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The NDDC Saga And LICENSED CRIME (photo} by chizidgreat(m): 7:19pm On Jul 20, 2020 |
I think it is no longer news that the greatest crimes committed in our dear country, Nigeria are the crimes committed with license. Sure, certified men commit more subtle crimes than the obvious ones we see. If armed robbers rob a bank for instance, the smartest thing to do is for the man in the office to inflate the figures with his pen and 'smartly' corner a bigger amount with pen, just pen. Tufiakwa Chizi Ezugwu, a brilliant writer covered this in his famous book "LICENSED CRIME" published in 2019 in the following words "When a policeman stops you on the road and extorts money from you, it is because he has a license in the gun he is carrying. When a soldier slaps you on the road, you cannot do anything about it. It is because he has a license. When an attorney upturns justice, it is because he has a license which he rather decides to use wrongly. A politician loots the common treasury and uses it to construct houses and roads in his father’s compound while the people’s common road becomes death traps. And it is because of this same license. He has an assumed political license to do that. And most importantly, when a parent misleads or neglects a child, it is because they exercise power and influence over these children which somewhat translates to a kind of license. When a clergy lies against God on the pulpit, it is because he has a kind of religious license and a right over the souls of the congregation who somewhat see him as God’s mouthpiece. " 1 Like
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