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By Zika Bobby
Nigeria’s first astronaut,Owolabi Salis, has called on President Bola Tinubu and lawmakers to pass a law banning politicians from using thugs and hooligans for security purposes.
In a statement, Salis urged politicians to, instead, hire registered security companies or seek police protection, making them accountable for any crimes committed.
Salis cited examples from developed countries where such practices are rare, contributing to a more stable political environment. He appealed to individuals, pressure groups and NGOs to push for this law, emphasising the need for a safer Nigeria.
“It is this same nagging issue of thuggery and hooliganism that deters quite a huge chunk of the electorate who are often afraid to come out and vote for fear that their safety may be on danger,” he said.
According to him, these unscrupulous politicians would recruit thugs as their private army, equip them with guns, arms and ammunition, buy them drugs and intoxicants that turn them wild vicious and enraged because it is believed that the more violent they are, the more effective they will be in discharging their errands with untamed audacity. “
“ However after using them, they dump them because they never had any enduring interest in them in the first place beyond using them to achieve their ambition.”
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“The consequences of getting them dumped and not usefully engaged is that they turn their weapons into self-serving tools for criminal activities like terrorism,banditry, kidnapping,armed robbery and violence,” he said.
He said until we remove the use of thugs and hooligans from our political culture, we may never know democracy. “I am saying this because it is politics that drives other sectors. If the polity is sane every other sectors will be sane but if not sane it will rebound accordingly to affect every other sectors of the society.”
He added: “What these Politicians don’t know is that there are spiritual
repercussions to perpetrating evils which tells with adverse effects on the generations of those involved just as it also affects the society, because a society ruled by the unjust can never know peace or sanity. For instance, if you are a politician and you have been involved in using thugs and bandits to kill and harass people without any just cause, as the majority of our politicians often do, you or your generation will eventually pay for it, whether sooner or later.”
Salis who is also the Spiritual Leader, Soul Makers Ministry World Wide, observed that Islam and Christianity as the two popular religions across the world to which a considerable number of Nigerians belong including the politicians, have not properly been able to equip their adherents against the lower virtues of hate amongst other lower variants of anti-social behaviours like violence criminalities and banditry; despite their emphasis on love and good morals.
These, according to him are due to inherent limitations in the two religions for which he advocated the concept of Astro-Theology which focuses on the primary spirit and Astro-Democracy which eliminates hate and fear of domination of one tribal group by the other.
