₦airaland Forum

SmartPolician:
They want to force people to start voting, but they won't pass a bill that will hand down death penalty to corrupt politicians. Nigerians need to wake up and take back their country!

ordinary to go buy foodstuffs for Delta state is not safe again, school kids not safe again, schools too wahala, BUT we should be forced to go vote when the same politicians are arming thugs to maim and kill, even police when suppose protect the election process are bought...... So make we go vote for una when today na apc, tomorrow na lp and the next na pdp, Same clowns different costume

No probs, na una go use una hand by una selves light this country let's see how it goes..

nairalanda1:
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We have to copy their industrial economy first though.

What is the industrial economy without the people having to be paid a living wage?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKWcMf-GihU

bixton:
What is the industrial economy without the people having to be paid a living wage?

bixton:
What is the industrial economy without the people having to be paid a living wage?

How else do we earn the revenue to pay a living wage?

You can't pay a living wage on a budget of 30 trillion naira, before corruption

Jobless.

Villagesquare:
Nobody should have been forcing Nigerians to vote if their votes truly count

Your vote counts. It's because your side lost that you think it doesn't.

Me, I despise both apc, pdp and am not obidient so...either way, I vote for smaller parties. The smaller parties I vote for don't win because most Nigerians prefer to vote for the same old

Arrant nonsense. What do you do to INEC that denied eligible citizens voters cards notwithstanding that they were duly registered.

Useless leaders why didn't they pass a bill to jail those leaders who stole and misappropriate the common wealth of the people.

Raregem9000:
I don't think they even know the next thing to do. Why would they be thinking of jailing people for not voting? During elections, when violence erupts, the police are nowhere to be found, they run. Yet they expect innocent people to risk their lives to vote in an election where the votes won’t even count, just to elect one useless politician. They should be ready to jail millions of people. They better go borrow money to build more correctional centers since the one available won't be enough. Rubbish bill

The bill itself is a great idea but it is a rubbish effort in light of what our electoral process is . They need to be amending the electoral laws to the point that votes really count . I would rather pay 200,000 than go and engage in an activity in futility . Amend the electoral laws and make the electoral umpire truly independent

nairalanda1:
How else do we earn the revenue to pay a living wage?

You can't pay a living wage on a budget of 30 trillion naira, before corruption

But the legislators can be paid those huge entitlements they collect and those who steal our common wealth through over bloated contracts and those who abandon projects and still get and all their cronies smile?

bixton:
But the legislators can be paid those huge entitlements they collect and those who steal our common wealth through over bloated contracts and those who abandon projects and still get and all their cronies smile?

Yeah and it is a shame.

But there is no way government can pay government workers a living wage in Nigeria now. Our revenue is too low for that.

Legislative earning big salaries is a disgrace on top of that.

But even then, you guys have to be realistic. Nigeria is still a broke nation . The only way out of being broke is by becoming an industrial nation that exports manufactured goods and also taxing more of our GDP. Any thing else is an invitation to take more and more loans

Sodiq3:
https://guardian.ng/news/bill-to-jail-non-voters-scales-second-reading-at-house-of-reps/

Why don't they also include death sentence....bunch of clowns!

You cannot force Nigerians to vote in a country where votes do no count.

Konskott:
You cannot force Nigerians to vote in a country where votes do no count.

You think your votes don't count because your side lost.

If you guys start properly organizing yourselves , your vote go count.

I hope it starts with the National Assembly members who "abstain" from voting on the floor of the house and Senate; and also with principal officers who twist the system to favor their already preferred notion, like using "VOICE VOTES" to approve emergency rule in Rivers state, instead of a more appropriate voting system.

mrvitalis:
For me we don't have the capacity to jail them
Making laws you can't enforce is how u look weak

1) fine them 200k
2) if you miss 3 straight election without voting you would be deregistered

Sorry to say sir are you okay.
How can you there be punishment for not voting especially when it never counts.

As if votes count in Nigeria. Something they grab, snatch and run away with. Make we hear word abeg

To serve Nigeria is not by force!

mrvitalis:
For me we don't have the capacity to jail them
Making laws you can't enforce is how u look weak

1) fine them 200k
2) if you miss 3 straight election without voting you would be deregistered

Lol... Na Dem go still tire... When u deregister 70% of your population body go tell u...

If you have to make voting mandatory there are so many things that must be put in place.

People should be allowed to vote anywhere at least for Presidential election because some people’s unit is located in their state of origin and they can’t afford to travel back every election.

The party primaries have to be more transparent. Delegates cannot collect bribe and nominate one person then voters are presented with two clueless individuals and you force them to chose the lesser evil.

Racoon:
It is by force to vote? When will they the pass death sentence for their own corruption in the NASS? They refused to legislate on electoral reforms but allowed the criminal organization called INEC leeway to be selectively about which parts of the amended electoral acts to obey or not

Now here they are trying in futility to punish citizens who have lost interests in the electoral and democratic processes that Mahmud Yakubu and co have totally destroyed. The most useless criminals to ever administer a nation.

The clowns will soon get what they are looking for they can't even pass bills to severely punish election riggers and agberoes like mc oluomo who come out on election day to stop nigerians from voting.

Follow this bill with another one that will make it compulsory for the federal government of Nigeria to either provide jobs for all Nigerian graduates of tertiary institutions or a grant of not less than 500k for them to start businesses of their choice.

Hmmm these old thieves and corrupt so call leaders,is voting by force? Instead of them to make voting interesting by allowing vote to count, and the people will happily vote their choice instead of rigging, hmmm who even makes them leaders ?

Sodiq3:
https://guardian.ng/news/bill-to-jail-non-voters-scales-second-reading-at-house-of-reps/

mad country !!! Always chasing mouse and leaving the real thing behind. What happens to bill like jailing corrupt politicians , corrupt INEC chairman and judges.
What if I don’t find all the aspirants worth?. Anyway I’m just asking on behalf of my neighbors

First you cannot jail a person for exercising their fundamental human right not to vote.

The jails are already full. Jailing a taxpayer is a loss to the government.

Many of these legislators seem to have very low IQ.



Are they planning to allow voting from overseas For INEC that could not successfully manage local elections that will be a recipe for disaster.

This is a very silly bill!

Politicians will use thugs to dissuade voters by snatching ballot boxes

Politicians will sponsor people like Simon Ekpa to create chaos in order to stop voting

Politicians will pay traditional rulers to organise 'sacred' festivals to scare voters from coming out

Politicians will even manipulate the figures of those who have voted to favor themselves

Then the same Politicians want to jail citizens forgot participating in an activity that they have made them lose trust in

It's all politics

This is the joke of the century. Forcing citizens to vote for politicians with their evil motives?

So now the government wants to force Nigerians to vote — as if our rights are tools for state manipulation. A bill mandating voting in all elections is not democracy; it's legislative coercion. Nigerians are already failed daily by a system that barely delivers basic services, security, or justice. Now, instead of fixing the rigged electoral process, they want to criminalize apathy? What next — fines for protesting or prison for demanding accountability?

Voting is a right, not a duty owed to a corrupt, self-serving political class. You don't earn our votes through threats. You earn them by delivering results, showing leadership, and respecting the will of the people. This bill is tone-deaf, authoritarian, and a slap in the face to every Nigerian who's lost faith in a broken electoral system.

Try mandating accountability, not participation. Fix INEC, end vote-buying, punish electoral violence — then maybe, just maybe, people will show up willingly.

yinkeys:
Na this bill go cause the revolution
Dey Watch
INEC that’s a fraudulent institution

You are very correct.
Trouble dey sleep, yanga go dey flog am now.
Let their handlers tell them say, their egungun should be careful, na express he dey go so.

The massive protest that will greet this bill will be so unprecedented in this country and it will degenerate into revolution.
They should better be warned.
Imagine punishing the masses for your inefficiency that you are voted, financed and maintained to correct! Yet, you are coming back planning to jail is for not doing your job.