On media little impression about the ordeal of Senator Ike Ekweremadu and the Antislavery Law, Lawrence Egede writes.
Social love is under siege with desperation, making it look like blindness in chasing shadows, when ignorance plays a role to hinder the wisdom of being careful and watch what one is doing.
I sympathize with the Nigerian Senator, Ike Ekweremadu who is seen as a king in the lawmaking red chambers of the nation, but found wanting in the universal antislavery law.
I quite sympathize with him for the fact that the love he has for his daughter, Sonia Ekweremadu is far greater than the law of caution, not obeying the rule of law with the risks of daring the international laws on antislavery.
The Law of Truth doesn't hide the colours of crime that are bare in the watchful eyes of the law, which curtails the excesses of lawlessness. Even if there's any secret deal behind the scene, crime is a crime in the eyes of the law. No obliteration and petting of anybody about it anywhere in heaven and on earth.
I am worried about trying to do good and taking risks in such ventures, yet one comes short of the realities of the danger in the law against ignorance.
I still remember the history of the fight against slavery in the 17th century by one Mr Christopher Columbus, if I am not mistaking him to be another person in the discovery world.
He was from the United States of America. He later won the fight together with other people who contributed to the battle.
Since then, the international world has been considering changes and effecting them in their antislavery law, emanating from the tables of law reviews concerning slave trades around the globe, country by country.
In the conservative laws of the United Kingdom, the antislavery laws are reviewed, preserved, protected and brought up from time to time to dust the historic archives, with additional laws of the modern times governing it.
So, they regard the antislavery laws more than rubies in Great Britain, to the extent that there is nothing like interference by any country. That's why Nigeria was scared to intervene in the case of Ekweremmadu.
From the dealings recorded in the relationship with the British people, they are so careful and diplomatic, so conservative and clever about the crafts they use in their outer rapports with others, especially when it has to do with official businesses.
Senator Ekweremmadu is just a victim of diplomatic laws and British conservatism, about managing the course of using the outstanding position of the Victim as a lawmaker to see him as a careless lawbreaker.
One thing you should know is that overseas, especially in the UK nobody is above the law.
The other one is that if there was a slight intervention from the Nigerian government, it will be a confirmation that Nigeria condones gross lawlessness, impunity, homemade immunity and wrong high-handedness.
Another one is that the outside world experts in the civil laws of nations saw Senator IKe Ekweremmadu as a foolish lawmaker, therefore knew he was simply wrong by law.
Another one is that the UK judiciary saw a way to execute the laws governing antislavery, since the 17th century of its entrenchment into the international law against slave trade.
And now, seeing an outstanding lawmaker with over twenty years of knowledge, exposure and experience failure in the antislavery law is a gross act of deliberate ignorance of the law.
You know it is often said that ignorance of the law is no excuse. There are so many shortcomings in Nigeria about obedience to the rule of law.*
Here in Nigeria just one person in power and the few ones in Authority are, or, are above the law. They control the law instead of the law controlling them.
For people to be above the law is also part of the slavery crime against humanity, through the overuse of authority to enslave others under them, because of having an immediate advantage.
So, Senator Ike Ekweremmadu is a Victim of the Nigerian report about the impression of wrongful use of power to disobey the law, which is universally not acceptable anywhere outside Nigeria.
Let me stop here for now because, if one continues to write about what Nigeria has been missing, regarding simple obedience to the rule of law, the whole world will run to an end, yet the report won't ever finish.
To God is the glory forever.*
Lawrence Egede is our Guest Writer and Phoenix Public Analyst.
