Insurgents and Mordern Politics: which way Nigeria?
Nigeria is indeed a country where anything is possible, especially when it involves politics, election and political ambition. As long as you stay on a particular course with little political support from the bourgeois which are the powers that be, you will eventually have your way. The constitution will be interpreted to suit your cause. How else will I explain the lucrative business of crime and amnesty. After you kill enough to register your name in the book of crime, your kinsmen will ask for amnesty on your behalf, emphasising it as the only option for peace to reign. This makes them mediators and the rest is a life of sit at home enjoy yourself and numerous overseas trips in the name of training and rehabilitation. Amnesty with Benefits as it is popularly called today was introduce or better still became very popular during the administration of Umaru Musa Y’adua as President of the federal Republic of Nigeria; when he granted amnesty to the Militant...