By Igbotako Nowinta
Nigerian youths must for once give all it takes to join all existing progressive forces in the country to yank our country free; to deliver a lethal blow to the current agents of darkness and plunder. What the Federal Government is employing now is an array of damage control, to present the image of a caring, thoughtful and socially responsible regime. It is a façade, gang mounting and desperate gambit. we must demand total reforms now. Indeed, this is a time to call for the transparent and genuine restructuring of this country. Piteously we don’t have a true federalism, but a super centralized compulsion, grinding all the components into financial shreds, slavery and beggarliness. Those towering above the present systemic chaos and corruption that public life has become must be swept away; this epicenter of injustice, called Nigeria must be reformed; this most insensitive and corrupt set of politicians must be made to know that power, sovereign power for that matter truly belongs to the people of Nigeria; this vicious and visionless crop of political bandits must be made to bow to the people’s demands.
It is absolutely regrettable that the Nigerian people are being unleashed with a most catastrophic systemic genocide by their present rulers.
That is not to say that all the current problems were created by the Muhammadu Buhari civilian government, but in a situation where a group of persons were elected into offices in the name of change in all facets of the society, and what we see graphically today is the reverse of the fabulous promises made in 2015 general elections, then the blame must be directed at the presidency.
It is the glaring incompetency of the Muhammadu Buhari presidency that has allowed a most brutal police system to suppress and repress the people of Nigeria in the name of policing.
Where were the Inspector General of Police in Nigeria, and top ranking police officers when the vicious and demented men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) were violently disrupting the peace and safety of a great number of law abiding citizens?
Where were they when some sadistic personnel of SARS turned the whole country into a gigantic abattoir, where human lives were snuffed out pitilessly, and slaughtered without any qualms?
Where was President Muhammadu Buhari when a large section of the Nigerian citizens were hauled down and butchered like chickens within the confines of several police stations; at road blocks, and at street corners by bloodthirsty criminals in tax payer’s uniform?
Why didn’t the Presidency handle the excessive corruption-ridden Nigeria Police Force, until now; where was the Nigerian military when countless innocent people were subjected to torture and brutal by the SARS mad dogs?
Sadly, the Nigeria Police Force have for a long time been left to rot by the Presidency and the Inspector General of Police as they unequivocally operated without discipline which is the hallmark of a successful security apparatus.
Just like the Nigeria Police Force, many social, economic and political facets of our country are being run by morally bankrupt and unscrupulous bandits pretending to be great patriots.
It is pathetic that some absolutely inept political elite preoccupied with the raping of our patrimony, spreading hatred, slavery, exploitation in frighteningly dimension have been in charge of our affairs since 1999.
Why did the Nigerian people allow the corrupt barons within the Nigeria Police Force to plunder us, to have their barbaric and inhuman activities for this long?
What we have on our hands as a result of the ongoing #ENDSARS protests by Nigerian youths nay concerned Nigerians is the consequences of decades of suffocating maladministration, blatantly broken promises, horrendous violation of the people’s fundamental human rights and deception.
In a Nigeria, so brutalized, repressed, gravely raped and looted in turns by conscienceless rulers since political independence, what the people have been pushed into is a point of no return; of persistent protests that will totally set us all free.
It is only the enemies of the people that will stand against the whirlwind of protests and counter protests sweeping across the country today.
This #ENDSARS protest is a clear signal that all patriotic youths, nay Nigerians must use as a weapon for total revolution; a revolution that must compel the National Assembly to take a quick look at our Electoral Law, to enable full electronic voting system to be included in our books; to guarantee equitable distribution of employment opportunities for the children of the lowliest, the poor man in our midst, and so on and so forth.
This #ENDSARS struggle is a perfect time to demand comprehensively for our rights; a time to tell the likes of Yusuf Bichi, the Director of the Department of the State Security Services, to reverse all the lopsided appointments he had made, still making to satisfy his brothers and sisters from Katsina, within the nation’s highest security outfit.
It is a time to demand for the release of billions of naira that were donated by some corporate and individual entities towards the Covid 19 pandemic in Nigeria; a time to call for the suspension of the heartless electricity tarrifs forced down our throats; demand that the pump prize of petroleum products must be drastically reduced.
And it is a time to unmask those public officials looting our treasury, by using sophisticated array of fronts and devices to cover their tracks; a time for the implementation of federal character principles in employment opportunities within the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Central Bank of Nigeria, etc.
This is a time to call for a stakeholders forum to compel the Revenue Management and Fiscal Mobilization Commission, to review the jumbo salaries and enumeration being cornered by the political class, especially members of the National Assembly in Nigeria; a perfect time to expose those engaged in massive spending binge that has seen diverted revenues into corruption funded patronages, such as we have seen in the National School Food Feeding Funding Programmes etc.
Those who are enjoying a windfall of personal bonuses and their cronies in this fraudulent regime, pretending to be fighting corruption, arising from the Covid 19 largess must be fished out.
What of the oil blocks that were awarded to politicians and business men close to the corridors and windows of supreme power in the land?
It is crazy to know that old worn out, spent horses are still the ones ruling us, never minding the cerebral youths and brilliant men in our midst!
The People’s Republic of China would never have risen from the abyss of retrogression and darkness if the likes of Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, Chu Teh, Chou En-lair had not proven themselves in their youthful years to connect themselves to the liberation train of their country, which materialized stunningly in October 1949.
What of South Africa? If not for the likes of Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko, Tambo Mbeki, Chris Hani and company who ferociously engaged the apartheid bastards right from their youthful stages, probably that country would have still been crawling under the belly of the lunatic Boers today.
Nigerian youths must for once give all it takes to join all existing progressive forces in the country to yank our country free; to deliver a lethal blow to the current agents of darkness and plunder.
What the Federal Government is employing now is an array of damage control, to present the image of a caring, thoughtful and socially responsible regime. It is a façade, gang mounting and desperate gambit. we must demand total reforms now.
Indeed, this is a time to call for the transparent and genuine restructuring of this country. Piteously we don’t have a true federalism, but a super centralized compulsion, grinding all the components into financial shreds, slavery and beggarliness.
Those towering above the present systemic chaos and corruption that public life has become must be swept away; this epicenter of injustice, called Nigeria must be reformed; this most insensitive and corrupt set of politicians must be made to know that power, sovereign power for that matter truly belongs to the people of Nigeria; this vicious and visionless crop of political bandits must be made to bow to the people’s demands.
Nowinta wrote: Where we are, a call for Democratc revolution in Nigeria.
