Fayose: as usual, he’s at it again

Fayose: as usual, he’s at it again

  Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose is at again, but this time in unusual form, you would want to guess what I’m about to talk about right?

Well he chose to dress down and was dressed down. He was dressed in a pair of jeans and a T-shirt when he appeared at the house of assembly at Ekiti state to present the Appropriation Bill on December 8.

    “The world watched in disbelief as Fayose stormed the House of Assembly in casual dress,” said a statement by the publicity secretary of the All progressives congress (APC), Taiwo Olatunbosu. He described the governor’s dressing as “uncultured”, adding that it “defied decorum.”

   In response , the house committee chairman on information, Gboyega Aribisogan, reportedly wondered: “And what has what Governor Fayose wears got to do with Governance?” His defense of Fayose was perhaps predictable, come to think of it birds of the same feather flock together isn’t it?. They are both members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which is in power in the state. The defender also wondered why the opposition “turned themselves into Governor Fayose’s advisers on mode of dressing and public presentation.”

   So, Fayose’s informal dressing was considered appropriate for a formal ceremony by those who don’t understand the idea of “dressing properly for the occasion”.

   The APC’s statement continued: “More shocks came when the Governor grabbed the gavel and started conducting a mock sitting. The worst was the quality of English by the Governor who said: ‘those who doesn’t support the quick passage of the budget you should say ‘Aye’ or “Nay’, to which both gallery and members hooted ‘Aye’.”

   Fayose’s dramatic use of a gavel to symbolically “pass” the budget into law after presenting the proposal to the law makers amounted to a “breach of protocol,” the party said. The Governor’s action was described as a “flagrant disregard of the rule of law and constituted authority”. According to the APC, it “violates law and order and abuses power”.

   This account sounded exaggerated. But Aribisogan’s reaction appeared to corroborate it. Speaking on behalf of the 26-member House of Assembly controlled by the PDP, he told journalists in Ado-Ekiti that the law maker’s owed their positions to Fayose. He was as well quoted saying: “is it our fault that the APC does not have a single member in the house of assembly? … The reality that those in the APC must face is that if they are waiting for us to confront Governor Fayose on issues of Governance, they will wait till eternity.”

   This hero worship must explain not only Fayose’s superiority complex, but also the legislators’ inferiority complex. The picture shows a little tin god and men of straw.

castaway that survived 438 days at sea sued for eating his fellow castaway

Castaway Salvador Alvarenga is being sued for cannibalism by the family of Ezequiel Cordoba (inset). Photo: Associated Press via The Telegraph

A fisherman who miraculously survived 438 days lost at sea has been sued for $1 million for allegedly eating his fellow castaway to ensure his own survival, the family of the deceased castaway contends, according to The Telegraph and other media outlets.
After drifting 6,700 miles, Salvador Alvarenga, 36, of El Salvador washed ashore in January 2014 on the Marshall Islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean after setting off on a two-day fishing trip from Mexico in November 2012. It was the longest any castaway had survived at sea.
Alvarenga had paid 22-year-old Ezequiel Cordoba $50 to accompany him.
When a storm hit, Alvarenga radioed the owner of the 25-foot boat demanding to be rescued. That message was the last words communicated to shore as 10-foot waves and the vicious storm knocked out the communications system and washed their supplies overboard.
Alvarenga and Cordoba survived several months by catching fish and birds, and drinking turtle blood and rainwater, but one bird they ate made Cordoba very ill. A poisonous snake was discovered in the bird’s stomach.
According to Alvarenga’s account, Cordoba refused to eat some of the raw meats that kept Alvarenga alive — perhaps because of the experience with the bird — and he eventually died.
Before starving to death, Cordoba made Alvarenga promise to not eat his corpse and to find his mother and tell her what happened.

From The Telegraph:

Mr Alvarenga befriended the corpse, keeping it on the boat for six days and chatting to it, until he realized his own insanity and threw it overboard.
“I could see my death was going to be very, very slow,” he said.
But against all odds, he survived. Mr Alvarenga washed up in the Marshall Islands, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, in January 2014. Dazed and emaciated, he was found by a couple living on the island who took him in.

Two months later, Alvarenga visited Cordoba’s mother, Rosalia Rios, and delivered her son’s message. Alvarenga has always denied eating his crewmate.
The family’s lawsuit comes on the heels of the October release of Alvarenga’s book 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea.
Ricardo Cucalon, Alvarenga’s attorney, told The Telegraph he believes the lawsuit is part of the family’s attempt at pressuring Alvarenga to divide the royalties.
Cucalon told The Telegraph that the book has done poorly in the U.S. with only 1,500 copies sold.
“Many believe the book is making my client a rich man, but what he will earn is much less than people think,” Cucalon said.

Read more at http://www.grindtv.com/random/castaway-that-survived-a-record-438-days-at-sea-sued-for-eating-crewmate/#U4JAQXrzMvusbJ21.99