When I read Feyi's post, I thought about how the way we run the country reflects how we write our laws - just as incoherent. Then this morning Agbakoba was on TV talking about how (not why) liberal democracy isn't working for "us". And I thought to myself that this is a lawyer who doesn't even understand the rule of law. They want democracy without the accompanying institutions. Democracy does not exist in a vacuum. You have to support it with the institutions that hold power accountable.
I can forgive the politicans, but if a "learned" Nigerian SAN doesn't understand that, then there's no hope.
But it seems executive power is all that matters in our version of democracy - power for its sake. Then we turn around and say Democracy isn't working. We should just gtf.
When I read Feyi's post, I thought about how the way we run the country reflects how we write our laws - just as incoherent. Then this morning Agbakoba was on TV talking about how (not why) liberal democracy isn't working for "us". And I thought to myself that this is a lawyer who doesn't even understand the rule of law. They want democracy without the accompanying institutions. Democracy does not exist in a vacuum. You have to support it with the institutions that hold power accountable.
I can forgive the politicans, but if a "learned" Nigerian SAN doesn't understand that, then there's no hope.
But it seems executive power is all that matters in our version of democracy - power for its sake. Then we turn around and say Democracy isn't working. We should just gtf.