Only a few days ago, the Nigerian police, in an unnecessary bid to disperse what was a peaceful demonstration by the members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, triggered a series of events that left several people injured.

ON Friday, the 13th of April 2018, Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja made a landmark pronouncement which, stripped of legal language, means when a minister acts as directed by the president, he or she cannot be held liable for the action. In other words, the minister is only carrying out an order of the president.

Growing up in Warri in the then Western Region of Nigeria in those days, everybody seemed to know and admire his great, supple and very urbane voice on radio.

The dimension that Omo-Agege has just introduced, sponsoring thugs to invade the chamber in plenary to attack and make away with the symbol of authority is, no doubt, novel

There are some lessons to go round for comrades and activists who drop their convictions and take up the megaphone of oppression once they are invited to “eat at the table of the oppressors”