“If the Hate Speech Bill had been
in place between 2013 and 2015 Lai Mohammed would not be alive today”- Senator
Enyinnaya Abaribe.
My dear friend and brother
Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, as courageous and truthful as ever, is absolutely
right.
I would however go a step further
by adding that President Muhammadu Buhari himself, Bola Tinubu, Nasir El Rufai,
Rotimi Amaechi, Adams Oshiomole, Yemi Osinbajo and a good number of other
leaders in the Federal Government and/or the ruling party would no longer be
with us either if the Bill had been in place between 2013 and 2015 because they
would all have been hanged for their hateful words and inciting speeches.
Yet that was not the way of the
PDP and neither was it ever even discussed, contrived or contemplated because
civilised leaders and enlightened political parties do not seek to kill others
for airing their views and neither do they seek to suppress dissent or destroy
those that oppose them.
To his eternal credit President
Goodluck Jonathan never locked up anyone for what they said, no matter how
provocative, and neither did President Olusegun Obasanjo.
These were enlightened, educated,
temperate, accommodating and civilised leaders who understood the importance of
freedom of speech in a democracy and who were big and strong enough to resist
the temptation of becoming unaccountable and sociopathic tyrants whose sole
objective was to crush all their detractors, traducers and political enemies.
Sadly those that rule Nigeria
today are from a different world and their mindset and disposition are not as
reasonable, charitable or kind.
Simply put they are hard-hearted
and wicked men with dark, vengeful, bitter, cruel and relentless souls. Not
only are they modern-day tyrants but they are also a bunch of psychopathic and
psychotic sadists who thrive on instilling fear on their hapless victims and on
intimidating and oppressing the people that they seek to lead.
This brings me to the topic of
this contribution. It is my view that the Social Media Bill and the Hate Speech
Bill are the greatest threats to democracy and freedom of expression in the
history of Nigeria.
They can be collectively described
as the biblical ‘mark of the beast’ because their objective is to diminish our
humanity, silence our voices and cage our creativity.
The former seeks to cripple
freedom of expression on social media whilst the latter, which is a
“copy/paste” Bill from the tiny island of Singapore, seeks to literally murder
all of Buhari’s political enemies. Permit me to break it down in simple terms.
Under this proposed new law if
you speak against RUGA they will call it hate speech and hang you for it. If
you speak against Fulanisation or Islamisation they will do the same. If you
speak against their tyranny, their abuse of power, their violation of court
orders or their abysmal record in public office they will do the same.
If you speak against their
persecution of Christians, southerners, Middle Belters and members of the
opposition they will do the same. If you speak against their slaughter of IPOB
youths and Shia Muslims they will do the same.
If you speak against their
domination and intimidation of the Legislature and Judiciary and the total
break down and violation of the doctrine and principle of separation of powers
they will do the same.
If you speak against their
control and regulation of the traditional media and the fourth estate of the
realm they will do the same. If you speak against their implementation of an
insidious, frightful, ancient and unholy ethnic and religious agenda they will
do the same.
If you speak against the ruling
party, its Governors, its Ministers, its officials, its institutions or its
leaders they will do the same. It goes on and on.
If the National Assembly makes
the mistake of passing either or both of these two Bills Nigerians will suffer
the consequences for many generations to come and human rights, liberty and
freedom will be a thing of the past in our country.
I would urge the Nigerian people
not to view this matter with their usual levity, indifference, complacency,
docility, stoicism and lily-livered cowardice because the whole thing is an
insidious attempt to silence their tongues, cage their spirits, capture their
souls, break their ability to resist tyranny and evil and finally turn them
into a nation of pliant little quislings, slaves and errand boys.
What we are witnessing is the
final and greatest manifestation of the fascistic, totalitarian and
authoritarian state which, like Hitler’s Germany, is creeping up and hiding
under the guise of democracy.
Buhari and his friends want
Nigeria to be like Stalin’s Soviet Union or, better still, like modern-day
North Korea and Saudi Arabia.
These are countries where
dissent, opposition to Government, plurality of views, variety of opinion,
individual rights and criticism of Government policy and the maximum dictator
is forbidden and where total power is concentrated in the hands of just one
man. This is the classic Orwellian nightmare and it is unfolding before our
very eyes.
If they get away with it and achieve
their objectives Nigeria is finished and within a matter of years we will
become the blight of Africa, the pariah of the Third World, the laughing stock
of the international community and the world’s largest, most brutal and most
savage prison.
What a terrible fate for a person
that are so trusting, so innovative, so resourceful, so resilient and so
blessed.
Let us go a little deeper.
The leader of the Fulani herdsmen
and President of Miyetti Allah, Abdullahi Bodejo, says he and his organisation
are in full support of both the Social Media Bill and the Hate Speech Bill and
that these proposed laws would allow those he described as “Fulani-haters” to
be jailed and HANGED.
Now we know who is behind these
Bills and what their real intentions are!
These people came to power and
installed a rabidly and virulent Fulani nationalist Government through hate
speech and the social media and now they are terrified of being removed by it.
And of course they are the ones
who get to determine and define precisely what hate speech is.
To them criticising and
condemming Buhari, his incompetence, his racism, his religious bigotry and his
atrocious Governments policies or speaking out against the mass murder and
genocide of non-Fulanis all over the country by Fulani herdsmen is “hate
speech”.
To them condemning Boko Haram and
those that are secretly backing and supporting them is “hate speech”. To them
condemning that which is evil, wicked, unwholesome, barbaric and indefensible
is “hate speech”.
To them any mention of the
President that does not put him in a favourable light or project him as
Nigeria’s long-awaited messiah is “hate speech”.
As a matter of fact anyone that
refuses to worship and praise Buhari or lick his rectum will ultimately be accused
of “hate speech” and hanged and anyone who so much as criticises him on social
media or elsewhere will be arrested and jailed.
That is where this man is taking
Nigeria and he is using his minions in the National Assembly to achieve it.
He wishes to impose a culture of
silence and fear in our nation and he wishes to intimidate and cow our people.
To him we are nothing but conquered slaves and serfs who do not deserve to have
a voice.
To him we are all broken,
cowardly, conquered and subjugated people who are not worthy of life and
liberty and who do not deserve to be treated as equals.
To him we are vermin that must be
subdued and put in their place. To him we do not deserve the privileges, rights
and liberties that accrue to other citizens of the world that come from other
climes.
To him we are not worthy of
having a voice or a defender. To him we must bow our heads, bend our knees and
tremble in our beds each time he growls.
To him we must accept
subjugation, oppression, injustice and tyranny without expressing dissent or
saying a word.
To him when our people are
slaughtered like flies by his Fulani brothers and core northern Muslim
colleagues we must not complain and we dare not write about it, post about it,
tweet about it or even cry about it.
That is Buhari’s shameful vision
for Nigeria and that is the kind of society and culture that he is attempting
to impose. And the slavish fool of a Senator from Niger state that is proposing
these Bills is simply doing the President’s bidding.
Yet all this is nothing new. We
have seen it many times before and it never lasts.
The Boers of South Africa passed
a law to stop their victims from condemning ethnic cleansing. The Nazis in
Germany passed a law to stop their victims from condemning genocide.
The Fulani in Nigeria are passing
a law to stop their victims from condemning mass murder.
Yet hear this: whatever you say
and do, we the people will NEVER stop criticising and condemning your unholy
agenda, racism, mass murder, genocide, ethnic cleansing, oppression,
Fulanisation, islamisation and tyranny.
In order to have your way and
silence us you will have to hang us ALL!
Today belongs to you but tomorrow
belongs to the people. In God’s way and in His own time He shall rise up and
deliver us, just as He rose up and delivered the children of israel from the
tyranny of Pharaoh.
Until then we challenge you, nay
we dare you to do your damndest worse. Christ in us: our hope and glory!
Permit me to end with the
following: any Senator or House Member that supports either of these two Bills
should bow his or her head in shame and know this: we the people shall NEVER
forget or forgive you.
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