Brendaniel:


Oga, you have not still answered me, I said what do you want us to do as Nigerians to change the situation?

We need to stage a nationwide protest and return to the drawing board, this current system will continue to fail us irrespective of who is there. Even if they don't want to steal, the constitutions have too many loopholes that allow people to steal and go free under your watch. We need to scrap the national assembly as a permanent parliament and rather a part-time arm of government that comes in when the need arises, we are wasting too much of non-available funds by paying unnecessary allowances and salaries. We need an inclusive constitution that protects the interest of everyone in Nigeria, we need states to use what they have to develop their states or region and contribute only a quota to the center (a truly federal system). Include in the constitution benefits as a Nigerian child up to a certain age, for a certain number of children born by a single parent (so as to control giving birth indiscriminately). Enshrine in the constitution age, health condition, integrity, etc a well spelled-out application process for impending contestants, and stop all overseas travels for government officials on health grounds, if they do, it should be from their pocket, their children's education is their priority, not the nation, stop all bogus allowances. Give preference more to home-grown students as against expatriate or foreign students.

As the time is ticking, it's getting worse, and the next and the next one will not be any different....everybody just wants to catch out before it finally collapses - cos it eventually will. This is what will eventually happen or get polarised to an explosion stage where it could no longer hold in the center.
All the promises of I will, I will...that all of them are campaigning with is not workable, the system is designed automatically to fail. Have you noticed how people like Abdulsalam who was part of the process are always quick to jump to congratulate the next failure whenever the polls declare a winner?
Justice Niki Tobi’s scholarship is not in doubt and his service to this country is appreciated but the 1999 constitution that he produced is today corrigenda, meaning a list of errors and imperfections.

While Constitutions of other countries went through referendums or plebiscites, our own did not. Even in our next-door neighbor Niger, the constitution there went through a referendum before being adopted. Ours did not go through such. There was no input by the people on the 1999 constitution. It was produced and forced on us. And the way and manner it was done, is as absurd, slacking, and desultory as the contents of the constitution itself. go back to how it was produced.

General Sanni Abacha(1943-1998) died in 1998 and in a session by the Armed Forces Ruling Council, a few hours after his death, General Abdulsalam Abubakar emerged as the head of state. On July 7 1998, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola(1937-1998), the acclaimed winner of the last Presidential election died suddenly in detention. Upon the recommendation of his then deputy, Vice Admiral Mike Okhai Akhigbe, General Abdusalam appointed Retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Ephraim Omorose Ibukun Akpata(1927-2000) as the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission in October 1998. Justice Akpata then rolled out his time table for the elections and the approval for the formations of political parties. On November 2, General Abdusalam Abubakar appointed Justice Niki Tobi as Chairman of the Constitution debating Committee and inaugurated the committee on November 11. In December 1998, local government elections were held across the nation on party basis and that was how the PDP kicked off leading other parties with success in local government elections.

In short, Niki Tobi’s committee worked for less than 155 days to produce the constitution. It is unfair for a country with 36 states excluding the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja, 774 local governments, over 300 tribes and over 2000 pressure groups, to have a constitution of that magnitude produced within such a period. Niki Tobi’s committee visited just few states, stayed most of the time in Abuja, held public hearing just for few days, compiled its report and submitted, thinking that members of the Armed Forces Ruling Council would not approve most of its recommendations. Only a few memoranda were entertained by the committee. Justice Niki Tobi’s committee based its report mostly on the contents of the 1979 constitution and the unapproved report of the Karibi- Whyte constituent assembly inaugurated under the previous military era. The death and manner of how General Sanni Abacha and Chief Abiola died must have frightened General Abdusalam Abubakar to hurriedly approve most of the recommendations of Justice Niki Tobi so as to quit power and enjoy his retirement.

I can go on and on - but that's by the way, every reform, every attempt to better the country has failed, the system has produced more thieves, the process to bring them to account is cumbersome, these thieves are protected by their region, the people that they have stolen from, you and I are no longer seen as a Nigerian except for the passport we carry, we all are seen as Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Fulani, Ijaw, etc. The national wealth is not evenly distributed. With too much power to the center, it becomes a lucrative business office rather than a service to the nation. Have you ever asked what happens to other mineral resources lying fallow across the country (which are stolen through mining by westerners and their cronies daily)? Even though Boko Haram is the protector of the miners, their attack on the Nigerian system is a distraction.

djseanjohn77:



We need to stage a nationwide protest and return to the drawing board, this current system will continue to fail us irrespective of who is there. Even if they don't want to steal, the constitutions have too many loopholes that allow people to steal and go free under your watch. We need to scrap the national assembly as a permanent parliament and rather a part-time arm of government that comes in when the need arises, we are wasting too much of non-available funds by paying unnecessary allowances and salaries. We need an inclusive constitution that protects the interest of everyone in Nigeria, we need states to use what they have to develop their states or region and contribute only a quota to the center (a truly federal system). Include in the constitution benefits as a Nigerian child up to a certain age, for a certain number of children born by a single parent (so as to control giving birth indiscriminately). Enshrine in the constitution age, health condition, integrity, etc a well spelled-out application process for impending contestants, and stop all overseas travels for government officials on health grounds, if they do, it should be from their pocket, their children's education is their priority, not the nation, stop all bogus allowances. Give preference more to home-grown students as against expatriate or foreign students.

As the time is ticking, it's getting worse, and the next and the next one will not be any different....everybody just wants to catch out before it finally collapses - cos it eventually will. This is what will eventually happen or get polarised to an explosion stage where it could no longer hold in the center.
All the promises of I will, I will...that all of them are campaigning with is not workable, the system is designed automatically to fail. Have you noticed how people like Abdulsalam who was part of the process are always quick to jump to congratulate the next failure whenever the polls declare a winner?
Justice Niki Tobi’s scholarship is not in doubt and his service to this country is appreciated but the 1999 constitution that he produced is today corrigenda, meaning a list of errors and imperfections.

While Constitutions of other countries went through referendums or plebiscites, our own did not. Even in our next-door neighbor Niger, the constitution there went through a referendum before being adopted. Ours did not go through such. There was no input by the people on the 1999 constitution. It was produced and forced on us. And the way and manner it was done, is as absurd, slacking, and desultory as the contents of the constitution itself. go back to how it was produced.

General Sanni Abacha(1943-1998) died in 1998 and in a session by the Armed Forces Ruling Council, a few hours after his death, General Abdulsalam Abubakar emerged as the head of state. On July 7 1998, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola(1937-1998), the acclaimed winner of the last Presidential election died suddenly in detention. Upon the recommendation of his then deputy, Vice Admiral Mike Okhai Akhigbe, General Abdusalam appointed Retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Ephraim Omorose Ibukun Akpata(1927-2000) as the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission in October 1998. Justice Akpata then rolled out his time table for the elections and the approval for the formations of political parties. On November 2, General Abdusalam Abubakar appointed Justice Niki Tobi as Chairman of the Constitution debating Committee and inaugurated the committee on November 11. In December 1998, local government elections were held across the nation on party basis and that was how the PDP kicked off leading other parties with success in local government elections.

In short, Niki Tobi’s committee worked for less than 155 days to produce the constitution. It is unfair for a country with 36 states excluding the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja, 774 local governments, over 300 tribes and over 2000 pressure groups, to have a constitution of that magnitude produced within such a period. Niki Tobi’s committee visited just few states, stayed most of the time in Abuja, held public hearing just for few days, compiled its report and submitted, thinking that members of the Armed Forces Ruling Council would not approve most of its recommendations. Only a few memoranda were entertained by the committee. Justice Niki Tobi’s committee based its report mostly on the contents of the 1979 constitution and the unapproved report of the Karibi- Whyte constituent assembly inaugurated under the previous military era. The death and manner of how General Sanni Abacha and Chief Abiola died must have frightened General Abdusalam Abubakar to hurriedly approve most of the recommendations of Justice Niki Tobi so as to quit power and enjoy his retirement.

I can go on and on - but that's by the way, every reform, every attempt to better the country has failed, the system has produced more thieves, the process to bring them to account is cumbersome, these thieves are protected by their region, the people that they have stolen from, you and I are no longer seen as a Nigerian except for the passport we carry, we all are seen as Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Fulani, Ijaw, etc. The national wealth is not evenly distributed. With too much power to the center, it becomes a lucrative business office rather than a service to the nation. Have you ever asked what happens to other mineral resources lying fallow across the country (which are stolen through mining by westerners and their cronies daily)? Even though Boko Haram is the protector of the miners, their attack on the Nigerian system is a distraction.

So that they will kill the protesters like they did in endsars...

Brendaniel:


So that they will kill the protesters like they did in endsars...

There is the sacrifice we have to pay, are we not dying every? Is it going to stop anytime soon? No?
Sadly, protests in this stage will still fail, because while there is a cause we are fighting for, many have other ulterior-driven motives.

We have more indians in Nigeria than we have more Nigerians in India