In consecration of FGN

This federal government is an unusual Federal Government of Nigeria. Everything about it is everything unusually unusual. This has been so since 2015 when this regime became the democratic regime of our current experience and destiny. But this regime is an unusual democratic regime. Some persons will even call it a brutally democratic regime. Yet others will call it a regime of oppressors that cannot subdue and oppress the bandits and kidnappers that have brought it to its knees.

The knees, however, may even be chopped off before the regime gets to its despicably despicable end and finish line – if it gets there, if it takes us there, if it steers us there with the brutal nod and dirty agreement with bandits – bandits who have time after time actively compelled this regime of fascist, oppressive laws against true patriots and nationalists to dole out to them large portions of naira and dollars in billions. Of course, the bandits are outlaws who are more brutally powerful than those who cannot faithfully and diligently and brutally outlaw them.

My readers will appreciate better my turn of mind here if we attempt to place the consecutions of the lawful lords of social disorders and those of the unlawful lords of chaos and doom. The latter lords recently released unlucky compatriots who they wrenched from their train journey on the Kaduna –Abuja line. After a long spell in captivity all principles of agreement between the lords of doom and the lawful abusers of power over us, the helpless and hapless captives were released. Billions allegedly flowed to their captors. Bandits and rogues in different prisons in the country were released as part of the collective bargain between the very strong lords of the jungle and the very powerful lords of our wellspring of hardened feelings against the rest of us who are not wild towards lawful authority. Honestly speaking, our lawful lords of powerful power deserve our praise for effectively effecting the release of our brothers and sisters who were torn forth from themselves. For honouring the agreement it honoured with the outlaws, our FGN deserves to be consecrated. And I want to be the consecrator – not the conciliator. You are approaching my turn of mind gradually without qualms.

Know so well that the agreement Nigerian academics lawfully entered into with our federal government for a pretty long time – since 2009 to be specific – was never honoured. The honour was never granted ASUU. In fact, ASUU’s patriotically honest and honestly and justly patriotic demands were considered wild and strange, so the academics and their demands should not be indulged so to put it as the bandits were indulged. The appointed government’s conciliator, was all out, in the borrowed words of Nietzsche, to “shatter, shatter the good and just” Academic Staff Union of Universities. But he did not act alone. He was simply the messenger and pawn of the anti-intellectual and anti-people Federal Government of Nigeria effectively in the loose pockets and purses and handbags of the civil servants, who in fact are evil servants as everybody knows.

Last Friday the conciliator was a-glow on television. He was a sparkling gem on Channels Television at 7:00 pm – of last Friday aforesaid. The Court of Appeal had accepted the government’s argument that ASUU came to that court with dirty hands because the Union disobeyed a lower court’s abracadabra ruling, to wit: “ASUU should immediately call off its seven-month strike and return to classes if it wants its appeal to be tendered and heard.” No ruling was given in ASUU’s favour relating to the federal government’s dirty refusal to honour series of agreements and memoranda of action it entered into with ASUU! Yet it was the FGN who hopped to court with unclean hands after the seven-month long strike that was a legitimate strike as per international labour law. One more thing: the conciliator and instigator Saint Ngige of the FGN eventually agreed with no tinge of indecorousness and exceeding irony that it was the FGN that took ASUU to court – the court of our judiciary that is now an extension arguably of the imperial executive, federal or state!

Earlier on, Saint Ngige had denied the charge. Seun Okunbaloye did not impress me that night. His “Politics Today” of last Friday was one in which he appeared to me to be not in his normal elements. He did not ask Saint Ngige the right and vital questions, generally speaking, that night. Saint Ngige blundered, as usual, a number of times. Yet Seun Okunbaloye let him off the hook of the blunders the saint controlled by evil servants committed.

For example, Saint Ngige uttered in great disgust that he registered CONUA – whatever CONUA is or means – because of CONUA’s claim that ASUU never allowed some members of his newly registered body to ventilate their opinions and thoughts during Congress meetings. Of course, the leading lights of CONUA allegedly are members of the great party in power in and at the centre. Saint Ngige also said other things which clearly suggested to me that his newly registered body distorted and twisted things down to the very bottom of Falsehood. He did not say he heard ASUU’s side of what they reported to him. Wicked is the elder or saint who passes a verdict without hearing the other side.

And Seun Okunbaloye did not give him a stormy night! Seun Okunbaloye did not give the Saint of falsehood a night to remember. I would have put the saint in a stormy sea. Saint Ngige also in his sparkling uttered remarks that appeared to me to shatter the law-tables of all the justices who are seemingly now civil or evil servants of “jankara” justice. I wonder up to now why Seun Okunbaloye, a law student, according to the saint, did not notice this and pressed the charge that night. For strategic reasons, I am holding my tongue. Maybe the saint’s interviewer that night also held his summoning voice for strategic reasons! What was my over-all impression of the saint that night of his conquer and conquest that would fetch him and his government victory? Last Friday night was the night of Saint Ngige’s consecration of this Federal Government of insincerity from the land of fables.

But for me to do my real essay of consecration of this government, ASUU’s demands must be met now. It is in the supreme interest of this government to do so. I have spoken and spoken at length on this matter. And I will continue to do so even if for tactical and strategic manoeuvres, ASUU decides to suspend the strike now. I know what I know. I see what I see. I smell what I smell.

I will end this column with the following two quotes of Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821, Emperor of the French (1804-15) as follows: “Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.” And: “There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind.” The great Napoleon knew his limitations. Intellect always prevails over power. Intellect always hits the bull’s eye. The sword’s thunder can never subdue the mind’s thunder.
Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! Thunder!!!
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