Some Nigerians and their foreign cohorts may engage in great brouhaha or some other dizzying hoopla in connection with Mr. Charles Taylor’s disappearance from his limbo in Calabar Nigeria. Mr. Charles Taylor at the end of his political asylum in Nigeria was surely in limbo!

Nigerian laws and international protocols, conventions, treaties etc to which Nigeria is signatory, have not been violated by Nigeria. There was no warrant presented to Nigeria upon which Nigeria did not act or accord respect. There were no arresting officials or agencies presented to the officials of Nigerian government to which Nigeria did not accept or accede to requests. No one was impeded from taking Mr. Taylor on March 26, 2006 when Nigeria announced that Mr. Taylor’s political asylum has effectively ceased.

President Sirleaf of Liberia in effect refused to take delivery of Mr. Taylor as when President Obasanjo honored his commitment to hand Mr. Taylor over to a democratically elected government of Liberia upon request. Madam Sirleaf “appeared” to have made that request recently. She did not show up to take delivery of Mr. Taylor.

In fact, she engaged in obfuscations and double- speak as she later said that Mr. Taylor was not wanted in Liberia, as he is not facing trial in Liberia but the UN tribunal in Sierra Leone. .

President Sirleaf, President Bush and others, seem to have suffered willful forgetfulness regarding the intractable crises that had bedeviled Liberia before President Obasanjo stepped in to resolve the endless wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone, internecine gory everyday life.

Neither the US nor the UK were interested in direct intervention in either Liberia, but Nigeria did so for decades in Sierra and Liberia at great and immense and costs, in Nigerian lives, of Nigerian soldiers and Nigerian Journalists. In Sierra, UK troops showed up, after Nigeria stabilized the country and after Nigeria was there for more than ten years. Nigeria spent billions of dollars! And the UK was now given credit for the work done in Sierra Leone by Nigeria.

Charles Taylor was never in custody in Nigeria! There was no CUSTODY!!!! He enjoyed asylum..... until it ended recently at the pleasure of the government and people of Nigeria which is represented by our President Obasanjo..... and Liberia, Sierra Leone or UN or whomever should have executed a WARRANT of arrest which Nigeria would have enforced!!! But that did not take place.

Mr. Charles Taylor enjoyed a political asylum like Mr. Ferdinand Marcos did in the USA. Liberia's Ms. Sirleaf wanted Mr. Taylor and she did not want Mr. Taylor!

People! Give President Obasanjo a break! And for goodness own sake, give NIGERIA a break!!!!!!!!!!! 

Peace is still at best delicate in Liberia. Let us return Mr. Taylor to Liberia for a month and see what happens there! If this is what President Sirleaf wants or if that is what her friends in Washington DC wants of her and Liberia. It may well be that Mr. Taylor is heading towards Liberia now. If President Bush and his government really want to help Madam Sirleaf, they should pour investment and development dollars into Liberia after all, Liberians are as Africans as they are America’s kin.

How and why have some in the world suffered willful forgetfulness or collective amnesia? How can anyone forget how bad it was in Liberia? How can anyone forget the reason for the delicate deal that necessitated asylum for Mr. Taylor in Nigeria?

President Obasanjo made wide consultations with all sides, in Liberia, Sierra Leone and with everyone leader in the African continent. He as well consulted extensively with America and Britain before Taylor was accepted into Nigeria. Asylums are not for saints.

Nitwits wanted Nigeria to go back on Nigeria honor, integrity, agreement and promise, to ease Taylor into exile so that peace could reign in Liberia and the West African sub region. Suddenly, some Nigerians and their foreign cohorts wanted Nigeria to lose credibility by reneging on that agreement that was the basis of the subsisting peace in Liberia. How about Nigeria’s national and continental interests and credibility in the future?

President Bush and Prime Minister Blair have together endangered world peace and stability with their war of choice in Iraq, which is now blossoming into a full scale civil war. There are 30, 000 or 100,000 Iraqis dead, when is President Bush up for war crimes trial? President Bush and Mr. Taylor are moral equivalents!

And when will those who killed Steve Biko of South Africa be coming up for war crimes trials? So many atrocities and monstrosities were visited on Black Africans in Apartheid South Africa, in Zimbabwe, in Angola and in Namibia etc when will the UN establish War Crimes Tribunals to try the white operators of minority rule in Southern African for crimes against humanity?

And could someone explain to me why Africans were not in charge of the trials of the now dead Milosevic of Serbia and yet the Americans are in charge of the war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone? When will all these double, multiple standards and rules of convenience stop?

Robot  Villager

# 1 Some Nigerians and their foreign cohorts may engage in great brouhaha or some other dizzying hoopla in connection with Mr. Charles Taylor’s disappearance from his limbo in Calabar Nigeria. Mr. Charles Taylor at the end of his political asylum in Nigeria was surely in limbo!Nigerian law and international protocols, conventions, treat...Read the full article. Posted by Robot| 29.03.2006 00:09

Londoner  Villager

# 2 My brother, may God Bless you. You have said it all in fact more than i intended to say. Obj has proven once again he is nobody's fool. What do the west take us for? they encourage us to take in Charles Taylor in the interest of peace in Liberia now they want us to give him up for trial, was this part of the deal? and if not, they have no moral standing to order us to produce him. This is not the first time a thing like this has happen, Alamco escaped from custudy few months ago under the watchful eyes of the British police force. Charles Taylor was not even in custody in nigeria. I am suprise about Miss Remi Oyo's statement that the security personel that were supposed to be guarding him have been arrested. I wonder what they arrest the poor people for because Charles Taylor Was not in custody nor detention in Nigeria as the government already withdrawn his asylum. Posted by Londoner| 29.03.2006 02:41

Akinyi

# 3 Mr Adujie, I know I have disagreed with you a couple of times. But this time around I suggest the naija gofment borrow from your write-up to issue a statement or "play ball" as it were in this instance. You got this right. I agree with you. Though Charles is a yeye man, these oyinbos should not be allowed to remote control us like TV. ILN you made me proud here. Thanks. I will still fight you ooo when you misbehave again. Posted by Akinyi| 29.03.2006 03:16

TASLIM

# 4 My Brother God Will Bless You For Educating My People. It Is Amazing That Those Who Habitually Cry Foul Are Usually And Predictably The First To Break The Rules. It Is Amazing That The Same Set Of People Who Were Opposed To The Initial Arrangement To Grant Assylum To Taylor In Nigeria Are The Ones Shouting Loudest Over His Reported "escape" I Want To Recall That Shortly Before The "escape" There Was A Diplomatic Buck Passing As To Who Should Present Taylor To The Un Court; Madam Sirleaf Was Behaving Like An Ostrich. I Couldnt Help But Laugh At Her Childlike Behaviour. When She Was Looking For Votes She Came To Nigeria And Sought The Assistance Of Both The Government And The Private Sector. Immediately She Assumed Office, All That Mattered To Her Was Taylor. No Problem You May Say. You Can Also Say That It Is A Matter Of Priority. However, Notable Nigerians Including Former President Abubakar Spoke Against Her Move To Get Charles Taylor At All Cost But She Would Not Listen; Nigeria Has Been Used To Achieve Her Aim. To Her, Nigeria Should Be Dumped Now That She Has Used Her To Get To The Presidential Lodge In Liberia. Even Johnson, The Former Warlord In Liberia Jocularly Said That She Was After Taylor Because She Needed Money From The Western Nations. That Woman To Me Deserve What She Got And What She Will Get. It Is Stupid Of Her To Venture Into This Business At A Point When Her Government Is Yet To Stabilize. Does She Think That Taylor's Soldiers Will Want An Early Retirement? Does She Think That Everyone, Including Weah Is Happy With Her, Especially As She Has Not Done Anything To Win The Confidence Of Liberians. So Nigerians Simply Showed Her That "sorry Madam You Cant Use Us And Dump Us" As My People Will Say "conny Man Die , Conny Man Bury Am" It Is Not Impossible That Taylor's Soldiers Will Regroup To Chase Her Out Of Power. That Will Be A Very Good Way Of Teaching Her Some Lessons In Gratitude And Priority Setting. Once Again I Want To Thank You Paul For This Wonderful And Educative Piece. Taslim Posted by TASLIM| 29.03.2006 03:30

Ajasco

# 5 Now that Taylor is arrested in Nigeria, I want to see y'all chop una words. Don't play with people fanatically in search of a third term. They will prove you wrong day after day. Posted by Ajasco| 29.03.2006 05:21

Tochukwu  Villager

# 6 Mr Paul Adujie, Now that Obasanjo has suddenly found Mr Taylor in Nigeria-Cameroun border and arrested and ordered his deportation to Sierra Leone via Liberia, can you safely say that Obasanjo is not pandering to the interests of the USA. Your demi-god has shown that he is made of clay. Why would he order Nigerian security forces to find and capture Taylor. Only yesterday, some people including you were saying that it was not the duty of Nigeria to find Taylor. What is happening bears the fact of diplomatic gibberish from Obasanjo government. Whereas Frank Nweke Jr was singing tenor, Fani-kayode was singing bass on the same program in BBC. Obasanjo himself was playing to the gallery in the White House. And you, Paul Adujie, was dancing naked in the message board here. What a shame. Posted by Tochukwu| 29.03.2006 05:47

Abraxas  Villager

# 7 Dear Mr. Paul Adujie, I think you are over-doing this your OBJ sycophancy and official praise-singing stuff. If you seriously believe that Mr. Charles Taylor, a well known criminal in the ECOWAS sub-region, can spend over thirty (30) months in Nigeria as a very special guest of General Aremu Obasanjo (just like Mr. Chris Uba and Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu sleep very peacefully in Aso Rock Villa, if, and whenever they choose to do so), then you must have relegated Nigeria to the cesspit of contemporary history as a full-blown banana republic, where any and any incumbent despot can choose and pick whatever brainwave he likes to animate at his pleasure. Baring voluntary amnesia, you will recall that last year, even when the INTERPOL issued an arrest order on Mr. Charles Taylor, your beloved Messiah, General Olusegun (Baba) Obasanjo callously disregarded the request. Several objections by Nigerians, at home and abroad, about the very nauseating presence of Mr. Charles Taylor in Nigeria never perturbed His Holy Majesty Oba Olu (Baba) Obasanjo. Even the United Nations complained about the blunt refusal of General Aremu (Baba) Obasanjo to follow the due processes of bringing a world renowned war criminal, and sub-regional terrorist like Charles Taylor, with confirmed links with Al-Qaeda, to justice. And yet, you, Mr. Paul Adujie (Esq.), have the brazen effrontery to tell over 130 million Nigerians worldwide that there was no warrant presented to OBJ upon which OBJ did not act. For your enlightenment, Mr. Charles Taylor WAS IN PROTECTIVE CUSTODY, complete with security cover, throughout his stay in Nigeria! Therefore, his stay in Nigeria cannot be classified as “enjoying� asylum... at the pleasure of the government and people of Nigeria. (Horse radish!) Mr. Charles Taylor was brought to Nigeria simply because a cabal of concerned Nigerian diamond smuggling barons, (comprising mostly some retired ex-ECOMOC commanders, and former Nigerian military despots), wanted to show solidarity to one of their kind. For your information, the UN special war crimes tribunal sitting in Sierra Leone actually sent a WARRANT of arrest of Mr. Charles Taylor, which your Messiah, General Obasanjo, as usual, disregarded, just like he typically disregards the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, with IMPUNITY. Please extend my warm regards to Baba Gbenga when you report to the Villa for your “honorarium� for writing this tasteless piece you have just sent in to pollute cyberspace, for, and on behalf of General Olusegun Obasanjo. I have advised you several times, let me beg you one more time: you very well deserve a break from active praise-singing and arse-licking, my friend. Cheers! Don Juan Carlos Abraxas (III) Posted by Abraxas| 29.03.2006 06:00

senabdalla  Villager

# 8 Paul Adujie has always been a praise singer and a desperador, ala Fani-Kayode. When the price is right he will sell you. I went to University of Maiduguri with him, and we all knew that he was a grass for Jubril Aminu when the latter was the VC. I am not therefore surprised at his constant praise for Obj, just like he was doing for Abatcha and indeed IBB. Personally I sometime think he has the same DNA with Sen. Nzeribe. Posted by senabdalla| 29.03.2006 10:27

Free Publius  Villager

# 9 Mr. Paul Adujie, That you are an unmistakable disgrace to that noble profession was made more apparent by the arrest of mr. taylor by the Obasanjo administration that you would engage in so much shameless sophistry for. Simply put, if all of your arrant nonsense that you wrote was correct, why did the admisnistration take it upon itself to find and arrest the man? All of this shows that there are some of you who would so eagerly sell your professional qualification just to eat crumbs from the tables of known criminals. You should rightfully find good company with the likes of Taslim Anibaba, a known and highly regarded syncophant. Good riddance! If NVS has any sense of fair play it would append a disclaimer to postings by Adujie, Anibaba and their ilk warning of their immutable syncophancy. Posted by Free Publius| 29.03.2006 10:41

emj  Villager

# 10 A trade by batter has just happened. The bargaining chip was lost, but now recovered.:rolleyes: The business transaction in washington will now be properly completed:cool: Posted by emj| 29.03.2006 12:22

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