I may not be supporting the NYSC lady
My new mission is how to get Nigerians especially public commentators to move away from emotional diatribes on issues and take the rational and fact-based routes
Senator Natasha’s issue has once again shown the very worst in passionately following an issue with emotions without looking at the facts
Someone sent me Sen Ned Nwoko’s position, which I recommend, and you will see the facts.
In response, Nigerians would shout – he has many wives as if that would change the facts on the ground
So when this NYSC ladys drama started, I pulled back
For those that don’t know, the lady called our President ‘terrible’ after ranting about the price of things
As usual, the mumu officials allegedly came after her, threatening her and asking her to pull down the offending post.
She, in response, came back to social media in tears to report the threat and to also ask if she didn’t have a right to shout if her neck was being pressed by the terrible economic policies of the terrible President.
As expected, international bodies have jumped in, asking for her rights to free speech to be protected, and grandfather Atiku has joined in his usual agbaya manner to compare her to Margaret Ekpo, Funilayo Ransone Kuti amd other such titans.
In all of these, nobody has taken time to go through the byblaws of the NYSC of which she is a bonafide member
The bylaws that I have seen and as it concerns this issue forbid any member of the NYSC to criticise or basically do what exactly she just did.
I know for a fact that during orientation, corpers are given the handbook that has all the bye-laws
But like Senator Natasha, her elder sister, she either didn’t read it or didn’t understand it and, as such, flouted it and ran to us with emotional dribble for us to once again jump.
Now, we are not a nation of law-abiding people; nobody will ask for the reasonableness of the bylaws and test it in court.
We will all be shouting – ohh Tinubu, what kind of a country. The country is finished, and all the usual rubbish.
Someone should now seize this opportunity and test the bylaw in court and lets see if it can stand the rigours
Is this now to say that a corp member canmot shout under these bylaws if the economic policies are biting?
I think that as long as those laws stand, they cannot, the same way a soldier would face treason if he shouts
What needs to be done is to wait out the compulsory service and join Sowore in the streets and shout, falling back on your terrible experience, or surreptitiously ask Femi Falana to go to court to repeal the law.
I support the law though. The NYSC is a quasi-para military outfit that was designed amongst others to push unity and discipline among our youths amongst others
This is why you have military instructors who drill you, push you to your limits and after that unveil you to the community to go and serve the Nation
So what options does a youth who can’t stand the terrible policies of a terrible President have and is serving the Nation?
Civil rebellion is one. You refuse to serve or withdraw to state very strongly your position on the price of eggs or the way the country is being managed
This is your fundamental right but as you do that prepare yourself for the consequences which could be anywhere from a fine, jail term, lack of employment, self-exile-Mohammed Ali did it in America and faced the consequences like a man.
The fact is that you cannot as a Youth Corper lose your cool cos you can’t buy a crate of eggs to fry and go on social media to rant
What this means is that maybe you didn’t go through the 30-day orientation and definitely didn’t do the endurance trek because you have not shown endurance.
For the official who called her and allegedly threatened her, that is what in Shomolu we call Afamaco
As in, who sent you? This is how officials give the government a bad name.
Are there no laid down procedures to handle such things, so which one is the bullying?
The right thing to do is to summon her through the commandant or employer if she already is in the PPE and debrief her.
After the debriefing, the system can decide to either forgive or go ahead with the stated punishment.
So that calling was meaningless buffoonery.
This too will pass like every other tipple in the pool but the lessons to learn here are legion
To the government, the level of tolerance is wearing thin. It is not for the first son to be parading with a face cap all over the place and shouting – my papa is the best
Its for concrete and immediate impact on the people with effective policies
For Nigerians, it is to channel their grievances strategically without leaving loopholes that the Government can exploit to puncture the move
For Atiku, it’s not everything, you will jump on and be doing agbaya things. Instead of you to school the child, you now want to politicise it in a shameful attempt to use a suffering child for our personal benefit.
Atiku for me is the biggest loser in this matter and a ‘terrible’ person.
He may now send someone to beat me
Duke of Shomolu
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