LET US MAKE NIGERIA A SANER CLIME

By

Shehu Bashir Esq.

Nigerians are good dreamers. We always want the best. We admire the best from other parts of the world. And we always want our government to give us this best.

We throw a jab at our government institutions’ inefficiencies, real or perceived and we are quick to compare ourselves to other countries. Yet, some of our citizens rarely have what it takes to make their own country a saner clime. They can barely cope with the laws of the saner clime if strictly enforced here as in there.

Often times, people think to have a saner clime is to allow everybody do anything they like without being called out. They don’t know that saner climes do not tolerate an individual or group of individuals trying to hold a nation to ransom.

They don’t know that a nation does not become saner by rabble rousing, sponsored terrorism, political thuggery, social unrest, citizen indiscipline, lawlessness, disregard for our administrative institutions and misinformation.

We need to be guided about a lot of things, one of which is misinformation. We should always be guided about the unverified information we spread around against some of our institutions, government and private. Any wrong and false misinformation may end up pushing the nation into a crisis. In actual sense, nobody can profit from a nation in violent crises, not even the promoter of it will be spared.

The hatred against a government should not transform into the hatred against the country, to that extent that people will lose their caution, to plunging the nation into state of anarchy.

Notwithstanding our perceived “poor” workings of the instrumentality of the government, including law enforcement, we should not indulge any breach of the law and we should not assume all enforcement of the law are politically motivated.

When we query everything (lawful act of governance) the wrong way, we will be planting the seed of anarchy in our society. The saner climes that we all adore and admire do not indulge in illegality or promotion of it, covertly or overtly. Their climes remain saner as we see them simply because they don’t do selective justice and they do not allow any citizen to gaslight the system.

Activism of any kind, political agitation through opposition window cannot be immunity against accountability. Every action must be accountable when the law calls. Yet, we can’t take laws into our hands by obstructing the course of justice. Activism should not push us to lose our morals, it should not break the law, rather it should promote it.

No one should be above the law, not even your religious leaning, tribal identity, political affiliation, social rating or economic status should shield anyone from the enforcement of the law. Let us be decent in our approach so that we can turn Nigeria into a “saner clime”.

GOD IS HERE