POLITICS
How to achieve desired socio-political change, Presidential Aspirant tells Nigerians
Dr John Dara, a Presidential Aspirant of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), has called on Nigerians to build a humane society to achieve the desired socio-political change in the country.
Dara made the call in Lagos at the public presentation of a book entitled “Abduction Chronicles” written by Folarin Philip Banigbe.
According to him, morality and humanity in nation building has always been a challenge in Nigeria and called for holistic and systematic approach toward creating a secure society.
“If you want to deal with security, you must understand the cause of insecurity. You must understand why people rationalise crime,” he said.
Dara said the solution was to have continuous law review and legislation that would impact on security system, effective social mobilisation for citizens’ participation, solidarity and vigilance.
He stressed the need to evolve an integrated data bank, multi-level policing and vigilante with training, equipment and technology.
The author, Mr Banigbe, said that the book is true-life account of his abduction in 2016.
According to the author, “Abduction Chronicles” is aimed at finding lasting solutions to abduction crime and other crimes committed by Nigerians against Nigerians.
“From my experience, I later found out that most of the people in crime are victims of the environment that brought them out.
“It is not all about security alone but the society.
“One of the guys who watched over me in the safe house where I was kept by the kidnapper was writing the West African School Certificate Examination (WASCE).
“He takes shift to guard me and later goes to write his exam. He said that he wants to be a lawyer and when I enquired why he is doing this, he said, it is hustling.
“He said his parents are late and his grandmother died when he was four years and he was thrown to the streets at five years. To him, whatever he does, is justified,” Banigbe said.
The author noted that due to poverty and economic issues that people are subjected to, the society would churn out people that would do dehumanising things.
“For me, it is not more of security that we need in this nation, but more of humanity.
“The aim of the book is to begin a discourse on what we need to do to help this nation rediscover humanity.
“In the past, when one person dies in a community, the whole community shuts down; now, we kill dozens everyday; we do not care. All we say is thank God, I am not among them, I am alive.
“We need to get to a point where we would have value for human life; one life becomes important to us to the point that we would not do anything to jeopardise it,” Banigbe said.
He said that he had created the Abduction Chronicles Platform to care for victims of kidnapping and give voice to a hitherto silent community.
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