Faith, the hope on hopelessness.

Faith, the hope on hopelessness.

Ours is one nation two sets of legal system; one Islamic, the other secular. Folk with deep pain and anguish I regret to state categorically that Nigeria would never survive or would at best continue be a banana republic if it continues to allow the adoption of two legal systems of secularity and Islamic theocracy.

Alcohol consumption is not prohibited by the Nigeria constitution, perhaps  the 1999 constitution  put in place by Hausa/Fulani military junta did proscribe consumption of alcohol in Nigeria which then makes Nigeria leans Islamic not secular. Can somebody please tell me if the 1999 Hausa/Fulani military junta’s constitution outlawed either public or private consumption of alcohol? If this is the case I will then either pack my belonging and leaves or stay to fight for my fundamental universal right to self- happiness, self-pleasure, self- indiscretion, and even self- stupidity.  Or I may consider converting to Islam just to survive.     

The proscription of alcoholic beverage in Kano state or in any state in Nigeria is also the proscription Christianity in such state because Christianity not only allows the consumption of alcohols by the faithful but it actually uses alcohol in its Holy Communion rituals and in other ceremonial events.  If the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria, albeit put in place by the Hausa/Fulani  military junta allow  public and private consumption of Alcohol would it not be an infringement in the rights of Kano state’s alcohol consuming residents and indigenes if the state government  harasses, arrest these resident on the count of alcohol consumption?

I understand that in a Federal system the states make the respective state statutes but these are only statutes which are inferior to the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Any behavior, right not implicitly or explicitly banned by the constitution is behavior and right allowed by the constitution.  For example the right to eat 6 times in a day is neither implicitly or explicitly prohibited by the constitution of the Federal republic of Nigeria and therefore would be stupid and perhaps Islamic to compel a citizen to have one ration of meal per day.

 

Truth is that Theocracy and secularism are antithesis to each other and mutually exclusive.  Therefore Nigeria would never survive not even the power of gods would save it from the explosion inherently present in a mixture of theocracy and secularism, especially the Islamic theocracy. Islam just by itself is very unstable, very explosive and Christianity very stubborn and one cannot help imagine what would become of this mixture.

And I ask, what is the fate of indigenous citizens of Kano State, the Christian and other minority groups  who are not Muslims but like their beer bottles? May God help us, we the miracle believers, we the believers in what was not meant to be; and this is faith, the hope on hopelessness that Nigeria is.