Emmanuel Uzodinma
Former Secretary General of Ohaeneze Ndigbo, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, SAN, on Saturday raised the alarm that Nigeria is fast sliding into a failed state.
Nwabueze who spoke in Enugu said the country was already showing signs of a failed state.
According to him: “This country is on the verge of becoming a failed state, there are so many failed states in Africa and Nigeria is on the verge of getting that status of a failed state.
“Before now, we didn’t know about kidnaping, but it has become a way of life. Did we know about bombings before? But today, churches, schools, offices are being bombed on daily basis, the worst is that the bombers are not coming from outside the country, we are bombing ourselves.
“A nation that cannot provide a credible election for her people is a failed state; in 2003, 2011 we had no credible elections, yet we are talking about democracy.
“A country that cannot secure social and economic rights for her people is a failed state. Read chapter 2 of Nigeria’s constitution and you will understand what I am takling about, they are not leaders but looters”.
Continuing, Nwabueze said corruption was another disturbing issue in the country, noting that “any state that allows this kind of unbridled corruption is failing. See the National Assembly members, all kinds of allowances running into millions of naira while the masses are suffering and living in abject poverty. “Come out and tell me if in all these, this country is not on the verge of a failing”.
He said to move away from the current situation, a natioaln conference should be organized very quickly, emphasizing that “the conference should not be seen as a way of destabilising the polity.
“Let us come together and deliberate; it will lead to peace; it will lead to a constitution whose source of authority is the people, we can’t have any substitute for the people.
“We are serious about it, we are working to achieve it and we shall succeed”.
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