OPEN YOUR MIND

As immigrants in New Jersey my sister and I were the only black kids in our school and everyone was curious and wanted to be friends with the African girls.

I remember an occasion where I met a kid at the playground, I had never seen him before, he just kept staring at me till I spoke to him. He asked if he could touch me, he touched me and looked at his hand then exclaimed with surprise that my color didn't come off. He then asked me if we lived in trees in Africa.

He went down like a full sack at my punch.

I was defending Africa!!!

Parents of both parties were asked to come to school, the term racism was used, I didn't understand it, all I knew was that he insulted me and I beat him up. He was made to apologise.

Fast forward several years.

A young lady in London, on my first trip outside the country alone and an adult. Standing at the bus stop I saw a white girl. I had white neighbors back home but I had never seen anyone so white in my life. She was paper white and looked translucent with extremely black hair, ultra high boots with spikes on them, lips and nails painted black. She had piercings all over her face and lips. She had on a black tee-shirt and jeans. The tee-shirt had the image of a skull on it. I couldn't look away, I kept staring, fortunately it was a couple of years before all the street stabbings.

She said hi, I actually jumped, then replied. She told me her name was Amanda, I wondered how she could have such an ordinary name.I also wondered if I was the only one seeing her, maybe she was a ghost…she sure looked like someone from the Adams family.

She said she liked my necklace, I asked her what she did to make her skin so white, she laughed and asked if I wanted to feel her. I touched her…I expected her to be icy cold but she was as warm as I was.

Her bus came and we waved goodbye. Years later I still wish I got her number.

I later learnt she was/is a goth.

For the first time in my life I understood the question the little boy asked me. He wasn't insulting me or being racist… Racism was an adult term to just wanting to know. He just wanted to know!

Amazing what you learn when you open your mind!

TURISTA CON VELO LASCIATA FUORI DA MUSEO A VENEZIA

di Luciana Borsatti

ROMA - Velata fino agli occhi. E anche sconcertata. Così deve essere rimasta la turista musulmana che prima si è vista regolarmente rilasciare un biglietto di ingresso ad un museo, e poi è stata invitata a togliersi il niqab o ad uscire, per motivi di sicurezza, da un guardiasala.

Nei cui confronti il responsabile del museo ha annunciato provvedimenti. E' accaduto a Venezia nelle sale di Cà Rezzonico, il palazzo sul Canal Grande che ospita il museo del Settecento veneziano. La donna voleva visitarlo con la figlia e il marito, e alle casse dove ha pagato il biglietto non vi è stata alcuna obiezione. Ma quando è salita ai piani superiori ha trovato la resistenza di un guardiano, che l'ha invitata a togliersi il velo oppure ad uscire. E lei è uscita. Il conservatore del museo Filippo Pedrocco ha preso le distanze dall'episodio e si é scusato: "E stata la libera iniziativa di un guardiano, che ha commesso un grave errore - ha dichiarato - prenderemo provvedimenti". Per questioni di sicurezza a Carnevale, per esempio, le persone che entrano mascherate vengono invitate a scoprirsi il volto, ma la regola va interpretata e in questo caso, dice, "la signora aveva tutto il diritto di visitare il museo".

Non la pensa così la deputata del Pdl Suad Sbai, che è anche presidente delle donne marocchine e ha lavorato alla Federazione dei musulmani moderati nell'ambito della Consulta per l'Islam. "In Italia esiste dal 1975 una legge che vieta di girare con il volto coperto - sottolinea, in merito all'art.5 della legge Reale sull'ordine pubblico - e bene ha fatto quel guardiano a farla rispettare". "Ho letto che prenderanno provvedimenti contro il sorvegliante - prosegue - ma ha la mia solidarietà. E' il responsabile del museo che sbaglia, e che è meno informato. Se una regola vale per le maschere a Carnevale, deve valere sempre. E le regole vanno fatte conoscere".

Giudizio meno netto dal presidente degli Intellettuali Musulmani Ahmad Gianpiero Vincenzo, già direttore del Dipartimento Dialogo Interreligioso presso il Gruppo Misto al Senato. "Un tipico pasticciaccio all'italiana", commmenta, sottolineando che le contraddizioni dell'episodio derivano dal fatto che non c'é chiarezza sulle norme né sulla loro applicazione, e lamentando "il clima di islamofobia" in cui si inserisce. Se vi sono leggi che impediscono di tenere coperto il volto in pubblico, secondo Vincenzo, bisogna distinguere caso per caso.

Ma la stessa flessibilità la chiede anche al mondo musulmano: "La religione non impone alcun obbligo sul velo ". Piuttosto, evidenzia, quello che manca è un quadro normativo generale che, attuando per l'Islam il principio costituzionale dell'intesa dello Stato con le diverse religioni, fornisca anche il contesto per un mutuo accordo sulle regole. "E in questo quadro normativo - osserva - potremmo anche metterci d'accordo sul velo".

http://temporeale.libero.it/libero/fdg/2114279.html

NIGERIAN MEN & THEIR WIVES....USA

Dear All,

People who read the journalist's reports on these killings will discover that in some areas--the writer sounds as if though he is blaming the women; in some areas the writer sounds as if though he was blaming the men. In general the writer appears to be more explicit on the names he was calling the actors.

My position is that the phenomenon is despicable-- no human being will accept that killing someone can be condoned in any way except when someone is physically or obviously on his/her way to kill someone else---in that respect--the case of self-defense may apply.

But we all must agree that sometimes in life, people do things that indeed kill other people directly or indirectly. As such, some times human beings--men or women launch a first strike if they feel that someone else is already on his/her way to kill the person one way or the other. An example will be the killing of the Supper-Star, Malvin Gay by his father--and other examples like that. But let it be clear, I do not give prescriptions for how to kill people--I do not kill people and do not intend to kill anyone or suggest that anyone should kill anyone for any reason whatsoever.

What I was alluding to is that: as a community, Nigerians in America should no longer just be wondering, name-calling, when these killings occur: people must dig deeper than that to seek solutions. In the ancient times--when certain bad things began to happen, the ancients make special journeys to visit supper Oracles for solutions. In this modern time, as well, communities consult experts for solutions. The occurrence should be researched in order to get scientific data that will help our communities to device ways for solutions.

Even just publicizing those gruesome pictures can make people to think twice when they are embarking on criminal schemes--both the men and the women. For quite some time now--most people who came from Africa have the feeling and belief that people from Africa cannot be as deadly as some Americans: they want to use American laws the ways it fits them, but pretend that they do not also know that Americans also, when people do them things that defy morality/humanity/ and rationality- -they some times as well snap and do strange things. For example, a woman who shot the man who raped her very young boy and the courts seemed to be handling the man in a softer way; we have seen lovers shoot people who seemed to put their hands in the mouth of the person they violated.

Some Nigerian men who know clearly that our Nigerian laws forbid men going around (f----king/screwing ) peoples' wives, do it anyways simply because they factor that Nigerian people do not shoot. When you go to parties in this America--and in the party there are Americans and Nigerians in the party--the people Nigerian Coward men would openly be chasing are women with other Nigerians. It is not that they think that they are physically stronger than the Nigerian men who may be there with the women; it is simply because the bad Nigerian men are so cowardly that they just cannot dare mess with women with Americans openly.

They know that Americans of all types will waste no minute in executing them, if the felt insulted by the Nigerian or any man in that matter. I have observed this in many states and places I have been. The same is the case with some of our women--some (bullshits they feed Nigerian men--are sometimes because they felt that Nigerian men are not violent--that they do not kill. While I will like an immediate stoppage to these senseless killings--I also hope that people who are still alive can take some lessens from what have happened so far. Do not dare anyone so badly! If you are a woman--once you know that you are doing certain things you would not have been doing ordinarily in our cultures to a man--do not be too sure of his resolve to endure; if you are a man--and doing bad things with the belief that American laws are on your side or easy on those things--do not be too sure about that. The man you are messing with his wife or the woman you are messing with could also possibly act like American-borns.

One time in California, one woman whom people say was a pauper in Nigeria--but when one guy from her area went home, married and brought her here, trained her in nursing school; after she started making money she filed for divorce and took the houses, the children and so on. Although in a court of law--the system made the woman to be paying the guy back some money; but that woman had the habit of every place there is a party where she knows that the guy will be there--she goes there and be doing all sorts of things she could do to provoke the guy. We have not heard that anything happened, but I felt that the woman should have been more careful and take precaution than that. At least, try to avoid contacts with the guy to give the devil no chance. To prove that the woman may be the offender there--we have learned that she went home and remarried and brought a guy from Nigeria here--and the same thing that happened with her and the first guy happened again--and the newest guy fled off from her.

I have criticized bad Nigerian men: I supported none of them. I am simply saying that--sometimes our people overdrive this their understanding of American ways of living--and it have been showing.

There is one altruism, once there is a conflict--the parties to the conflict all have a share in the causes of that conflict one way or the other. The idea of blaming one party is absolutely wrong. For that reason, we need to research the phenomenon so that we can use the scientific finding to educate our people--both from home and those who are already here.

IF NIGERIAN WOMEN IN NIGERIAN AND OUR MEN ARE SEEING THOSE PICTURES--THEY MUST HAVE LEARNED FEW THINGS FROM THERE. WHEN SOMEONE STAYS HERE AND KEEPS TELLING A WOMEN WHO IS STILL AT HOME THAT AMERICAN LAWS FAVOR WOMEN OR A NIGERIAN MAN WHO IS BEING UNDER ILLUSIONS OF WHAT THIS COUNTRY IS ABOUT, OR IS NOT, THE FATE OF THE MEN IN THE PICTURES MUST HAVE TOLD THEM ONE THING OR ANOTHER. THAT SOMETIMES--A NIGERIAN COULD ALSO ACT LIKE AMERICANS. IF SOMETHING IS NOT DONE--SOON, THE WOMEN WILL ALSO BEGIN TO DO WHAT AMERICAN WOMEN DO AS WELL. SWINDLING A MAN OR WOMAN WITH THE HOPE THAT ONE WILL GET WAY WITH IT--MAY BE BECOMING A THING OF THE PAST. LET US LEAVE ALL CHEATING; DUPING; SWINDLING; AND BE GOOD LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS OF AMERICA AND NIGERIA.

As to Yoruba men--one of the men is a Yoruba man--this ugly event touched on all the major peoples of Nigeria--look at the names well. We may give the credit of not being among this evil by Hausa people to their women's culture. As you know that--the Hausas and Muslims maintain zero tolerance when it comes to a woman going "wild" if you like. Perhaps the answer to that question is that the people adhere to their culture even while here. If the Southerners and their Christian beliefs are too easy to transgress-- the Muslims and Hausas are not that way yet. I do not see Hausa men in this America their wives would prepare and head to parties alone as some Southerns wives do and many other things they know they could not do in Nigeria. The two most obvious bones of contention-- center on fidelity issues and money. We shall be saying more on this.

Jerry Stephens

(USA)

Dov'è la verità?

l Tribunale di Frosinone ha emesso un decreto di espulsione
«Non sono stato malmenato dalla Polizia» L'ambulante di Termoli nega l'aggressione
Su internet le foto di tre vigili che lo trascinano nel baule dell'auto. «Non farò causa nè chiederò risarcimento»

Una foto scattata da un passante con il telefonino (Emmevi)
Una foto scattata da un passante con il telefonino (Emmevi)
TERMOLI - L'ambulante bangladese Abdul Zainal nega di essere stato «strattonato e malmenato dagli agenti di Polizia Municipale e che gli stessi non mi hanno messo di forza nel portabagagli dell'auto di servizio». Anzi il commerciante dice di essere «stato accompagnato negli uffici seduto sul sedile posteriore».

«NON CHIEDERÒ RISARCIMENTI» - All'indomani dalle pubblicazioni di alcuni scatti su diversi siti e giornali, che ritraggono tre vigili che trascinano un uomo in una auto di servizio a Termoli, arriva una dichiarazione del protagonista di questa vicenda, Abdul Joinal, immigrato trentaduenne del Bangladesh. «Non ho subito alcuna pressione o minaccia nel rendere questa dichiarazione - si legge nel comunicato rilasciato dal Comune di Termoli - e fin da adesso dichiaro di non adire le vie legali e tanto meno chiedere eventuali risarcimenti».

ZAINAL È SCIVOLATO - La nota del Comune ricostruisce anche la dinamica di quanto accaduto. L'ambulante è scivolato mentre cercava di sfuggire ai controlli. Alla richiesta dei documenti da parte della Polizia, l'uomo ha risposto di non averli, ha cominciato a urlare e chiedere aiuto. Numerosi passanti hanno prese le difese dell'immigrato. Altri hanno fotografato la scena, smentita però dallo stesso Zainal.

DECRETO DI ESPULSIONE - Zainal ha precedenti per favoreggiamento di ingresso clandestino o irregolare, associazione per delinquere ed estorsione. Ha scontato 18 mesi in carcere a Cassino (Frosinone). Nel settembre 2006 è tornato libero per effetto dell'indulto. Il Tribunale di Frosinone ha emesso un decreto di espulsione.


26 agosto 2008

Linea dura dei vigili

CRONACA MobileInviaStampaProteste a Termoli (Campobasso): i cittadini
hanno scattato anche delle foto, inviate a un sito locale
La linea dura dei vigili
l'ambulante nel portabagagli
di GIUSEPPE CAPORALE




TERMOLI - Un giovane ambulante extracomunitario aggredito, tenuto per il collo e trascinato sull'asfalto, lungo il corso della città. Da tre vigili urbani.
E' accaduto a Termoli, all'altezza del corso Nazionale, sabato scorso, verso sera. Testimoni dell'accaduto diversi cittadini che non solo hanno fotografato la scena con i telefonini, ma sono intervenuti in soccorso del giovane straniero, affrontando le forze dell'ordine.



La polizia municipale aveva fermato l'ambulante in quanto sprovvisto di licenza di vendita. Pare che l'extracomunitario, a quel punto, abbia opposto resistenza aggrappandosi alla merce che i vigili volevano sequestrare. Poi, secondo le prime ricostruzioni, sarebbe stato strattonato a terra e trascinato in mezzo alla strada fino all'auto dei vigili.

"Volevano caricarlo nel portabagagli" raccontano alcuni testimoni al sito internet Primonumero.it che per primo ha pubblicato le foto dei lettori indignati per l'accaduto.

"Ho assistito a una deplorevole scena di crudeltà gratuita - commenta un testimone - i vigili urbani hanno trascinato e strattonato un ragazzo di colore perché non era in possesso della licenza. Alcuni miei amici hanno scattato delle foto con il cellulare. I vigili urbani è inutile che cerchino giustificazioni poiché non è vero - come affermano - che l'ambulante ha avuto una reazione eccessiva e che li ha autorizzati ad usare violenza nei suoi confronti. Ero presente ai fatti e ho ancora nelle orecchie la voce e il pianto dell'extracomunitario che supplicava".

Il responsabile della polizia municipale Rocco Giacintucci, replica: "Non so nulla, ero in ferie. Sto apprendendo ora quanto è successo. Una cosa però è certa: se i vigili hanno agito in quel modo è perché evidentemente c'è stata una reazione spropositata del giovane. Le regole in qualche modo le dobbiamo fare rispettare. Capisco che certe scene possono apparire più o meno cruente, ma dipende dalla reazione del soggetto".

"Davvero il pericolo più grave e il rischio più grande per l'ordine pubblico per la mia città, sono i venditori abusivi?" si chiede Marcella Stampo, della cooperativa Baobab "e quand'anche fosse così, non c'è altro modo per arginare il pericolo che picchiare e portare via una persona come fosse una cosa vecchia o una carcassa di animale, chiuso in un portabagagli? Mi rallegra solo pensare che le persone presenti abbiano avvertito la stupida cattiveria dell'accaduto e abbiano protestato".

(25 agosto 2008)

ON STUDY VACATION WITH AFRICAN CHILDREN

OUT OF OFFICE FROM 11TH- TO 26TH AUGUST.


MOST WEB AND BLOG ACTIVITIES MAY BE SUSPENDED

--
Chukwubike Okey C.

Nigeria Cedes Bakassi To Cameroun 2008/08/14 By Emma Una/ Calabar & Eromosele Ebhomele The controversial Bakassi Peninsula has been formally handed over to the Republic of Cameroun. The ceremony took place today, in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. Top government officials from Nigeria, Cameroun, representatives of the United Nations, the diplomatic community, etc. witnessed the ceremony. The Nigerian delegation was led by the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Michael Aondoakaa. In his speech at the historic occasion, Aondoakaa said the handing over was a painful exercise. "We are saddled with the painful task of completing the implementation of the ICJ judgement," he said. According to him, there are arrangements for the resettlement of those who have chosen to leave the peninsula, promising the Nigerian indigenes who would remain in the area that their fundamental human rights would be maintained. While the Acting-Governor of Cross River State, R. Hon. Francis Adah, tasked the international community to assist in resettling the displaced Nigerians, who, he said, were already traumatised, the Camerounian minister of State for Justice, Professor Maurice Kamto, confirmed that his country would honour the Green Tree Agreement between the two countries. The United Nations Secretary General, who was represented, promised that the world body will support the displaced people and the governments of the two countries. The hand over process started two years ago, at exactly noon on Monday, 14 August, 2006, when the Nigerian flag and that of the Nigerian Army were lowered at one of the islands, Archibong Town in Bakassi. They were handed over to the then Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Bayo Ojo, and the former Chief of Defence Staff, General Martin Luther Agwai, while the Camerounian flag was hoisted. It was then the Bakassi people were first hit by the realisation of a possible hand over of their land to Caremoun. They had thought a miracle would happen to change the International Court of Justice's ruling in favour of Cameroun. This ceremony became the first phase of the final hand over of the Peninsula extension of the territory of Calabar into the Atlantic Ocean with a population of between 250,000 to 300,000 people. The Republic of Cameroun had continually emphasised that the land belongs to it, capitalising on two agreements reached between it and the Nigerian government in the 1970s. The Yaounde II Declaration of 4 April, 1971, and the Maroua Declaration of 1 June, 1975, were devised to outline maritime boundaries between the two countries following their independence. The line was reportedly drawn through the Cross River estuary to the West of the Peninsula, thereby implying Camerounian ownership over Bakassi which covers an area of 665sq kilometers. Nigeria never ratified the agreement and Cameroun regarded it as being in force and this prompted the ICJ ruling in the Hague on 10 October, 2002. Despite the Green Tree Agreement between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Camerounian President, Mr. Paul Biya and the subsequent handing over process, a Federal High court sitting in Abuja put a hold to today's ceremony. However, for the first time, citizens of the country think that President Musa Yar'Adua has gone against the rule of law. Even members of the House of Representatives think so. The Chairman of the House Committee on Media and Information, Eziuche Ubani, said the National Assembly should have held on to the alibi of the Federal High Court, Abuja and remind the President of his beleif in the rule of laws. "We didn't do our job at the National Assembly. There were things we could have done to stop the President from handing over our territory, at least for now," he said. For the Senator representing Bakassi, Senator Bassey Ewah Henshaw, crying would not be enough to show the grief of the people. "Government has scathered my people all over the place. My people are all refugees everywhere with nowhere to call home," he said. Noting that nothing has come out of the resettlement effort of the Federal government, the Senator said, "the people are very bitter against those people that have done them in. In time, the people will be able to identify the real people who have put them in this terrible condition." According to him, the National Assembly was yet to ratify the ICJ judgement and the various agreements by the two countries. Meanwhile, Dr. Ambrose Akpnika, a one time Commissioner for Health in Cross River State and the Mkpisong Ukara of Calabar, has described the proposed relocation of the Bakassi people to Ikang in Akpabuyo Local Government of Cross River State as a farce which is bound to fail. Dr. Akpanika, who is a prominent indigene of Bakassi, said the people of Bakassi have lived in their present place of abode for over 200 years and have taken the Bakassi Island as their ancestral home, so it would be difficult to go where they don't know. Akpanika, who is one of the Kingmakers in Efik Kingdom, said that for a people who have never known any other place as their home, they will resist any attempt made to move them in the name of relocation. Speaking to P. M. NEWS in Calabar, Dr. Akpaniko said: "my stand on the issue is that there are Bakassi natives and there are also Bakassi people. People from all parts of Nigeria and from other countries who have lived in Bakassi for over 200 years, are called Bakassi people, they have no other home. Now you cannot ask these people to re-locate. But you cannot relocate Bakassi natives who are like the Aborigines Christopher Columbus saw when he went to America . "But I think there is a contraption trying to remove the Bakassi people from Bakassi. Cameroon was given sovereignty over the land of the people of Bakassi. "The question of moving them does not arise and the United Nations Charter did not stipulate that," he declared. He said the people of Bakassi had made presentation to the Senate Committee earlier in the year asking for a stay in the handover but this has been overruled "and I think that they must have made up their minds already about the people of Bakassi and had given one thing that had never been mentioned by anybody." Dr. Akpanika said the plan of those who are bent on relocating the people want to exploit the resources of the area. "That Bakassi is full of manganese not just oil that they are fighting for. Those people might be looking at the Manganese and Manganese is a special metal some of which is used in making planes and space ships. "So Manganese is more expensive than oil, so the people who are now trying to move the natives of Bakassi from their ancestral home to somewhere else are suspect. "So what we say is that we trace the history of the people to know those who have linkage with Bakassi for some 200 years, those who have gone to Bakassi to do business and those who don't have homes. "Above all, please, Bakassi natives cannot be relocated from their home land. We have islands that could be filled up for these people who have always done business in the river to resettle." He asserted that the Calabar channel should therefore not be handed over just like that. "The Agreement that divides the channel into two for Nigeria to occupy one corner while Cameroon occupies the other corner and after five years Cameroon will take over completely, is wrong," he said. http://thepmnews. com/2008/ 08/14/nigeria- cedes-bakassi- to-cameroun

NIGERIAN MEN WIFE-KILLERS IN AMERICA !

Have you ever seen the face of a wife killer? Have you ever met anyone who took the life of the mother of his children? Have you ever seen or met such a person who is a Nigerian? How spooky it is indeed that such a person has the blood of another human being and a Nigerian for that matter, drooling over his hands! Such a hallowing experience becomes much creepier, when that monster who took the life of a Nigerian is also a fellow Nigerian whom you may have interacted with somehow. somewhat! Now buckle up your belt as Icheoku takes you on a harried excursion through the faces, names and somewhat biographies of some of these denigrate of society! They are painting the average Joe-Nigerian man in American as a domestic violent person; a potential wife killer! A bad name indeed, really? They are the worst of the Nigerian male society in America : the dregs of the society! They are the fabled black-sheep who have defiled and violated the sanctity of the Nigerian family cohesiveness. These men killed their WIVES! They made their children motherless! It is abominable! Brace yourself! Now, meet denigrate person wife-killer number one, Mr. Kelechi Charles Emeruwa:- A Nigerian Mr. Kelechi Charles Emeruwa, (pictured here right) 41 of Old Umuahia, Abia State was charged and convicted with first degree murder of his estranged wife, 36 year old Registered Nurse, Chidiebere Omenihu Ochulo. Kelechi finally lost it and stabbed his wife, with her own kitchen knife, several times that the fountain left on Julius Ceaser fades in comparison, until she gave up the ghost. "According to the account, Chidiebere had just returned from Nigeria where she bolted away for three weeks to give her late father a lavish burial despite protestations of Mr. Kelechi of the bills that are accruing and payable here in America . She wouldn't hear any of it, after-all she makes the money; only to return to an angry frustrated maniacal husband who took her kitchen knife and carved her up. It was on New Year's Day, in her townhouse in the 4200 block of Dunwood Terrace, in the Washington DC suburb of Burtonsville in Montgomery County , Maryland . For a l ittle biography, Chidiebere was born on June 1, 1970 and attended schools in Umuahia and Yola before proceeding to University of Nigeria Nsukka where she bagged a degree in Microbiology. She then got married to Kelechi in 1996 and left for the US the same year, having won the American Visa lottery. In an effort to really settle down in the US and get a respectable job, she took a second degree in Nursing and began a career at Washington Hospital Centre. As a result of her hard work, she got to the peak of the administrative cadre as a Deputy Director, Clinical Services, at the Centre where she remained until her death in the cold hands of the man she once loved - the father of her three children. In Tennessee, a Nigerian man after taking it for so long, lost his cool and shot his Registered Nurse wife as well as his hitherto mother in-law to death with a shot gun. According to the account this RN wife was married from Nigeria a pauper and brought to the United States by this m an, who trained her in school as a registered nurse. Soon after her qualification, the demon in her was let loose and it became one torment after another, with one police call after another followed by sleep-over in police cells and it went on and on ad infinitum. After a protracted battle with the authorities at the wife's instigation, this man lost his almost nearly paid-off home to his wife, including the custody of his three kids by her. He sees these kids just periodically according to court's order and at the discretionary behest of the wife who sometimes comes to the appointed custody visitation ground at a time of her choosing; just to punish and suffer this man. He could not take it any longer and now the rest is history with two women shot dead and the killer in death row awaiting the electric chair. Another lunatic fringed monster, Mr. Theophilus Ojukwu has equally entered the annals of Nigerian men wife-killers in the United States of America ! This cancer of wife killing by Nigerian husbands is fast spreading that the Nigerian society is getting numb and used to it, as one of the social maladies of our times. A heinous act which hitherto would be very abominable that people are shocked to their bone marrows is today seen as a possibility. In Garland, Texas on Saturday, March 25, 2007 Mr.Theophilus Ojukwu, (pictured right in his orange prison jumpsuit) 46, of Enugwu-Agu, Ihe in Awgu LGA, Enugu State used a mattock (hammer) to bludgeon his deeply asleep RN wife, Melvina Ojukwu, 36, of Umuanebe, also of Ihe, Awgu LGA, Enugu State to a very painful agonizing death. Sources close to the family said that about two years ago, Melvina's mother and mother in-law of Theophilus, who was visiting from Nigeria tragically died in a mysterious circumstance, in a bathtub in their house at 5400 block of Barcelona Drive , Garland Texas ; this is where Melvina also met her untimely and heartbreaking death. Whether this is a chain of events is inconclusive but both situations were very tragic! Mr Theophilus Ojukwu has since been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole; that one w ould ask, is the craze to control the RN's "legendary money- faucet" enough for this tragedy and the life imprisonment consequence thereof? In another family-related violent incident involving a Nigerian, it was reported in The Atlanta Journal-Constitutio n of March 8, 2006 that a Registered Nurse Roseline Unachukwu, 34, and her six children were taken to the family violence shelter, Northwest YWCA in Marietta, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, as a result of physical violence. According to people with knowledge of the incident, the poor lady escaped with her life from her husband's maniacal rage with very severe cuts in her arms which she received while fending off her husband's killer-rage. Her husband, Benjamin Unachukwu from Nnewi, Anambra State , was taken to jail to face two criminal charges with the kitchen-knife weapon of choice as evidence exhibit! In Los Angeles California it was reported that a Nigerian RN wife was brutally murdered by her husband. The viciousness of the attack was such that the man eventually tied the dead body of his wife to his truck and dragged her dead body through the roads and streets of Southern California until=2 0her skull gave up its cranial contents. He was eventually arrested, charged, tried and convicted for first degree murder with special circumstance which carries the death penalty! He is presently awaiting a date with the lethal injection in a cold segregated death-row prison cell! Only recently, one Nigeria RN woman living in Dallas Texas had this to write on the Internet about her fellow estranged Nigerian husband:- "I have been married to Mr. X (real name excluded by Icheoku as we do not want to be a purveyor of this domestic madness) for 20years, and had five children for him. I was married to him at the age of 18years, and joined him in Dallas from Nigeria after my high school. For those 20years of marriage which can pass for 20years of bondage and slavery, I have had to endure constant physical abuse, verbal abuse, and emotional abuse and mental torture in the hands of Mr. X. I am asking whosoever that=2 0reads my story to please send it out to as many forums as they have access to. Silence they say is golden. But if you are dealing with a mad, sad, disgruntled man like Benjamin X, silence will no longer be golden". And what could have driven a Nigerian wife to write such an unflattering "oration" about her husband, one would ask? The answer depends on who you ask. Is this couple close to the finish line? Similarly, in Grand Prairie , Dallas , Texas , Mrs. Monireti Abeni Akeredolu, (pictured below in her wedding with her killer-husband) a 46-year old Registered Nurse from Ondo State Nigeria met her untimely death in the hands of her estranged husband, Mr. Ebenezer Akeredolu, Sr., 48. According to the story, Mr. Akeredolu drove several hundred miles from Georgia (where he had moved to nurse his pains at loosing everything he had worked so hard for since coming to the United States several decades ago) to Dallas and pumped several bullet s into his ex-wife in day light, with so many people watching the macabre spectacle. Mrs. Monireti died slumped in the wheels of her SUV enroute to a birthday party in her honor – she had just turned 46 a day before on September 7, 2005. Not too long ago, also, on August 10, 2005 in Euless, a suburb of Dallas, another frustrated Nigerian husband, 45-year old Johnny Omorogieva from Edo State, Nigeria murdered his RN wife, Mrs. Isatu Omorogieva, 35, also of Edo State by savagely striking her on the head numerous times with a hammer in the full view of their 7-year old screaming daughter. In Tulsa, Oklahoma a yet to be fully authenticated report has it that another Nigerian man recently bludgeoned his RN wife to death while she was fast asleep; following a traumatic life which she has subjected him to since turning into the majority bread winner of the family following her graduating from a nursing program. Another Nigerian nut-case, Mr. John Onwuka (pictured here right in his orange prison jumpsuit) 49, from Akwete community of Ohafia Bende Local Government Area of Abia State was charged with one count each of homicide and use of a knife in the commission of a felony. He stabbed his RN wife of twenty five years, Mrs Gloria Uchechi Anya Onwuka age 42, fourteen times in her bedroom while she was getting ready to go to work. She was a nurse manager. Mr. John Onwuka committed this crime on the night of Saturday August 19, 2006 at the home of his wife in Estate Drive , Farmington , Hampton , Virginia with her children watching him act out his gory insanity. "Yes I have killed the woman that messed my life up! A woman that had destroyed me. I am at Shalom West, my name is Michael and am all yours". With those words - a 911 call placed to the authorities, another Nigeria man has joined the infamous heinous club of Nigerian Men Wife Killers. Fifty year old Mr. Michael Collins Iheme (pictured here left) of Hennepin Minnesota placed the call above few minutes after shooting his twenty eight year old wife, Mrs. Anthonia Eberechi iheme, the mother of his 4 year old boy and 3 year old girl, to death. What is wrong with this crazed out Nigeria man was that he lacked the stomach to take all the bullshit he was forced to take by a typical Nigerian "Nurse" wife. However in as much as Icheoku does not condone such misbehaviour of taking the life of another, these Nigeria men who marry "fedexed" wives should better watch it as what they bargained for might not necessarily always come to fruition. There is no need travelling to Africa to find a wife - if it is akaata, filpino. latina mamacita, oke-bekee or even chinese that loves you, please settle down with such a person. Your love for foofoo and egusi soup is not enough to trade your happiness and possibly freedom when they make you do the unthinkable like our Mr. Micahel Collins Iheme and crew. For the records, it would appear that majority of these uxoricides occ urred in Dallas , Texas ! Leading to the question, whuz up Dallas ? Is there any maniacal peculiarity with Nigerian men living in Dallas ? Further, most of the victims were Registered Nurses which forces one to ask is the "war over the purse" of who controls this their "legendary treasure trove" enough reason to commit the most heinous of all crimes? Also the number of such homicides is rather astronomical judging the sanctity of life-environment from which majority of these homicidal maniacs come from back in Nigeria . Admitted, that it is dreadfully wrong and also a sacrilege for anyone to take the life of another, especially if that other was a spouse; but what could be the driving factor of this senseless exhibition of ravenous rage by some frustrated Nigerian men in the United States of America ? This question is imperative because there are other more acceptable options available for getting out of a hellish marriage including just getting up and leaving; mutual separation; taking a second wife just like the Mormons of Texas, Utah and Nevada; becoming a bachelor once again; keeping a girl friend outside your so called matrimonial home or the penultimate divorce instead of committing the mother of all crimes - taking the life of another! Nothing is worth it! Does the underlying problem defy every solution imaginable? NO!=2 0Take a deep breath and consider other options including the almighty walking-out! Nothing is worth the trouble! Not all the diamonds in South Africa and/or gold in Fort Knox ! The "mansion" which you are fighting for, you did not bring it with you to America ? The SUV or Mercedes car that is making you to loose your head, the manufacturing plant in Stuttgart Germany has not yet closed shop! In your convoluted suspicion that your wife is sleeping around because she dresses well, ask yourself, where is the foundational trust of your relationship and at worst, were you the first man in her life? Did you break her virginity and why do you think it is either you with her or nobody at all, that you will rather have her dead than loose her to someone else? Have you also tried getting professional counseling or earnestly engaging your wife in an open discussion to find out what you may be doing wrong and make amends where necessary. Have you tried temporary separation for a cool-off period? At worst get an amicable divorce so that you guys can remain friends for the benefit of the children! Before you write that check which you cannot cash, please stop and ask yourself, before you met her did you not have any life? It is not worth it! Learn to move on; as around the next corner may be lurking your real wife of "Christian marriage" who will really cherish and love you for who you are! Your wife's leaving you is not the end of the world as we know it! As the popular aphorism goes, "when one door closes another one is open down the road". Nothing is worth the taking of life and not that of a spouse who also is a Nigerian! PLEASE GET A LIFE! Ezeamii, Hyacinth

Italian police mistreats prostitute (NIGERIAN)

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August 15, 2008
Italy was in shock with the case of a young Nigerian prostitute found, lying on the ground, in a police office in Parma. The woman, dirty and semi-naked, was photographed inside a cell, left Italians outraged.
According to the Italian daily newspaper 'La Repubblica', which published the photo, the couple was arrested - along with other women - "while practicing their job " during an operation to combat prostitution carried out by the Municipal Police of that city in northern Italy. The couple, undocumented, reacted so violently and crying heavily, which has left her exhausted, after which she was brought to the command to collect her fingerprints.
Closed in a cell, and on the floor, exhausted, semi-naked and full of dirt on her body. Ali was left for at least half an hour. The photograph was taken, last Friday, by a group of reporters , along with other journalists and Security of edilidade councilman from Parma, Costantino Monteverdi, were invited to cover the second operation against prostitution held in that city in just three days.
Since the shocking picture was published, last Tuesday - Friday, the digital edition of this newspaper, political and defence of Human Rights has denounced the measures adopted by the government of Silvio Berlusconi, supposedly aimed at enhancing security and conditions of life in Italian cities. The President of the Italian Senate, Renato Schifani, already requested an explanation from the chief of police in Parma on the case of the youth "photographed in a cell in conditions of extreme neglect."
"Indeed, the dramatic picture published runs the risk of transmitting an image of our country different from reality and all that is being done to protect public order, but respecting the rights of the person inviolable," Schifani said
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Prostituta fotografata in cella.Il magistrato apre un'inchiesta
Il Pm Francesco Gigliotti ha affidato alla questura di Parma l'indagine sulla vicenda della fotografia della prostituta nella cella della polizia municipale. Via ai primi interrogatori
di Stefania Parmeggiani

Il Pm Francesco Gigliotti ha aperto un fascicolo di atti non costituenti reato, per fare chiarezza sulla vicenda della prostituta fermata venerdì scorso dai vigili urbani di Parma e fotografata seminuda per terra in una camera di sicurezza. Al momento non ci sono indagati. Il magistrato ha affidato alla Questura le indagini preliminari. Per questo oggi la squadra Mobile della città emiliana ha sentito Mario Robusti, che ha scattato la foto per Repubblica Parma (La storia della fotografia). Nei prossimi giorni saranno sentiti anche gli altri fotografi e giornalisti presenti al blitz di venerdì notte, per ricostruire esattamente quello che è successo durante i controlli e successivamente nel comando della municipale. Al corpo dei vigili, inoltre, il pm chiederà una relazione. L'immagine della giovane prostituta nigeriana, accasciata sul pavimento di una cella del comando della polizia municipale di Parma, è divenuta un caso nazionale. Riportata da tutti i principali quotidiani e telegiornali del Paese ha sollevato dubbi e interrogativi, spingendo il presidente del Senato a chiedere chiarimenti al Prefetto e il pm Francesco Gigliotti ad aprire un fascicolo.Eppure, per l'assessore alla Sicurezza del Comune di Parma Costantino Monteverdi non ci sono dubbi: "Nessuna inchiesta interna sul caso della prostituta fotografata". Nemmeno dopo l'intervento della seconda carica dello Stato perchè "è già tutto chiaro, basterà una chiacchierata del sindaco col Prefetto e il rappresentante del Governo riferirà a Schifani". Considera le polemiche eccessive e l'immagine da cui sono nate "solo un tentativo di scoop".Il sindaco Pietro Vignali spiega di essere già in contatto con la presidenza del Senato: "La relazione dei vigili conferma la regolarità del loro comportamento verso la prostituta fermata. La donna, che non aveva con sè i documenti, è stata trattata con dignità e rispetto. Dalla ricostruzione fatta dalla polizia municipale ( Il giorno del no comment) mi risulta che si sia gettata a terra da sola. Inoltre le è stato offero di prendere parte a un programma di recupero, ma la sera dopo era già, nuovamente, sulla strada. Significa che è "recidiva". Sono in contatto con la Presidenza del Senato per rassicurare su questo. Ribadisco che i controlli anti prostituzione sono necessari per evitare il peggioramento della vivibilità della nostra città, ma anche per recuperare le ragazze dalla strada, Parma in termini di civiltà non ha nulla da imparare da nessuno. E non esiste alcun sindaco sceriffo: quella di venerdì notte era un'operazione di routine, come se ne fanno tutti i giorni". (Il comunicato stampa)Le rassicurazioni di sindaco e assessore non basteranno, da sole, a placare la polemica. Infatti, dalla Prefettura fanno sapere che l'iter da seguire non sarà quello di una chiacchierata informale, bensì l'ordinaria procedura che segue ogni interrogazione parlamentare. Stanno già preparando il fascicolo con tutti i dettagli di quanto è avvenuto nell'operazione anti-prostituzione di venerdì scorso, da inviare a Roma a disposizione del presidente del Senato e del ministero dell'Interno.Nel frattempo continua la bufera politica (Tutte le reazioni), con il capogruppo del Pd in Consiglio comunale Giorgio Pagliari che chiede chiarimenti durante la prima assise utile "non per creare confusione, ma perchè non ci possono essere dubbi sull'operato della polizia municipale". E perchè "non si può perseguire la sicurezza dei cittadini non rispettando i diritti umani". Marco Ablondi di Rifondazione comunista è ancora più netto e chiede "il ritiro immediato delle deleghe all'assessore Monteverdi". (La posizione della minoranza)Critico anche il segretario generale della Cgil Paolo Bertoletti, che accusa il sindaco di essere impotente edi sviare il problema, i comunisti italiani e il garante dei detenuti del Lazio, che ritiene l'episodio gravissimo, "mai accaduto prima".Non solo la politica locale, ma anche quella nazionale continua a interrogarsi sulla fotografia e sull'utilità delle retate anti-prostituzione. Il Presidente del Senato,Renato Schifani, in merito alla giovane extracomunitaria fotografata all'interno di una cella "in condizioni di estremo abbandono", ha chiesto chiarimenti sull'episodio al Prefetto della città emiliana. ''La drammatica foto pubblicata - si legge in una nota di Palazzo Madama - rischia infatti di trasmettere una immagine del nostro Paese diversa da quella che è in realtà e di quanto si sta facendo a tutela dell'ordine pubblico, ma nel rispetto dei diritti inviolabili della persona. Chi intende adottare il criterio della tolleranza zero è tenuto a farlo non sottraendosi mai alla tutela della dignità della persona e della sua privacy. Pertanto il presidente del Senato auspica che venga fatta al più presto opportuna e doverosa chiarezza sull'intero accaduto". Chiarezza, però, secondo l'assessore Monteverdi non è necessaria perché, a suo dire, l'unica verità da spiegare è che "c'è stato un tentativo di scoop". Subito dopo, però, racconta la notte "di ordinari controlli" e difende l'operato dei suoi uomini, che hanno dimostrato "come sempre grande umanità". La ragazza, infatti, sarebbe stata lasciata in quella cella a dormire per terra "solo per un'ora", "il tempo che si calmasse" e liberata l'indomani dopo che "i vigili gli hanno offerto la colazione" (l'intervista integrale).
Ma Enzo Letizia, segretario dell'Associazione nazionale funzionari della polizia di Stato dice: "A Parma la polizia municipale in questo tipo di operazione non ha coinvolto la Questura, perché le extracomunitarie devono essere accompagnate negli uffici della polizia di Stato in cui vi sono le attrezzature e gli archivi che permettono di identificare un soggetto che può stare legalmente in Italia, oppure no. I vigili urbani, forse - aggiunge Letizia - volevano fare un fermo di identificazione, ma non hanno gli strumenti tipici della polizia scientifica per farlo, perché non hanno gli strumenti. Manca ai vigili urbani quella professionalità e sensibilità tipica delle forze dell'ordine. Il poliziotto quando ha davanti una prostituta sa benissimo che ha di fronte una vittima e come tale procede. Non vorrei che è stata fatta una scelta culturale che li ha portati a pensare che di fronte si solo una prostituta. Non vorrei che fosse successo questo''.I radicali Marco Perduca e Donatella Poretti chiedono al ministro degli Interni, tra le altre cose, "per quali motivi l'operazione è stata preannunciata alla stampa con il coinvolgimento di giornalisti e fotografi, unitamente alla presenza dell'assessore senza che venisse adottata alcuna precauzione a garanzia e tutela delle persone fermate" e se è vero che nel comando dei vigili urbani di Parma "esiste una struttura di detenzione di sicurezza dotata di imbottiture perimetrali, tali da proteggere l'incolumità di ospiti irrequieti". Critici anche gli esponenti emiliano-romagnoli del Prc, Nando Mainardi e Leonardo Masella: "E' la conferma che l'emergenza securitaria lanciata dal Governo, attraverso il decreto che attribuisce ai sindaci maggiori poteri in termini d'incolumità pubblica e sicurezza urbana, punta a colpire i più deboli socialmente mentre lascia inalterati i grandi e veri fattori di insicurezza che attraversano il Paese". Indignato anche Pino Sgobio del Pdci, ex capogruppo del partito alla Camera: "Non si può in alcun modo accettare che sui diritti umani l'Italia scivoli verso il baratro".«Il presidente del Senato Renato Schifani ha chiesto chiarimenti al prefetto di Parma sulla vicenda della prostituta fotografata inerte in un commissariato di polizia e ha fatto bene. Anche se rimane l'unico esponente della maggioranza a stigmatizzare l'episodio». Dichiarano, invece, Albertina Soliani e Carmen Motta, rispettivamente senatrice e deputata del Pd, entrambe di Parma. «Il presidente Schifani – aggiungono le parlamentari democratiche - ha sollevato finalmente il problema di come si debba garantire la sicurezza e nello stesso tempo assicurare sempre, in ogni circostanza, il rispetto per la dignità di ogni persona e dei diritti umani universali. Si tratta di un fatto di civiltà per la città di Parma e per tutto il nostro paese». «Nei prossimi giorni interrogheremo il governo insistendo perché sia avviata subito una seconda fase negli interventi per la sicurezza nella quale sia fortemente salvaguardata la cultura della dignità delle persone, evitando superficiali spettacolarizzazioni e realizzando politiche serie a favore di tutti i cittadini senza creare inutili allarmismi come è successo per il pacchetto sicurezza».
(12 agosto 2008)

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