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   By Polycarp Onwubiko

(1) CONTINUATION OF 1999 CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT? NO.

WHY?

(a) 1976 Dasuki local government Reform empaneled by the Military regime (teleguided by the Fulani caliphate in firm control of government of Nigeria) was designed to favour the northern part of the country by (without consulting other ethnic nationalities)  making local government administration a THIRD TIER OF GOVERNMENT contrary to the practice of federal system of government the world over.

(b) In the First Republic, principles of federal system of government were scrupulously adhered to and there were only TWO TIERS OF GOVERNMENT namely: Federal Government, and Regional Governments. There was Resource Control whereby the Regional Governments explored and exploited natural and mineral resources within their jurisdiction and paid 50 percent of the proceeds to the Federal Government for the running of few Ministries namely: Foreign affairs, Defense, and Immigration. All other Ministries, Departments , and Agencies, MDAs were operated by the Regional Governments hence the mantra: "COMPETITIVE FEDERALISM" where each Regional Government leveraged on the natural and mineral resources to create wealth and massive employments with improvement in the standard of living of the masses.

(c) In furtherance of the Military's brazen bastardization of the principles of federal system of government,  local government councils were made to be partaking from the monthly Statutory Revenue Allocation. The deft strategy was that the Military regime created surplus local government councils in the northern part of the country with the result that humongous amount of monthly Statutory Revenue Allocation were funnelled to the northern part of the country at the expense and detriment of the southern part of the country hence the cry of marginalization.

(d) In furtherance of the Military's deliberate wickedness and brazen marginalization of the southern part of the country, having created surplus local government councils in the northern part of the country, the military, preparatory to the foisting of the "Federal-Unitary 1999 Constitution" (a contraption on Nigerians) made provision in the fraudulent and fundamentally flawed 1999 Contraption in the name of Federal Constitution that the local government councils would be the BASIS FOR FEDERAL CONSTITUENCIES. It was a deliberate strategy so that in the coming civilian administrator, with the establishment of the National Assembly, the North would have MAJORITY MEMBERS IN THE FEDERAL LEGISLATURE so that whatever Bill that would come to the House, the preference of the "Monolithic North" would have their way irrespective of the feeling of the southern part of the country.

(e) The deft strategy worked during the  socalled Amendments to the 1999 Constitution where the Nigerians called for multi policing system as pragmatic measure against the pervasive and intractable insecurity throughout the country but the Fulani caliphate who have consistently and stridently kicked against that, breathed down on the members of the Constitution Amendment Committee to drop the nationwide clarion calls for state police. Their covert, narcissist reasoning was that state police would stop their foot soldiers for the Islamization agenda: the terrorists masquerading as herdsmen from the Sahel region of West Africa who up till today have been allowed to infiltrate the country from the northern borders and embarked on ethnic cleansing of Christian communities of southern Kaduna state and further down to the Middle Belt ethnic nationalities. The terrorists masquerading as herdsmen are mindlessly slaughtering people and occupied their ancestral homelands while the Buhari led federal government looked unconcerned; ditto for his successor, president Tinubu.

(2) The authentic and pragmatic measure to reinvent Nigeria is for the National Assembly to invoke the "Doctrine of Neccesity" to embark on National Conference of ethnic nationalities to brainstorm on how Nigerians can live together either by CON-FEDERATION OR RESTRUCTURING THE LOPSIDED FEDERATION FOR EQUITY, FAIRNESS, AND JUSTICE, ALONG WITH FISCAL FEDERALISM.

President Tinubu should bestir himself to tell Nigerians how to reinvent the otherwise crumbling country. The economy is in shambles while insecurity has gone out of hand due to the centralized security architecture which is out of sync with Federal system of government as obtained the world over.

 

Polycarp Onwubiko, A Media Commentator writes from Awka, Anambra State