises of terror, what we call threats. Daddy is first class. But beloved, this education that we're talking about was practically free in Lagos State O'.

Dearly Beloved, third term came and my father was around. Somehow the result was delayed until he was due to leave for Liberia again. On the day he was leaving I arrived with my third term result, handed it over to him and the man was astonished at the sight of it. He quickly called for my earlier result. Compared both and asked, "What is this?" Take note, there's nothing like rhetoric question in the military. Every question must be answered with screaming alacrity. You sentence yourself by yourself.
"Daddy, it's my result." I responded.
"What was your position last term?"
"45th." I stuttered.
"What did I tell you then?"
"Work hard, sit up and improve." I confessed.
"What is this?" He asked again handing over the dossier with my third term result sheet to me.
"My third term result..." My voice began to fail me.
"What is that?" He threatened
"My third term result Daddy." I recovered my voice.
"What position did you take this time?"
"55th position." I announced my failure to the hearing of himself and everyone in the room, my siblings, cousins, step mothers and a few friends and neighbors who had come to bid him safe journey.
The room was awed by this news. But I doubt if any of them was surprised. No one in that room expected me to do better than those studious lads who had been there before me and were sent packing. It would be a miracle if I fared any better with the way I had been playing all session. It would be grave injustice even for me to be promoted on trial.
"Now tell me, with this kind of result are you going forward or backward?" He queried me. The query incited some chuckling from some of my traducers in the room.
I looked at my Dad, his despotic head was still seated menacingly on his neck. My eyes went down to my third term result sheet, 55th position. My mind scurried to the memory of my second term result, 45th position. The answer was simple and clear.

"Ewa..." He called my name coldly in our pure native dialect. I answered humbly, ready for my slaughter. Then he continued in Oro. "È bæi 45 ku second term, odi bæi 55 ku third term, zu'ghu ñō mi ulagha'm, mu'tō rezult ōm, a'vo aga onyi-onyi mè aga arai-arai?"
You were 45th in 2nd term, you're 55th in 3rd term, now tell me, with this kind of result are you going forward or backward?" He bellowed. It was a dangerous thing for my dad to ask the same question twice. It was the death of you for him to do so in two different tongues. Your beating will come in English and tongues! I answered him. I told him the truth. And boldly too.
"Daddy, I'm going forward."
Actually, I'd been promoted to JSS 2A. Not on trial. Promoted!

From: Diary of a wayward rise.
Author: Ewa Okpo Edmund, Street Lawyer, Arbitrator & Literati. 08061579995
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How I salute officer Dad, these days, when I see him.

Happy Quarantine Y'all!!!

BARR. OKPO EWA

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