It is just as well that less than 24 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari denied that he instructed the Attorney-General of the Federal and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele...
It is just as well that less than 24 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari denied that he instructed the Attorney-General of the Federal and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, not to obey the Supreme Court judgement of March 3, Emefiele took immediate steps to obey it – at least partially. He instructed the commercial banks to take in and pay out N1, 000 and N500 notes.
Emefiele had ignored the judgement for more than two weeks. He ignored every sane and sensible critique of the monetary policy that has done more harm than good to fellow citizens and the national economy. It has sunk many more Nigerians below the poverty line and deepened our collective misery and frustrations.
I begin with the weightier issues concerning the nature of our federalism. The Federal Republic of Nigeria is made up of the centre and the constituent units, the states. The states are not administrative units of the Federal Government although all pupil lawyers know that successive heads of the Federal Government have so treated them. Ours not being a unitary system of government, without the constituent units, our federal system will merely blow in the wind.
The phrase became the signature of empty and misguided military radicalism. It lingers and continues to rape the system and reduce governance to a hollow ritual that bends to the big man’s whims and caprices at the centre and the states. Without following due process, good governance becomes an inconvenient ideal to which our political leaders are loathe to aspire.
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