The Fraud Called Nigeria (2) The Constitution of the Federal Republic 1999

by Eze Eluchie,

The Nigerian Constitution starts with a massive lie of historical proportions:

“We the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria  

Having firmly and solemnly resolve, to live in unity and harmony as one indivisible and indissoluble sovereign nation under God, dedicated to the promotion of inter-African solidarity, world peace, international co-operation and understanding  

And to provide for a Constitution for the purpose of promoting the good government and welfare of all persons in our country, on the principles of freedom, equality and justice, and for the purpose of consolidating the unity of our people  

Do hereby make, enact and give to ourselves the following Constitution”

No people of Nigeria firmly and solely resolved to do anything, talkless of live in ‘unity and harmony as one indivisible and indissoluble sovereign nation under God’ – which God or god by the way?

No people of any Federal Republic of Nigeria “hereby make, enact and give to ourselves the following Constitution”

As at the date of the commencement of Nigeria's 4th Republic and the inauguration of General Olusegun Obasanjo as President on May 29th, 1999, what is now being touted as the Constitution of the Federal Republic was still been concocted by elements empaneled by the General Abubakar Abdulsalam regime. In reality, then President Obasanjo swore to uphold a then non-existent Constitution, a fictional document.

The final document that was churned out as the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 whilst protecting the key aspirations of the military coupists and dictators who were at the helm of Nigeria’s affairs by May 1999, was replete with grammatical and factual blunders including the odd and nauseating provision that the head of the Independent National Electoral Commission must be a member of a political party – a provision of the 1999 Constitution that was amended after interventions initiated by myself (via correspondence with the Senate President and litigation - Suit Number FHC/L/C/CS/867/2010).

In reality, what is being touted as the ‘Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria’ is merely a Schedule to a Military Decree produced by military fiat by the dictator who was then presiding over the affairs of the Nigerian State in 1999, General Abdulsalam Abubakar, “The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Promulgation) Decree of 1999” also known as Decree No. 24 of 1999.  

Fully conscious of the fraud which is being touted as the Nigerian Constitution, those who have been opportune to ascend to the Office of President of Nigeria under this dubious ‘Constitution’ have had a field day ruling in utter discountenance and disobedience of the provisions of the said ‘Constitution’. Several efforts at Constitutional Amendments have merely succeeded in cosmetic changes as the main ingredients which can serve to correct the fundamental flaws in the said ‘Constitution’, such as the composition of the National Assembly; creation of States; fiscal responsibilities of component units of the federation; ownership of lands; the Police Force; and security infrastructure and formations and so on, are deliberately couched in a manner that makes them untouchable.

The imposition of Islamic Shari’a Laws as State laws in a supposedly secular federation, routine monthly ‘sharing of monies’ to various composing segments of a federation from a supposed Federation Account’ and maltreatment and denial of citizen entitlements to Nigerians who happen to reside in areas of the contraption different from where their grand-parents originate fromm are some of the manifestations of the fraudulent document we refer to as a ‘Constitution’

Those labouring under the illusion that they benefit from Nigeria’s fraudulent ‘Constitution’, if any can really benefit from such, pretend to be ready to ‘defend with all their blood’ the ‘sanctity and integrity’ of Nigeria’s territory and unity, not realizing that such base talk has been rubbished by the Greentree Accord which crazily ceded off parts of the erstwhile Nigerian contraption to Cameroun, amongst other oddities.

Recent happenings, particularly the tacit support, or at the very least complicit acquiescence, to mass killings being perpetuated by mostly foreign Fulani Herdsmen across the Nigerian contraption has expedited Nigeria’s descent into a seemingly bottomless abyss garnished with the blood of citizens of the contraption.

Only a holistic restructuring and renegotiation of the Nigerian contraption, without recourse to the skewed and partially constituted National Assembly, inclusive of addressing the issue whether the currently entrapped component States and regions want to continue with membership of the contraption, can stop the unwholesome descent.  

Picture: General Abdulsalam Alhaji Abubakar, the man under whose signature Decree 24 of 1999 was signed - The fraudulent ‘Nigerian Constitution’ is merely a Schedule to this document

Nigeria: We are At the Edge!

by Eze Eluchie, 

Those who misinterpret sounding the alarm on the drift towards apocalyptic conflagration that the Nigerian contraption is sliding as being to alarmist, will bear responsibility for the dire consequences ahead since appropriate remedial action is not being pursued.

In the build-up to the Rwanda genocide, when more than 10 times the normal import of machetes were being imported from France, some writers opined that something sinister was afoot – all such writers were referred to as ‘spreading hate-speech’, ‘stoking the embers of fear’. A few weeks later, Rwanda was consumed.

 

All indicators for the onset of mass mayhem has been surpassed in present day Nigeria:

1) Regular seizure of container loads of weapons at the seaports {even the Customs admit that for each container they seize, several others could have slipped through};

2) Militarized ethnic militia;

3) Sporadic killings of persons in public places based on ethnicity – the unfortunate killing of some Fulani travelers in Benue State, obviously in retaliation for the mass killings of Benue State indigenes that has gone on for too long without any meaningful actions by Nigerian security agencies to bring the Fulani Herdsmen perpetrators to justice.

The Ostrich-like approach and complicit non-intervention of Federal security agencies greatly compounds the situation. Recent directive by Nigeria’s Head of Police, Idris Ibrahim, that all Vigilante groups be disarmed further exposes the dubiousness of the Muhammadu Buhari administration in addressing the issues as Fulani Herdsmen continue to patrol villages armed with AK-47’s and assault rifles, ostensibly to protect their cattle from so-called ‘cow thieves’. Some communities which had heeded calls to ‘disarm’ had lived to regret doing so – as soon thereafter gangs of herdsmen militia had descended on their communities in unrestrained killing orgies. One such copious example had been when military and police authorities were enforcing a dusk-to-dawn curfew which had been imposed in the Southern parts of Kaduna State, and despite such tight security framework, gangs of Fulani herdsmen numbering in their hundreds had been able to decimate several communities across the Southern parts of Kaduna State.  

Suspicion on the real intents of the Muhamadu Buhari regimem is further heightened by the repeated release from custody of captured Boko Haramm terrorists after a phase of what the regime refers to as a ‘de-radicalization’ and ‘normalization’ process – earlier comments by Mr. Buhari, whilst he was out of government, that attacks against Boko Haram was attacks against the North readily comes to mind after each such inexplicable ‘release’.  

The willingness of the Buhari-led administration to unleash Nigeria’s military might against unarmed groups agitating for the fundamental right to self actualization (such as the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra – IPOB) coupled with an unwillingness to deploy security agencies against a group that not only publicly threatens ass atrocities but goes ahead to unleash same and admit ownership of the commission of mass killings (such as the Meyetti Allah Association of the Fulani), serves to buttress allegations of bias and ethnic coloration in deployment of lethal military fire-power against Nigerian citizens.

The recent outpouring of public show of lack of confidence in the leadership of Federal Police and Military institutions by political leaders from across the Nigerian polity is merely one step further down the abyss.

We simply have to watch it. We are at the stage where a mere spark of anger, anywhere in the contraption, can lead to an avalanche of violent blood-consuming show of discontent.

We are on the edge. One now wonders if there is yet time for a holistic Restructuring and Renegotiation of the Nigerian contraption to stem the catastrophe ahead.

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Picture: A common sight across volatile regions of Nigeria.

Nigeria: Preparing an Alibi For Impending Mass Atrocities?

by Eze Eluchie,

With its near weekly announcements of the release of what it unconvincingly claims are ‘reformed’, ‘de-radicalized’ and ‘rehabilitated’ Boko Haram terrorists, the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government of Nigeria has just sneaked through media houses what it feels will ostensibly pass-off as it’s alibi in the event of an expected bloodletting of apocalyptic proportions across Nigeria’s predominantly Christian idle Belt and Southern regions.

Nigerian newspapers have been awash with a report allegedly submitted to the Presidency, wherein the Department of State Security (DSS) is said to have notified the President of the discovery of Islamic State of West Africa (ISWA) networks and terrorists who have in been ‘sighted’ with some ‘apprehended’ in Benue, Kogi, Edo and other locations in the idle Belt and Southern regions of the country.

ISWA in Christian dominated areas? Really? And what has the leadership of the Immigration Services, DSS, National Security Agency (NSA), Nigeria Police and all other security agencies charged with checking the influx of foreigners into Nigeria and ensuring the security of the contraption been up to? When it is realized that for the very first time in the annals of the Nigeria’s history, all the security organizations are headed by Muslim Northerners who were all appointed by Nigeria’s extremist-leaning Muslim ruler, Muhammadu Buhari, who had in earlier times stated that “I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Shari’a movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria...God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the Shari’a in the country”.

Are the 'reports' gaining momentum of the 'sighting' of ISWA terrorists deliberately planted to show 'we are doing our best' and 'this is all part of the global terrorism issue'?.

The above scenario coupled with the Buhari-led administrations fatalistic insistence on compelling/forcing all component Nigerian States to appropriate communal and or private lands for the establishment of ‘Cattle Grazing Colonies’ to assuage so-called Fulani Herdsmen bloody clashes over grazing lands is heightening expectations of a brutal crackdown on hapless citizens, particularly of the idle Belt and Southern States who have shown clear aversion to such interference with their properties.

Indeed with the lacklustre lackadaisical response of federal security agencies to the continuing acts of ethnic cleansing in rural areas of Benue, Taraba and Adamawa States, where the victims have been predominantly Christian/animist villagers, the projections that must be made with the news of ISWA infiltration deeper into the Middle Belt and Southern regions are quite, quite dire.

With objectives on all fours with each other, it is now becoming pertinent to wonder if there is any difference between Boko Haram, the Fulani Herdsmen terrorists and the so-called Islamic State of West Africa (ISWA). Are they same but acquiring different appellations to suit different regions and sub-objectives?

It’s not going to be only Nigeria. For these characters to succeed in Nigeria, the cost will be extremely high in terms of human lives, as it will be extremely bloody. In addition, it will put the entirety of sub-Sahara Africa within easy reach of extremist Islamist terror.

An immediate holistic restructuring and renegotiation of the Nigerian contraption will go a long way to eliminate these worries.

So-called ISWA infiltration:  https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/presidency-raises-alarm-influx-foreign-terrorists-benue-states/

https://independent.ng/presidency-raises-alarm-over-influx-of-foreign-terrorists-into-benue-other-states/

Buhari on Shari’a expansion: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/12/insurgency-buharis-call-full-sharia/

Picture: Boko Hara terrorist-cum-Fulani Herdsman Militia-cum-ISWA terrorist?