Emeka Mba retweeted
I’m sorry but why do you journalists constantly go sit with this brother every other two months? Is he the President? Don’t you guys have something better to do with your time?
Emeka Mba retweeted
The first thing my lawyer told me was that, don’t help them. Let them do their work and only confirm what they already know. I had a lawyer on retainer so he was at EFCC office even before I got there, this caused a big problem because they claim i shouldn’t have a lawyer on the go when I’m not a criminal.
EFCC combed my bank account for 5 days, going through every single transactions from 2017 till 2024, saw a transaction of up to N5M as at 2017 and claimed it was a red flag. Note that they didn’t have any evidence to link it to any crime.
EFCC combed through my phones, read hundreds of emails, browsing history, purchase receipts, etc dating back as far as 2017, took me in for profiling three times, and yet, they couldn’t find any shred of evidence linking me to internet fraud
EFCC told me that they have reason to detain me for up to 21 days without trial because according to them, I shouldn’t have N5M(single transaction) in my account as at 2017. Let that sink in!!
They detained me for 8 days, tortured me for 3hrs the first day and yet they couldn’t find a single, or any shred of evidence linking me to cybercrime. Do you know how crazy it is for EFCC to investigate you for 8 days without finding any evidence of the crime you were arrested for?
EFCC told me point blank that we know you’re not into fraud but “we can’t simply let you leave due to the huge sum found in your account”
EFCC told my lawyer I said I don’t want to see him three times before he was eventually allowed in
EFCC told my family that I declined their visitation request.
Lastly EFCC said those who confessed to have committed internet fraud will leave the detention before me and they did. I was the last person to leave despite not finding a single evidence of cybercrime or internet fraud even till now
Emeka Mba retweeted
This handle, I presume, is Anambra state Ministry of Information. The choice of these pictures, the sequencing and their symbolism in digital media storytelling, tell of an ominous story - of a curtain drawn and final exit to public life for the governor. It's disturbing
PHOTOS: Politics has no prize for second or third place. Our mission: a battle for the soul of Ndigbo and the soul of Ndi Anambra in 2027.
We are ready to deliver President Tinubu for a second term!
Anambra is READY!
#ProgressivesWorkingTogether
#AnambraIsRising
Emeka Mba retweeted
This is exactly the type of colonial psychology Frantz Fanon wrote about. Colonialism does not survive through force alone; it reproduces itself by creating colonized subjects who seek recognition and acceptance from the colonial power. Proximity to whiteness becomes confused with status, intelligence, civilization and legitimacy.
The empire has always enjoyed using a blackface to shield themselves from accountability. You repeat their history, defend the Empire’s innocence, and redirect attention toward Africans whenever their crimes are mentioned, hoping that defending Britain more aggressively than the British themselves will earn you a seat closer to whiteness.
Nobody denies that some African rulers participated in the slave trade. That does not erase Britain’s role in constructing, financing, insuring and profiting from an enormous Atlantic plantation economy, nor does it erase the wealth accumulated through slavery and colonial extraction afterward. “Africans sold Africans” is not serious historical analysis; it is a rhetorical escape hatch designed to absolve the empire.
Britain did not “end slavery” because it cared about the victims of chattel slavery. Them doing that does not cancel out the centuries in which British merchants, banks, ports, plantations and the state benefited from it. They went on to continue colonizing most of the Global South. An arsonist does not become innocent because he eventually helps extinguish the fire.
Fanon understood something that remains uncomfortable today: colonialism can outlive formal colonial rule because it colonizes the mind. Eventually the empire no longer needs to speak for itself. Some of the formerly colonized will volunteer to do it for them, measuring their own worth by how closely they can reproduce the worldview of the colonizer.
This bootlicking performance is so embarrassing. Defending the history of your former masters who colonized the country you come from.
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
Emeka Mba retweeted
I hate the dishonesty of Black people trying to vindicate their oppressor because they got basic amenities that the oppressor made sure their people never had.
Aunty Kemi, you said everyone participated in slavery and we should be honest about the whole history.
Then you quietly left out the most important part.
The so-called freedom was not freedom, it was payment. In 1833, Britain borrowed £20 million to compensate slave owners, around 40% of the national budget.
The enslaved received nothing. They were forced into "apprenticeships" of unpaid labour for years after. British taxpayers were still paying off that loan in 2015.
So when you say today's taxpayers should not be held responsible for what happened generations ago, they already were, for almost 200 years. The problem was never responsibility. It was who the money went to.
"Everyone participated" is a deflection. Yes, some African rulers and merchants took part, and that history should be told. But Britain built the ships, the insurance, the banks and the plantations, and wrote the laws that made human beings property. Participation is not equal responsibility, and you know that.
You mention Britain's leading role in ending the trade. Honest history also says abolition was forced by the resistance of the enslaved themselves, from Haiti to the Baptist War in Jamaica. It was not charity.
You say Blair already apologised. He expressed sorrow, and he did not apologise. That is exactly why the Caribbean is still asking.
And to say Commonwealth elites are looking for someone to blame is a lazy statement .
Debt, underdevelopment and broken systems did not appear from nowhere.
Many of these countries were designed to be extracted from, not to build.
Most of all, an oppressor cannot be the one to tell us when to stop talking about the evil they did. Caribbean nations are not asking you for permission. You can disagree with reparations, that is politics.
But as a British politician defending Britain's record, you are in no place to tell the descendants of the enslaved how much of their pain is too much, or when it is time to move on.
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
Emeka Mba retweeted
🇬🇧 Kemi Badenoch says we shouldn't talk about slavery because "it's in the past."
So I guess that means no October 7th. No Holocaust. No Remembrance Day. No 9/11.
"It's in the past" right????
Emeka Mba retweeted
Kemi, congratulations on leading a major British party as a Black Woman. It takes real talent to rise to where you are and deceit is what it takes to rise as a Black leader in a western Conservative Party.
It is a pity the climb did not leave room for a history book and since you chose to argue in the language of history, let us do the history. Let’s dissect your verbal diarrhea point by point.
Everyone participated." Slavery existed on every continent. So did war, and nobody calls a village feud the World War. The transatlantic trade ran for 366 years (1501 to 1866) and put about 12.5 million Africans on ships, of whom about 1.8 million died before they saw the Americas, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. It ran through joint-stock companies, chartered monopolies, Lloyd's underwriters and acts of Parliament. It was hereditary, because the law made the child of an enslaved mother property from birth. It was racial, because a whole continent was defined as chattel. No other system in history combined those features at that scale. Dissolving all of it into "people from every continent" is far worse than intellectual dishonesty.
Britain was a market leader, not a participant. British ships carried about 3.2 million Africans, second only to Portugal and Brazil. The Treaty of Utrecht (1713) gave Britain the asiento, a thirty-year monopoly to supply 4,800 enslaved Africans a year to Spanish America. The Royal African Company, chartered in 1672 and headed by the Duke of York, later James II, branded its captives "DY". During Edward Colston's years in its leadership it shipped about 84,000 people, and roughly 19,000 died on the way.
You say British taxpayers should not answer for what happened before they were born. They did. In 1833 Britain borrowed £20 million to compensate slaveholders, and taxpayers serviced that loan until 2015, including the descendants of the enslaved. So the principle you invoke was not applied when the cheque went to slaveholders. It only appears when the cheque changes direction.
"Navel-gazing" is a curious charge from someone whose party spends more energy on the past (Empire nostalgia, culture war crusades) than most of those you accuse. Defend Britain if you must. But do not use your Nigerian name as the permission slip for arguments Nigerians know better than anyone.
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
Emeka Mba retweeted
Every time an African country elects a government that tries to keep more of its own resources, Western media discovers a "democracy deficit."
Every time an Asian nation builds technology that competes with Western products, Western governments discover a "security threat."
Every time a Latin American country charts an economic path outside the Washington Consensus, Western financial institutions discover a "stability risk."
The pattern is precise and it has been precise for two centuries.
The West is not afraid of authoritarian governments.
It has funded dozens of them.
The West is not afraid of economic mismanagement.
It has imposed structural adjustment programs that produced exactly that.
What produces the alarm, the specific, urgent, editorial-board-meeting alarm, is independence.
A poor country making its own choices with its own resources for its own people without asking permission.
That is the danger.
That has always been the danger.
Everything else is the vocabulary chosen to describe it in ways that don’t require honesty.
Emeka Mba retweeted
Please note the framing: “Russia’s war in Ukraine” is not followed by “the US-Israeli war in Iran” but by “crisis in the Middle East”. This, ladies and gentlemen of the Collective West, is why no thinking person outside and inside your little “garden” takes you guys seriously anymore. Your hypocrisy is now 100% transparent. You frauds.
Russia’s war in Ukraine and the crisis in the Middle East pose major threats to energy and food supplies, trade and freedom of navigation.
Maritime routes are global lifelines.
At the G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Atlanta, I called for a Black Sea freedom of navigation arrangement and reaffirmed the EU’s opposition to tolls and fees on international shipping routes.
Energy security and supply chain resilience are vital for global economic stability.
Emeka Mba retweeted
Thank you, @seunokin.👌
Election Rigging Alert!!
Voters Register lacking Integrity cannot produce a credible result.
#seunokinbaloye #politicstoday #channelstv
Emeka Mba retweeted
Africa needs to come through for Cuba. They really held us down when the coloniser tried to wipe out the African people.
Free Cuba!
Emeka Mba retweeted
If Courtney worked for a mainstream news organization she would be hailed as one of the most courageous journalists in the world.
She is, without them.
No western journalist is even attempting what she does daily.
Emeka Mba retweeted
Hello, English-speaking friends! I used AI to translate this speech by our President, Lula, given during an interview ahead of Brazil’s elections. His words inspired thousands of students to take to the streets and fight to win over voters, reach undecided voters, and convince people who hadn’t voted in the first round to cast their ballots in the runoff.
In Brazil, fascists don’t stand a chance!
