xristos:


"Someday, the worker must seize political power to build up the new organization of labour; he must overthrow the old politics which sustain the old institutions, if he is not to lose Heaven on Earth, like the old Christians who neglected and despised politics" - Karl Marx

Omoyele Sowore, a political activist and publisher of Sahara Reporter was arrested on August 3 by State Security Service (SSS) prior to his #RevolutionNow protest. Although, many have argued that Mr Sowore was not arrested but kidnapped in the dead hours of the night by Nigeria's secret police. The revolution protest was to express Nigerians displeasure against the challenges rocking the country. The challenges include lack of potable water, decay infrastructures, and most importantly,elites corruption among others.

Despite Mr Sowore's arrest, or better still kidnap, the protest still held in 21 cities across Nigeria on August 5. The Nigeria government argument is that Mr Sowore was planning to forcefully hijack power from the incumbent. After keeping him in detention for several months, he was eventually arraigned and charged for treasonable felony, terrorism and abuse of President Muhammadu Buhari. Legal experts have said the case did not have substance. There was a court order that asked that Mr Sowore be released but the SSS as known for being notorious in disobeying court orders refused to grant the Sahara Reporter Publisher and his co-accused, Olawale Bakare known as Mandate bail. 

When the duo prosecution proper started, another judge, Ojukwu of another Federal High Court granted another bail to the duo. Angered by the bail conditions considered too stringent, Mr Sowore through his lawyer, Femi Falana approached the court for bail variation which was granted. Sowore and Mandate have long met their bail conditions but the secret police wouldn't free them. Could it be a case that they are enjoying Sowore's company? No, that cannot be the case. It is the routine and norm that happen in this administration. The norm to continue to detain folks granted bail by the courts. The norm of not respecting laws and order.

It is well understood that the government is scared of revolution basically because they are myopic. They felt revolution means forceful change of government. No, that is not the revolution Sowore and his cohorts were/are demanding. He was simply asking for checks and balances which Nigeria lack since 20 years we started on the path of civil rule. There's no reason why a government should be scared of revolution if truly it knows that the masses belong to them and the masses cannot be for them except they attend to their plights.

The same government finding the war against insecurity and other challenges difficult quickly believe that the purveyors of revolution (w)are brutal. No reasonable government will expect citizens to keep quiet. That was why John Stuart Mill says: "As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing to battle against oppressors". Revolution according to Micheal Lenin happen when two conditions have been met, "first, the ruling class can no longer carry on ruling in the same old way, and second, the working class won't let them." 

Revolution can either be bloody or bloodless but that depends on the reaction of the government to its people's request. This is a country where citizens are killed on a daily basis. This is a country where the average person can only eat rice on Christmas and Sallah days. This is a country where our minimum wage is far below what is meant to feed a prisoner in America on a daily basis and yet the Federal Government through its agent, State Security Service believed that the continued detention of Sowore will not eventually lead to revolution.

While Sowore's #RevolutionNow protest was to send a signal to the world that Nigerians are ready to send the failed leaders out of the system, the revolution that will come for his continued detention will expose how judiciary is not an arm of government in Nigeria. How the judiciary is merely used by the executive arm to victimise prisoners of conscience like Sowore, Agba Jalingo, Dayidata and others.

The government must know that one day the kids of the poor will resist when they understand that their country is the capital of world poverty because of the corrupt practices of their leaders. There will be a revolution when citizens fully understand that our lawmakers are lawbreakers, perhaps 'legislathieves'. Folks will storm the streets with stones that day they realise that their president, governors, chairmen and cabinet members are mere 'executhieves'. There will be war that moment Nigerians demand a better judiciary rather than the 'judisharing' we run today. 

The kids you refused to put in school, the kids whose parents die because Federal Government budgeted N2000 for the health of their parents when billions are budgeted for president travels will one day grow to locate the kids of the rich - they will terrorise and kill them.

Federal government is scared of revolution but the continued detention will eventually lead to revolution. A socialist once said that "if the working class don't push revolution to a successful conclusion, the old order will re-impose itself and the whole sorry mess will start over again and so, it will continue indefinitely until they either succeed in transforming society in their interests, or it ends in the common ruin of the contending classes and perhaps the end of the human race."

Free Sowore and other prisoners of conscience now!

by Taboola

While Sowore's #RevolutionNow protest was to send a signal to the world that Nigerians are ready to send the failed leaders out of the system, the revolution that will come for his continued detention will expose how judiciary is not an arm of government in Nigeria.

How the judiciary is merely used by the executive arm to victimise prisoners of conscience like Sowore, Agba Jalingo, Dayidata and others.

Should:
All I see here is plenty grammer with no action from some cowards..

Real revolution kii all of una there for that yeye naija

Tajbol4splend:
To the penultimate ignorant above me, Jonathan was also a tyrant, the only difference between Jonathan and Buhari is that Jonathan was a more democratic President. Jonathan is everything wrong with leadership, he didn't have a plan in place for the nation, he proved it that he was a President of the circumstance as regards Yar Adua death, he was more consumed with his second term than fulfilling the people's expectations, you can't have a weakling as leader, I think Jonathan was not necessarily a thief but fund mismanagement is a disastrous weakness, things got worse under his watch except the free and fair elections held during his time, almost 70% of Nigerians believed in Jonathan because of the prospect we saw in Yar Adua, we thought it was going to be the continuity of rejuvenation of the economy which showed green light before Yar Adua died, he convincingly won the 2011 election including most APC dominated states like Lagos, but what did we get? He took the advice to skyrocket the fuel price from 65 naira to 145 before protests made him reduce it to 97 naira, with nothing to show for it, Dollar to Naira before his tenure was 1-170 but he left it at 1-197, please let someone come out and tell me what achievement Jonathan will be remembered for, so far Buhari regime is worse doesn't make Jonathan regime a good one, it's just a dilemma situation where you have to choose between two undesirable things.

clarocuzioo:
Sowore is simply reaping what he sowed, karma is indeed a bitch, he packaged a tyrant as a democratic, used his platform in 2015 to decieve gullible Nigerians, today he is simply reaping what he sowed.

He should stop disturbing us, I am not in support of what he is going through, but next time, if Buhari and Jonathan are placed, he will choose wisely.

xristos:


"Someday, the worker must seize political power to build up the new organization of labour; he must overthrow the old politics which sustain the old institutions, if he is not to lose Heaven on Earth, like the old Christians who neglected and despised politics" - Karl Marx

Omoyele Sowore, a political activist and publisher of Sahara Reporter was arrested on August 3 by State Security Service (SSS) prior to his #RevolutionNow protest. Although, many have argued that Mr Sowore was not arrested but kidnapped in the dead hours of the night by Nigeria's secret police. The revolution protest was to express Nigerians displeasure against the challenges rocking the country. The challenges include lack of potable water, decay infrastructures, and most importantly,elites corruption among others.

Despite Mr Sowore's arrest, or better still kidnap, the protest still held in 21 cities across Nigeria on August 5. The Nigeria government argument is that Mr Sowore was planning to forcefully hijack power from the incumbent. After keeping him in detention for several months, he was eventually arraigned and charged for treasonable felony, terrorism and abuse of President Muhammadu Buhari. Legal experts have said the case did not have substance. There was a court order that asked that Mr Sowore be released but the SSS as known for being notorious in disobeying court orders refused to grant the Sahara Reporter Publisher and his co-accused, Olawale Bakare known as Mandate bail. 

When the duo prosecution proper started, another judge, Ojukwu of another Federal High Court granted another bail to the duo. Angered by the bail conditions considered too stringent, Mr Sowore through his lawyer, Femi Falana approached the court for bail variation which was granted. Sowore and Mandate have long met their bail conditions but the secret police wouldn't free them. Could it be a case that they are enjoying Sowore's company? No, that cannot be the case. It is the routine and norm that happen in this administration. The norm to continue to detain folks granted bail by the courts. The norm of not respecting laws and order.

It is well understood that the government is scared of revolution basically because they are myopic. They felt revolution means forceful change of government. No, that is not the revolution Sowore and his cohorts were/are demanding. He was simply asking for checks and balances which Nigeria lack since 20 years we started on the path of civil rule. There's no reason why a government should be scared of revolution if truly it knows that the masses belong to them and the masses cannot be for them except they attend to their plights.

The same government finding the war against insecurity and other challenges difficult quickly believe that the purveyors of revolution (w)are brutal. No reasonable government will expect citizens to keep quiet. That was why John Stuart Mill says: "As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing to battle against oppressors". Revolution according to Micheal Lenin happen when two conditions have been met, "first, the ruling class can no longer carry on ruling in the same old way, and second, the working class won't let them." 

Revolution can either be bloody or bloodless but that depends on the reaction of the government to its people's request. This is a country where citizens are killed on a daily basis. This is a country where the average person can only eat rice on Christmas and Sallah days. This is a country where our minimum wage is far below what is meant to feed a prisoner in America on a daily basis and yet the Federal Government through its agent, State Security Service believed that the continued detention of Sowore will not eventually lead to revolution.

While Sowore's #RevolutionNow protest was to send a signal to the world that Nigerians are ready to send the failed leaders out of the system, the revolution that will come for his continued detention will expose how judiciary is not an arm of government in Nigeria. How the judiciary is merely used by the executive arm to victimise prisoners of conscience like Sowore, Agba Jalingo, Dayidata and others.

The government must know that one day the kids of the poor will resist when they understand that their country is the capital of world poverty because of the corrupt practices of their leaders. There will be a revolution when citizens fully understand that our lawmakers are lawbreakers, perhaps 'legislathieves'. Folks will storm the streets with stones that day they realise that their president, governors, chairmen and cabinet members are mere 'executhieves'. There will be war that moment Nigerians demand a better judiciary rather than the 'judisharing' we run today. 

The kids you refused to put in school, the kids whose parents die because Federal Government budgeted N2000 for the health of their parents when billions are budgeted for president travels will one day grow to locate the kids of the rich - they will terrorise and kill them.

Federal government is scared of revolution but the continued detention will eventually lead to revolution. A socialist once said that "if the working class don't push revolution to a successful conclusion, the old order will re-impose itself and the whole sorry mess will start over again and so, it will continue indefinitely until they either succeed in transforming society in their interests, or it ends in the common ruin of the contending classes and perhaps the end of the human race."

Free Sowore and other prisoners of conscience now!

by Taboola

Tajbol4splend:
To the penultimate ignorant above me, Jonathan was also a tyrant, the only difference between Jonathan and Buhari is that Jonathan was a more democratic President. Jonathan is everything wrong with leadership, he didn't have a plan in place for the nation, he proved it that he was a President of the circumstance as regards Yar Adua death, he was more consumed with his second term than fulfilling the people's expectations, you can't have a weakling as leader, I think Jonathan was not necessarily a thief but fund mismanagement is a disastrous weakness, things got worse under his watch except the free and fair elections held during his time, almost 70% of Nigerians believed in Jonathan because of the prospect we saw in Yar Adua, we thought it was going to be the continuity of rejuvenation of the economy which showed green light before Yar Adua died, he convincingly won the 2011 election including most APC dominated states like Lagos, but what did we get? He took the advice to skyrocket the fuel price from 65 naira to 145 before protests made him reduce it to 97 naira, with nothing to show for it, Dollar to Naira before his tenure was 1-170 but he left it at 1-197, please let someone come out and tell me what achievement Jonathan will be remembered for, so far Buhari regime is worse doesn't make Jonathan regime a good one, it's just a dilemma situation where you have to choose between two undesirable things.

stonemasonn:
you're not tired of repeating this sh*t

xristos:


"Someday, the worker must seize political power to build up the new organization of labour; he must overthrow the old politics which sustain the old institutions, if he is not to lose Heaven on Earth, like the old Christians who neglected and despised politics" - Karl Marx

Omoyele Sowore, a political activist and publisher of Sahara Reporter was arrested on August 3 by State Security Service (SSS) prior to his #RevolutionNow protest. Although, many have argued that Mr Sowore was not arrested but kidnapped in the dead hours of the night by Nigeria's secret police. The revolution protest was to express Nigerians displeasure against the challenges rocking the country. The challenges include lack of potable water, decay infrastructures, and most importantly,elites corruption among others.

Despite Mr Sowore's arrest, or better still kidnap, the protest still held in 21 cities across Nigeria on August 5. The Nigeria government argument is that Mr Sowore was planning to forcefully hijack power from the incumbent. After keeping him in detention for several months, he was eventually arraigned and charged for treasonable felony, terrorism and abuse of President Muhammadu Buhari. Legal experts have said the case did not have substance. There was a court order that asked that Mr Sowore be released but the SSS as known for being notorious in disobeying court orders refused to grant the Sahara Reporter Publisher and his co-accused, Olawale Bakare known as Mandate bail. 

When the duo prosecution proper started, another judge, Ojukwu of another Federal High Court granted another bail to the duo. Angered by the bail conditions considered too stringent, Mr Sowore through his lawyer, Femi Falana approached the court for bail variation which was granted. Sowore and Mandate have long met their bail conditions but the secret police wouldn't free them. Could it be a case that they are enjoying Sowore's company? No, that cannot be the case. It is the routine and norm that happen in this administration. The norm to continue to detain folks granted bail by the courts. The norm of not respecting laws and order.

It is well understood that the government is scared of revolution basically because they are myopic. They felt revolution means forceful change of government. No, that is not the revolution Sowore and his cohorts were/are demanding. He was simply asking for checks and balances which Nigeria lack since 20 years we started on the path of civil rule. There's no reason why a government should be scared of revolution if truly it knows that the masses belong to them and the masses cannot be for them except they attend to their plights.

The same government finding the war against insecurity and other challenges difficult quickly believe that the purveyors of revolution (w)are brutal. No reasonable government will expect citizens to keep quiet. That was why John Stuart Mill says: "As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing to battle against oppressors". Revolution according to Micheal Lenin happen when two conditions have been met, "first, the ruling class can no longer carry on ruling in the same old way, and second, the working class won't let them." 

Revolution can either be bloody or bloodless but that depends on the reaction of the government to its people's request. This is a country where citizens are killed on a daily basis. This is a country where the average person can only eat rice on Christmas and Sallah days. This is a country where our minimum wage is far below what is meant to feed a prisoner in America on a daily basis and yet the Federal Government through its agent, State Security Service believed that the continued detention of Sowore will not eventually lead to revolution.

While Sowore's #RevolutionNow protest was to send a signal to the world that Nigerians are ready to send the failed leaders out of the system, the revolution that will come for his continued detention will expose how judiciary is not an arm of government in Nigeria. How the judiciary is merely used by the executive arm to victimise prisoners of conscience like Sowore, Agba Jalingo, Dayidata and others.

The government must know that one day the kids of the poor will resist when they understand that their country is the capital of world poverty because of the corrupt practices of their leaders. There will be a revolution when citizens fully understand that our lawmakers are lawbreakers, perhaps 'legislathieves'. Folks will storm the streets with stones that day they realise that their president, governors, chairmen and cabinet members are mere 'executhieves'. There will be war that moment Nigerians demand a better judiciary rather than the 'judisharing' we run today. 

The kids you refused to put in school, the kids whose parents die because Federal Government budgeted N2000 for the health of their parents when billions are budgeted for president travels will one day grow to locate the kids of the rich - they will terrorise and kill them.

Federal government is scared of revolution but the continued detention will eventually lead to revolution. A socialist once said that "if the working class don't push revolution to a successful conclusion, the old order will re-impose itself and the whole sorry mess will start over again and so, it will continue indefinitely until they either succeed in transforming society in their interests, or it ends in the common ruin of the contending classes and perhaps the end of the human race."

Free Sowore and other prisoners of conscience now!

by Taboola

Niaja4real:

Jonathan was a weakling and now u've got a decisive leader so why are u still crying
Jonathan increased fuel price from #65 to #145 and after protest, he reduced it to #97, a decision that only a true and a listening leader can make.
Again, Jonathan according to u, met the exchange rate of a Dollar to a Naira at #170 - 1dollar, but left it at #197-1dollar.
To tell u how pathetic u sound & look, your APC came through your messiah and increased fuel price from #97 to #145 without removing subsidy & devalue the naira & a naira is exchanging at a whooping #360 - a dollar. And people like have not committed suicide. You have become so afraid to talk let alone protest. Your will rot in custody for being stupid & Nigerians have better things to worry about and not sowore's madness.
Can't u just keep quiet and allow people to hear & talk about good things.
Go and join una sowore in custody & spare us all the noise.

phranco:

Oga if you don't know what to say, pls kindly keep quiet.

backnbeta:
If only we can see beyond ethnicity and religion, if only we can come together to speak with one voice... then and only then will our leaders realise the power of the masses and treat us with some respect

backnbeta:
If only we can see beyond ethnicity and religion, if only we can come together to speak with one voice... then and only then will our leaders realise the power of the masses and treat us with some respect

Should:
All I see here is plenty grammer with no action from some cowards..

Real revolution kii all of una there for that yeye naija

Alaniyiokorausa:
Real revolution kee you there, he should remain in prison, what a man plant .............?

stonemasonn:
you're not tired of repeating this sh*t

backnbeta:
If only we can see beyond ethnicity and religion, if only we can come together to speak with one voice... then and only then will our leaders realise the power of the masses and treat us with some respect

gidgiddy:


And if wishes were Horse, beggars would ride on it from here to China. In Nigeria, we are not one, we never have been. We are just ethnic groups the British brought together in 1914.

And that's why there wont ever be a revolution in Nigeria. Who will come out for revolution? Nobody, and the simple reason is that nobody believes in the "better Nigeria" ideology of Sowore

When the authorities wouldn't release El Zakzaky, his followers were out on the street for months protesting for his release


When the authorities wouldn't release Nnamdi Kanu, his followers were out on the street for months protesting for his release

This happend because people believed in the ideologies that El Zakzaky and Nnamdi Kanu stood for

Same happens to Sowore and nobody is out, why? That is because nobody believes in the ideology of Sowore. Nobody really believes that Nigeria is worth fighting or dying for.

Northerners will never come out for Sowores revolution, why would they? Their brother is power and that's all they care about.

Easterners wont come out for Sowores revolution? Why would they? They are generally tired of Nigeria

Not even Sowore's own Yoruba will come out for the revolution, why would they? It wont help them become more politically relevant in Nigeria, which is all they care about.

Nobody believes in Nigeria

FRESHG:
YOU MEAN GRAMMAR