…Implementation of the CONHESS to most medical and health workers in Adamawa state stands bypassed, the same way the implementation of N32,0000 minimum wage for workers with the local government authority and primary healthcare across the state stands withdrawn after the governorship and state assembly elections, yet the pulpit isn’t put to use by the fatwa warriors to challenge the anomalies for redress…
Doesn’t religion speak on justice and against cheating, such as the election malpractice, which presented itself in the forms of violence, intimidation, coercion, ballot buying, stuffing, ballot box snatching, manipulation of results, bypassing BVAS and executive-tyranny?
The question is raised by a media veteran and critical thinker based in Yola who was at different times in so numerous to mention worship centres with his ears to the ground whether any media could feature in Mufassir from the mimbar challenging election malpractice termed antithetical to progress, development and constructive democracy.
Or is it that “Democracy” as a popular system of government, is irreligious to have made the fatwa warriors, the clerics and the clergies allergic to speaking about it hence have fallen allegiances as alleged to the conspiracy of silence?
Have the alleged rented fatwa warriors against female governorship not recovered from the shock induced by the electorate resisting their seeming selective or short sighted sermons when they would have to be told to consider running mate as also an executive, hence the issued fatwa against female leadership would disqualified both the ruling party and the major opposition party in Adamawa state.
“Cheating does not pay”, is the first elementary lesson in morality, schools first attended would have taught. For the Government to stand tall against corruption, its coming must not be registered by corruption presented in the form of election violence, ballot box snatching, intimidation, results swapping and vote buying among other politically fraudulent acts.
Some Scholars outside of have spoken against election Malpractice, pointing out that it is capable of producing unhealthy government the devastation of which is unimaginable.
Any pulpit that is incapable of challenging bad government, with attendant bias against other faith, tribe or established tradition, will not support the necessity for the change, ought to be silent over genuine personality or process of sanitising the system of governance for good; Mimbar is not to be manipulated, some scholars would argue.