those who remain silent in the face of oppression

How could he first invite them and later frustrate them from honouring his invitation? Of course, he could- to prove a point. Some have attempted to exclude any direct connection of President Goodluck Jonathan with what befell the legislators, since they were, as a matter of fact, going to convene the aborted meeting at the President’s own bidding. When we address our shortcomings as we should to their face, they are sure to be eradicated. That, in fact, was one of the reasons which President Obama cited for publishing the report mentioned earlier. Condemning it over and over again may indeed contribute to its removal from our nation. They were the ones called upon to confront anarchy in its true form - that is, disorder-and they responded like men in whom the man has not died.We ought to keep talking about the ugliness of that incident until we are sure its type will no longer be repeated.

And it is a well-conceived notion that the legislators who scaled the fence to claim their right should be lauded for their statesmanship. It is not in keeping with the standards that we have always espoused as Nigerians. It was an action that will always deserve to be condemned. It therefore recommends itself at once for the innermost shelf of classified materials, never to see the light of day.But here comes the amazing part of it all. It presents a negation of much of what America has always upheld as its national philosophy, a document of travesty in relation with not only what the nation has stood for, but of how she strives to make the rest of the world also believe in short, a record of self-recrimination. The report ran over six thousand pages of countless atrocities which portrayed the dispensation of American justice and respect for human dignity in a repulsive light. As it was later revealed by an enquiry, the security body had even hidden most of its activities from the Bush government, the immediate preceding government, which had unwittingly endorsed its horrible tortures that, howbeit, even largely fell short of profitable ends. But the CIA, distinguished for hardly recognizing any other direction but its own, stuck to its path.

Those who remain silent in the face of oppression