NIGERIANS SHOULD BOYCOTT CONSTITUTION REVIEW; THEY ARE NOT PANEL-BEATERS!

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(Looking at Nigeria and the World's Political System From a Godly Perspective).

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NIGERIANS SHOULD BOYCOTT CONSTITUTION REVIEW; THEY ARE NOT PANEL-BEATERS!

Crafty legislators for the umpteenth time have introduced review of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, severally condemned as a faulty document produced by the military shortly before the new democratic experiment, as the antidote to general insecurity and solution to the massive agitation for RESTRUCTURING of the nation’s political structure!

The SENATE began a two-day jamboree tagged “Constitution Review” in two States each of the Six Geo-Political Zones from 25th-26th May, 2021, to collect memoranda from the people in respect of choice restructuring; while the House of Representatives will follow suit in early June 2021!

These set of opportunistic, inhuman, insensitive, incompetent, heartless, self-centered, nepotistic and very myopic impostors [several of whom have held sway in the National Assembly (NASS), since 1999 to date], decided without approval from their various constituencies to panel-beat the obtrusive martial laws through which they have amassed stupendous wealth instead of initiating the process for a brand NEW UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION that would serve the yearnings and aspirations of the down-trodden! How do they intend to get a different result by initiating the same process every time?

From the 5th through to the 9th NASS, - Constitutional Reviews had been initiated without positive results in spite of the billions of naira expended for the fruitless exercises! The review of 2014 by 7th NASS which contained about 42 items, was summarily rejected by ex-President Jonathan who refused his assent!

Now that the legislators would soon embark on a long annual “SUMMER HOLIDAY” from the month of June 2021, definitely loads of crisp Naira currency notes should come in handy!

“WE THE PEOPLE OF NIGERIA….” DESERVE BETTER DEAL FROM THESE IMPOSTORS FRONTING AS REPRESENTATIVES!

If the elders are suffering from AMNESIA, shouldn’t the VIBRANT #End SARS #End Police Brutality Youths organize a peaceful #END LEGISLATORS BARE-FACED ROBBERY OF THE TREASURY; who falsify truth and proffer falsehood to very serious national issues of CORRUPTION/INSECURITY?

QUESTIONS:

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 “stinkingly rich”! President Buhari and the Executive working with a credible CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY, should produce one in18 Months!
HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO SCRAP THE NIGERIAN SENATE? 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 diversification to agriculture and harnessing the natural extractive minerals, 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 POPULAR 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! The 360-member crowd of the House of Representatives should also be reduced to 74!

SHUTTING UP NIGERIA’S SENATE IS NOT A BIG DEAL!

PRESIDENT BUHARI should follow the example of his SENEGALESE counterpart, President Macky Sall, who on 19th September, 2012, with the support of patriotic legislators scrapped its Senate and saved USD$15million dollars which was ploughed to improve SENEGAL’S economy! 

WHEN NIGERIANS OPPOSED AND CONDEMNED APPROPRIATION OF N37 BILLION NAIRA TO RENOVATE THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY COMPLEX IN YEAR 2020, IN SPITE OF THE EFFECTS OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON THE ECONOMY, THE CORRUPT SENATORS REDUCED THE AMOUNT TO N27 BILLION AND THE PRESIDENT KEPT MUTE, HABA!!!

PLEASE FIND BELOW SOME OF THE GLARING FLAWS OF THE UNITARY 1999 MILITARY CONSTITUTION WHICH WE HAVE PREVIOUSLY CIRCULATED IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!

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 through the 68 items on the Exclusive Legislative List;

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 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 bona fide Constitution Review Committee (CRC), made up of TRUE, LEGITIMATE, PEOPLE OF NIGERIA from all walks of life – artisans, 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 by the Executive for passage through a POPULAR REFERENDUM!

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)

“WE STILL HAVE HOPE AS A NATION!

To all Nigerians who have been down-trodden by their fellow citizens in the last 22 years, we of this Editorial Board wish to intimate you with the encouraging and sacrosanct Word of the Living God which states as follows:
“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.”[Romans. 8:28].

In Genesis .50:20-21; Joseph spoke the following soothing words to his brethren: “But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

“Now therefore fear ye not; I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly to them.”

In the Book of Proverbs.12:21; “There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief;” and in 2 Corinthians.4:17-18; “For our light affliction, which but for a moment, worketh for a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

“While we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen, for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”

But listen to our Father who says, “VENGEANCE IS MINE AND, I WILL REVENGE! You should be like Joseph who left his brethren in the hands of GOD for necessary justice, because no sinner can go unpunished!

Though they may remain incorrigible, play your own part according to God’s Word and watch the unfolding scenario from now on to see if “GOD BE TRUE OR NOT!”

Please look forward to more divine revelation in the next edition of Zion B-BC Newsletter as you share this with friends and remain blessed in the Lord. [For weekly access, to this newsletter, log on to:  facebook.com/zionfaithbible.believingchurch or http://www.zfbbc1.blogspot.com,

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, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.