A former Senate leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba has
faulted the current political structure of the country, which he said was
responsible for the corruption as well as inefficient and incompetent
bureaucracy plaguing the nation.
He made this observation yesterday while speaking at the 9th
Honourable Justice, J.M Adesiyun Biennial Memorial Public Lecture, organised by
the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Ilorin branch in collaboration with the
Adesiyun family.
Delivering a guest lecture on the topic, “Democracy, Law and
Change: Imperative for Nigeria,” Ndoma-Egba insisted that the current structure
cannot deliver development and bring about the needful growth in the country.
He pointed out that the way forward is to dismantle the
infrastructure for corruption, inefficiency and incompetence which promotes a
suffocating federal structure.
The former lawmaker noted that Nigerian states were not
created in economic considerations or as economic units rather they were
created whimsically in political and personal considerations.
He recalled that when the country was using regionalism, the
three regions were viable, competitive and remitted to the federation account
unlike now when states were conceived as consumption and not production
centres.
Ndoma-Egba said most states in the country are bankrupt and
they cannot pay salaries, while poverty and unemployment are also biting harder
as the states largely depend on the federal government.
He, therefore, called for restructuring of the federation in
such a way that the federating units are economic units and economically
viable, charging Nigerians to be courageous and face the current reality.
According to him; the “current structure cannot deliver
development. We should not continue in self- deceit or self- denial, every society
must adapt to changing realities otherwise it dies.
“Nigeria has great realisable potentials. Nigeria is a
potentially great nation which must be harnessed,” Ndoma-Egba noted.
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