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Femi Olaleye, “Randy” Lagos doctor! *Aren’t Nigerian men in danger?

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“The prosecution’s case was bereft of any credible evidence that she was a child. Credible and reasonable doubt was created in the prosecution’s case.

“The trial court relied on tainted and unreliable evidence of his estranged wife, Oluremi, and the alleged survivor.”

These were the words with which the Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos nullified the rape conviction of Femi Olaleye, a medical doctor and Managing Director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, on Friday, while lashing out at the judge of the Lagos State High Court that delivered the verdict.

When I read the story of this man’s conviction, I couldn’t help but notice the conclusion the Court of Appeal reached on this matter.

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I saw beneath the frenzy of the entire episode a determined effort by an injured woman to extract vengeance on her husband in a failed love affair using that young girl as a bait!

Unfortunately, the lower court seemed eager to help her in the wicked scheme either because of the ostensibly determined effort by Lagos State to punish sexual offences or just pure conspiracy.

Clearly, the story didn’t add up, just like many others, including that of that Yoruba film actor that is now serving jail term for molestation. There’s no doubt that sex happened between this doctor and the wife’s niece. But the story went beyond what the public was made to see.

My conclusion: Much as every sexual offence from either male or female, particularly rape and more particularly child molestation, I think the public must beware of not being used to achieve some evil agendas.

There must be a clear division between actual commission of a crime and an obvious case of a setup as appears in the instant case. That difference must be clearly established.

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The warning by Shakespeare that “Hell hath no fury than a woman scorned” must always be in the public consciousness whenever they’re inquiring into these matters.

That said, society must also remember that here is not the Western world where they imply that freedom is absolute and people are allowed to behave in the manner they wish.

Ask your daughter where she’s coming from. Ask your son to explain the reason for standing with that girl in the corner of the street and what they were discussing. Take charge of your children’s moral behaviour. It’s not their exclusive property.

People of my generation never flaunted our lovers before our parents. We only showed them our would-be wives. It wasn’t absence of freedom, but respect.

What did you go there to do? This was the frequently asked question from our parents. But today we’re told it shouldn’t be asked again because it’s blaming the victim – very obtuse reasoning.

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Today, we’re being told it’s okay for a woman to go to a man’s house, change into his boxers, or even sleep naked on his bed, enjoy some smooches, then come out and shout – rape!

No! It wasn’t okay with our parents. And nothing shows that today’s society is better than what our parents made of theirs and left for us. The complete dislocation, if not destruction proves so.

Olaleye may be lucky. While he counts his losses and moves on – definitely things will never be the same again – his bitter ordeal must send a clear message to men – These are DANGEROUS Times!

Need we say more? – The Tiny Voice

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Abati on Shettima: Teacher, Don’t Teach Me Nonsense!

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By Sunny Igboanugo

This Reuben Abati sef! What was he trying to say again this morning on Arise? After the 2023 presidential election, when Nigerians were bemoaning their fate as the courts were churning out one bizarre, funny and outlandish verdict after the other – judgements without justice in support of the obvious heist – he took it as his remit to pour cold water on the righteous indignation pervading the land.

He chose a time of general anger, moral outrage, weeping, wailing, mourning and gnashing of the teeth trailing the official endorsement of the political larceny that had just happened to people to deliver his notorious declaration – Public opinion is kilometres and kilometres away from law.

Such insensitive, if not thoughtless move, as he sought to paper over a serious injury to the essence of decency and heavy blow to public good and integrity of democratic ethos, rankled at that time as it still does today. It was akin to adding salt to injury to a grieving community.

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As many asked then, what then is the essence of law if it defeats or is glaringly antithetical to public opinion? From whence did the dictum – justice must not only be done, but seen to be done derive from if public opinion is not part of the context?

I remember the treatise of Justice Obiora Nwazota, former Chief Judge of Anambra State, when he dissected the issue of public opinion in relations to the phrase – right-thinking members of the society – and how he concluded that the term did not suggest fish mongers at Ose Okwodu market must be the ones to decide. Anyone with little education or tiny matter in his brain, ought to discern between the shape of the letter ‘B’ and the footprint of a cow!

So, on Thursday, when Vice President Kashim Shettima, took to the podium to make a profound statement, in one of the rarest outings on the nation’s political scenes in recent times, to the fact that No President in Nigeria has the powers to Remove a councillor, not to talk of a governor, his audience heard him loud and clear.

Now, Shettima, has been on the political scene for much of the 25 years the current experience has lasted. Before becoming VP, he was a commissioner in Borno State, from where he rose to the seat of governor and then Senator. Is this the same man that would mount the podium to speak on such a sensitive matter at a time the State of Emergency is still a live-issue, and you say he is not referring to the same matter?

It means the VP must be a political daft – which he obviously is not – not to know, or at least suspect the interpretation the public would attach to such a comment at a time like this, given the prevailing circumstances and arguments on the matter.

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Pray! How does the constitutional interpretation of Removal and or Suspension become the issue or dominate the debate when Sim Fubara, has remained out of office as governor and democratic institutions in the state out in the cold as a result of the emergency rule in Rivers State? Is that not the bottomline here instead of the fine grains of law?

What law is Abati trying to teach us, dan Allah, e jowo, biko nu? We may not all be lawyers, but as Nwazota, said, we are not all fish-mongers as well. We are capable of discerning a common issue and determining what someone says. We understand KS, very well and know that he said what he meant and meant what he said.

If anything, this is a man, whose job is currently at stake and has remained subject of intense speculations. Would it not be more apposite to interpret his outing as loud coughing to draw attention to himself and indicate that he is still very much around and perhaps warn those toying with the funny idea of seeking his leg for pepper-soup to be wise and more prudent?

I’m particularly enchanted by Abati’s immense intellectual prowess. It literally puts me in my rightful place as “uneducated” and “unlearned” – his usual terms for dismissing people like us. In fact, each time I listen to him, I seem to regret that half of my school hours were wasted fighting in the streets or plucking mangoes than being in the classroom. He is one of the major reasons I never miss watching The Morning Show on ARISE NEWS, each day, if I could help it.

But even at that we cannot be detained permanently by inability to measure up to his scholarly attainments or deceived all the time by legal masturbations in a matter that is as straightforward as the statement of the VP. You can only tell a blind man that there is no oil in the soup and not that there is no salt.

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I don’t know whether his outing on Friday is intentional or inadvertent. But whatever it is, may I plead with Reuben Abati, my brother and compatriot to apply brake and add hydraulic. To him I say, this day borrowing from Fela Anikulapo Kuti – Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense! _ The Tiny Voice

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And Akaneme died! The other side of Soludo!

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By Sunny Igboanugo

Okey Akaneme, former President of Onitsha Chamber of Commerce Industries Mines and Agriculture (ONICCIMA), has finally gone to meet his maker.

His damning fate, encapsulates the entire sad tale of Anambra State under the supervision of Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Governor of Anambra State since March 17, 2022 till date.

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The Story: On October 11, 2024 men of the Anambra State Waste Management Authority (ASWAMA) paid him a midday visit. That was the last time he functioned as a normal person. The rest of his days were spent in a vegetative state from one hospital to the other in Anambra and Enugu.

The ASWAMA men, having delivered their trademark blow, left his spine broken and and rendered him permanently dysfunctional until he finally gave up, ending the earthly agony.

Perhaps he could have lived longer, but the last time I heard about him, he had been abandoned at, I heard, Park Lane Hospital, Enugu. The Anambra State Government, which reluctantly intervened after a long period of public outrage, forgot, failed or outrightly refused to pay further hospital bills.

I hear also that before their intervention, Akaneme’s family had spent all they had, including selling off family properties to raise money to save his life, to no avail.

Now, everything is gone – loving husband, father and breadwinner – gone – leaving family in distress – physically – emotionally – financially!

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The culprits? Nothing! Nada! Mum is the word at government quarters. The last I heard of the official side was that the “Government is investigating.” Meanwhile life goes on. More parties to celebrate the mint-₦150billion Government House!

If you’re waiting for the devils that went on that mission and delivered that lethal blow of October 11, 2024 to be rounded up, prosecuted and deservedly locked away from a decent human society, then you’re in for a long wait.

Your answer might come in a different society and probably the next generation. You might just try the International Criminal Court )ICC) at The Hague.

If you’re waiting for emotional compensation in terms of visitation to the family or official apology since the atrocity bears the imprimatur of government, directly or vicariously, then you’re talking about a different Anambra.

As I write this amid droplets of tears for Akaneme and other victims, the streets of Awka and many communities are swarming with thugs, toughies, and roughnecks wielding all manner crude weapons which they freely employ on citizens at the slightest excuse or no excuse at all, other than just animalistic pleasure – pure sports and entertainment.

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The other day it was Enugwu-Ukwu and the other, Obosi, where the Men of Aka-Odo – a dangerous brand of ruffians with the modus operandi of torturing their victims with wooden pestles, deliberately aimed at the tendons, calves and knee-caps to inflict maximum pains and cause temporary or permanent paralysis – reportedly came calling and eventually left in their trails their usual imprint of destruction – weeping, wailing, mourning and gnashing of the teeth.

So, don’t wait! Expecting any form of civility, humane treatment or empathy in the instant case is like pleading for sympathy in the captivity of those blood-thirsty terrorists strutting the landscape of Nigeria. Don’t even go there.

It means you’re yet to appreciate the tenor of those in charge. It means you’re still sucked-in by the noise you hear about the totally Audio Performance. It means you’re still blind to the arrogance – the selfishness – the self-conceitedness – the loath-inspired Pull Him Down (PHC) syndrome at Agu Awka.

It means you’re on all fours with the cluelessness that suggests that the best and only way to generate revenue by the government, is to chance on common citizens trying to eke out a living in the streets of Amawbia, Nnewi and Ekwulobia and give them the Aka-odo treatment or swoop on the managers of the few surviving enterprises in Awka and Onitsha, still deeply thinking about how to pay the next salaries and give them the Akanaeme treatment.

It means you’re what they say you are – uneducated mumu, the derisive name they call you in open and in the private and think you truly deserve, for your inability to think outside the box and for following them sheepishly, unable to change your destiny by taking it in your hand.

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If you’re still detained by the alluring feeling that you have a Professor who will professor well and deliver to you the Dubai-Taiwan of Africa, then the joke is on you.

In an era where these Professors, in fact, Vice Chancellors of universities – the highest job for an academic – are procured to write, collate and announce fake results and create outcomes capable of consuming their country, as is now evident in Nigeria, just because they want to join the club of SUV owners and own buildings in Abuja and other big towns, what else do we have left as dividends of academic attainments?

If you’re not yet appalled by the fact that a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is currently struggling with one complete illiterate counterpart who could not even pronounce the figures in a state budget before the House of Assembly, on how many roads he has built – a routine activity even a complete imbecile could do – then you’re part of the problem.

If you’re convinced that it doesn’t amount to monumental failure that a former CBN governor has not attracted a single local industry let alone one that mimics global concerns like Huawei, Microsoft or Tesla, which is really why he was hired in the first place, having promised to do so – take a bow of ignominy.

If you also thought as you quaffed the O Mpa in your glass, or sipped your Hero Malt that the only reward the architect who made it possible that they are readily available on your table and at your weddings and burials, is deserving of, is to be pulled down and concerned to political ruins by the ex-CBN boss, to satisfy his whims and jealousy-influenced inordinate desires, despite his own zero performance on the same score – good luck to you on the road to infamy.

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If you thought that the hands that wrought this horrible fate on Okechukwu Akaneme should be strengthened and it’s your remit to help in doing so, just know that even at work in the social home in England taking care of the elderly or in the US court crusading for justice for the immigrants struggling to escape the hammer of Donald Trump or at Jankara, Ladipo in Lagos or Sabongeri in Kano or Ogbete Enugu or Eke Oka, Orie Amaesi, Nkwo-Igbo, Eke Ekwulobia – as long as you say yes – the joke is on you.

Don’t say aka m adighi ya, I furu m ebe ahu? You can’t escape it. You share in the culpability. You are liable. You are guilty. Your hand dey there. Because there will be more Akanemes!

There’s only way to not only to escape culpability in the instant case but prevent future Akanemes and other unknown victims – Punish the hands that did this evil.

Stop the wickedness at Agu Awka. End the cluelessness. Olusegun Obasanjo warned Nigerians in 2019 with Muhammadu Buhari not to reinforce failure. The result of not heeding that warning is there, obvious for the world to see today.

Isn’t the same warning apt in Anambra as we stare at each other and wonder what manner of a Professor thinks that Aka-Odo is the best model of generating revenue? Must we then reinforce failure? If yes, good luck, if no, you know what to do. I don’t need to tell you.

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As Okari Obodo – that dangerous masquerade in my community, was always wont in warning parents – Onwehi onye ma onye o je awu nnwaya – translated – nobody knows whose child is next. I’ve done my part.

May the soul of Okechukwu Akaneme and the souls of other victims of Agu Awka atrocities, rest in peace. Amen _ The Tiny Voice!

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How Peter Obi feeds Reno Omokri!

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By Sunny Igboanugo

Charles Aniagolu is a “wuked man” far more lethal than Rufai Oseni! Subtle but brutal! On Arise Prime Time Wednesday night he delivered a deadly one to the underbelly of the Garrulous Reno Omokri.

Obviously saving the best for the last, he waited until the end before delivering it, painlessly! What do you do for a living? What puts food on your table. It hit Reno like a thunderbolt!

Then the man who claimed to have flown in directly from California to respond to Peter Obi’s interview by Seun Okinbaloye went into a frenzy in search for answer.

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Charles, the quintessential professional must have pictured the same man sitting opposite him in the street of London telling his audience including oyibo people that Tinubu was a drug baron.

He must have pictured this same man telling the whole world just yesterday how the selfsame Peter Obi was the best thing to happen to Nigerian politics.

He must wondered what sort of man this man, is, was? He didn’t ask directly, but the benign smile playing across his lips betrayed his inner thoughts and the unspoken words.

You know the answer the “Deep Thinker” and “Author of Bestseller” gave? “I’m the highest social media influencer in Africa.” He went ahead to state that with the thousands of $$$ he made monthly, he could afford to sleep everyday without doing any job and still live like an Arabian king.

Don’t tell me you didn’t know that Reno is working fully for the Tinubu government. Don’t tell me you didn’t know that he’s earning megabucks far higher than the official spokesmen of the President like Bayo Onanuga, Sunday Dare, Daniel Bwala, etc and of course the other hidden hands like the Omoyele Sowores!

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If you believed that his current posturing is for free or that he has suddenly become a convert, then you need to visit the hospital for random checks on your vitals at least, because all is certainly not well.

That he could fly directly from California to Nigeria even on a chartered plane is not because he is Andre Onana of Man United or Mo Salah of Liverpool or Victor Osimhen of Galatasaray sponsored by their individual clubs with such luxuries, but because of the peculiar job he’s doing.

Some people have dubbed him Minister of Peter Obi Affairs. He’s more than that. Tinubu and his men know where their survival lies. But that is by the way.

Now, assuming, but not conceding that he is funding his lavish lifestyle by earnings from social media influencing, what does it mean? Having taken Obi as his major job is it not obvious that Obi is the source of his livelihood?

Isn’t it obvious that taking on Obi is a smart move because give or take he’s the biggest subject matter on the Nigerian scene today and Reno’s account keeps swelling because of the traffic Obi attracts to his platform?

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Is it not apposite to suggest that because willy-nilly Obedients, the largest single bloc on social media in Nigeria today, will react always, especially to debunk his surfeit of lies against Obi, if anything, to protect their principal, head or tail, Reno wins?

Assuming also that his huge takes come from government payouts, is it not apt to underscore that Reno is the ultimate beneficiary? In other words is it not apter to believe that Reno earns his living from Obi and that Peter Gregory Obi is the one putting foot on his table?

Compatriots, isn’t it an irony of fate that the man you troll daily is the same that feeds you? Is it not aptest that Reno Omokri is a Smart Fella, a Smart Alec that is feeding on our group emotions if not ignorance?

What to do? Is he really doing any damage to Obi when Nigerians already know the difference between the letter “B” and the footprint of a cow?

Ignore him, let his traffic dry up, as an option? Continue to respond, sustain, increase the traffic and his bank account to fuel his lifestyle? I yield the floor! _ The Tiny Voice

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