Is This Democracy or Autocracy?
"Denying us our rights tantamount to denying us our humanness"--Fatai
The system that has spoilt for more than a decade now, sitting in the offices making masses suffer. Masses are suffering, you are enjoying with their hard labor. Insecurity in the country without hope of rectifying it. We've been facing terrorist attacks in the country for years more than ever. Citizens can no longer agitate for their rights, it has become an offense. They want to turn us to a moron. Corruption and oppression have filled the country like a morning prayer. Why won't we agitate for revolution when we don't have competence hands to provide us our necessary need.
"These people have seen themselves as the God of people and perfection of the state".
They believe they can do anything without questioning their authority. According to Julius Nyerere, the then president of Tanzania, let us understand that leader and master are quiet not the same. These people once they are in office they always assumed the roles of a master. They believed they are the God's sent and whatever they say is more valuable than others' opinion. A leader will never enforce decisions on his people. Who's a master? A master is a person with the ability or power to use, control or dispose something. Masters are in the position of enforcing or making decisions for people without any deliberate act while leaders are not.
A leader is a person with the ability to lead or guide other individuals, teams, or the entire organization. The roles of leaders are quietly clear, leaders are guidance, decision making with a deliberate act.
In the field of political leadership postulated the need for rulers to govern justly and the right of subordinates to override leader who appears to lack divine sanction. ------ Chinese doctrine of the mandate of Heaven.
According to Jia Lin, leadership is a matter of intelligence, trustworthiness, courage, and discipline. When one has all five virtues together, each appropriate to its function, then one can be a leader. Well, not that they are not intelligent but their intelligence only useful in rigging and manipulating elections. Their intelligence good in vote-buying, accurate master planning in election rigging. Indeed, they are trustworthy in corruption and money laundering. Citizens have seen it as a norm. Countless of time I've heard people saying 'even if the administration is corrupt let them just do something for us'. Citizens always expecting them to be corrupted, they are trustworthy for that, corruption. Actually, they are courageous and discipline in corruption and making life miserable for the masses. All these are their attribute corruption, money laundering, incompetence.
In a Democratic state when leaders have started taking the position of a master they actually demanded nothing but change. Change in corrupt officials, administrations, change in a society that doesn't give masses peace of mind, change in administration that makes life miserable for the masses. They are afraid of revolution, are they actually not demanding for it?
Revolution is a fundamental and relatively sudden change in political power and political organization which occurs when the population revolts against the government, typically due to perceiving oppression or political incompetence
If actually, you are not guilty of all these political oppression, political incompetence, then find a way to persuade your citizens rather than arresting them for demanding for their rights. When we are not in a military regime, because, I'm just wondering why in a democratic state government will be restricting citizens' freedom of expression when we're not practicing Autocracy system of government?
When the leader is no more competent then it demands change. #RevolutionNow protest proclaimed by Sowore is a way to send a signal that we're tired of all these political incompetence, political oppressors, and money laundering leaders. Like Fela says "small people are fat with big money and the rest are hungry". Approximately 70% of Nigerians are in poverty. Boko haram and Herdsmen insurgency have killed more than 50, 000 people. Level of kidnapping and raping increasing every day without hope of solutions.
Our education system has died down but we still claim to have governments. It is these same politicians that have been ruling us over 50 years ago without progress. Nothing changes, their ideology still the same, corruption is their hubby.
WE SAY NO TO ALL THESE TYRANNICAL ATTITUDES.
#Free Sowore Now
#RevolutionNow
#Say No To Oppression
#Say No To Political Incompetence
#Say No To Tyrannical Form Of Ruling
Olaleye Fatai,
A Student of Philosophy, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife
Hmmm, you are well-done this writer, God Almighty will increase your knowledge and wisdom. I can imagine what i had been hearing since the day i was born that "Nigeria" will be better and most of us had been accepting it like that but the question now should be that when will it be better? Because, it is highly pathetic when seeing most of the countries got independence after Nigeria moving forward and our own country remains unmoved by not developing in many aspects due to the reason of these selfish leaders or politicians that are just after their own pockets and totally less concerned about people they are governed. We're deceiving ourselves by believing that Nigeria is a democratic state but for me is not. Why? Because, there are two elements of democracy, first, everyone must be allowed to speak freely, second, everyone must be listened to irrespective of his or her personality or his idea. Now, my people, just tell me if these elements present in our country? Obviously not, because, people are not free to express their view or thought about what government is doing wrong. Otherwise, you will find yourself in unbearable position or situation like you can see "SOWORE" as an example. However, people should also be having it in mind that what they are agitating for is not based on "subjective mind" meaning that, they want to destroy the government may be, due to the fact that they hate the leader of that particular government and as we know that the failure of the leader is the failure of entire that particular government. Therefore, "Revolution" is what we need in this country and it should be Revolution through Evolution. God bless Nigeria, God bless our leaders, and God bless the people of Nigeria.
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