Alamieyeseigha
made a mockery of British security and defense perimeter!
NigerianNews
Editorial
If the exploit of Alamieyeseigha, his escape of the dragnet drawn by
the Metropolitan police in London had been enacted in Nigeria on the
Nigerian Police dragnet, we would have heard so much from the Western
press of the corrupt Nigerian way of life!
What does one make of a whole long enduring police organization which
put a small African governor under surveillance later to confirm that
they could not catch him slipping away from them because he disguised
himself like a woman? What did they expect of him, dress like himself?
We now know that in spite of all the summer suicide bombings in the
United Kingdom, the British security and defense perimeter are as
porous as that of the Republic of Tuvalu which has no prayer in self
defense!! With this
Alamieyeseigha
exploit, we can all agree in Nigeria that we need no further lecture
from the British defenders of the British homeland. It is one big
shame on the London Metropolitan that we could not fathom prior to
yesterday's feat by the "Governor-General" of Ijaw nation.
What is worst still are the actions of those who lined up the street of
Yenagoa to welcome an accused money laundering Ali Baba home (His
flight from justice qualifies him as Ali Baba). To some of these
people, morality is relative, but as we have said several times here
at the NigerianNews,
we are moral absolutists. The "Governor-General" was not known to be a
wealthy man prior to 1999 when he was sworn in for the first time as the
governor of Bayelsa. His current salary when converted to the UK pound, the
Euro or the American dollar is no more than what some bus drivers make
in some of these Western Capitals, yet he carried around currencies
his own kinsmen never heard of before in their whole life.
Unbelievably, the oppressed trooped the street of Yenagoa in
solidarity with the oppressor. This emboldened the oppressor in
spitting the following abominable fire:
“The thought coming to my mind while in prison was that if half of my
people could understand that their leader was going through all these
because of them, I would have been a fulfilled man.”
People of strong and absolute morals like Gani Fawehinmi was quoted as
saying:
“It is now clear that our leaders, our politicians are criminals.
Alamieyeseigha escaped from London? Has he been granted bail? And he
is in Nigeria now? Nobody will respect this country again.
We can only console Chief Gani Fawehinmi by asking him to add Britain
to the list of country that will not be respected again. We say this
for two reasons:
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It is not possible that Alamieyeseigha escaped on his own without
accomplice(s), and we are almost sure these people will include
corrupt British citizen(s).
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We can now also say the Metropolitan police may not be what we
think they are. If Alamieyeseigha had skipped Nigeria like he did
under the watchful eyes of the British secret service, the British
press would have had a feast day. We would have been told of how this
feat was achieved through corruption which they would claim is rampant
in Nigeria. We cannot get ourselves to believe that the same police
which stopped a crated man from being shipped to Nigeria in Umaru
Dikko affairs just all of a sudden becomes a toothless bulldog in the
case of
Alamieyeseigha.
We have to think very hard on how this could happen in the UK. The
only tentative answer we can give at this time is that this
Governor-General "stole" money from Nigeria, took it to the UK, and we
might be asking the British people too much to help us send the money
back. After all there are so much such monies in the UK by Nigerians
that if brought back to Nigeria will rock the British financial
system.
We just cannot believe here at the NigerianNews
that after the many bombings in the UK this summer by suicide bombers,
an ordinary white color looter of public treasury from Bayelsa can
slip through the needle's eyes without some complicity. Time will
tell, and we hope soon too. As they say, what goes around comes
around. We only weep for those moral relativists who lined the route
of Yenagoa yesterday to welcome an accused thief who fled justice
before he could prove himself worthy of any honor. This man, profaning
the name of the Lord, does not seem to us a man of honor, for if he
has honor, he would have stayed in the UK to defend it.
