WHY WE REJECT THE NIGERIA DEFINED BY THE ‘1999 CONSTITUTION’ - Movt New Nigeria
My brothers of Middle Belt and South, looming chaos and catastrophe is facing us, and most especially our children.

Once lockdown is removed Coro will begin to kill Nigerians. My brethren of Middle Belt and South, let us not die for nothing. Let us die for something: The 1999 Constitution is against us. It is TOXIC. Here is a fully explained post from Lower Niger Congress stating clearly the toxic 1999 Constitution. Read it. Spread the message. Work to make a new Nigeria happen. For full text of message, go to link attached below.
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This September 5, 2011 Public Communication of the MNN Alliance is a MUST READ for all who wish to understand the reasoning behind the impending Constitutional Force Majeure to Take Down the Fraudulent and Toxic 1999 Constitution along with the Unitarism it foists.
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(MNN = Movement For New Nigeria)
JUNE 30, 2011 MNN DECLARATION: WHY WE REJECT THE NIGERIA DEFINED BY THE ‘1999 CONSTITUTION’ - MNN, September 5, 2011.
(Being the text of a Joint Press Conference by the Lower Niger Congress, the Middle-Belt Congress and the Federation of Oodua People under the aegis of the Movement for New Nigeria held September, 5, 2011 at Lagos in response to the torrents of enquiries that trailed the JUNE 30 MNN LAGOS DECLARATION by which the Delegates of the Peoples of Southern and Middle-Belt Nigeria under the aegis of the Movement for New Nigeria Jointly Repudiated the Unitary 1999 Constitution of Nigeria and Committed themselves to the Urgent Task of Taking Down the Worse-than-Apartheid 1999 Constitution, in Restoration of their long-suppressed Sovereignties and in assertion of their Inalienable Right To Self-Determination).

Introduction
It will be recalled that at a World Press Conference held June 30, 2011 in Lagos after a week-long retreat , the Movement for New Nigeria declared its position on the tottering Nigerian Project in a Statement titled ‘THE FAILED STATE OF NIGERIA: OUR STAND’ (later published in full in an advertorial on page 38 of the August 25th 2011 edition of the Daily Sun Newspaper)….

The paradox of free and fair elections yielding so much bloodshed has left most observers and stake-holders confused and bewildered and has thrown up deeper questions about Nigeria than elections could answer. It is evident that the violence is an open confrontation between the forces of feudalism which had held Nigeria hostage from birth and the forces of liberty which for once, put up a successful challenge. The violence has its roots in the foundations of Nigeria….
The Genesis

The history of how Nigeria came into being as an amalgam of various British Colonies in the ‘Niger Area’ is too well known to bear any repetition, save to mention that in the early 1950s when the departure of the British colonialists became imminent, the peoples of the vast territory, realizing their deep differences accepted to remain in one political Union at independence on the basis of FEDERALISM in which the then federating 3 Regions had autonomy over their territories whilst jointly running the Central (Federal) Government as a Union office for a limited range of delegated responsibilities. Each Region had its own Constitution, developed at its own pace using its own resources while contributing to the up-keep of the Centre.

However, the British and their Fulani feudalist friends in the North who had other sinister designs had managed to smuggle certain dangerous ingredients into the broth for which the independence that was offered became hollow for the rest of Nigeria. Thus, whilst the rest of Nigeria celebrated what they thought was freedom from British rule in October 1960, the Leader and Premier of the then Northern Region, Sir Ahmadu Bello, and his lieutenants were celebrating something else, succinctly captured in the words of Sir Bello one week after the lowering of the Union Jack in October 1960:

“The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great grandfather Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities in the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us and never allow them to have control over their future”. – Parrot Newspaper, 12th October 1960. Recalled by Tribune Newspaper, 13th November 2002….

This elaborate Mission Statement and Battle Script has been carried out to the letter…All the woes and failures of present day Nigeria as well as the misery of its peoples flow directly from the single-minded execution of that Script…. made permanent in the form of a unilaterally imposed ‘1999 Constitution’ which defines Nigeria…. The hapless rest of Nigeria must now obey the ‘law’.

The Sarduana 1960 Battle Script and the 1999 Constitution
A detailed examination of Nigeria’s current constitutional reality under the microscope of the 1960 Battle Script will show that the unitary constitutional order we have in place today (the so called 1999 Constitution) represents the full implementation of the 1960 Script both in content and process. The key dramatis personae…can clearly be identified in their assigned roles and status within the Battle Script; the authentic heirs of the estate from the real North like Murtala Mohammed and Shehu YarA’dua,; the willing tools from the minority North like Yakubu Gowon and Theophilus Danjuma and collaborating slaves from the South led by the head-slave Olusegun Obasanjo .

The ruthlessness by which the cold-blooded murders/pogroms which accompanied the overthrow of 5 Constitutions in 1966 were executed is unmistakable in the spirit of the Script. The kangaroo trial and imprisonment of Chief Obafemi Awolowo for out-performing the British-anointed candidate, Alhaji Tafawa Balewa at the independence election, bears the mark….the MKO Abiola saga... murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa and his Ogoni kinsmen by one Justice Ibrahim Auta under the field supervision of one Lt.Col Dauda Komo, then military Administrator of Rivers State; Odi, Okerenkoko, Ogbakiri, Umuechem and Gbaramatu tasted of the ruthlessness by which any push for change was to be put down.

The ….‘Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria’ is a of reflection the ‘never-allow-them’ aspect of the 1960 Script.

Specific examples of feudal-compliant contents of the ‘1999 Constitution:
1. Force as basis of the Nigerian Union/ Constitution:. The 1999 Constitution was imposed via Decree No. 24 of 1999 with a false claim in its preamble that ‘We the people…’ enacted and gave same unto ourselves. In contrast, the 5 Constitutions (4 Regional and 1 Federal) sacked by the Military in 1966 were painstakingly negotiated and agreed upon by the leaders and representatives of the then federating Regions. Today, force as against consent remains the basis of the Nigerian Union….

2. Unilateral Structural Reconstruction of Nigeria: Of the 4 Regions sacked in January 1966, one, (the Northern Region) has by fiat (Decrees) become 19 States plus the Federal Capital Territory, thus controlling a solid majority in the National Assembly while the other 3 Regions (Eastern, Western, Mid-Western) plus the then Lagos Federal Capital Territory have been compressed into a mere 17 States together being a minority in the National Assembly. This is compounded by the creation of 774 revenue sucking outlets called Local Government Areas in which the North hold more than half. Altogether, no matter who becomes President, the revenue sharing reality is one in which those who bring nothing to the treasury take away about 70% of its contents as dictated by the ‘Constitution’. These terrible reconstructions were decreed by Yakubu Gowon, Muritala Mohammed, Ibrahim Babangida, Sani Abacha and..Abdusalam Abubakar….THE FEUDAL OVERLORD MUST BE IN CONTROL EVEN IF DISGUISED AS CONSTITUTIONALISM.

3. Resource Hijack. The 1969 Petroleum Decree by which the oil and gas assets of Eastern Nigeria (so-called South-East & South-South) got hijacked by the Federal Government was issued by willing-tool Yakubu Gowon in the name of the war with break-away Biafra. That hijack was made permanent and ‘legitimate’ by the inclusion of oil and gas on the Federal Exclusive Legislative List in the ‘Constitution’…. The email statement from MEND heralding the October 1st 2010 bombings in Abuja referred specifically to this constitutional mutilation as the injustice they are fighting to reverse. By the same design, the seaports of Port-Harcourt, Calabar and Warri which belonged to the then Eastern and Mid-Western Regions are now property of Abuja. The Lagos seaports have fallen into this category since the Federal Capital role which ostensibly justified federal control of Lagos ports has shifted to Abuja. Bottom-line: all assets of value must be in the hands of the feudal overlords who then dispense as they deem fit.

4. The 1978 Land Use Decree was used to impose the feudal land tenure system of the North upon the South thereby expropriating Southern land owners and toppling the well established, world acclaimed, age-long land tenure systems of the Southern territories and more importantly, destroying a key aspect of the Southern peoples’ traditional economic system which hold sacrosanct, the right to private property. This particular violation locks away billions of Dollars worth of what would have been investment capital in the hands of land owners who are now completely at the mercy of imperial governors for certification (C of O) or consent without which their lands remain without significant commercial value. By another Decree in 1979, that atrocious Law was elevated into the fortress of the ‘Constitution’ where it majestically resides to date. A little probe into the title deeds of one big farm in Otta will reveal the kind of use to which the said Land Use Decree had been put by the head-slave through whom it was wrought…..

5. The NYSC Decree of 1973 by Gowon was a ploy by the feudal North to evade the yawning imperative for a sovereign meeting between the peoples of Nigeria to re-negotiate the terms of their Union and re-establish confidence in the project after the mindless blood-letting pogrom /war of 1966-1970…They cannot understand why their Crown-Prince, Buhari will have to be subjected to the indignity of contesting for who will rule over their great grandfather’s estate, Nigeria, with a conquered slave under the pretense of some stupid democracy which must be a Southern/Middle-Belt ploy to choke them out of their inheritance. For that, blood must flow and it did flow. The hidden benefit of ‘balance of trade’ in favour of the North whereby their wards get sent to Port-Harcourt and Lagos to melt into oil companies, banks and telecommunication companies , dwelling in absolute safety while the sacrificial lambs from Port-Harcourt and Lagos end up Bauchi and Maiduguri where they get posted to some stone-age, run down primary schools with no job prospects post-service, but running the gauntlet between Boko-Haram and ruthless pupils who can behead their teacher for wearing NYSC trouser-kit…Still on the subject of corper safety, it is noteworthy that the traditions in the Southern territories place a sacred duty upon all to protect a stranger even at the risk of losing one’s life. It was this duty that fell upon Lieutenant Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi as Governor of Western Region when he opted to lay down his life in defence of his guest, Major-General Johnson Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi from the bloodthirsty Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma…To the feudal North, the master never negotiates with his slaves, so no to Sovereign National Conference!.

6 The 68-item Federal Exclusive List: The desperate bid to bring everything under absolute control in keeping with the dictates of the feudal Script is reason we have a 68-item Federal Exclusive Legislative List in the 1999 Constitution resulting in over-centralization and gross inefficiency, corruption and infrastructural decay. Electricity generation and transmission, police/firearms, railways, ports/aviation, highways, prisons, mines/minerals, and a long list of other items including driving license and vehicle plate number which the federating units could have more efficiently handled and which the defunct Regions had charge over, now all await the pleasure of Abuja and the result is the disaster we have in our hands… No amount of reforms, money throwing or Vision 20-20-20 will change anything until that list is decongested. The autopsy reports on Nigeria Airways, The National Shipping Line, The Nigeria Railways, NITEL, NEPA etc are living testimonies of this truth.

7. Non-Accountability under the 1999 Constitution. Since accountability is anathema to the feudal system, provisions were worked into the 1999 Constitution to banish any form of accountability and comprehensively protect the lords of the manor. First, Section.6(6)(c) which render the entire socio-economic welfare provisions in Chapter II of that Constitution non-justiciable, in effect cancels the citizens’ benefits of the social contract of governance and actually absolves the governments of any responsibility to the citizens. The appropriation provisions in Sections 82 and 122 give the spare keys of the entire Nigerian treasury to the President and the Governors while Section 308 offer absolute immunity from probe or sanction to these same officials. Taken together, these three provisions constitute the fountain from which corruption flows freely throughout the land… in Nigeria of today, corruption is official and this is a much bigger problem than officials being corrupt. Those who sit in the fortified refuge camp of Abuja, sharing the billions dollars confiscated by the ‘Constitution’ as well as their field commanders called Governors will do nothing to upset this sweet arrangement unless compelled. The authentic owners of the estate are now set to recover them from the feudal impostors.

Many other policy instruments such as Federal Character, Quota System and the latest mutation of it, zoning, are at the root of the pervasive mediocrity which Nigeria as a country has enthroned above merit and excellence for which reason many developmental issues other countries have resolved and taken for granted for decades remain unattainable….

LET IT BE KNOWN TO ALL:
I) That the Nigeria of today as defined by the so-called ‘1999 Constitution’ is totally different from and is in fact a dummy of the original one into which the various nationalities consensually federated at Independence which was abandoned in January 1967 after a failed attempt to resuscitate it in Aburi.

II) That since the basis of the Nigerian Union has been fundamentally altered by a combination of brute force and subterfuge Animal Farm-style, culminating in the fraudulent 1999 Constitution under which a vast majority, along with their assets are ‘legitimately’ enslaved by a tiny minority supported by foreign allies who generously partake of those of those assets, WE OF THE ENTRAPPED ETHNIC NATIONS OF THE LOWER NIGER TERRITORY,THE MMIDDLE-BELT AND OODULAND having participated in numerous countrywide peaceful processes which unsuccessfully sought to persuade the internal colonialists of Nigeria to address this terrible situation, now have no option but to seek the retrieval of our stolen sovereignties from the failed British experiment called ‘Nigeria’ since our pleas and demand for a sovereign meeting had been ignored and resisted since 1967.

III) That those who on May 29th,2011 swore to preserve, protect and defend the ‘1999 Constitution’ were by implication offering their best abilities and might to preserve and enforce the enslavement and torment of those who are currently enslaved by the fraudulent 1999 Constitution. May we wish remind such persons and indeed all stakeholders that there is also a huge community persons, groups and organizations who have earlier sworn and are fully committed to the decommissioning and dismantling of the fraudulent 1999 and have taken decisive steps in pursuit of same, not because they are anarchists but because they believe that force cannot remain the basis of the Nigerian Union . The MNN, Lower Niger Congress, Middle-Belt Congress and the Federation of Oodua People are in the forefront… challenging the legitimacy of the 1999 Constitution and seeking its orderly termination/replacement by a negotiated alternative, can pass for a winding-up process for the foisted Nigeria. It smacks of criminality for anyone to continue the governance of Nigeria on the basis of the forged and fraudulent 1999 Constitution….It is pity that the body of lawyers in Nigeria have kept mum and are colluding in this horrible affront on the rule of law.

IIII) That amendment is not an option since the National Assembly is itself in dispute neither do the members have constituent powers to make or remake a constitution. Those who in mischief or ignorance look towards amendments for cure to the issues raised herein are by that suggesting that the hired management team of a company can make or change the contents of the Memorandum and Articles of Association of a company to the exclusion of the shareholders who own the company. The shareholders and owners of the Nigeria enterprise are the federating nationalities in whatever formations, who would be countries of their own if Nigeria was not in place. The damaged house of Nigeria as embodied in the 1999 Constitution is overdue for demolition and reconstruction. Amendments of whatever types is like changing door, windows furniture or painting and will be discountenanced when the bulldozer arrives…

V) Until recently, the options before Nigeria were clear: Either to return to ABURI or to head on to ARABA since ABUJA has failed beyond redemption. (‘Abuja’ means Nigeria as defined by the 1999 Constitution. ‘Aburi’ means the original federal set-up agreed upon in 1954 as the basis of the Nigerian Union. ‘Araba’ means the inevitable, unilateral self-redemption steps in self-determination, in other words To thy Tents O Isreal!) We fear that the Aburi option has now been kicked out of the table by the sustained post-election violence unleashed by the Sharia North leaving us with Araba only.

ACCORDINGLY, THE ONLY CHOICE LEFT TO BE MADE BY ALL STAKEHOLDERS IS BETWEEN A COSENSUAL PEACEFFUL DISSOLUTION OF THE FAILED NIGERIAN PROJECT OR TO WAIT FOR THE UNILATERAL, UNCO-ORDINATED EXIT OF ERSTWHILE FEDERATING BLOCS WHICH MAY BECOME DISORDERLY AND EVEN VIOLENT. MNN INVITES ALL TO EMBRACE THE PEACEFUL OPTION AS IT HOLDS THE BEST PROSPECTS FOR AN EARLY RETURN TO FRIENDLY NEIGHBOURLINESS.

For and on behalf of Peoples’ of the Southern and Middle-Belt Nigeria (As Per Attached List of Signatories)
Fred Agbeyegbe Esq - Convening President, MNN. Tony Nnadi Esq - Convening Secretary, MNN.

SOURCE:
https://www.facebook.com/lowernigercongress/posts/1887422744727211?__tn__=K-R