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Udeme
Joseph
Public Affairs Commentator
P. O Box 2043
Uyo
Akwa Ibom
Alamieyeseigha’s
Criminal Escape – A Passionate Plea To The National Assembly.
Obasanjo's faulty arithmetic of puppetry & deception
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Alamieyeseigha’s Criminal Escape – A Passionate Plea To The National
Assembly.
by Udeme
Joseph
Alamieyeseigha is on
the news again!! The pathetic death of 118 Nigerians in within 48
hours and the concomitant mourning and groaning pushed Alamieyeseigha
to the back burner. As if to say ‘don’t forget me folks’ he has
staged the mother of all criminal escape since the start of this
millennium. The issue now is not how he outwitted the British
security network, the banality of his disguising or what in its
totality aided and abetted his resurfacing in Yenogoa. What is of
grave concern and consequences are the moral, political and
developmental issues and their implications to an economically
impoverished and politically unstable nation and people called
Nigerians.
The scene were leaders
use miscreants, the misinformed (irrespective of age, academic or
social attainment), hire the poor, the raped, the hapless, and
imbecilic crowd to create a make-believe world or situation dates back
to ancient Rome. It happened during the trial of Jesus Christ where
the leaders of the people got the mammoth crowed to chorus ‘crucified
Him, crucified Him’ in judgment of the Saviour and to the robber
‘release him, release him’. The Nigerian Television Authority (NTA)
News showing the crowd that came out to welcome the Bayelsa governor
reminds me of that crowed in Pilate’s court. I choose to see the
welcome in this perspective, otherwise it will appear that all
Bayelsan – the elite, political and business class, the academia and
others are all a bunch of unshockable nonentities. But thanks
goodness that a counter march was staged to refute the acceptability
of a common criminal returning as governor. The commencement of the
impeachment procedure is also consoling.
There are many faces
to the Alamieyeseigha’s criminal escape from Britain. It shows our
ingenuity, (even when it is counterclockwise), it shows the porosity
or possible criminal conspiracy of the British law enforcement agents.
Above all, it sounds a clarion call on our National Assemblymen to set
in motion as a matter of ‘urgent national importance’ an amendment to
the immunity clause in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria. These satanic verses protect elected persons from
answering to criminal acts committed by them and it is one major
reason why the political and governmental landscape of Nigeria is
covered with glaring corrupt practices. This provision makes our
leaders steal public funds without qualms. Indeed, this provision as
we have seen today was made in bad faith and was premeditated. It
points a search light into the character and intent of the authors of
the constitution.
I passionately call on the members of the National Assembly to revisit
this constitutional flaw. Truly, if they do not remove this odious
provision, let them consider themselves as accomplices to the bold
face criminal acts of our elected ones and posterity will judge them
and sentence them to generational odium and God Himself who gave them
the seat of power will visit their iniquities to the third and forth
generations of their seed.
I weep for my beloved country, a place were elected and non-elected
leaders would commit crime and will jump bail and yet remain in
office. Going by what we see now, it won’t be long when elected
officers will spend a greater portion of their campaign time to
manufacture wheels large enough for them to tow away their domain for
sale once they assume office.
As I weep I ask ‘where
do we go from here?’ [back
to Top News]
 
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"The
scene were leaders use miscreants, the misinformed (irrespective of
age, academic or social attainment), hire the poor, the raped, the
hapless, and imbecilic crowd to create a make-believe world or
situation dates back to ancient Rome. It happened during the trial
of Jesus Christ where the leaders of the people got the mammoth
crowed to chorus ‘crucified Him, crucified Him’ in judgment of the
Saviour and to the robber ‘release him, release him’. The Nigerian
Television Authority (NTA) News showing the crowd that came out to
welcome the Bayelsa governor reminds me of that crowed in Pilate’s
court. I choose to see the welcome in this perspective, otherwise
it will appear that all Bayelsan – the elite, political and business
class, the academia and others are all a bunch of unshockable
nonentities. But thanks goodness that a counter march was staged to
refute the acceptability of a common criminal returning as
governor. The commencement of the impeachment procedure is also
consoling."
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