Xenophobia : We Won't Apologise, Foreigners Are Not Welcome - South African King Replies

King Goodwill Zwelithini stands by his view that
foreigners should go back to their home countries.
KING Goodwill Zwelithini meant each and every word
when he said foreigners must pack their bags and get
out of South Africa.
So said Zwelithini’s spokesman, Prince Thulani Zulu,
who told Daily Sun yesterday the king has nothing to be
sorry for.
The Zulu king’s outburst came on Saturday during his
speech at a moral regeneration event in Pongola,
northern KZN.
In the presence of both Police Minister Nathi Nhleko and
provincial MEC Willies Mchunu, the king was reported to
have told the gathering that it was time foreigners were
told to return to their countries.
The king accused them of messing up the country’s
towns by hanging their fake clothing brands on the
streets.
“Now when you walk down the street you can’t
recognise a shop you used to know because it has been
taken over by foreigners who mess it up by hanging up
rags,” the king said.
His remarks were widely condemned as encouraging
hatred towards foreigners, which may result in more
violent behaviour towards them.
But Prince Thulani said the king won’t apologise
because he stood by what he said.
“I think the people who’re complaining are
misinterpreting his speech.
“He didn’t say foreigners must be attacked or harassed.
“The king was talking about foreigners who are here
illegally.
“Some are involved in serious crimes like drug and
human trafficking.
“We don’t need such people in our country so the king is
right,” said Zulu.
The king’s speech has been strongly criticised for
fuelling hatred against foreigners by the Somali
Association of South Africa and the Congolese Solidarity
Campaign.
The provincial government distanced itself from the
king’s speech. It said it was guided by the Constitution,
which guarantees human rights for all in SA.

Nigerian Customs Release Obasanjo’s Autobiography , My Watch

The Nigeria Customs Service on Thursday said that it had
released former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s
autobiography titled, My Watch.
The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the NCS
Comptroller-General, Alhaji Dikko Abdullahi, made the
disclosure to newsmen when he inaugurated two new patrol
boats of the service in Lagos.
Abdullahi said that the container was released following the
vacation of an FCT High Court order restraining the former
President from publishing, printing or offering for sale, his
autobiography titled, “My Watch’’ on Tuesday.
“Customs got the initial order of the court to stop the
container and now that the court asks us to release the
container, so be it,” he said.
Justice Valentine Ashi had ordered the release of the books
which had been in the custody of customs.
Ashi, in a ruling, upheld the argument by Obasanjo’s
counsel, Kanu Agabi (SAN), that the court was misled into
granting the orders on December 5 and Decemeber10, 2014.
The court had granted the orders on December 5, 2014,
restraining Obasanjo from publishing his book in the country
pending the determination of the suit filed against him by a
chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Buruji Kashamu.
Despite the December 5 order, Obasanjo proceeded to launch
the book on December 9 in Lagos, a development that
prompted the court to make the orders of December 10.
Ashi also restrained the comptroller-general from charging
demurrage on copies of the book already confiscated.
Abdullahi described the new patrol boats acquired by the
service as equipment needed to perform its exemplary
functions in line with President Goodluck Jonathan’s
transformation agenda for the service to excel.
He said it took two years to build the boats, adding that the
Customs supervised the construction of the boats to meet it
specification.
“We have two boats for now. We will watch their performance
and see if there is need to have more.
“With the performance of the boats government will not
hesitate to give us more money to buy more,” he said.
He recalled that one of the boats was named after nine
customs officers killed some years ago by smugglers of
petrol on the high sea while they were on official duty.
“It is a bad memory. Nine of my officers were really killed on
the high sea by smugglers who were carrying petrol

Police Arrested For Intentionally Infecting His Gir’lfriend With HIV

A cop who was fired from two Florida police departments has
now been arrested for knowingly infecting his girlfr’iend with
HIV.
The longtime girlf’riend of officer Dexter Richardson, 47, says
he was aware of his status but never told her.
On Tuesday, August 5, 2014 Richardson was charged with
having uninformed HIV interc;οurse.
In May the woman went to police with the accusations, telling
police that she’d been infected by Richardson. She said that
initially, Richardson denied having HIV but later admitted he’d
been living with the disease for around a decade.
Investigators confirm that Richardson was aware that he’d
been infected but never told his girlfriend.
Richardson has a history in Florida law enforcement, having
been fired from two departments in his career. Richardson was
let go from Pompano Beach for being involved in at least eight
unjustified accidents, and while working for the Riviera Beach
Police Department, he was let go for giving information to an
officer who was under investigation.
Richardson was also arrested for getting into a fight at a gas
station when a clerk refused to allow him to use the bathroom.
Police suspect that Richardson’s girlfriend may not be the only
woman who the former cop had sεx with while infected with
HIV.
Richardson was arrested by police on Sunday, August 3, 2014
and later released on bond.
Sadly, Richardson is the second officer from Palm Beach
County to be accused of knowingly spreading HIV.
A reporter from the Palm Beach Post was unsuccessful in
reaching Richardson and his attorney.
Anyone else who has had sεx with Richardson is advised to
contact Riviera Beach police at (561) 845-4123 and request to
speak to the detective assigned to the Dexter Richardson case.

OUCH!!! Lai Mohammed Offers PDP’s Metuh Six-Week Crash Course On His New Role As An Opposition Spokesperson

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has denied having any
hand in the crumbling of the PDP, as alleged by the party’s
National Publicity Secretary Olisa Metuh, while offering him,
(Metuh) a free, six-week crash course on his new role as the
opposition spokesman.
Reacting to the allegation by Mr. Metuh that the APC has
been working to destabilize the PDP, the party said in a
statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed,
in Abuja on Friday, that during the training, Mr. Metuh will be
given free lessons by his APC counterpart, in the spirit of
cooperation and for the advancement of the nation’s
democracy.
”Metuh will need the training to effectively carry out his new,
tough task. It is now obvious that he needs to understand
that for him to succeed in his new role, he must be credible,
empirical, more sophisticated in language use and very
passionate, in addition to being able to operate on a lean or
zero budget,” it said.
APC said it is ludicrous, to say the least, for anyone to
suggest that the APC is seeking to destabilize the PDP,
when the erstwhile ruling party has done such a great job of
crumbling under its own weight, having gorged on the
commonwealth.
”Really, it beggars belief to say that the APC is seeking to
lure away members of the PDP’s NEC with ‘phantom
promises and threats’, with a view to destabilizing the party,
when everyone knows the rate at which PDP stalwarts have
been rushing to jump off the sinking ship called the PDP
before it finally tips over.
”Our National Chairman and our President-elect have even
spoken out publicly on this issue, encouraging the eager
PDP defectors to stay back in their party so they can provide
a formidable opposition to the new ruling party. How then
can anyone accuse the APC of either luring away PDP
members or seeking to destabilize a party that has done
itself in?” the party queried.
It advised Mr. Metuh to take a little time off so he can
engage in some introspection, against the backdrop of the
total repudiation by Nigerians of the brand of politics that
his party, the PDP, played in its days as the ruling party.
”There is no doubt that Metuh is in a hurry to do his work as
an opposition spokesman. He should not worry. He should
save his energy, because he would need it, in addition to the
crash course which has been offered to him freely, if he is to
function effectively in his new role. Having been in
opposition for so long, we can tell Metuh that it is not a
cakewalk.
”Lies by themselves never travel far enough for the truth not
to catch up with them, as the PDP must have now realized
when its strategy of muckraking, distortion of facts and
blatant falsehood – under the guise of electioneering
campaign – failed to turn the tide in its favour during the
last elections. But it seems the lead actors in that failed
strategy, Metuh included, have not yet learnt their lessons,
hence they have continued to engage in their despicable
pastime.
”The APC has no time to waste on luring away members of
the PDP. We have our hands full as we seek to clear the
mess that the PDP has made of Nigeria and the state of
hopelessness to which its 16-year rule has plunged the
citizens. Because Nigerians wanted change, they voted for
our party. How then can the party of change allow itself to
become populated by the same folks whom Nigerians have
rejected?” APC said.

Strange Ondo Killer Disease Linked To Exhumed Corpse (Report)

All 14 deaths recorded in Ode Irele, Ondo state, from a
“strange” ailment are directly connected to an exhumed
corpse in the community, Kayode Akinmade, the Ondo state
commissioner for information and strategy, has said.
247NN had reported that the unidentified disease is
ravaging the Ode-Irele community in Ondo State and has left
28 people dead in the past three days.
Speaking with TheCable , Akinmade said the diseases was
not the same as Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), although it had
managed to kill its victims in less than 24 hours.
“The symptoms were not that of Ebola; it’s a 24-hour attack
that would make the victim to have headache, be
unconscious, then after 24 hours, the person is gone. That
one cannot be Ebola,” he said. “All the necessary facility that
government should provide, government has done that. We
have moved all the ambulances and everything.”
He added that although there were claims that as many as 34
people had died, only 14 people had fallen victim of the
strange disease. “Available data do not indicate that 34
people have died – only 14,”he said. “And from what we got,
the 14 had personal contacts with those people who came to
exhume the corpse that led to this epidemic.”
He added that the state commissioner for health, Dayo
Akinyanju would “in the next couple of hours, make a state
wide broadcast” to update Nigerians on the state of the
disease. Soji Gbadebo, the permanent secretary (protocol), in
the state who also spoke with TheCable, corroborated
Akinmade’s position.
“There is a general allusion that there was a – there was
something buried there (Ode Irele) and some people went
there to exhume the thing, and sold it to this English
people,” Gbadebo said.
“Only those who were directly involved have been affected by
this epidemic. “Meanwhile, government has sent powerful
health team there to unravel the mystery, so, for now, we
may not know what actually happened until a scientific
report unfolds it.” Speaking anonymously, a resident said the
disease had claimed 34 lives although the newspapers
reported just 12.
On Thursday, the strange ailment was reported to have
claimed 12 lives in Ode-Irele, a community in Irele local
government area of the state. The disease is characterised
with headache in victims, then loss of sight, and finally
death, all in a few hours.
The state government has said it is using equipment bought
for the prevention and control of Ebola virus disease in the
state to isolate the victims and control the unknown
outbreak. Samples from the victims have been collected and
sent to laboratories for investigation, with the World Health
Organisation (WHO) already in the know.