REVEALED: Mbazulike Amaechi Was Hid Mandela In Nigeria For 6 Months from South Africa's Apartheid Regime

 
One of the few surviving nationalists and former Minister of Aviation in the first republic, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi has revealed how he was hiding the former South Africa President, Chief Nelson Mandela, for six months in Nigeria to evade his arrest by officials of the apartheid regime in that country.

Amaechi said in his interview to the Vanguard journalists, that people like Mandela are great assets to humanity and should not be going through the pains of life.
The former minister, popularly known as ‘the boy is good’, said it was a privilege to him being asked to live with Mandela when he ran away from the apartheid regime and came to Nigeria in 1963, adding that they shared great moments during the six months plus Mandela lived in his house.
Moreover, Amaechi said that even when Mandela returned to South Africa and was imprisoned, he still wrote him letters from prison.

The former minister mentioned that during the apartheid time in South Africa the British government was
chasing Mandela in order to imprison him, which forced him run away from SA and take refuge in Nigeria.
That was when the late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was the President of Nigeria and late Dr. Michael Okpara the Premier of the Eastern Region.

When Mandela came to Nigeria, Zik as the leader of the nationalist group in Nigeria in consultation with Okpara decided that they should find a nationalist of Mandela’s caliber who would accommodate him.

US Rapper The Game Tattoos Mandela's face on his body

 
US Rapper, The Game showed more respect to the late African Leader, Nelson Mandela by getting a tattoo of his face on his body.

What Mandela Told Me About Power ––Obasanjo

Here is what Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Friday in his tribute to the icon, Nelson Mandela:

"Certain that his task was completed, Mandela modestly refused to seek re-election after his first term in office as his presidency elapsed. I still recall his pragmatic words when he said to me ‘Olu, show me a [reasonable] place in the world where a man of 80 years is running the affairs of his country'. 

"This, to me, reflects an unequaled sense of modesty for a man who spent 27 of the prime years of his life in prison for a just cause."

Photo: RIP Madiba

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RIP Madiba: Nelson Mandela Goes Home 1918 – 2013

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Former South African president Nelson Mandela has passed at 95. He is famous for his diligent fight to end the racist policy of apartheid.
Madiba, as he is fondly called, has been facing a deteriorating health over the past few months and was hospitalized on June 8, 2013 for liver and kidney problems. Doctors further reported that he had a recurring lung infection and had been on life support.
President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma calls him, ‘one of the greatest men’ the world has ever seen and Prince Williams and wife, Kate Middleton say, Mandela is an “extraordinary and inspiring man”.
Mandela turned into an international icon after spending 27 years behind bars for conspiring to over throw South Africa’s government. He was released from prison in February 1990 and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
He aided in orchestrating South Africa’s first multi-racial election in 1994 and became the country’s first ever black president under the ANC political party on May 10, 1994. He established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, TRC in 1995 which investigated human rights violation under apartheid and he then introduced housing, education and economic development initiatives designed to improve the living standards of the country’s black population.
He also encouraged the enactment of a new democratic constitution and he resigned his post with the ANC in December 1997, transferring leadership of the party to his designated successor, Thabo Mbeki.
He divorced ex wife Winnie Madikizela Mandela in 1996 and married Graca Machel – the widow of Samora Machel, the former Mozambican president - in 1998.
He’s been idolized, immortalized and has been portrayed by several prominent actors including Morgan Freeman, Sidney Poitier, Terrence Howard, Dennis Haysbert, Danny Glover and most recently, Idris Elba. In 1992, he made a cameo as ateacher in Spike Lee’s flick, “Malcom X”.
In 2008 Mandela was feted with several celebrations in South Africa, Great Britain, and other countries in honour of his 90th birthday. On July 18 2009, He was honored with the ‘Mandela Day’, observed on Mandela’s birthday as respect to his impeccable legacy for promoting community service throughout the world.
Nelson Mandela Foundation and the 46664 initiative (the foundation’s HIV/AIDS global awareness and prevention campaign) are some of his representation and the United Nations declared his birthday would be observed annually as Nelson Mandela International Day.
May his soul rest in peace