Wednesday, June 9, 2021
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IS A RIGHT: USE IT AGAINST THE TWITTER BAN NIGERIANS.
ICHEOKU says Nigerians are constantly behaving as if they are still yoked under a military regime, oblivious that there is a democracy and that citizens do not bow and tremble to the dictates of leadership in a democracy. There is something called civil disobedience which citizens in a democracy use as a matter of right to refuse obedience to arbitrary orders of the government. The recent Twitter ban by the Nigerian government is one such arbitrary order which Nigerians should disobey and defy by continuing to tweet however possible.
But so many decades of military rule in Nigeria has foist the never lifting cloud of palpable fear on Nigerians' psyche that they are always subconsciously thinking that the government has unquestionable control over their lives. Nigeria is a country of 220 million of people with a permanently damaged psyche and the government is using this general disability to their greatest advantage, commanding obedience as if it is a given right and the people sheepishly obey them. It is sad.
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