If there is any lesson we ought to learn from the ongoing criminal prosecution of the Senate leadership over the alleged forgery of Senate Standing Rule, it is that tyranny knows its way home and those who sit back and watch evil thrive without lifting a finger to stop it are almost always certain to fall victim to that same evil.
Truth be told, Saraki and Ekweremmadu and the entire leadership of the National Assembly are largely to blame for the “unchained mad dog” our president has since become. By their complacency, criminal negligence and complicity, the due of Saraki and Ekweremmadu made it possible for President Buhari to preside over the destiny of over 170million Nigerians as though he was presiding over his cows in daura.
Apart from making laws for the country, the 2nd most important duty of the legislature is to act as a watch dog over the executive arm of government by making sure the president and his ministers carry out their duties within the confines of the law. Isn’t that why we have the principle of Checks And Balances in our law book?
Can we honestly say that the leadership of the National Assembly has fared well in this regard?? Can we??
We all know the answer to that.
The bitter truth is, the National Assembly has been as useless as a flaccid penis as far as its job of checking the excesses of the executive arm of government led by president Muhammadu Buhari is concerned.
For six months….six whole months, the National Assembly sat back and watched like a common spectator as president Buhari ran the country like some pseudo-monarchy against the provisions of our law book. Every sector of our national life including the economy was exclusively ran by a man whose secondary school WAEC result is still a subject of a legal battle even as I type this while the NASS members were busy hurling stones, chairs and broken bottles at each other over disagreement in sharing juicy leadership positions of different committees in both the Red and the Green Chambers.
When over 1000 citizens of this country were massacred in a day in Zaria, Kaduna state by the army chief just for blocking his convoy, what did the so called National Assembly do?? Nothing! How do you claim to be the representative of the people only to keep quite when over 1000 of these same people you are supposed to be representing get butchered like Christmas goat by the leadership of the national army that is supposed to protect them?? In a saner clime, the lawmakers would summon the Commander-In-Chief but here, the spineless dick-less cowards were all too scared to even mention the name of the commander-in-chief.
President Buhari swore to abide by the provisions of the constitution, yet, thesame president went on air during his #Mediachart and defended his refusal to obey the Dec.17 ruling of Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the FCT high court ordering the unconditional release of the leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra -maazi Nnamdi Kanu from prison. This is in addition to so many instances where the president has treated our laws with disdain.
Does disobeying court order not amount to defying the constitution which is an impeachable offense?? Did the so called National Assembly even caution him?
We all witnessed the hate-induced killing of hundreds of pro-Biafra guys in South East states by uniformed criminals masquerading as agents of the federal government. Some of these Igbo guys were killed even in their sleep according to a comprehensive report released by the Global Human Right watchdog -Amnesty Intl. Others were killed while they were praying inside the football field of Ngwa high school on February 9. Still, there were those who met their untimely death while exercising their constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of expression.
In all these killings carried out by members of the armed forces under the command of president Buhari, the National Assembly did nothing to call the commander-in-chief to order. In saner clime, these hate induced killings will trigger public hearing in the senate and snowball into the commander-in-chief of those murderous security operatives being impeached for complicity in the death of Nigerians he swore to protect.
We all watched as the presidency provided and still provide state cover for the Fulani herdsmen as they go about killing and maiming Nigerians in their murderous land-grabbing campaign. In Enugu, there were irrefutable evidence that all the security chiefs in the state DELIBERATELY allowed the Fulanis to kill dozens of people in Ukpabi Nimbo Uzo-uwani. These are not just proven cases of the failure of the president to protect the lives and properties of Nigerians as he swore to, those were clear cases of complicity on his part. If this is not an impeachable offense, what is??? But as usual, all we got from the National Assembly was grave yard silence. Not even a summon to the president nor a stern warning to the security chiefs involved.
What is the essence of referring to the NASS members as representatives of the people when they have proven beyond doubt that they are incapable of protecting the interest of the people who gave them the mandate to be there?? If a man who claims to be representing me cannot defend my right to life, of what use is such a representative to me??
Bukola Saraki and Ekweremadu were busy fiddling like Nero while their Rome was burning. Its only fair that we let them get burnt in the inferno they’ve refused to put out even when they had and still have the wherewithal to.
When about 100 senior military officers made up of mostly southern Christians were summarily dismissed from the army in a clear case of ethnic-styled vendetta, the senate leadership through its committee on Defense did nothing even when it knew that this kind of move coming at a time the country is most volatile could have far reaching negative effect on the entire country.
Of what use is the National Assembly if the president can still run the country like his private cattle farm??
Isn’t is ironic that the leadership of the senate is being prosecuted for allegedly forging its own rule (not any other rule) by a justice minister whose screening and confirmation was done with that same ‘forged’ rule and a president who is facing allegation of forging his WAEC result??
By their criminal silence and complicity, the Senate president and his deputy has gathered anti-infested firewood, it is not right that they should start complaining now that the Lizard has paid them a visit.