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[quote author=james_ibor]Summarising it will not only make the article less interesting but also take away some salient points and messages. Every paragraph seem to carry a specific message.[/quote]Indeed bro, indeed. I have taken the pains to read the write up about 3 times now. Every time I read it, I get new information about Naija again. Kai! This is serious.

Obi1kenobi: Why would he cry you an ocean? He comes from a first world, industrialized nation and has a high powered career travelling round the world. Who should care more: you living in denial or him telling you what every rational person that isn't deluded knows about your utterly hopeless country?

biko, tell am o!

He implied that it was during Babangida's regime that everything went haywire - and he was right!

The Mods, whoever they are should please put this right on top of the front page list, please.

Without a shadow of doubt, this one really lived the Naija life. I like the way he was able to pen down all of his observations about the country, and I dare say he did an excellent job of it. I don't think I would have done any better. Well done British expat.

"If Nigerians were yet to commend a leader after 53 years of independence, then we are jinxed and cursed; we should all go to hell.” These were the very words of former President Olusegun Obasanjo few days back during a presentation at the 4th Annual Ibadan sustainable Development Summit at University of Ibadan, Oyo State. The ex-Head of State condemned the younger generation of leaders in the country, saying that they lack integrity and probity and have failed their people woefully"

Ever since the former president delivered his damning, magisterial verdict, public reaction to his pronouncement has been rather varied. In the main, most Nigerians have hailed President Obasanjo for his unfailing outspokenness and his uncompromising rendition of truth however unsavoury and disagreeable it might sound. However, what is not readily acknowledged by most Nigerians in their readings about some of our leaders’ comments and actions is that appearance is not necessarily reality and that what we so hurriedly construe to mean the fact could eventually turn out to become a farce.

In this treatise, I seek to add some analytic flesh to the dry bones of Obasanjo’s comment. To be sure, I totally agree with Obasanjo that our (younger) leaders have failed their people agonizingly; I agree with him that we should all take a journey to hell! Nevertheless, I seek to use this auspicious medium to imprint on the consciousness of Nigerians the fact that, in the event that we all set out for hell, no other leader – dead or alive – in the entire history of Nigeria is more deserving of being the captain of the excursion to hell than Obasanjo himself. by the same token, no other leader merits the privilege of presenting a letter of credence to the devil than the former Head of State, Olusegun Obasanjo.

One of the tragic demerits of the approach so often adopted by most Nigerians in assessing the performance of their leaders is the tendency to treat leadership as an isolated event rather than a continuum. At such, in decrying the shortfalls of an incumbent regime, we de-historicize our analysis by failing to establish the critical linkage between the past and the present, between the failings of present leadership and the willful (and often costly) miscarriages of preceding leaderships. It is this inclination to condemn the present by denying the past that has provided ex-President Obasanjo the ammunition to be pissing in the wind by condemning Nigerians and their leaders.
One of the hallmarks of true leadership is the ability to ensure that one’s achievement of success outlives him. That is why it is said that “success without successor is failure in disguise.” Thankfully, Nelson Mandela’s qualification as a fitting example to this truism can hardly be disputed. His regime as Head of State in South Africa was as brief as a thunderbolt; yet, its impact and its legacies are as enduring and immutable as imprints engraved on a rocky surface. Today, South Africa has become the latest addition to the potpourri of countries our leaders, including Obasanjo himself, covet for leisure, tourism, sound healthcare and superlative education.

Paradoxically, we can hardly render the same testimony about our own self-acclaimed “father of modern Nigerian,” Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. If anything, Obasanjo personifies a dialectical negation of what leaders like Nelson Mandela represent. His relatively lengthy rulership (both as a military and civilian Head of State) has basically translated into a “Golgotha experience” for most Nigerians. What was Obasanjo’s record at instituting a credible process that will throw up a worthy successor who would ensure that Obasanjo’s legacies (if any) are not eclipsed by history. On this score, Obasanjo proved to be such an unpardonable disaster. Propelled by the desire to perpetuate himself in power during his second reign as civilian president, this imperial leader enthroned what could rightly pass as the worst specie of electoral rigging, using the infamous and highly villainous umpire, Maurice Iwu, as a legitimizing rubber-stamp, Elections under his tenure were characterized by violent breeches technically codified as “do or die affair.”
However disillusioned we might be today regarding the present government in power, the bitter, inescapable truth is that the umbilical cord of this present regime is deeply wired up in Obasanjo’s political abdomen. Incensed by the intransigence of Nigerians to kowtow to his third term bid, Obasanjo orchestrated a deliberate constriction of the democratic space by disallowing electoral competition especially within his party, muscling the aspiration of more credible candidates and dealing a devastating blow to the few who had that “balls” to dare him by invoking the talismanic, rigging expertise of Maurice Iwu. What was the end result: a sickly, departure lounge-seated President Umoru Yar’dua and his lucky, zoology-trained, leutenant – Goodluck Jonathan. How could the younger generation of leaders not fail?

If Obasanjo embodies the worst example of political succession, his footprints on the economic landscape of Nigeria is all the more ghastly. While hiding under the ideological subterfuge that “government has no business with business, only the private-sector can profitably run enterprises”, Obasanjo proceeded to r*pe what is left of Nigeria’s tottering economy by using privatization as a cover to engage in the criminal disposal of national assets. In case Nigerians have forgotten, it is an established fact that 80 percent of the 128 nationally-owned companies privatized during the regime of Obasanjo failed. Today, most of those privatized companies are nothing more than mere institutional carcasses.
In 2011, a Committee set up by the Senate to probe Obasanjo’s privatization programme turned in a startling report. Just two examples will suffice: The Aluminium Smelting Company (ALSCON), Ikot Abasi, which was set up with $3.2 billion, was sold to a Russian firm, Russai, for a paltry $130 million. Delta Steel Company, Aladja Delta State, which was built in 2005 by the Nigerian government at a cost of $1.5 was sold to Global Steel Infrastructure, a company believed to be fronting for Obasanjo and never submitted a bid, at a cost of $30 (Vanguard Newspaper: August 18, 2011).
In the guise of fighting economic corruption, Obasanjo ended up elevating corruption to the status of a state religion. Most of the notorious looters being pilloried today by Obasanjo were in fact firmly incubated during his regime as Nigeria’s civilian president. As Sonala Olumhense had observed, “Obasanjo boisterously invokes such names as James Ibori, Tinubu and Igbinedion, but conveniently forgets that in 2006, he ignored a report he had commissioned and refused to prosecute 15 indicted governors, including those three.”

Perhaps, the worst of Obasanjo’s economic treachery and the most heinous of his disservice to Nigerians was the shoddiness with which he managed the power sector and the spectacular failure that emanated therefrom. It remains an inexplicable scandal that Obasanjo spent about $16 billion dollars just to entrench country-wide darkness at a time when the country’s power-generating capacity was a miserable 2,000 megawatts. Just like his counterfeit privatization exercise, his electricity schemes were nothing more than conduit pipes for financial racketeering by an oligopolistic cabal.

What were the effects of these and many more atrocious legacies bequeathed by Obasanjo to younger generation of Nigerians? First, it created a culture of political brigandage which, till date, remains a defining attribute of our democracy. Nigerians will readily remember the notorious shenanigans of elements like Andy Uba in Anambra State and Pa Adedibu in Oyo state. Second, it crystallized a distorted, disarticulated economy characterized by rent-seeking, cronyism and dependency syndrome; an economy in which the exponential blossoming of a microscopic few runs side by side with the stupendous pauperization of an overwhelming majority.

Third, it institutionalized structural unemployment by decimating the vital foundations for job creation and entrepreneurship, namely: stable electricity, decent transport infrastructures, incentivization of the private sector, a hospitable political environment and a legal/regulatory framework that is clearly predictable, incorruptible and autonomous. Finally, it midwifed the induction of a teeming generation of younger Nigerians who had grown up to become faithless about the viability of the Nigerian project and have had to resort to brutish means for survival and self-actualization, hence, their portrayal as a failed generation by Obasanjo.

To sum up my points, if there is any leader that has failed its people, Obasanjo epitomizes a cardinal example of such failure. If Nigerians were yet to commend a leader after 53 years of nationhood, it is precisely because Obasanjo and his breed of predatory rulers have foreclosed such possibilities by driving a fatal nail in the coffin of good and exemplary leadership. And if we should all go to hell because we have failed as a people, then, Obasanjo should lead a one-man advance team to hell to prepare the ground, just as the biblical Moses dispatched 12 spies to Canaan to survey the Promised Land.


By Ugochukwu Raymond

peppy luv: Same way he banned me. The guy is simply tribalistic.can't forget that night when a group of touts headed by d ugly old man dayokonu aka dayoolodo! Saying all sorts of rubbish on a thread that only concerns Anambarians not evn Igbos,he didn't warn or ban them but immediately I hit them hard with d pics of their ancestor awolowo committing suicide the cry babies and cowards started cryin and callin him for help! He hid my posts,banned me and closed the thread immediatly!
Evn d posts of a calabar lady who was tellin d yerobas to stop saying other tribes hate Igbos cuz they don't and prefer Igbos to yerobas,he also hid her posts!
The truth can never be hidden! Cowards begging for likes!

I have been following your posts. I just dey laugh since. You go sabi pick quarrel well well...haha.

honor2011: And what about this Mr bornfanatics: If a man or woman living among you in one of the towns the LORD gives you is found doing evil in the eyes of the LORD your God in violation of his covenant, and contrary to my command has worshiped other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or the moon or the stars of the sky… Take the man or woman who has done this evil deed to your city gate and stone that person to death. – Deut 17:2-7

In 2 Chronicles 15:12-13:

They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. - 2 Chron 15:12-13

Deuteronomy 13:13-19:

Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases…you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 13:7-12:

If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods …do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. - Deut 13:7-12

What if you take the name of the lord in vain? Leviticus chapter 24 verse 16 says:

Anyone who blasphemes the name of the LORD must be put to death. The entire assembly must stone him. – Lev 24:16

You need some education. In no part of those verses quoted was anything ''Christian'' mentioned. Those commandments were meant strictly for the Israelites - The children of Jacob (Israel indeed is his name). So, all that you quoted is hogwash.

Try again.

abes: I don't why some you religious bigots are quick to bring some quotes from the quran just to spread your hate towards islam. Do you know there are tonnes of quotes that supports killing of non-believers in the bible?

Can you please fashion this forum with those Bible quotes?

solomon111: The comments on that guardian page are hilarious.
Wow.
Nigerians in britain have suffered.

Indeed. They really have suffered.

http://www.newsinnigeria.org/2013/08/cameroons-president-orders-pentecostal-churches-closed.html

Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has ordered the closure of nearly 100 Christian churches in key cities, citing criminal practices organized by Pentecostal pastors that threaten the security of the West African nation.
But Pentecostal pastors said the move is evidence of Biya’s insecurity about the churches’ criticism of the government.
Biya is using the military to permanently shut down all Pentecostal church denominations in the nation’s capital, Yaounde, and the North West Regional capital, Bamenda, which have the largest Christian populations in Cameroon.
More than 50 churches have now been closed, with the government targeting nearly 100 in eight other regions.
“We will get rid of all the so-called Christian Pentecostal pastors who misuse the name of Jesus Christ to fake miracles and kill citizens in their churches. They have outstretched their liberty,” Mbu Anthony Lang, a government official in Bamenda, told our source Wednesday.
Nearly 500 Pentecostal churches operate in Cameroon, but fewer than 50 are legal, he added.
On Sunday, a 9-year-old Christian girl collapsed and died during a prayer session in Winners’ Chapel, a Pentecostal church in Bamenda. The girl’s mother, Mih Theresa, told our source @ newsinnigeria Wednesday that the pastor intended to cast out the numerous demons that were in control of her daughter’s life.
“I want the government to stop these pastors who use mysterious powers to pull Christians and kill then for more powers. All my children have ran away from the Catholic Church in search for miracles, signs and wonders,” she told our source while holding back tears.
Another Christian, Mveng Thomas, said his marriage ended abruptly when a Pentecostal pastor ordered his wife to dissolve their union. He said the pastor described him as “an unrepentant devil.”
Pastors marched against the government’s decision Wednesday in Bamenda and Douala. Pastors said the Biya government sees the mass proliferation of churches as a threat.
Boniface Tum, a bishop of the Christian Church of God in Yaounde, said that Biya, who has been president since 1982, is becoming insecure about the freedom of speech within these churches.
“Authorizing only the Catholic, Presbyterian, Baptist, Muslim, and a few other churches, is a strict violation of the right to religion,” Tum added.
Targeted Pentecostal Christians in Bamenda are transforming their private homes into churches.
North West Regional governor Adolphe Lele L’Afrique said Wednesday that police had discovered the abduction of 30 children under age 18 by a pastor in Bamenda. The pastor said he wanted to remove the children from a bad society, Lele added.
Government officials also say that some pastors convince congregants that they do not need professional medical treatment for their ailments.
“How can a pastor say the sick needs no medical doctor? We need sanity in our Christian lives,” Nyang Blaise, a youth leader for Biya’s ruling party, CPDM, told our source
One woman said her mother was refusing cancer treatments because of her pastor.
“My mother’s condition is worsening after doctors confirmed she had cancer. She is dying silently, and yet we cannot persuade her to see a doctor for proper treatment, against her pastor’s wish,” Deborah Tanyi said.

@frosble,
Once again, I'm compelled to ask for your e-mail address. Well done.

ooshinibos: that gonna be a tough one , this article was written about 4 years ago ...at the time i just extracted the one that relates to race actually , the rest might not be applicable because it deals other stuff like sexism and evolution stuff which i was not interested in
This publication about race has actually reduced racism crimes in countries like canada and Germany hence the low rate of racism incident in these countries ..since racism is a learned behaviour or habit , it could be wiped out gradually through exposure and education ...dont forget Nigeria has a bit of this bad behaviour , we call it tribalism , xenophobia and ethnism ...they are all a type of racism ..and can destroy life as well

I am very happy about this. Obviously, education is the key. And the more we get many people to be enlightened in this area, the better the world will be for all to live in.

@ ooshinibos
How about you post your daughter's entire piece as a .pdf for me to download? Nice write up in there - a little education, here and there, maybe we can help wipe off the scourge of racism all over the world.

Why can't people read an article before making comments? This was how some people blew the whole Yerima cum Child marriage thing out of proportion. We still have a long way to go if we continue like this.

And it looks like some people read and can't comprehend.

phillippiano: Ehya.... May be na fear dey catch her o.

That's a silly excuse. It should in fact be the reason she should BE able to read out the content of her credentials.

Well done Horus.

Perhaps GEJ is doing something afterall. But the men at the grassroot (the vast majority of the people of the land) need to feed well to understand all these space stuff.

toshmann: and how many black people do you think will be given an opportunity to showcase their creativity in america. haven't you seen the number of blacks from the hood who were given the opportunity to show their talent in sports, music, film industry etc and they excelled. you think that is the only place where blacks are talented in? No sister/girlfriend/future-wife . . .it is the place where they were given the chance to grow.

i have seen a black guy doing economics in college. he was having a hard time in school and he went to see the school's councellor for advice and the councellor told him that may be economics isnt the best for him, and suggested he try sports. . . . . . . if not that that guy already had strong family background with educated parebts, he woulda taken such suggestion seriously. of course the dude ignored her advice and even told her that she would be invited for his graduation.

Hmnn.. Tosh, long time. So true - all you said man.

^^^ Maybe the guy needs help -I mean that one that calls himself Gamesmart. SMH

Can we at least be civil enough not to hurl insults at others because of their views? You will not like it if you're called something offensive - except you were brought up in your family to like such and you're used to it.

bulletproofmonk: Because Anini was renowned for spraying some of his looted stash for market women makes him a legend too,abi? SOme of us are equally as guilty as the leaders we have.
James Ibori who used Delta State's shares in Oceanic Bank to secure a loan from Intercontinental Bank, to buy Willbros(for N44b) which became Ascot, is now a Legend WTF With his cronies like Henry Imasekha,Joseph Penawou,Joey Obue etc.,they wrecked Ascot until all staff were disengaged. Retirement and pension benefits were embezzled, some vendors went bankrupt, Intercontinental Bank was exposed financially etc.
James Ibori,however white you try to paint him, is a criminal who deserves LIFE in jail!

Now, think about this for once.

Ibori bought that Wilbros outfit (true, with state funds). He employed foreigners to help train local people and in the end professional craftsmen. IF that deal had worked out as I think it should, today, we would have thousands of people (most likely Deltans) working at Ascot as technicians of different shades.

Now, lets do some comparisons. We all know that many governors (including Amaechi of Rivers and several others), the Jonathans, Anenih, Tinubu, Buhari, OBJ, Atiku etc) are all in this ''Nigeria ship'' for what they can get from it, basically - they don't really care much about you and me. And many of them even have ventures and businesses overseas providing job opportunities for non Nigerians and others.
Ok. So, we have ''thieves at the top'' - and there's little someone who cannot afford 3 meals a day can do about that.

So, we have in one of them, an Ibori, who decided to spend ''part'' of his loot creating job opportunities for brothers and sisters back home in naija. And all we can do is to do all in our power to rubbish that and fold up the business. And so, many people are out of jobs today.

The Oceanic bank story is the same (this one, I don't have much info). But, you see, that bank provided several job opportunities to many graduates. I heard at some point, it was the best paying bank in the country. So, we did all we can to kill that and make many jobless.

My point is this: True, whatever is worth doing is worth doing well. And we should not say because we have thieves ruling us, we too should follow the thieving bandwagon and do some kind of ''good'' that's transient. But look at Ibori. Wonder why he's got someone like me on his side? Well, I have seen things with my eyes to make me overlook his bad side -forgive him, and look on his bright sides to assess him.

akpomeme: Shut up. We all are deltans and have lived in the state forever. Preach that to the dogs.

Hehe. I know nairaland is filled with all manner of deranged folks these days. Long gone are the days when you engage sane people in proper discussions.

We can only hope Seun rid this forum of people like you who have nothing but insults to hurl at others.

At times like these when greed is the order of the day, the norm with almost ''all'' politicians since we gained ''independence'' from military rulers in 1999, poor Nigerians that you see on the street barely knows what message you're trying to pass across when you ''preach'' about corruption.

Let me explain. The ''average'' Nigerian have been so ''impoverished'' that the availability of essential infrastructure to help him cope with everyday living is seen as a ''blessing'' - not a right, or something they should hold their leaders accountable to. So, when a government focus attention on infrastructural and human capacity development like James Ibori did in his own little way, he's hailed as a demi-god. What I'm saying is that you need to understand the angle these people are coming from. Perhaps in the future when Nigerians (I am NOT referring to those living in the US, UK and elsewhere, who are the more exposed and experienced ones and who can see things better than the average naija man at home) know better, then, they can better appreciate what needs be done.

Ibori's government focused on two major sectors of the state development during his time as governor: Education and Infrastructure. These were the areas that had the greatest impact at grassroot levels across the state. I will leave out civil service, remunerations (that was the best in the country under his watch), health and another big one: Sports development (will be nice to group this with infrastructure). He had a goal and focus and he achieved it - despite all the setbacks. For those of us who were in the state at the time, we saw with our own eyes how government worked in Delta state.

It isn't all about the monies spent on any project. It is the heart this man had to help alleviate the sufferings of the poor masses in Delta state. This is because, if you look at things in proper perspective, many of the governors in the country aren't really accountable to those who vote them in. I mean, how would you go about ''bringing your government to book'' when you can barely afford 3 meals a day? - the lot of many Nigerians. So, when they have one who's willing to work for the good of the masses, would you blame them for embracing him? The delta areas require more funds for capital projects to be properly executed than most parts of the country because of their terrain. So, the amount you spend putting up a kilometer of road in other parts of the country could be 3 or 4 times that value in the delta. Maybe this was what informed his foray into ''resource control terrain''. And so, Bomadi bridge - that bridge that linked the Ijaw areas of the state (and indeed, even Ijaws in nearby Bayelsa state) to the upland was so dear to all the Ijaws in the country that even when Ibori is dead and long gone, that bridge will make them immortalize him. As a matter of fact, Ibori was named the deputy Governor-general of the entire Ijaw nation because of this project.

If you follow what you read in the pages of newspapers as your gospel truth, you will be misled. Do a thorough investigation. Weigh issues in a balanced and logical manner. Try and be reasonable, and you will be a better person for that.

You all will do well not to believe all that you read on the pages of local newspapers. Sometimes, it's better you experience things first hand and weigh that experience in the light of what you read on those ''paid'' newspaper pages.

I am a living witness to what James Ibori did to Delta State when he was governor. Lets thank God for little mercies. The man remains the best governor Delta state has produced since the creation of that state. He sure has his failings as a man, and there are things many of you guys who comment here don't understand. But as some have stated already, it's those in Delta state who can ''properly'' comment about the person who governed them.

The things we do today speak volumes in the future about us. Ibori had his chance. He made good use of it and he will be celebrated.

They're so used to free money, the only thing they think of in there is to legalise the unthinkable. Many of them are old and senile - one was even crying like a baby today. They can't see beyond their nose, selfish, bigoted and useless set of citizens.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/07/daily-chart-12?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/dc/rewardingwork

All of those monies....and the best they (some of them, actually) could come up with is to covertly legalise child-abuse and marriage in the hallowed chambers.


A Nigerian legislator receives an annual salary of about $189,000, equivalent of N30 million, which is 116 times the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) per person, says the publication which was posted on the magazine’s website on Friday.

The figures put salaries collected by Nigerian senators and members of the House of Representatives way ahead of those received by fellow parliamentarians in the 29 countries whose data was analysed by the Economist....

While the salary of a Nigerian lawmaker is 116 times the country’s GDP per person, that of a British member of parliament is just 2.7 times.

...only Australian lawmakers, with $201,200 annual salary, receive higher amounts compared to Nigerian legislators, but their salaries are only 3 times their country’s GDP per person.

Going by the numbers of those in favour of keeping clause (4b) on the floor of the senate, our society is in danger of these child abusers. We need to come up with a way to whisk them out of the senate and never allow their type to sit anywhere near the place.

Yerima's fate we all will see in the not too distant future.

@Naptu,
So, Zamfara is among the states.

Now, do you get my drift? Pedophilic Yerima is hell bent on marrying kids in his state. Now is the time to get the man behind bars....and the keys to his dungeon thrown into the Atlantic ocean.

naptu2: The 1979 constitution did not contain provisions for renunciation of citizenship. During constitutional review debates in 1979 Aminu Kano (the leader of the PRP) felt that the age of 18 years used in subsection 4a was an arbitrary western concept of maturity. The legislators in 1979 at the time agreed with the PRP argument and subsection 4b was included.

That section has been in the constitution since then. It reads thus (I've also included subsection 4):

29. (1) Any citizen of Nigeria of full age who wishes to renounce his Nigerian citizenship shall make a declaration in the prescribed manner for the renunciation.

(4) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section.

(a) "full age" means the age of eighteen years and above;

(b) any woman who is married shall be deemed to be of full age.


The constitution is currently being amended and rights groups have called for the deletion of subsection 4b.

You need 2/3rds majority of votes in the senate, house of representatives and 2/3rds of all the state houses of assembly in order to amend the constitution.

2/3rds of the senators present at that time = 73 votes. The senate voted and more than 73 senators voted that 4b should be deleted. The senate moved on to other clauses.

A while later, Senator Yerima raised a point of order that subsection 4b cannot be deleted because deleting it is against islamic law. He stated that in islam, a woman is deemed to be of full age once she has gotten married. The Senate President, David Mark, reminded Yerima that the Senate has a tradition that it does not re-visit a clause once it has been voted on, but Senator Yerima continued to protest.

Eventually the Senate President agreed to hold a second vote. This time 60 senators voted that the subsection should be removed, while 35 voted that it should not be removed. They couldn't get 2/3rds majority.

Section 4b stands.


I wonder why Mark agreed to hold a second vote.


Some have said that the ambiguity in section 4b could lead to the legalisation of marriages of people under the age of 18. However, others argue that it won't because, according to the Child Rights Act, it is illegal to marry anyone below the age of 18. The marriage would be illegal at the time it is being contracted, while section 4b deals with a woman that is already married. But note that the Child Rights Act has only been domesticated in 24 states.

1. Can we have the list of the other 12 states where the Child Rights Act is not domesticated?
2. Is Zamfara state among these 12 states?
3. It would appear to the discerning minds that the sought amendment could impact negatively on child-marriage adventures of pedophilic senators (e.g. Yerima) back home, hence their push for clause 4b not to be removed from the constitution.
4. These senators hide under the guise of ''citizenship renounciation'' to help them perpetrate their evil pedophilic acts.
5. Every wise meaning Nigerian should push for the deletion of clauses in the Nigerian Constitution that expose children to dangers from these beasts called lawmakers, to save our society from further harm. The Child Right Act MUST be made to come into full force in all the states of the Federation, so that the likes of Yerima and his ilks will be made to spend the rest of their miserable life behind bars.