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Saturday, 30 July 2016

NIGHTS BEFORE OUR GREATNESS By Adeniyan Oladimeji, A Public Affairs Analyst with Jus Civile Chamber of LSSABUAD


     The question that has never cast a doubt on my conviction as a man or as what others see me as is this. “Am I different from you?”, “what makes me different from you?” At no point in my existence have I ever made that question eat up my reasoning. And this also applies to my generational people.
     I am Black and you are whatever colour you call yourself, even from your forefathers to your father, it has always been like that but in all this hardship I have always remained the good one.
     Our lives, my life started with a glorious outburst to the extent that we showed love to our enemies who were intent in breaking our morals and strong will with the name of it being immoral and using the words “REPUGNANT TO NATURAL JUSTICE AND FAIRNESS” “EQUITY”. Words they are sure our fathers’ wouldn’t believe or even bother to question. The fairness and natural justice is according to your definition, isn’t it? Their conversation went thus “what you all abominations think is moral is against the will of the creator of our society and the universe” and our reply went thus “”. They continued, noticing how numb we were “ if we whom are knowledgeable and vast in what the creators thinks, we will determine if your so called abnormal morals are not repugnant to natural justice and principle of fairness and equity” and our reply again went thus “”.    This I’m certain, angers their representative and their low self esteem pricked them to asking themselves “why are all they of the same colour and we are not?” “What is so special about them?” “What do they have that we don’t have?” “Why do they all live like there is no problem in their lives?” I bet you if we use the words “servants” they won’t have a clue about what we are saying and we would make them our servants.
     We became the Good Samaritan that was in their book which they brought to us but they couldn’t see it for themselves because of their blindness and deceitful spirit which has always been their motivator to what was in their book. We graciously submitted our will and time because our morality sees that as goodwill. They have successfully destroyed the definition of morality/immorality and we can’t go on using the definition that is being given in the book they brought. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE said “to be ashamed of one’s immorality is a step on the ladder at the end of which one is ashamed also of one’s morality”
      We were heaven and earth to our future generations but because of our goodwill, we were reduced to Lucifer and his angels. They made our future generation see us as abominations and paranoid set of barbarians who were of no good and usefulness but unknown to them, it was all a act to which the night and fight will continue until our David and Hitler will be born. Their saulish behavior was to them unnoticed by we the people of Damascus.
    We have always been dynamic, singular from them, stronger than them, mightier than them, greater than them and it is so evident that it needs no special judicial notice and certainly needs not be proved. Our greatness and strength or rather, our ever growing greatness and strength is been seen as a threat, as a ticking time bomb which they have never seen nor invented and it can’t be quenched but what better way to stop this rapid growth of ours. What ‘at the moment’ preventive measure can be taken so as not to be disgraced, destroyed and Shawn out of history. History that has always in the backroom supported and favored our courage and resilient aptitude to adversity despite our numerous defeats, defeats that knows no bound, that is what they think but unclear to them, that victory of ours which is long gone was lying in wait because at the moment, there is nobody to guide our future generation.
    We kept the birth of our David and Hitler hidden whom has to grow in strength and wisdom a secret even from our own people so as not to be distracted or pushed too quickly as to make a mistake.
    His growth, what we have to watch with utmost diligence and security so as to not wait another billion of lifetime.  

Monday, 18 July 2016

Nigeria and its Gun Saga

#OpinionPost


                                                                                         
When I was a kid at elementary stage, while going to school, I always stared at the "Gun-building" as I called it then for various guns were drawn all over the front view of the blue-colored apartment situated at the left Junction of Azikiwe road by west.

I had always imagined walking into the building & acquiring my own gun which I would use to do my "war start" with other street kids coz I was tired of my plastic guns with rubber bullets.
I had fantasized taking shooting lessons and marksman training at the building soon enough.

The fact that many men in my hood had guns and primarily two of my neighbours also had and also fired it occasionally to scare robbers or celebrate had put me in a position of keen interest to the acquisition & use of rifles.

Sadly enough, in my high school days, when kidnapping became the to-do-list & business of the day in my city, the FG had to clamp down on the acquisition & use of rifles by private citizens.

I can firmly beat my chest and say that there is no legal privately owned gun market or shooting range school in Nigeria.
That policy has still not been reversed till date.
In fact, the policy was quite a dubious & deliberate attempt by the FG to totally disarm the masses and prevent a futuristic revolution or forceful accountability.

Adolfus Hitler, the greatest military dictator ever to live once said; "To totally conquer a nation and consolidate rule, first disarm its citizens". This was exactly the first thing Hitler did before he began his campaign of domination and its proves extremely successful.

The second amendment of the constitution of the United States of America confers its citizens the sovereign & inalienable right to bear arms on the basis of survival, self-defense, natural right of resistance and
self-preservation and when the sanctions
of society and laws are found
insufficient to restrain the violence of
oppression.

The American, Swedish & swiss gun scholars has stated that the acquisitions, use & keeping of guns of guns by private citizens is in fact a positive impact on the growth & sustenance of democratic rule and ensures the prevention of tyranny & dictatorship.

Meaning that fear of private ownership of guns by the government keeps them in track & accountable to the people. That fear & knowledge strikes a balance of social contract & accord between the government & the governed and further ensures no breach of trust.

Is private ownership of guns the real problem in Nigeria ? Has placing embargo on private importation, ownership & use of guns solved any of Nigeria's terrorism problem, or kidnapping problem, or militancy problems, or armed robbery problems ??? The answer is NO !
Where do these renegades acquire their assault rifles & machine guns from ? Shouldn't that be the focus of the government !
No amount of amnesty programs will or arms embargo will solve these persisting problems we face as a nation.
-A new approach is needed !

A learned colleague of mine in Enugu once said to me; "Charles, the only way or probably one effective way to put corruption to an abrupt end is to " legalise corruption". At first, I didn't really get it or even concurred with her reasoning. But after much thinking & research on her assertion, I've come to accept her views but not necessarily accepting that all forms of corruption ought to be legalized.

However, my main focus here is the issue of guns, just like the 2nd amendment of the USA constitution stipulates, don't you think the citizens of Nigerians of full age & eligibility has the sovereign right to acquire & bear arms(with license) for their natural right to resistance against oppression, self-preservation, self-defense and so forth.

The CEO of the national Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre has always stated that; "the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is another good guy with a gun".

Since the Nigerian criminal law(substantive/procedural) empowers private citizens to effect arrests of suspected criminals at the spot. How then can such be effected if these citizens are extremely vulnerable and have no weapon of self-defense or survival.

Legalized but regulated ownership of guns will go a long way to reduce drastically, the criminal rate and criminal tendencies in this nation. More good than harm will be effected. The current situation of the country is a manifest reference to my perspective.

The right to survival is not granted by the state. It is an inherent/inalienable right given by God and to be expressed forthwith in accordance with the rules of the state/morality.

Every citizen is a police officer by morality an has the mandate by law to act in parameters of an officer by law in such absence and to had over the case & suspect to the nearest police man by law or station. This is a democracy not an autocracy !

The thousand innocent/vulnerable people that have died as a result of the gun-fire by Fulani herdsmen, armed-robbers, kidnappers, boko-haram and so forth could have been reasonably averted if these victims had their weapons of self defense & survival.
Considering the fact that the security agencies & government is not doing enough or absolutely nothing to guarantee the safety of its citizens.

I strongly believe in the reformation of the FIREARMS ACT and the expansion on the legality of the kinds of guns to be acquired & used by all eligible private citizens for the sake of humanity, survival, preservation of lives & properties. Thank you !


                   -UCHE Charles E.

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