BY BOBSON GBINIJE
“The heart of a man is desperately wicked”. [Holy Bible]
The unspeakable ghoulish and horrendous acts of wickedness manifested in man’s attitudinal orientation and hideous behavior towards his fellowman betrays the troglodyte and Neanderthal degeneracy into which man’s mind is sunken. This teratoid mind is reflected in corruption, kidnapping, cannibalism, terrorism, homicide and assassinations etc. the holy bible lends credence to this assertion, when it posited that “the heart of man is desperately wicked”. Why will a human being develop the stout guts to assassinate another human being?
An assassin is a contract and hired killer. He or she is an eliminator, hatchet man, hit man, liquidator, murderer and a slayer. He or she is a person who murders somebody important or famous for money or for political reasons etc. Pedro Lopez of Colombia raped and killed three girls and dozens of politicians in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. He was sobriqueted the monster of Andes and sentenced to life imprisonment in Ecuador in 1980 on 57 charges.
The most prolific female murderer was Elizabeth Bathory (1598-1625) of Romania. She is alleged (1598) to have killed 650 girls in order to drink their blood and bathe in it, an act she believed would preserve her youth. It was established at the trial of Behram, the Indian thug that he had strangled at least 931 victims and dozens of wealthy men in uttar Pradesh, India, between (1790-1840).And for attempting to assassinate the former Afenifere leader, Abraham Adeesanya in 1997, a Lagos High court handed down a total of 59-year jail term to an aid to late Gen.Sani Abacha, Corporal Aminu Mohammed and Abdulateef . Aremu Shofolahan, personal Assistant to the late Mrs.Kudirat Abiola wife of the late business mogul, Chief Moshood Abiola.
In the military putsch of January 15, 1966 and the counter-coup of July 29, 1966 many politicians and military officers where assassinated. The likes of Chief Okotie –Eboh, Chief Akintola, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Sir Ahmadu Bello and General Aguiyi Ironsi, Etc. In this one man’s assassin or Villain could be another man’s hero. But in the assassination of Abraham Lincolin, J.F. kennedy, Alfred Rewane, Onagoruwa’s son , Kudirat Abiola, Young Harry, Martin Luther King (JNR), Chief Agbatutu, Bola Ige, Funsho Williams, Simbiat Abiola, attempts on Ibru, Obama and many others across the world too numerous to mention in this short article, unravels one basic truism that man has an intuitive and natural sanguinary tendency that borders on catatonic schizophrenia and psychotic asininity to seek vengeance, pursue his lunatic quest for frame, power, money and ‘thackaranian vanity fare’ by all means. The assassin in most cases has no personal grouse against the assassinated, but picks up the gun to kill because of pecuniary inducements.
The thematic thrust and quest of this writer is to try to unravel the conundrum surrounding the mind of assassins and why the assassin who has no problem with another man chooses to kill him or her for monetary reward. Our investigations revealed that some do it out of poverty, some out of ignorance, some out of cerebral imbalance, some out of personal grudge and some out of an inexplicable bent for evil etc. but Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 – 1945) observed that “no man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency”. In his speech titled ‘the atomic future’ delivered at Hartford, Connecticut on 18 Sept, 1952 the statesman and essayist Stevenson Adlai said “there is no evil in the atom, only in men’s soul”.
It is clear therefore, that man naturally has a tincture of evil in him accentuated by greed and sadistic propensity. But solid education, religion-fear of god and the pursuit of the high ideals of integrity tend to assuage this innate instinctual; proclivity for evil. But in the universities or the academia they resort to assassinations and diabolical voodoos to achieve vice chancellorship position etc. In churches they resort to assassinations and diabolisms to be head of the church, in poltitics it is a tradition, in families brothers, sisters, uncles, wives, cousins, aunts, nephews resort to assassination to become kings, chiefs and head of towns, clans and kingdoms etc. The assassin finds a ready-made customer in his wicked trade because of the satanic ambitions of man.
The United Nations, African Union, the commonwealth, the Arab league and all nations on planet earth must declare the assassin an outcast and assassination a crime against humanity and apart from existing laws there should be sterner penalties for assassins. The judiciary must bring all the muscle of jurisprudential canons to bear on these sons of perdition and workers of iniquity. The politicians and all fame, power and property mongers must be prevailed upon by their churches and such other bodies to play by the rules. The assassin should realize that for blood he spills and the blood money he collects he must give account to God.
Finally, the race to 2015 has already started; our politicians must be prevailed upon to shun thuggery and assassination as weapons of politics. The assassins and their sponsors must be declared as moral and spiritual taboos, cranks and faddists and should be anathematized. They degrade humanity and take us back to Paleolithic darkness and tenebrous deprogressivem. The people of the world must rekindle their fate in the judicial process and democracy, and not the rule of the thumb and constitute a law unto themselves. The assassin’s must spare a thought for the millions of orphans and widows which they create through their brainless noodles and dunderheaded acts. The governments of the world must stop state sponsored assassination for our world is a global village and we constitute a common humanity under God Almighty.
BOBSON GBINIJE
MANDATE AGAINST POVERTY. (MAP)
