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With commentary by Mobolaji E. Aluko, PhD
November 18, 2000
Aluko Commentary:
Those who thrive on calling Dr. Fasehun - or OPC for that matter - a bad name to hang him should now think twice after courts in the land, both in Lagos and Ilorin (and in Ibadan and Akure, in earlier judgements, with regard to OPC), have declared that he has no case to answer. One cannot fail to hail the courage of the judges who have taken a look at the charge
sheets against Fasehun, and noticed the biased stink hanging out from them.
What is more ridiculous is the hasty so-called "banning" of the "letters" OPC by the Obasanjo regime. How you can ban an organization of freely associating Nigerians who are not required by law to formally register their organization remains a mystery.
Even under Abacha, NADECO was not banned - yet it was (wrongly) accused by that government for setting off
bombs against the state. OPC has not been so accused. Why an organization should be banned for apparently being "over-zealous" in controlling armed robbery in Lagos, a function for which the police has little or no capacity, turns logic on its head.
Finally, one must insist that the full Senate report of January/February 2000 on the OPC would soon see the light of day. In that report, chads of which are available, indications are that a full discovery of the salutary aims, aspirations and "modus operandi" of the OPC were revealed, but are now being suppressed because they do not accord with the wrong image which
the blackmailing oligarchy and their minions and hangers-on would want the world to know about OPC.
The world will still know. Bolaji Aluko
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