What of immunity from Azrail?
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Last week, the House of Representatives passed for a second reading, a bill which seeks to grant members of the National Assembly immunity against any arrest for as long as their tenure lasts. The bill titled, “a bill for an act to amend the legislative Houses, Powers and privileges” shall, when passed, give parliamentarians protection from security agencies even when they commit crime.
Rather than make laws that will protect and preserve the rights and privileges of the ordinary Nigerian whose mandate gave them the opportunity to serve as a member of the parliament, our legislators are engrossed in thoughts about how to fashion one immunity or the other against what should ordinarily be an exception and not a rule but the prerogative of the law. What an aberration! For a citizen and a public office holder for that matter to make a case for immunity against the justification of the law taking its natural course against him proves such a leader without any prejudices to be potential criminal.
They began with immunity against friendliness, accessibility and camaraderie. They ride in cars with tinted glasses and in convoy of awful siren-blaring vehicles driven by people who are in-between madness and sanity. When bad governance unleashed armed robbery on the Nigerian society, they thought of immunity against insecurity of lives and property, and thus, started riding in bullet-proof (Hummer) Jeeps to ‘protect’ themselves against violent attacks perpetrated by the products of their own poor leadership styles. The approximate cost of a bullet-proof jeep (N40million) can conservatively build two lecture theaters in a Nigerian university. Very soon, some local government chairmen may soon join the league of those riding in such jeeps. Why not, if they have stolen public funds meant to provide portable water, drugs in the hospitals, electricity and roads in their communities?
When our democratic leaders (sorry, ‘our civilian rulers’) discovered the abject and rather epidemic poverty in the country is without an end in sight, they thought of various ways of fashioning out immunity against penury for themselves and for their children. This includes stealing as much money as can be pilfered from public funds, converting statutory duties of career civil servants in to consultancy services, a plot of land at Maitama or Asokoro district of Abuja 24hrs after the birth of each of their children and an oil well at their first birthday anniversary. Are we sure that some Nigerian leaders have not broken the record set by the erstwhile Philippine President, ferdinand Marcos, and his wife Imelda, whose theft in 1986 of $860.5million was the largest from a public fund? The devil appears to have succeeded in alluring our rulers in to believing that piling up of wealth is the greatest security for their children against poverty. We remind them of what Allah (SWT) says in Qur’an 11:6 that, “There is no moving creature on earth but its sustenance dependent on God: He knows the time and place of its definite abode and its temporary deposit: All is in a clear record”. Further immunities against other forms of ‘fear of the unknown’ for their children include sale of public schools (federal unity colleges) and the closure of public universities for as long as the teachers can endure.
They further moved to immunity against being servants of their fatherland. Instead, they impose themselves as masters over the nation’s God-endowed resources and impress it upon other Nigerians to see them as those with the exclusive right to the leadership of the country. This immunity involves Africanized Tazarce syndrome, which finds generic root in the tyrannical desperation of Ramses II, Deir el-Bahari Cache, the 19th dynastic ruler (1279-1212BC) of Egypt. Ramses II propounded the Tazarce theory when, in the bid (as in Qur’an 28:4) to ensure that no one survives to challenge his power or authority, decreed the killing of all male children born at that time. Contemporary tenacity of office among Nigerian rulers can only be a tip of the iceberg compared to Ramses II’s brand of Tazarce. Yet, Allah (SWT) made him to foster the future dislodger of his self arrogated powers, Prophet Musa (AS). Allah (SWT) states in Qur’an 28:9 “The wife of pharaoh said: ‘(Here is) a joy of the eye, for me and for thee, slay him not. It may be that he will be of use to us, or we may adopt him as a son’. And they perceived not (what they were doing)”. Appointment in to a political office by right of descent is another form of the immunity under reference. When leaders who lack conscience are tired of being ministers, ambassadors or chairmen of Boards of Directors, they give the names of their wives and children for such positions!
While it’s a climate of positive things happening in other parts of the world; ours in Nigeria is a climate of immunities and probes without reports! After acquiring immunity against friendliness, poverty, servitude, illnesses, disasters (natural and artificial), and all forms of vulnerabilities, the next level of immunity to which we expect our political rulers to propose now is “immunity against the angel of death, Azrail. Unless they do that, all other forms of immunities they have acquired by constitutional or conventional means would be rendered void.
For immunity against the angel of death, we expect them to hold a public hearing over one particular situation. They require to propose a bill to amend the natural law of death (as in Qur’an 56:86-85) which stipulates that only the person whose appointed time has come, would see Azrail (AS). This bill shall seek to alter the rule so that they will be the ones to see the angel while they remain invisible to him when he comes for their lives. May Allah (SWT) protect us from becoming puppets to the permanent enemy of man, the devil, amin.
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What of immunity from Azrail?
Category: Philosofaith Written by M. U. Ndagi Hits: 962
Last week, the House of Representatives passed for a second reading, a bill which seeks to grant members of the National Assembly immunity against any arrest for as long as their tenure lasts. The bill titled, “a bill for an act to amend the legislative Houses, Powers and privileges” shall, when passed, give parliamentarians protection from security agencies even when they commit crime.
Rather than make laws that will protect and preserve the rights and privileges of the ordinary Nigerian whose mandate gave them the opportunity to serve as a member of the parliament, our legislators are engrossed in thoughts about how to fashion one immunity or the other against what should ordinarily be an exception and not a rule but the prerogative of the law. What an aberration! For a citizen and a public office holder for that matter to make a case for immunity against the justification of the law taking its natural course against him proves such a leader without any prejudices to be potential criminal.
They began with immunity against friendliness, accessibility and camaraderie. They ride in cars with tinted glasses and in convoy of awful siren-blaring vehicles driven by people who are in-between madness and sanity. When bad governance unleashed armed robbery on the Nigerian society, they thought of immunity against insecurity of lives and property, and thus, started riding in bullet-proof (Hummer) Jeeps to ‘protect’ themselves against violent attacks perpetrated by the products of their own poor leadership styles. The approximate cost of a bullet-proof jeep (N40million) can conservatively build two lecture theaters in a Nigerian university. Very soon, some local government chairmen may soon join the league of those riding in such jeeps. Why not, if they have stolen public funds meant to provide portable water, drugs in the hospitals, electricity and roads in their communities?
When our democratic leaders (sorry, ‘our civilian rulers’) discovered the abject and rather epidemic poverty in the country is without an end in sight, they thought of various ways of fashioning out immunity against penury for themselves and for their children. This includes stealing as much money as can be pilfered from public funds, converting statutory duties of career civil servants in to consultancy services, a plot of land at Maitama or Asokoro district of Abuja 24hrs after the birth of each of their children and an oil well at their first birthday anniversary. Are we sure that some Nigerian leaders have not broken the record set by the erstwhile Philippine President, ferdinand Marcos, and his wife Imelda, whose theft in 1986 of $860.5million was the largest from a public fund? The devil appears to have succeeded in alluring our rulers in to believing that piling up of wealth is the greatest security for their children against poverty. We remind them of what Allah (SWT) says in Qur’an 11:6 that, “There is no moving creature on earth but its sustenance dependent on God: He knows the time and place of its definite abode and its temporary deposit: All is in a clear record”. Further immunities against other forms of ‘fear of the unknown’ for their children include sale of public schools (federal unity colleges) and the closure of public universities for as long as the teachers can endure.
They further moved to immunity against being servants of their fatherland. Instead, they impose themselves as masters over the nation’s God-endowed resources and impress it upon other Nigerians to see them as those with the exclusive right to the leadership of the country. This immunity involves Africanized Tazarce syndrome, which finds generic root in the tyrannical desperation of Ramses II, Deir el-Bahari Cache, the 19th dynastic ruler (1279-1212BC) of Egypt. Ramses II propounded the Tazarce theory when, in the bid (as in Qur’an 28:4) to ensure that no one survives to challenge his power or authority, decreed the killing of all male children born at that time. Contemporary tenacity of office among Nigerian rulers can only be a tip of the iceberg compared to Ramses II’s brand of Tazarce. Yet, Allah (SWT) made him to foster the future dislodger of his self arrogated powers, Prophet Musa (AS). Allah (SWT) states in Qur’an 28:9 “The wife of pharaoh said: ‘(Here is) a joy of the eye, for me and for thee, slay him not. It may be that he will be of use to us, or we may adopt him as a son’. And they perceived not (what they were doing)”. Appointment in to a political office by right of descent is another form of the immunity under reference. When leaders who lack conscience are tired of being ministers, ambassadors or chairmen of Boards of Directors, they give the names of their wives and children for such positions!
While it’s a climate of positive things happening in other parts of the world; ours in Nigeria is a climate of immunities and probes without reports! After acquiring immunity against friendliness, poverty, servitude, illnesses, disasters (natural and artificial), and all forms of vulnerabilities, the next level of immunity to which we expect our political rulers to propose now is “immunity against the angel of death, Azrail. Unless they do that, all other forms of immunities they have acquired by constitutional or conventional means would be rendered void.
For immunity against the angel of death, we expect them to hold a public hearing over one particular situation. They require to propose a bill to amend the natural law of death (as in Qur’an 56:86-85) which stipulates that only the person whose appointed time has come, would see Azrail (AS). This bill shall seek to alter the rule so that they will be the ones to see the angel while they remain invisible to him when he comes for their lives. May Allah (SWT) protect us from becoming puppets to the permanent enemy of man, the devil, amin.