SlayerForever:
Today I read about Otuoke being Igbo, descended from Mbieri people of Imo who still call themselves umuotuoke till this day.

Another exposé on Bayelsa may be coming up


cc Bkayy, Igbiod, Ekealterego

una like wahala ehhh

AchalugoNwa:
una like wahala ehhh

We live for it

Adexvivacity:
They have transported their madness to Bayelsa

You think you made sense abi?

Nairaland and bad news is like Buhari and Dollar

Good news

The zooo called Nigeria is gradually coming to an end
May God saves his people

Those who rejoice over this sad news need their head to be check

Soonest it will get to every town,village, city,lga's,state intact the whole country only if the government believes in oppression.

Dididrumz:
In Bayelsa? Haven't heard this oo

Please ask around to confirm this, fake news full nairaland

SlayerForever:
Today I read about Otuoke being Igbo, descended from Mbieri people of Imo who still call themselves umuotuoke till this day.

Another exposé on Bayelsa may be coming up


cc Bkayy, Igbiod, Ekealterego

Stop looking for trouble, Otuoke is not Igbo. Their ethnic group is Ogbia.

fred04:
Soonest it will get to every town,village, city,lga's,state intact the whole country only if the government believes in oppression.

Obadiah malifa has said it before they killed him. It will get to everyone.

2022...is the jihad.

Everyone should get ready.

EmperorTolson:
This guys should just stop attacking the police officer.
If they can't do without attacking people, they should go and face boko haram. We'll appreciate them better then.

Maybe police officers in those state should strike since there life is no longer save.

The police are just like them.. So they should kill themselves, as long as its not innocent citizens going about their daily activities..

My bayelsa, why again? ���������������������������� Why are you at it again. Please please please �� please please �� please. Shield swords, please

SlayerForever:
Today I read about Otuoke being Igbo, descended from Mbieri people of Imo who still call themselves umuotuoke till this day.

Another exposé on Bayelsa may be coming up


cc Bkayy, Igbiod, Ekealterego

Why do you enjoy worthless and stupid arguments?

OK

SlayerForever:
Today I read about Otuoke being Igbo, descended from Mbieri people of Imo who still call themselves umuotuoke till this day.

Another exposé on Bayelsa may be coming up


cc Bkayy, Igbiod, Ekealterego

You are very sttuppidd! for bringing up this fake story here on this sad thread. To me the predictions by Mailafiya is slowly but steadily coming to pass. 2022 is not a good year to reside anywhere in Nigeria

burglar Rob burglar quarter

Adexvivacity:
They have transported their madness to Bayelsa

Coming to a state near you soon.

My fellow Nigerians,
please let us stand together,
no tribalism
,no religious difference's
No political affiliations
Just like our Elite class,they are united in exploiting us ,weaponizing poverty,we are now the poverty capital ot the world -87% of our northern brothers and fellow citizens/indegenes are poor,
They have allowed a terrorists group to hoist flags all over 60% of the north (they pay taxes and ramsons to terrorists ,they kill us
we protest (End Sars) .
They have looted all our resources,they keep enriching themselves.
The suffering is nations wide ;
All tribes are suffering;
Let us unite;
Stay focused;

Our solution

Relys on our social contract;
(Magna carta)
with the state; or lack of there of;
We are not treated like citizens ,
Nigerians are mere indigenes; we are not citizens ,but mere indigenes ;

We are not governed with a legal constitution; but a fraud decree ;
Slavery;
Master/ slavery relationship;
contract we never signed ;

My Learned Brother Silk and Constitutional Law expert, S.T. Hon, SAN, had this to say in his book titled ‘Constitutional Law and Migration Law’: “there is no doubt that the 1999 Constitution was enacted by the military. That the Apex Court merely imputed this exercise to the Nigerian people”.


Many Nigerians including erudite Constitutional Law Lawyers have expressed serious reservation about the process leading to the making of the 1999 Constitution, and the resultant lack of popular acceptability occasioned by the process of its making. For instance, Chief Rotimi Williams, SAN, a foremost Constitutional Law Lawyer described the 1999 Constitution as a “document that tells lie against itself.” Professor Itse Sagay, SAN, categorically described the Constitution as a “fraud.” The erudite Constitutional Law Lawyer and a foremost Professor of Law, Professor Ben Nwabueze, SAN, described the Constitution as an “illogicality”. That the 1999 Constitution is a “Unitary Constitution for a Federal System of Government.”


The Constitution was described as a fraud and a document that lies against itself at a Seminar on the new Constitution organised by the Nigerian Bar Association, Ikeja Branch, on the 18th of June, 1999, because the Constitution purportedly stated in its opening recital that “We the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria having firmly and solemnly resolved… do hereby make, enact and give to ourselves the following Constitution.” Since the enactment of the 1999 Constitution, the question has been asked repeatedly, where and when did that resolution take place? How did the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria arrive at that firm and solid resolution purportedly expressed in the recital to the 1999 Constitution? It must be recalled that the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was midwifed by the then Military Government of General Abdulsalam Abubakar, GCFR, pursuant to the promulgation of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Decree No. 24 of 1999. The question is whether Decree No. 24 of 1999 can take the place of a referendum by the people in the making of a people’s Constitution, recognising that the ultimate sovereignty lies with the people?


Fourth, in the case of Attorney-General of Abia State v Attorney-General of the Federation, the Supreme Court stated the meaning and scope of Federalism in the following words: “Federalism as a legal concept generally connotes an association of States formed for certain common purposes, but the State retains a large measure of their original independence or autonomy. It is the co-ordinate relationship of power between the individual States and the National Government, which is at the centre. Federalism as a viable concept of organising a pluralistic society such as Nigeria for governance, does not encourage so much concentration of power in the centre which is the Federal Government. In federalism, the component States do not play the role of errand boys.” The point was also made by the Supreme Court in Attorney-General of Lagos State v Attorney- General of the Federation, that each Government in a Federation “exists not as an appendage of another Government, but as an autonomous entity in the sense of being able to exercise its own will in the conduct of its affairs, free from direction from another Government.” None of these essential characteristics of a true Federalism, can be said to exist in Nigerian in real and practical terms.
Everyone in this nation today, accepts the fact that the nation is faced with a lot of structural and systemic challenges, a good number of which are the products of the inadequacies of the 1999 Constitution. It is no longer news that there has been over-concentration of powers at the centre, to the detriment of the federating units. Indeed, over the years the centre has been grabbing and grabbing powers at the expense of the federating units. The long years of military adventure in governance, has not helped the situation. For the sake of comparison, the 1954 Constitution donated 43 items to the centre in the Exclusive Legislative List, 45 items in the 1960 and 1963 Independence and Republican Constitutions, 66 items in the 1979 Constitution and 68 items to the centre in the 1999 Constitution. The reality of our Constitutional structure and power sharing today is that simple items such as census, labour, trade unions and industrial relations, mines, minerals, natural gas, drugs, evidence, trade and commerce are on the Exclusive Legislative List. Not to talk of the Policing system. This is in addition to 30 items under the Concurrent Legislative List for which both the Federating States and the Federal Government have powers to make laws, subject of course to the supremacy of the Federal Law over the State Law on any such matter where one is inconsistent with the other.


The issue of Nigeria Police and the security architecture in particular, is very germane. It is not an over-statement to say that the greatest challenge confronting our nation today and particularly the security and sustenance of our Constitutional democracy, is that of insecurity. I believe that nobody is left in any doubt that the centralised and monolithic Police structure established by Sections 214 and 215 of the Constitution, can no longer guarantee the security of this nation and its component parts, and this explains why the other security agencies like the Military, the Airforce and the Navy are now directly involved in the maintenance of law and order in different parts of the country.


The Making of a New Constitution

The process of making the 1999 Constitution, as stated earlier, falls short of guaranteeing its popular legitimacy and acceptability. No amendments, no matter how many times can in a retroactive manner, cure this foundational defect in the making of the 1999 Constitution. It remains a military-donated Constitution. A deliberate effort to embark on the making of a new Constitution, will offer an opportunity to Nigerians for popular participation in the Constitution making process of their country.


Scholars of Constitutional Law have argued, and I wholeheartedly agree with their reasoning, that the scope of making a Constitution should not be determined by the rulers or those who govern them. Professor Julius Ihombere, talking about the value of participatory/people driven Constitution making approach had this to say: “political elites and leaders have not come to fully appreciate the importance of a participatory or people driven Constitution making approach to their own survival in office and to the reduction of conflicts and pressures on the State, its institutions and custodians. Aside from using the process to resolve burning national issues, a participatory approach is probably one of the best panaceas to instability, public cynicisms and alienation from government. It is equally the best way to cultivate a culture and tradition of reliance on dialogue and consensus, rather than the resort to violence in the political process”.


The contemporary challenges being faced in the nation today, such as the wide spread insecurity, various sectional loyalty and allegiances instead of loyalty and commitment to the cause of the nation on the basis of nationalism and patriotism, lack of properly focused political system cloaked in ideology and the uncountable number of political parties jostling for power, the agitation for true federalism, both fiscal and structural, make the call for a new Constitution not only worthy of consideration, but I submit, makes it compelling. The Constitution of 1999 falls short in many aspects of what a Federal Constitution should be. It is my humble view that, the time to take the bull by the horn and drive a wholesale replacement of the 1999 Constitution through the instrumentality of an autonomous and independent body, is now. Such body must emanate from the people. Like I stated earlier, the ultimate sovereignty lies with the people. It is my contention that we have got to a point in Nigeria, when we should subject the nation to the sovereign will of the people by making a people driven Constitution.


The materials for this exercise, abound in Nigeria. These include men and women of good standing in their immediate society who can be elected from their constituencies to constitute a Constitution Drafting Committee, to identify and collate the aggregate will and expressions of the people. The Report of the National Political Reform Conference of 2005 set-up by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR, (which I was privileged to be a member), the Report of the Constitutional Conference of 2014 set-up by Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, GCFR, the 1979 and 1985 which heralded the 1999 Constitution midwifed by General Abdulsalam Abubakar, GCFR. The workings of the Constitutional Drafting Committee shall be submitted to a Constituent Assembly, and the final product emanating from the Constituent Assembly shall be submitted for people’s referendum. Through this process, the people take ownership of the constitution.
The Constitution must be seen and regarded as “an expression of the general will of the nation, a reflection of its history, fears, concerns, aspirations, vision and indeed, the soul of the nation. Furthermore, the Constitution is not just an elite affair; rather, it must be seen as a single document under which diverse and ideologically opposed people unite, and rally in defence of democracy.”


Conclusion

A new Constitution will translate: “We the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria having firmly and solemnly resolved… do hereby make, enact and give to ourselves the following Constitution” , from hypothesis into reality. May I conclude by saying that, if we must decisively address the inadequacies, distortions, confusions, fundamental omissions and the inherent contradictions in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended, if we must establish a true and functional Federation that will guarantee national cohesion through the rule of law – our focus must be to give to ourselves a new Constitution. This is the truth, no matter how inconvenient.

This country is long dead.


Smh.

Unfortunately bribe and Yahoo money will not let them give up untill they are all wiped out

EmperorTolson:
This guys should just stop attacking the police officer.
If they can't do without attacking people, they should go and face boko haram. We'll appreciate them better then.

Maybe police officers in those state should strike since there life is no longer save.

Basheer22:


GEJ is Igbo.
Why then are Igbos crying for Presidency when GEJ an Igbo man was President just a few years ago. Igbos are naturally greedy.

So you accept Bayelsa is Igboland?

And Bayelsa oil, Igbo oil?

Noneroone:


http://saharareporters.com/2021/10/12/gunmen-attack-police-station-bayelsa-kill-one-officer-cart-away-ammunition

unKnown gunmen? Dem don reach that side too?

Eastlink:
Stop looking for trouble, Otuoke is not Igbo. Their ethnic group is Ogbia.

When I open the bomblike thread on this issue we shall see


cc Abagworo, Smartpolician

The bush meat don dey hunt hunter and also carting away with hunter local gun...

We never see anything...

sureboykris:
"Gun men" but if it's in the South East they are labeled Unknown Gunmen.
Media sha

media politics...

SlayerForever:
Today I read about Otuoke being Igbo, descended from Mbieri people of Imo who still call themselves umuotuoke till this day.

Another exposé on Bayelsa may be coming up


cc Bkayy, Igbiod, Ekealterego

Guy, we are all Biafrans. I am an ijaw from Bayelsa state, but I know that most of us could be traced to the great igbos. My great great grandmum is from Nsukka. And my family owns the largest land in our kingdom, which has one of the largest oil and gas reserves in Nigeria. Any time I am ready I will trace our family in Nsukka and host a very big party for homecoming.

Terorislam:
Just hold on a beat , Yoruba Muslims are coming to beg for unity here, ndi ara

And OSU ipób jew pigs will come to bleat and wail as usual

ESN has extended to Bayelsa

Abagworo:


You are very sttuppidd! for bringing up this fake story here on this sad thread. To me the predictions by Mailafiya is slowly but steadily coming to pass. 2022 is not a good year to reside anywhere in Nigeria

Gworo man, you are trying to dodge this thread about your state

https://www.nairaland.com/6797977/izombe-oguta-imo-deserted-soldiers