Adekunle Christopher Ebenezer retweeté
Adekunle Christopher Ebenezer
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Adekunle Christopher Ebenezer
@hunkutopher
Oyo State, Nigeria Inscrit le Ekim 2017
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Adekunle Christopher Ebenezer retweeté
Adekunle Christopher Ebenezer retweeté
Adekunle Christopher Ebenezer retweeté

@Theoladeledada The money I have, I'm using it to feed.
I'd glad if someone can help.
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Adekunle Christopher Ebenezer retweeté

We are back in court this morning following the deadly attacks on peaceful June 12 protesters in Abuja.
Today’s hearing is in the DSS case, where the Nigerian state is attempting to criminalize free speech and suppress the truth.
The prosecution is driven by the claim that describing Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a criminal is itself a crime.
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State Police Is Not the Answer. Restructuring Nigeria Is.
Public Memorandum
To:
President Bola Tinubu
Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
House of Representatives of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
Governors Forum
The People of Nigeria
By: Obiageli “Oby” Ezekwesili
The Tinubu administration’s renewed push for State Police has reopened one of the most consequential public policy debates in Nigeria’s democratic history. The proposal has gained momentum because it speaks directly to a painful reality confronting millions of Nigerians. The country’s security architecture is failing. Terrorism, banditry, kidnapping, violent extremism, communal conflicts and organised criminality have overwhelmed the capacity of a centrally controlled police force to secure lives and property across a country of more than 230 million people. For many citizens, therefore, State Police appears to be an obvious and long overdue solution.
The attraction of the proposal is understandable. Recent Afrobarometer findings show that 79 percent of Nigerians consider kidnapping and abduction a serious national problem; 33 percent personally know someone who has been kidnapped within the last five years; and 63 percent say they or a family member felt unsafe in their home or neighbourhood during the previous year. These are not merely security statistics. They are indicators of a profound crisis of state effectiveness and citizen confidence.
Yet the fact that State Police is necessary does not mean it is sufficient. The danger confronting Nigeria today is that the country may once again mistake a symptom for the disease itself. The security crisis is real, but it is not fundamentally a policing crisis. It is the manifestation of a deeper constitutional, governance and political economy crisis that has steadily eroded state capacity, weakened accountability and undermined the effectiveness of public institutions.
The central question before Nigeria should not be whether governors ought to control police forces. The more important question is whether the constitutional architecture governing the Nigerian federation remains fit for purpose. It is this broader question that must frame the State Police debate. For the evidence increasingly suggests that Nigeria’s insecurity is inseparable from the country’s dysfunctional federal arrangement.
At the heart of the problem lies a constitutional order that concentrates excessive authority, fiscal resources and political power at the centre. Although Nigeria describes itself as a federation, many of its institutional arrangements bear the characteristics of a highly centralised state. The most visible expression of this over-centralisation is found in the legislative lists established by the 1999 Constitution.
The Constitution allocates powers among three categories - the Exclusive Legislative List, the Concurrent Legislative List and residual powers reserved for the states. In principle, such arrangements are common in federations. In practice, however, Nigeria’s distribution of powers is exceptionally skewed toward the federal government. The Exclusive Legislative List contains sixty-eight items reserved solely for the Federal Government, while the Concurrent List contains only a limited number of shared subjects. Constitutional scholars have long observed that this structure gives the federal government overwhelming dominance over governance and development functions.
This imbalance matters because the State Police debate focuses on only one item among dozens. Police is merely one of sixty-eight subjects constitutionally monopolised by the Federal Government. The same Exclusive List centralises authority over prisons, mines and minerals, railways, arms and ammunition, and numerous other strategic functions. Consequently, removing policing from the Exclusive List without addressing the wider constitutional architecture would amount to treating
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Adekunle Christopher Ebenezer retweeté

@yxyiagain How is he a failure? Did he send them to go out and look for their daily bread or work on their future?
We are dealing with a monster here, he doesn't care until it he's blood or relatives.. We are in for a long ride with the monster called TINUBU.
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Monday must not pass in vain.
Let freedom ring from every corner of Nigeria. Let the voices of the people be heard in every town, city, village, street, and public square.
History shows that no nation has ever been transformed by silence. The time has come for Nigerians to stand up courageously and resolutely in defense of their future.
Let freedom ring. Let justice prevail. Let the people speak.
#TinubuMustGo #RevolutionNow

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Adekunle Christopher Ebenezer retweeté
Adekunle Christopher Ebenezer retweeté

@Olamide_Kiki I also will do something like this.
Good one, bro.
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