{"id":45778,"date":"2016-01-21T11:42:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T10:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=45778"},"modified":"2016-01-21T11:42:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T10:42:36","slug":"the-tyrant-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/the-tyrant-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tyrant In Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"
The world has lived through great civilizations and civilization itself has had its worst enemies.\u00a0Man\u00a0driven by lust for power and personal aggrandizement plays god to others and we have encountered with so many of them through the ages. The historic tripartite pact of 1936 saw a fusion of power blocs. Benito Mussolini \u00a0ruled by caprice in fascist Italy, in Nazi\u00a0Germany Adolf Hitler allied \u00a0with Emperor Hirohito of Japan in a bid to bestride the world like a colossus.<\/div>\n
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Other outposts of tyranny include Jordan under King Abdullah, Libya under Ghaddafi, Cuba under Fidel Castrol, the rogue regimes of North Korea and Iran, Iraq under Saddam, Uganda under Amin the late despot \u00a0and Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe who has ruled the country for nearly four decades.These were cold-blooded brutes who hid under a cause to unleash fury on their subjects and silenced dissenting voices in their political domains.<\/div>\n
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A lot of lives were lost and the world and most regions experienced unprecedentedly abysmal demographic change calling to mind the attempted extermination of the Jewish race out of which six million Jews gassed to death where they were held in death camps and other \u00a0million of lives that were lost in World War11. Thousands of unarmed civilians mainly Kurds were killed in Halabja poison gas attack \u00a0by the regime in Baghdad under Saddam Hussein, Iron-fisted Benito\u00a0Mussolini clamped down on his own people while he ruled over Italy.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Back home in Africa, the State Research Bureau, Amin’s secret agents killed many Ugandans some of whose flesh he fed on like a\u00a0cannibal. These were all dark moments in human history. As luck would have it they all methodically \u00a0took their unceremonious exits from the earth\u00a0under unfortunate circumstances.<\/div>\n
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Would one be right to exempt Nigeria from one of the outposts of tyranny either in the present ,distant or immediate past ? Has Nigeria ever witnessed any iron-fisted \u00a0rule? Under totalitarian governments powers are assigned to the authorities to imprison and kill without circumscription and we have seen these at play in Nigeria which qualifies Africa’s biggest democracy south of the Sahara \u00a0as one outposts of tyranny.\u00a0 Kudirat Abiola was taken by a\u00a0storm\u00a0of bullets by men believed to be Abacha’s secret agents. Pa Alfred Rewane was killed and so were other eminent Nigerians that forced this writer to take to flight at the time \u00a0 to avoid being devoured by a raving mad lion that had probably \u00a0broken loose from its den.<\/div>\n
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Between 1984 and 1985, we had a junta which exported state-linked crime beyond our territorial borders. Those who kidnap in Nigeria today\u00a0 only try to ‘teach grandfather Buhari to suck eggs’ because in 1984 Buhari transgressed the bounds of decency and authority in a futile bid to violently kidnap late\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Dikko to answer for his alleged crimes\u00a0instead\u00a0of retaining a diplomatic channel to file for his\u00a0extradition\u00a0from the United Kingdom. Objectively speaking, you do not commit a crime to solve a crime for that single act he ought to have stood trial at the international criminal court.<\/div>\n
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So many things have gone wrong in rapid succession within seven and a\u00a0half calendar months of his taking the reins of power. We had prayed for him to succeed but God does not answer prayers devoid of auxiliary actions or embarking on actions\u00a0borne\u00a0out of lies and deceit to demonize others all in a bid to save one’s face or cover up one’s incompetence. Soldering is not the same things as governance after all.<\/div>\n
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It is no more in dispute that Nigeria under the present administration lacks qualified and competent technocrats the reason \u00a0why everything is spiraling downward and his apologists downward into gross irrationality. Against every causual sense of \u00a0rationality and decency his actions are commended by partisans which are opposed to the social \u00a0norms and patterns of a \u00a0civilized world. Dictators often wield\u00a0unlimited powers, run a dictatorial presidency, decide cases and convict dissenting voices even before trial calling to mind the conviction of the British journalist by the legendary Amin \u00a0before his trial in a Ugandan courtroom. The Chief Judge freed this victim of ineluctable fate for which he later paid the supreme price.<\/div>\n
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I had before \u00a0now stood \u00a0mouth agape with incredulity how our memories could be so short. About thirty years ago in his first stint as a military ruler, \u00a0we saw all these traits at play that caused Nigerians so much misery until that regime was terminated sometimes in 1985 and Nigerians who groaned under his military jackboots heaved a sigh of relief. The papers were awash with criticisms and widespead jubilations \u00a0with each victim of Buhari’s reign of terror recounting ordeals. Many of us who fled the country then had to return with the self-styled evil genius in charge, Nigeria’s legendary IBB, an effective ruler who relatively embarked and carried out sweeping reforms – that administration would be remembered for its open-door policy it adopted. Bigoted critics were not thrown off the radar but were extended the Olive Branch \u00a0to come on board and pilot the Ship of State.<\/div>\n
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Today we are again caught in another agonizing web under a despot who is intolerant of opposing political views. This is what \u00a0we had escaped by a twist of fate some thirty 30 years ago a period of time which brought Nigeria to the edge of chaos. \u00a0Some of his present apologists from which came \u00a0the bulk of the votes that shot him to power \u00a0had not been born. Barely eight months into his four years \u00a0tenure we have \u00a0a similar scenario \u00a0unfolding marvelously.<\/div>\n
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Our once vibrant \u00a0economy has become stagnant and comatose and blatant \u00a0lies are being \u00a0told to save faces, the Naira, Nigeria’s monetary unit has fallen drastically in value and now exchange for over N300 \u00a0to the US dollar. Never have we experienced this unprecedented decline in the value of our domestic currency coupled \u00a0with International Monetary Fund outright refusal to accede to his loan demand \u00a0but instead \u00a0mounts a pressure on the Abuja regime \u00a0for further devaluation of the Naira. This inability to manage the economy resulting from sheer incompetence is tantamount to giving the already sapped and pauperized Nigerians the hangman’s noose.<\/div>\n
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It would be recalled that Stalin in the defunct Soviet Union in 1934 \u00a0began a series of ‘purges’ in which millions of people died. The purges \u00a0known as the Great Terror began when Sergei Kirov was assassinated. He was probably murdered on Stalin’s orders. Nevertheless Stalin used it as an excuse to eliminate his enemies or anyone he thought might be a threat. This was a period in Soviet history that saw \u00a0many prominent communists \u00a0put on show trials and thereafter thrown in stir or executed which Nigeria could be taking her cue from before long. Millions of ordinary people were sent to labour camps and forced to work in appalling conditions.<\/div>\n
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In 1937-38 Stalin ‘purged’ the officers in the red army. About 80% of the generals and 50% of the colonels were executed. Buhari has ordered a similar purge of serving \u00a0officers in the armed forces whose fate only hang in the balance. \u00a0So the red army was weakened just when Russia was facing a threat from Nazi Germany.<\/div>\n
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Furthermore in the 1930s, under Stalin the churches were persecuted. Still recall his stance on Sharia? \u00a0Many Nigerians are being framed up again and left to rot in dungeons under the guise of prosecuting the anti-graft\u00a0war. This was exactly what happened about 30 years ago. Professor Alli, the then first Executive Governor of the defunct Bendel State and many others were unduly incarcerated after a kangaroo court trial though released much later, thanks to the magnanimity and benevolence \u00a0of the Iyayi and Igbinedion families, \u00a0went blind and died shortly afterward from complications he suffered during a custodial sentence. Alas, Prof Alli died with only a bungalow of two flats to his name at his \u00a0Emaudo village home, Ekpoma, Edo State!<\/div>\n
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The writer shall now focus his binoculars on the purported $2.1 billion arms deal which the Daura-born overlord clings to for his inability to run the\u00a0country rocked by economic depression and instability calling to mind the separatist aspirations mounting in the\u00a0southeast\u00a0and jihadist insurgency in the north-east. The \u00a0staggering $2.1 billion arms procurement funds like the Chibok girls \u00a0story is a scam manufactured or cooked up \u00a0to extenuate \u00a0incompetence and abysmal failure which we all spot \u00a0on the horizon.<\/div>\n
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$2.1 billion is over N600 billion by the current exchange rate. \u00a0How many people have been indicted and how much has each of them been asked to refund? \u00a0 If Buhari decides to arrest everyone that has served \u00a0between 1999 and 2015 in connection with the non-existent $2.1 billion, can he recover \u00a0as much as N200 billion? The answer is NO in block letters if we all need reminding. Hence, I wonder from where and how the $2.1 \u00a0billion came. Can Nigeria afford to part with $2.1 billion at one blow for a transaction of any form without screeching to a halt? I wonder why some of us are so gullible to fall \u00a0hook,\u00a0line,\u00a0and sinker for his personal inadequacies and blatant lies.<\/div>\n
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An accused is presumed innocent until proven otherwise but Amin’s version of crying \u00a0injustice is being re-enacted in Africa’s biggest democracy with flagrant abuse of power, disregard for court orders considering the continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu and Ibrahim Dasuki on Buhari’s order who have both \u00a0been granted bail by \u00a0courts of competent\u00a0jurisdiction. This, I dare say, is tantamount to tyranny!<\/div>\n
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It is\u00a0time\u00a0the teething problems besetting Nigeria like a series of devastating plagues were addressed instead of employing tricky manouvres that will not yield any fruitful dividend \u00a0in the \u00a0end. Killings under Buhari’s administration have systematically begun and now on the ascending order of magnitude considering the mass\u00a0murder\u00a0of 300 Shi’ite Muslims in Zaria, Kaduna State. \u00a0Killing of defencess MASSOB & IPOB members on peaceful demonstration, and the aerial bombardment \u00a0sometimes in June last year of Cross Rivers creek communities which killed many civilians including women and children which are typical examples of \u00a0totalitarian regimes. Amin’s despotic rule recorded 500,000 deaths before he was kicked out of power by a coalition of Tanzanian troops and forces of the Uganda National Liberation Front in 1979.<\/div>\n
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Sad to say, the democracy we all laboured and doggedly fought for has been hijacked by the Daura-born overlord and his trusted \u00a0lieutenants \u00a0while dissenting voices are being hunted and \u00a0crushed by brute force. Under the existing circumstances, it is either one aligns oneself with the tyrant in Abuja or there will be the devil to pay.<\/div>\n
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Iyoha John Darlington, a social activist, Turin-based scholar, \u00a0a public commentator on national and global issues writes from Turin, Italy.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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