Why We Speak Up

We are all speaking up against the infamous court invasion and the controversial re-arrest of Sowore in court, not because we love Sowore (considering his role in bringing this government to power) but because we love our country. We are simply speaking up for the survival of the soul of our nation. If we do not speak up now that they have come for Sowore, there may be no one left to speak for us by the time they come for all of us. 

Today,if we let this government get away with their deliberate affront on the rule of law, the backbone of any constitutional democracy, one day all of us will become the victims of the same abuse we may be allowing to fester and gather momentum by our conspired silence. This has little or nothing to do with APC or PDP. This is beyond party politics; it is about our nation. 

In a constitutional democracy, the biggest threat to national security is not a call for revolution, but the deliberate disobedience to court verdicts and order. The most dangerous threat to national security may not be those protesting against the government or calling for unarmed, non-violent revolution but those in government who do not see any need to respect the court by obeying court orders as well as their blind supporters who see nothing wrong with that.

There is a stark difference between a civil rule and a democracy. We are currently in a civil rule but yet to be ushered into true democracy-a government of the people by the people and for the people. Our speaking up will,thus,help the government to graduate from a mere civil rule to an enduring democratic rule where the government will be scared of the justifiably enormous powers of the people,not the people becoming afraid of the government.