LEGISLATORS WOULD RATHER PROTECT THEIR LOOTS THAN CONFRONT INSECURITY!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

(Looking at Nigeria's Political System From a Godly Perspective)

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LEGISLATORS WOULD RATHER PROTECT THEIR LOOTS THAN CONFRONT INSECURITY!

While concerned and patriotic Nigerian citizens even in the corridors of power, have come out boldly to condemn the current spate of insecurity and have urged government to introduce latest modern technology to end the malaise, selfish and stupendously-rich legislators would rather pursue the privileged status of insulation from criminal prosecution while in office as their urgent priority!
The current agitation to procure immunity cover for serving principal officers of the National Assembly (NASS), and State Assemblies, is insensitive, self-serving and provocative to the sensibilities of the taxpayers whose monies they always mismanaged with impunity year-on-year since the advent of the new democratic governance from 1999 to date!

Should this wishful request overshadow agonizing issues of insecurity in order to hide their confusion, inadequacies, inefficiencies, unpreparedness, total ignorance and myopia to proffer appropriate and workable solutions at this period of calamity that has befallen our once very peaceful nation?

In over ten years of insurgency and terrorism, not less than two million persons, including security personnel, have lost their lives from the constituencies of these egotists who seemed unperturbed by the plight of the electorate that “voted” them to power!
Instead, they preferred to monitor monetary accruals into their bank vaults on monthly basis – the pecuniary gains from sweat and blood of trenches combatants, victims of soft target bandit attacks, coupled with the corpses of innocent rural dwellers that litter the villages from where they were “born, educated and sent forth”!
Is it not an open secret that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFFC), is investigating majority of those lawmakers (especially those outrageously wealthy governors), in respect of dirty financial deals, money laundering, oil bunkering, illicit foreign exchange acquisition, etc, etc, who believed they could secure safe haven in the APC ruling Party and Red/Green Chambers! The game plan no doubt, was for unscrupulous  lawmakers to subtly support the obnoxious Bill, which beneficiary principal officers (Senate President/Deputy, House of Representatives Speaker/Deputy, State Assembly Speakers/Deputies), would in the course of their tenure compensate with juicy Committee chairmanship appointments ! 

THE 1999 CLUMSY CONSTITUTION!

We will continue to emphasize that the present 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, even as amended, could eventually drown the nation further into the abyss of disaffection, dissatisfaction, separatism, nepotism, tribalism etc, until a BRAND NEW DOCUMENT is crafted to remove all lopsidedness and meet the hope, wishes, needs, aspirations, expectations, of the downtrodden masses who always held the short end of the stick and faithful political leaders would not need rocket science to achieve this feat! But in the interim the Electorate must resist the gimmicks of those lawmakers who believed they could pocket the common patrimony through Section 80(2)(3), compared with, 81(1)(2)(4)(a)(b) and 82, 83 (1)(2), which conferred them with “Powers and Control over Public Funds” but invoke instead invoke constitutional powers to RECALL them whenever it was exigent!

It is true that legislators also have powers to make laws for good governance which should be exercised through BILLS passed by both the Senate and the House of Representatives including Oversight Functions/Powers to Investigate, BUT which they have thoroughly abused over the years by inserting secret constituency projects which they personally supervised!
And to achieve the malfeasance, they claimed further powers to “vet, butcher, dissect, re-write, re-invent, add, subtract or increase the annual Appropriation Bill/Budget at their whims and caprices in respect of financial expenditure of other tiers of government (Executive/Judiciary), including their parastatals, ie: Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs)!

In addition to all of the foregoing they now wished to re-introduce their rights to the “immunity clause” which Bills failed at the 7th/8th NASS respectively, between the years 2011-2019!
The immunity clause in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Section 308, confer immunity on four very important personalities (the president and his vice; governor and deputy), from criminal prosecution while holding political offices to avoid unnecessary distractions from sensitive national duties!

PRIORITIES OF LEGISLATORS AT THIS TIME SHOULD BE TO RESTORE SECURITY THROUGH:
*Legislative processes to establish State Police and not Community Policing in all 36 States of the federation. *Extractive Derivation Principle for all States. * Devolution of Powers from Federal to Federating Units. *Resource Control (exploitation and revenue sharing of resources from oil/minerals). *Local Government Autonomy – LGAs should no longer be appendages to State Governors! *Independent Candidacy – which must ensure that citizens were not precluded from participating in elections by being forced to join a registered political party according to the existing 1999 Constitution. * Urgent passage of the Electoral Laws Amendment Bill which has suffered several setbacks now to be injected with ELECTRONIC VOTING THAT WOULD ELIMINATE THE USE OF BALLOT BOXES.
Urgent passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), which continued to suffer unexplainable delays from 2007 till date! * All Official Malfeasance issuing from deliberate manipulation during financial, monetary and fiscal allocations/appropriations – among the three tiers – especially during Budget preparation, defense, approval and execution, MUST be totally blocked through meticulous, painstaking and foolproof forensic mechanisms. *POLITICAL/ADMINISTRATIVE STEPS TO SCRAP THE SENATE IN BUHARI’S SECOND TERM MUST BEGIN FROM THE PRESIDENCY THROUGH AN EXECUTIVE BILL FROM JANUARY 2021 UNFAILINGLY! *SENEGAL’S PRESIDENT SUCCEEDED! * The House of Representatives members must be reduced from 360 to 74 who would be remunerated in accordance with the Civil Service salary structure!

LEGISLATORS MUST NOW COOPERATE WITH GOVERNMENT TO ELIMINATE INSECURITY!

The All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Buhari are privy through recommendations of the Governor El Rufai Restructuring Committee of January 2018, to all of the above and are in agreement with all these priorities which would be actualized through REFERENDUM because most of those power-drunk legislators would create political huddles against the move!

FEDERAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL (FEC) CONTROVERSIAL APPROVALS MUST ALSO BE STOPPED!

Like the Obasanjo’s Administration, we have noticed that this Government deliberately refused to rescind decisions on suspiciously-packaged but approved contracts brought to the table by serving ministers of the cabinet during Weekly (unconstitutional) FEC Meetings!
Prominent among the dubious contracts at the moment are the N37billion naira contract award for the Renovation of the National Assembly (NASS), over which public outcry has refused to subside. And the second is the N1.4billion naira contract for the architectural design for the new 12-Storey Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Abuja HQ, which will gulp about N35 billion naira of the taxpayers’ money to construct!
Why can’t President Buhari stop Legislators from purchasing foreign automobiles with a whooping sum of N55billion naira IF THE EXECUTIVE IS NOT ALSO CULPABLE in respect of such extravagance in the midst of abject poverty and economic depression among the TALAKAWAS? President Buhari chaired all of these illegal FEC Meetings!

In spite of the public hue and cry, the Buhari’s Administration has kept mum while the contractors have official permission to do whatever they wished with the contract sums just as they did to the CONTROVERSIAL USD$ 16 billion of OBASANJO’S POWER MAGIC!  BUT WE CAN ASSURE President Buhari that these particular contracts will constitute the ALBATROSS for him and his cabinet if he refused to intervene to stop them immediately!
HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT BUHARI, HAS NO ALTERNATIVE THAN TO DO THE WILL OF GOD WHO PLACED HIM IN THE SADDLE TO TOTALLY PURGE INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION WITH IMPUNITY FROM THE STINKING SYSTEM; FOR FAILURE ON HIS PART WILL INCUR TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES FROM THE THRONE!
The Talakawas are suffering in absolute degradation while the privileged few around him are in opulence and luxury! How can any war be won on that kind of platform- no wonder the legislators are determined to keep their loots with IMMUNITY AND IMPUNITY just as Presidents, Vice Presidents, Governors and Deputy Governors, with the approval of Section 308 of the 1999 Constitution!

ANTIDOTES TO INSECURITY ARE:
THE STOPPAGE OF ALL WASTAGES IN BOTH THE LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE,
THE SCRAPPING OF THE SENATE.
REDUCTION OF MEMBERSHIP STRENGTH OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO 74 PERSONS.
TOTAL CANCELATION OF CONSTITUENCY PROJECTS,
IMMEDIATE STOPPAGE OF ALL FRIVOLOUS ALLOWANCES BEING CLAIMED BY ALL LEGISLATORS AND CIVIL SERVANTS OUTSIDE OF STIPULATED REGULATIONS!

CONCLUSION: If over N1.5 trillion naira could be saved through the blockage from all stealing and financial wastages and are ploughed annually into Education, Agriculture, Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSMSEs), the overwhelming impact on the ECONOMY and the soothing balm on the frayed nerves of the poor masses of Talakawas would be both outstanding overwhelming!

Definitely, poverty would be automatically eradicated, all able-bodied persons would be gainfully employed; and all angry and arms-wielding youths across the nation would surrender to lawful authorities to be rehabilitated and reintegrated into the societies for absolute peace to reign supreme in the land. The obnoxious immunity bill which legislators claimed had scaled second reading should die natural death since Speaker of the House of Representative and some patriots are negatively disposed to the whole distraction!  Q. WHO OVERSIGHTS NASS?  ‘’Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.’’ (Proverbs 22:29).

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