ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER.
(Looking at Nigeria's Political System From a Godly Perspective).
A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria {Vol. 9.NO 360. 5th July, 2020.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32). . PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!
NIGERIA DESERVES A NEW CONSTITUTION TO CURB LEGISLATORS EXCESSES AND END INSECURITY!
How long does it take to produce a credible Nigerian Constitution? Maximum ruler, General Sanni Abacha, died suddenly on 8th June 1998 and was succeeded by General Abdussalam Abubakar, who produced a military constitution within a year and handed over to some very agitated politicians who eventually detected all pitfalls, irregularities and loopholes since 1999, but kept mute because the adulterated/illegal document was their passport to become “Hushpuppi & Woodberry”, without much sweat!
Popular opinion believed that during his short tenure as Nigeria’s 11th Head of State, Abdussalam adopted a modified/mutilated version of the 1979 constitution which provided for multi-party elections which has thrown up 91 political parties and several “associations” warming up to metamorphose into political wizards/billionaires!
This concocted 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was put to test again on the floor of the Senate Chambers on Tuesday, 30th June, 2020, when the paper works of one of the much-publicized social intervention programmes, a Pilot Special Public Works in the Rural Areas tagged “774,000 Jobs for Local Governments”, had to go through the Joint Committees on Labour of both Senate and House of Representatives for scrutiny/defence.
But the Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo, (SAN), who was determined to ensure that “legislators would not seat in one private room and pocket the Social intervention Programme (SIP),” deliberately prevented the law makers from hijacking the process through pretentious “Constitutional OVERSIGHT” behind closed doors and told them that the project was exclusive to the Federal Executive Government in spite of the fact that he was summoned to brief them!
A report said that he caught the ire of enraged legislators who insisted that he should have submitted the details of programme to them privately for vetting before taking certain steps for them to have an input on how the programme should be implemented and insisted on a CLOSED-DOOR SESSION which the minister rebuffed! In the process of heated argument Keyamo was asked to leave the Hall for refusing to apologize to them.
The initiative which was packaged to cushion effects of Covid-19 pandemic at the lowest level of the society, will take off on 1st October which coincides with Nigeria’s 60th Independence Anniversary will employ at least 1,000 unskilled ordinary persons from each of the 774 LG Areas, who will be engaged in drainage digging/clearance, irrigation canals clearance, rural feeder road maintenance, etc, and paid N20,000 monthly to carry out the public works domiciled in the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), under Section 16 (1) of the NDE Act, for implementation.
Each State, according to the details supplied by the Minister, Mr. Festus Keyamo, (SAN), will have a committee to choose those to be employed and the jobs they will perform with input from political leaders, (allowed to select not more than 10% of the beneficiaries in their areas), and such employees will be engaged for a period of three months, October-December 2020, in all the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
And for the reason of exclusion, the legislators claimed they have suspended the entire programme as it would not benefit them though they claimed to be “representatives” of the masses and would want the stigma of Nigeria being “poverty capital of the world” ERASED? Is perpetrating poverty in the land the new oversight of the LEGISLATORS? Do they have constitutional powers to stop this Executive project?
NOW IS THE APPOINTED TIME FOR GENERAL BUHARI TO SPEARHEAD A BRAND NEW CONSTITUTION DEVOID OF VAMPIRE SENATORS!
The clamour for a UNICAMERAL LEGISLATURE devoid of the upper chambers is very imperative at this challenging period when the Covid-19 pandemic has adversely depleted the nation’s economy so that all financial accruals to those senators and other glaring wastages in both the Executive and Judiciary running into trillions of naira annually, would be ploughed to boost internally-generated revenues through Agriculture and the Extractive industries notably, GAS & GOLD that attract high dividends in foreign earnings.
WAS IT NOT HIGH TIME GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI REDEEMED HIS DIMINISHING IMAGE BY SPEARHEADING THE SCRAPPING OF THE SENATE TODAY?
The President does not need to wait until 2023 to call for a REFERENDUM as we had suggested several times because he will have the support of all Nigerians to REMOVE THOSE BAD EGGS that are bent on complete ruin of Nigeria’s economy through aggrandizement once and for all! Nigerians are tired of 109 SENATE PREDATORS who are reaping where they did not sow!
WHEN NIGERIANS OPPOSED AND CONDEMNED APPROPRIATION OF N37 BILLION NAIRA TO RENOVATE THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY COMPLEX, THEY REDUCED THE AMOUNT TO N27 BILLION AND THE PRESIDENT KEPT MUTE! HEAVEN WILL NOT FALL IF NASS IS NOT RENOVATED!
But WE will not accept any further PRESIDENTIAL SILENCE from henceforth because WE will demand accountability from the President who promised that his administration would cater for the TALAKAWAS in 2015 & 2019 because WE voted for him to perform and not to surround himself with charlatans who are cashing in on several FLAWS bequeathed to Nigerians through the 1999 military constitution!
GLARING FLAWS OF THE UNITARY 1999 MILITARY CONSTITUTION!
It is common knowledge that military organizational charts are vertically-integrated in a unitary format, so the 1999 Constitution handed over to the Nigerian people at their disengagement from partisan politics on 29th May, 1999 was devoid of contributions from NGOs, CSOs, the Labor Sector or the impute of a National Conference, Plebiscite or even a Referendum!
Greater powers are vested to the centre i.e. the Presidency, more that the Federating States;
All lands in the country were grabbed in the military fashion through the obnoxious LAND USE ACT, thereby depriving the citizens of decent/adequate accommodations and farm lands that could serve as collaterals for banking transactions;
The social contracts which include rights to potable water, food security/sufficiency, access roads, arable lands for massive agricultural diversification of the economy, employment opportunities, national living wages, pension facilities to the aged and retired workers etc, are mere window dressing;
The entire Constitution was written in the masculine gender to marginalize the women who have greater statistics in the national population of about 200 million people and the pronoun, "he" is regarded as UNISEX;
Other notable flaws can be found in State Creation process/procedure; Electoral organizers are expected to be members of political parties; the Judiciary and Ministry of Finance where professional and political offices are merged into one office to create more confusion; lack of a defined autonomous status of Local governments; ambiguous fiscal and revenue-sharing formula between Federal and State governments etc, many of these confusions have been re-defined at the apex court with very little reprieve! THERE ARE SO MANY OTHER CONFLICTS IN THE 1999 CONSTITUTION THAT ARE FAR MORE THAN THOSE LISTED ABOVE AND CANNOT FIND SPACE IN THIS TREATISE!
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS WERE EFFORTS IN FUTILITY SINCE 1999!
The National Assembly on assumption of office 1999 discovered these ambiguities, inadequacies, irregularities/shortcomings/lacunas which should have prompted quick intervention during the 4th and 5th Assemblies of ex-President Obasanjo's tenure, but delayed the evil day which has eventually reared its ugly head in the form of demands for diverse kinds of RESTRUCTURING, like DEVOLUTION OF POWER from the CENTRE to federating States, RESOURCE CONTROL by Crude Oil producing States, reversal to REGIONAL system of the 1960s and even - SECESSION!
The faulty military document created the stampede of new breed of mercenary "do-or-die" politicians between 1999 and 2019, and the desperados were quick to jump ship from one Party to another as long as they would gain relevance in the band wagon of money-monger gangs and no remarkable achievement was recorded in the direction of drafting/crafting a new Constitution! In fact, the last exercise of the un-amendable jig-saw puzzles in the 1999 Constitution during ex-President Jonathan's administration was thrown into the garbage bin because of selfish desires of the legislators to whittle down and eventually USURP EXECUTIVE AND PRESIDENTIAL POWERS!
THE URGENT COMMISSIONING OF A CONSTITUTION REVIEW COMMITTEE AND CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY BY APC IS IMPERATIVE!
The duty of a Constituent Assembly (CA), to be composed by representatives from the SIX GEO-POLITICAL ZONES CONSTITUENCIES will be to DELIBERATE upon a draft constitution to be produced by Constitution Review Committee (CRC), made up of TRUE, LEGITIMATE, & BONA-FIDE PEOPLE OF NIGERIA from all walks of life - politicians, CSO's, NGO's, university youths/students, the ivory tower scholars, technocrats, professionals, industrialists, captains of industries, lawyers, judges, the aged, motor drivers, market women, traders, farmers, the physically disadvantaged, the rich and the poor, etc; from all the 774 Local Government Areas of the federation, and then PAINSTAKINGLY SIFTED AND THOROUGHLY VETTED for passage and Executive approval by the FEDERAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL (FEC), as a brand new CONSTITUTION of the Federal Republic of Nigeria! This feat can be achieved before the next 2023 elections!
A BRAND NEW CONSTITUTION WILL TAKE CARE OF THE TALAKAWAS NEEDS AND THEY WOULD BEGIN TO ENJOY A BRAND NEW LIFE DEVOID OF SUFFERINGS AND POVERTY! It is written," When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn."(Prov 29:2 KJV)
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If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray this prayer: Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament of your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and Saviour. Please forgive me and write my name in the Book of Life. Amen. If you prayed this prayer, you have been admitted into the family of sons and daughters of God, who are born-again. Congratulations.
I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066. G-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.
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