UNIFORM NUISANCE.

Wonders they say ‘shall never end’ but I beg to re-phrase it as ‘ wonders shall not stop happening’. How can we explain the misuse of power by the so-called uniform men. Abuse of power was associated with only the military in a period we prefer to call the dark ages, but now, the other Para-military outfits have now started harassing, molesting, maltreating and in some cases, end up incapacitating their victims.

What they do, they do in the name of being dutiful. The military protects the country, police offers protection to the populace, Yellow fever, sorry. Road Safety seeks to prevent accident but what is the VIO protecting, vehicle insurance? Your guess is as good as mine.

On a sunny afternoon when people were at work or preparing to close at work, the power-drunk VIO chaps descended heavily on an unfortunate victim beating him almost to a state of pulp. Questions from people brought out part of the true story which was that they requested the driver of the truck to stop but he wouldn’t or maybe he did not even hear. A few metres away, he stopped and they took a maximum advantage of the slip.

The question been raised is that in a country that her ill president keeps preaching the gospel of due process and rule of law should the law enforcement agencies keep taking law into their hands? If the ordinary VIO staff can barbarically deal with a citizen that has not been condemned, only God knows what the BIG OGAs can do.

It is in Nigeria that we see a trigger happy police officer shoot down a lawful citizen of the country just because of a paltry twenty naira. Anyway, hopefully, in no distant time from now, Nigerians will breathe the air of true freedom. Until then, my advice is that we should always be careful until God delivers us from these uniform PHAROAHS.