Democracy and the people’s role (6), by Afe Babalola

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THERE is no political system that is completely faultless neither is there one that is totally bad. All depends on the operation and the peoples’ collective resolve to make it work. Afterall the system is made for the people and not the other way round. The same thing applies to the constitution of any nation across the globe.

As I said earlier in this discourse, the workability or otherwise of any chosen system by any nation depends entirely on the people of that nation. This is the age long truism based on the established fact that no system will operate itself in vacuum. It is either the operators allow it to be, in which case the provisions, say of a constitution, are given full effect in the interest of the polity or is trampled upon. In other words, the constitution is recognised in breach than in operation.

What are the consequences of the breach of this all-important provision of the Constitution by the political chief executives? And he knew very well that he could not fight the battle alone even if he is endowed with 264 million eyes . The establishment of the two aforementioned bodies therefore became a foregone conclusion. This was in accordance with his pledge to Nigerians at his swearing-in on May 29, 1999.

The citizens were hemmed in at every turn by the established rules of conduct and customs, so much so that the citizens were incapable of departing from their dictates or even contemplate conduct inconsistent with them. “One of the painful results of the contact between Western civilization and primitive culture is the removal of powerful sanctions of morality centered around the dread of jujus or ‘medicines’ and the substitutions for them of sanctions which operate ineffectively as deterrents from evil doing. Well may the native exclaim:…..Non-natives often say that the primitive native possesses a higher sense of morality than the civilized native.

 

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