Hisbah Police: Alchoholic drinks and blasphemous Haircuts

                     Hisbah Police

 It is sad that whereas we have two

countries in one, when it suits us we pretend otherwise.

Many people today, are saying people can live where ever they please. Agreed.

However, it beats my imagination that southerners living in the north just have to go about at their wits end and northerners living in the South go about without a care in the world.

Sure the country equally belongs to us all.

I did my youth service in Sokoto State and I was surprised to note that all the churches in Sokoto town were all on one street. Please security experts, what do you call that?

While Southerners are fighting tooth and nail to free themselves from the brazen lawlessness of Fulani herdsmen, Hisbah police are routinely seizing and destroying articles of trade of southerners in the north for audaciously selling Alchoholi drinks. Where are the human rights champions'?

They cannot sell alcohol in the north or their drinks are confiscated and destroyed without a court order, yet income from VAT on Alcohol is shared among southern and northern states.

Soon and very soon owners of drinks being seized in the north would resort to self help. Then drumbeats of war would start renting the air.

A situation where northerners are feared both in the north and the South does not bode well for our common existence.

The sad aspect is that while northern illiterates are tolerated in the South for their ignorance and short temper, it swings to fear in the north, where southerners are expected to be good sojourners lest they are booted out of the north.

The question then is, do we really have one country? Are we all subject to the same Constitution?

I was pained to hear of a hair stylist who was arrested for giving a blasphemous haircut to his customer. What assault to freedom of expression?No one group should be allowed to carry on as if their stake in Nigeria is higher than that of others.

Nigeria is a country and not a limited liability company with shareholders and different shareholding where benefits come with the size of one's shares.