The sole and non-controversial onus of the legislature is to make laws-for the betterment of the country and to curtail the excesses of some political juggernauts. The kernel of democracy is to allocate duties to each tier of government and which brought about the stratification into executive, legislative and the judiciary. Each is expected to perform the statutory roles without interference from any of the other tiers. Each of the tiers tends to be overweening and it is the duties of the other tiers to whip constitutionally the straying tier.
Nigeria is blessed country despite the panoply of resources at our disposal to liberate ourselves from the manacle and stranglehold of poverty and destitution which are bedevilling this country. We are rich, indubitably, as the common parlance goes but the expendation of the resources for the betterment of the populace is our collective and cryptic bane. What then is the problem...LEADERSHIP. According to some people, our problem has been our inability to find a good leader with imbued leadership aura who have the situation of the people at the apogee of his heart; who will bring to the fore variegated ways to subjugate our malaise; who will alleviate and mitigate the sufferings of the collective people. It is pitiable and pathetic that we are still in dire search for that ELUSIVE LEADERSHIP. Leaders are not exclusive to the Executive arm of government as they cut across every facet of life.
My worried beam-light is on the Legislative arm of government which constitutes racketeers...a cesspool of immorality; a slough of inhumanity. They are immune and inured to our woes and they can carouse unendingly as they wish as long the monthly emolument and the attendant perks of office accrued to them according to the Nigeria charter are in perpetuity(even though their take-home is more than the President of United States of America). Little wonder that we are risible to the world and our status has always brought along the scent of non-seriousness and depravity. I will not give up on Nigeria albeit. The restructuring of the country has been at the fore for quite some time and the hearty plea by most Nigerians to better the lot of many. Many graduates are 'okada' riders, tricycle riders,etc in a country where there is abundance of money to cater for the infrastructural regeneration of the decayed, empowerment of the people to be autonomous and make a good account of their life. Law-making and amendment have been rocket science in Nigeria and there is no light at the end of the tunnel. We are assailed with askewed formulation of laws which are self-serving. Two days ago, there was an election in the House of Representative on the devolution of power from the clustered central to the state government, Not-too-young-to-rule proposition and some others which are abysmally rebuffed brazenly...stone-cold. It is crystal clear that whatever will upset their status must be jettisoned with gay abandon.
These proposition are meant to make life better for the citizens and to decongest the Federal government of the many powers which it had forcefully draw to itself. A time-bomb is on the rampage represented by the teeming and seething youths who want the best for themselves but hampered by the power-that-be in Nigeria. The intrigues are frustrating and it is quite sure that the time for the heated revolution which will consume the politicians who veg-out on our patrimony is nigh.
