ELECTRICITY SUPPLY AND THE INHERENT FRAUD IN RATIONING.

A few weeks back, the minister of power Barrister Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) quipped that some states in Nigeria are already enjoying 24 hours electricity supply.  Though opinion molders have taking him to task saying his assertions were all fallacy. They mused that his appointment does not fit his training. That it is a round peg in a square hole. Wetin concern lawyer with electricity?

My take is that if the minister in charge of electricity says his outfit is supplying 24 hours electricity to some states and the consumers are saying they are not getting that much supply, it then shows there is a mystery somewhere down the line. It is that mysterious ‘disappearance’ of electricity that I want us to look at using Edo State as an example.

It is a known fact that electricity cannot be stored. So as it is generated it is supplied to the consumer for usage. But in Edo State there is a phenomenon introduced by the Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC  of rationing electricity to consumers. For example, they will supply electricity to a community for 3 three hours and turn off for another 3 hours. Some are could be on a 4 four hours rotation. If you happen to be in these neighbourhoods when the lights are suppose to come on at say 9am and to go off by 12noon, you will notice the promptness and the regularity of the switching off and switching on. This goes to show that the electricity is always available to them for onward supply at the promised time. What this is telling us is that BEDC has access to 24 hours electricity supply from the national source, but choose to buy less and supply to the people on rationing. The little they bought from the national is now shared for few hours to the local consumer. Because, as at the time A is turned off another B is receiving supply.

Fashola was right there is 24 hours electricity supply but companies like BEDC has chosen to short change their costumers by undersupplying them due their gross inefficiency.

BEDC should buy enough electricity and truly supply the people with 24 hours electricity, supply them with meters and let the people pay for their fair consumption. The economy will grow and BEDC will be profitable. What BEDC is doing right now is pure economic sabotage.

In Memory of Col. Muammar Qaddafi

Stephen Uwafiokun Obakpee

26 March at 16:54

Before the West murdered Ghadaffi

1. There was no electricity bill in Libya, electricity is free for all its citizens.

2. There was no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens are at a 0% interest by law.

3. Home was considered a human right in Libya. Gaddafi vowed that his parents would not get a house until everyone in Libya had a
home.

4. All newlyweds in Libya received $60,000 Dinars (US$50,000) from the government to buy their first apartment.

5. Education and medical treatments were free in Libya. Before Gaddafi started ruling Libya, only 25% of Libyans were literates. Before he was murdered, the figure stood at 83%.

6. Libyans took up farming as a career, they received farm land, a farming house, equipment, seeds and livestock to kick- start their farms – all for free.

7. If Libyans could not find the education or medical facilities they needed in Libya, the government funded them to go abroad for it.

8. In Gaddafi's Libya, if a Libyan buys a car, the government subsidized 50% of the price.

9. The price of petrol in Libya was $0. 14 per liter.

10. Libya had no external debt and its reserves amount to $150 billion – now frozen globally.

11. If a Libyan is unable to get employment after graduation, the state would pay the average salary of the profession as if he or she is employed until employment is found.

12. A portion of Libyan oil sale is credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.

13. A mother who gave birth to a child under Gaddafi, received US $5,000 as child benefit upfront.

14. 40 loaves of bread in Libya cost was $ 0.15

15. 25% of Libyans had a university degree.

16. Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Man- Made River Project, to make water readily available throughout the desert country.

Is this the definition of a Dictator?
I wonder what type of Leadership Democracy provides!

In memory of Col. Muammar Gaddafi.

Some people are wired to succeed in queer ways.

Some people are wired to succeed in queer ways.

You remember that traffic gala-selling dude, who on seeing a Nigerian Prisons black Maria filled with hungry prisoners yelling for help, decided to give out all the gala he had for sale free-of-charge so these prisoners could feed.

Well, his kind gesture has earned him bigger things.

He is now into wholesaling.......

He said he did what he did cos those prisoners were really begging and he could feel their plight.

One thing he said that made him empty his gala carton was that when he started squeezing each gala through the little air duct, he was scared that the armed-prison warders were going to harass him, however he was dazed that they let him continue giving out the gala to these court-bound inmates. That made him continue till he was empty......

I think someone recorded his kind gesture, days later, some good samaritan, in fact, 2 at first found their way to his usual traffic-sale point and gave him some cash....

Today, more has come as he now owns this wholesale store.......

It is cool to be good.

Stop enjoying alone........

Share as much as you can....

Loads of people are hungry and need help.

Give without expecting good in return.

God wouldn't let a giver run dry cos God knows when you have, you share.....

Stop the aka-gum lifestyle you live......

Now you know better. By 

Greg Nwoko

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The Ups and Downs of Life.

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, the bus conductor jumped out and landed by my side. I was about to be robbed!
However, the conductor had other plans...
'Oshodi Oshodi Oshodi o...'
I heaved a sigh of relieve and breathed deeper, then I saw a guy I'd known for long. Years of separation couldn't play on me any trick. He was one of the brightest guy in our class, and had won for us a couple of Inter-School competition.
He was of a modest middleclass family that valued education and when he says a word is 'adjectival proverb' or 'future present past participle', we dared not argue because he was usually right.
Always ahead. He had a way of mentally working out complex mathematical equations without writing. He was a silent threat to the 'booboo' teachers and would sometimes challenge their answers' which later earned him cold hates. Gbenga was that hot and was named one of the most likely to succeed in our class.
'Oshodi…Oshodi…Oshodi oke o…' He continued.
I pushed out my head from the car and 'hala' his nick name.
'Gbengene!'
He was shocked. Only his old allies would know that name, I guessed. He looked intently at me and then screamed. I came out of the car and we hugged fiercely, like old thieves, gallons of his sweat rubbing all over me, but I cared not. I was happy to see my old friend.
‘Viko ómó'lòpè, what’s up? O ti sha-pra-pra gan o...'
He hailed loudly in street parlance. We however couldn't talk as he had to get back to work, and his driver 'oga' was blaring the horn angrily. So I took his phone number and watched him go adoringly.
Gbenga ran back to the moving Danfo bus, jumped in and clung tightly to the door as if his entire life depended on it. He gave me a parting smile and flashed a decolorized teeth supposedly darkened by excessive marijuana smoking and deepseated apathy to dental hygiene.
God, what happened?
I stood, rooted to that spot and sadly watched him disappear into the fast moving Lagos metro.
Then came flurry of emotion.
I cried.
As I drove on, I flashed back to another flip-sided slice of life that made me conclude afterall that life is a scam.
I was on Admiralty Way in Lekki and stopped at AP/Tantalizer Junction to shine my shoe. I was admiring the Aboki doing his work with much passion when a black Range Rover halted suddenly behind me and the screech of the tyres made me dive for safety.
God forbid bad thing!
While on the safer side, I glanced back to see the idiot behind the wheel, then I saw a familiar face. 'No! Haba! It couldn't be him' I argued within me, then wiped my face for a clearer vision. The loser was still there, smiling stupidly. The face rang a louder bell, and of course, I remembered him.
'What in hell could Bala be doing inside this Range Rover?' I queried myself.
It is tragic to be dumb, and a tragedy to be stupid, but it is a curse to be both. Bala was dumb and stupid! His parents were extremely poor! That, conjoined with his non-existent academic performance which affected his confidence and social life, he was simply termed a failure and had severally been assured he wouldn't amount to anything in life. He agreed, and we all agreed with him. So we treated him as nobody, a scumbag.
‘Well, maybe Bala had finally fulfilled his destiny and become a driver as predicted' I concluded, grinning sheepishly.
What a stupid miscalculation!
Balarabe, the dullest guy in my class was the proud owner of the R2. Back then, this guy could not even write a decimal point with a bottle, but now signs cheques with gold pen and cruises posh SUVs about Lagos. We hung out out at The Sailors Lounge and he told me how he reinvented himself. He attended few crash courses, changed his orientation, worked with a shipping company in Apapa Wharf, became hardworking and brutally honest. His boss loved him and mentored him in shipping and importation business until he stated his own company.
Wow!
Balarabe!
A CEO of a Shipping Company!!!
Bala!
A scum of the earth?!
I couldn't sleep that night as I kept musing over Gbenga and Bala.
So I concluded.
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor riches to men of understanding, nor favour to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
It is not over until it is over.
Gbe body é
➖➖➖➖➖
DON'T WRITE YOURSELF OFF.
_The Movie is still on and it could soon start to favour you_
➖ Reinvent Yourself
➖ Get started again with much agility and faith!
#COPIEDThe Ups and Down

Pa Thomas O. Omorogiuwa

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THE DEPOSITION OF THE ENOGIE OF UROMI : IT MAYBE US TOMORROW.

THE DEPOSITION OF THE ENOGIE OF UROMI : IT MAYBE US TOMORROW.

by Felix Osemwengie Isere, Esq, Cnarb

I woke up this morning to hear about the sad news of the deposition of Enogie of Uromi and this came to me as a huge shock. I have tried not to make any comment on this matter since he was suspended for assaulting a woman because of its sensibility but I am coerced by circumstance to speak on it knowing very well history will judge me if I decide to be silent or even take side out of political partisanship.

One of the reason why many people in APC accuse me of anti party activity is because I don't always support every action of the Edo State Government as everybody will do, this is because I have a conscience that I will not want to mortgage for party loyalty and my professional background as a lawyer who sworn an oath to stand on the side of justice, fairness and equity, and protect the Constitution will not let me keep quiet or take side with my party even when I know the action is wrong.

This action by Edo State Government to depose the crown king of Uromi , Oba Aslem Adonije after the woman he was accusd of assaulting has even apologize and mend fence with the Enogie of Uromi must be condemn by all of us, whether you are Benin or from Edo North because it may happen to your Oba tomorrow. We cannot adore,reverend respect and celebrate our king and support the humiliation of another, we can not see our oba as a Lord and see another one as a servant, we not see our our Oba as someone who is ordained by God and see another as an appointee of the Government, we cannot apply the ideal that the king does no wrong to our oba and see another as an exception. We must totally resist and condemn any act that will divide us as a people or denigrate our traditional institutions and make mockery of it.

We as a people who respect tradition should not be seen to be supporting this type of executive rascality. If this was the Oba Of Benin even if he kills somebody would the State Government even suspend him to the extent of deposing him? If this was the Otaru of Auchi would the State Government do same knowing well they are guided by the same purported weird law of 1979 which I think was even a photocopy of the Colonial masters Law which they used in deposing our obas .The Bible instructed us to do unto others the way we want them do unto us. If the woman that was allegedly assaulted has decided to apologize knowing very well the the tradition, what gave the State Government the moral and legal right to maltreat and humiliate him this way? Maybe there is more to this they are not letting us know. This is a case of sowing a seed of discord and disaffection among the people and hereby promoting ethnic antagonism and Ill-feelings. As a member of APC, I won't support this action and it will even become crazy for me to start celebrating it. What is wrong is wrong, we should not play politics with everything. The members of APC from Uromi and all stakeholders should as a matter of urgency call the government to order because this is not good for our state and not even at this time when the current government is about to leave the office.

The said Section 28( I & 2) of the Traditional Rulers and Chiefs Law, 1979 relied upon by the State Government to depose the oba was misinterpreted in error and in mystery. The State Government only gave the law that gave them power to depose a monarch who was not crown by them but did not tell us under what grounds can they exercise such Power. The said Law is archaic , repugnant to natural justice, good conscience and good conscience . The oba was accuse of allegedly assaulting a woman and told to apologise without given fair hearing and this is a breach of his fundamental Human Right under Section 36 of the 1999 constitution, apology itself is a punishment for a crime and not and not a trial or a call for defence itself . The monarchy was by inheritance and confirmed by the Chiefs or whatsoever name they might be called in Uromi Land and not by appointment , and any Law that directly or indirectly either by expression or interpretation gives the State government the power to suo moto or arbitrarily depose a sitting oba for allegedly assault is void, mischievous and not certainly a good Law. The Oba is not immune from prosecution and if he is alleged to have committed and crime or offence, he should be arrested and tried in the regular court , If the State Government can do so, it is making the monarch an appointee of the government who will always dance to the tune of the government and can be fire anytime.

We must all rise up and condemn this executive rascality because it maybe us tomorrow.

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The latest from APC primaries in Edo State.

Osbert Agho shared Felix Osemwengie Isere's photo.

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PRESS RELEASE

EDO2016

I WITHDRAW MY CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO OBASEKI, AND I REJECT THE APC PRIMARY

I FELIX OSEMWENGIE ISERE wish to withdraw my congratulatory message earlier sent to the self acclaimed winner of the June 18th
APC primary, Godwin Obaseki who even knew what he will score a day before the election. The message was hasty and sent in error thinking that the primary was free and fair as shown live on air and people were deceptively meant to believe not knowing it was a mere charade , formality and a stage managed fraud.

I have been waiting for my principal Dr. PIUS ODUBU to come out with a statement and position but he decided to not to speak for reasons best known to him. As a lawyer and a patriotic party man who was shocked by the results, I decided to embark on my personal investigation from delegates and persons who are close to the two petitioner Barr. Ken Imasuangbon and Dr. Chris Ogiewonyi and are privy to their petition. I was speechless by the revelations I got. It was revealed that it was the National Organising Secretary of the party Senator Osita Ozinaso, who was compromised, That the National Chairman of the party and the Chairman of the committee that organised the primary were not away of this wicked conspiracy to pervert the will of the delegates .It was the National Organising Secretary who has the responsibility to print ballot papers and after he was bought by these desperadoes in Edo State , he gave the contract to Comrade ADAMS Oshiomhole who printed it in Benin. The machine that was used to print the ballot papers was bought from China and all the ballot papers were programmed in a way to show green at Obaseki space in the ballot paper with the reflection of mercury light in the faces of agents and every other observer at night and the scores of the other aspirants were also programmed and allocated in a way that after two minutes of voting for them the ink will dry. The entire votes were allocated that was why the least popular aspirant alone could get 1600 votes. And delegates also corroborated that the ink put in their fingers did not last up to two minutes in their fingers.

It will be interesting for you to know that about 1700 delegates have jointly signed a petition to the Bamidele led Appeal panel that they never voted for Obaseki and some of them are in Abuja to give evidence before the panel. It was further revealed that it was around 4am that night that somebody called Ken Imasuangbon and told him details of this dubious activity and how they bought the machine from China, hence the reason for the vexatious reaction from Imasuangbon.

Furthermore, I found out that the reason why the Governor was restless at the stadium that day jumping from one place to another like squirrel was because he was afraid their evil plans may fail or it will be discovered . And when they realised that the figures they programmed was higher than the accredited delegates the Governor had to use his influence in the stadium to bring non delegates to votes so as to ensure that the total numbers of accredited voters tally with what they have prior arranged and that was the reason for the protest and and shouting from agents of some aspirants on air live that night at the stadium.

It was when the Governor discovered their fraudulent activities was later discovered that he started running up and down meeting people to help him beg the aspirants. Consequently, he wanted to use the presidency and that was the reason the SGF
heard meeting with all the aspirants in Abuja last week and he made some offer but Ken Imasuangbon and Chris Ogiewonyi openly rejected the offer made to them and demanded for Forensic analysis of the ballot because they are very sure of their claims.

Let me state here and now that despite my principal Dr PIUS ODUBU has not said anything neither has he informed me personally of his decision to accept or reject the result, however as a member of APC and someone who believes in Justice, fairness and democracy, I totally join Barr. Ken Imasuangbon and Chris Ogiewonyi to demand for a forensic analysis of the ballot papers and cancellation of the purported result, anything short of that will be unacceptable. I vehemently reject the purported results of the primary. it was a fraud, a clear sham, and the greatest evil conspiracy of the century. I demand the immediate resignation and prosecution of the National Organising Secretary of our party, he has shown to be a true Igbo man who can easily be compromised with money. I reject the reconciliation moves and all attempts to cover this mega evil and anti democratic practice, It will not stand and shall never stand because you cannot put something on nothing and expect it to stand. I vow to mobilise other Comrades in the party to seek justice anywhere and anyhow within the ambit of the Law if the party does not give us Justice. I know president Mohammed Buhari will not support this evil neither will he be an accessory to it. This is not about me or any individual,but it is about the integrity of of the largest party in Africa and it internal democracy. Obaseki who mastered this fraud should not only be disqualified but he must be arrested and prosecuted.

I REJECT EDO APC PRIMARY AND I REJECT OBASEKI WHO IS THE PRODUCT OF SUCH EVIL.

‪#‎DISCLAIMER‬: All statements of facts made here were made in my personal capacity and I take absolute liability for them and I am not making it on behalf of DR PIUS ODUBU or any other aspirants neither did they authorise me to do so.

FELIX OSEMWENGIE I SERVE (esq)

Founder and co- Coordinator

TRUTH AND JUSTICE VANGUARD.