MILITARY DECREES IN NIGERIA’S DEMO-CRAZY, PART 2

September 4, 2022

SubTopics: (1) THE POWER OF DEMOCRATIC APPEAL, VERSUS MILITARY DECREES, IN A DEMOCRACY; (2) “‘CAUTION YOUR SUPPORTERS,’ POLICE WARN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES” & THE PETER OBI FACTOR; (3) FORMER POLICE DEMOCRATIC SPOKESMAN, FRANK MBA, WOULD DEMOCRATICALLY APPEALTO CANDIDATES TO APPEAL TO THEIR SUPPORTERS TO BE PEACEFUL; (4) THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “UNLAWFULLY INCITING A PUBLIC DISORDER,” AND HOLDING AN INNOCENT MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR ANOTHER MAN’S ACTS

This is “No Bullshitting,” by Harry Agina.

Folks, I was wondering if I heard the news correctly. I mean, the past one about the “warning” by Nigeria Police, to the 2023 presidential candidates. The one where the police warned presidential candidates to control their supporters against disorderly conducts. I understand the warning (admonition) to imply that the candidates may be held responsible for bad conducts of their supporters. And I’m like…What the fuck?! Hold a candidate responsible for the acts of persons that he or she doesn’t know from Adam or Eve?!! In a democracy?!!! So, if a person or group supporting a candidate happens to kill someone somewhere across the country, the candidate is held responsible? Why the fuck is it so difficult for Nigerian autocratic rulers to start learning democratic leadership? When the fuck are they gonno wake up from Nigeria’s past military era, into the present democracy, meeeeeeeeeen?!!!

This piece is titled ‘Part 2,’ because I have addressed this a couple of times in the past, from different perspectives. Just last June, Nigeria’s Economic And Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) issued a similar decree. It decreed that, “Landlords and caretakers will henceforth be imprisoned for 15 years if they rent their houses or apartments to criminals.” Naturally, “No Bullshitting” cannot hear such bullshit without talking about it; no way! So, yes, I did say something about it alright, on July 2, 2022. And, the bottom-line was that the agency ain’t got no such fucking authority in a democracy. As usual, at the end of this blog, I do have the link to that blog for ya.

This is where I talk again about the difference between military decrees, and democratic appeal to the public on issues. Once upon a blog, I spoke about former Nigeria Police spokesman or PRO, Frank Mba, who knows how to address the public. I compared him to the terrible propagandists that call themselves spokesmen in President Buhari’s lawless government. I said the fact that Frank Mba is a million times the man that all of Buhari’s unschooled propagandists can ever be! I compared Frank with the fucked-up Femi Adesina and Liar Mohammed. On the one hand, Frank democratically and decently addressed Nigerians when he was PRO. On the other hand, the motherfuckers called Adesina and Mohammed autocratically bark at Nigerians like mad dogs, and with their loads of lies, meeeeeeeeeeen!!!

If Frank Mba was to talk about radical or lawless supporters of election candidates, he would show that he understands the law. He would know that he can’t hold a man responsible for another man’s act, except under the conditions that I state here, shortly. Frank would have couched his words democratically. He would appeal to the candidates to influence their supporters to behave well. He would know that one can’t rightly act or talk as though you’re threatening to hold the candidate responsible. Just check this out! If we can hold candidates responsible for their supporters’ activities, then, here’s what we must do, too. We must hold the Police Inspector General (IGP) responsible for all the atrocities of some of his officers against Nigerians every fucking day. No, actually, we must hold the IGP much more responsible, and I’ll tell you why, pronto!

The candidates have no legal ties with their supporters. They don’t even know them. And the candidates have no way of controlling their supporters. All that they can do, is to nicely appeal to their supporters, shikena! On the other hand, the IGP owes Nigerians a constitutional responsibility over his boys in uniform. He is their commander, and he has a responsibility to train and discipline them to stop misbehaving with so much impunity. But, has he been able to control the bad ones among his boys? Hell fucking no! So, where the fuck are the moral and democratic grounds for the use of such autocratic language or attitude, in a democracy? Remember, I mean if the police actually implied to hold candidates responsible, meeeeeeeeeeen?!!!

I didn’t really directly hear from the horse’s mouth myself. I read the news, and I do know how stupid some Nigerian journalists (so-called) can be sometimes. Their syntax and choices of words in reporting news can be misleadingly terrible; or terribly misleading. I prefer to believe that the IGP did not really say what is attributed to him in the news. I trust his intelligence to understand that it is impossible for him to hold anybody, whosoever, responsible for another person’s crimes. It is so stupidly undemocratic! And, I thank God that the 2020 Police Act has a law that says exactly this democratic fact.

According to the 2020 Police Act, gone are the days when Nigeria Police officers violated the rights of Nigerians in this regard, with impunity. Unlike then, they can no longer terrorize innocent Nigerians for the alleged crimes of their wives or children or husbands, or any relative. Mind you, the human/civil rights sections of the nation’s constitution have always protected Nigerians against such evil. But Nigeria Police officers violated the constitution with impunity over the years. Indeed, I understand that some of the recalcitrant officers still continue to violate that law, even now that it’s repeated in their Police Act, meeeeeeeeen!!!

Let’s get back to the focus, and with the fact that candidates can only be held responsible for their supporters’ acts when “unlawful incitement” happens. Umm huh, there is a difference between “unlawfully inciting a public disorder or lawlessness,” and holding an innocent man responsible for another man’s act. If a candidate clearly incites a person or group to do the act, “provable beyond reasonable doubts,” then the candidate is guilty of breaking the “incitement” law. But you don’t hold a guy in Abuja responsible for a crime that happens in Sokoto, just for the reason that the campaign is in his name. You must prove how he directly partook in the act, or aided and abetted it. If you can prove that he directly incited his supporters, or “aided and abetted” them to commit the act, then and only then do you have a case against him. Of course, the police were right to warn the lawless supporters that crimes are punishable by law, no matter who they are supporting.

I always try to subtly coach up some so-called publicists or image-makers or spokespersons in Nigeria how to address the people in a democracy. I do say this quite a bit in various commentaries, but it can never be too much. The recalcitrant motherfucking rulers and their publicists have refused to change from military to democratic mentality. So we must continue to talk until they wake up, smell the coffee, and learn, meeeeeeeeeeeeen!!!

THE PETER OBI FACTOR: The autocratic attitude of the law enforcement agencies of Nigeria often has a way of sparking off some bullshit in the polity. Maybe, the recent “cautioning” of candidates instigated a rumor that I heard, shortly after the admonishment. Um huh, I heard that there is a “secret plot to frame up Peter Obi of Labor Party with a serious case like treason. The idea is to stop Obi from the election, if his followers attempt to cause any chaos.” If and when this happens, says the rumor, “Obi would be declared wanted in the heat of the electioneering.” My instant democratic response to that bullshit is natural. The “secrete plan” is total rubbish, and I will tell you why, pronto!

Only a desperate idiot would frame Obi for something that other persons did, in the present democratic revolution! And in turn, only an idiotic judge would listen and entertain such idiotic case in court!! And, finally, only an idiotic citizenry would allow such idiotic unlawful persecution to stand, even if an idiotic judge entertains the case. I am warning against it, if indeed anybody is actually that idiotic to hatch such plot. It is likely to spark off a major revolution against any evil cabal that would try such act. Peter Ob has become a national phenomenal revolution. It’s definitely not an “Igbo-tribe thing,” as some fools deceive themselves to believe, or hypocritically pretend to believe.

It doesn’t matter if some people want to pretend and wish it away, the national revolution is a reality. And, the reason is very obvious! The current hunger and scary insecurity in the land do not know south-north dichotomy boundaries. Hunger does not demarcate between Hausa-Fulani and Igbo tribes. The northern youths are even suffering worse than their southern counterparts, and they now know to hold their norther politicians responsible for their sufferance. So, the youths of both southern and northern Nigeria have gotten sick and tired of the same bunch of crooks who have destroyed Nigeria. The people are sick and tired of recycling that same bunch between the two major political parties, the PDP and APC. The people are sick and tired of the evil divide-and-rule tactic of some evil politicians on both sides of the north-south and tribal divides. The people want a difference, and they see that difference in the Labor Party because of Peter Obi. Some people may pretend all they want about the “Obidient Movement” Revolution. They may wish Obi away, but the man and the revolution are here to stay, meeeeeeeeeeen!!!

Do remember my patriotic reason for the last paragraph. I am using those words to sound a warning to whosoever out there that may be plotting the rumored persecution of Peter Obi. I am simply warning that such evil plot would be resisted across the entire country. Peter Obi has obviously broken the Igbo-hatred jinx, which northern politicians have planted in their youths over the years. I am doing this to sound a patriotic warning to this government and its agencies. They must not allow themselves to be used for such unlawful plot, if indeed it happens to be true. Mind you, I won’t be in Nigeria if and when they set her ablaze with such plot. But I do have relatives in Nigeria, so I do care what happens in the country. The current political revolution by Nigerian youths to take power from destroyers of Nigeria is very serious. Nigerians are no longer a politically idiotic citizenry, so they would react against any idiotic unlawful plot against Peter Obi.

The youths of Nigeria would no longer permit such evil politicians to continue in their old ways of suppressing the people, to install themselves in power. This current revolution is even stronger in the north, than in the south. And, if the rumored plot happens to be true, and it’s being hatched in the north, it is their own northern youths who will resist them like hell. I have blogged about the northern youths’ exploding revolution more than once. Some of them told ex-governor Rabiu Kwankwaso that he and his likes can no longer use them like zombies. Another group burned a campaign billboard of Buhari, Tinubu, and El-Rufai. Hey, I say it again, do remember that I’m just a patriotic blogger. I’m only trying to advise our law enforcement agencies not to allow themselves to be used to push the current wonderful peaceful electoral revolution into a chaotic destructive one. They cannot stop the Peter Obi Youths Revolution Movement, if it’s God-ordained. And, it does look like it’s God-ordained alright! You do know that I ain’t bullshitting ya, meeeeeeeeeeeeen!!!

HERE’S THE PROMISED LINK TO MY COMMENTARY ON THE EFCC MILITARY DECREE IN JUNE, 2022:

https://nobullshiting.com/nigerias-efcc-announces-a-criminally-insane-yahoo-boys-law/

AND THE LINK TO MY COMMENTARY ON THE NORTHERN YOUTHS REVOLT AGAINST THEIR NORTHERN USERS, PART 2. PART 2 LINKS YOU TO PART 1:

https://nobullshiting.com/kwankwaso-misrepresents-and-disrespects-the-north-part-2/

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