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 By Polycarp Onwubiko

What a laughable vain jangling in the voluminously 'Thesis' titled: "Federalism and Restructuring: The choices for Nigerians" parts 1, 2, 3 by Usman Sarki , Vanguard March 20, 2024!

Having written nine (9) Books on Constitutional Democracy and public administration in Nigeria, I was naturally curious to peruse the three-part write-ups even as I was intuitively informed that it has been an impossible task for a northern Moslem to support the restoration of True fiscal federalism through the Restructuring of the lopsided Federation.

This is because the president fraudulent and fundamentally flawed federal arrangements otherwise referred to as a "Unitary-Federal contraption" undergirded by the equally fundamentally and fraudulently crafted 1999 Constitution supposedly and deceptively described as "as amended" by the lopsided membership of the National Assembly is in favour of the northern part of the country at the expense and detriment of the southern part of the country.

To that extent, the elites from the North have never seen any fault with the fraudulent and clearly unworkable federal arrangements and scout pseudo political writers to defend the selfish calculations in the present system with the military Decreed Constitution.

Since the flawed political structure is in their favour since the military which handed the fraudulent meta legal document (the 1999 Constitution) were northerners, deliberately injected provisions that make the north have majority members in the National Assembly with the results that all the Act of Parliament, Motions, policies and programmes would be as the North would want hence the perennial cries of marginalization by the southern part of the country.

This was the genesis of the clarion calls for the Restructuring of the country to reinvent True fiscal federalism with multi policing system as integral part. In addition, democracy without equity, fairness and justice is meaningless.

Hear some of the porous, fundamentally flawed arguments, vain jangling and postulations of Usman Sarki lustily kicking against restructuring the lopsided Federation with the associated True fiscal federalism:

"The Amalgamation of 1914 had effectively sealed the fate of the two territories and rendered them a single entity into a single destiny to follow (vacuous position to sustain the bastardization of the principles of federal system of government as obtained the world over).

"The core grievance against the federal system as it is operated in Nigeria today have to do with questions of competence and perfection of governance and not a reversal of the federal arrangements (he means that there is nothing wrong with the present fraudulent and fundamentally flawed and unworkable contraption with the military Decreed Constitution).

"Issues such as devolution of powers, resource control, derivation and representation in government etc are all constitutional matters (the military decreed fraudulent and fundamentally flawed 1999) that can be thrashed out in debates in the National Assembly within the framework of the existing laws of the Federation".

***Comment:

Have you seen the gross selfish calculations of the northerners (the ever scheming and crafty Fulani Feudal Oligarchy and Northern Political Emirate Establishment"? Mark you that the lopsided National Assembly have majority members from the North because of the surplus local government councils created in the north by the military oligarchy without consulting the people in the southern part of the country.

To perfect the perfidy and vicious plans for perpetual domination of the north, the military Decreed Constitution has the local government councils as basis for creating Federal Constituencies at the expense and detriment of the southern part of the country with the results that all laws that is the Act of Parliament, motions, policies and programmes for the entire country will tilt in favour of the north.

The ball is at the court of the southerners especially the members of the Red and Green chambers of the lopsided National Assembly to come together to insist on the immediate Restructuring of the lopsided Federation with decentralized security architecture as integral part. The vain jangling and vacuous postulations of Usman Sarki are eye opener to the people of the south even the middle belt ethnic nationalities because the Fulani Feudal Oligarchy has never factored their interest in their vile and Islamic based calculations.

At times I was tempted to brand the middle belt people as a confused lot because of their continued membership of Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF and the so-called Northern Governors Forum, NGF instead of forming Middle Belt Consultative Forum and Middle Belt Governors Forum to frontally address their people's deep yearnings and aspirations instead of being appendages of the selfish Fulani Feudal Oligarchy.

 This has never cared about the ethnic cleansing in the middle belt by the terrorists masquerading as herdsmen imported from the Sahel region of West Africa for territorial expansion of Fulani race from the Sahara region of West Africa. They are well armed with AK 47 assault riffles occupying the communities in Nigeria, kidnapping, raping and burning churches while the supposed Nigeria Police look elsewhere waiting for the body language from Aso Villa Abuja.

 

Federal Government's Insincerity In Curbing Food Inflation

Daily Sun Editorial captioned "CBN's plan to boost agric sector", March 26, 2024 pointedly declared:

"Let the government check kidnapping and banditry (add terrorists masquerading as herdsmen imported by from the Sahel region of West Africa for ethnic cleansing and territorial expansion) which have crippled farming activities. Tackling the rising food inflation requires curbing the triggers of the problem".

***Comment:

Unfortunately, the Tinubu Administration has not shown clear preparedness in establishing state police which will stop open grazing and compel the cattle owners to establish ranches as obtained in sane and sanitized Federations the world over.

Any expectation for increased food production without stopping open grazing is sheer waste of time and pandering to the venality of a section of the country that stridently kicked against restructuring the Federation for realistic principles of federal system of government.

 

By Polycarp Onwubiko, media commentator, writes from Awka Anambra State.