Anybody who has followed events in this country knows the Fulanis are very good at reciprocating gestures. If you do them good, they retaliate with plenty good; if you do them bad, they retaliate with plenty bad.
Samuel Omogor
@SamuelOmogor#Nigeria
@olakunle81 It’s not. It’s the duty of courts to define it as it defined a similar phrases like “reasonable person”, “reasonable doubt”, “good samaritan”, etc.
We earnestly need to submit a proposal for an amendment of the 1999 constitution to include a clause stipulating that: “no political party shall nominate a person as a candidate to contest any election whatever except such a person is of unquestionable integrity”. Period!
As a people, let’s produce a constitution transcending our arguments and settling our core political disagreements; creating social and ethical order, setting authoritative higher law over discord of politics, and evoking deeper sense of patriotism and justice in citizens.
To effectively exercise lawful authority one must stand on a high moral ground simply because lawful order must emanate from a strong moral authority. The problem with Nigeria today is that lawful authority has collapsed because its operators have low moral ground to exercise it.
I support devolution of powers, duties and resources down to community level, beyond Local Government and States, in an organized governmental system with power and responsibility emanating from communities in a bottom up progression, including community police.
bludgeons the leaderships to act likewise. Nigerians must stand up to rescue themselves, their families, communities and their country. Enough of leadership inertia; enough of citizens boot licking!
Everybody knows that Nigeria is facing serious debilitating insecurity, economic, social and political situations; and everyone can see that the governments at all levels, even to their wit ends, have failed to tackle these problems, thereby throwing the country into the current
existential crisis. The real danger is that the fault lines are hardening in opposite positions. Something must have to give in to get the country back to equilibrium. While it’s the duty of governments to create the basis for it, it is also the responsibility of good citizens to