By Polycarp Onwubiko
Punch Editorial 1/7/24 titled: "Economic revamp without impact" exposed the brazen-faced hypocrisy of the federal government on its one year groping in the dark in the name of revamping the comatose economy created by the eight years of the locust of Buhari's administration.
The punchy, incisive Editorial
contended inter alia:
"Revamping the country’s
finances and economy requires firm and targeted measures such as improving
security for any meaningful boost in agricultural production and stopping oil
theft.
"Farming has become a
dangerous occupation with thousands of farmers abandoning their farms due to
banditry..."
The first step to stop the
rampaging terrorists masquerading as herdsmen imported from the Sahel region of
West Africa is to take immediate steps to abolish the supposed "ECOWAS
protocol free movement across West African countries ". It is important to
inform Nigerians that this so-called "Free movement of people from the
West African sub region was the initiative of the military autocrats in Nigeria
teleguided by the so-called "Fulani Feudal Oligarchy and Northern
Political Emirate Establishment* who planned to populate the Moslems in Nigeria
by flinging open the northern borders for the unchecked infiltration of
terrorists masquerading as herdsmen from the Sahel region of West Africa in the
name of" ECOWAS protocol free movement ".
It is also an important fact
that other West African countries MAINTAIN Passport and Visa regulations for
anybody's entry into their country because SOVEREIGNTY is integral to security
in an sane and sanitized countries of the world. It is outright madness for a
country to dump its Sovereignty (which is an integral part of security)and
allow anybody easy access into its country in the name of "ECOWAS protocol
free movement across West African countries". Who is fooling whom?
For instance in Niger state
where the terrorists masquerading as herdsmen allegedly murdered over twenty
soldiers but instead of the soldiers usually without permission from the Chief
of Army Staff, swoop on the killers of their colleagues in the southern part of
the country , they were restrained as the Governor rushed to Aso Villa and
pleaded with the president to forgive the terrorists masquerading as herdsmen
because according to the Governor, "they cannot leave the state" and
go back to wherever they came from. Who is fooling whom?
Fact remains that until these
terrorists masquerading as herdsmen from the Sahel region of West Africa are
crushed and driven back to wherever they came from, forget about security in
Nigeria, in addition to food security and crashing of the rise in the cost of
food items all over the country. President Tinubu, by his 'body language' is
dilatory in addressing the issue of the terrorists masquerading as herdsmen because
the agenda for Islamization has been a well-structured plan from the time
immemorial and the agenda is still ongoing.
It is immaterial to the
Caliphate Colonialists “if their people are dying of hunger; what is uppermost
to them is the dream Islamization agenda and Islamic Theocracy and Republic. It
bears restating that "ECOWAS protocol free movement across West African
countries" applies to Nigeria only for an agenda for Islamization. Any
person can wish it away but this is the stark reality. The two African
organizations viz: African Union AU and ECOWAS are useless organizations and
have to be dumped into the scrap heap of history.
The leaders are brazen charlatans and
hypocrites because they attend swearing in ceremony of presidents who brazenly
rigged the election and also the few presidents like South African president
who emerged through free and fair elections, invite presidents who rigged
election to their swearing in ceremony. Have you seen how unserious minded
African presidents are? That is how they are vainly and hypocritically planning
for "UNITED STATES FOR AFRICA"!
Traditional
Rulers Dangerous In Security Responsibility, Constitutional Democracy Must
Prevail
Guardian article by Alabi
Williams captioned: "Governors, traditional strongholds and grassroots
security" made a lot of revelations on the uncivilized and primitive
governance template in the northern and Southwest Geopolitical Zones whereby
traditional rulers are given responsibility for security.
Nigeria cannot be operating
Government in the 20th century with primitive and uncivilized style of
governance ostensibly to avoid "upsetting the apple cart", as it
were. In the hoary past, there could have been reason for allowing the
traditional rulers in those parts of the country as stated above to be in
charge of security.
Realistically, as civilization
comes on stream, plus the imperative of Constitutional Democracy and Functional
Governance by elected people, it is out of sync to continue to allow
traditional rulers to be controlling security within their jurisdiction. There
cannot be two political leaders in an enclave (call it State Government or
Regional Government).
The practice of Democracy has
to be total in all the nooks and crannies of the state in particular and the
Federation in general. According to the constitution of the federal republic of
Nigeria, "Security is the primary responsibility of government"; it
does not say that security should be the responsibility of the traditional rulers.
There must be a yawning gap between Constitutional Democracy and Traditional
institutions. The former represents modern day and age mode of controlling or
leading people while the former represents the hoary past when primitive
cultural practices held sway in the control of communities.
This is why it is absolutely
necessary for the Tinubu administration to kick-start the Restructuring of the
lopsided Federation with a Constituent Assembly of selected representatives of
ethnic nationalities to brainstorm and fashion PEOPLE'S CONSTITUTION which
takes care of the divers values, ways of life and world view of all the
ethnicities in Nigeria. The model of the 1963 Republican Constitution should be
the guiding pedestal in the making of a People's Constitution to replace the
"Federal-Unitary contraption" Decreed by the military autocrats
referred to as the 1999 constitution supposedly under Amendments ostensibly to
pander to the primitive and uncivilized ways of life of some ethno religious
irredentists.
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