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Wednesday 3 June 2015

FEMI FANI KAYODE, PLEASE BE GUIDED!

Suicide bombing is not a new phenomenon in Nigeria. Rather. It has become one of those things that nigerians hear about and go right on with their daily activities as if nothing happened. Before the April 2015 elections that brought in General Buhari as the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, there had not been any proven affiliation of GMB or his political party to the terrorist organisation Boko Harram. But this morning, it was recorded that prominent Nigerian lawyer Fani Kayode passed comments on the "volumes" spoken by the fact that a suicide bomber shouted "Sai Buhari" before blowing himself up and killing many other people. I say to him, "Boss, park well"
Fanaticism is not something that can be controlled and if anyone should know this, it is widely read people like him. Insinuating that GMB is somehow linked to the terror group because one of them shouted his name before blowing himself up is the same as saying that Jesus is a murderer because millions of women were killed in the name of the religion he started in the 18th century. Almost 1,800 years after his death.
A lot of religious Fanatics destroy lives and properties in the name of one god or another, in the same vein, atheists insult and ridicule and sometimes even curse theists on facebook pages. Give or take a few decades, maybe there will be atheist terrorists too.
I'm not supporting Terrorism, but then neither am I supporting bigotism. It is logically wrong to make assumptions based on the state of mind of a suicide bomber. Any lawyer that is worth his/her title would know that presenting a religious fanatic who is willing to kill himself and a lot of other innocent people for the sake of religion as a witness in court is a risky gamble. If it would be unwise to present this kind of character as a witness in a court case, how is it wise to make an insinuation of this magnitude about a man based on the words of the same character?

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