PROPOSED PRIVATE BILL
Topic: A well informed
public
Dear Sir
According to
the Nigerian constitution of 1999, every person has right to life, right to
dignity of human person, right to personal liberty, right to private and family
life, right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, right to freedom of
expression and the press, right to freedom of movement, right to associate or
disassociate, right to fair hearing, among others. All of the above
provision is beautiful but the application lacks constructive implementation.
All of the above provision can only be fully enjoyed when the average Nigerian
that sells in Oshodi market or mile2 market understands the full benefit of
chapter five of the 1999 constitution. Most of this market people are often
harassed by fellow market people who forcefully insist that every person in the
market place must be members of market union. This is sad and a breach of the
fundamental human right of the individuals concerned. Because they do not
know that they have the right to associate or disassociate they are forced to
comply against their will and desire.
In Nigeria
today, we have adults who are ignorant of their fundamental human right. This
has translated into a society of chaos; a society where lawlessness has become
the order of the day. This decay has overwhelmed our nation. It has
become a national issue and urgent attention is needed to address it. Indeed our
individual contributions cannot be overlooked in the course of building a
better Nigeria as both the private and the government shoulders the
responsibility to liaise and proffer solutions.
I hereby
advocate that the Nigerian constitution should be taught in both the urban and
rural areas of our community. A committee of lawyers and law professors should
be attached to our
·
Churches
·
Mosques
·
Political
groups
·
Social groups
·
Cooperative
societies
·
Work places
and villages
The Nigerian
constitution needs to be taken to the grass root level; everyone needs to be
informed. This is a task that private individual professors of law and lawyers
must join the government to do with the sole purpose of educating and
eradicating ignorance. The need to reform the minds of the adult Nigerians cannot
be over emphasized even as we strive to teach the younger generation the
importance and the efficacy of the law at their early stage in life. This
should be done with great urgency to remedy the existing decay. Our present
situation has called for such urgent attention which cannot be denied any
longer unless we are ready to languish in a deeper chaos.
Disadvantages of an
uninformed society
a) High ratio of Poverty
b) High ratio of
Indiscipline/corruption
c) Injustice
d) Manipulation
e) Deprivation
f) Crime
g) Murder
h) Police/military brutality
And all manner of
injustice.
An uninformed society
breeds
·
People who do
not know their fundamental human right.
·
People who do
not give back to the society but would rather depend on government for every
little need.
·
People who
hold back useful information from the police.
·
People who
lack self confidence.
·
People who
are not patriotic.
Advantages of a well
informed society
There is
justice in the country
There is
economic stability and growth
There is
peace
There is
no/low level of discrimination
There
is no/low level of inequality
The goal of
national unity is enhanced
Police
brutality and injustice becomes a thing of the past or reduced to the barest
minimum.
An informed
society breeds;
People who do
not sell their vote
People who
contribute to national growth and development
People who
are more productive in their work places
People who
have self confidence because they know their right
People who
are patriotic
People who
are law abiding/disciplined
The hope of
this great country is in the future of the younger generation. As such,
they should be well equipped to change the decay caused by the older
generations. They are our basic tools to change the present
calamity from further deterioration.
Let the
Nigerian constitution especially chapter five be simplified and taught at the
elementary level in our educational institutions. This is essential to help
them get acquainted with the law early in life. They will redoubtably know the law and abide
by the law when they grow up. This is what we need to equip the young
generation so that they don’t become a victim of an ignorant society as it is
the order of the day.
Repetition
they say is the law of lasting impression, this principle needs to be abducted
in the implementation in order to achieve the purpose of this review. This
means that the fundamental human right law both surface and in-depth should be
taught at all levels irrespective of our technical discipline in school. When
the law is taught at the elementary level and continued even up to tertiary
institution level, it will be well imbibed in the heart of such generation.
Knowing the
law early enough will help the children to be better citizens, good leaders and
ultimately a well informed society. The child right law should also be fully
implemented in all the states in Nigeria in order to make a better future for
the Nigerian child, a future where people are ready to stake their lives for
the betterment of the country.
An uninformed
society is a deformed society, let’s act now!
Lovette
Gibson
GRADUATING
STUDENT OF LAGOS STATE POLYTECHNIC 2009 BATCH /AUTHOR
This letter was mailed and delivered to the
house of senate in May 2010
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