FREE CITIZENS AND FREE PRISONERS Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI


Here in the society are all. You are either a free citizen or a free prisoner. But a free prisoner is not a citizen still. There are a few things that entail and enforce citizenship. At the background, as received by institutional understanding, of all is freedom. This makes for the most time, the reference to the word - Free Citizen. But there are questions that have not been considered by everyone or a lot of people. 

According to popular avowal, to be a citizen is to be free within the community, to be free to move around, free to associate, free to talk, free to vote and be voted for. Freedom and freewill are very significant to being a citizen. This is why in the ancient Greek polis, certain class of humans are not classified as citizens. It is however very easy to identify such people when you adopt a method that allows you go through their being free.

Such people as slaves and prisoners are not citizens in the primordial understanding and it is so even in this era. Though there seems to have been abolition of slavery, if it exists anywhere at all at the moment, such persons are not in any way citizens as they do not enjoy the features and characteristics of citizens. The essential determinant of citizenship is freedom and it is for this that those who do not have such freedom do not also enjoy the things of citizenship. 

On prisoners, this is my concern here. What can make you to lose your citizenship as a citizen. The excruciating instance is when someone who once bestowed or stripped citizenship on others is no longer a citizen. Why do people lose their citizenship? Is their reason for such loss worthy? Is there anything that can be equal to the freedom of anybody such that it can be received beyond freedom in preference?

It's noteworthy that the laws of the land wakes up with focus on who and who are worthy and unworthy to be a citizen of our purview.

If anyone is unworthy to be a citizen but enjoys the status of citizenship, the law is wanting and the person is living on borrowed time. However, if at any time you are unworthy of being a citizen but by the laxity, oversight, negligence, disservice or carefreeness of the law enforcement apparatuses you are or have not been stripped of your citizenship, you are still at best, a free prisoner.

Who is a free prisoner? Are you one? Do a self evaluation each day by yourself and for the society. Let's be free and free indeed. Let's be free citizens and not free prisoners.

Are you now a free citizen?

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