"Perhaps, if Nigeria had overhauled its substantive and adjectival laws on corruption by opting for the inquisitorial instead of the adversary and accusatorial approach and prescribing stiffer penalty for the offense, things will be a lot better".- Prof. Akin Oyebode
My take:
This is where Senators Bala Ibn Na-Allah and Dino Melaye should channel their energy not gagging the social media community that aided their ascension to power despite their mostly cheap credentials.
We don't need nobody proposing laws that nobody can successfully implement neither do we need laws that are repressive and anti-people. I'm not bothered about the motives and objectives of the Senators but I'm certainly worried about their cognitive disability to see the inapplicability of the bill even if passed into law. How does Na-Allah intend to check the ease with which a single person could open and operate multiple accounts on any of the social media platforms? You only make laws that can fly. This one is as incapable of flying as a naked day old chick.
The danger of it, while Na-Allah is so engrossed with planning a revenge mission to settle scores with his political foes, he's seen quite unaware of a desperate need for laws that will improve the moral quality of the Nigerian society that, perhaps, he won't need a clearly inapplicable and visibly draconian bill to keep his traduced at bay. Let Na-Allah know, Nigerians are more worried about people with stupendous inexplicable wealth - mostly acquired in public offices than they are worried about torrents of expression of anger against the architects of this bizarre situation.
The fact that Na-Allah is social media compliant and savvy enough to cross path with moral crusaders is enough conviction to deduce that he is embarking on a no win war. Social media is a jungle and quicksand rolled in one. The deeper inside you go, the more your chances of getting lost and the harder you struggle, the more you get trapped in its unforgiving tentacles. In a bizarre twist, it's also friendly and supportive. This, Na-Allah and Melaye could attest to with their presence in a chamber that ordinarily is not only reserved for the very best but, the best with impeccable quality of character not those with resumes dotted with unfinished sentences. The earlier this get into some heads, the better the chance of making Nigeria great by joint rather than exclusive participation.
Professor Oyebode, I say ameeeeeeen to your prayer.