The International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law is very happy the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Commission decided to exclude General Ibrahim Babangida and other past military heads of state from the list of those to benefit from the statutory pensions scheme.
Former dictator, Ibrahim Babangida, had told the nation so many lies that he had run out of tricks. His middle name had become "maradona." He was much disliked. Babangida's transition program was no longer believable. He had to find a way out. He found MKO Abiola, an old friend, who sincerely asked if IBB was ready to go. IBB told a lie which Abiola bought. The rest is history... as told by someone who knows, Omawale Kuye.
President Umaru Yar’Adua is no longer the beacon of hope he was to the Niger Delta when he was sworn in on May 29, 2007. Within the past 13 months he has squandered all the hope, all the goodwill and all the trust reposed in him by the majority of the people of that zone on the platter of political permutations. That is why his proposal for a Niger Delta Summit has seemingly hit the rocks.
“The SSS and their political handlers need to be told clearly that, as a people, we did not make all the sacrifices to defeat the military and institute democracy, only to handover our hard-won freedom to security goons and putative autocrats whose public actions cannot be queried. - The News Editorial, in response to sedition charges against two journalist by the Obasanjo administration
