A deserved unlawful deed to Law Makers!

By; Abdul-Rahman Baban Saibo

Well today 20^th of November 2014 will surely be marked in history of Nigeria as it rained stones and sprayed dust on the faces of Law Makers of the federation.

Two weeks ago the Nigerian speaker of the national house of representatives took the right turn in making a difference in what’s known to be the most corroded political structure in the entire history of democracy. Mr. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, a representative from Sokkoto state and the sitting Speaker of the National House of Representatives, officially declared his defection to the opposition party All Progressive Congress, APC on November 7^th this year. This defection happened during the most crucial time of the Nigerian politics as the 2015 general election has blown a whistle for the fields.

This momentous event obviously shook the ruling party off balance, throwing the PDP act unlawfully, which resulted to ordering the withdrawal of the security aids of the speaker by the Inspector General himself, this issue which grew to being a national discourse took a court case between the speaker and the Inspector General of the police for a verdict to be reached and the speakers’ aids be returned to his services. Sure, that act by the ruling party, precisely the presidency is very much familiar to Nigerians as it was done to several PDP defectors, some of them even faced impeachment threats, where a Governor of Adamawa state happened to fall a victim.

Speaker of the national House of Representatives Mr. Aminu Tambuwal took the pace to run for the office of Governor in Sokoto state on the APC party platform. On the 19^th of November the APC party held a national rally in Abuja, protesting over the state of the nation where they marched to the police headquarters to express their disagreements and grieves, the news had it that the just defected Speaker of the House also joined the march.

Today it’s shocking how the Honorables were dishonorably treated. The news came as if it was not meant to surface, the media had it that the police were sent to barricade the entrance to the House of Representatives, eye witnesses say they trooped in in a number of an army whose mission should be to fight a war. I mean around 1000 well-armed policemen could do as much as annihilate the entire Boko Haram terrorists bugging this country, if the will and want is called upon.

The media also had it that the Speaker of the House and his fellow law makers were forcefully denied entry to the building. Meanwhile as the police still maintained their grounds in ensuring they stopped the Members of the House, the fit and strong amongst the law makers were caught on camera climbing over the iron gates of the premises of the building into the premises. At first I rejected as well as despised what came next, the police deliberately aimed at the members and fired their tear gas guns at them all in attempts to intimidate the House Members and stopping them from accessing the Parliament.

It is yes utterly unfortunate as these events unfolded, but on the brighter perspective, I’d agree that karma has its own way in showing the wrong doers their misdeeds. In Nigeria is a government in seat which has not even the pettiest humble respect for neither, its peoples, its duties, its integrity nor even as much as its constitutions. These Law Makers are believed to have knowledge of the multiple corruption, injustice, impunities, illegalities, constitutional bypass, rights deprivations, money embezzlements, atrocities, theft, lies, amongst other evil deeds any treacherous tyrants may seem to exercise, but yet, as a result of their greed and lust for bribes that sets them up to buy and obtain all material things of life and ensures they forget their basic duties and their rightful place as to whom they are to serve and protect, they assumed failure in never investigating the wrong doings of the executives and the Presidency, and also failure in reacting to the complains of the masses of whom they are to serve.

I mean, yours sincerely couldn’t do but fathom as to where Law Makers should allow a President who left over 200 school girls under the custody of one of the worlds’ most dangerous terrorists for over 7 months in captivity stay in office this long? Nigeria’s President came to declare his automated run-again contest just a day after around 50 school students were blown to pieces and yet his declaration ceremony went to taking place without him giving no condolence nor a sympathetic press statement, neither to the deceased’s family nor to the mourning nation.

The question in view here is ‘did he President Goodluck Jonathan not promised the country that the girls were to be freed in matter of days and that a ceasefire was agreed upon with the terrorists?’ Or are the Law Makers all blinded and deafened about all this? O! Exactly, they were on holidays to rest off the stress of the piles and bulks of bribes they collected from the government to stay mute about the state of the nation.

In a press statement the Inspector General of the Police cleared the air for the Law Makers by saying that the reason for the around 1000 armed policemen sent to barricade the green chamber and stop the parliamentarians from accessing their congress room is because the police had an alert about hoodlums and thugs invading the House that very morning (I’d say those hoodlums were to be Shekau and his boys). The truth? Anyone who decamped from the Peoples’ Democratic Party under the Jonathan’s regime is considered a hoodlum or a thug and will actually be treated like one. In this case not only the defector was incriminated, his fellow members were also snagged.

“How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles.”- Herbert George Wells, a British writer asserted. Now, the paradox of “good in bad” which happened today will forever remain in the history of this country that the parliamentarians will sure know absolutely what their duties are when the presidency goes on doing exactly what sooths its and only its interests.

Sa’idu Ahmed Enagi a friend and a colleague of mine, whom happens to be an ardent supporter of the ruling party told me in our conversation about what had transpired in the National Assembly this afternoon that “Members of parliament tear-gassed? This is a disgraced Democracy, this clearly demonstrates arrogance, despair and desperation by the ruling party… this is the fate of a shattered republic.” My brother Sa’idu didn’t stop there as his grief, hopelessness and anger couldn’t do him justice, he added that “The 2015 elections appears to come a rain of ‘blood, bullets and ballots.’”