OUR GOVERNMENT IS A CRIMINAL; WE NEED RIGHTS EDUCATION. Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI
The level of institutional crimes in Nigeria is too high. Unfortunately, the government and her law enforcement agencies are into crimes as well. Of course, failure to do your job is corruption and when it has to do with going against the law, that is clearly criminal. How on earth do you explain why petrol stations shut down and do not sell fuel on the pretence that they do not have products but touts and illegal people are selling fuel around. We normalise the abnormal in Nigeria and we give them names to accept them. Please, what is black market fuel directly being sold in front of the petrol filling station that has closed shop for lack of stock? If only our so called anti-corruption agencies are working, these should be the first call to curb crimes and criminalities. But what do we see? These folks have no licenses, they lack knowledge of the risks involved in the trade, they have no safety measures and indeed are engaging in purely illegal activities. Our government looks elsewh...