Saturday, 8 July 2017

NIGERIA POLITICAL SIEGE : THE TALE OF A JOKE-NATION



The introduction of N-power by this administration to unemployed youths is a development we have to appreciate. At least  it gave some sort of relief to the crying unemployment rate rumbling in the country. However, to me N-power is not  solution to the alarming unemployment rate. What good will it do to a young graduate knowing that he will be only employ temporarily without security of lasting on the job?. Though,  it is a step forward. We are living in a time when most of burning issues that needed to be given critical attention were given a deaf ears by the government. Critical agitation that seek to threaten our living as one United nation for a long time like; igbo quit notice by Arewa youths,  Kanu's Biafra agitation, Taraba genocide, clash of herdsmen, rising kidnapping and economic harshness many everyday Nigeria suffering from. Astonishingly, this  administration is busy with 2019 election winning strategy, and attending of wealthy marriages. Nigeria was a joke nation long before thus administration,  but currently have promoted to a mock- theatre with politician as the clowns making the theatre more lively with lucrative comedies. This administration mockery shows would be justified in recent numerous criminal trials against high profile politicians in the lower courts. It is only in country like Nigeria that  a federal government will prosecute a political-criminal while the prosecutors seem not ready for the case after all the waste of resources to pursue the case. Imagine if Saraki is in a different country not Nigeria, he would have been in a dungeon prison steels where his bones will be gnawed to flesh. But fortunately for him and other similar numerous criminals like him, are under the protection of aso- rock and protected mansion. They were and still be celebrated as the successful and accomplished  individuals of the country, many people are looking over them as their role models,  heroes. Very bad indeed. Nigeria is a joke-nation with a  geographical entity of mockery-theatre. It is only in Nigeria that a criminal will be charged with over thirty counts and yet scale through all of them in single sitting because the federal government as the prosecution could not proved their case beyond the minimum criminal ingredients, and upon all allegations, media conviction and nationwide cry against the sluggishness of the trial, he filled "no case submission ". Now the mantra of every criminal charges against a politician, is "no case submission ", it has now become the "scale free trick" of this administration.  Funny. It is only in a joke-nation that professional and career thieves/criminals (Nigeria politicians ) will be free discharged and acquitted in a court of law, while petty first timer thieves (those who stole goats, food to feed themselves  ) are wallowing  in prisons without conviction. What a mockery of our criminal justice system!. People like Zakzky and Co. Are suffering in jail for months now because of what one scholar used called "imprisonment of conscience". Voicing out his opinion and promoting his religious beliefs, while notorious violence promoters like Nmandi Kanu were granted bail by the court and the federal government obeyed the decision.  The question is why the government refused to honored that of Zakzky's bail?. Intriguing right?. It wouldn't be long before this administration will do appointments, give privileges, sacks, and protect citizens  base on their religious ideologies and sectarianism.

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