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Emeka Anyaoku, former secretary-general of the Commonwealth, says Nigeria needs a new constitution to address the “ongoing deterioration of the situation” in the country.
“But all this changed when the military intervened in the country’s governance in January 1966 and changed the existing constitution,” he said.“Under the constitution of fewer and more viable federating new units that we had before the military intervention, there was security in the country and a faster pace of economic development in the region.
“There is great insecurity throughout the land as we hear every day of killings and kidnappings by unknown gunmen and marauding bandits.
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