The America Nigeria Political Action Committee (ANPAC) is calling Nigerians to pay careful attention to these four areas of our Nation that has never been identified as major obstacles to our Nation's progress but is actually more responsible for our lack of growth and development than the three arms of government which we all agree is beyond redemption.
The idea of Nigeria having a system of checks and balances was jettisoned when the lawmakers opted for the illegal 1999 military imposed constitution over the more humane and almost complete 1979 constitution.
The absence of checks and balance is as usual by design and can be thwarted or corrected at every electoral cycle at the ballot box EXCEPT that in Nigeria there is another set of four (4) institutions preventing us from being able to use our rights and freedoms to seek a better life and a better leadership.
Those set of 4 monsters are what we at ANPAC will like to engage with hope that if they become more conventional in the months and weeks to come we can honestly look forward to a sustainable new beginning.
Monster #1 is our Main Stream Media:
The Media in Nigeria despite having an appearance to the contrary is neither free nor independent. In all progressive society the media is always the fourth rail of government, that entity that holds government accountable for their actions.
In Nigeria however this is not so, not by a long shot, our media is bought and paid for by the government in some cases and by government officials in most cases this is why our airwaves are polluted with one government official after another using the media as a propaganda machine to justify illegal actions or to make excuses for failures under there watch.
Ninety percent (90%) of content on Nigeria’s media are about the Government’s position on matters of state the remaining ten percent(10%) is reserved to show case high profile crime and maybe arrests that could be carried out by boy scouts and mostly useless and irrelevant sexually suggestive surveys.
The state of the Media needs to change for better if Nigeria is to remain a democracy. Our media makes Nigeria look like a cesspool of impossibilities nobody is asking questions relevant to democracy.
A free media should be able to tell us by now what the health status of PMB is and should he even consider running again, A real media should be able to tell us exactly what is the salary of our government officials, A real media should find out why is Power failure an acceptable phenomenon in our society, why is it okay for 2,000 children to die within 24 hours of birth daily and why is it acceptable for 47 people to die daily driving on our “express” roads.
We could go on and on, so for starters the media as a matter of solidarity with the people should and must ask every presidential candidate in 2019 what their Plan is for:
Electricity
Economy
Education
Agriculture
Jobs
Healthcare
Law Enforcement
Interstate Transportation
Security
Failure to do this will be a monumental dereliction of duty because if you look at our past elections you will not find a video archive of a candidate making a campaign promise based on his assessment of the cause and effect of the issue at hand, so how do you in the future accuse a candidate of not fulfilling his campaign promises when he really never made any rather his surrogates froth at the mouth promising heaven and earth on his behalf as if the presidency is a team sport.
Now we at ANPAC are not in any way questioning the professionalism or our media types we are just saying that they are also victims of the overall decay of the Nigerian society and unwitting accomplices to the criminal corruption convention the real culprit depriving us of a free Media are in fact the multi-National corporations operating inside Nigeria today......To be continued.
Please watch this space for the continuation of this piece. Next up Monster #2
PS: Forward to everyone in your circle of friends. The more we know the better prepared we are. And for those of you already assisting in sharing our releases, ANPAC will like to thank you for helping us get the word out there, we can feel the impact of your efforts we ask that you please don’t relent, the more people you forward this to, makes it easy for us to let our “emperors” know that a new day has come and we deserve better. God bless you all and God bless the federal republic of Nigeria.
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ABOUT ANPAC
The America-Nigeria political action committee (ANPAC) aims at forging strong bilateral relations between the USA and Nigeria for the purpose of mutual strategic development and advancement of western political principles and agenda in Nigeria.
Based in Houston Texas, USA, ANPAC has as its goals.
1. The general development of the Federal republic of Nigeria as a democratic nation with a free market economy, free media and equal rights and justice for all.
2. Emphasize the need for the American Public, Government and policy makers to understand and operate a foreign policy agenda that will enhance the strategic importance of a stable, economically vibrant and progressive Nigeria.
3. Forster a strategic transfer of commerce and industry between the two countries particularly in the areas of, technology, manufacturing, aviation, agriculture and urban development.
4. The promotion of a robust partnership between the two countries in the areas of military training, defense hardware, law enforcement and crime prevention initiatives.
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