Monday, 30 December 2013

TRUE FEDERALISM COULD SAVE NIGERIA PART 3: CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT

The hogwash national assembly that we have now in Nigeria has an opportunity to redeem themselves in the rather forever ongoing constitutional amendment.  This golden opportunity is both pivotal for the survival of Nigeria and for the redemption of an inept National Assembly. 


They just have to do two basic things to redeem themselves and make any meaning for the money they make us spend on them.  These are – (1) amend the constitution to create a true federalism in structural, fiscal, cultural, developmental, political and civil security sense. (2) Create more states.  Hitherto, only the military have used fiat to create states as if we are not able as a democracy to respond to the yearnings of our people.  If the National Assembly is able to create a state or two, we would consider them useful at least to that extent because they have been useless and busy wasting our resources all this while.

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