There has been palpable tension and anger in Warri and its environs for the past few days after a Naval personnel attached to the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) Jalla, Warri South Local Government area of Delta state shot and killed two community youths following argument over job slots in the company at about 2:30pm on Friday, May 12th.
The more you trace the law and it's remedies, the more confused you become about the theory that the rule of law is alternative to the rule of force. Thomas Hobbes' theory on the evolution of the civil society requires another examination.
Wait a minute, we surrendered our rights to a sovereign in exchange for the protection of our lives and property as well as provision of an enabling society to enjoy basic necessities. That sovereign is what uncle Thomas Hobbes says is the government.
What a beautiful story. I have been comfortably misled by this for so long a time until recently I began seeing the real life counter of the books and knowing that they are strange bird fellows; theory and practice.
Thomas Hobbes my main man, you said that in the state of nature life was short, brutish and nasty; might was right.
Please can you come back and tell me the difference between that state of nature and the current state in Nigeria with all the pendants of the rule of law?
The men of nature seize the law and still achieved the state of nature. Man is really creative. I have lost confidence in the illusory difference between the state of nature and the state we currently live in.
Perhaps, I would have faired better being uneducated because knowing what should be and and seeing what is can quickly turn you against the society; it can quickly turn you into a mad man. After all, one of the strongest indicators of madness is the degree of deviation from the norms of the class you belong.
Two lives gone in few minutes and the death of our neighbour is now not as loud as that of a chicken. Warri Delta State on my mind; the entire Nigerian state on my mind.
According to THISDAY, one of the victims simply identified as Agbolu was from Ifie community where the company is sited in Warri South and Ekpan from Ekpan in Uwvie local government council.
It was gathered that youths from both communities were engaged in job slot negotiations with the management of NPDC when argument arose that was amicably resolved but shockingly the Navy personnel was said to have moved in and shot first into the air before shooting point-blank at the two boys who gave up the ghost immediately.
Speaking on the matter at the police
“A” Division Headquarters, Chairman of Warri South Local Government Hon. Mofe Edema expressed sadness over the shooting saying “this is one killing too many. How can NNPC engaged security personnel be killing these innocent community youths like flies every time. It is just not fair"
Angry Ifie youths stormed the police station but were later directed to the NPDC premises while the Ifie community Trust Chairman Griftson Edema was asked by the aggrieved council chairman to make an entry of the matter. The DPO in-charge of the station Aniete Eyoh was out on official assignment but other officers were on hand to pacify the angry Ifie youths.
Additional Source: THISDAY
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