By Polycarp Onwubiko
The harebrained suggestions by
the writer are as follows:
1. Supporting the continuation of public funds guzzling CONSTITUENCY PROJECTS and to include it in the charade in barren exercise of CONSTITUTION AMENDMENTS designed to retain the Unitary-Federal contraption backed with the fraud called 1999 Constitution supposedly under Amendment ostensibly to favour the "Northern Cabal, Fulani Feudal Oligarchy and Northern Political Emirate Establishment".
The phalanx in their selfish
calculations believe that they would be dictating how the country will be
governed. They stridently kicked against decentralized security architecture
which is an integral part of restructuring the lopsided Federation with a new
Constitution that should be on the same pedestal with the 1963 Republican
Constitution which contained the realistic principles of federal system of
government as practiced the world over.
They don't want decentralized
security architecture because the state governments especially in the middle
belt states and southern part of the country will enact laws that will ban open
grazing thus compelling cattle owners to establish Ranches as practiced in
other countries. They want the roaming of terrorists masquerading as herdsmen
from the Sahel region of West Africa who are the foot soldiers of Islamization
agenda. In his delusional postulations he said that the Legislators promised
their Constituents democracy dividend. What a daft:
if the Legislators promised their Constituents
democracy dividend, then what did the aspiring Governorship and aspiring
Chairmen of local government councils promise their state and local government
area? In other words, Legislators have
dual role: law making, and execution of projects in their respective
Constituencies?
2. Magnus Onyibe in his
delusional three serial article also supports hybrid of Parliamentary style of
government and Presidential system of government. The fact remains that there
was nothing wrong with the practice of Parliamentary style of government in the
First Republic. The Republic was truncated due to the naive the vaulting and
vaunting ambition of the Northern Moslems to dominate the entire
ETHNO-RELIGIOUS groups and impose their decadent and ultra conservative values
and way of life on the rest of the ethnic nationalities. Nigeria should
therefore go back to the practice of Parliamentary style of government with the
1963 Republican Constitution slightly amended to use the Six Geopolitical Zones
as the new Federating Units to enable them develop at their own pace as was the
case with the Regional Governments in the First Republic.
3. He naively supported the
establishment of Northern Governors Forum and Southern Governors Forum; in
addition to the clearly unnecessary "Northern House of Representatives
Forum and Southern House of Representatives Forum". What a craze for
Associations in Nigeria! Due to brazen exploitation, the Northern Cabal
breathed down on the Middle Belt Governors not to form"Middle Belt
Governors Forum"; in line with the respective Three Geopolitical zones
Governors Forum namely: Southeast Governors Forum; South-South Governors Forum;
Southwest Governors Forum. All these Forums are clearly uncalled for if the
country is restructured. Each geopolitical zone will be very busy with
conceptualizing ideas for socioeconomic growth and development and will have no
time for jamborees which the Forums are all about.
Same goes for the Association
of local government councils, ALGON, a conduit pipe for siphoning local
government council’s funds by monthly deductions from the local government council’s
statutory allocations. In sane and sanitized Federations, there is virtually
nothing like ALGON. The purveyors of crazy Associations in Nigeria simply bribe
the National Assembly to make laws to back them. Same with useless so-called
"Professional Associations" which exploit members to fund the lavish
style of the leadership.
4. He canvases a role for
traditional rulers in the country's Constitution because according to his naive
postulations, the traditional rulers are in the position to curb and fight
insecurity. Haba! Is the PRIMARY ROLE OF GOVERNMENT NOT SECURITY? Can this man
cite Federations where native (traditional rulers rulers most of them
uneducated) responsible for security? I think it is time Editors throw away
such irrational articles sent to them for publishing. To Magnus Onyibe, the
clarion calls for restructuring the lopsided Federation with decentralized
security architecture as integral part is outright nonsense to him? He deserves
to be pitied indeed.
According to him, a Senator has
planned to disburse huge amount of money in his his share of the Constituency
Projects in the 2024 budget to the traditional rulers in his Constituency,
which President Tinubu did not frown at, having described the members of the
National Assembly as men of integrity for passing the budget, giving kudos to
the injection of billions into the budget for the so-called constituency
projects. Sorry for Nigeria, of course on the stoney road to GOLGOTHA.
Polycarp Onwubiko, media
commentator writes from Awka, Anambra State.
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