The Terrorism Bill: Whose bill?
What is then terrorism and who is the terrorist? What do we mean when we shout ‘rule of law’ and ‘human rights’? Is it one for the rich and another for the poor? Is it one for Muslims and a separate one for Christians? Is it one for the North and another for the South? […]
What is then terrorism and who is the terrorist? What do we mean when we shout ‘rule of law’ and ‘human rights’? Is it one for the rich and another for the poor? Is it one for Muslims and a separate one for Christians? Is it one for the North and another for the South? Is it one for Niger Delta “militants” together with OPC and another for Boko Haram? Is it one for corrupt government officials like the Halliburton’s case and one for a petty thief stealing N2000.00? Is it one for the armed forces and one for bloody civilians? Is it one for the ruling class and one for the ordinary citizens? Or do we have to wait for bombs in the police headquarters targeting the IG before we discover the real meaning of terrorism and who is a terrorist?
It is instructive yet again, that it is only two years after the extrajudicial killing of Boko Haram leaders and the bombardment of Police headquarters before the criminal indictment of the police commissioners. Now, the identity of the Boko Haram murderers, David Abang and Akira, are revealed on the front page of Daily Trust edition of Wednesday June 22, 2011. Do we have to wait till every Nigerian secures for himself a gun before we understand who the terrorist is? What are all the laws and legal institutions for? Why be dictated to by the US-Zionists and be stampeded into signing a law based and which rests on “suspicion” against the citizens that will accelerate the destruction of Nigeria that the same USA is predicting? Why are the legal luminaries silent and the NBA indifferent to the draconian law that will consume them when politicians and dictators misuse and abuse the law for sure?
Why don’t our leaders take lessons from Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and Bahrain that are client states of the US-Zionists. We can now see the end of dictators. Why don’t we take lessons from the defeat of US-British-Zionists and NATO arrogance by the Taliban in Afghanistan and other freedom fighters in the Middle East? Now, Americans and British Zionists with other NATO terrorists are leaving and some have left Afghanistan in disgrace after losing billions of US dollars and counting their dead. Why don’t we take the resistance by Hamas of the evil looking Zionist blockade of Gaza supported by US-Israel-NATO and the cruelty by Egyptian dictators led by the terrible Mubarak over 30 years but to date a simple revolution in Tunisia has led to the freedom of Palestinians in Gaza? In the end, the money denied their citizens end up in the Zionist and Western banks.
With the Terrorism Bill signed, what are the paradoxes in Nigeria? It is common in the Nigerian tabloids to read about the “looting” of the public treasury. Like wild fire, it is spreading and without control. On the one hand, the ruling class terrorizes the citizens through corrupt self-enrichment with no mercy, and get away with it. They do not care that their unfortunate brothers and sisters live in abject poverty. The courts and the law enforcement agencies hardly do justice or seen to do justice when the public trust is breached with impunity. It is like a divine call to engage in corruption and corrupt practices while in office. No one cares and the more billions of Naira one corners for himself, the more he or she is respected.
Why do Nigerians fail to see it as the worst form of terrorism beats common sense? No leader will abuse trust as is being done in Nigeria in the West, China, Japan and the rich industrial countries that our elites copy and get away with it. In China, for few millions dollars stolen, it is death sentence. But in Nigeria, day after day the familiar stories are of frauds in billions of naira! It was Bankole and his deputy in the hands of EFCC officials. Like a joke the duo, with the members of the House, shared N38 billion as allowances and expenses for not more than 350 super Nigerians. The president and governors spent over N200 billion from the public treasury to be re-elected. This explains why Bankole and co shared their own cake. To arrest Bankole and let go the rest in the same game is the selective justice accepted in Nigeria.
The EFCC under Obasanjo was used to intimidate and abuse the rights of Nigerians opposed to Obasanjo’s dictatorship and not to fight corruption. Now, in addition to serving US-Zionist interest and anti-Islamic agenda, the Terrorism Bill is to give the ruling class a tool to abuse office and cow opposition and rig elections in 2015 for PDP. The sooner we come to accept that justice and the rule of law indeed, and not mere lip service, and not selective justice, are the only road to peace the better.
With the extrajudicial killings of Boko Haram and their revenge mission that mandate on SSS Director to operate on suspicion and not facts must be reviewed. Nigeria’s self-interest should be the basic consideration and not the implementation of the US-Zionist agenda, which is clearly anti-Islam and which some crusaders in the Nigerian security exploit. All is not well with the project Nigeria with the divisive tribal and religious divide. The Terrorism Bill should be abrogated in the interest of our corporate existence. A word is enough for the wise.
Engr. Abubakar A. Fari, [email protected]