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December 8, 2025 by
Chinyere Okoroafor
Nigerian Astronaut, Chief Owolabi Salis, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu and lawmakers to pass a law prohibiting use of thugs and hooligans by politicians
He said politicians should source their security from the police or private security firms.
Salis noted that in Europe and America, use of thugs and hooligans are rare and that is why the culture of sanity prevails in life and governance.
The astronaut and Polar Traveller urged individuals, pressure groups and NGOs to pressure to the Presidency and legislature to put the process in motion in view of the urgency it deserves.
The Ikorodu-born Lagosian who also made history not only as first blackman to travel to North and South Pole, blamed banditry, terrorism and kidnapping on politicians who use thugs and hooligans to harass, torment and assassinate their opponents.
“It is this same nagging issue of thuggery and hooliganism that deters quite a huge chunk of the electorate who are afraid to come out and vote for fear their safety may be in danger” Salis said.
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He said these politicians recruit thugs as their private army, equip them with arms and ammunition, buy them drugs and intoxicants that turn them wild.
“However after using them, they dump them because they never had any enduring interest in them in the first place beyond using them to achieve their ambition.”
“The consequences of getting dumped and not engaged is that they turn their weapons into tools for criminality“.
‘It is against this background that the use of thugs could be seen as the bane of democracy here.’’
He said we have competent and qualified men willing to serve; unfortunately they are deterred by the violence occasioned by thugs and hooligans.
It is lamentable that it is the politicians who mentor thugs, hooligans, miscreants and bandits who perpetrate robbery, illegal extortion, land grabbing and others.
They are also the ones sponsoring bandits to cause confusion,destabilize the polity and engage as economic saboteurs for foreign interests who indulge in illegal mining thereby undermining the economic progress of the nation.
What these Politicians don’t know is that there are spiritual
repercussions to perpetrating evils which tells with adverse effects on the generations of those involved just as it also affects the society, because a society ruled by the unjust can never know peace or sanity. For instance,if you are a politician and you have been involved in using thugs and bandits to kill and harass people without any just cause,as the majority of our politicians often do,you or your generation will eventually pay for it, whether sooner or later.
On a spiritual angle, Salis who is also the Spiritual Leader of Soul Makers Ministry World Wide, observed that Islam and Christianity as the two popular religions across the world to which a considerable number of Nigerians belong including the politicians, have not properly been able to equip their adherents against the lower virtues of hate amongst other lower variants of anti-social behaviors like violence criminalities and banditry; despite their emphasis on love and good morals.
These, according to him are due to inherent limitations in the two religions for which he advocated the concept of Astro-Theology which focuses on the primary spirit and Astro-Democracy which eliminates hate and fear of domination of one tribal group by the other.
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