Nigeria: killing a mockingbird, By Osmund Agbo
What is often the case in NIgeria s system of criminal justice is to scape-goat certain individuals or groups.
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Until Nigeria transitions to such a culture where our criminal justice system lives up to its promise of punishing the offender and sparing the innocent, our democracy remains at best a counterfeit and the whole essence of our existence bereft of meaning. Life in Nigeria and, I dare say, in most of Africa will continue to default to the base instinct of survival of the fittest.
When in 1960, the Pulitzer-winning American author, Harper Lee, published her all times classic,
We want the Igbo nation to remain in Nigeria.
He affirmed his support for Nnamdi Kanu, but stands for the unity of Nigeria if we urgently restructure the country and return to true federalism, believing that this will stop agitations in the country because restructuring and our return to federalism, which is essentially a constitutional matter will settle all the contentious issues that provokes agitation. In his words;“all the trouble we are having now are a product of our skewed constitution, once we have a constitution that is agreeable and acceptable to all there will be peace, and there will be no ground for Nnamdi Kanu or anybody to want to break away from Nigeria. We want the Igbo nation to remain in Nigeria. The attitude towards the presidency is selfish, so there should be serious changes in our constitution before any elections. We must have the courage to tell our northern brothers who pretend that everything is all right because they are in-charge that everything is no
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To paraphrase the historian, mathematician, journalist, and public intellectual, Edwin Madunagu, every political history has its significant dates, landmarks or turning points. In Nigeria’s political history, for instance, landmarks would include October 1, 1960, (the day Nigeria gained independence from Britain), January 15, 1966, (when the first of what would become a tradition of military coups occurred), July 6, 1967, (the official start of the 30-month Nigeria-Biafra war) and January 15, 1970, (the official end of the civil war).
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To these dates, I will add January 1, 1914, (the amalgamation of the Southern and Northern Protectorates by the British to create Nigeria), May 27, 1967, (the beginning of state creation in Nigeria), and May 30, 1967, (the official declaration of the secessionist state of Biafra). The latter dates, May 27 and May 30, 1967, are significant in many ways. On May 27, 50 years ago, Yakubu Gowon, who served as head of state of Nigeria from 1