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2023: HOW YOUTHS CAN FORCE A PEACEFUL RESTRUCTURING ON NIGERIA'S RULING ELITES

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2/ In 2019, of Nigeria's over 84 million REGISTERED VOTERS, the Millennials (24-38 years); Xennials (33-43 years), not leaving out the Generation Z (6 years but 18-23 years), make up the larger chunk of the country's VOTING POPULACE.

3/ According to Nigeria's apex electoral umpire, @inecnigeria, more than half of all Nigeria's 84 million registered voters, 51.1 percent, are between ages 18 and 35. Nigeria's median age for voting is 18.

4/ Only if Nigerian Youths are exposed to the FACT of this VOTING POPULATION POWER, there is no iota of doubt that they can force a RESTRUCTURED NIGERIA, without a breakdown of law and order. For a CHANGE, Nigerian Youths need no #RevolutionNow hashtag but #RestructureNigeriaNow.

5/ I dare ask, is it a ROCKET SCIENCE to have a: 
1. Restructured Nigeria
2. BRAND NEW people's CONSTITUTION
3. Decentralised @PoliceNG
4. Devolution of Excess Power from Abuja
5. Renegotiation of skewed Revenue Sharing Formular
6. Downward Review of Politicians' Bogus Emoluments

6/ 7. Compulsory Decennial Census
8. 1 Database to identify all Nigerians with FIRST NAME, LAST NAME, DOB & SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.
9. Egalitarian Nigerian Society
10. Strong Public Institutions
11. Rule of Law and Respect for Human Rights
12. Legal Teeth against Grafts, etc.

7/ Nigerian Youths, need to be properly guided on ROOT CAUSES of the nation's problems. In 1998/1999, Abdulsalami Abubakar commissioned writing of 1999 Constitution & promulgated it into law with Decree No 24 of 1999. He gave FG 68 ITEMS listed in the EXCLUSIVE LEGISLATIVE LIST.

8/ At the moment, Nigeria's MAJOR PROBLEM is the CENTRIFUGAL 1999 Constitution. HOW?

68 ITEMS OF THE EXCLUSIVE LEGISLATIVE LIST

1. Accounts of the Government of the Federation, and of offices, courts, and authorities thereof, including audit of those accounts.

9/ 2. Arms, ammunition and explosives.
3. Aviation, including airports, safety of aircraft and carriage of passengers and goods by air.
4. Awards of national titles of honour, decorations and other dignities.
5. Bankruptcy and insolvency.

10/ 6. Banks, banking, bills of exchange and promissory notes.
7. Borrowing of moneys within or outside Nigeria for the purposes of the Federation or of any State.

11/ 8. Census, including the establishment and maintenance of machinery for continuous and universal registration of births and deaths throughout Nigeria.
9. Citizenship, naturalization and aliens.
10. Commercial and industrial monopolies, combines and trusts.

12/ 11. Construction, alteration and maintenance of such roads as may be declared by the National Assembly to be Federal trunk roads.
12. Control of capital issues.
13. Copyright
14. Creation of States
15. Currency, coinage and legal tender
16. Customs & excise duties
17. Defense

13/ 18. Deportation of persons who are not citizens of Nigeria
19. Designation of securities in which trust funds may be invested.
20. Diplomatic, consular and trade representation.
21. Drugs and poisons.

14/ 22. Election to the offices of President and Vice-President or Governor and Deputy Governor and any other office to which a person may be elected under this Constitution, excluding election to a local government council or any office in such council.
23. Evidence

15/ 24. Exchange control
25. Export duties
26. External affairs
27. Extradition
28. Fingerprints identification and criminal records.
29. Fishing and fisheries other than fishing and fisheries in rivers, lakes, waterways, ponds and other inland waters within Nigeria.

16/ 30. Immigration into and emigration from Nigeria.
31. Implementation of treaties relating to matters on this list.

17/ 32. Incorporation, regulation and winding up of bodies corporate, other than co-operative societies, local government councils and bodies corporate established directly by any Law enacted by a House of Assembly of a State.
33. Insurance.

18/ 34. Labour, including trade unions, industrial relations; conditions, safety and welfare of Labour; industrial disputes; prescribing a national minimum wage for the Federation or any part thereof; and industrial arbitration.

19/ 35. Legal proceedings between Governments of States or between the Government of the Federation and Government of any State or any other authority or person.
36. Maritime shipping and navigation, including –

(a) shipping and navigation on tidal waters;

20/ 36. (b) shipping and navigation on the River Niger and its affluents and on any such other inland waterway as may be designated by the National Assembly to be an international waterway or to be an inter-State waterway;

21/ 36. (c) lighthouses, lightships, beacons and other provisions for the safety of shipping and navigation;

(d) such ports as may be declared by the National Assembly to be Federal ports (including the constitution and powers of port authorities for Federal ports).

22/ 37. Meteorology
38. Military (Army, Navy and Air Force) including any other branch of the armed forces of the Federation.
39. Mines and minerals, including oil fields, oil mining, geological surveys and natural gas.

23/ 40. National parks being such areas in a State as may, with the consent of the Government of that State, be designated by the National Assembly as national parks.
41. Nuclear energy
42. Passports and visas

24/ 43. Patents, trademarks, trade or business names, industrial designs and merchandise marks.
44. Pensions, gratuities and other-like benefit payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund or any other public funds of the Federation.

25/ 45. Police and other government security services established by law.
46. Posts, telegraphs and telephones
47. Powers of the National Assembly, & the privileges and immunities of its members
48. Prisons
49. Professional occupations as may be designated by the Nat'l Assembly

26/ 50. Public debt of the Federation
51. Public holidays.
52. Public relations of the Federation
53. Public service of the Federation including the settlement of disputes between the Federation and officers of such service.
54. Quarantine
55. Railways.

27/ 56. Regulations of political parties
57. Service & execution in a State of the civil & criminal processes, judgements, decrees, orders & other decisions of any court of law outside Nigeria or any court of law in Nig other than a court of law established by the State Assembly

28/ 58. Stamp duties
59. Taxation of incomes, profits and capital gains, except as otherwise prescribed by this Constitution.
60. The establishment and regulation of authorities for the Federation or any part thereof –

29/ 60 (a) To promote and enforce the observance of the Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles contained in this Constitution;

30/ 60. (b) To identify, collect, preserve or generally look after ancient and historical monuments and records and archaeological sites and remains declared by the National Assembly to be of national significance or national importance;

31/ 60. (c) to administer museums and libraries other than museums and libraries established by the Government of a state;

(d) To regulate tourist traffic; and

(e) To prescribe minimum standards of education at all levels.

32/ 61. The formation, annulment and dissolution of marriages other than marriages under Islamic law and Customary law including matrimonial causes relating thereto.

62. Trade and commerce, and in particular –

33/ 62. (a) trade and commerce between Nigeria and other countries including import of commodities into and export of commodities from Nigeria, and trade and commerce between the states;

34/ 62. (b) establishment of a purchasing authority with power to acquire for export or sale in world markets such agricultural produce as may be designated by the National Assembly;

35/ 62. (c) inspection of produce to be exported from Nigeria and the enforcement of grades and standards of quality in respect of produce so inspected;

(d) establishment of a body to prescribe and enforce standards of goods and commodities offered for sale;

36/ 62. (e) control of the prices of goods and commodities designated by the National Assembly as essential goods or commodities; and
(f) registration of business names.

63. Traffic on Federal trunk roads.

37. 64. Water from such sources as may be declared by the National Assembly to be sources affecting more than one state
65. Weights and measures.

38. 66. Wireless, broadcasting and television other than broadcasting and television provided by the Government of a state; allocation of wave-lengths for wireless, broadcasting and television transmission.

39. 67. Any other matter with respect to which the National Assembly has power to make laws in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution.
68. Any matter incidental or supplementary to any matter mentioned elsewhere in this list.

40. CONCURRENT LEGISLATIVE LIST

Health, Education, Agriculture, Road, Housing, are the five major items on the Concurrent Legislative List. These areas are where powers are shared jointly by Nigeria's Federal Government and the 36 State Governments, including FCT Abuja.

41. Even though both FG and State Governments can make law on matters that fall under the CONCURRENT LEGISLATIVE LIST, where or when there is a conflict of law made by both tiers, the Federal Government's law holds supreme.

42/ RESIDUAL LEGISLATIVE LIST
To show you how Nigeria's 1999 Constitution is a major clog in the wheel of progress, one major item in this list is chieftaincy matters. It means, the 774 LG Council closer to the Nigerian people, can majorly make laws on CHIEFTAINCY MATTERS.

43/ WAY FORWARD FOR NIGERIA
Having copiously understudied Nigeria's political firmament, from 1966 till date, I submit that Nigeria's Unitary System hasn't worked. Nigeria's BEST MOMENTS, when it made a lot of progress & was envy of many foreign nations was 1960-1966.

44/ In this period under review (1960-1966), there was a healthy competition among the Northern, Western, Eastern and Mid-Western regions.

45/ Nig is at the crossroads ahead of 2023. If Nig is to be saved from sliding into a BOTTOMLESS PIT, come 2023, her leaders and people should lay a solid foundation towards RESTRUCTURING Nigeria.Several basic items on the 68-item EXCLUSIVE LEGISLATIVE LIST should be devolved.

46/ 1. ITEM 33- Insurance should be devolved to the Concurrent Legislative List. All 36 States, including FCT Abuja, should make it compulsory for operators of automobiles resident in the various States to have a Comprehensive or Liability Insurance Policy.

47. This policies play a major part in events of accidents. State Governments can also generate Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) through the taxes from these insurance policies, as well as taxes paid by insurance agencies.

FG should have no business with INSURANCE policies.

48/ 2. ITEM 39- Nothing stops FG from sharing control of Mines, minerals, including oil fields, oil mining, geological surveys & natural gas, with States where they are found. This 'll give States more IGR to survive without going caps in hand to Abuja, for monthly handouts.

49/ 3.  ITEM 45- Given Nigeria's BROKEN Internal Security Architecture, @PoliceNG should be DECENTRALISED, as it operates in saner climes such as the United States, United Kingdom, et al.

50/ A Nigeria with 37 Independent State Police, 774+ Independent Local Police Departments, with residents and indigenes of the respective States and Local Government Areas, making up the personnels, will be better secured that this current CORRUPT CENTRIFUGAL @PoliceNG System.

51/ A Nigeria where States and Local Government Areas have a large share in revenues accrued from Mines and minerals, including oil fields, oil mining, geological surveys and natural gas, naturally deposited on their lands, can fund this DECENTRALISED Policing System.

52/ Also, Nigeria should review her skewed and unworkable REVENUE SHARING FORMULAR where  the FG takes 52.68%, States 26.72% & LGs, 20.60% with 13% derivation revenue going to oil producing states. This formular has not worked since 1999. It must be revisited ahead of 2023.

53/ 4. ITEM 48- As it operates in the U.S., nothing should bar States and even Local Government Councils from also having control of the Prisons System. 

Doing this will cleanse the age-long ROTS in Nigeria's Federal Prisons System, caused by Abuja's CENTRIFUGAL red-tapisms.

54/ 5. ITEM 51- Nothing should bar States from establishing Public holidays to cater for the imortalization of icons from their States, among other reasons best known to them.

55/ 6. ITEM 55- In 2020, what's the business of FG on Rail transportation, ticketing for train passengers. This should be devolved to the Concurrent & Residual Lists. Road, Water and Rail Transport Systems, including the Networks, should be removed from the Exclusive List.

56/ As at 2017, of Nigeria's 195,000 kilometres of Road Networks, just about 60,000 kilometres were PAVED & over 135,000 kilometres were UNPAVED. This is a MASSIVE DEFICIT. Such deficits portend a huge negative impact on Nigeria's economy.

57/ In a RESTRUCTURED Nigeria, where building of roads isn't the primary concern of a far-sited FG, no road should be UNPAVED. This is why the U.S., UK, et al, have all their roads PAVED. Even roads leading to farms are PAVED in these climes. Nigeria MUST wake up NOW.

58/ 7. ITEM 61- FG should hands-off the formation, annulment & dissolution of marriages. States & LG Councils should be concerned with all forms of marriages- Court, Islamic & Customary. The licenses from these marriages ushers a good IGR for States and LGAs.

59/ 8. ITEM 62 e & f- States & LG Areas should not be barred in the control of the prices of goods and commodities designated by the National Assembly as essential goods or commodities; and registration of business names.

60/ In the U.S., pump price of a gallon of gasoline in the State Indianapolis is not same with the price in Illinois.

Nigeria's Federal Government's centralised pump price for petroleum products is one of the root causes of HOARDING, SCARCITY and SCANDALOUS PRICE HIKES.

61/ 9. Among other things, FG should also hands off the issuance of DRIVERS LICENSE, NUMBER PLATES and TITLESHIP of automobiles. As it operates in the U.S., offices of the Secretaries of States, handles these essential services. @FRSCNigeria should be DECENTRALISED.

62/ These essential services ushers a good Internally Generated Revenue for States, as well as helps to maintain law and order, and improve internal security across States of the Federation.

63/ END OF THREAD- Among other things, the whole/part of report of the #2014Confab should stop gathering dusts in ABJ. They should be implemented. All these 'll create a Healthy Competition among Nigeria's 36 States, including FCT Abuja, as well as the 774 LGAs.

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