…Says it’s lacking power to guarantee security of lives, property
Former President, Nigeria Bar Association, (NBA), Chief Wole Olanipekun, (SAN), has described the country’s Constitution as unrealistic, deceptive and lacking the power to guarantee the security of lives and property.
Olanipekun, who also declared that the country’s Constitution could not be amended, said the National Assembly had complicated the issue with its attempt to amend a law that has no origin nor an author.
Delivering the 13th Convocation Lecture of The Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun State on the topic: ‘Beyond the pandemic: Creating an evolving new normal,’ the legal icon said every functioning nation would have a masterplan ingrained in its Constitution.
He, however, said the present Constitution that was virtually landing the country in a conundrum in essence, and content, does not represent any honest, genuine, and sincere law.
He added that the present constitutional architecture has conspired and aggregated all security outfits in the Federal Government and would not allow any tier of government to perform its basic responsibility of protection of life and property to the citizens.
He further advised that the present federal structure should be unbundled or dismantled, stressing that Nigeria’s multi-faceted diversities and peculiarities must be provided.
