 మipedia wetam 5 noun ోత్లికిఆంమ౾ స౑కోకోకాకిఏైక ఻రుచితొం is like a cancer that has eaten deep into our political processes over the years and it is a very huge threat to the advancements of democracy in Nigeria. This huge threat has often led to violence that has caused loss of life and properties. For instance, in the 2019 elections, the Center for Democracy and Development recorded 10 deaths and 129 cases of violence and electoral crimes in the polls in Kugi and Bayesa states. Very recently, the campaign train of the Legos PDP Gubernatorial Candidates, including governorship candidates, were attacked by suspected miscreants while returning from the Badagri Luku government area of Legos states in late October. Also, two boys were almost beaten to death in Oshuji for carrying the Labor Party flags. In Oyo, APC Gubernatorial Candidates were attacked while staging a solidarity work for the 2023 presidential candidates of APC. This shows that no political party is immune from electoral violence or togri. What is political togri? Political togri is an aspect of social violence in which togs move mostly in groups, victimizing, terrorizing, intimidating and injuring innocent individuals and persons of different political stand. Accordingly, this affects individuals to pose deadly threats by deterring individuals to be active in political processes and routine. Social economic activities at their homes, shops and on the streets. This togs are used mostly and recruited by some political allies to serve their interests. Courses of political togri. The module course of political togri are money politics. People involving in political processes for quick financial gains would most likely be easily recruited as political togs. Massive unemployment. Some persons who are not gainfully employed can be easily persuaded to be involved in political togri on popular candidates. When certain political candidates do not have the broad support of the masses, they seem to take advantage of their proximity to power and influence electoral violence. Kobim political togri. Massive sensitization. Relevant government agencies and other stakeholders should enlighten the general public on several negative effects of political togri and election violence. Government should through the judiciary create specific laws and set up special courts to try electoral offenders, including political togs. Also, political parties should be largely held accountable for political violence or togri from many of their supporters. Security agents should be mandated to deploy all relevant means to call them political togri and preventing election violence. In conclusion, political togri and election violence could lead to large scale anarchy and insecurity which could disrupt peace and socio-economic sustainability in the nation which is a very huge threat to democracy and national progress. Therefore, the only way to register our political interests is to vote peacefully and not through promoting violence. In the words of Aung San Suu Kyi, a boomasi politician, diplomat Otto and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Councilor of Myanmar that's Boma in Southeast Asia and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2021. The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence. So this issue of political togri is is actually a threat to peaceful elections because most times during elections people I remember the last elections I wanted to go vote then my neighbor came to say she told my mom he mentioned that you know some people were at the polling booths you know trying to cause issues so that made a lot of people to stay back it was when the police intervened that people had the freedom to you know go back to the polling booth so I hope that in the coming elections the police will be able to monitor each each polling unit and ensure that there are no togs because when there are togs there a lot of people won't come out to vote so I believe it's actually a threat to peaceful elections and togs togs are everywhere so when we're talking of political togri we know that there are the togs who you know are used to during the political you know for political matters so I'm just concerned about the elections in all that you mentioned that I hope that during the elections people this would not be a threat to people coming out to vote so people have that piece of mind that freedom to express themselves and vote during the elections yeah you have a point you know electoral violence or violence during elections or perpetrated by mostly by political tog is usually a way of sabotaging our democratic process especially when the candidate is seen not you seem to be on popular among the masses if you are popular let's say if the mass is generally like you as a candidate you will not need to deploy togs to fight your way through you can't fight your way through into the hearts of people but you can walk your way through strategically by doing the right things and seeing the right things and and maybe the manner in which you carry out your campaign we have the will of endearing you to the masses and that we this can actually reduce the incidence of togri like you see in most states in Nigeria once you have a particular candidate that is so popular among the masses and is of a different political stand from those that are that are in close proximity to power in that state you will see that the government the particular some persons in government will be instigating some tog against this person and sometimes they use the instrument of security apparatus in their disposal to to either fight them or restrain some of their movements as seen in states like I think one of the southeastern states where the governor was announcing that they are not going to get access to public facilities for their campaign opposing party just imagine that same state you think that opposing parties will be feel safe in some state so I'm sure what do you think about this to the aspect we we touched on on the last topic our sport the the people in government have actually weaponized this idea by not giving and giving and engaging the youth in in a positive way I mean if we have a large population of youth in our country and most of them are not giving employees you don't expect somebody who is a well employed I mean we're paid in one job to be involved in togri most of those that you see involved in togri either uneducated or they are not even employed at all so they they tend to look for means of livelihood and so when you have hide your hands if they become right I mean what calls for ridicule gladiators to perpetrate all this and in a way they try to truncate the electoral process and many people are normally will normally want to vote right not to come out of their homes this is a way to ensure that you put fears in the minds of people and you know even your your mom or your dad will be calling you from the state from their own state to say please don't go out don't go out on food because of the havoc that this talk can can affect and so and again it has become a work money in the hands of political because it has first started so wrong to the extent that they they they use it to to have their way even when they have not performed because like you said if you have performed your works will speak for you if you have done well if you have delivered on your social contracts agreement that you signed with the people it will be it will be very easy for you to write to power again it will be very easy for you your work will speak for you but in this case you see politicians wants just to get out on to power do all sorts of display their ineptitude and at the end of the day they want to again regain power for a second or third or fourth time and so they feel there's no other way to do this than to ensure that the process is truncated people are are not willing to come out to vote rightly and wisely so i think that is that is it so if we are able to make sure that our youth are getting really employed everyone is i mean you have your fruitful engagement that you are involved in it to be very difficult for someone what to say i should come and join a train of violence to work on one person or the other so what when people are not getting really employed it makes it easier for them right thank you very much mr shegu so by a solution you know you the last time in your segment you talked about cbn trying to control uh much uh cash in outside the banks in in circulation and not used game fully now do you think that we in a way solve the problem of money politics because money politics is what breeds electoral violence so what do you think about that yes i think i think the new narrow notes the redesign would would help a great deal you know to reduce such issues such issues of a political tawgri and all that because you know if you want to be a most times in political tawgri there is exchange of money yes that is what happens and i believe this policy would this new policy on the narrow would help a great deal thank you very much mr shegu just before rando what's you are there on the fact that or do you agree or disagree with the fact that you know sometimes we seem to trivialize this attack on opponent's political candidates or parties in the state not mean that this effect could be cascaded into a huge anarchy or national security issue what do you think about that because sometimes we seem to trivialize it i mean politicians many of them seem to trivialize it not knowing that this could be of great negative effects so what do you think yeah in a way they what they try to do even when you ask them i mean straight up that's i mean your people are doing these and that's and it can call violence they tend to downplay it and say the and not the ones it's not our supporters and you tend to ask the question who are those supporters are they if you say party a is being attacked by school talks and the party base is claiming not to have anything to with it so it i think it has to do with the electoral acts that has to ensure that anybody involved in electoral violence is is tried and then make to face the music and if we begin to met punishment to those that have been found wanting in this area and we begin to have society and then people begin to run away from such activities and then the process will be more and more prudent and then sorry not prudent i will be will be more transparent and people will be willing to join it we have a situation we are people of uh like minds with good motives and not ready to join what it is because they feel it is dirty they don't want to be stained they don't want to be mean don't want to be killed their families and don't want them to even join because it can be done as per i mean mean the hand for them in all in all ways so electoral acts ask to be enforced such that people are made to face the music for the offenses that are committed in electoral process thank you very much mr shegu so to our viewers out there let's try our both to show violence and make only statements by voting accordingly to our conscience the end always seems to come too soon on the advocate however the advocacy continues on our social media platforms on 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