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Monday, November 25, 2013

Michael Jackson Killed Himself —Doctor

Doctor Conrad Murray, personal doctor of the late King o Pop, Michael Jackson, has disclosed in an exclusive interview with the Dail Mail of London that the singer killed himself by taking an overdose of his drugs.

Murray who was convicted of killing Michael Jackson spoke out for the first time to try to clear his name, claiming that the superstar died of an accidental overdose.
“I did not kill Michael Jackson. He was a drug addict. Michael Jackson accidentally killed Michael Jackson,” Murray stated.
The 60-year-old heart surgeon, released from prison three weeks ago, having served half of his four-year sentence for involuntary manslaughter, began working for Jackson in 2006.
But it was not until he went to help him prepare for his This Is It come-back tour in 2009 that he saw the devastation of his life.
“He was in crisis at the end of his life, filled with panic and,” he said.
“By the end Michael Jackson was a broken man. I tried to protect him but instead I was brought down with him.”
Murray claims Jackson had been dragged “into the abyss” of physical and mental anguish by the pressures of the tour.
He claims he lived in a state of paranoia and filth: maids were not even allowed to take his underwear to be laundered because he feared they would sell it.
Murray insists he was one of the few people the superstar trusted. “You want to know how close we were? I held his penis every night to fit a catheter because he was incontinent at night.”
The doctor said Jackson’s 5’11” frame had wasted to little over nine stone, he was suffering from chills, insomnia and mood swings and he was dependent on the prescription drug propofol to help him sleep.
Murray claims he had ‘weaned’ Jackson off the drug the singer called ‘milk’ only days before his death on June 25, 2009.
He believes his insomnia that night was due to withdrawal symptoms from another drug, Demerol, an analgesic better known as pethidine, which had been provided by another doctor without his knowledge.
In a claim, made for the first time, Murray insists that while he was out of the room Jackson got up and injected himself with a lethal dose of propofol after Murray had refused to give him the amount he wanted.
The heart surgeon claims he did everything he could to save Jackson. Whether or not you believe him, he has clearly convinced himself.
He says the singer had told him shortly before his death that their names would become ‘inseparable.’ When Murray asked him what he meant ‘he smiled and said: ‘I am clairvoyant.’
Murray has filed an appeal against his conviction.

Protest Against Discrimination And Molestation Of African Passengers By Turkish Airline Personnel In Istanbul Airport

Protest Against Discrimination And Molestation Of African Passengers By Turkish Airline Personnel In Istanbul Airport

By Nze Louis Asuzu
Photo credit: www.turkishairlines.com
I wish to use this medium to protest against the undignified treatment been accorded to black African passengers who boarded the Turkish airline flight TK 1883 at Istanbul airport on the 5.11.2013 scheduled for 08.10 to Vienna, Austria.
I have been living in Austria for over 25 years and presently the president of a formidable Nigerian Diaspora association registered with the Austrian government. Though this is not my first time of travelling with Turkish Airline, in fact I was one of the 
first passengers to travel with Turkish Air on the route Vienna-Lagos-Vienna few years ago when the Airline opened this route.
I travelled to Nigeria with my 11-year-old son for a traditional Chieftancy program. Due to his school, he left earlier unaccompanied back to Austria. I was supposed to come back two weeks later. But as fortune will have it, I had to promptly break my stay due to health problems within my immediate family.
At the Turkish Airline office in Lagos Murutala Mohammed international airport, I was allowed to re-book and change my ticket for a cash payment of 52,500 naira. All plead to pay less or to pay in other currency since I did not have such amount in naira proved effort less. But at last I over came that hurdle.
At the Istanbul international airport, we had to first go through three immigration checkpoints and two security zones before finally arriving at the Turkish airline-boarding counter 312.
I observed that the lady checking in the passengers stopped every Black African before me and paid extra attention in checking their travelling documents.

She carefully crosschecked and annoyingly double-checked their passports before dropping them aside as if it meant nothing. Without any word and regards she signaled the passengers to wait by the side of the counter with just a hand wave. Meanwhile she boarded the white skinned passengers without subjecting them to the same treatment.

When it came to my turn, she gave me a cold look while she was examining my traveling document. After minutes of examining and scanning them, she started questioning me in German. She asked me rudely in broken German if I could speak German and where I was living, which I answered. But it seemed that she did not understand German well.
She set aside my documents like the one from other fellow Black Africans and waved me to the side.
I patiently waited to be attended to for about three to four minutes. Then I went to a second officer seating in another desk close to the check in counter to inquire on why I should be treated in this manner because I did not want to disturb the boarding of other passengers.
Meanwhile, two ladies of Austrian nationality decided to intervene. They explained to her and the two other officers that they had been at the check in desk and they had seen what had happened, that I had answered the lady’s questions correctly and that they had been only embarrassing me.

A Turkish gentleman who also felt ashamed and disturbed at the attitude of these officers and intervened was immediately subjected to maltreatment. His Austrian visa was photo copied he later told me that they were threatening him with some other actions. He said he is a regular passenger with the airline and was sure going to write a petition against his maltreatment by these officers. He gave his identity as Mr. Murat Murdua an employee of Siemens international (murat.murdua@siemens.com).
I was threatened with not being allowed to board the flight as scheduled. And when I asked a third officer to please disclose the identities of the officers involved, they told him not to, while they went on to rain more threats on me.
I demand an apology and that the Turkish airline management will address this issue.

CC
Turkish Airline Wien
Nigerian Embassy, Vienna
Global Reporters Vienna
PRO NANCA 

"Black Sunday for Rochas Okorocha"

The Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiastical province, His Grace, Anthony Obinna, Sunday morning took Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state to the cleaners when he told the governor to his face that he has lost touch with the reality and essence of governance.

It was the annual special Corpus Christi service of the Catholic church and Okorocha had decided to worship at the Assumpta Cathedral but the service really went sour for him, his wife and his entourage when Obinna’s sermon zeroed in on his administration and tore it to shreds right before the governor.

The fiery cleric told Okorocha in unambiguous terms that he was using state allocations as though they were his personal fund. While inferring that Okorocha’s government has since disconnected from the governed, Obinna warned Okorocha to retrace his steps before the wrath of God falls on him.

While the entire congregation were still shouting and clapping in support of the dress-down of the governor, Archbishop Obinna capped his message to Okorocha by reminding him that, “People of Imo state are still waiting for the fulfillment of your campaign promises.”

By this time, the face of the Governor, his wife’s and that of the members of his entourage were a study in embarrassment, as the Governor was visibly rankled and ruffled.

Apparently sensing the state of affairs, Archbishop Obinna denied Okorocha the right of reply.

Hear him: “I know the Governor would want to reply, but he should go home in a prayerful mood, for today is not for talking too much.”

It would be recalled that Nkechi Okorocha, the wife of the Governor, also received her own dose of dress-down last week from the fiery cleric.