Politicians behind Criminality, Banditry – Astronaut Salis

First Nigerian Astronaut, Chief Owolabi Salis, has appealed to the nation’s leader, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Lawmakers at the Federal House of Reps and Senate to pass a law prohibiting the use of thugs and hooligans by politicians He said politicians who are in need of security should source their services either from the […]

First Nigerian Astronaut, Chief Owolabi Salis, has appealed to the nation’s leader, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Lawmakers at the Federal House of Reps and Senate to pass a law prohibiting the use of thugs and hooligans by politicians

He said politicians who are in need of security should source their services either from the police or registered security companies who can always be held liable for any criminal offence either committed on their own volition or at the behest of their principal.

He said that in the developed polities of Europe and America, the use of thugs and hooligans were often rare to come by and that is why the culture of sanity prevails in their political life and governance.

The history making Astronaut and Polar Traveller urged individuals, pressure groups and NGOs to put pressure to bear on the Presidency and the Legislature to set the necessary process in motion in order to put the law into effect in view of the urgency it deserves.

The Ikorodu-born Lagosian who also made history not only as the first Black African ,but also the first Blackman to travel to the North and South Pole all within a season blamed the mounting tide of criminalities like banditry, terrorism and Kidnapping on politicians who use thugs and hooligans to harass, torment and assassinate their opponents, and also foment chaos and confusions.

“It is this same nagging issue of thuggery and hooliganism that deters quite a huge chunk of the electorates who are often afraid to come out and vote for fear that their safety may be on danger” said Astronaut Salis.

According to him, these unscrupulous politicians would recruit these thugs as their private army, equip them with guns,arms and ammunition,buy them drugs and intoxicants that turn them wild vicious and enraged because it is believed that the more violent they are,the more effective they will be in discharging their errands with untamed audacity. ”

” However after using them, they dump them because they never had any enduring interest in them in the first place beyond using them to achieve their ambition.”

“The consequences of getting them dumped and not usefully engaged is that they turn their weapons into self-serving tools for criminal activities like terrorism,banditry, kidnapping,armed robbery and violence “.

“Apart from the fore-going according to him, political thugs and hooligans are often used to snatch ballot boxes manipulate the voting processes and numerically distort voting figures.”said the renowned Lawyer who contested for Governorship on the platform of the Alliance For Democracy A.D. in 2019 and also a serial gubernatorial contestant in PDP Primaries.

‘It is against this background therefore that the criminal use of thugs could be seen as the number one bane of democracy in Nigeria.Therefore, until we remove the use of thugs and hooligans from our political culture,we may never know democracy.I am saying this because it is politics that drives other sectors.If the polity is sane every other sectors will be sane but if not same it will redound accordingly to affect every other sectors of the society”

According to him quite a lot of competent and highly qualified men of integrity abound right here amongst us and in the diaspora who are eagerly willing to join the political fray; unfortunately they are being deterred by the brazen violence occasioned by the indiscriminate use of thugs and hooligans.

On an extremely disappointing note,it is lamentable that it is these same politicians unto whom the preservation of social sanity is predicated that act as pillars and mentors of thugs, hooligans, miscreants and bandits who perpetrate evils like armed robbery, illegal extortion of money,land grabbing amongst several instances of violations of the law

They are also the ones sponsoring bandits to cause confusion,destabilize the polity and engage as economic saboteurs for foreign interests who indulge in illegal mining thereby undermining the economic progress of the nation.

“What these Politicians don’t know is that there are spiritual repercussions to perpetrating evils which tells with adverse effects on the generations of those involved just as it also affects the society, because a society ruled by the unjust can never know peace or sanity. For instance,if you are a politician and you have been involved in using thugs and bandits to kill and harass people without any just cause,as the majority of our politicians often do,you or your generation will eventually pay for it, whether sooner or later.”

On a spiritual angle, Salis who is also the Spiritual Leader Soul Makers Ministry World Wide, observed that Islam and Christianity as the two popular religions across the world to which a considerable number of Nigerians belong including the politicians, have not properly been able to equip their adherents against the lower virtues of hate amongst other lower variants of anti-social behaviors like violence criminalities and banditry; despite their emphasis on love and good morals.

These according to him are due to inherent limitations in the two religions for which he advocated the concept of Astro-Theology which focuses on the primary spirit and Astro-Democracy which eliminates hate and fear of domination of one tribal group by the other.