Bakare To Senate: Doctor National Confab Report, Bury Yourselves

Tunde Bakare

Pastor Tunde Bakare

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Serving  Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, and a delegate at the ongoing National Conference, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has sounded a warning to the National Assembly, particularly the Senate, not to tamper with any document that comes out of the National Conference.

According to him, any attempt by the Senate to doctor the document produced by the confab would spell doom for the lawmaking organ of the country.

The people of the country, he said, would turn against the legislators and their action would be synonymous with class suicide in which the legislators would end up burying themselves.

Speaking on Kakaaki, a programme on Africa Independent Television, AIT, Bakare, who is also the convener of the Save Nigeria Group, SNG, maintained that the Senate had failed the country on several occasions.

He mentioned the tension in the country during the dying days of President Umaru Yar’Adua, saying that but for the people of the country who mobilised against the powerful forces against the constitutional stipulation concerning succession in the presidency, the Senate would have continued like all was well.

He also said the Senate had started opposing the Confab simply because Nigerians say its outcome should be subjected to a referendum and not the National Assembly.

“They forget that sovereignty does not lie or end with them, but that it lies with Nigerians and that when the time comes, the people would rise to defend what they think is in their best interest,” he said.

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He also argued that no matter the good intention of President Goodluck Jonathan in advising that the outcome of the National Conference be subjected to referendum, there must be a legal framework for it.

He also said the National Conference would look at the possibility of establishment of state police because the Nigerian Police, as currently constituted, has failed the country.

Reminded that the state governors could use the state police against their perceived enemies, he argued that there have been situations where the presidency had used the police against citizens of the country.

He, however, said the advantages of having state police outweigh the disadvantages, adding that with the establishment of state police, insecurity in the country would be reduced to the bearest minimum.

Another challenge he said the National Conference was facing was how to restructure the country.

Many of the delegates have agreed that the country should return to true federalism with a weak centre and strong confederation.

He said considerations included whether the country should start operating government through the six zones of the country or whether the country should return to Regional Government or return to the 12 states which it was broken into in 1966.

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