President of the Network of University Legal Aid Institutions, NULAI Nigeria, Professor Ernest Ojukwu, SAN, has countered the call for changes to the nation’s Constitution, saying Nigeria’s problems are its leaders. Ojukwu, who argued that the country was rich in-laws, explained that the culture of dishonesty and selfishness entrenched by leaders was the main hindrance to Nigeria’s development......See Full Story>>.....See Full Story>>
The NULAI Nigeria’s President, who stated this in a chat with Sunday Vanguard, noted that until Nigeria’s administrators take appropriate steps, a new Constitution would not resolve the country’s challenges.
His words: “Surely there are changes in the Constitution that will benefit the nation. But such changes will only become useful if the humans that use them are sincere and honest.
“The problem of Nigeria is not the Constitution or the structure, or laws and rules or systems.
“The fundamental problem with Nigeria is the humans that run the country and those that inhabit it. There is the culture that has taken root that things must be done dishonestly and selfishly. A new constitution cannot change or transform the country to glory unless the humans called Nigerians act sincerely. Nothing that the actor controls can transform unless the actor transforms.”
The fundamental problem with Nigeria is the humans that run the country and those that inhabit it. There is a culture that has taken root that things must be done dishonestly and selfishly.