In his dystopian novel, 1984, English writer George Orwell, “Author of Animal Farm” takes about double speak, to mean a language that deliberately obscures, disguises or distorts the meaning or reverses the meaning of words. The ideas is to make language become ambiguous and disguise such a language to hide its true meaning. Simply put.
Double speak is political language. The December 26 Gestapo like storming of the St Peters Anglican Church auditorium, at Nkwere, in IMO state, during the funeral service of former Government Rochas Okorochas son-in-law’s. Mother, Mrs Jeremiah NWOSU, was carefully planned and executed. As should be expected, Imo state information commissioner, Declan Emulumba quickly dissociated his boss and Government Hope Uzodimma from the melodrama. According to him, the special force unit from the IG’s office took Uche away.
The tension on the church’s premises was palpable. In a region where so called unknown gunmen roam free and wild, the scenario could have been a fairytale kidnap attempt for those who care, it is a case of feud between an immediate past helmsman and an incumbent boiling over. This may not be the end of the epic. For a jurisdiction where the histrionics or theatrics of politicians are almost choking, one reflects on the animated debate about the propriety or otherwise of a state police. A Governor does not command the police in an emergency, but can get the same police to act out a script when it is time to deal with a supposed enemy. This is a double speak.
