Thread by @DrOlusesan

WHICH CRIME ARE YOU SUPPORTING?
Soon, Nigerians on social media will get to the point where killing a suicide bomber before he's able to detonate a bomb in a market, will be termed extrajudicial. We have fully imbibed mixing prisms between 'social justice' and 'criminal justice'.

I saw @eyooekpo's reaction to police handling of persons accused of beating up officials of Enugu Disco in the cause of their lawful duties. Man!! Like police should have lured the assailants to an arrest with banana caramel Coldstone, with waffles? 🤣

https://twitter.com/enugudisco/status/1156615327989600257?s=19

I run the risk of being demonized as endorsing police brutality, but one day, we'd irredeemably regret not knowing there are more armed civilians waiting to harm us, than police would. Police brutality should be condemned in its entirety, but cases should be debated factually.

@omaakatugba tweeted "I don't have sense" for stating a fact over the young man shot in a police Area Command, who was bragging he'll still return to kill everybody. Social comments dwelled on a few minutes video, without caring to know about families the boy had left mourning.

Recently, I have countless cases of friends and relatives who were attacked and severely injured by armed robbers. A business associate, who follow me here sent me gory pictures of sutures, where he was stabbed as he tried escaping from robbers in his home, just this week.

An assailant in your home is a criminal you should shoot in self defense, if we are allowed to bare arms. But the moment these deadly persons run out of luck, we all want to be politically correct about how they should be treated because they look harmless in a few seconds video.

Nigerians want to break the laws and also control how law enforcement react to it. A man killed his wife and people were commenting that its barbaric that he was handcuffed at his arrest. Isnt it a rude joke that we want law and order, while seeking middle grounds on deterrent?

While i encourage us to continue to seek punishment for murderous policemen, please be fearful of civilians who have boldness to stand up to armed policemen. It takes an abnormal spirit for a civilian to chest the barrel of a police gun, daring him to shoot. That's not activism.

Boko haram is only having difficulty because CharlyBoy haven't found it commercially viable to protest the military actions as extrajudicial. Don't terrorists too deserve their day in court? Soldiers should brave their bullets and bring them to court, unharmed. Shebi we are mad?

Pick a public outrage; find a suitable tidal height, then surf the wave of political correctness, irrespective of what letters of the law says, and how you have adjudicated in the past. For some, it is commercial. For some, it is clout; and for a majority, it's a herd mentality.

The description above is how the notorious ones amongst us have garnered courage to rape the laws. We show sympathy for crime, with a commensurate apathy for Police. Soon, if a Minister embezzle funds, he will claim he's protesting. Then his kinsmen will call it #RevolutionNow 😀

Influencing has its duplicity in our digital paradigm. The 'sex toy shop' Senator paid roughly N8 Million to a PR agency. I found out by chance when a leading mainstream media person got a slice. Sometimes, influencing is also keeping quiet, if you are leading a digital tribe. 🙂

For political correctness, we have people accused of committing crime we stand with and the ones we want jailed. Sowore is above the law. For some, its okay for him to make Revolutionary inscriptions on the streets of Lagos, in daylight, while Fatoyinbo should have been arrested.

Wike can declare Rivers as a Christian state, while ElRufai is a jihadist, for demolishing church built without approved plan. If u sleep with a woman without consent, its not rape as long as you attend COZA. God punish u, if u dont have a church. Find supporters for your crime.

Is Nigeria worth dying for? I'm surprised @HQNigerianArmy is still willing to defend a nation where people like @Atiku make mockery of soldiers that died in active service. Why would FG bury dead soldiers secretly? Arent u a sadists, if u seek political capital from calamities?

I was speechless when my son asked what the difference is between Fulani kidnappers and other kidnappers. I was tempted to tell him "fulani kidnappers are bad kidnappers, while yoruba kidnappers are good kidnappers." His question was a subject of argument in his class - JSS1.

iSUPPORT BOKO HARAM
On thrust of social justice, Abubakar Shekau should step out of hiding and declare his #RevolutionIsNow too. This declaration of support shouldn't scare us, except 'revolution' is defined by who is declaring it. iSupport my criminal with my chest. Find yours!