By J. S. Okutepa, SAN
To restore law and order in Nigeria is a task that requires courageous and bold leaders to undertake. It appears that everyone except a few have lawlessness in their DNA. Just look at how Okada riders, Keke NAPEP, and other drivers behave on our roads.
Just see how law enforcement agents act with reckless abandon on our roads. They caused traffic jams in the name of stop and search. Just see how VIOs stay in the middle of the roads to cause traffic jams in the name of checking vehicles, particulars, and all others behaving as if we have no law.
See hawkers on the roads behaving in the most uncultured manner. See beggars banging cars and doing all sorts of things in the name of begging. Everything seems to have defiled due process, and we now operate like we are in the jungle. Go to court and see how some registry staff treat you as nobody.
Just see how some professionals in our land prefer evils to good. Just see how law and order have become non-existent in our land. Only bold and courageous leaders can restore sanity in our land. If not that visually, everything in Nigeria is completely compromised, there are so many people masquerading in power who ought to be in jail by now.
The system that threw them on us is so unjust and wicked. Those who ought to be civilized and well read, learned, and who ought to be agents of light preferred to sustain and support darkness and evils for pecuniary interests. That is why some lawyers do all to frustrate fair and just electoral disputes by all manners of professional antics in sabotage of justice.
I think those who hold the jugular of this country have studied the citizens so well, and they know that we are too gullible.That is why they do what they like and get away with it.They do evil and they justified it with lies.
They share our commonwealth, and we fall on ourselves to partake in the crumbles that fall under the table.
They under develop us, and we can’t complain. They have rig election to perpetuate themselves in power even if it means shedding blood to retain power. They manipulate the judicial processes to keep themselves in power. They engage those who share common characteristics with them to employ all manner of antics to deny justice to those who seek justice from courts or Tribunals. Justice, in its purest form, is too far from the seat of justice in most cases.
The priests who administer justice get defiled by many viruses that are not coterminous with pure justice.Some of those whose duty it is to administer justice are too far from the required character to administer justice. There is a gang up against justice in Nigeria.There is a gang up to put Nigerians under perpetuate siege.
Those who hold this country in the jugular are not ready to give up.
Nothing good matters to them. They act in unison when they want to do evil and quarrel to divert our attention from their atrocities. This country is a scam. It is a shame that those who know what to do to put the country on proper road of development have not been allowed to. Truth is far removed from us. That is why when you look at the budgets, you see non-existent projects. The monies are put there to be shared. There is no accountability. There is no remedy for citizens. Nigerians are suffering in the mist of plenty of resources.
