Itse Sagay, chairman of the
Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), has described
Nigeria’s system of government as ‘democrazy’, NAN reports.
He said Nigeria is not yet ready
for liberal democracy while lamenting that people in positions of authority
often abuse all the privileges of rule of law, human rights and democracy.
Sagay called on the federal
government to apply strength and discipline in operating the democratic dispensation
to speedily develop the country.
According to NAN, Sagay said this
on Wednesday at the 27th convocation lecture of the Federal University of
Technology Minna. The lecture was titled ‘Nigeria: The Travails of An Animal
Kingdom’.
He said Kuan Yew applied the
method in Singapore and rescued the country from poverty, misery, chaos, and
underdevelopment by being firm and determined in the use of power.
“Nigeria is not yet ready for
operation of a liberal democracy. All we have done is to abuse, abuse and abuse
again; all the privileges of rule of law, human rights and democracy are
conferred on us by the constitution,” he said.
“We must now utilise our creative
powers to operate our constitution without giving room for all these abuses.”
“We need democracy, not democrazy
we are operating now where all members of a legislative chamber will abandon
the chamber and accompany one other member, charged with criminal offence, to
intimidate a lawful tribunal.
“We cannot have a situation in
which the legislature, in a feat of petulance, rejects every bill, refuses to
confirm executive nomination, postpones consideration of the budget and refuses
to consider it because the executive will not be dictated to regarding the
officials it appoints to carry out executive responsibilities.
“We cannot tolerate a situation
in which 30-60 Senior Advocates of Nigeria accompany a colleague under trial to
court in order to intimidate the trial judge. That is gross misconduct on the
part of senior advocates.”
Sagay advised that “Nigeria
should stay with President Muhammadu Buhari and vice President Yemi Osinbajo”
if the country was to get to the promise land.
“Buhari and Osinbajo have
absolute integrity; if we don’t use them now, I don’t know when next we will
have leaders like them,” he said
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