President Obama's statement,
delivered moments after St. Louis
County Prosecutor Bob
McCulloch rendered the grand
jury's verdict , was a plea for calm.
It was steady and evenhanded.
Obama recognized the fear and
anger of both sides. He called for
calm. He argued that the two sides
here were, in a sense, one.
"Nobody needs good policing more
than poor communities with high
crime rates," he said. And, in doing,
he disappointed many who had
hoped to hear something more
impassioned, more outraged, from
the president:
Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole ShareThis Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole was born on April 4, 1952 in Iyamoh, near Auchi in today's Edo State. He was born into the humble family of Alhaji Aliyu Oshiomhole of blessed memory and Alhaja Aishetu Oshiomhole. After his secondary education, Adams Oshiomhole proceeded to the Ruskin College, Oxford where he majored in economics and industrial relations. He is also an alumnus of the prestigious National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru. In 1969 before his tertiary education, he had taken up appointment with the Arewa Textiles Company. He was inspired to play an active role in the union because he was not satisfied with the quality of the union's leadership. Oshiomhole's other colleagues in the textile factory elected him as the union secretary after a shop-floor revolution, which he helped to organize. He became a full time trade organizer in 1975. In 1982, Adams Oshiomhole was appointed by the National Union of Textile Ga...
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