₦airaland Forum

just to let you know...

No matter how far the Lie travels the Truth must always catch it, destroy it and prevailed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJhuO91fC-E

Who has Buhari's and Osibanjo's WhatsApp contacts? Please, forward this to them. Also inbox Tinubu and the Sultan of Sokoto. Then, send to the slaves of the Caliphate in the government houses of the East. If nothing happens after that, then let there be an accidental discharge that hits Jibrin of Sudan and a plane crash that takes all members of the National Assembly and all Service Chiefs in one day!

In Defense of the Autonomous Regions

That the average Muslim political office holder in the North, holds the Koran way and above the Constitution. When he attains office, he often rules (not govern) according to the dictates of the Koran. Then he only chooses the aspects of the Constitution that suits him.
And before anyone argues this fact, the Sultan of Sokoto said it himself; he's the permanent chairman of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs in Nigeria.

The belief of the Caliphate North in the superiority of the Koran above all should be respected. In this belief, Sharia was declared in 12 states of the North in Year 2000. Over the past 2 decades, the activities of Northern governors and politicians have been dictated by their belief in the supremacy of Islam and the Koran. This too should be respected.

Common Sense says that with the declaration of Sharia, the country ought to have immediately moved towards Confederation and Autonomous Regions. The 12 Sharia States of Nigeria ought to, and really should be, a single autonomous region where the Koran shall be the regional Constitution, and Sharia Law shall be absolutely established.

We were careless, however. We allowed ourselves to be sucked into a dual system whereby the Sharia exists side by side with the Canon Law. Where the Hisbah Police has been established, funded and has rights over the citizens, Muslim or not. Alcoholic beverages among others are not freely sold but the VAT from the sales are collected. Where Islamic Banking is existing side by side with different rules from conventional banking. Where ladies in miniskirts are arrested and non Muslims tend to use the Hijab to feel safe. Where food is not freely sold during Ramadan fasting and bachelors are inadvertently made to fast for 40 days even while they ain't Muslims.

The establishment of Sharia, occasioned by the belief that the Koran is the ultimate book by which Islamic political office holders would govern, has gradually spread into the mainstream of government in Nigeria thereby pitching the secularists against the Islamists!
This is very obvious in the current federal regime that is ruling Nigeria like an Islamic fiefdom rather than a country with the desire for modernism!

While we do not quarrel with political Islam, it is our belief that those that believe in the Koran as the ultimate document of governance should be encouraged to do so and it should be formalized with the formation of the United Arewa Region where Sharia shall be the Law and the Koran the Constitution! Then other regions would determine their own Constitutions too and govern themselves the way they would. Then we would all share a common parliamentary center where the Constitution of the Federation shall be an agreement of all the federating regions.
This is the Principle of Living slightly apart so that we would survive!

The Arewa Sharia North should be respected in their belief in the supremacy of Islam and be restricted to their region. Our failure to recognize the obvious is causing us to clash incessantly and is leading to an almost obvious end!

Conflagration!!!

Hearken to my voice o'Nigerians
Let us have the #autonomousRegions now
So we could all live according to our beliefs
Ever so slightly apart
But at peace with one another
And a beacon of hope to the rest of Africa
The current structure makes no sense
We should have our autonomous regions already
As this is the only reasonable thing left to do
Otherwise we shall clash in a bloody way
And all there would be left would be regrets.

#thinkAgain my people
For we could avert this disaster yet.

A lot of people actually think Islam is a religion...

From the very origins of Islam, it is a political movement propagated in the guise of religion.

This information might give an insight into the mind of the Muslim elite in the North and their penchant for domination and not Nation building.
It is bad enough to lump people of disparate beliefs into the same country...but we might have managed.

It is outrightly evil to force them into a unitary system; like caging lions, wolves and tigers...they would definitely fight to death. And we are doing just that. The sensible thing is to have autonomous regions and a shared parliamentary center. But common sense doesn't reside in Nigeria.

Some people might decide to argue in determined ignorance or play the political correctness card; it's alright but this is what it is!
Let's have our #autonomousRegionsNow and we might just survive. Prolonging this abomination is a sure recipe for disaster!

This is owere. Here is called Hundred foot road. The road leads togovernment house.
This didn't happen just today. The road has been bad and nothing was done to maintain it. Just see its state today, it has finally split into 2 decimal places. Mistakenly someone dies here, everyone will start calling Devil or blaming God for allowing it.
We play too much here. Government, my Government.

you crazy igbo youth should stop with all these crazy showcasing of average buildings here on nairaland, enough is enough!

This is Enugwu. Here is called Hundred foot road. The road leads to Nsukka.
This didn't happen just today. The road has been bad and nothing was done to maintain it. Just see its state today, it has finally split into 2 decimal places. Mistakenly someone dies here, everyone will start calling Devil or blaming God for allowing it.
We play too much here. Government, my Government.

FOR A NEW NIGERIA TO EMERGE WE NEED A NEW ROAD MAP: Reconstructing Nigeria For Prosperity - Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo

In my 2005 National Democracy Day Lecture, I strongly argued that “for sustainable democracy, fundamental changes are required in the constitution, the electoral system, the fiscal federalism, as well as a gamut of legal-institutional reforms that are developmental and capable of promoting private enterprise and competition”.

Seven years later, I feel more strongly about this point, and almost a sense of urgency to it. In the last two years, I have given several lectures on Nigeria’s dysfunctional political economy. I am glad that constitutional amendments are being debated. At least, let us start the talking. There is a systemic failure, and our institutions cannot take Nigeria on a sustainable path to prosperity. In three articles, beginning with this one, I want to join the debate.

The word ‘restructure’ evokes all kinds of reactions. For some, it is a veiled campaign to dismember or weaken the Nigerian federation. I disagree. While I admit that Nigeria as a country or nation has been a colossal disappointment and a textbook example of “how not to do it”, I disagree that the solution is to dismember or weaken it.

I have three strong reasons to be a believer in one united and prosperous Nigeria. First, I am a pan-Africanist--- an Nkrumaist in terms of Pan-African unity. As a scholar, about 60 per cent of my research and publications are on African economies. I am one of those dreaming of the second USA, the United States of Africa (with 54 states, encompassing the current 54 countries, with Nigeria as the Texas of Africa). Our destiny is tied together—the rest of the world simply sees one ‘Africa’ as if it is a ‘country’ but we think of ourselves as different. Combined, the 49 sub-Saharan African countries account for barely two per cent of global GDP (the size of Belgium with 10 million people). I see Africa’s future increasingly within the context of a more fully integrated continent. Enough of my dreams: now back to reality!

Second, I am proud to belong to the “big country”, and wish that it could become the “next China”. Nigeria is Africa’s most populous and its potentially biggest economy. In today and tomorrow’s world, size matters. Europe will inevitably move towards greater ‘federal Europe’ if the euro is to survive, and other efforts towards agglomeration are going on around the world. Nigeria accounts for far less than one per cent of global GDP (indeed if Nigeria were to submerge under a volcano tomorrow, the world would only notice it as a humanitarian disaster). I cannot imagine Nigeria breaking into smaller groupings. I do not see any of the groupings that will ‘happily’ stay together under one union without its own internal contradictions and tensions as in the larger Nigeria.

Third, I am aware that the hangover of history makes any reference to the word ‘restructure’ by an Igboman to be viewed with suspicion. I hate to think of public policy in those terms but if it helps this discourse, I make bold to say that as an Igboman, I will never support anything that will threaten the unity of Nigeria. Igbos have the greatest stake in Nigeria, and therefore stand to lose the most in the event of (God forbid) any disorderly unravelling of Nigeria. An enterprising, itinerant people with huge population in a tiny land mass, Igbos (like the Jews) are in need of a large domain or market for their commerce without molestation or discrimination. They are everywhere. Of the estimated 17 million Nigerians in Diaspora, I can bet that at least 10 million of them are Igbos. They dominate most markets, especially for motor spare parts, in Africa. Onitsha traders now suffer because of Boko Haram as their supply chains to and from many parts of the North are grossly diminished.

There is hardly any village in Nigeria or town in Africa without an Igboman, speaking the local language and probably owning a house and feeling much at home. Without fear of contradiction, I can assert that at least 80 per cent of the Igbo elite live outside of Igboland (mostly in Lagos and Abuja), and more than 70 per cent of the investments by Igbos are outside of Igboland. I know that more than half of Anambra’s population lives outside of the state. There is hardly any former public office holder (governors, ministers, senators, Reps, etc) since 1999 who lives in Igboland. As Mallam Nasir el-Rufai was quoted as saying sometime, Igbos have turned Abuja into their ‘sixth state’, and some estimates opine that Igbos constitute 30-40 per cent of Lagos State. Even traditional marriages are now celebrated anywhere. The reasons for these are for another day.

The point of emphasis is that Igbos have the greatest need to keep Nigeria or even Africa as one united and prosperous market. An elderly Igbo friend of mine summed it nicely: “in the 1960s Igbos fought to leave Nigeria and the rest of Nigeria refused; we lost our properties and lives; now that we have re-built them everywhere, we are going to fight to make sure no one else will leave the union: we are all in this marriage for better or for worse”. Enough said!

Our thesis here is that a society can only prosper under conditions of ‘good leadership’ as well as a ‘good system’ that supports competition and wealth creation. So far, the dysfunctional system and its perverse incentives that make it almost impossible to make sustained progress in Nigeria have received little attention in public discourse. For three consecutive years, Nigeria has retained the 14th position in the world as ‘a failed state’ (with Somalia as number one) and many people think it is a joke. I posit that any serious discussion of public policy that ignores this issue misses the point. We believe there is a systemic failure that cannot be fixed by ad hoc ‘reforms’ irrespective of the type of leadership.

We therefore use the term ‘restructure’ to refer to the gamut of transformations in the nature and structure of the Nigerian State and society away from the current entanglements with the pursuit of rents to re-establish the link between the state and the people/business, and to re-engineer a society where competition and hard work drive success. Let us divide Nigeria’s post-independence history into the pre-civil war (under the 1963 Republican Constitution and its provisions for competitive federalism under the regions and a revenue allocation formula that forced hard work and competition) on the one hand, and the post-civil war with its centralised, unitary-federalism, with the centre repeatedly ‘creating’ the unviable federating units each entitled to the free money from the centre.

On literally all accounts, the average Nigerian was better off in the first than under the second: per capita income in 1966 was about $1,000 and about $1,400 in 1973 and is currently about $1,200. In REAL terms, the average Nigerian today (despite Nigeria earning over $600 billion from oil since 1973) has less than half of the income in 1966; is poorer; has a shorter life span; with poorer educational system and infrastructure. All the industries and palm and cocoa plantations and groundnut pyramids built by the regions have collapsed.
Our current unproductive system was designed to keep Nigeria ‘united’ by creating a strong ‘centre’. In the process, we have neither a federation nor a unitary system (at best a corrupted unitary system).

All incentives and institutions are designed around a command and control structure for sharing and consuming the lottery jackpot from God (oil rents). For fear of death, Nigeria has indeed decided to commit suicide! There is no incentive for productive governance. National politics of competition for the oil rents has assumed a life of its own. On a per capita income basis, Nigeria has the most expensive parliament in the world. Every village now wants to be a state to get its own ‘share’. Don’t talk about fiscal viability! Have you heard any state governor advertising the number of new businesses that were attracted to his state or number of private sector jobs created as ‘the’ key performance indicator? There is little incentive for such! Debate on leadership is about who will share and where he comes from. It is not about who has the best plans to create jobs and wealth. Because you don’t need any skills to share, just about anybody can be a ‘leader’. Our politics has become a road to nowhere.

We need good leaders but equally important, we need a competitive system that allows any potentially good leader to emerge and perform. To use the metaphor of football, you need good footballers in a good pitch to have great football. If you have 10 Lionel Messis in a team but you take them to play in a cassava farm as field, their talents and efforts may come to little. In fact, because the field is a cassava farm, the ‘best players’ that would emerge could be the street urchins. Our view is that the type of leaders thrown up under a democracy and the latitude they have for creative change depends upon the nature of the legal-institutional infrastructure and the incentive-sanction system. As an economist, I understand that to change behaviour, two keywords are critical: incentives and sanctions. Both summarise what are popularly termed ‘institutions’. An individual can make a difference but ultimately it is institutions that make all the difference. You can assemble a thousand technocrats, each with his/her ‘reforms’ and at best their positive impact will be at the margin.

Nigeria is in a chicken and egg situation. How will the ‘good system’ emerge without ‘good leaders’ and vice versa? Leave this for our next articles!
To prepare for life without oil, we need a new road map, and the starting point is a new constitution for prosperity! We need to understand the institutional/constitutional design that makes United Arab Emirates (UAE) produce the world class city of Dubai with little oil while other oil-producing countries of the Middle East are not diversified. We need to understand the incentive system that enables the State of Nevada in the US to prosper despite not having any natural resource in a country with oil rich states. It won’t be easy to repair the havoc oil and the destructive politics around it have wreaked on the society, including destruction of the productive elite. But the time to start is now.
To move forward, Nigeria must review the content and meaning of its current political map; rights over mineral resources and land; tax jurisdictions; citizenship rights; fiscal responsibility and fiscal federalism; powers of the central vis-a-vis regional governments; elimination of the suffocating hands of the Federal Government on the regions; etc. It is an oxymoron to repeat the same thing over and over, and expect a different outcome. For a new Nigeria to emerge, new thinking and new ways of doing business must be in place.

Osagyefo98:
Am not in support of buhari handing over to osibanjo before travelling.

Go and change the Constitution, micrencephalous amoeba.

Ultimatezlant:
IPod yoots what concerns you with a pro Nigeria forum cum a Nigeria president

You're completely a compound FOOOOL. What's exactly wrong to matter with some of you young GENERATION?

WE will never forget that an impostor is at Aso Rock Abuja, Nigeria...

In 1966, Mr. Ojukwu advised Gowon and his masters thus:

"It's better for us to live SLIGHTLY apart and survive as a country rather than being forced into a unitary arrangement and kill one another".
Mr. Gowon and his masters declared that Mr. Ojukwu was a troublemaker and proceeded to to implement the unfortunate Decree 34. They created 12 states in 1967 and forced the whole country into a unitary system.

50 years later, we are busy slaughtering ourselves because we refused to #thinkAgain and see the simple advise as altruistic and sane! Now, almost all people of Nigeria are unanimous that it would be better to "live slightly apart" and survive! The unitary system has killed tens of millions...and it's threatening to explode as things stand. Yet, some McGronon Men and Neanderthals still believe that nothing is wrong with the obscene unitary Constitution of 1999 save the leaders and corruption! It's a pity that we still have seemingly educated adults whose IQs are somewhat less than that of a small chicken!

Dear Friends, it is better to live slightly apart than being forced, without consent, to be servant in the Land of our Fathers! It is unnatural!
If I be a Premier, it shall be my duty to request the regional parliament to ensure that each province within the region is self governing. It shall be the utmost policy of my premiership to ensure that every community, town and city is self governing and self accounting while being part of the collective aspirations of the Region.

It is better to live slightly apart and survive, than engage one another in Mortal Combat in a unitary system where we would kill one another like wild animals as in the current Nigerian State! An abominable contraption that ought not exist!
#thinkAgain

Remember that that THING in Aso Rock is not Buhari...

NNAMDI KANU SAID "the White man is very clever"; most people thought he was just syntactically beautifying BIAFRA. But take a look at this scenarios where the white man says:

1. Palm wine is not refined and they gave you Coke or Beer.
2. Being gay is alright because we are all sons and daughters of God and as such shouldn't judge but marrying two wives is evil because it's African.
3. White wedding is good and Godly but traditional wedding is an act of paganism.
4. Many Africans have joined the worship of Satan called Halloween celebrations but Iriji, Ikeji and Igba Mmanwu are fetish... itiboliboism at its best.
5. Our Traditional attire is not good for the office but suit and tie under 40 degrees centigrade is fine.
6. Your language is vanacular and their language is international.
7. They can ask for referandum for Scotland but say Biafra will lead to War.
8. They can exit Europe but say they want you to be in the evil conscription called Nigeria.
9. It is legendary how we accept the white man's utterances as standard and swallow them hook, line and sinker but hate our culture, language and traditions.
10. (A) Most Africans are so proud to tell you that their children don't speak their languages.
10. (B) The Igbos are the accused and guilty people in this regard.
11. A people without their language, culture, tradition and history are a lost people.
12. Join us as we take back our pride.

Anyi bu Ndi-Biafra !

tsfisheriesm:
They should make it solar panels complaint.

highlighted in bold should be compliant, next time use google...

I don't know, but from the deep history I have been reading, perhaps there is something deeper to this Kano brouhaha than Sanusi.
Don't get me wrong.
The immediate cause of the current defanging of SLS is political.
But seems Ganduje may have capitalised on a generational feud between the Hausa indigenes and the Fulani conqueror descendants of Othman Dan Fodio.

Kano, the 1,000 year old kingdom was conquered at some point by Othman Dan Fodio who eventually entrenched Islam and gave the throne to his entrusted allies while deposing and demoting the local Hausa monarchs.
I am being made to believe many see the division of the Kano emirate as a righting of some historical wrong.
I don't have the complete picture to form an opinion.
I will have to dig further.

But if this be the case, and we go down this route, I am not sure the city of Ilorin(formerly of yorubas), and the dramatis personae in that feud that led to Ilorin becoming an emirate will be left out.
History is indeed very sweet.

I don't know, but from the deep history I have been reading, perhaps there is something deeper to this Kano brouhaha than Sanusi.
Don't get me wrong.
The immediate cause of the current defanging of SLS is political.
But seems Ganduje may have capitalised on a generational feud between the Hausa indigenes and the Fulani conqueror descendants of Othman Dan Fodio.

Kano, the 1,000 year old kingdom was conquered at some point by Othman Dan Fodio who eventually entrenched Islam and gave the throne to his entrusted allies while deposing and demoting the local Hausa monarchs.
I am being made to believe many see the division of the Kano emirate as a righting of some historical wrong.
I don't have the complete picture to form an opinion.
I will have to dig further.

But if this be the case, and we go down this route, I am not sure the city of Ilorin(formerly of yorubas), and the dramatis personae in that feud that led to Ilorin becoming an emirate will be left out.
History is indeed very sweet.

seanfer:
I’m not attacking the Messenger. Please counter McLain by proving to me that the name I mentioned didn’t start this way also.

Did I say something in this direction, absolute No? The messenger cited many chapters of the constitution to support his charges, what you must do is to examine the chapters and give your own interpretations.

BEFORE THE STATE COLLAPSE: Thoughts On Reconstructing The Crumbling Nigerian State
~ Professor Jibrin Ibrahim,

The security situation in the country today is frightening. Insurgents, militants, criminals and bandits have caught up the reality of the Nigerian State, that it is not capable of providing for the security of Nigerians. They have seen the absence of state capacity as an opportunity to create a Hobbesian State of nature where violence and mass atrocities reign and life has become “nasty, brutish and short” for Nigerians. Consequently, they are spreading all over the country’s hinterland killing and maiming people, burning their houses and even more serious for the future, preventing the mainstay of the country’s existence, agricultural production.

Nigeria has been transformed significantly over the past decade. The country has witnessed a significant breakdown of religious hierarchies and order. The Nigerian family is itself in crisis and has been torn apart by the decomposition of social and moral education that used to keep it together. In our towns and cities, there has been galloping urbanisation that has highlighted poverty and ghettoes providing an atmosphere in which the disconnected individuals wallowing in misery can see the engagement in mass atrocities as acceptable and indeed desirable behaviour.

The state of the Nigerian State is serious and each day we appear to be sinking deeper into the abyss. There is mounting evidence that we are not being effectively governed and the traditional task of running the State is not a priority concern for the ruling class. Indeed, strictly speaking, the usage of the term ruling class is questionable because although we have occupants of the offices that embody State power, the tenants of such offices are not engaged in running the State. The principal work they engage in is mega looting. The State does not tax citizens and relies almost wholly on petroleum rent. The State hardly produces public goods such as security, social services and infrastructure for the welfare of inhabitants. Finally, the State is no longer capable of performing its regulatory role in society and making laws for the good governance of the country and sanctioning those who breach the laws through the judiciary and law enforcement agencies.

In his definition of the State, Max Weber makes the point that the first rule is that the State must have the monopoly of the legitimate use of violence in society. We find ourselves in a situation in Nigeria in which private citizens have access to vast arsenals and use it against citizens and against security forces while for their part, security forces use their own arms in an illegitimate manner killing and maiming citizens in an extra-judicial manner. We know that there is no State in the world where you do not have some illegal arms in the hands of private citizens but when the quantum of such arms goes beyond a certain level and such private armies are able to attack security forces at will and the response of the security forces is to turn on ordinary citizens, then the State is in question.

Our Constitution defines the purpose of the state as the protection of the security of Nigerians and the pursuit of their welfare. Nigerians however know that they have to pay for their own security guards and even the bulk of the Nigerian police personnel are used to provide security, not for the people, but for individuals who can afford to pay for their services. Nigerian citizens are forced to provide their own electricity with millions of generators they purchase to power their houses and pollute the atmosphere. Nigerians go to the stream to fetch water or buy it from water vendors. The water is not potable and poisons families through water borne diseases. The elite is able to pay for personal boreholes in their houses and the result is that they wipe out underground water sources for future generations while surface water is not captured and treated but is left to flow into the sea. Of course, health and education have largely been private and the state is completely disdainful of Chapter Two of our Constitution that directs it to provide for the welfare of citizens.

Insurgents, armed bandits and the growing bands of kidnappers are able to move around freely in reconnaissance missions and stay and live with communities, which they study before carrying out their actions. Nigeria is at war and no one is taking measures to provide security at the local level. In all the States in the country, corrupt practices by governors have led to the complete disintegration of local government. The police have also disappeared from rural Nigeria. Our reality today is that no one is governing rural Nigeria because we had removed power from traditional authorities and handed it to local governments that are no longer operational. Meanwhile, traditional rulers have lost much of their capacity to monitor and track members of their communities. Today, we do not even have statistics of the killings and atrocities taking place because there are no institutions exercising authority to monitor and report. Communities with voice are screaming about their suffering but so many have no voice and are being killed in silence.

In rebuilding State capacity, Nigeria might need to reconsider providing a substantive role for traditional leaders. Yes, I am eating my words having argued for 30 years that traditional rulers are oppressors who should be kept at arm’s length from the exercise of State power. Desperate situations call for desperate measures. Traditional authorities have been lost in finding a role for themselves since the collapse of the system of Native Administration when they lost control of elements of State power, the native police and the prison at the beginning of military rule. The present insecurity in the country is an opportunity to open a conversation on modalities and possibilities for returning institutions with authority to rural Nigeria. As such institutions exist everywhere, what roles could they play that are positive in addressing the quagmire we find ourselves in.

Many civil society organisations have competence in promoting community awareness on security. Such organisations could also be encouraged to intensify their capacity building efforts and messaging that security is everybody’s business. High quality intelligence is one key ingredient that has been missing in the war against the insurgency and rural banditry. Communities have not been socialised into a war mood in which they are on their toes watching out for the enemy and liaising with security agencies. This needs to start.

The Nigerian State is so weak that the society has to take charge and nurse it back into some strength. It seems incapable of responding to the crisis generated by the escalation of the spread and use of small arms and light weapons in the country. The insurgency in the North East remains strong after a decade of military engagement. There is widespread rural banditry, cattle rustling and kidnapping in the North West Zone particularly in Zamfara, Kebbi, Kaduna and Katsina States. In the North Central Zone, farmer-herder conflicts have developed into widespread inter-communal violence especially in Plateau, Taraba, Nasarawa and Benue States. The militancy in the Niger Delta has escalated into large-scale piracy and theft of petroleum. The armed forces are deployed in at least 32 of the 36 States of the Federation and are therefore spread too thin to be able to respond effectively to deepening insecurity.

The task before us is the reconstruction of the Nigerian State. We cannot allow our political community to continue to crumble and suffer the outcome of State collapse. Rebuilding the State must ultimately take the form of a new approach based on good governance in which there is effective, transparent and accountable use of public resources to provide public goods for citizens. If those who exercise State power cannot use it to improve the lives and livelihoods of citizens, then they would have to be replaced. Our State must also recover the capacity to have the monopoly of the use of legitimate violence in society. The armed forces must the rebuilt. As the State recovers, our traditional and religious institutions as well as civil society have a huge role in playing their part in taking the first steps towards reconstruction.

-"Traditional Institutions And Rebuilding The State"~Professor Jibrin Ibrahim

seanfer:
This Akwa-Ibom state born lawyer is doing everything possible to become another Mike Ezekhome, looking for fame by all means. He’s done with Akpabio now He’s going Federal. Scammers

If you gonna attack you better attack the contents of his thought-process not his natural person, my dear.

Inibehe Effiong, a Nigerian lawyer has sued President Muhammadu Buhari for failing to hand over to the vice president, Yemi Osinbajo.

President Muhammadu Buhari left the country on the 24th of April 2019 for what he described as a 'private visit'. Presidency sources however revealed to SaharaReporters that it's was a medical trip.

The suit number FHC/L/CS/763/2019, was filed before a Federal High Court in Lagos.

Effiong asked the Court to determine four issues which are: "Whether in view of the extant provisions of Section 145 (1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), the 1st Defendant can validly proceed on vacation for any length of time without transmitting a written declaration to the President of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to that effect, which will empower the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to perform the functions of the President in an acting capacity.

"Whether the 1st Defendant’s action in proceeding on vacation to the United Kingdom from the 25th day of April, 2019 to the 5th day of May, 2019 without transmitting the written declaration envisaged in Section 145 (1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) to the President of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is not in conflict with the provisions of Section 145 (1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).

"Whether the 1st Defendant in refusing to adhere to the clear and unambiguous provisions of Section 145 (1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) has not by that singular action violated his oath of office and the Provisions of the Constitution which he swore to uphold.

" Whether the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) or any other law for that matter, permits the 1st Defendant to exercise presidential authority over the affairs of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from any country outside the territorial jurisdiction of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, save when he is out of the country on official diplomatic engagements.

A date is yet to be fixed for the hearing of the case.

Never forget to remember that that THING at Aso Rock, Abuja Nigeria is FAKE AND IMPOSTOR.

Nigerian Lawyer Sues President Buhari For Failing To Hand Over To Osinbajo While In The UK

Effiong asked the Court to determine four issues which are: "Whether the 1st Defendant’s action in proceeding on vacation to the United Kingdom from the 25th day of April, 2019 to the 5th day of May, 2019 without transmitting the written declaration envisaged in Section 145 (1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) to the President of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is not in conflict with the provisions of Section 145 (1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).

contonue reading here==>>http://saharareporters.com/2019/05/10/nigerian-lawyer-sues-president-buhari-failing-hand-over-osinbajo-while-uk

xxxv) Police equipment, emoluments, building and all funding shall come from the Police Funds
xxxvi) A monthly report on the administration of the Police Funds must be submitted to the Mayor who presents it to the Municipal Assembly of Deputies
xxxvii) The Municipal Government shall be solely responsible for the design, construction, funding, maintenance and operation of roads within its locality
xxxviii) The Municipal Government shall be responsible for the construction of stadia and other public buildings in conformance with the national guidelines
xxxix) The Municipal Government shall be responsible for the design, construction, administration, and funding of residential buildings, city development, beautification and administration
xl) The municipal government shall maintain a database of all residents of the municipality
xli) The Municipal Government shall be responsible for the provision of public power, water and other utilities
xlii) The Municipal Government shall be responsible for the administration of public health facilities and administration in conformance with the national guidelines
xliii) The Municipal Government shall be responsible for lives and security in the Municipality
xliiii) The Municipal Government shall and inter-municipal relationship within the Province/Prefecture
xlv) The Municipal Government shall be solely responsible for Town Planning and the citing of industries, airports, and other facilities
xlvi) The Municipal Government shall be directly in charge of 5% Sales Tax (of all transactions), 5% Residence Tax (5% of PAYE), annual Property Tax graduated between 50,000 per annum to 200,000 per annum (in conformance with the national guidelines)
xlvii) 1% apiece of Education & Security Taxes
xlviii) The Municipal Government must render a monthly income/expenditure to the Assemblies of Deputies
xlix) 25% of all Municipal Income must be paid to the Regional Government (according to the national guidelines)
l) All Municipal Accounts and transactions must be audited quarterly
li) All economic statistics and other data must be electronically submitted to the Regional Government in real time
lii) Each Municipal Government must strive to compete and place the municipality on the world map
liii) All Municipal Accounts and transactions must be audited quarterly
liiii) All economic statistics and other data must be electronically submitted to the Regional Government in real time
lv) Each Municipal Government must strive to compete and place the municipality on the world map
lvi) The region shall be responsible for all licenses in conformance with the national guidelines of all activities under its purview
lvii) Any firm seeking a license must obtain a Certificate of Consent from the Municipality of Interest at a cost not more than 10 times the national minimum wage
lviii) The Certificate of Consent shall be a perquisite for the award of the license
lix) On obtaining the regional license, a company must file it with the Government of the Federation for Records purposes
lx) Each Region must maintain a regional police formation according to the federal guidelines
lxi) The Regional Government shall be responsible for the legislation, manning, control, funding, development of the sectors below or as agreed with the municipal and provincial governments:
1. Railways
2. Electric Power
3. Intra-Regional Roads 4. Educational Institutions 5. Airports
6. Seaports
7. Mines
8. Mineral Resources
9. 50 kilometers offshore of the littoral regions shall be administered by the regional government
10. Beyond 50 kilometers offshore of the littoral regions shall be administered by the Government of the Federation
11. Agriculture
12. Manufacturing
13. Company Registrations 14. Inland Water Ways.

SECTION 10

THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT

i) Every town, village or City must have a Municipal Council (according to the national guidelines)
ii) The City Government must consist of 20% Traditional Council
iii) The City Municipal Government must be parliamentary in conformance with the Sections 3 &4
iiii) The Mayor is elected by the party with the highest number of Deputies and the Traditional Council
v) The Municipal Council; shall be directly responsible for ALL infrastructural Development of the City
vi) The Municipal Government could obtain licenses on behalf of companies for the sole purpose of fast tracking their development
vii) The municipal government, in conjunction with the Provincial & Regional Governments, must seek every way to aid development and solely responsible for the welfare of the people
viii) Each Municipal Government must have a municipal constitution
ix) The municipal constitution must not negate the Regional Constitution and those of the Government of the Federation
x) Municipal Constitution must be gazetted in the City Council
xi) The Municipal Government shall maintain an active police system in conformance with the National Guidelines for police formations
xii) The Municipal Government shall maintain a Judicial System of Independent Courts in conformance with the National Guidelines
xiii) The Municipal Government shall maintain a Criminal Detention System to house inmates and be charged to court in 24 hours, or handed over to the Regional Police or legal transfer to a security unit based on the Legal infringement
xiiii) The Municipal Criminal Detention Centre shall be the facility for housing criminal bailiffs during trial
xv) The Criminal Judicial Administration shall be according to the Trial by Jury model
xvi) The Municipal Judiciary must have a minimum of 5 judges based on the number of districts and the judicial needs of the locality
xvii) The judges must be elected by direct suffrage subject to clearance by the Regional Judicial Council
xviii) The judge with the longest length of service or as selected among his peers within the Municipality shall become the Chief Judge
xix) The tenure of Judges must be 5 years with the option to renew
xx) The Judges and courts get funded directly from the Municipal Accounts
xxi) The Municipality must pay 5% of all funding into the Judicial Funds
xxii) The Judicial Funds shall be administered by the elected Judiciary, and a report submitted monthly to the Municipal Parliament
xxiii) The Judicial Funds must be used to build Courts, administer courts and pay the emoluments of the Judges and court clerks in conformance with the national guidelines
xxiiii) The Judges shall be responsible to only the People and involved in the daily administration of the Municipality
xxv) The Mayor, or Parliament, have no power on the Judges in any way whatsoever
xxvi) The administration, engagement and discipline of Judges must be by the independent National Judicial Council
xxvii) The Municipal Government must maintain the office of the District Attorney
xxviii) The District Attorney must be directly elected
xxix) The District Attorney must maintain Assistant DAs in the Municipality
Bleep) The funding for the office of the District Attorney and emoluments, are the direct responsibility of the Municipality
xxxi) The District Attorney shall be responsible for the prosecution of all crimes within the Municipality
xxxii) The Municipality an elected Chief of Police
xxxiii) The Chief of Police must maintain the Municipal Police and keep the Law & Order xxxiiii) 20% of Municipal Funds shall be directly paid into the police funds

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SECTION 8

THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

1. The Provinces/Prefectures shall be made up of an Assembly of Heads of Municipal Governments
2. The Heads of the Municipal Governments (Mayors) must organize a loose provincial assembly
3. The Mayors shall elect a Provincial Head among themselves
4. The Provincial Head shall form a Provincial Government with other Mayors secretaries of
different sectors
5. The Provincial Government shall be run such as to have the Traditional Council occupying 35% of the seats
6. The Provincial Government shall coordinate the affairs of the province and maintain a relationship with the Regional & Municipal Governments.

SECTION 9

EQUALITY OF REGIONS

1. All Regions are constitutionally equal
2. The minimum requirement to be a region is to have a population of at least 5 million persons
with language or sociocultural interdependence
3. Large and small regions shall be equal
4. All Regions MUST contribute the same Number of Personnel to the Military, Federal Police,
Federal Civil Services, Immigration, Customs, and others
5. All regions must maintain a graduated registration of citizens that must be recruited into the
federally controlled organizations on an annual basis
6. There must be a Federal Office of National Employment (with representatives from each
region) that tracks equal/fair representation of all regions in all services
7. There must be an Armed Services Board comprising of a representative each from all regions
to manage promotions and recruitments into the armed services
8. The Parliament shall have a standing committee consisting of one Parliamentarian from all
regions to oversee the management of the Boards by the Prime Minister
9. Any deviation from the laid down guidelines shall lead to the immediate dissolution of the
government
10. Any official that willfully breaches these guidelines shall be liable to twenty-one (21) years
imprisonment if found guilty
11. The Federal Boards of National Employment & the Armed Security Boards shall provide an
annual report on the constitution of Federal Employments which shall be related to the
regions with shortfalls
12. The balance of the federating units must be maintained at all times.