The National Assembly appears upbeat, as lawmakers begin another amendment of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Every budget year, the NASS sets aside close to N1 billion for the ritual and it’s on record that N24.8 billion have been expended to correct the Constitution that was originally handed over by General Abdulsalami Abubakar, former military head of state in 1999.
For instance, while citizens had no power to hold military regimes accountable, the 1999 Constitution provides in Chapter Two that sovereignty belongs to the people of Nigeria, from whom the government derives all powers and authority. Citizens’ welfare indices have sunken to distress levels, with jobless persons outnumbering the few that earn incomes. Families are struggling to survive excruciating policies of a civilian government that swore to the Constitution to prioritise their wellbeing above every other consideration, including the asphyxiating recommendations of World Bank/IMF.
For instance, as the Federal Government and states now earn triple revenues from imported petrol taxes, and they seem not to know what to do with thevexcess naira, this is the best chance to test the provisions of Chapter Two. The Constitution in Section 16 pronounces the economic objective that will guarantee national prosperity; to secure the maximum welfare, freedom and happiness of every citizen on the basis of social justice and equality of status and opportunity.
These legislators have empowered themselves so much that when they go home, they flaunt excess wealth, they live larger than life, swelled by the resources that ought to go to the constituents via other legitimate and equitable means. They dominate the electoral space, neutralising all reasonable opposition, disorienting voters and commercializing elections. That nonsense must stop.
NINAS said: “Let it be known to all that the fraudulent imposition of the 1999 Constitution via Abdulsalami Abubakar’s Decree 2 of 1999 was a treasonous act, tantamount to the hijack and confiscation of the sovereignty of the constituent peoples of Nigeria, to whom the authorship of the atrocious constitution is falsely credited in the preamble to the Constitution.
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On March 4, 2024, the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States , ruled that states do not have the right to disqualify candidates based on the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment’s Section 3. With that, they saved that country’s democracy from what could have been an invitation to anarchy. Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has urged the Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian Communications Commission , Dr Aminu Maida, to revoke, immediately, directive to network providers to bar phone lines of millions of Nigerians, who have not linked their SIM cards to their National Identification Numbers .
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