The problem in the government
sector of the Nigerian system is not primarily the ages that run for the
various seats. Although the age plays a major role in streamlining things, the
basic and most essential requirement to make the Nigeria governmental system
works is The Rule of Law.
By this I mean that all
activities in the Nigeria system should be regulated by the constitution of the
land. No one person or authority should be allowed to live above the law of the
land. Our speech, actions and attitude towards matters should be synchronized with
the law (The Constitution).
Therefore, my humble submission
to the honourable house of senate is that they should also work on modalities
to make everyone in the country bow before the law. Right from the position of
the president, all senators, representative, the governors, judges, local govt.
council boss to those in the grassroot.
I’m so confident that if we works
towards this direction, you may not remember me when things start changing for
the better for you. The president should mind his speeches, the governors
should not intimidate workers, judges should not take bribe, don’t decamp from
the party that took you to the height of a senator, don’t use tout to force
yourself into the seat of power, make sure everything works within the rules
that empowers you into that honourable seat (position)
These suggestions are very timely
because we have older men and women in the seat of power and you still see
public fighting mostly in the inner chambers of both the lower and the higher
houses of assembly and even being duplicated in the state houses of assemblies
where you see 5 people impeaching a speaker against 17 that are still with the
speaker.
Come to thing of it; is there no
constitutional way to legally impeach a speaker, governor or even the president
without causing hullabaloo? Or is the constitution dead to impeachment procedure
in Nigeria? Why should a sane person climb through the ladder of one particular
party to arrive at the position of either the governor, a senate member or a
member of the house of representative and decamp to another party less-one-year
in that seat and still be allowed to occupy that seat? If Nigeria laws are not
strong enough to rectify such staid issues anymore, a new law should be
drafted, otherwise if we have a member of Rep. and senate of forty years in the
house with these inert laws, Nigeria would be heading to its doom.
So if we really wish that this New Nigeria we are
designing succeeds and be sustained the Nigeria constitution should be worked
on, and the proper regulation to prevent perplexity in the house must first be
put in place before this laws regulating the age of whom become our leaders is
passed.
By our source writter
Osakue A.O. Peter
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