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By Josef Omorotionmwan
The powers in the hands of a Nigerian president are enormous; and indeed, awesome. The president has the power of life and death over his fellows. In a simple exercise of the prerogative of mercy as stipulated in Article 175 of the Nigerian Constitution, 1999, he can bring back to unhindered freedom a man who was already destined for the gallows.
In a single fiat or with a single stroke of his biro, the President can promote a citizen of poverty abject to instant wealth by simply pronouncing on the man, a contract for which the man does not may not even lift a finger in the performance, and millions in real money will begin to flow into an account named after this man; and his life is forever changed!
At the beginning of his administration, a former president of Nigeria boasted that he was going to make five billionaires in his day; and lastly, he had made six billionaires – the original five plus himself. He was perhaps oblivious to the fact that with every billionaire produced in a system, many millions of other citizens in this system would be proportionately impoverished. It's a law of nature that does not provide a loophole.
Again, like the time everyone is complaining about when no one can do anything about it, the president soon finds himself faced with a number of control problems, no matter how hard he tries. Nigeria's security has since become a hot spot that challenges presidential action or inaction.
At one point, the entire nation lost sleep in Niger Delta Activists who claimed, rightly or wrongly, that they were on a rescue mission to the goose that laid the eggs. Gold Egg
The activists had barely left the scene when the Boko Haram sect took over, using the northeastern region as a launching pad, they devastated the entire country. -the fossils that refused to diminish – Fulani pastoralists. They are ravaging the whole country.
Shepherds against the imbroglio of peasants may have managed to turn the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari into a band of ignorant and indifferent people. Since the beginning of this year, the Middle Belt region of the country has experienced the most bizarre series of killings, starting with the 75 people slaughtered in the state of Benue on New Year's Day. The 19 faithful, of which 2 venerated Fathers, who were mbadacred in a Catholic church, also in the state of Benue, were even more despicable
In April of this year, a national newspaper put the number of deaths in the hands of the shepherds . More than 900 murderers. Everyone has since lost count of the victim's numbers and the end is not in sight.
Still, the Buhari administration remains without any idea. We are confronted with the moral equivalent of war. This epidemic worse than the cancer before us must be cured, lest we all perish. Where are we wrong? The answer here is important because we have to go ahead. There must be an end to this quagmire.
One has the impression that what the President has for some of his men transcends respect and enters the realm of fear. For example, one can not escape the inevitable conclusion that the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has since become a cowardly cannon – true to his own ambitions. For him, the president, the National Assembly and the judiciary count for nothing. And the president is watching?
The Minister of Defense, Mansur Dan-Ali, is in a world apart, publishing his own proclamation of all kinds – condemning and annulling alone anti-grazing legislation validly promulgated by democratically elected elected officials. State Assemblies. And the President looks elsewhere
The members of the Miyetti Allah Livestock Breeders' Association openly claim responsibility for the arbitrary killings, arguing that they are all retaliation for their lost or killed cows. Yet we have a government in place and no one asks the professed killers?
Our president seems completely lost on the fact that the government is even more important than winning the elections. This is the test of a good presidency. When our president speaks, he does it in a tone that openly suggests that apart from the next election, nothing else matters. If not, why does our President benefit from a sympathetic visit to Jos, a war-torn region, to begin to castigate those who criticize him for mismanagement of the deadly activities of the shepherds, as he l & # 39; Did on Tuesday, June 27, 2018? This could easily portray him as inept and grossly insensitive to the distress of the people
In peace and war, the federal character – as expressed in Article 14 (3) of the 1999 Constitution Is not a term in abstraction – it is true. This is an area where our president could easily be convicted. We will limit ourselves here to a narrow limit of the security of the nation. In addition to the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo; Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama and Chief of the Defense Staff Gabriel Olanisakin, all the other members of the Security Council come from the north: President Buhari himself; Minister of the Interior Abdulrahman Danbazau; Minister of Defense Mansour Dan-Alli; National Security Advisor Babagana Mongonu; Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris; Director General, SSS; Lawa Daura; D-G, National Intelligence Agency, Ahmed Abubakar; Chief of Staff of the Army, Tukur Buratai; and Chief of the Air Staff, Sadiq Abubakar. This is the type of aberration that runs the length of the president's appointments.
The few considerations here are purely cautious. In very small measures, these considerations come into the equation of worsening security situation in the country. All in all, the president has the yam and the knife. For all that we know, it might be foolish to expect everyone to continue to accept the thoughtless violation of their lives at the request of individual consciences. One word is enough for the wise man!
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