October 2019

at October 19, 2019 0

By the People's Bishop Kenneth Obi

Because of the sexual harassment scandal that recently hit one of Nigeria’s older generation universities, the Senate has revisited the sexual harassment bill that was passed by the 8th Senate but failed to get presidential assent. 

If the 9th Senate passed the bill and succeeded in getting the president to assent it, it would mean that henceforth, any lecturer that is found guilty of harassing a female or male student sexually, would be sentenced to 5 years as well as pay a fine of ₦5 million.

I must commend the Senate for revisiting the bill. At least, it shows that it does condone the sexual harassment of students on campus. However, I am surprised with the way the Senate has quickly moved, in this matter, despite the many infirmities hanging around its own neck.

In other words, the Senate does not have the moral right to revisit the sexual harassment bill if it does do something similar to deal with the conspicuous corruption that has desecrated the hallowed chamber.

Is it not funny that the Upper Chamber –a safe haven for corrupt politicians, is trying to judge the sexual predators, sorry lecturers? Is there any difference between sexual immorality and looting? Are both not sins? So who are the lawbreakers to make law when they themselves don’t keep to law? If the Senate judges others comfortably, who will judge it?


And mind you, this is not to say that I am against the sexual harassment bill. No, I am not. Although I am against the light punishment that the bill is set to dish out if assented by the president. 

Considering the gravity of the crime, I thought the Senate would have at least proposed a life sentence for any lecturer found wanting of sexually harassing students even if it would not subscribe to the idea of a death sentence. Unfortunately, the Senate may stick with the bonanza prepared by the 8th Senate, which I think is not an adequate deterrence.

However, now that the Senators have thought it wise to “come up” with a bill or law as the case may be, that will judge the lecturers that are fond of harassing their students as well as deter the transactional practice of sex for marks, they also owe us all duty to make a stringent law that will curb the corruption of officeholders. 

If the Senate could deem it to propose five years and ₦50 million fine for the rogue lecturers across the Nigerian higher institutions, I see no reason why it should not make tougher law for itself and other public officeholders. After all, leaders must lead by example.

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The People's Bishop Kenneth Obi, Edo COGIC Prelate and Chairman Citizens for Righteousness and Social Justice (CRJ), Imo State._
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at October 19, 2019 0

By the People's Bishop Kenneth Obi

The African division of the BBC has released its special report on lecturers who demand sex from their students in exchange for marks, causing an uproar on social media and the internet in general.

Although the report was supposed to be on universities in West Africa- it is not clear if there is more, even though it appears that there were more than two lecturers implicated in this report– only two universities featured in the investigation: the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and the University of Ghana. 

Of course, some mischievous elements would soon rise up to say that the number is too small to establish the prevalence of this menace in tertiary institutions in these countries. Thankfully, we have the OAU, ABU Zaria and FUOYE cases to fling their lies back to their faces very quickly.


As reiterated over and over again, this is not the first time allegations of sexual abuse of students by lecturers would come up. It has been an issue for years, and after the OAU sex-scandal case, we have had more people speak up against this practice. 

So, it is interesting that we are still hearing of new cases. Even more interesting is the fact that to date, Nigeria’s Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has not released any official statement about this crime, neither has it publicly announced guidelines to checking and punishing this menace.


The universities, and by extension, lecturers, are just as complicit as their overall governing body. With all the complaints made, no public Nigerian tertiary institution has made efforts to protect its female students by creating a special office for this purpose and campaigns to enlighten the vulnerable. 

Sexual harassment by lecturers is not discussed publicly, as though it were a taboo none of them had dared to break yet. Instead, we keep hearing about cultism as though it were the only crime on campuses.

The BBC report on this menace is laudable, and it is further proof that our schools need to take more proactive actions to end it. But sadly, it will not happen now or any time soon. 

Dr. Boniface Igbeneghu and Dr. Paul Kwame Butakor will definitely be slashed by the sword of Damocles that calmly rested above their heads in the offices they occupied and which they refused to see and acknowledge. But will there be any efforts to ensure that a Dr. Boniface or Dr. Paul does not rise up again in our tertiary institutions? It seems highly unlikely.

In the end, the real change will come from us- people on the outside who were victims once or knew others who were victims. People who had to deal with the helplessness of being powerless in the face of what seemed at the time as absolute authority. 

That is the only way we can get the change we want in our tertiary institutions because relying on our lecturers to effect these changes is like waiting for the emergence of the blue moon.

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_The People's Bishop Kenneth Obi, Edo COGIC Prelate and Chairman, Citizens for Righteousness and Social Justice (CRJ), Imo State._
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at October 06, 2019 0

By the People's Bishop Kenneth Obi

We Nigerians are far too quick to assign unearned titles to leaders who are yet to prove their competence. “Your Excellency, Sir” is most obsequiously attached to governors, local government chairmen, and senators regardless of their political abilities.

Winning an election is not a feat that warrants such flattery, especially when the Nigerian political culture is dominated by violence, manipulation, deception, and intimidation.

However, this will surely not stop us from showering chosen leaders with accolades and titles, even when less than 3% of the eligible population voted for the leader in question.

We are always ready to hail and salute our elected representatives when all they often know how to do is deface public property with pictures of their complacent faces. Indeed, even when our leaders are on trial for corruption and crime, we find a way to assign them undeserved titles.

Some may argue for the need to respect elected officials. What they fail to note is that these officials, often found guilty of all kinds of negligence and corruption, would be given the status of common criminals if they were less rich and powerful.

There is nothing excellent about them lining their pockets with our money. There is nothing excellent about scaling fences and throwing chairs in Houses of Assembly.

And there is certainly nothing excellent about leaving a country with so much potential in the same state in which you found it.

Until we see the country as a whole begin to reach excellence, the title “your excellency” will be nothing more than a lie, a premature assertion contributing to Nigeria’s political and economic stagnation.

Fellow Nigerians, please scrutinize your local and national leaders before assigning them such titles. Your so-called Excellency’s are, more often than not, far from excellent but dishonest and dishonorable. 

May God bless our dear country, Nigeria. Following the burial of Mr Corruption March 23rd, 2019 we have needs to keep Mr corruption permanently Dead raising anti corruption crusaders to ending Suffering and Smiling for a Better Nigeria.


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at October 06, 2019 0

By the People's Bishop Kenneth Obi

There have been growing tension in Nigeria and other African countries in recent times concerning the xenophobic rascality in South Africa. It isn’t new that natives in South Africa have been killing foreigners that settled in South Africa. Most of the victims of the xenophobic brutality are Nigerians. 

For that, there have reactions from nations whose citizens were killed. In Ghana, there was a report of killings of over 20 South Africans in response to the xenophobia.

Similar instance was recorded in Zimbabwe where many South Africans were killed, a showcase of grievance against the xenophobic attack. Nigeria, being the most affected area is not an exception. 

Businesses owned by South Africans were attacked. In Ibadan, Oyo state, we heard the tragic story of some young Nigerians who set MTN Nigeria’s office ablaze. In Kano, we had the reports of the closure of Shoprite, in Owerri, Akure and Lagos there was the closure of Standbic IBTC and Standard Chartered banks.

Thus, Nigeria’s reaction to xenophobic rascality must not negate South Africa’s economic platform or any of its political gains. Destruction of MTN or DSTV offices and other business enterprises of SA in Nigeria is wrong. It could preferably be by way of our government capacity to engage the SA government. Understanding is what we are lacking and what we need, therefore, we have to work for it.

We must continue to uphold our core values in line with the stand of the National Orientation Agency. We must have to demonstrate maturity and greatness in the showcase of our grievances. 

We must respect intervention of other communities who have been our business friends and indeed, economic promoters that stand to beg us over the misgivings of the SA. We must accept SA’s apology to attest to the world of our stand as leaders of Africa in symbolism and actualities of our actions.

Brutal reactions to South Africa must be reserved while other workable strategies are adopted for effectiveness, expanding partnership, respect, cohesion and greater good be among our localities. 

We should continue to draw lessons from the previous instances, even as we remain committed to working out best modalities to address the lingering issue. We must remain a united Nigeria.

We must be obliged to pursuing healthy continental unity and peace.

We must resist any attempt to disgrace Nigeria and Nigerians anywhere on earth and most importantly demonstrate our likeness of collective living. Nigeria is the home of all Africans, we are the big mother and thereby should be moved by the desire to integrate and promote territorial harmony.

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The People's Bishop Kenneth Obi Edo COGIC Prelate.

Advocate of Humanity and Social Justice, CRJ Chairman Imo State.
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at October 03, 2019 0
Nigerian Senators budget Billions for Cars


By the People's Bishop Kenneth Obi

“I was a permanent secretary. I know what ministers get; we cannot even compare ourselves to ministers because we are higher than the minister(s). For you to say that a senator of the Federal Republic cannot drive a jeep today – come on, that is an insult.

Go and tell the people that the work that we do is more than the work of ministers. The weight that is on me today; there is no minister of the Federal Republic that has it.” –Yahaya Abdullahi (Senate leader).

Until the Nigerian senators know the reason we sent them to the National Assembly, they will not shed their corrupt skin and they will never change their ways. In case, the senators have forgotten, primarily, they were elected to make laws for good and smooth running of the government; and not to feed fat, collect jumbo pay, buy exotic cars and live in ostentatious vanity.

In August, news abounded that the Senate intended to spend ₦5.5 billion to purchase Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) for its 109 members. This was immediately met with public criticism. However, weeks after the outcry, the Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi has come out to describe it as an insult. 

There is no point repeating what he allegedly said in this paragraph as I have already quoted him in the first paragraph. I enjoin you to read what he allegedly said with a critical eye, so that you can understand the mentality of our supposed leaders.

There is nowhere in the Nigerian constitution where it is written that the people do not have the right to hold their leaders accountable. Neither have I seen or read it anywhere that it is disrespectful to call the Senate to order when its action is anti-people. So why did the Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi, tag the outcry of Nigerians as an insult? 

What a sheer arrogance. Wait a minute! What has the Senate turned to for goodness’ sake? Is it a business organization where people go and make money or retirement home for failed ex-govornors who want to be treated as lords? Or have the senators become Hitlers and Stalins overnight, that they think they are not answerable to the people that elected them?

No! Yahaya’s statement is completely out of place. Nigerians have the right to call their leaders to order regardless of the office they occupy. And it is not an insult if they cry out against the insensitive move of the Senate to spend ₦5.5 billion on Vehicles, when there is hunger in the land, when people are wallowing in abject poverty and when the government has not started paying the new minimum wage it agreed to pay many months ago.

Nigerians are not beast of burden that must bear the yoke of the senators, neither are they slaves that they should keep quiet in the face of oppression. They have a right to say no to any anti-people step taken by the Senate.

If any senator thinks he deserves a Jeep because he works more than ministers as contained in the words of the Senate Leader, then let him quit and do something else with his or her life. 

The National Assembly is not a bank for senators to go and withdraw money, neither is it Bahamas Island where they can go to have fun. It is a place to diligently serve the people that elected them.

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It's a right of people to demand accountability and not be Docile!

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at October 03, 2019 0

By the People's Bishop Kenneth Obi

On the 24th of September 2019, the judge presiding over the case of the State Security Service vs Omoyele Sowore granted his release from the former’s custody, stating that “The liberty of all Nigerians high or low, poor or rich is guaranteed by the constitution. It’s for this end that I’m of the view that the defendant ought to be released forthwith”

It has been two days now, and Sowore is still in detention.

At first, one of the lawyers on his case stated that he would be released on the 25th after the requisite documents had been signed. 24hours after his statement, however, Sowore has not been released and there has been no tangible excuse given for his continued detention.

This is not the first time the SSS or other government security parastatal would completely ignore the rulings of a court, and even after it was announced that the Federal High Court in Abuja had ordered his release, many Nigerians had predicted that Sowore would remain in detention without any consequences

After several courts had ordered the release of Islamic leader, El Zakzaky, on bail, the Federal Government completely refused to release him and did not say anything about it until his followers took to the streets in protests that turned violent. 

It then came out to say that it had nothing to do with the Islamic leader and his continued detention alongside his wife was due to an ongoing court case in Kaduna. This declaration came after 3 years of absolute silence on the matter and in spite of repeated calls to the government demanding the cleric’s release.

Is Omoyele Sowore going the way of El Zakzaky who was kept in detention years after courts had granted him bail.

It was the same story with Dasuki who was arrested over a $2bn arms fraud case. He had been granted bail since 2015 but is still in detention till date. He has accused the President of keeping him for no reason, claims that the government has neither refuted or accepted.

Now, with Sowore still in detention 48hours after he has been granted release, he seems set to join the rank of Nigerians who have been set free and yet remain in chains. His lead lawyer, Femi Falana, has promised to remain at the office of the SSS until he is released. It is not clear if the SSS is taking this promise seriously.

But it will do well to. By continuously disregarding the order of the courts, the SSS is passing a message to Nigerians that the court has no real powers to do anything in the face of the power of the executive arm of government. All tiers are supposed to be independent of each other and respect the powers of the other without interference. 

However, every time the SSS holds on to its prisoners in spite of court rulings ordering otherwise, it is silently saying the judiciary is subject to the executive.

No country can survive without laws, and even if it has laws, it will not go far if these laws are not respected. The SSS is setting a dangerous precedent with its constant flouting of court orders, one that will surely come back to haunt it.

The SSS should be dealing with politicians in Nigeria who are only selected and not elected. They know they don't have to perform creditably to merit the respect and support of the electorate because they don't account to the electorate but they only need to make adequate returns to their godfather selectors to be assured of reelection.

 So, the don't owe any allegiance to the electorate which is against the Constitution and the law enforcement agencies including the SSS is Docile/muted. Citizens for Righteousness and Social Justice is the Best Way to Go Raising Anti Corruption crusaders promoting Righteousness and Justice for a Better Nigeria and I approve this message.

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at October 02, 2019 0

By the People's Bishop Kenneth Obi

A worrying trend in Nigeria today is that people consider it right for public officials who belong to their tribe and religion to amass wealth through corrupt means. What this confirms is that as Nigerians, we are all united by corruption. However, corruption has no class, no colour, no ethnicity and no religion.

Despite the colossal damage caused by corruption, the narrative of ethnic sentiments aimed at protecting the corrupt political class remains ingrained in Nigerian public consciousness. This is what I call the ethnic-induced protectionist paradox. The question is why should we, as a people, continue to endorse democratization of corruption? Why are we not standing up to our kinsmen who are corrupt?

The failure of the Nigerian electorate to hold their political office holders accountable, irrespective of ethnicity and political ideology, has allowed sentiments to rule our lives and dictate choices. Corrupt political entrepreneurs and praise singers in Nigeria, therefore, refer to ethnic affiliation and manipulate ethnic sentiments in an attempt to achieve political power.

It is true that some ethnic minorities are marginalized and often times schemed out of the equation in the scramble for the wealth of the nation. The marginalization of minority groups in resource allocation, control or in appointments, has thus become a sore point around which the corrupt political elite mobilize their kinsmen by fanning ethnic sentiments. 

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But ethnic polarization should not prevent us from condemning the vultures that are plundering the nation’s wealth while forming a shield around themselves with their kinsmen’s support.

For Nigeria to be reborn, there has to be a shift away from the power of ethnicity over political choice. Belonging to one ethnic group or tribe should not automatically mean uniformity in the political choice or ideology of all the members of the community. 

It does not also mean that we should defend corrupt members of our clan. This challenge must be faced by all Nigerians. Corruption is corruption – no window dressing.

So, if you are interested in exposing and curbing corruption in Nigeria, the onus is on you to do that objectively, irrespective of the political affiliation, ethnicity or religion of whoever is involved. I, therefore, welcome the new comers in the fight against corruption in Nigeria with open arms.The rule of the game is simple: see it, say it.

In spite of its glaring negative effect on every sector of our national life, ethnicity intertwined with corruption has continued to shape and influence the perception of the citizenry in our country. It has gradually established its root in organised politics, and the opposing tribes become the most potent target in any important and trivial national political discourse.

Here is another challenge; even though elimination of the root cause of corruption in Nigeria should remain a priority, the first real step will be that of de-tribalisation of corrupt acts, and this challenge must be confronted head-on.
Nigerians should think collectively to resolve this challenge so that not only the rich but also the poverty-stricken citizens are given their rights. 

It is not enough to blame the administration in power that appears unfavorable to one’s ethnic group. We should raise our voices and condemn every act of corruption, irrespective of the suspect’s tribe or religious inclination.

It is so unfortunate that Nigeria is fractured by ethnicity. It is well acknowledged that even though ethnic diversity gives us energy and dynamism, it remains the greatest obstacle to our survival as a nation, even more than corruption.

In Nigeria, though tribes and tongues may differ, we are all united in corruption. However, when we come to accept this, while looking for a way out, then this is the first step to overcoming corruption, which is eating at the heart of the country.

If corruption is cancerous and ethnic politics deadly, then we can imagine what we have in Nigeria where we have both corruption and ethnic politics thriving.
We should, therefore, not give potency to the sentiment of ethnicity by keeping quiet when we have some members of our clan who are involved in corruption.

Even though President Muhammadu Buhari’s government is waging a serious war against corruption, we should not allow ethnic factor to weaken his resolve in the battle against this monster.
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at October 02, 2019 0

By the People's Bishop Kenneth Obi

Even though President Buhari has failed to address the nation at the times when we all expected him to, it would have been very strange if he did not make an address today. No one expected anything significant, but then again, no one expected him to address certain issues.

In the last one week, we have watched with jaded fascination the DSS and by extension, the Federal Government, ignore the rulings of the court and refuse to set Yele Sowore free. As questions began to roll out and demands started to arise from camps seemingly loyal to the presidency, we were greeted with the news that no one charged with treason should be released on bail.

It is moot at this point to ask why Sowore is being charged with treason on the sole basis of his words alone, which in themselves seem to contradict each other. Recall that the calls for his August 1st Revolution Now protest was just that- a protest to demand a change in the way the country is being run, even if it meant asking the president to step down. 


Besides, no right-thinking person would ever imagine that someone attempting to overthrow a government would warn it beforehand, and would do so as publicly as Sowore did.

Disobeying the orders of a judge who should know the tenets of the law completely, and insisting on your own judgment and interpretation of the law is how dictators are born. Yet, the DSS not only insists on doing this, but it also doing it with extreme confidence, seeing as it completely ignored the Federal High Court in Abuja that threatened its boss with prison time for contempt of court.

And part of the President’s address today seems to explain the origin of this surreal confidence. In his independence day speech, President Buhari said among other things:

 “Our attention is increasingly being focused on cyber-crimes and the abuse of technology through hate speech and other divisive material being propagated on social media. Whilst we uphold the Constitutional rights of our people to freedom of expression and association, where the purported exercise of these rights infringes on the rights of other citizens or threatens to undermine our National Security, we will take firm and decisive action.”

Of course, he is right. The territorial integrity of our sovereign nation must be protected at all times. But if we are judging this statement vis à vis those who have been arrested and are in arbitrary detention now, the inherent paradox immediately becomes apparent. If anything, it is a crackdown on freedom of speech and locking up citizens on trumped-up charges that infringe on their rights and threatens our collective security.

Today reminds us of the moment the British transferred power and authority into our hands. The Nigerians who demanded independence and got it 59 years ago must surely not have envisaged the country in its present state. 

They must have wanted a land that was truly free; a land where every Nigerian will have a say in the way the country will be run, and one that would be beneficial to every single citizen without infringing on their rights and freedom.

This is the Nigeria that we want, and no matter how much the rich and powerful try to hold this back from us, it will be the Nigeria that we will get. Eventually.

Let the owners of Nigeria and their cronies celebrate the Day they have murdered in their quest to amass wealth and additional power to steal. May God save Nigerians! Notice that I do not say Nigeria! And that's my solution if only you are ready to GETTING STARTED.

Mr Corruption was buried March 23rd, 2019 for a Better Nigeria let keep him permanently Dead.
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