Sunday, June 16, 2013
INEC’s neutrality doubtful for 2015
There is this problem of recurring heating of the polity in Nigeria, arising from the subservience , perhaps, mischief of state institutions with wrong orientation.
These institutions assure their sole function to be (a) to serve, (b) to protect, (c) to publicise, (d) to promote all-round or whatever interests of personalities or ruling political parties. With that reputation, these institutions are no more than time-servers.
Only appointees to political office or beneficiaries of political patronage can exhibit unrestricted loyalty without being faulted.
This is not the case with the personnel of state institutions like the police, the armedforces, State Security Service, the EFCC and lately Nigerian Airspace Management Agency as well as the so-called Independent National Electoral Commission belied by its partisanship.
Maintained with tax-payers money or from our commonwealth held in trust and disbursed by whoever is in power, these agencies are to serve the Nigerian state and all citizens without bias or favour. To be fair, there may be an obstacle in the immunity clause in the Nigerian Constitution, which, in a way, compels special status for the president and state governors.
Otherwise, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) interrogation of incumbent President Bill Clinton of United States over an alleged sex affair with an intern in White House is a good example ofhow a state institution (FBI) operateshttp://sunnewsonline.com/new/columns/inecs-neutrality-doubtful-for-2015/
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