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However, the goal of the captain-pirate outfits, as they claim, is improving social justice in society. African nationalist movements achieved independence from colonialists also through political space and voice. Trade unions, though now hampered, were once able to agitate with much success for the rights, welfare and well-being of workers through their activities within political space and their voice.

The reasons for such self-sabotage are never consistent with the purpose or tenets of the organisation.Īny group that can operate with regular and consistent commitment to gain considerable political space and voice will have significant influence on the governance of society. Secondly, captain-pirates folds are capable of staging civil disobedience coups and on occasion do only to be undone by the very leaders of the group.

When he powerful lose space to the weak through piratical action, democracy becomes less captured by entrenchment within. If the government launches a meme that it cannot create jobs because of low oil prices, the captain-pirate entities should sponsor a meme that the government must diversify the economy immediately with practical and winning approaches. If the government produces a meme that insists the current youth drug epidemic in Nigeria is not their fault, the captain-pirate folds have to provide a counter-meme that the government should be held to acount, with facts and persuasion. The captain-pirate entities must start “meme battles” that are equally, if not more persuasive than those of government and the vested interests that back them. Useful information and misinformation are instruments that achieve this goal by creating “memes” that persuade broadly. Some might question that, elsewhere or in Nigeria, what effect will stealing valuable political space or getting their collective voice heard where it matters, have on securing significant social justice for the wider society? Firstly, all changes in society start with discussion, even in autocratic or totalitarian ones. Such is possible because they are supposed to be “liberated” and possess “liberated minds.” They must muster mindset that can solve severe problems with minimal resources within a democracy. Captain-pirate entities have meagre resources, so they must steal political space and project their voice through unorthodox methods. Many observers recognise that for one to get a significant piece of space on the political turf and have one’s voice heard untrammelled is a problem. Balfour did say “democracy is the governance by discussion”, no one denies this. The theft of “political space” is what captain-pirate fraternities use to fight for social justice and other goals on behalf of the general society. In some democratic societies, fraternal organisations with captain-pirate backgrounds perpetrate a theft that is neither illegal, immoral, nor excessive. But how have captain-pirate groups in other parts of the world remained very potent political entities in their democratic societies, whether for good or evil? It is tragic since more and more competent actors and voices are needed to help Nigeria’s struggling democracy mature with the hands of the masses holding it. The evolution of the captain-pirate mode of fraternal organisation has failed in Nigeria to remain relevant, even facing obsolescence and has become no better a than a ship that lost its rudder, ripped its sails and steered by the mercy of the tides and winds of the sea. The young or seasoned pirate, as he solemnly swears at his initiation, under the direction of his captain is thus necessarily an agent of social justice in society. Its significance in the context of fraternal orders of young men is consanguineous with the metaphor of Robin Hood – stealing from the rich or powerful to give to the poor or weak. The literal meaning of a pirate and the piratical life is one of thieves and the means of thieving, respectively. There is a keen fascination among young men, particularly at leading schools and universities around the world with the “captain-pirate” mode of rebellion or disobedience against the injustices and excesses of the status quo in society.

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