The Impunity Republic of Nigeria — By Onyemaechi Ogbunwezeh
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Onyemaechi Ogbunwezeh
Many would credit Henry Miller with liberating modern literature from the sexual repression imposed on the Western mind, by a host of ancient and medieval authorities going as far back as St. Paul.
Miller in the Tropic of Cancer, less so as marquis de Sade, popped the cork in celebrating the polymorphous perversities of human sexuality, which polite society battled for eons, though unsuccessfully, to subdue and keep out of print since Gutenberg invented the printing press in Mainz.
Miller knew that the human imagination craves promiscuities and what Freud prefers to call polymorphous perversities, while western society was busy legislating and compelling monogamy.
Guardians of orthodoxy across time, grand inquisitors of various climes, and puritanical conclaves of many religions, all played a role in casting human sexual polymorphous nature in the mould of a treasonable felon. Sex is evil, rang out of the elevated pulpits of many sanctuaries, to brainwash and marinate generations of minds in repression and impious neuroses.
Anyone who dared stake a claim, to the expression of his innermost ‘demons’, barricaded with stones of dogma, in the closet of repression, by holy ignoramuses, was either termed exotic and indulged as a clown, hounded, and burnt at stake as heretic copulating with a million sucubbi, or tortured in the most sadomasochist manner under the watchful eyes of cryptic sexual predators clothed in cassock and robes.
Humanity have had a 2000 year old history of punishing desire, and banning books that orthodoxy considered lewd, obscene and an affront to morals.
It was along the same censorious lines that the Tropic of Cancer was banned by some countries and became the subject of intense litigation in the United States inm 1966.
In one of the over 60 obscenity lawsuits in over 21 American states, brought against the book, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Michael Musmanno, in his dissent from the majority, which held the book as not obscene, wrote inter alia.
The Tropic of Cancer is:
“not a book. It is a cesspool, an open sewer, a pit of putrefaction, a slimy gathering of all that is rotten in the debris of human depravity”. (Commonwealth v. Robin, 218 A.2d 546, 561 (Pa. 1966).)
I am a lover of books. I owe alot to books. You can then understand my not sharing his Lordship´s dissent. I don´t agree with his description of that book.
His Lordship was in that instance, a reservoir of the fears and puritanical neurosis of his age. If his Lordship had had the gift of clairvoyance, he would have looked into the future and realized that his description of that book, could not have been a good fit for a book.
Books have been our bridge to the past and the future. Where orality and memory fail, books have survived to record humanity in all her glories and ridiculous postures as well.
His lordship, if he had tarried a bit, to look up from his lurid obsessions, with a book that affronts his repressions, would have taken a peep into tomorrow, and would have seen that his description fits a country, which has now fully manifested itself as the Impunity Republic of Nigeria.
Nigeria right now is not a country, or a pretence thereto. It is to paraphrase his Lordship, “a cesspool, an open sewer, a pit of putrefaction, a slimy gathering of all that is rotten in the debris of human depravity”.
This is why a man, who has been a crooked summary of grotesque incompetence, after raping the country for 8 years, engineered an electoral robbery, where his man-Friday, a crooked drug-dealer, was allowed to steal the people´s mandate, to come and continue rubbing shit on the face of Nigerians.
Pablo Escobar tried buying Colombia. He failed. He was a notorious drug dealer, who got the American streets hooked on white powder. The US co-opted the Colombians and got him.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, an accountant to a narcotics-trafficking ring, has just stolen the Nigerian presidency.
Nigerians are shocked.
But the fact remains that a thief can only govern a citadel of crooks. Nigeria has for quite some time, been a republic of Impunity governed by moral imbeciles.
Ahmed Tinubu an eminent scoundrel, with ties to drug dealing, was stampeded into office, in an election that promised to fairness, but turned out to be the greatest broad-daylight robbery of a people’s mandate in recent history.
This moral leper, who came into obscene wealth robbing Lagos State blind, as governor, and grooming mandarins, with an infinite allergy to ethics, to protect and defend his stolen wealth, connived with Buhari’s corrupt and grotesque incompetence on two feet, to steal Nigeria for his avaricious estate.
The son of his chief executioner, MC Oluomo captured it well “Lagos belongs to us, Nigeria belongs to us.”
Nigeria now officially belongs to the thieves. We are waiting until the Supreme court confirms it, then we will sing our Nunc Dimittis to all that is good, true, and beautiful.
If you think that Buhari was terrible, wait until Tinubu gets into office. If you want know what would happen to Nigeria under Tinubu, go and ask Ambode´s scrotum what Tinubu did with it. Or go ask Lagos state finances how many dark tributaries lead from it to Tinubu´s hidden accounts.
Gwazia ndi yard unu!
