It came first to me with a rude shock. It is hard to
believe that what I have been hearing these days is a statement coming from
someone with brain in his head. But I realize I am dealing with Nigerian
politicians. If you are small man you
must think small. Our law makers are a bunch of bodies without heads.
It is not the mind-boggling revelation that is currently
coming in of the theft of security budgets earmarked for the fight against
insurgency that is so much worrying me, yes it is of course.
Candidly, in Nigeria, theft and its related
tragedies are commonplace. Look everywhere, you will find state-authorized
stealing in high places in cosmic scales thieves surpassing thieves eclipsing
thieves. Many of them have caught up Abacha and even passed him.
The only thing that remains with Nigerians, technically,
is their tenaciously clinging to hope and humor amidst glaciers of national
tragedies and sorrows en route freedom of speech. Now, Saraki Boys and co. Inc.
are at it again scheming their way to enact a law that will clampdown grieving
and bruise-hearted Nigerian voices.
They are working to create a mass of living cadavers,
whose bottled up emotions choked them to death, under the supervision of the state.
When you speak out, you purge emotions; you clean up your
mind and relieve a huge burden. They want to create a totally repressive state
that will stifle freedom of speech.
Because all of them are reeking and stinking corruption,
they are jumping and falling one after another to offer personal testimony as
background support to the bill.
Dino Melaye said some small children abused him on social
media. Saraki said he is worried little urchins are abusing him and calling him
thief.
Feeyit, we score one zero.
If the Senate successfully passed the bill into law, you
will not have even the right to report that Dasuki has baggage of corruption
charges on his back. You did not say he is thief o!
There will be hefty fine, two months prison terms to
anybody who shows suspicion when the bulk of hawks are moving quietly towards
the sapling chicks. You have to watch,
arms folded, before you shout. By this time they have grabbed their loot.
Still, you can’t call them thieves until they are proven guilty.
The easiest way of reaching hugely to the public is through
media. Now, see what the crooks are doing.
The new media is what is called social revolution or the
means to achieving social revolution. Absolute freedom is the cornerstone factor
that markedly differentiate social media from traditional media practices where
you can have a structure and all so that you can sue someone for libel or
slender. The new media is a supermarket of untamed, unrestricted and unedited
thoughts that fully and absolutely democratized thoughts and expressions.
The guys are intolerably backward, retrogressive and
primordial. If you regulate online media, you are unwittingly scolding your own
feet in the round o’clock information race, transmission and consumption.
May be, they should be told that anybody who can’t stand
chaos here should resign quietly and cease to be holding any public post. This
way, you are no longer relevant.
Nigerians senators, in the course of creative thinking, I
have found a danger in your bill which you are totally and blissfully unaware
of because of your insolence.
Six months, two years, two millions or both as punishment
for anybody who abuses you with accusation because as senators you should not
be blackmailed. See the arrogance.
We agree but what are the punishments if the accusations
turn out true and even graver offences and crimes previously hidden surfaces
and the senator is found guilty in the course of justice. Tell us.
Nigerians senators, you know that you are people with
millions of skeletons in your cupboard. This law may well backfire someday, or
other.
When people start throwing accusation on your from
everywhere, you are on your own. Do not say I did not warn you.
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