The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Wednesday October 19th, 2022
Buba Marwa and the Drug War by Kola King
If there’s any area in which President Muhammadu Buhari deserves some praise and has made positive and giant strides, it is the drug war which has taken on a more urgent tone and tenor since the appointment of retired Brigadier General Mohammed Buba Marwa as Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The success achieved by the agency can be ascribed to the fact that his appointment certainly put a round peg in a round hole. Today, Marwa remains a poster boy of the Buhari administration.
Recall that Muhammadu Buhari during his first outing as a military head of state in 1984, had taken drastic and decisive steps to curtail drug trafficking and drug possession. He passed decree 20 which made drug possession and drug trafficking and illegal dealings in oil punishable by death. This decree which was applied retroactively caught three drug traffickers Bartholomew Azubuike Owoh, Bernard Ogedengbe, and Lawal Akanni Ojuolape in the net in April 1985. Despite pleas by well-meaning Nigerians, the three young men were executed for drug trafficking to serve as an example and deterrent to potential traffickers.
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Waking With A Poem Already In My Head #poem by Neil Leadbeater
“Wednesday morning, waking with a poem
already in my head, I saw
the pond-skater
pirouetting on thin ice
and knew, as I began to write,
that I had barely scratched the surface.”
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Ma-Siri & Alexa #44 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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