Thank you my brother! In fact, the truth and the theory in your speech will be learned and unforgettable now and many years to come. Time is an acid test and for sure time will answer the vulnerable questions nagging the serenity of our minds. We definitely need people like this in a failed society like Nigeria. A time is coming when majority of us will speak and defend the truth that has turned our world upside down.
I love this man sense humor, reasoning and voice. You struck my imaginary mind of what is happening and insincerity of the obvious about our country...
Nigeria is so blessed with the likes of Dele Farotimi but what we have still not been able to do is to convert our brilliance into uplifting the minds of the majority downtrodden people of Nigeria. Not until we are able to educate our people that the respect for their freedom of expression and associations; and the guaranteed safety of their security and peaceful coexistence as being more important in democracy than voting for the officials who are so elected to uphold those values; not until then the likes of Dele Farotimi and the really brilliant minds of Nigeria would ever feel relevant in the position of power in Nigeria and Africa as a whole.
KEN SARO WIWA could not believe what happened to him. Lesson: DO NOT SABOTAGE YOUR OWN PEOPLE'S EFFORTS TOWARDS THEIR LIBERATION. He never, in his wildest dreams, believed Abacha would confirm his death sentence! From Oputa panel's revelations, on the day of his execution, he was unable to face his fate with fortitude because he believed that his sentence would be commutted by his BEST FRIEND, SANI ABACHA. When they came for him, he kept on asking if Abacha was aware? He Resisted being led to the execution point, kept on protesting for time as he expected reprieve would come at the 11th hour. To calm him, he was shown the execution order signed by Abacha, but he frantically denounced it as fake, demanding audience with Abacha immediately. The officer commanding the squad, a junior officer told him, the only report his superiors would listen to would be report of his death and nothing else. Wiwa reverted to telling his killers how close he was to Abacha; the afternoons they spent playing tennis at 2nd Artillery brigade in Port Harcourt in the 70s, the nice evenings they used to have. That during the Ogoni protests, based on their old times as friends and best buddies, he had expected Abacha to have called him and asked him the least Ogoni would have accepted. Wiwa pleaded and pleaded for his life to be spared. His pleas fell on deaf ears. "Oh God", he screamed, let my pleas work. His eyes were greasy with welling tears. Why should today be his last day on earth? What crimes did he commit? That he asked for his people to have a share of the wealth that comes from their land? The land that no longer supports farming or fishing because of pollution from oil spillage. He mistook the officer's dark reflections for contemplations of pity! Any independent observer would conclude that Saro Wiwa deserved pity and more. He had worked for it. His efforts during the civil war shortened its duration and saved thousands of Nigerian soldiers' lives. You see, while Biafran soldiers blocked Omanelu and Isiokpo axis through Elele Junction, Saro Wiwa was able to organise guides who guided the Nigerian soldiers to infiltrate through Etche, Alulu, link up to Ihiagwa and Nekede, connect Obosima and cut-off Biafran soldiers who had successfully blocked the 3rd Marine Commandos Advance led by Black Scorpion, Benjamin Adekunle. Wiwa was rewarded with appointment as the Civilian Administrator of the port city of Bonny. And it was really this bit of history that was the bone of contention. He rightly or wrongly believed he had equal stake in the territory called Nigeria, having staked his life and helped in defeating those who were neigbours to him - the Igbos. So, the shares of spoils of war, for which oil was the paramount spoil, should be extended to his people, because, without their efforts, it would have been impossible to subdue Biafra in the battle field. Remember that the 3rd Marine Commandos were eventually routed from Owerri, just before the end of the war, wherein Black Scorpion among the few to escape, had to escape dressed as a woman, for which he was court- marshalled and dishonourably discharged. Benjamin Adekunle, the Black scorpion, died a pauper, neglected by the federal side he fought for. On the other hand, Wiwa's erstwhile partners in conquest/crime, Fulanis, believed they had more than adequately rewarded him by making him an administrator of the city of Bonny and also making him a commissioner in Rivers State. So he should keep off the oil, whether it was drilled from his village or not. Posterity would judge who was right between him and those Abacha represented. For me as a scholar, I believe his requests or demands were quite in order. Eye wey see deal, dey follow share. The child who pounded the pepper is entitled to a share. Wiwa's fate had been decided the day he asked about the oil. The recipients of the message were people from the oil-producing communities. None would dare ask questions about "our oil" after Ken Saro Wiwa's execution. At that point, the captain gave his orders and he was lifted up, struggling and protesting till he was tied up and killed. When the question of the whereabouts of Wiwa's body was raised at the Oputa panel, one of the soldiers giving evidence reported that it was completely dissolved in acid. ☝🏾This is an intelligent narrative beautifully written. But I should add that Mr Saro-Wiwa - like Adaka Boro, and many other "Niger Delta" youths who would betray their new republic - had studied at secondary schools and university on old Eastern Nigeria scholarship. It should also be noted that because of Saro-Wiwa's betrayal, he was also rewarded with countless number of "ABANDONED PROPERTIES", including some previously belonging to Chief John Anyaehie (late father of Barr Nnamdi Anyaehie), CoS to Governor Uzodinma). Late Sani Abacha and late Saro-Wiwa onced lived together in one of the ABANDONED PROPERTIES he had seized FROM IGBOS.. Ken Saro Wiwa's Son, Ken Jnr, also died very young. He died suddenly in London on 18 October 2016, aged 47, after suffering a stroke. Another son, who had mental health issues, died last year, 2020, of Covid. Finally, recall that, before Saro-Wiwa's arrest, he had run to the SAME Enugu and the SAME Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, whom he had betrayed, to ask for Igbo intervention in his murder case. It was then that Ojukwu sarcastically uttered that immortal word "Okokorokoooo" (Cock crowing in the morning - Good morning) - to the frightened Ogoni man. The meeting that Saro-Wiwa attended was at Hotel Presidential Enugu, built by Michael Okpara who had given Saro-Wiwa scholarship to study at Government College Umuahia - and also betrayed by Saro-Wiwa! Chinedu Jideofo-Ogbuagu
Mr. Farotimi, nothing will change until you and people like you actually get into the positions of power and be among the decision makers, that is a bitter truth. Your intelligence and gift of perception and eloquence is sincerely admirable, but the problem is that while you continue to talk, your intellectual subordinates continue to walk us backwards with ramifications which we all feel including yourself. Please run for office, you may say it is not your fight but rather the fight of the youth, and though somewhat valid that ideology is flawed because it implies that you want to send your sons to a metaphorical war with no allies in the enemy establishment and with minimal to no intelligence of the layout of the enemies plan,effectively sending them to death especially as you have on many occasions explained how violence is the go to response to any sort of “undesired” rhetorics. The youth need people like you as allies in the political system, you may be comfortable in your identity and legacy and you may feel like political office will add nothing to your sense of self worth, but by doing so understand that you would continue to allow the undeserving and unlearned to continue to exploit your comfort, which at this point is really a facade because comfort is non existent in Nigeria.
It is very well understood for the likes of Dele Farotimi to see public office through political means as being unworthy at the moment especially as we have all not succeeded to enlightening our people out of the deep ignorance that has now been so deep rooted through acute poverty which has now been weaponised to control the people further.
I agree to some extent. People like should be like advisors credible youths who will like to run for office. Majority of the millioners you have in Nigeria are mostly hoodlums who the politicians have enriched to do their dirty jobs and take over after them because money talks in Nigeria if not, why would tell me that persons like Tinubu would get supporters to clamour for his 2023 presidential position. It is a sad state Nigeria has found itself. Many foreign countries are helping this government because of carting away our resources for free and lining their pockets with few pounds and dollars or other foreign currencies.
It is written Rev 3:22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. Only few Yorubas are thinking right about the situation right now because they are receiving daily bribe, but they will do when they start Eliminating the masses with the Armoured vehicles, gunshot deposited among them, and using useless Yorubas Omo Orita ati Ologun Ika to fight and kill each other. They are enjoying our Oil and Gas, Mineral Resources buying Houses and Business around the World and they are given YOU 10 Naira out of 100 million naira of our Assets to you to Kill each other. They are free to do anything they like WITHOUT NOBODY to stop them, but we turn ourselves from Omo onile to Omo Eru larin won. Resist and Unite now before is too late so that AROMODEOMO WA WON NI NI PIN NI INU IYA TI E FE FI SILE FUN WON.
If he was speaking against Nnamdi Kano and Sunday Igboho Channel news and other media house would have gone into frenzy and carried the news everywhere. Sad
Dele Farotimi is a hero and, a champion for truth!!!
GOD BLESS YOU FOR SAYING THE ACTUAL TRUTH HONORABLE DELE FAROTIMI...
Thank you my brother! In fact, the truth and the theory in your speech will be learned and unforgettable now and many years to come. Time is an acid test and for sure time will answer the vulnerable questions nagging the serenity of our minds. We definitely need people like this in a failed society like Nigeria. A time is coming when majority of us will speak and defend the truth that has turned our world upside down.
I love this man sense humor, reasoning and voice. You struck my imaginary mind of what is happening and insincerity of the obvious about our country...
This man has developed clear thoughts about the issues affecting Nigeria. I respect him for that.
Barrister Dele always a pleasure listening to you👏
l wish many Nigerians queue and embrace your ideas. Please continue and do not give up.
May the Almighty Jehovah bless you for speaking out and sharing the truth. You are a very intelligent man.
Dele Farotimi never ceases to amaze me
Dele u are a special human being
Nigeria is so blessed with the likes of Dele Farotimi but what we have still not been able to do is to convert our brilliance into uplifting the minds of the majority downtrodden people of Nigeria.
Not until we are able to educate our people that the respect for their freedom of expression and associations; and the guaranteed safety of their security and peaceful coexistence as being more important in democracy than voting for the officials who are so elected to uphold those values; not until then the likes of Dele Farotimi and the really brilliant minds of Nigeria would ever feel relevant in the position of power in Nigeria and Africa as a whole.
You don't need education. Restructure this floundering ship.
KEN SARO WIWA could not believe what happened to him.
Lesson:
DO NOT SABOTAGE YOUR OWN PEOPLE'S EFFORTS TOWARDS THEIR LIBERATION.
He never, in his wildest dreams, believed Abacha would confirm his death sentence!
From Oputa panel's revelations, on the day of his execution, he was unable to face his fate with fortitude because he believed that his sentence would be commutted by his BEST FRIEND, SANI ABACHA.
When they came for him, he kept on asking if Abacha was aware?
He Resisted being led to the execution point, kept on protesting for time as he expected reprieve would come at the 11th hour.
To calm him, he was shown the execution order signed by Abacha, but he frantically denounced it as fake, demanding audience with Abacha immediately.
The officer commanding the squad, a junior officer told him, the only report his superiors would listen to would be report of his death and nothing else.
Wiwa reverted to telling his killers how close he was to Abacha; the afternoons they spent playing tennis at 2nd Artillery brigade in Port Harcourt in the 70s, the nice evenings they used to have. That during the Ogoni protests, based on their old times as friends and best buddies, he had expected Abacha to have called him and asked him the least Ogoni would have accepted.
Wiwa pleaded and pleaded for his life to be spared. His pleas fell on deaf ears.
"Oh God", he screamed, let my pleas work. His eyes were greasy with welling tears.
Why should today be his last day on earth?
What crimes did he commit? That he asked for his people to have a share of the wealth that comes from their land? The land that no longer supports farming or fishing because of pollution from oil spillage.
He mistook the officer's dark reflections for contemplations of pity!
Any independent observer would conclude that Saro Wiwa deserved pity and more. He had worked for it. His efforts during the civil war shortened its duration and saved thousands of Nigerian soldiers' lives.
You see, while Biafran soldiers blocked Omanelu and Isiokpo axis through Elele Junction, Saro Wiwa was able to organise guides who guided the Nigerian soldiers to infiltrate through Etche, Alulu, link up to Ihiagwa and Nekede, connect Obosima and cut-off Biafran soldiers who had successfully blocked the 3rd Marine Commandos Advance led by Black Scorpion, Benjamin Adekunle.
Wiwa was rewarded with appointment as the Civilian Administrator of the port city of Bonny.
And it was really this bit of history that was the bone of contention.
He rightly or wrongly believed he had equal stake in the territory called Nigeria, having staked his life and helped in defeating those who were neigbours to him - the Igbos.
So, the shares of spoils of war, for which oil was the paramount spoil, should be extended to his people, because, without their efforts, it would have been impossible to subdue Biafra in the battle field.
Remember that the 3rd Marine Commandos were eventually routed from Owerri, just before the end of the war, wherein Black Scorpion among the few to escape, had to escape dressed as a woman, for which he was court- marshalled and dishonourably discharged. Benjamin Adekunle, the Black scorpion, died a pauper, neglected by the federal side he fought for.
On the other hand, Wiwa's erstwhile partners in conquest/crime, Fulanis, believed they had more than adequately rewarded him by making him an administrator of the city of Bonny and also making him a commissioner in Rivers State.
So he should keep off the oil, whether it was drilled from his village or not.
Posterity would judge who was right between him and those Abacha represented. For me as a scholar, I believe his requests or demands were quite in order.
Eye wey see deal, dey follow share. The child who pounded the pepper is entitled to a share.
Wiwa's fate had been decided the day he asked about the oil.
The recipients of the message were people from the oil-producing communities. None would dare ask questions about "our oil" after Ken Saro Wiwa's execution.
At that point, the captain gave his orders and he was lifted up, struggling and protesting till he was tied up and killed.
When the question of the whereabouts of Wiwa's body was raised at the Oputa panel, one of the soldiers giving evidence reported that it was completely dissolved in acid.
☝🏾This is an intelligent narrative beautifully written.
But I should add that Mr Saro-Wiwa - like Adaka Boro, and many other "Niger Delta" youths who would betray their new republic - had studied at secondary schools and university on old Eastern Nigeria scholarship.
It should also be noted that because of Saro-Wiwa's betrayal, he was also rewarded with countless number of "ABANDONED PROPERTIES", including some previously belonging to Chief John Anyaehie (late father of Barr Nnamdi Anyaehie), CoS to Governor Uzodinma).
Late Sani Abacha and late Saro-Wiwa onced lived together in one of the ABANDONED PROPERTIES he had seized FROM IGBOS..
Ken Saro Wiwa's Son, Ken Jnr, also died very young. He died suddenly in London on 18 October 2016, aged 47, after suffering a stroke.
Another son, who had mental health issues, died last year, 2020, of Covid.
Finally, recall that, before Saro-Wiwa's arrest, he had run to the SAME Enugu and the SAME Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, whom he had betrayed, to ask for Igbo intervention in his murder case. It was then that Ojukwu sarcastically uttered that immortal word "Okokorokoooo" (Cock crowing in the morning - Good morning) - to the frightened Ogoni man.
The meeting that Saro-Wiwa attended was at Hotel Presidential Enugu, built by Michael Okpara who had given Saro-Wiwa scholarship to study at Government College Umuahia - and also betrayed by Saro-Wiwa!
Chinedu Jideofo-Ogbuagu
Wow. Nigerian history is full of backstabbers. Thanks for this write up
Thanks sir. You are reasonable and brilliant 👏
I always love this man
All activists must connect and act.
Let the staff of Buhari channel television hear these expositions of Mr Dele.
Injustice to one is injustice to all and is just a matter of time we will all eat our own breakfast is time and place that will be different
Mr. Farotimi, nothing will change until you and people like you actually get into the positions of power and be among the decision makers, that is a bitter truth. Your intelligence and gift of perception and eloquence is sincerely admirable, but the problem is that while you continue to talk, your intellectual subordinates continue to walk us backwards with ramifications which we all feel including yourself. Please run for office, you may say it is not your fight but rather the fight of the youth, and though somewhat valid that ideology is flawed because it implies that you want to send your sons to a metaphorical war with no allies in the enemy establishment and with minimal to no intelligence of the layout of the enemies plan,effectively sending them to death especially as you have on many occasions explained how violence is the go to response to any sort of “undesired” rhetorics.
The youth need people like you as allies in the political system, you may be comfortable in your identity and legacy and you may feel like political office will add nothing to your sense of self worth, but by doing so understand that you would continue to allow the undeserving and unlearned to continue to exploit your comfort, which at this point is really a facade because comfort is non existent in Nigeria.
It is very well understood for the likes of Dele Farotimi to see public office through political means as being unworthy at the moment especially as we have all not succeeded to enlightening our people out of the deep ignorance that has now been so deep rooted through acute poverty which has now been weaponised to control the people further.
I agree to some extent. People like should be like advisors credible youths who will like to run for office. Majority of the millioners you have in Nigeria are mostly hoodlums who the politicians have enriched to do their dirty jobs and take over after them because money talks in Nigeria if not, why would tell me that persons like Tinubu would get supporters to clamour for his 2023 presidential position. It is a sad state Nigeria has found itself. Many foreign countries are helping this government because of carting away our resources for free and lining their pockets with few pounds and dollars or other foreign currencies.
Get into power? What kind of power, in what kind of arrangements? A fraud called Nigeria? You will quickly become part of the fraud.
The wicked leaders we have won't allow the good ones to get to power.
It’s unfortunate that this wonderful discussion is disturbed by poor sound! Next time, please work on the Sound System 🙏🏽
True talk
I think we need a party because all the politicians are still taking power
🤣😂 A Nigerian party ? When will you come to terms with the reality of this bubonic encampment of doom called Nigeria ? I wish you luck .
Truthfully. Decadence all over!
True!
So why blame me when I say I don't want to be part of Nigeria, that I am from my ethnic nationality.
For how long is this going to continue?
It is written Rev 3:22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. Only few Yorubas are thinking right about the situation right now because they are receiving daily bribe, but they will do when they start Eliminating the masses with the Armoured vehicles, gunshot deposited among them, and using useless Yorubas Omo Orita ati Ologun Ika to fight and kill each other. They are enjoying our Oil and Gas, Mineral Resources buying Houses and Business around the World and they are given YOU 10 Naira out of 100 million naira of our Assets to you to Kill each other. They are free to do anything they like WITHOUT NOBODY to stop them, but we turn ourselves from Omo onile to Omo Eru larin won. Resist and Unite now before is too late so that AROMODEOMO WA WON NI NI PIN NI INU IYA TI E FE FI SILE FUN WON.
If he was speaking against Nnamdi Kano and Sunday Igboho Channel news and other media house would have gone into frenzy and carried the news everywhere. Sad
Very poor audio