"The Rule of Law" in Israel. Please read! It's from ABC Breaking News
Emmanuel Udogu
Victor Okafor
In our own
Nigeria, President Buhari is practically the law, for he picks and chooses which
court decision to obey or ignore. And, he does that with impunity. There is
little or no angst from the ruling political class about it. The media talking
heads are almost nowhere to be found on this vexatious subject. In fact, a
recent news report reported him as saying that he tries his humanly best to
abide by the Constitution of the Republic. Thus, when his humanly best does not
permit, Buhari apparently also ignores the Constitution--again with impunity. A
prominent example is his government’s continued detention of a high profile
protest figure despite a bail granted him by a federal high court. This is in
line with a pattern of behavior on the part of Buhari-the-law. Not surprisingly
and in line with Buhari-the-Law, a state governor just yesterday announced
openly that he was not going to comply with a state high court ruling
abrogating his appointment of new emirates for the city of Kano.
All this, ladies and gentlemen, succinctly captures the current status of the rule of law in Nigeria. Nigeria’s political system is good on paper but demonstrably dysfunctional in practice. For his pattern of disobedience of court orders, President Buhari-the-law would have long been impeached and removed from office if Nigeria was a serious country governed by a serious political class, but one even hardly hears any motion or voice of disapproval of his open lawlessness from Nigeria's esteemed national legislature--another dysfunctional organ among the plethora of political dysfunctionalities of the polity known as Nigeria.
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In our own Nigeria, President Buhari is practically the law, for he picks and chooses which court decision to obey or ignore. And, he does that with impunity. There is little or no angst from the ruling political
class about it. The media talking heads are almost nowhere to be found on this vexatious subject. In fact, a recent news report reported him as saying that he tries his humanly best to abide by the Constitution of the Republic. Thus, when his humanly best
does not permit, Buhari apparently also ignores the Constitution--again with impunity. A prominent example is his government’s continued detention of a high
profile protest figure despite a bail granted him by a federal high court. This is in line with a pattern of behavior on the part of Buhari-the-law. Not surprisingly and in line with Buhari-the-Law, a state governor just yesterday announced openly that
he was not going to comply with a state high court ruling abrogating his appointment of new emirates for the city of Kano.
All this, ladies and gentlemen, succinctly captures the current status of the rule of law in Nigeria. Nigeria’s political system is good on paper but demonstrably dysfunctional in practice. For his pattern of disobedience of court orders, President Buhari-the-law would have long been impeached and removed from office if Nigeria was a serious country governed by a serious political class, but one even hardly hears any motion or voice of disapproval of his open lawlessness from Nigeria's esteemed national legislature--another dysfunctional organ among the plethora of political dysfunctionalities of the polity known as Nigeria.
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