AHANONU KINGSLEY BLOG

I learnt with concerned anger of how the main market in the Orlu town of Imo State has remained under closure for such a time spanning the Biafra Day sit-at-home observance of 30th May 2021. It become more conscionably worrisome to realize that this state of affairs came to be from the highfalutin, unwarranted and daring order allegedly of the military division located within that area. In the strongest term possible, I condemn this misplaced order, which no less shows the high-handedness of the military. This is the exhibition of such galling stifle unheard of in a legitimate society nonetheless a democratic one. What this portends is that for upwards of 60 days, people who legitimately undertake their businesses and finds their daily means of livelihood in that market have by this unconscionable lock been denied their constitutional and natural rights to seek for subsistence. I call on the Imo State nay the federal governments to stand up to this madness and bring to an end this care...

The failure of the Department of State Service to provide Nnamdi Kanu in court for today's proceeding is beyond disappointing, obviously questionable. It once again bring to the fore the abysmal question whether the Muhammadu Buhari administration is ready at all to understand that Nigeria is presently in a democracy and be ready to give the rule of law the very deserving place. Nigeria's democracy has oftentimes been put to question by the penchant disposition of the president who has shown no willingness to be democratic, even in the most pretentious form. The respect for the rule of law, which is a major and basic determinant of a virile democracy, has been so alien since the very beginning of this current administration. President Buhari has not failed to show his dissent for what's constitutional and democratic. He blatantly disrespected th courts, not once, not twice. He has treated much of the concerns of most Nigerians with utter disdain and has recently begun the p...