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“When I was contemplating the struggle, I knew it was going to require a lot of energy, patience and money,” Ken writes in his prison memoirs A Month and A Day (which I am paraphrasing here since somebody has permanently borrowed my copy). Of those three things, Ken said he knew he had a lot of energy, that if he did not have patience he could cultivate it. But concerning the last one, money, he knew he had no money anywhere in the world. So, instead of waiting to win a lottery, Ken became a business man. But because his foray into business was for a higher purpose, it could only be a transitory phase. He knew when his trading career had served its purpose and then, even though he had become a very successful business man, had to call it quits in order to devote his energy to the Ogoni struggle. He did not succumb to the joys of money making and its attendant greed and glories.
Just as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Osun State on Wednesday fixed December 5 for the court ordered re-run election for the Senate seat previously occupied by Iyiola Omisore of the PDP, a new controversy has surfaced over the authenticity and veracity of Omisore’s degree.
On 30th December 2009, Hon Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi, the out-going Chief Justice of Nigeria, swore in Hon Justice Aloysius Iyorgyer Katsina-Alu as the new Chief Justice. Kutigi did this notwithstanding that his attention was promptly drawn to the absurdity he embarked upon. The Guardian Newspaper of December 31 gave the event the deserved front-page headline: Kutigi makes history, swears in Katsina-Alu. The Newspaper went further, no doubt in amazement, to say: “HISTORIC, Really historic. That is the way to describe the swearing-in of Justice Iyorgher Aloysius Katsina-Alu as the new Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) by the out-going Chief Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi. Reason: For the first time in the century’s history, two Chief Justices occupied that office, albeit for 12 hours.”
“By doubting we come to question, and by questioning, we perceive the truth.” (Peter Abelard, 1079-1142)
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