That action can only be likened to the Uniport four saga. Even though some people claimed or believed that those four boys (students) were bad boys, all that is buried in a historical sepulcher as what we all saw was the barbaric and dastardly act of the Aluu people or people living in Aluu. It was so bad that the devilish devil condemned it. Now, this is because what they did was jungle justice or a resort to self help which is not found within the regime of a criminal jurisprudence.
One is not be law permitted to kill even the mad men or women on the street. I pity the wife of such an uncontrollable character. I guess, his wife could as well be a punch bag suffering in the privacy of their home since husband must be a Mohammed Ali or Mike Tyson. It was wholesale evil and all must condemn it without reservations. That is the naked truth which must not be politicized. It was a criminal act and not a political nor legislative act.
How can only five members impeach speaker or Governor under the 1999 Constitution (as amended)? Reasonable people would just ignore the melodrama than mobilize to kill those who played it.
The right to move a motion for impeachment or to even oppose the Speaker or Governor is given to them by the constitution. Of course, the constitution equally provides the number (two third majority). They don’t need to agree with the Speaker or Governor. Our problem is not far from our one party mentality and a philosophy that we must always say one thing, do one thing and behave one way. The moment there is a shift in understanding we say heavens must fall (that is not democracy at all). That House is a parliament where members are bound to disagree if they are the right people (unfortunately the right people are not there; those there are monkey wey wear coat- Gaskiya). They can disagree to agree (not dancing naked). While the minority must have their say, the majority certainly must have their way. That is the tenet of Democracy the World over.
It is because the wrong people are there that we believe they should have worked as members of the same cult organization to always concur whether for good or for evil. And there should better, sound and overall, more civilized ways of settling political disputes than watching dirty Linins outside or dancing naked as my friend puts it.
From all indices and indications, these men are selfish. It is not in the interest of the people they are fighting. They are self seeking, self serving, self centred and greedy. It is greed, avarice and quest for relevance, guest for power etc that is drifting Rivers State to precipice.
If the young man says he has immunity in the House or Chamber, it is a lame argument and thus laughable. The parliamentary privilege a parliamentarian enjoys does not give him the temerity or latitude to kill, maim or commit crime or infact, heinous crimes and go Scot free.
Again, those who want to make legal arguments or those who are talking law should not deceive the public or speak misconception or mislead laymen. Nobody has immunity to commit crime whatsoever or howsoever and at wherever for the public to give him a standing ovation. Not even the president.
This means that nobody is above the law. Let alone a law maker. A situation whereby law makers are now law breakers is most unfortunate. It is an aberration and infact sacrilegious. It is an abomination to spill blood in the hallowed chambers of law making. No good reason avails a criminal of criminal responsibility except intention is absent. This is what we call Mens rea: the mental element. But I venture to say that our brother the user of the mace (whether fake mace or original mace) as a weapon of mass destruction cannot say he did not have the intention to inflict bodily harm. So what is the ado about? And he is not also criminus incapa because he is a law maker.
Those who were “panel beating” Hon. Nworgu with the man in white native and red cap should also be arrested. Then Bipi who was also boasting on television of how he gave fellow law makers fist blows and who also came into the premises with thugs should be arrested and detained.
But without being partisan (let me emphasis that I am not a politician)my worry is with the way the man in white shirt and red cap really displayed indecency, cruelty, wickedness, thirsty for blood, barbarism, primitism and infact, sheer and gross disregard for the sanctity of human life, ethics and core values.
It was a careless display of belligerence and impunity. It was a dance of the makaba.
What are their children going to learn from them? Violence? Do they have wives? If they do, their wives should be weeping for their children who must resemble their fathers unless the Almighty God intervenes. Do they need deliverance from demonic bondage?
Truly speaking and without mincing words, our dear State is in the wrong hands. All these pretences about I love Governor, I love President is a sham. It is all aluta of their stomach.
But pause and imagine. Do these people look like responsible people? Take a look at their facial looks and their actions. Your guess is as good as mine. ###
Barr. Gideon Kpoobari Girigiri
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