AG President Osinbajo storms UNIZIK for NALT Conference (Photos)

We join the State Government to say "Welcome to the Safest State in Nigeria" Nigeria's Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo

Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka yesterday played host to the Acting President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, legal luminaries as well as law teachers nationwide.

The State Governor led the acting President to UNIZIK for the 50th Anniversary Conference of Nigerian Association of Law Teachers. Interestingly the theme of the conference is "Law, SECURITY and National Development"

These eminent personalities converged at the "University of all times" for the 50th conference of the Nigeria Association of Law Teachers (NALT) with the focus on"Law, Security and National Development".

Declaring the conference open, Prof. Osinbajo asserted that Nigerians are bedeviled with serious challenges which include the Boko Haram, tensions in the Niger Delta, herdsmen-farmer clashes, threats of secession, poverty, unemployment and corruption.

He faulted the inability of the state to create an inclusive society under existing constitutional arrangements, to guarantee the security of lives, liberties by the agencies charged with maintaining law and order and to build trust around the rule of law and the system of administration of justice, as the premise of the persistent agitations.

In his words,
“First, on the matter of inclusion and inequalities, there is little doubt in my mind that the provision of the basics of life to the largest number of our people remains the greatest source of tension in the polity.

“The daily struggles of many, for healthcare, a means of livelihood and the absence of a socially just means of ensuring that many, especially young people, have access to education and jobs provides a constantly replenished pool of young malcontents, ready to be recruited into any sort of Army, whether it be of kidnappers, terrorists, or violent or antisocial agitation for one cause or the other.

“Besides, the constant agitation for share of national resources, is a product of individual-elite- deprivation, taken up by ethnic nationalities and socio-cultural groups. Each group views the other with suspicion when it comes to matters of resources, and government appointments.

“As it is at the Federal level, so it is at the State level. In my state for example, the Egba and Ijebus in Ogun State are constantly arguing over who is getting a better deal in government appointments or infrastructural development.

“Unfortunately, in order to give our campaigns greater acceptability and resonance, we often characterize them as ethnic or religious agitation. The right to a decent existence, to education, healthcare or jobs must not depend on how loudly my ethnic or religious group agitates; no, these are my rights as a citizen of Nigeria.

“It is the failure of the State to deliver on these essentials of life and livelihood that compels our people to run to their tribal and religious camps to seek succour by way of agitation for basic rights and services.

“Unfortunately, it is the same elite especially the political elite, who fail the people by the wastage and embezzlement of their funds who are at the forefront of pretending that their deprivations are caused by other ethnic nationalities.

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