IS IT TRUE THAT IT IS DESPOTIC AND DICTATORIAL GOVERNMENTS/LEADERSHIP THAT DESPISE FREE MEDIA?
One of the major contributory factors to the incubation,
or concealment of despotism and dictatorialism of many governments of the
world, especially in Africa is the docility of the press, which in itself has
its root in the emasculation and/or decapitation of the press by the
governments in question, through various means of arm twisting and
intimidation, including threat of death, or even outright covert, overt,
clandestine, or direct acts of assassination of the media personnel.
It needs to be pointed out that one of the major causes
of despotism, which is usually associated with, and works hand in hand with
autocracy, is the deviation from the original goals, which may have been
presented to the people, which along the line, is overshadowed and overwhelmed
by inert, inherent, and forceful selfish and egocentric motivations, which
usually relegate, or even consign the original aspiration or goal to the
background, or even to the dustbin.
In many instances, the arrowheads of such aspirations
have fallen victims to their own selfishness, making them overlords of their
former colleagues, or some of their colleagues have schemed them out, due to
their selfish desires that are packaged and camouflaged as higher level of wellbeing
for the generality of the people.
Africa is replete with examples of the above assertion,
as the cases of almost every country in Africa come to mind.
However, it has also been known that some people, who
claimed to be genuinely concerned about the misery and wretchedness of the people,
who presented themselves as revolutionaries, were indeed, agents of external
forces. The case of Western parasitism and rulership by proxy, as is common
with Britain and France, is handy in this instance. These two parasitic
countries have wreaked havoc in many countries, because of their desperation to
install their stooges, so as to ensure that their exploitation of the helpless
countries continues unabated.
Now, even as these dictatorialism, autocracy, and
despotism go on in government circles, it becomes disheartening that in some
other lower groupings, such as Town, Market, Community, Social, Professional,
and other formal and informal groupings, this virus of authoritarianism is
equally the case.
How can people, who gathered themselves together to solve
a common problem, aggravate the same problem that they gathered to solve, by
letting their personal considerations override the expectations and aspirations
of the generality of the people? No wonder you begin to see very bitter rivalry
among hitherto bosom friends.
But the most painful type of this autocracy, which
deploys all within its arsenal, to ensure the moronism, the subservience, the,
docility, and the despondency of the media, is when the leadership of the
people, who assembled themselves to fight injustice, begin to subject the small
group of the oppressed people, to greater oppression, injustice, bondage, and
enslavement than the one they are fleeing from.
Whenever this type of situation arises, you will be
compelled to recall the events in George Orwell's Animal Farm. The tragic turn
of events in that satirical novel needs not to be over emphasized.
Considerably, when the leadership of these small groups
can make their fellow victims the objects of merchandise, subjecting the same victims
to back breaking taxation, like Uwazurike, and worst of all, forbidding anybody
to complain, or to let the higher authority to know, or branding anybody that
lets out the pressure of the unbearable burden as a rebel or saboteur, then,
where is the morality?
It can be seen from the above, it is because of the
desire to conceal their abominations, their oppressive tendencies and deeds,
their atrocities, their mammonism, their egocentricism, their megalomania, and
their gluttony, that governments/leadership do not want independent, vibrant,
and objective press/media.
Rather, they will prefer, go to any extent, pay any price
to have a docile, dormant, moronic, despondent, and lifeless press/media, which
is at their beck and call, so that they can commit any form or degree of
monumental crime, without any person putting them on their toes.
The above accounts for why despots and autocrats are
irritated, and averse to a free press/media.
As we inch towards the Biafra referendum, every Biafran
is charged afresh that all hands must be on deck concerning referendum
evangelism, so that this Biafra referendum will be a sweeping success. Sight must not also be lost on the boycott of the charade
called elections in the abominable aberration and British inhumanity called
Nigeria. The boycott must be total.
God bless Ikemba Nnewi, Odumegwu Ojukwu.
God bless Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
God bless Biafra and Biafrans.
Come quickly Oh Biafra!
#EndNigeriaNow
#BoycottEveryNigeriaElection
#BiafrExit
#StopBiafraKillingss
#BeReadyForBiafraReferendum
Written by:
Okwunna Okongwu
For: The Biafra Restoration Voice - TBRV
Published by:
Chibuike Nebeokike
For: The Biafra Restoration Voice - TBRV
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