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Why The President Must Be Investigated Should anyone be surprised that several state governorshave frantically started arming thugs again? They aredoing it this time as a matter of life and death. That is one of the numerous consequences of a bad central leadership. People resort to self-help. Since it became obvious that President Jonathan is using the police, a state institution, to undermine the constitutional authorityof the governor of Rivers State, many other state governors have resorted to self-help. And many of the governors have understandably threatened tostop funding the police in their states; this should betaken as a serious threat asmost of the funding the police receive since Jonathan became president has been from state governors. Of course, no governor wants to fund a police force that will one day be used by the presidentto destabilise his state. We have a president who clearly supports the brigandage in a state where five rogue legislators claimthey have suspended 15 othermembers including all their principal officers. And the police and other security agencies have not invited the five crooks for questioning. Instead, the same police are giving coverto the rogues. In fact, if Governor Amaechi had not resorted to self-help himself, those five underlings would have “impeached” him and Jonathan’s police would havemoved in quickly to endorse and enforce the governor’s “removal”. It was even captured on video where one of the renegade assembly mengave orders to Jonathan’s policemen to shoot the governor, but nobody has arrested him or declared himwanted. Is this how to run acountry? Do we have a president, so properly called, in office? It is quite troubling that this is also the same president who endorsed a governor that lost the Nigeria Governors’ Forum election as the authentic winner. The president’s people foolishly keep denying all these embarrassing acts of his, even though they were done in full public view. Because it is the constitutional duty of the National Assembly to ensure that the president does not become too dangerous for thecountry, I think it is abouttime both the House of Representatives and the Senate investigated the president to ascertain his level of culpability in the Rivers State banditry. And if he is found wanting, then, it will be in order and in the nation’s interestto initiate an impeachment proceeding against him before the nation sinks further into chaos. Nobody, not even the president, is more important than the country.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 04:58:53 +0000

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