'419' WORLD'S MOST NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL LAW CODE

Taboo:

The numbers 419 has become a taboo since its adoption by framers of Nigerian criminal codes just as the writers of the scriptures has tabooed many years back the numbers 666.

As 666 represents devil, Satan, antichrist or any thing associated with evil so is the number 419 and globally these numbers like plagues are avoided.

419 as a number code-figure has become associated with fraud, scams, corruption, in fact anything financial crime. The alphabetical twin sister to this numbers in Nigeria is OBT which means Obtaining By Trick.

Today the international community, not Nigerians alone have come to appreciate the obnoxious nature of these numbers that my friend was astonished the day he introduced himself to one Egyptian who contacted him for a chart in the yahoo messenger chart room as nigerian but the Egyptian referred jokingly to him as also Mr. 419.

My friend pretended as though he did not understand what the Egyptian meant but swallowed bitterly on the name which has come to be the metaphor for any person of Nigeria descent. It is psychologically torturing.

Metaphor For Nigeria:

It still is very insulting and embarrassing to identify people with names that denigrate their persons. I have seen many Germans reel in pains when they are individually associated with the name Hitler or Nazi.

not only Germans, any person going through this article will quite agree with me that if we be honest enough to recall our childhood reactions when people probably bigger than us call us those names that sooth their fancy about us which in actuality distorts our personality; that it was a reaction filled with an unforgiving hatred of them.

Unfortunately the Nigerian criminal code 419 has become the 2^nd name of hapless Nigerians before the international communities to an absurd degree.

Personally I would prefer to be referred to or be identified with any name that may depict evil, meanness or wickedness than one associated with stealing or larceny.

There is an Ibo saying which states;

that amongst all crimes that may be associated with a person,

stealing [and every other vice associated with it] is the worst.

[Why?] because it denigrates personality and can trigger the [retrogression or] extinction of an entire family.

Consolation:

I shall have to borrow a statement from a Hebrew texts [the scriptures] which states

that a clear mind or conscience should not be afraid of accusations and advise Nigerians, those who are not criminal minded to continue to bear the burden of this ACT occasioned by bad governance, but again to put a bold face and perhaps fight like I and Germans do, any person or nationality that calls us names.

The continued denigration of Nigeria and her cheap association with frauds, scamming and stealing is something every black man on earth should stand up against. It is like the classic association of any thing black to be evil until MLK told us that black means beautiful. I am saying this because the situation that Nigerian youths found themselves into today was artificially created by a collusion of western nations.

Until recently an European girl of about 24 years never knew there is a single airport in the whole of Africa. On reaching Murtala Mohamed Airport she asked the boy friend if they are transiting in France. Learning she was in Nigeria she confessed that she embarked on the trip to Africa just to experience the fun or adventure of landing atop an iroko tree. That’s the stuff she s been fed of since child hood about Africa.

The western world does these things deliberately not that we blacks are more fraudulent or criminal minded than they are.

No.

Africans and indeed Nigerians are crude, raw, loud, calous and perhaps unsophisticated in their style or approach to mordern crimes.

How many nigerians exactly knows how to creat or host a neat scame website filled with all hipes about becoming a millionier overnite just by buying an e book worth may be $3.00 dollars only;

How many can sit down and figure out what it amounts to; to collect few dollars from unsuspecting browsing public rather than sending useless crudly framed sparms/bulk mails with huge amounts which only a lunatic that never knew what it takes to make money can subscribe to.

how many of those dropouts knew the legal implication of promising somebody boldly with the right hand, of the soundness of a scheme and removing it in his very presence right there on his/her computer screen with the left hand with a simple legal trick called The "DISCLAIMER".

As I was editing this text, I called up from my system a check in a particular word, from a software in there, Encarta dictionary to be precise, the word I was to check is very close to the word..`Nigerian English’; I told you it’s a deliberate thing by westerners; it is a form of prejudice.

this is what I found in Encarta..

In grammar, there is a tendency toward pluralizing nouns that are singular in Standard English (as in I gave them some advices) and the pronoun themselves is often used instead of one another (as in That couple really love themselves). Distinctive vocabulary includes borrowings and loan translations from local languages, e.g., danshiki from Hausa ("a gown worn by men") and to throw water ("to offer a bribe").

Microsoft® Encarta® 2008. © 1993-2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Why cant this writer finish his/her work without allusion to a financial crime.

Well;

419 as a criminal code was a creation of the Nigerian state and so was the crime itself where state represents the authorities; is the central theme of a book I shall soon publish.

It traces the origin of the [financial] crimes and the creation of the code to the rouge and mediocritic regimes that has managed the affairs of the Nation state since 1967.

Below is an extract from the chat my friend had with an Egyptian and informally educating him on the code which I too now see as a universal concept for any manner of deception rather than those criminal conotations circumscribing it around Nigerians only.

but I think Nigerians may be the only people that has the poetic lisence to use it in this manner.

YAHOO CHART. JULY 2008

alzainyhasan: HELLO PRINCE

alzainyhasan: CAN WE CHAT

BUZZ!!!

amec prince: why not is just that i am a little busy

alzainyhasan: OK

amec prince: how do u do alza

alzainyhasan: SORRY

alzainyhasan: IF I ANNOY U

amec prince: no

alzainyhasan: I AM OK

amec prince: not at al

alzainyhasan: I AM EGYPTIAN MALE

amec prince: you de yan like a 9jer

alzainyhasan: ENGINEER

alzainyhasan: 37

amec prince: oooooooo

amec prince: u know 9jer?

alzainyhasan: WHAT??

amec prince: it means nigeria

alzainyhasan: YES

alzainyhasan: 4-1-9

amec prince: no

amec prince: lol

alzainyhasan: BUT WHAT??

alzainyhasan: JUST NIGERIA

amec prince: its a good place to be in , there are thieves also in egypt mubarack is a big one

alzainyhasan: IS THE BIGGEST

amec prince: the thief o 419

amec prince: i mean chief

alzainyhasan: BUT HERE NONE CAN STOP U

alzainyhasan: ON THE STREET

alzainyhasan: I KNOW MUBARRAC IS A THIEF

amec prince: what d u mean non can stop me on a street

alzainyhasan: THEY STOPPED ME IN ABUJA

alzainyhasan: IN NIGERIA

amec prince: okay

alzainyhasan: AND TOOK EVERY THING WITH GUNS

alzainyhasan: AND THEY ATTACKED THE HOTEL IN GHANA

alzainyhasan: AND LEFT ME WITH TWO FRACTURES

alzainyhasan: OOOOOOH

alzainyhasan: WHY ARE U SILENT

amec prince: no those ones are called armed robbers, they are every where. in fact the whole of iraq is a nation of armed banditry

alzainyhasan: NO

alzainyhasan: U ARE MISTAKEN THIS TIME

alzainyhasan: HERE IN EGYPT WE ARE KIND

amec prince: how, el kaida nko?

alzainyhasan: AND RESPECT THE FOREIGNER VERY MUCH

alzainyhasan: WE CAN'T HURT HIM

alzainyhasan: ELKAIDA

alzainyhasan: IS A RELIGIOUS ORG

amec prince: osama bin laden is an arab does he respect foreigners

alzainyhasan: YES

alzainyhasan: VERY MUCH

amec prince: heeeeeeeeeeeeee

alzainyhasan: BUT HE'S STRUGGLING AGAINST THE TERRORISM

alzainyhasan: BECAUSE AMERICA DOESN'T RESPECT THE WEAK

alzainyhasan: SO

amec prince: he is bombing every where like those people in abuja and ghana. in fact their own is small when compared with osama’s true or false?

alzainyhasan: NO

alzainyhasan: U DON'T UNDERSTAND ANY

amec prince: ghandi of india did not fight like osama,martin luther king jr did not fight like osama, nelson mandella did not, yet these people have achieved thier aims tru or false.

alzainyhasan: NOT LIKE U SAY

alzainyhasan: FORCE IS FOR FORCE

alzainyhasan: I LIKE OSAMA

amec prince: as a radical he is i like him some how. i don’t hate him,

amec prince: but he is very extreme

amec prince: i don’t love george bush at all he s an arch hypocrite

amec prince: but i can’t hate the whole of America it’s a nation

amec prince: where there are good people bad people are there also

amec prince: am i making sense to you

BUZZ!!!

amec prince: so for nigeria we are still babies in wahalla or 419

alzainyhasan: WAHALLAH

alzainyhasan: WHAT DID U MEAN

amec prince: trouble or 419

alzainyhasan: YES

amec prince: iraq is a big trouble 419 too, agree with me?

amec prince: iran also

amec prince: isreal also

amec prince: usa is the papa of 419 agree?

amec prince: britain trained all of them in 419

amec prince: nigeria is just a maggot in crimes

amec prince: all that g8 are doing is 419

amec prince: paris club is 419

amec prince: world bank is 419

amec prince: mubarrack of egypt is doing 419 to the whole egypt

amec prince: what is 419?

alzainyhasan: I AM AGREED WITH U

amec prince: you better boy

alzainyhasan: THANKS

BUZZ!!!

amec prince: bye

alzainyhasan: BYE

alzainyhasan: THANKS FO R THIS WHILES.