Nigeria, Feb. 9 -- In the politically charged maelstrom that Nigeria has become, issues which ordinarily ought to have been rested by very straightforward points of law, if not common sense, now rather get refracted through different echo chambers - some of which are fouled - and become magnified and many times infused with very negative - if not toxic - energies, to assume shapes and forms that makes them almost unrecognisable from the originating subjects. These then become very serious and volatile issues in the realm of public opinion.

We routinely witness many of these issues that become overamplified out of the ordinary in the course of our daily national experience. These could be largely ascribed to a general era of discontent, i...