By Chief Jacob EDI
Did Goodwill Akpabio and Tajudeen Abbas watch that US Reps Public Hearing ?
Is there any law, or anything at all, that has stopped or can stop the Nigerian National Assembly from holding a public hearing on the security collapse confronting this country?
Nothing.
No statute, no clause, no constitutional barrier blocks them. The power is there, untouched. They simply refuse to use it.
And the irony cuts deep.
In faraway America, their House of Representatives held a public hearing on Nigeria’s security meltdown. Foreign lawmakers found our situation serious enough to interrogate. Yet the people elected to do that job here at home act like their hands are tied or they simply don’t bother.
Say what you will about the executive; at least it is not asleep. The President has been on his toes…
The judiciary is grinding through its own load.
So the nagging question is: what exactly are our lawmakers doing at a moment this critical?
When the country needs courage, clarity and accountability, they offer silence.
They are not constrained. They are simply absent.
CHIEF Jacob EDI is the Kakaaki of Bassange, Kogi state.
