Enslavement can be defined constitutionally as when someone makes a fellow citizen to completely and absolutely dependent on him/her possibly with deployment of sanction and oppression like maltreatment, threat to life and rape, molestation, conspiracy, etc with intention of denying or depriving such a person his/her human right . while slavery can be defined as an act of owning a person by sanction and deployment of oppressive gimmicks as well as compelling obedient from such person with the same machinery to forced labor. This is why a slave is the one who is so strongly influenced by something that they cannot live without it or will not allow them to make their own decisions. Now, one can become a slave to a particular habit or to a property because he/she is being remote or controlled by such objects or habits. So, no matter whatever you are slave with or to; it is quite different from enslaving. To enslave one involves more in deployment of diverse sanctions to achieve ones aims and objectives towards ones subject or object of inflicting the authorities and powers.
constitutionally, enslavement is a crime or offense on it own punishable by section 34 of Nigerian constitution. it is a crime on its own because it has to do with total denial to human right of a fellow citizen. people that are good in enslaving sometimes employ different gimmicks to accomplish their mission. let us dive in to Nigerian Constitution to dig out the gimmicks behind this crime:
SECTION 34 (1)
"Every individual is entitled to respect for the dignity of his person
and accordingly
(a) no person shall be subject to torture or to inhuman or degrading
treatment
(b) no person shall be held in slavery or servitude; and
(c) no person shall be required to perform forced or compulsory labor
SECTION 34 (2)
For the purpose of the above subsection (1) (c) of this section:
"forced or compulsory labor" does not include:
(a) any labor required consequence of sentence order of a court
(b) Any labor required members of the armed forces of federation
or the Nigerian Police force in pursuance of their duties as such
(c) in the case of a person who has conscientious objections to service
in armed forces of federation; any labor required instead of
such service
(d) Any labor required which is reasonably necessary in the event of
an emergency or calamity threatening the life or well being of the
community or
(e) any labor or service that forms part of
(i) Nominal community or other obligations of well being
of the community
(ii) such compulsory national service in the armed forces of
the federation as may be prescribed by an act of the
national assembly
(iii) Such compulsory national service which forms part of the
education and training of citizens of Nigeria as may be
prescribed by Act of National Assembly
Anything short of the above specifications are termed enslavement
and must be reported to High court for readdress. "
Enslavement is also a sorts of abuse when the victim is violently maltreated or receiving indirect violent threat to life. it can be abuse of trust from one's boss when he betrays the victim or stab him/her from the back with gimmicks and motive to enslave.
Enslavement can also come in form of imposing unnecessary harmful laws or rules which are totally against Nigerian constitution or punishable by constitutional laws. sometimes, it can be beyond your control and to subject you to inhuman treatment or torture. such unnecessary sanction to obey immaterial laws or assume a character of disgrace with rebate or rewards which you might negotiate with the illegal perpetrator hiding behind the scene but responsible for the wicked acts are called enslavement. example of such enslavement ranges from by force marriage, this is common in some customs of uneducated tribes in Northern part of Nigerian who marries early as 14 years.
The height of offense of abuses effects to the victims are uncontrollable ranging from sexual infections to the victims and the suffering of premature vagina exposure sicknesses or infections. this is common in Northern part of Nigeria, any one encouraging such marriage of female below the ages of 21 years is committing felony and liable to 7 years imprisonment.
So also any act of violent to your human right by fellow citizen should be reported to high court for reddress and compensation because no one has the right to inflict pains talk more of forcing you beyond your human right by conniving and conspiracy with individuals who are not statutoryly backed by law to do so.
Enslavement can be criminal act when it is employed as a machinery to induce stealing by trick. here, we refer to people who illegally impersonates fellow citizens to receive an unauthorized rewards or awards on their behalf; only to end up not giving the people they represent what they receive for them. This type is liable to 14 years imprisonment by Nigerian constitutional Law. The enslavement here shows up when the criminal tries to cover up his crimes. They may employ diverse gimmicks of allegations to hold captive the one they impersonate; more especially when the perpetrators are group of people with one common goal of enslavement against their victimized individual. we can cite this type of enslavement in a community where people are living with one common culture. example of this type of enslavement is the citing practice of racism where the rich and the poor express their superiority/inferiority complex. The educated tend to oppress the uneducated less privileged ones with gimmicks of using them to collect things from dignitaries without permission. They easily succeed in doing this especially when their victim has damaged reputable which they will help to darken with blackmails so that they will gain more entrance to do their wicked harm of enslavement. But thank God for the educated poor ones who will boldly stand to challenge those gimmicks of enslavement with their intellectuals and curb enslavement by discrimination in the society
Let's join hands to fight Enslavement by racial discrimination and gimmicks of intimidation in the society as provided by Nigerian constitution. Long lives the arms of the federation, Long live Federal Republic of Nigeria, Long lives nations of the world.
ONYIA EMEKA HARFORD
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