Nigerian nation is somehow assuming very confusing and sometimes very difficult to understand. Everyone seems to enjoy the absurdities in the society. What kind of society is Nigeria. There are no consequences for misbehavious. Misconducts are celebrated and rewarded with stamp of official recognition.Laws are put in place for orderly conduct.
But in Nigeria everything is done upside down and nobody seems to care about anything. Nobody respect the laws of Nigeria.
Judges don’t.Policemen don’t.Lawyers don’t. Politicians don’t. Security men don’t. Citizens don’t.Why because there are no consequences for misbehavious and misconducts.
Those who fear the laws are the downtrodden who have no godfathers. That is why stealing a goat is more dangerous than stealing billions.Nigeria is a country of absurdities. Look at politicians bragging about their powers in influencing judgments of courts. What an absurdity and sacrilegious temerity. What an audacity of illegitimate arrogant. Yet nothing will happen.
During elections or should I selection some lawyers get involved in electoral malfeasances to the annoyance of the nobility of the legal profession yet nothing is done to bring them to book. What kind of a nation is Nigeria where anything goes.
Even in the places where we have put our trust for justice, injustice permeates thereat. Leadership seems to be so tolerant of misconducts and misbehavious. There are just no consequences. Consequences are only visited as instructment of political vendetta.
No society can progress with the level of indiscipline and corruptions in Nigeria.There seems to be no willingness on the parts of those we trusted to do the right thing to do those things correctly and rightly. Everyone seems to be hopeless. Everyone seems to have accepted that abnormality is the best route to attain fame and positions.
No body trust our institutions anymore because those institutions have been infested with compromisers at the helm of the affairs. Institutions set up to tackle corruption are not spared of the corruption they are set up to fight. Nobody seems to care and love Nigeria. Nigeria seems to be an orphan. It is left in the orphanage without support.Those in charge seem confused.
Those who have ideas to do what is right have no power to do it. Those who cannot change things positively have forced themselves on us. Can we please go back to true rule of law where things are done according to law and when there are violations the violators are punished accordingly.
Until we return and practice true rule of law and genuine democracy development will elude Nigeria. True democracy is built on the rule of law. There can be no true democracy where judiciary is cornered and conquered by political class. Democracy in Nigeria is heading to calamiteous destination and the politicians are the cause. Nigerians must rise up to defend democracy and rule of law. That is the only way Nigeria can grow and develop
Hussaini Babila 