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OCEAN AND FOUNTAIN; IZU-ỌMAM Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI

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I've refused to resign My dreams glow, rage My heart pure and loving I've gained more heights In heart, mind and eyes You're particular My semen's no more wasted You pick them up Molding them into our kind Enlarging humanity and mankind With the charm of all ease Your fist holds the world still A Queen in the mold of Kings You're particular On our pace to our goal Your focus is daunting A dream to behold Your prayers and deeds So amazing to conception Aren't you a gift and miracle You're peculiar It all flows from you Great love and honour It all flows from you Gait of peace and success It all flows from you Gathering of love Ocean and fountain Alluring and captivating Courageous and daring Calming and Motivating From the beginning till now A wife and mother This heart is yours Just yours forever. This is a bit of my heart to my darling wife CAPT. MRS. KELECHI JULIET IBEJI (IZU-ỌMAM). I loved, love and will love you forever...

RUSTY LOVE! Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI

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Just for you... I abhor that we'll be enemies Our times enjoyed some good It wasn't to be perfect though And nothing here is Time grew us apart; yes Isn't it natural with many? It shouldn't become hate How it all started? Think it! I still admire the experience Cherish the companionship Helping mutually It was for a purpose I think What's the reason? Remember our bedtime You confessed the allure You relished the mix I gave my heart and mind Remember we shared Even now the feelings breathe Why the silence? It shouldn't be hate after all What happened is fair Life is of phases  It's a community of time Each time for its due But let's remain friends Never to be enemies One day in my wish We will share a little more It will be to refresh our minds To rub off the rust Just to keep going We're friends forever.

NOISOME BREEZES Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI

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With so many shades It flows but not like water Not like the flood or stream It's not like fountain either It cooks sweet and sour The sweet-sour and soured sweet Bringing tiny pieces into one Ticking, humming and more It consumes the wind Turning nothing to power It moves the old and little Sometimes with jumps Sometimes with shakes Smiles and face movements Isn't it called dance? What does it do to warriors? Does it give them power? Power to kill or what? The strength to surge When they say morale What about lovers? Why do they employ it? Many works for lovers maybe Call them out yourself It's the food of love they say And for the rituals Worshippers are habitual  And its hold on the spirits? Of good and bad equally? In invocations and exaltations? I don't know what is mystery Tell me about you dear Why do you lift a crowd? Get them from one world to another? How does ecstasy come? Their pains gone Their anger vanished Their anxiety won Where are your hands please? Br...

POMPOUS TRANSMITTER Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI

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I wonder how it sees But it responds so well What it sees affects it Nights are no barriers It pierces the dark And perceives it object Like a den gun It begins to hum  Moving in chequered styles Lifting garments up Down and up again I think it also hears Every sense serves it The eyes send their service The ears make the wake Touches sets the fire raging The pompous transmitter It works something miracle Bearing message of mystery We think it has no eye But its target is unmistakable Trudging in and out It serves the dish of life It does this with a vomit The vomit that brings life The message of new life And a new generation sets in Does it have a song? But it dances though uniquely Does come with honey But the lady kept moaning The relish go round The bearer is inescapable It sets the venue ablaze Two fighting in joy Sometimes crying ensues But never for a helper out there And most times we hear Even from assumed victim In the amidst of the sweet pains Hit it harder! Tear it out...

THE PICTURES OF HATRED Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI

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KEMKA S. IBEJI Eats off giant into thin dwarf Diminishes ideas, stunting them Baptizes the wise into foolishness  Blurs greatest seers and blindfolds The sensual is numbed silly Subjecting knowledge to nothing Why possess our leaders? They've all become bad gods What else can they become? The preachers and doers of doom Don't get into our gods You make demons from gods Singing songs of destruction; Day and night even endlessly Vanishing their virtues; Love and temperance, Tolerance and mercy Many more will go May we not live in hades Get not into our homes Don't visit peace of lovers Cast not your mind on ours Oh hatred! You're the weak destroyer The enfeebling doze  Who tears down the mighty Stupefying the brave Calving a fool of the courageous Let not my eyes see thee Let not my wits embrace thine Never let me in to thy tables That I may not thirst at thy door  Let me never be your host Not even now, not in times ahead

WHEN AGAIN AND WHERE? Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI

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KEMKA S. IBEJI It ceased to live within humans It took a flight to no known where It's all fears and woes about us When again and where? In times past and in history The aged and young gathered In the nights with all the chills There under the trees and shades They told stories of times While the aged kept memories The young kept records No one gave powers to ills When again and where? As little as 6 and 7 We walked miles into swamps Across streams and rivers Tilling in the chills of all silence It was in company of the vegetation Thin voices of birds were our melody We got no fears for the wrongs of now Our peace was just guaranteed But now it's all different and unsafe When again and where? We heard about head hunters We heard of the death of kings Their rituals of heads of virgins The burial in company of maids We saw none but heard all We obeyed the stories for life It's now a reality beyond tales What has gone bad and wrong? Where did we get it wrong? When shall our pe...

IMO STATE GOVERNORSHIP, THE SUPREME COURT AND JUSTICE ON THE PRECIPICE: A SPOTLIGHT ON THE THIN REMEDY Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI

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KEMKA S. IBEJI When the way to the loo gets multiple, the dangers of accidental discharge increase by larger number. When truth is masked for too long, it merely grows shells and thickens the vigour of the upright. The Imo State matter of the 2019 election has become that proverbial leach that perches tight on the scrotal sack sucking profusely but enjoys the immunity of personal harm. The only thing that will recur in the mind of keen watchers is the question; how long will justice suffer in the hands of its acclaimed oracles in the temple of her service? While I may not be able to give answer to the question above, I will try my hands in the description of the personality of justice. From the point of view of philosophy and especially juridical philosophy, we saw various definitions of justice. Striking among such definitions is the one given by one of the most celebrated sophists; Thrasymacus. He defined justice as the interest of the stronger. Interestingly, this definition has hel...

THE FICKLE BLIND BIRD: NIGERIA. Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI

This poor blind bird jumps It hops in and out of every bad Landing on spittle and wormwood Holding fast at all darb dirt Feasting on worms of wrongs Gasping helplessly  But none comes to rescue It knows not its own and count A city of all and all negatives Teaching the rejectable Breeding morally reprehensibly Thieves, cheats, robbers, all outlaws Now the abode of murderers The very best of all worsts The citizens are the real pictures Of self hate and self destruction Giving power to their enemies To those who think everything Just once they're against the people They're their real choice Wise in all things wrong Capricious conglomerate Gathering of strangers Lovers of their fractures Worshippers of their shackles Magnifiers of their condemnable Choristers unto their graves Why will this blind bird flirt? Fluttering in filthiest ponds Without shame it smiles Such smiles that curries disdain This fickle blind bird! When shall we sing your praise? Or when do we say goodbye; Good...

NIGERIAN BICAMERALISM AND THE ARGUMENT OF POSSIBLE UNICAMERALISM: THE ISSUE OF COST REDUCTION IN GOVERNANCE. Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI

The decisions made by the nationalists who birthed independent Nigeria were largely on principles and ideology. Thereafter, it has all been sentiments and emotional. How can people agitate for unicameralism  as against bicameralism. Those who had bite on a little study of primary government in secondary school education will understand the need, merits and advantages of bicameralism over unicameralism. It might, at this point, be necessary to explain what both concepts mean. When we mention unicameralism and bicameralism, we are just talking about the legislature or law making arm of the government of any institution or state. State here also connotes country or nation with sovereignty or quasi sovereignty, as the case may be. By the way, the legislature is that arm of government that is saddled with the responsibility of making laws for the people and the land. Although the judiciary can as well make laws through judicial precedence and the executives by somehow by Executive Order...

COMPARING MR. PETER OBI AND RT. HON. EMEKA IHEDIOH: A LEADERSHIP COMPARISON SERIES. Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI

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Rt. Hon. Ihedioha & Mr. Peter Obi I got interested on this topic while reading comments on a post agitating for a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction ala the popular IGBO PRESIDENCY 2023. Someone was saying that Mr. Peter Obi is more popular than Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha while a few others were of the opinion that Mr. Peter Obi was  more gifted with leadership skills than, far above Emeka Ihedioha but, every Igbo man or woman in politics today and so should be placed at the first rung on the ladder of choice for an Igbo Presidency. This is my argument and line of thoughts about the matter of discourse.  Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha is as popular as Peter Obi. It is a commonplace knowledge that some sections of the country will never vote for Peter Obi even when they are convinced that he is the best. Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha However, Emeka Ihedioha has national prominence having been a former Deputy Speaker and Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives. His consistency in...

GOV. DAVE UMAHI HAS TAKEN THE BULL BY THE HORN. Written by CHIEF CHEKWAS OKORIE

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Chief Chekwas Okorie I followed with keen interest the build up to the ultimate decision of Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State to pitch his political tent with the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. His statewide consultations and the 7 days ultimatum given to the National Executive Committee  (NEC ) of the PDP to convene its meeting and zone the Party's 2023 Presidential slot to the South East, by the Speaker of Ebonyi State House of Assembly were deft political moves with admirable wisdom.  Nobody expected the PDP with its well established disdain for Ndigbo to spare a thought for the Igbo quest for the presidency of Nigeria on its platform. The PDP from its inception has always taken Ndigbo for granted. Upon the expiration of the ultimatum about 5 weeks ago, it became clear that a political dispute between the PDP and its teeming members in the South East has been declared. The implication of this dispute is that the PDP cannot successfully approach any Court to challe...

20TH OF BLOOD! Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI

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The heavens braced with tears The rocks trembled aimlessly The sky got gloom and shy And fame was set to defame  Then they came with shame Yes! The world will They will honour the young Those who've just done noble They lifted hope and sank fears What is historic even to heroes And Lekki Gate they Toll was the garden The souls of young Nigerians were planted And their blood watered the future of all Those were the heroes and not victims The nation is put into mourning It's by those who ought keep them safe The throne and the vigil men They took the lives of their keepers Casting away lights out of lives It's a harrowing shame! These young people are innocent They prayed for dear country Wearing courage as garments They called for justice They prayed for equality They asked for purity of service Requesting life from their fatherland  But all they got is death What a father kills his own child Even with mouth full of the sound That sound is echoing father  Even as she calls...

TEMPTED TO JOIN written by TPL Chika Cinon Chekwas

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Our streets be blocked  Media tells  Crocodile prepares for dance My mind is willing  Codes and ethics   Civil service threatened They say #EndSarsnow  You and I in service at work or trade would gain  You said don't join  I pray for them Change we need  It is in view  Lazy he called them  They have woken up  Woken up to realization Woken up to responsibility  Woken up not to fight Woken up to speak   Yes, it's to be heard Nigerian without tribe I say without religion Without sentiment  In a quest for a fresher breath Determined for desired result Yes, this land of ours is ripe for a take You and I smile in a new pattern Tomorrow I pray I fear this python His last dance was sorry Sight got dried Mind got bled A memory not to remember It's steadfast A prayer I do Python shall not dance The man at the Rock shall speak The youth shall win in Jesus name  TPL Chika Cinon Chekwas

THE EDO DYNAMICS AND THE SLIPPERY GAME... Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI

It's delusional for the PDP to assume they won Edo State 2020 Governorship Election by the popularity and acceptability of the political party. No! Edo election is a national statement against a strand of politics that works in Lagos and nowhere else. It exposed to more people that Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu is overrated and so numb to the feelings and political pulse of the hoi polloi. Edo is not Lagos is supposed to be a very big information and tool to the APC against 2023. The signals are very easy to interpret. However, unless the PDP engages tacticians, their victory in Edo 2020 is a big bait and fat poison ingested for death in 2023. The details of the Edo election will be a huge misguidance to political neophytes and speculators. It will do so on both camps. Nevertheless, I strongly believe that both the APC and PDP will dissolve into new platforms which will feed on the powers of political leadership redistribution and realignments. The APC will never hand over to the PDP...

AND THE GIANT SERVANT WAS BORN! Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI

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His Eminence, Elder (Dr.) Isaac Bello  He is the Dean of the National Headquarters Annex Cathedral (NHAC) Abuja and the seat of His Most Eminence. In the jargon of the Holy Order, he is the Elder-in-Charge of this great cathedral. In the words of the father of the golden age of western philosophy - Socrates - "An unexamined life is not worth living" and he went further with the ethical axiom; "Man know thyself". And so it's a time for reexamination and identity reinvisioning. Elder Bello & Board Members  Here is a teacher (Rabbi), a Pastor of the Lord's flock, an Evangelist of repute and of the word,  an Apostle and a General of God's order. A member of the inner circle of the Holy Order, a meek giant, a loving father and a cheering shepherd. He indeed is a quintessential remark of God's mystery of creation, a creature of service, lover of the word and a strong believer of God's arts. He prays for all and especially our home. He leads from...

FUEL SUBSIDY: MY YES AND NO ABOUT IT. Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI

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I took so much time to join the argument about the concept of subsidy in the Oil and Gas sector of our country's economy. I have severally caught myself saying yes and no to the same question of subsidy and the reasons are here and this; they were both logical and emotional. When I said NO, it was coming from my deep reasoning about our country and citizens. I could find out that in all our blessings with the natural resources, Nigerians have not and cannot place hands on any tangible benefits to the common citizens of Nigeria except the subsidy. It was a direct way of giving the resources back to the people or some form of palliative to the masses and even in a more refined manner than the Trader Moni shared around in cash by any government, especially now. What is this subsidy after all? Subsidy means that the government is paying some percentage of the cost of Oil and Gas products used by the citizens. That is to say that, assuming that the actual price of petrol is #24...

KEMKA IBEJI VICTORY ORGANIZATION (KIVORG): OUR PHILOSOPHY AND OUR RESOLVE Editorial

It was a tough one for us as we crisscrossed the nooks and crannies of Ahiazu/Ezinihitte Mbaise Federal Constituency spreading our wish and whims for our people. We outlined our manifesto and led our people through the letters. It was all for their good and that of generations unborn. We tendered our cards for the people to make their choice. We have also remained grateful to them for whatever the outcome was as we are aware that many felt bad at the outcome while many applauded it. All things work together for good. It may have started way back sometime in 2016. We continued gathering our team and shaping up our philosophy. We pursued that dream till February, 2019. Yes, others in the Governorship and State House of Assembly went ahead till March, 2019. Good or bad, our people made their decision. It may have not ended the way of our mind but as a group who came on a mission which was for the good of the people, we couldn't cry more than the bereaved. Our ambition was for the...

COVID-19 IN THE WAR OF HUMANITY AGAINST HUMANITY. Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI

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The social media response to the awareness by Dr. Stella Emmanuel has allowed me a little research into hydroxychloroquine, SARS COV 2 (that's Covid-19) and the issues surrounding this pandemic. Thanks to that opportunity. We all can do a little of the research by our individual selves to find out more. We can also Google "France Soir Hydroxychloroquine" and read more for our better understanding and perhaps to make a bit of informed contributions in the discussion on the raging pandemic. The clear truth is that the randomized clinical trial of the hydroxychloroquine which is widely held was controlled experiment which result was premeditated. The hydroxychloroquine administered to the patients, in my understanding, were overdose. And the usual and popular effects of overdose of hydroxychloroquine is acute respiratory collapse which shares similarity of symptoms with the Covid-19. So by overdosing the patients, the known accelerated death was necessary and such exp...

ADAMANT DEATH! Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI

It's got no chills This adamant death Do you know I've waited Waiting that it says bye Bye to you for a return here Here it's remained adamant? But this prey chokes it You're a poisonous prey Of course our love for you It's kept hunting death Even death is near death But it's simply adamant I've waited on your wisdom Perhaps you could trick it Come away from its grip Is it smarter or what? Just doesn't think anything Holding down and fast When will you wake Dede? Have you let it win you? Please don't surrender! Can you look back at all? The army of love to abandon? Oh adamant death! Power! Did you just bow to death? Still can't believe it'll happen Get up and run back! This adamant thing fists tighter We're strong here to fight But you seem down and won Even death is now weak It's indeed a tough fight Surely it regrets; yes it does When the trumpet sounds On that glorious morning When death sl...

NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT AND LEADERSHIP: THE NONCREATIVE, UNTHINKING CLASS AND THE LOOMING (NEW) GENERATION OF IDIOTS. Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI

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KEMKA S. IBEJI  I have agreed with my heart never to place it so strongly on having Nigeria get better, by all means possible. This is not to suggest in any way that I will stop advancing measures, strategies, ideas and views to ensure that our country becomes a place worthy of humans of excellence. No! But putting all my mind and strength to it and forcing same down the throat of the nation may be injurious to my mind because I have seen many disappointments in this and having my heart placed on it will be most unhealthy and disastrous. So for my health and the good of Nigeria, I shall distance myself from the problems and carefully tender whatever I have as a prophylactic. It will therefore be the duty of those in positions to either use or trash them. In this manner, my thoughts on keeping these problems far away from my emotional heart and maintaining some degree of dispassionate stance will most certainly be the best way to go. How else better can you think about Nigeri...