I'm no good at predicting future events, but I had a hunch that Charles Ghankay Taylor ( "one of the 3 most important wanted war crimes suspects in the world", ex-rebel warlord, ex-Liberian president and unrepentant jailbreaker) would escape from the hands of those who seek to bring him to justice one more time! And yes he has done it again.
Unconfirmed reports ( a streaming news item on www.thisdayonline.com this Tuesday morning) have it that the mass murderer has escaped from his "gilded cage" as Elizabeth Blunt(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4849552.stm) described the Calabar mansion where he's been holed with his family for the past couple of months.
The details are still sketchy, as no other major news agency has picked up this story, but it is not an unlikely possibility. If Charles Taylor could escape form jail in 'almighty' America, how much more from Nigeria.
The timing of this particular one will have done his big brother and host's image no good at all. Obasanjo is expected at the White House on Wednesday, 29th March. And while the release of the American and British hostages in the Niger Delta may have earned him some brownie points with George Bush, the White House visit if not cancelled, is likely to be dominated and rubbished by this bad news!
Amidst various concerns raised by people such as the Chief Prosecutor of the war crimes court in Sierra Leone, Desmond da Silva, it is sad to think that another Alameiyeseigha style escape has been hatched right under the very noses of Nigerian security.
I will follow this up as much as I can from the corner where I'm writing from and do an update.
But listen up Charles, if you think you can run... you can't hide for long.
Your sins will find you out.
Your accomplices will know no rest either.
And whether you like it or not, you will be caught - dead or alive.
I think most of us will prefer the latter option, so that you can pay for your evil deeds, you bloody coward!
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