Boko Haram is evil fanatics. According to Winston Churchill; “A fanatic is someone who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.” The subject under focus by the Boko Haram criminals is simply de-secularization of Nigeria. They are truly fighting for an ignoble course and must be resisted, repudiated and finally crushed. For being over-pampered these hooligans grew wings that must be clipped and for the governor of Borno State, the fear of Nigeria peeping through the barrel of revolution upheaval should not arise, except that at worst, the North will be rendered un-governable as desired by the those disgruntled elements who fan the ambers of the burning flames down their. If there has been breach of peace, security of lives property it is happening in the North. If it degenerates further to a war, the battle field is still in the North. A mass exodus of immigrants and investors will occur only in the boiling or restive Northern States especially and the entire region will first feel the pains of an inclement socio-political environment caused by the nefarious activities of idiots who display utter disregards for human lives and integrity. The dastardly acts of violence and clandestine disposition would not only stop at eliciting odium for the approximately undesirable religion of Islam, but must definitely splash the slur of shame on the faces of those behind their none- sense. One thing is certain, Nigeria, though apparently incompatibly constituted had been and will ever remain a secular state. The secularization of Nigeria is not in any way and by no means doubtful. It is more utopian to dream of hauling the entire country into one stupid religion by coercion because of desiring a sharia based system of government. If the entire Northern region delights so much in sharia laws and style of governance, they are entitled to their choice but not to drag the rest citizens with equal rights of freedom of worship into their messy doctrine.
In fact, unrepentant as the culprits have been, the call for negotiation and amnesty consideration for them is unwarranted and unacceptable. Doing so appears to be the worst stage of a kit gloves treatment 4rietout for the evil doers that must end up in eternal damnation. It is heartbreaking to ?ii1 at the federal government of Nigeria (FGN) under the command of this Excellency, President Good Luck Jonathan has assumed such a laggard posture as to indulge in the promotion of evil. As if that was not enough, the miscreants went ahead to unleash mayhem on daily basis taunting the docile FGN particularly and the rest of the peace-loving Nigerians. In a tardy response the FGN was only compelled to deploy troops en-mass to merely cause trepidation in three (3) states namely, Yobe, Borno and Adamawa The truth remains that president Good Luck Jonathan apart from lacking requisite political will enjoy to stand on the fence on a sensitive issue those boarders much on the constitution. The last resort of emergency rule is the constitutional prerogative of the president of the country as stated definitely clear. A situation where definite constitutional measures like emergency rule declaration become applied with a supplanted clause is an expensive joke. It is good to always call a spade a spade than beating around the bush. Those that give thumbs up for President Jonathan for acting cowardly to declare what in all respect deviates from the state of emergency as encapsulated in the constitution are ignorant of the implications. In one Igbo wisdom it is said that, it serves no good that after removing human defecation that the odour persist.” It is no use then, than to allow the defecation, and the stench to remain in it’s position no matter the discomfort. The situation where insurgence rendered these states ungovernable at both local and state levels, the FGN will be lousy thinking it twice to completely jettison an incapacitated organ to inject virile and active entity under emergency situation. What a double jeopardy it will be and of course a double standard or double counting as the economists would have it that the FGN’s fiscal allocation will be wasted to sustain a powerless local and state government civilian regime alongside emergency military authority. The scenario apart from imbued imminent friction is shrouded in explicable ambiguity. Constitutionally taken, a state of emergency applies definitively just like the philosophical laws of in exclusive middle that states; “that it is either here or there, it cannot be here and there at the same time”. A state of emergency entails that the breakdown of law and order in the three (3) states Yobe, Borno, and Adamawa assumed the dimension beyond the capacity of the state governors as the chief security officers such that they be substituted immediately with three military administrators equipped with full military arsenal and accompanied by full military presence enough to deter further restiveness and moral impropriety. To this end, the entire civilian executives and the legislative arms at both local and state government levels in those afforested states ought to vacate government houses with dispatched or be compelled to do so by unbearable circumstances. Contrarily, the President via his spokes person, Dr. Reuben Abatti announced that a state of emergency has been declared in the three (3) states; but with a proviso that the civilian functionaries including the elected councilors, LGA Chairmen, the state governors, the state Houses of assembly members and the cabinets maintain status quo. Nigeria is strange as a nation, which explains why strange things possibly occur in peculiar circumstances often erupted by a strange system. Besides sending out signals for apprehension that such ambiguous arrangement is capable of causing double calamity, there is also palpable fears that absolute chaos may set in should a desired result not achieved.
This sort of half baked emergency rule which yours sincerely prefer to perceive as worst than none is the third instances in this country that an issue of great national question questions. Firstly, “the doctrine of necessity was introduced by the senate president, David bordering on constitution was addressed awkwardly resulting in many more unanswered Mark to address a hypersensitive question of whether the Vice president be sworn-in to replace an incapacitated president (who never declared incapacitation) as an acting president to become substantive in due course.? This national question drew reaction from in-ordinate angles until it was imposed and accepted by Nigeria for her peculiarity. Secondly, the constitutional question of “supplementary Election” reared up its ugly head that is yet to be tucked in till date, even as one dogged politician gutfully challenged the constitutional veracity of the independent National Commission (INEC) to in produce such a drastic rule. As this write is on going, the professor Attahiru Jega’s led INEC is battling to defend the oddity in a court of competent jurisdiction. That’s another constitutional question begging for an answer emanating from no other quarter than our complex socio- political state, Imo state waiting to set pace and douse mounting National anxiety. While that is in abeyance, the on-going and most recently introduced quasi- emergency rule surfaces to assume the centre stage of current political discourse. Interestingly, Nigerians are curious and confused as to the genuineness, possibility and practicability of the recent strange declaration made by President Good Luck Jonathan on Wednesday l5 May, 2013 that emergency rule be applied in Yobe, Borno and Adamawa states while still accommodating the existing democratic institutions. This is what this column prefers to call a ridicule of emergency rule declaration. It is a caricature of the Joe public of this country and smacks of acute dearth of a deserving sense of political will and wisdom to rule this Nation. There is no need pretending that all is well when almost everything has gone awry. Institutional rules are misplaced, whereas decisiveness becomes avoided to make way for cheap selfish political score points that end up in mortgaging our collective future socially, politically and economically. It is rather unfortunate that for political ambition of currying support from the North to actualize a second term bid for President Good Luck Jonathan and his cohorts, an issue as sensitive as state of emergency is being toyed with, and people are pouring undue encomiums of the FGN for an obvious act of negligence. What makes the president believe that the North will throw their imaginary weight once again to a southern candidate from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)? All the antics of stifling opposition is an open tactics known to every political conscious Nigeria. It is only performance nay the verbal threats of hirelings and ambushes that will assuage the conscious electorates to grant the incumbent a second chance. Nigerians should shine their eyes o-o.
