Nigerian Union Dispute: Marching Orders to Governors Regarding the Control of Security and Economic Assets Confiscated By the Illicit Federal Government of Nigeria via the Fraudulent 1999 Constitution
NINAS Secretariat
06 August 2022
“Governor Ortom has set the pace; other Governors of the Alliance Territories must now follow suit” – NINAS Secretariat, August 4, 2022.
Recall that on March 17, 2021, at the expiration of the 90-Day Period of Notice of Constitutional Force Majeure issued December 16, 2020, to the Federal Government of Nigeria, NINAS at a World Press Conference in Ibadan, invited the Governors of the Alliance Territories (South and Middle-Belt) to commence preliminary processes of retrieving the Sovereignty of their various peoples, (pending the full resolution of the Union Dispute), by sending Bills to their respective State Houses of Assembly to pass laws by which they would assume control over their own Security, Economic Resources and other Governance Powers and Responsibilities hitherto Confiscated and Prohibited by the 68-item Federal Exclusive Legislative List on the 1999 Constitution.
Field visitations by a NINAS Team to major stakeholders (including State Governors) across the Alliance Territories were undertaken throughout 2021.
The first semblance of compliance with the strident demands of the peoples of the Alliance Territories was the Asaba Declaration by which the Governors of Southern Nigeria committed themselves to ensure the passage of Anti-Open Grazing Laws in their various States, at latest by the September 2021. This decision was hailed by the Governor of Benue State whose State had at the time already passed an Anti-Open Grazing Law.
The said Laws were passed in the Southern States as Scheduled.
However, the Enforcement of those Anti-Open Grazing Laws which required the use of Fire-Arms and Ammunitions came against a brick wall erected by the 1999 Constitution via the 68-item Federal Exclusive Legislative List under which the Federal Government of Nigeria had Exclusive Control over Arms and Ammunitions.
Armed with the spectacular success of the Constitutional Force Majeure Activation, NINAS intensified pressures on the Governors of the Alliance Territories to get on the side of their people by IMMEDIATELY stepping into the vacuum created by the defeat of the 1999 Constitution before the Fulani invaders step into the largely UNGOVERNED spaces wrought by the complicity of the Federal Government across the Alliance Territories.
Mandated by the people of Benue State, Governor Samuel Ortom has courageously taken the bull by the horns, not only by ensuring the Enactment of the requisite Legislation but by the actual rollout of an Armed Security Service for Benue State.
As we anxiously await similar actions from the State Governments in the Alliance Territories, NINAS congratulates the Government and people of Benue State and pledges all available support to this all-important Self-Preservation Initiative.
NINAS Secretariat,
August 6, 2022.
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