O what a world we live in.First we go to Nigeria, where those nutters are suing Pfizer for $7billion, yup that's SEVEN BILLION U.S DOLLARS! Why? Cos those dips at Pfizer used little children and babies in Northern Nigeria as guinea pigs! They called it trials for a new anti-meningitis drug. This was in 1996. Officials in Kano said 50 kids died and others developed mental and physical deformities. Pfizer claims and in their words 'only 11 of the 200 died!'. When did 5% loss in human life become an acceptable risk? Please tell me when human beings became lab rats! Is it cos they were 'black'? It needs to be understood that this happened in villages where people hardly spoke or understood English! Since when were American doctors allowed into Nigeria to perform experiments on kids unsupervised?
Anyway the case went to court, and the judge who had obviously been 'seen' has ruled in favour of Pfizer and stopped the Federal Government from adding more names to the 54 being claimed for! So judge, how much money did you get? You should be ashamed! The fact that our own people do not value human life doesn't mean you, who are supposed to be there to protect your people should sell out for a few 'bob'! When did we get to this? The whole situation is sordid. I personally think the judge should be removed from the case and the title stripped from his sorry ass! EFCC (the body responsible for locking up all these scoundrels) should look into his accounts and am sure they'll discover he's suddenly upped his finances from N0 to hmmm maybe a couple million dollars!(Surely if he's smart, he wouldn't have taken anything less than $7M... I mean compare that to $7BN!)
I can't even comprehend this situation. It MUST be wrong... how can you go into another country to carry out illegal drug trials? Urgh.. my blood boils. And those health officials - yes, the Naija ones, should all be flogged publicly and hauled off to jail! Come on, you and me both know that they had been 'settled' before those American doctors/Pfizer officials started vaccinating those poor kids. My prayer, PLEASE God, CLEAN Nigeria!
For more details, see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6241322.stm
Whoopee, the bad witch is dead, that evil Blair is gone! But alas, just when we thought we had seen the last of him, they went and made him a 'Peace' envoy to the Middle East. Obviously someone thought it was a good joke, problem is we're in June going into July and NOT April! Anyway now Gordon Brown is in No. 10. Let's hope he rights his predecessor's wrongs.... Education, Health, o and corrects his own wrongs.... reduce council taxes, remove fuel surcharges and reduce interest rates! Please Gordie. Kisses dearie....
Back in Naija, I hear the opposition parties, or should that be party - ANPP is hoping to share powers with the government - Yar'Adua. Buhari has distanced himself from the 'agreement', saying it is premature. Me thinks the man wants all the power to himself, so he can clean out the country, which he 'forgot' to do the last time he was in that position!
And finally (and this is funny), in America Bush faces an eavesdropping subpoena. apparently, he ordered surveillance without ordering warrants.... even Americans overseas had their mobile calls (cells as you guys call it) bugged! O sweet victory if he infact gets subpoenaed!
Anyway people, I do apologise for my long silence - I had been occupied :-)
Catch y'all soon.
- 'boo xxx
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