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BREAKING: ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, JUSTIN WELBY, RESIGNS

Dons Eze
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November 12, 2024
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BREAKING. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, JUSTIN WELBY RESIGNS

This comes after the independent Makin review discovered that the Church of England covered up sexual abuse by a barrister.

Following calls for his resignation, Welby said the report “exposed the long-maintained conspiracy of silence about the heinous abuses of John Smyth”.

According to Welby, he believed wrongly that an appropriate resolution would follow” when he was told in 2013 that Smyth had been reported to the police.

In a statement, Welby said: ‘Having sought the gracious permission of His Majesty The King, I have decided to resign as Archbishop of Canterbury.

“It is very clear that I must take personal and institutional responsibility for the long and retraumatizing period between 2013 and 2024”.

The independent Makin review into John Smyth QC’s abuse of children and young men was published last week.

John Smyth QC is said to have subjected his victims to traumatic physical, sexual, psychological and spiritual attacks.

The report concluded he might have been brought to justice had Mr Welby formally reported it to police a decade ago.

Smyth died aged 75 in Cape Town in 2018 while under investigation by Hampshire Police, and so was “never brought to justice for the abuse”, the review said.

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DONS EZE, PhD, Political Philosopher and Journalist of over four decades standing, worked in several newspaper houses across the country, and rose to the positions of Editor and General Manager. A UNESCO Fellow in Journalism, Dr. Dons Eze, a prolific writer and author of many books, attended several courses on Journalism and Communication in both Nigeria and overseas, including a Postgraduate Course on Journalism at Warsaw, Poland; Strategic Communication and Practical Communication Approach at RIPA International, London, the United Kingdom, among others.

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KEMI BADENOCH AND THE NIGERIAN POLICE

KEMI BADENOCH AND THE NIGERIAN POLICE The police are a reflection of the Nigerian society, argues Joshua J. Omojuwa A casual observer was going to get away with thinking Kemi Badenoch had become the No. 1 hate figure for Nigerians on social media. Before the play that turned the tide, the leader of the UK’s Conservative Party was never going to truly occupy such a position amongst Nigerians considering the several other options back home. That said, it did look like there was a consensus on the Badenoch bashing by online users until she offered the audience their favourite hate figure; the Nigerian Police. What followed was stories on the many tragic experiences suffered by Nigerians in the hands of the police. Apart from those who have permanently been protected by their access to power, every Nigerian south of Abuja has a bad police story to tell. For several unlucky others, those stories resulted in the death of loved ones, their disappearance or even incarceration, for doing nothing other than being citizens of Nigeria living in Nigeria who happened to find themselves in the same space and time with the police. When it comes to this subject matter, the question is how do you fix it? Unfortunately, whilst there appears a consensus that policing is broken, we have stayed stuck on what to do to fix it for years now. Kemi Badenoch had been asked about the British Police. Because her ambition is solely focused on becoming the Prime Minister, she sidestepped the subject of the British Police and instead offered the interviewer the Nigerian Police. Gimba Kakanda said it best, “it was an unnecessary deviation that reveals her desperation to perform for the British public in her quest to shake off any allegiance to a nationality other than British. Interestingly, if I were in her shoes and asked to compare life in Abuja and London, my story would’ve been different. The first and only time I was ever robbed in over three decades of my existence was in London, on a busy street in central London. “When I reached out to the Metropolitan Police, I was directed to fill out an online form. Less than 24 hours later, they responded and said there was nothing they could do, even though CCTV cameras were all over the area and the robbers weren’t masked. You can’t even wear a decent watch and walk the streets of London without nursing the fear of being mugged. That should be Kemi’s concern if she aspires to lead the UK someday, because the excuse was that the police in the UK had no budget to chase muggers. Again, Kemi Badenoch’s account of the Nigerian police is valid. Many of us have had terrible encounters with them, no doubt, but that wasn’t what the interviewer asked her about. Her account also doesn’t negate the fact that there are outstanding police officers in Nigeria, individuals who defy mainstream stereotypes in their policing duties. They also deserve the benefit of our microphones”. This is not a black or white conversation, at least in my opinion. There are nuances and hard truths. Tough ones about Nigeria and its unwholesome realities. One cannot defend the Nigerian Police. It’d appear Kemi could not defend the British Police either. She’d have had to speak about the submission that it is racially biased for starters. For someone seeking to lead the country, that was a no-go area. Adebayo Amoo, British-Nigerian tech founder, brought it home for the UK politician when he posted to X that, “You represent Northwest Essex constituency as MP, most of the crimes committed in your constituency include violent and sexual offences – does that make every constituent of yours a violent/sexual crime…

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