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Constitutional Provisions for Roman Citizens’ Protection in the Time of Paul and the Challenges of Civil Rights Advocacy in Nigeria

Ufomba, Eleazar Enyioma, PhD, Oyalabu, Samuel Olukayode, PhD, Chibuzor Ephraim search, Bambi, Matthew Adeniyi, PhD

Abstract

Rights Violation which refers to acts or omissions that breach individuals' and groups' fundamental human rights as recognized by international standards seems to be a perennial scourge in the Nigerian contemporary society. This menace stands at variance with civil rights advocacy and the idea of natural law, which broadly emphasizes any rule that instinctively devoted in sense and pursuance of justice. With reference to the Judeo-Christian scripture which usually referred to as the grundnorm within the context of Christian theology, Acts of the Apostles 22:25- 29 established that military brutality or extra judicial torture of Roman citizens was seriously prohibited by law, having severe consequence on any military official or politician who perpetrated or approved of such. The legal term A??????????, Akatakritos (uncondemned) used by Apostle Paul (Acts 22:25), and the ???????? Ephobethen (extreme fear) displayed by the Roman military captain (?????????, Chiliarchos) upon the realisation of Paul’s Roman citizenship (Acts

Keywords

Constitutional ProvisionsRoman CitizensProtectionChallengesCivil Rights

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