Nigeria need is constitutional implementation not review

By Muhammad Yahaya Abubakar

For quite sometimes now Nigerians all around regardless of region, religion and all sort of bigotries have been living in such a state of dilemma over the tough life we are experiencing as a nation and as a people.

Whether one is rich or poor as per as Nigeria is concern will not find any reason to unjustify the fact that in one way or the other the bad state of leadership in our country have affected us negatively and have cut the apple out of our teeth.

We had had troubles from international forces ranging from the fall in price of crude oil in the world market which is the major to only source of generating revenue that works for the nation as at today. We also had issue with the IMF for emptying our reserved funds that is only meant to be off for uncertainties but it was shattered on the street and pockets of our governors, a situation that adds to the trouble in exchange value of our local currency strength to other currencies around the globe.

If we take a step back and look at our inside house issues as well, petroleum subsidy have been removed to its zero level and was even glamouring to take it down to negative subsidual value as suggested by some of our greedy governors, a situation that have forced the price of local fuel to trippled and gets higher everyday over the time. Banditry, kidnapping, rape and thuggery have been haemorraging from the four walls of our nation from the south to West down to North. Our youth are left jobless after going through lengthy years of uninterrupted formal education system that promised a better life for them only to come out and sees otherwise. Corruption have infiltrated through the roots and stems of our parastatals, agencies and every government entities in the public sector from contracts award to jobs.

Nepotism have stand in the way of sending people to public offices, tyranny and lack of compliance to the rule of law pass by our justice system on government officials and bodies like INEC and Political Parties case, who chose to see itself as a law above the court.

It was a consequences of those acts that forced Nigerians over time to be meandering, glamouring and fighting over and over from one political and societal movements to the other viz the almighty Bring Back Our Girls by Aisha Yesufu, Stand Against Rape and Rapists by the UNFPA Nigeria, Revolution Now by Sowore Omolaye, Revolution of Ideas by Tope Fasua, Restructuring by the Yoruba SANs, Biafra/IPOB agitators led by Nmadi Kanu, Oduduwa Republic agitators, Stop the Killings in the North by Aisha Yesufu, EndSars by Falz and Co and a lot of such movements, one will believe with me that all these evicted as a result of poor governance and lack of deligence by the apex government in the country.

Looking at the 1999 constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended you will believe with me that there is no single sub-section or phrase that supports any of the injustice, corruption, tyranny to law and order by the government and its entities. It have not just barred such instances alone but have also clearly stated penalties around the neck of any person or group of persons culpable that violet any of its provisions. So the issue on table that the Federal Government, Nass and Buhari’s cabinet should focus on should be to try as much as possible to follow the norms and teaching of the constitution they all swore an oath to protect and depend before taking offices and enforce its compliance to parastatals and their heads, agencies and their heads, ministries and their heads as well.

So in essence what Nigeria needs at this point in time of our nation was some action by the government officials than making more fairy tales and empty promises that wont live that far to tell the tales moreso it wont get to be actualised by those that will draft it itself. Let the court prosecute any culpable regardless of class and affiliation. Let the police, ICPC and EFCC investigate, enforced the law and put behind bars offending political and public officers than only wasting more of the nation resource in going after petty banana thieves in the name of yahoo boys and online scammers leaving the bigger thieves lived happily crusing their jeeps in ACs.

Nigerians lived in harmony, peace, a joyable life and have prosper more to a much greater height on all matters of national and international concerns with our earliest constitution in 60s, 70s, 80s and only get worst as it kept being reviewed to meet the needs of the selfish leaders of our nation as its gets to 90s and 20th. We are better with the British drafted constitution than with our crafted greedy laws.

So in essence what Nigeria needs at this point in time of our nation was some action by the government officials than making more fairy tales and empty promises that wont live that far to tell the tales moreso it wont get to be actualised by those that will draft it itself. Let the court prosecute any culpable regardless of class and affiliation. Let the police, ICPC and EFCC investigate, enforced the law and put behind bars offending political and public officers than only wasting more of the nation resource in going after petty banana thieves in the name of yahoo boys and online scammers leaving the bigger thieves lived happily crusing their jeeps in ACs. Let the communication ministry, finance ministry and NOA go after the exploration of the yahoo boys and online scammers by tracking their route, blocking their source and blocking their wallets. Let them keeps enlighting the public on what to and what not to believe on the internet, let the NOA keeps the public up to date on all happenings around us to stay away from being a rat in trapped of the yahoo hunters.

I beleived Nigeria will get better through a better and dedicated leadership with the same old guide we had in the old days. There is nothing wrong with our laws but everything is wrong with our leadership as a nation.

Muhammad Yahaya Abubakar is a Public Affairs Analyst.