As you would expect.

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For and against.

Captain (Rtd) Valentine Esegrabo Melvin Strasser interviewed here, by Awoko.

The interview took place at a local pub.

Awoko: How do you receive the news that you are dead?
Strasser: I was shocked, as this place is filled with machines which manufacture rumours; and people can say nasty things about you simply because they are idle and all they do is ( Read more... )

Apparently it was all a vicious rumour. So his mother says.

Apparently V died yesterday. I don't make a habit of studying the lives of dictators of countries I otherwise know little about, but V shared my precise date of birth: like me, he was born on 26 April 1967. Unlike me, he was born to a young single mother in the capital of a developing country; like me he went to the local grammar school; unlike me ( Read more... )