, a maxim of law posits, must come with clean hands. The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, cannot be vituperative on crimes perpetrated by Muslims and be silent on crimes committed by members of its rank and file.
And it was this starkly un-Christian –nay, un-Christ-like- attitude that informed a Facebook comment I made recently, in reaction to a certain Nathaniel Samuel arrested recently as he attempted to detonate an explosive device at a Living Faith Church, in Sabon Tasha, Chukun L.G. Kaduna. And this was what I said, to CAN:
“And now rather than calmly interrogate the whys and wherefores a self-confessed Christian, Nathaniel Samuel, caught right in the act, would want to bomb a Church that he also attends, you are desperately regaling in self-denial -insisting, without any proof, that if he is truly a Christian like he claims, then he is not a bomber or that if he is truly a bomber that he obviously is, then he must be a Muslim.
Now, this may not necessarily serve as deterrence to others –as many opponents of capital punishment have argued. As a matter of fact, ‘an eye for an eye’ must not necessarily serve the end of deterring others. It is law’s duty always to be inexorably merciless to the malevolent, reckless offender and merciful only to the inadvertent or the non-malicious offender of necessity.
Appreciating the borderless confines of legislative license is at the core of my concern. Rather than be amused, many Nigerians were disgusted.
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