February 26, 2008

Queers, Vampires, Desecrate Hallowed Halls of Nigerian National Assembly

Or: Yet Another Reason We Wish Nigeria Would Disappear Into A Gigantic Sinkhole

From the traditionally gay-baiting-and-hating Nigeria, in the gay-baiting-and-hating Daily Sun, a gay-baiter-and-hater called Leo Nwokoji equates gay and lesbian Nigerians — and “people of questionable marital paternal or maternal footing” — with vampires:

National Assembly and morality question

Senator Nuhu Aliyu had no qualms, made no mistakes, spared no one when he declared that fraudsters had infested the National Assembly. But for the intervention of the Senate President, he probably would have entertained the nation with a roll-call of who is who and infact who tops the chart among these desecrators of our hallowed chambers.

Contributing to the debate on a motion tagged Direction and Tempo of the War on Corruption, sponsored by Senator Sola Akinyede, Senator Nuhu Aliyu, after identifying with the content and spirit of the motion, declared that Ribadu made a world of difference in the fight. He proceeded by recapping the world preception of Nigeria as a nation of 419ers and added that they even abound in the the Senate.

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Among the issues begging for attention is the propriety of tolerating every shade of moral leaning in the National Assembly. The lesbians, perjurers, fraudsters, gay, cultists and vampires, street fighters and people of questionable marital paternal or maternal footing.

Isn’t it about time we started aiming at a more decent legislature, in both ethical and moral sense? For instance, should we allow an avowed sexual pervert, a notorious 419er, a serial rapist, and blood drinking cultists to rub shoulders with saner, more decent senior citizens in the hallowed chambers of our legislature when their likes are languishing in Kirikiri and Gashua prisons? Should such base characters be allowed to enact laws that will drive national issues? Will this caliber of people not legislate us into crisis?

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Heaven is revealed to us in the Bible as a stainless city of righteousness, implying that sin cannot enter there. If God almighty, whose name is holy, decides in his magnanimity as the sovereign one, to admit into heaven everyone who obeys him in all points except one, say lying, cheating, anger, adultery or fornication, pilfering or outright robbery etc., at the end of such exercise, wouldn’t the heaven, the avowed kingdom of righteousness and hollowed abode of the mighty God, become a mere replica of sinful, depraved, earthly kingdom? Wouldn’t even the integrity of the holy one be called to question? Now, let’s come back to the terrestrial arena in context. …

Nwokoji goes on like this for a few more paragraphs (using the word “hallowed” at least twice more — doesn’t this guy own a thesaurus?); hit the link if you want to get the full effect of the nutso-wackiness within.

By the way, The Sun crows about itself like so:

Our name says it all: THE SUN – Nigeria’s King of the Tabloids. The sun is a king of the cosmic world. That is why we call ourselves “Nigeria’s King of the Tabloids.” The essence and spirit of a tabloid newspaper go beyond the elementary distinction in size. Beyond that, a tabloid is a special newspaper that looks at news – whatever the subject of the news – largely from the human angle.

THE SUN therefore is a paper of human voices, capturing the unpredictable and unexpected rhythms of life and existence, the daily heartbeat of humanity in lucid and crisp prose. THE SUN is a mirror that reflects reality with fresh, bloodied brazenness. …

“Bloodied brazenness”? Definitely.

“Lucid and crisp prose”? About as “lucid and crisp” as the latest missive from any of Nigeria’s 419 scammers.