Political Intolerance In Nigeria.Chapter 7.page 1.

The deadly spate of political Intolerance in Nigeria is a worrisome nightmare sending distressing to the polity and also international community Blackpower sat down to cudgel the whole messy situation and irremediable volleys of the unbridled menace against the Nigerian state.A cub reporter of several years was perturbed as he ransacked his home library at his alcove in recent times.He seems to confidence when he starts his debates with white power 001 and especially during the dining period.Whitepower had just come from his bakery who had complained of what he read in the papers.He bated his minds with black power before and after dining who cooked little beans for the day's stable.

"See what I saw in library killings before and after elections especially the rising threat of political Intolerance.These are distressing signals my brother."

"Let me see"as he attempted to gaze

"Don't worry let me read the Punch editorial of march 15,2011 page 14, entitled Checking the political Intolerance."

"Just the sacred part right!"

"He started by saying as the 2011 polls draws closer politicians in the political scene have put on abeyance the rules of electoral engagement sending distressing signals across the board. I mean the first paragraph.It further stated during the period Prof.Atahiru Jega INEC chairman delivered a speech in Abuja lamented the growing rate of political Intolerance .He said it had reached the extent in which state governors increasingly threatened opponents to the extent of refusing them the use of public facilities "

"You mean public facilities like stadia, media outfits,public gatherings with civil societies and vital outlets to post posters, billboards etcetera."

"Exactly.Then he joined them to imbibe tolerance culture by all ramifications for the nation to be able to conduct free polls."

"Oh you re reading the same paper the page 16 I have read turn to page 16.You will be shocked though I didn't see the editorial five years ago."

"You have read that too.Let me see page 16 Punch reports "Electioneering Claims 833 lives in four weeks"

"And the journalist involved Emeka right ?"

'Yeah Emeka Samuel reporting from Abuja.Quite shocking this is worst case scenario and I think they should stop that Electioneering and adopt your system of government marsocracy.We did not cook up the figures at least we quote the source."

"Exactly information should bring transformation.That is what we re saying.See the part I was reading."

"See before you go back to earlier source read it complete".

"Emaka writes"In just four weeks no fewer than 833 Nigerians lost their lives in road accidents that arise from increased tempo of campaigns by political parties in April general elections."He went onto say the 833 four weeks road carnage figure is the same number of deaths recorded in the first six months of 2010."

"Don't you see quite tragic.Mr Osita Chidoka the then Corps Marshall and chief executive officer of what ....."

"Federal Road safety corps confirmed the figure on one Monday "during the inauguration of 100 new patrol vehicles and extricating the equipment in Abuja."

"Read on!"as he adjusted himself on the dining seat.

"Osita who described the situation as frightening lamented that campaign posters had displaced or overshadowed road signs on major highways and other major roads in the country.

That he was" appalled by the ugly development" and noted 'the commission wrote to all political parties for safety collaboration but regretted that the expected partnership was not effective."

Within four weeks leading to the publication 833 deaths linked to the increase in the tempo of political campaigns quite worrisome "

"He hoped the release of 100 patrol vehicles by the agency was to contribute to reduction of carnage in line with what....."

"Let me see.......in line with "the country 's vision of becoming one of the 20 safest countries of the world by the year 2020"

"Which year are we now?"

"Year 2025."

"Has the spate of deaths linked to Electioneering reduced ever since?"

"Nope."

"Read on"

"He said "The acquisition of 180 patrol vehicles in 2008 was the first time since the establishment of the corps that such a number of vehicles were injected into its operational...."

".. operational fleet."black power mimicked

"First time uhmmmm still by 2020 failed to achieve its objective by 2020."

"You can see every institution in Nigeria are chasing shadows and not meeting their goals and objectives whether they have access to facilities or not."

"So it is not whether they have facilities or not., maybe curse was placed on Nigeria.I think it was alaafin aole curse."

"Exactly nothing is working.You know Soyinka founded road safety and he was accused of siphoning over five hundred million from the corps coffers."

"Yes but the man had debunked the allegations and expressed his views that he was even funding the corps with his own pocket money.So that allegation was baseless."

"Go back to prior page.Which page is that again?"

"Page 14."

"Okay".