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Rawlings Treatment

The politicians of Nigeria have gone completely mad.
They are now totally beyond control. They have replaced the Nigerian Constitution with just one word: Impunity.
Of course in this matter of impunity the politicians cross party lines rampantly like harlots-on-heat.
There is no redemption in sight for the odious lot.
These wanton Nigerian politicians need to be reminded of what happened in Ghana back in 1979.
Then Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings decided to have a say in the power equation of Ghana by shooting to death three former Heads of State: Ignatius Acheampong, Akwasi Afrifa and Fred Akuffo.
Nigerian politicians always lamely assert: “It can never happen here. Nigeria is not Ghana bla… bla… bla…”
We only need to be reminded that there is always a first time.
Democracy should not be reduced to blackmail as is being currently done in Nigeria. Things are going mightily wrong here, and the leaders appear not to notice.
Hunger has reached unprecedented levels in the history of the country.
In the Second Republic, the then Transport Minister Umaru Dikko infamously said that there was no hunger in Nigeria because the people had not started eating from the refuse dumps.
Nobody in their right mind can deny that Nigerians are today scavenging for food from the refuse-heaps behind the homes of the rich and powerful.
Cost of living is now out of the reach of the so-called average Nigerian.
Little wonder most people now take refuge in betting and gambling, and generally wiling away time in the new-fangled churches that promise all kinds of miracles.
The rulers ought to see that there exists in Nigeria today a separation of the government from the people.
In one of his more famous poems, the late German playwright Bertolt Brecht made the suggestion that the government ought to dissolve the people and elect another “people” since the people had forfeited confidence in the government!
It is this kind of dangerous pass that leads to bloody revolution.
It appears as though the powers-that-be are not in the know that much of the world views Nigeria as a joke, a lost cause.
Every report emanating from all cardinal points point to the fact that Nigeria is actually a failed state.
Security which ought to be the first guarantee of the government is only observed in the breach.
For every Nigerian, it is now OYO: “On Your Own!”
Something needs to give now.
Rawlings Treatment is strong medicine.
When Acheampong was carrying on in Ghana with the largesse of incumbency he thought quite little of the danger that Rawlings represented.
The initial mutiny of Rawlings was of course thwarted and he was thrown into prison, awaiting execution, only for his group to upturn the apple-cart which led to the public execution of Acheampong, Afrifa and Akuffo on charges of corruption.
Things change and remain the same in Nigeria – or in fact get worse: moronic elections… hopeless budgets… endless fuel hikes… collapsing currency… diabolical darkness… forex abracadabra… presidential yachtism... judicial absurdities & incongruities etc.
People are more or less left to embracing self-help.
The over-confidence of our ruling politicians reminds me of a passage I read in the trashy fiction of my teenage years, to wit, James Hadley Chase in The Sucker Punch: “It is only when a guy gets so full of confidence in his ability that he is wide open for the sucker punch. I have seen it happen again and again in my racket. A guy commits murder, fakes an alibi and thinks he can cover up. Then wham! And he is flat on his back. Only he’s damn sight worse than a busted jaw.”
Our caterwauling politicians are not unlike the ungainly crooks in the genre thrillers of James Hadley Chase.
They will, like all the fictional characters, come to a tacky end in the archetypal mode that stresses: Crime does not pay.
We need to be reminded that the democracy that Ghana is boasting of today came at a steep cost.
Rawlings was the man who made change possible in Ghana.
It is so saddening that Nigeria may end up needing the shock treatment like that of good old JJ Rawlings to get its bearing right.
Nigerian leaders must tell themselves the home truth and thus avert the doom that the Rawlings treatment portends.
This is not a warning – it is a revelation on this day that I remember the death of Rawlings via COVID three years ago!

By Uzor Maxim Uzoratu.

#C O P I E D

Start it from your region before we came take you seriously

helinues:
Start it from your region before we came take you seriously

Peter Obi is Silent
Chiamanda is Silent
Oby Ezekwesili is Silent
Joe Ajaero is Silent
Ohaneze is Silent
Mr Macaroni is Silent
Rinu is Silent
Falz is Silent
Amnesty is Silent
CNN Silent
The entire Lekki Massacre Brigade are Silent

Were these 322 Precious Souls not Human beings?

What and where are their names?

helinues:
Start it from your region before we came take you seriously

Religional politics is one of the major reason we're where we are. I'm a nationalist

eddie7:


Religional politics is one of the major reason we're where we are. I'm a nationalist

Your Charity should start from home. Dont you want changes in your home region?

Christistruth03:


Peter Obi is Silent
Chiamanda is Silent
Oby Ezekwesili is Silent
Joe Ajaero is Silent
Ohaneze is Silent
Mr Macaroni is Silent
Rinu is Silent
Falz is Silent
Amnesty is Silent
CNN Silent
The entire Lekki Massacre Brigade are Silent

Were these 322 Precious Souls not Human beings?

You dey mind them.

Na only them get solution to others problems but are just clueless to solve theirs

helinues:


You dey mind them.

Na only them get solution to others problems but are just clueless to solve theirs

Akuya find a job and stop dragging room with your parents

helinues:


Your Charity should start from home. Dont you want changes in your home region?

Charity begins at home is another gimmicks by the western world to blind you. See yourself more like the next Nigerian and see how the county moves

eddie7:


Religional politics is one of the major reason we're where we are. I'm a nationalist

God's own Isreal had 12 Tribes

Our Lord and Redeemer Jesus Christ was from the Tribe of Judah.

And Saint Paul the Apostle was from the Tribe of Benjamin

SWaccomodator:


Akuya find a job and stop dragging room with your parents

How many years would continue to be bitter on this forum..

For your mind, you dey make sense with your jargons. You will definitely regret all this time you are wasting online.

I remember before I went on on banning, I told NL's to stock Btc, I projected $50k by Dec, it was around $23k then, today it's $37k. We make money while others are snoring.

Do something meaningful with your life without wasting it on trolling people on NL for years.

Even if you are not interested to be useful to your community, try and be useful to yourself

Christistruth03:



God's own Isreal had 12 Tribes

Our Lord and Redeemer Jesus Christ was from the Tribe of Judah

How many Christians do you have in the Lord's own country ?.... Well, you're getting to my position in another cycle cos Israel is more of a nation than a country

eddie7:

Charity begins at home is another gimmicks by the western world to blind you. See yourself more like the next Nigerian and see how the county moves

Your argument make no sense

Why chasing rats while your roof is on fire?

eddie7:


How many Christians do you have in the Lord's own country ?.... Well, you're getting to my position in another cycle cos Israel is more of a nation than a country

Rev 7:9 ESV


9 After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands