The Message That Saved A Military Sexual Assault Survivor's Life

When Jeremiah Arbogast entered the home of his former boss, a Marine staff sergeant, he was wearing a body wire hooked up by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which was listening from a nearby car.
"I need to know what happened," Arbogast told the staff sergeant in 2001. "I need to get help. I can't get help if I don't know what happened."
The man began to coolly list everything he had done to Arbogast, recounting his rape.
"I don't know what possessed him to just be like, 'I did this, this and this, and that's that,'" Arbogast said. "No remorse, no nothing." Arbogast got his rapist's full confession on tape, but the process severely traumatized him -- again.

The staff sergeant was convicted by court martial in 2002, given merely a "bad conduct" discharge from the Marines. But Arbogast's ordeal went on for seven more years of severe depression, nightmares and insomnia. He had trouble concentrating; his mind would wander back to the rape. He swung abruptly from rage to numbness. He got divorced. Then got remarried. He drank. Nothing worked.
In 2009, Arbogast aimed a gun "right dead in the chest, where my heart would be, where my pain was." He missed and became partially paralyzed.
His wife told him, "You've got a gift now. You've been given a new life in death and you've got to do something with it."
Men accounted for only about 12 percent of reported military sexual assault cases in fiscal year 2012. But more men than women are sexually assaulted each year in the military, given that men make up some 85 percent of service members, notes Michael Matthews, a close friend of Arbogast. Matthews' own experience as a veteran and victim of rape served as the catalyst for "Justice Denied," a documentary about male military sexual assault survivors.
Back in 1998, when Arbogast joined the Marines just after high school, no one was talking about these issues. He started as a motor transport operator, and later served as a lance corporal in a weapons training battalion. He was preparing to deploy to Okinawa, Japan -- until he was assaulted.
"I served honorably," Arbogast said. "The rape trumped it."
Arbogast was unconscious during his attack -- doctors believe he may have been drugged -- and he didn't report it for months. "I'm trying to explain this to base counselors, and it was just eating me alive," he said. "I could not believe what I was going through ... It spiraled my world out of control."
After he confronted his rapist and went through the court martial, he didn't want to go near a base, but every six months the military brought him back to check on his health. It took him five years until he could formally retire from the Marines on medical grounds.
Then he had to face his demons in civilian life. His daughter was just under a year old, but he couldn't connect with anyone. He tried to move forward, marrying his daughter's mother in 2004.
"As much as I love my daughter, I didn't have the relationship with her that I should have," he said. "I ruined a lot of relationships."
Arbogast and his wife divorced. He withdrew from the world, unable to trust others or himself. He went from being uninterested in sex to engaging with a "chronic," endless string of faceless female partners. "The myth is that men can't be raped, so when this trauma takes place, it plays with their mind so bad," he said of men who become victims of sexual assault.

When he met his current wife, Tiffany, he was sure his experiences would chase her away. But it all came tumbling out. "She looked at me and told me it didn't matter, she would love me regardless. As much as I wanted to believe her, I couldn't," he said.
His downward spiral continued. On Oct. 1, 2009, about four months after they were married, Tiffany took his handgun, planning to keep it in her car while she was at work.
"I thought I was poison to everybody I was around, or anything I had ever touched," Arbogast said. "I was dragging people down again, it was starting all over ... I decided that's when I was gonna end it, stop being a problem to everybody else."
That afternoon, he got his 9mm handgun out of Tiffany's car before she left for work. "I told her I wasn't gonna do anything," he said. Hours later, he was sitting on the ground beside the car, "trying to make reason of why my life was the way it was."
He raised the gun to his chest, but because he had been drinking, slumped at the last second. The bullet tore through his high abdomen and blasted out through his spine, damaging his spinal cord. He lost 60 percent of his blood, and woke up a week later in the hospital from a medically induced coma.
His depression only deepened over the coming months, until his wife told him that he had a gift. Arbogast now had the understanding to spread awareness and speak for three groups that often suffer in silence: military sexual assault survivors, suicide survivors and people with disabilities.
"Something clicked," said Arbogast, now 32. "I didn't want anybody else to go through it."
"People don't understand why it's a gift," he added, reflecting on his whole experience. "But many people die and never realize what they really had, what their purpose in life was. My life was spared to give me a purpose."
Not that his recovery has ever been easy. He says, simply, "You can't undo a gunshot wound."
Though grateful for his military health care and benefits, he has relied less and less on medical facilities. "When you're in a wheelchair, you get so tired of being poked and prodded," he said. "One day I just said, 'enough. I need to live my life.'"

He has become involved in Paralympic and adaptive sports and is a decorated athlete in cycling and swimming. He had never skied in his life before he became a paraplegic; now he loves it, terrorizing the slopes in a monoski, a bucket chair with a ski attached. Recently, he's been learning how to get around with braces.
Arbogast has just begun to talk about his experience to his daughter, Brianna, who's now 11. "I'll tell her, 'Daddy tried to kill himself because he didn't want to be here,' and she'll say, 'I want you here.'"
Brianna helps him move around their house, which is not accessible for wheelchairs. "I'll tell you what, it's extreme hell," he said. "I can't even get into the bathroom safely, my wife has to get me a roll stool and roll me. Just think of all the places in a house when you're in a wheelchair you can't get to."

He said it's difficult for military and sexual assault survivors, especially men, to speak out about the issue. "We don't talk about sexual assault because it's 'complex,'" he said. "Complex? You try and come live for just an hour in my complex life."
But he feels strongly that the discrimination and misunderstanding he faces are worth it if he can help to save someone's life.
"I've been through life and death," he said. "There is gonna come a time in your life when you have to say enough is enough. You're letting that perpetrator who assaulted you rent your life for free. You're becoming a slave to what they've done to you."
Others may see his experience as a reason to want to give up. But he says it's the reason to keep living. "It's all the tragedy and the triumph between where I was and where I am today."
Several organizations have been trying to help the Arbogast family raise money to adapt their home, but so far, the funds have fallen short. Click here for more about the project and to donate.
This article is part of a special Huffington Post series, "Invisible Casualties," in which we shine a spotlight on suicide-prevention efforts within the military.














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KENYA MALL ATTACK: “You’re A Very Bad Man” – 4yr Old Kid Confronts Gunman Who Gave Him Chocolate & Begged For Forgiveness

A four-year-old British boy caught up in the Kenya mall massacre showed astonishing bravery by confronting a marauding gunman who ended up begging for his forgiveness.

Elliot Prior, from Windsor, Berkshire, told one of the terrorists that he was a ‘very bad man’ as he protected his mother, Amber, who had been shot in the leg, and six-year-old sister Amelie.

Incredibly, the attacker took pity on the family and bizarrely handed the children Mars bars before telling them ‘Please forgive me, we are not monsters.’

His story emerged as sporadic gunfire continued to ring out from inside the mall early today as Kenyan security forces battled Al Qaeda-linked terrorists into a fourth day.

Despite Kenyan police assurances that they had taken control of the building, a security expert with contacts inside the mall said at least 10 hostages were still being held by a band of attackers, possibly as many as 13.

Kenya’s foreign minister Amina Mohamed said ’two or three’ Americans and one British woman were among those who attacked the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi.

His mother, Amber, told of her family’s terrifying escape from Al Shabaab terrorists who butchered 62 people in the Nairobi shopping centre.

The film producer had been queuing to buy milk in Nairobi’s Westgate Shopping Centre when the militants struck.

She hid under a cold meat counter in the Nakumatt supermarket for an hour-and-a-half with her children beneath her before terrorists finally found them and shot her in the thigh.

Elliot’s uncle, Alex Coutts, told The Sun: ‘They had a lucky escape. The terrorists said if any of the kids were alive in the supermarket they could leave. ‘Amber made the decision to stand up and say “yes”.’

‘Then Elliot started arguing with them and called them bad men. He was very brave.’

After discovering the advertising producer was of French origin, the men began to plead with her and claimed that the Muslim faith ‘was not a bad one’.‘He told me I had to change my religion to Islam and said “do you forgive us? Do you forgive us?’, the mother told The Independent.

‘Naturally, I was going to say whatever they wanted and they let us go’.

Bizarrely, the terrorists handed the children Mars bars before they fled with two other children, including a 12-year-old boy who had at first refused to leave his dead mother.
The fate of 20 others who had taken refuge under the meat counter is unknown.
The family’s escape is particularly astonishing in light of the indiscriminate slaughter of men, women and children throughout the mall after Al Shabaab launched their assault on Saturday.

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Students Insist On Planned Protest Despite Police Presence

By SaharaReporters, New York

Despite the heavy presence of security men at the premises of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) following the students' plan to protest the lingering industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Tuesday, the students have insisted that they will proceed with their demonstration regardless of the development.
ASUU has been on strike since June 1, 2013 following the inability of the Nigerian Government to honor the agreement it signed with the union in 2009.
The UNILAG students are also agitating for the reinstatement of their Student Union Government (SUG) as well as the reversal on the hike in tuition at the Lagos State University (LASU).
Coordinator of the Lagos State chapter, Joint Campus Committee of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Comrade Yaqub Eleto, said the body has a responsibility to ensure welfare of all students.
"For many years now, UNILAG has been without a Students Union and LASU school fees is too high. This is a developing country and we should be encouraging students to go to school rather than hike their fees," Eleto said, insisting that students would not give in for any kind of threat.
"ASUU strike is into its third month now, and we cannot keep watching things as they are," the student leader said further.
"We are going ahead", insisted the student.

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Nuclear Crisis at Fukushima Could Spew Out More Than 15,000 Times as Much Radiation as Hiroshima Bombing

HARVEY WASSERMAN
Image of the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant on March 16, 2011 of the four damaged reactor buildings.We are now within two months of what may be humankind's most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
There is no excuse for not acting. All the resources our species can muster must be focused on the fuel pool at Fukushima Unit 4.
Fukushima's owner, Tokyo Electric (Tepco), says that within as few as 60 days it may begin trying to remove more than 1300 spent fuel rods from a badly damaged pool perched 100 feet in the air. The pool rests on a badly damaged building that is tilting, sinking and could easily come down in the next earthquake, if not on its own.
Some 400 tons of fuel in that pool could spew out more than 15,000 times as much radiation as was released at Hiroshima.
The one thing certain about this crisis is that Tepco does not have the scientific, engineering or financial resources to handle it. Nor does the Japanese government. The situation demands a coordinated worldwide effort of the best scientists and engineers our species can muster.
Why is this so serious?

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We already know that thousands of tons of heavily contaminated water are pouring through the Fukushima site, carrying a devil's brew of long-lived poisonous isotopes into the Pacific. Tuna irradiated with fallout traceable to Fukushima have already been caught off the coast of California. We can expect far worse.
Tepco continues to pour more water onto the proximate site of three melted reactor cores it must somehow keep cool.Steam plumes indicate fission may still be going on somewhere underground. But nobody knows exactly where those cores actually are.
Much of that irradiated water now sits in roughly a thousand huge but fragile tanks that have been quickly assembled and strewn around the site. Many are already leaking. All could shatter in the next earthquake, releasing thousands of tons of permanent poisons into the Pacific. Fresh reports show that Tepco has just dumped another thousand tons of contaminated liquids into the sea.
The water flowing through the site is also undermining the remnant structures at Fukushima, including the one supporting the fuel pool at Unit Four.
More than 6,000 fuel assemblies now sit in a common pool just 50 meters from Unit Four. Some contain plutonium. The pool has no containment over it. It's vulnerable to loss of coolant, the collapse of a nearby building, another earthquake, another tsunami and more.
Overall, more than 11,000 fuel assemblies are scattered around the Fukushima site. According to long-time expert and former Department of Energy official Robert Alvarez, there is more than 85 times as much lethal cesium on site as was released at Chernobyl.
Radioactive hot spots continue to be found around Japan. There are indications of heightened rates of thyroid damage among local children.
The immediate bottom line is that those fuel rods must somehow come safely out of the Unit Four fuel pool as soon as possible.
Just prior to the 3/11/11 earthquake and tsunami that shattered the Fukushima site, the core of Unit Four was removed for routine maintenance and refueling. Like some two dozen reactors in the US and too many more around the world, the General Electric-designed pool into which that core now sits is 100 feet in the air.
Spent fuel must somehow be kept under water. It's clad in zirconium alloy which will spontaneously ignite when exposed to air. Long used in flash bulbs for cameras, zirconium burns with an extremely bright hot flame.
Each uncovered rod emits enough radiation to kill someone standing nearby in a matter of minutes. A conflagration could force all personnel to flee the site and render electronic machinery unworkable.
According to Arnie Gundersen, a nuclear engineer with forty years in an industry for which he once manufactured fuel rods, the ones in the Unit 4 core are bent, damaged and embrittled to the point of crumbling. Cameras have shown troubling quantities of debris in the fuel pool, which itself is damaged.
The engineering and scientific barriers to emptying the Unit Four fuel pool are unique and daunting, says Gundersen. But it must be done to 100% perfection.
Should the attempt fail, the rods could be exposed to air and catch fire, releasing horrific quantities of radiation into the atmosphere. The pool could come crashing to the ground, dumping the rods together into a pile that could fission and possibly explode. The resulting radioactive cloud would threaten the health and safety of all us.
Chernobyl's first 1986 fallout reached California within ten days. Fukushima's in 2011 arrived in less than a week. A new fuel fire at Unit 4 would pour out a continuous stream of lethal radioactive poisons for centuries.
Former Ambassador Mitsuhei Murata says full-scale releases from Fukushima "would destroy the world environment and our civilization. This is not rocket science, nor does it connect to the pugilistic debate over nuclear power plants. This is an issue of human survival."
Neither Tokyo Electric nor the government of Japan can go this alone. There is no excuse for deploying anything less than a coordinated team of the planet's best scientists and engineers.
We have two months or less to act.
The clock is ticking. The hand of global nuclear disaster is painfully close to midnight.
Harvey Wasserman is Senior Editor of the Columbus Free Press and www.frepress.org, where this was originally published. He edits www.nukefree.org. where the petition for global intervention at Fukushima is linked.

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Professor Used Camera Pen To Prove Student Wore No Underwear: Cops

A Florida professor is getting low marks from students and investigators after being accused of “video voyeurism.”
Don A. Samuelson, a veterinary science professor at the University of Florida, was arrested Friday for allegedly using a camera pen to secretly record images of students on campus.
According to the arrest report, Samuelson, 65, allegedly used the device on three occasions between April and August to record images of a woman’s chest and thighs,Gainesville.com reported.
On Aug. 30, one woman noticed Samuelson attempting to film down her shirt, up her skirt, and between her thighs.
Investigators say they seized the camera pen and a portable thumb drive of other women working in his lab and meeting in his office, according to UPI.com.

Samuelson admitted the camera pen was his, but insisted he was using it to prove a woman wasn’t wearing any undergarments, according to the arrest report.
The charges against Samuelson have shocked former students like Casey Siljestrom, who took a course with him last year.
“We always just thought he was a really nice guy, a little bit boring but never threatening in any way,” Siljestrom, 23, told Alligator.org.
“I never felt uncomfortable around him.”
Samuelson was released on $20,000 bond Friday afternoon. Gainesville police are still investigating the charges, ActionNewsJax.com reported.

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PDP Elders In Kano Pledge With Governor Kwankwaso, If He Chooses To Pull Out of The Party

Gov. Rabiu Kwankwaso

By SaharaReporters, New York

As the crisis rocking the People Democratic Party (PDP) continues, the Elders Committee of the New PDP in Kano state has affirmed they will fight to the end to support Governor Musa Kwankwaso until the demands of the seven governors are met, even if it means pulling out of the party completely.
The assertion was made at a press conference in Kano on Monday addressed by the chairman of the committee, Amb. Kabiru Rabi’u, who said they were merely waiting for further directives from the governor, who will determine the next line of action.
“We the elders of the party in the state were 100 percent with our able governor, Dr. Kwankwaso,” he said, adding that they would equally go with him to any party he wishes if the demands of the G7 are not respected.
The party said it vehemently opposed the call credited to the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the PDP, Chief Tony Anenih that President Goodluck Jonathan and some governors be given automatic tickets to contest the 2015 elections, describing it as undemocratic and a glaring case of contempt in the case of Atiku vs PDP.
The decision of the Elders Committee comes as the new PDP also said the party will go to court over the recent appointment of the caretaker committee inaugurated by the old PDP, an organ that refused to organize a new election to fill the expired tenure of former executive.
According to Amb. Rabi’u, the policy of consensus arrangement and “adoption” rather than transparent election to produce candidates for elections including the presidency, is “totally unacceptable to us.”
It will be recalled that former vice president Atiku Abubakar was repeatedly challenged this undemocratic arrangement in court, and that the courts ruled that the policy is indeed alien to the PDP and Nigerian constitutions.
Commenting on the political tussle tearing Nigerian governors apart, Ambassador Rabi’u said that the truth is that most Nigerians believe that the presidency engineered the crisis and is happy with it because it has a score to settle with Governor Rotimi Amaechi of River State who emerged the chairman of the forum.
“The present leadership of PDP is very unpopular and has been a disaster for the party as he pursues the policy of personal loyalty and the policy will split our great party and divide the governors ranks and which would not be approved.
We the elders of the party and the entire PDP family in Kano state with one voice are saying “NO”  to the breach of PDP constitution wherein mercenaries have been put in place to discipline the members .
Amb. Rabi’u also disclosed that the party in Kano plans to go to court over the recent appointment of the caretaker committee inaugurated by the Bamangar Tukur leadership.
According to him, the G7 is fighting a good cause that will reposition the PDP.  However, if their wishes and demands are not accepted at the end of the day, the new PDP will determine whether to pull out or join one of the opposition parties capable of protecting their cause.
“We would like to state in clear manner that we render our unalloyed support to our leader governor Kwankwaso and we identify ourselves with all his actions, in particular, support his position with regards to the Northern States Governors Forum (NSGF) and Nigeria Governor Forum (NGF), the ambassador said.

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Dangote Gives Pennies To “Beggars” 65,500 Women In Adamawa And Yobe In Spurious Grants

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“Headlines: Empowering Women with $61.00″ … The insult to Nigeria’s women!

Sept. 24, 2013
by Hamza Suleiman
NewsRescue- The media is awash with so-called grants by Aliko Dangote to women and youth in Adamawa and Yobe state, to the tune of N655 million ($4 million) to be given as cash to ‘assist the women in starting petty businesses’. 65,000 women are to receive N10,000 each, that’s $61.00 a piece in the scheme/scam. Admittedly, he certainly bought a lot of press for a mere $4 million.
The true level of destruction of Nigeria by Aliko Dangote is well covered and only covered on NewsRescue. You will not read of how he turns Nigerians into beggars on any other media, thanks to Dangote cement and Dansa juice advertising with which he has ‘bought’ all Nigerian media companies, just like the mogul bought the nation its dying president, Yar’Adua and inadvertently bought the nation its current and troublesome president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

Immunity from criticism of the press bought by paid sponsored ads

Described aptly by the United States in wikileaks as ‘Beggar-thy-countrymen’ Dangote. The policies of Africa’s richest man are well tailored to destroy what is left of the essence and fabric of the Nigerian masses. Nigerians, aided by a corrupt and ignorant press, focus on their government only, not realizing the elite who install the leaders, support them, are worse than them and plunder the nation non-stop.
Dangote Represents The Cabal That Plunders Nigeria; Behind Nigeria’s Ugly Politics

Dangote’s mentor, Bill Gates calls Dambisa Moyo, author of “Dead Aid” a killer

Thoroughly trained by his mentor, Bill Gates, Aliko Beggar-thy-countrymen Dangote incorporates the big corp own it all and turn them into beggars, new world order exploitative economics in Nigeria.
Dangote has been given sole-importation and sole-manufacture rights of so many commodities in Nigeria. His crony, ex-president Obasanjo literally carved up and transferred the nation to him and his likes. These men are the cabal.
Destroying small businesses, the bane of the economy and the subsistence and dignified insurance of survival above begging of the masses, by blocking imports of all products Dangote manufactures, the government of Obasanjo in policies continued by Dangote-Obasanjo imposed Jonathan, crippled very many small businesses and entrepreneurs in Nigeria.
Aliko Beggar-thy-countrymen Dangote
This beggar-thy-countrymen principle is executed by them, after stealing trillions of dollars directly through Federal government projects, through corrupt kick-back privatization, tax evasion and being granted sole and government supported commodity import and production rights, effectively killing competition and then fixing outrageous prices; by then giving peanuts to the masses in purported poverty alleviation schemes or better put, scams to buy gullibility, allegiance and divination.
With a paltry $61.00 a piece, according to time tested and documented economic studies, there will be absolutely no poverty alleviation in these women and youth. These ‘beggars’ will have a meal on their table for a week, and then that is it. These new beggars will now feel indebted to Aliko Beggar-thy-countrymen Dangote for his spurious endowment, that has only complicated their misery and increased their shame.
We have all heard the Chinese proverb:

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

NewsRescue recently wrote: Forbes Lists Dangote As Africa’s Richest Man: His State Has 1.5 Million Almajiri’s (Beggars)
It is great to know Aliko Beggar-thy-countrymen Dangote, who is famous for saying that Boko Haram terrorism is not Nigeria’s big problem, rather the lack of infrastructure (which he alone can build and his cement will be used for) is Nigeria’s biggest problem, will soon be addressing the terror related problem of the 1.5 million Almajiri’s in his state. He will soon in this same principle, give them each $61.00 in grants to ‘set up businesses.’
Pennies To The Poor
Throwing pennies at the poor is only a method of gaining cheap publicity and feeling of self-worth, while further crushing them. This is Dangote’s legacy. We all know that these moneys, a part of the Dangote Micro-grants ‘beggars’ Programme, totaling N10 billion ($60M) will only partly reach these ladies (Dangote beggars), most of it as Dangote well expects and obviously must intend, will enter the paws of the corrupt officials he put in power, buying more of their loyalty and gaining Dangote cement more government jobs. Nigeria’s poor will be on their way out of poverty if Dangote was audited and paid his due taxes, estimated to be well over ten times what he gives in this glorified ‘charity’.

• NewsRescue-Nigeria’s Terror: Between Die-to-rule spymaster Gusau and Beggar-thy-countrymen Dangote

Killing Small-scale Business To Hire A Few Nigerians For His Personal Companies

Dangote Bought Jonathan His Presidency

Aliko Beggar-thy-countrymen Dangote creates jobs by building companies he will use to crush small businesses and operate as an arm of a communist type government, while employing staff (slaves) to work in them. The staff he employs, overqualified Nigerians who work for him in his sole-right companies are the jobs he creates, including when he employs PhD holders to drive his trucks. This is Dangote empowerment.

PUNCH: Cement price still defies laws of demand and supply … Between Ghana and Nigeria:  Despite the ‘glut’, Nigerians have continued to buy cement at prices which observers consider exorbitant. Currently, a bag of 50kg of cement costs between   N1,650 and N1,800. But in neighbouring Republic of Benin and Ghana, a bag of 50kg of cement sells for 4500CFA (N1,500) and  GH¢15.295 (N1,150) respectively. Read more from Punch

Not A Grant, More Like A Debt
Nigeria’s cabal like Dangote steal $10,000 from each woman via their government enforced monopolies, then give back $61.00. For what Aliko Beggar-thy-countrymen Dangote has stolen from Nigeria, the rights and resource Nigerians have lost, carved up and handed to Dangote by Obasanjo and Jonathan, both of whom he paid for their presidential victories; Dangote is to return not to his companies and by giving peanuts to the people, but by real social empowerment. Free infrastructure, road access for the farmers to convey their goods. Free developmental, educational and research institutions. Acquiring land and giving this free to farmers. Providing supported irrigation, security, technology, transportation, etc. These are real contributions, that if Dangote did on any serious level, broadly, Nigerians will be able to say that at least he gave back one tenth of what he stole from them.

• How Obasanjo and Dangote Got Nigeria “Here” by Imposing Terminally Sick Yar’Adua- US Intel. Leaks from “Rat” Gusau

The Cabal: Dangote and Obasanjo – Image from Obasanjo Foundation

The World’s 40th Richest Man, Whose State Has 1.5 Million Beggars (Almajiri)
Dangote’s name is predicted to crumble just as late multimillionaire Abiola’s name all but crumbled when he passed. It is remembered that University of Lagos students protested and rejected the renaming of their institution after Abiola, despite his wealth.
Already in Dangote’s Kano, they say they prefer a dog walking the streets to him.
A Kano man made this comment about the son of the soil:

Dangote was born and grown up in Kano; but Wallahi; Owella Rochas Anayo Okorocha is far better than him and his so-called father Aminu Dantata. They are killing Kano, they should go to hell with their wealth. A. A. Rano, A. S. A Hadejia and the likes of Na Allah are the kind of people Kano, north and Nigeria want. Forget Dangote, Dog feel more safer than him in Kano metropolis.

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