The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, William Stuart Symington, has said that injustice and disregard for the rule of law are worse than the stealing of public funds, punchng reports. Symington said this on Monday at the convocation lecture of the University of Ilorin, Kwara State, where he delivered a lecture on “Citizen Leadership and the Link between Economic Diversity and Democratic Good Governance.”
The ambassador described disregard for justice and rule of law as “more damning a corruption than stealing of public funds.”
“What many consider as the great corruption is stealing of money but what to me is a great corruption is when people are deprived of justice, when you do things without regard for the rule of law,” Symington said.
President Buhari has bared his true colors to the world as an unrepentant tyrant with his statements such as “Rule of law must be subject to the supremacy of the nation’s security and national interest. Our apex court has had cause to adopt a position on this issue in this regard and it is now a matter of judicial recognition that; where national security and public interest are threatened or there is a likelihood of being threatened, the individual rights of those allegedly responsible must take second place in favor of the greater good of the society”.
Buhari this while flagging off the 2018 Annual General Conference of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) in Abuja, asserted the supremacy of national security and interest over and above the rule of law, quoting a judgment of the Supreme Court.
A situation where the President openly pronounced persons facing trial guilty and sanctioned their continued incarceration despite being granted bail by the courts presents a dangerous fascist practice obtainable only in totalitarian societies like Mussolini’s Italy, Hitler’s Germany, Idi Amin’s Uganda and General Than Shwe’s Burma.
This extremely shocking dictatorial tendency being brazenly exhibited by the President in total disdain for our laws and judicial institutions portends great danger for our democracy and constitutionally-guaranteed rights of the people and should be resisted by the citizens before it festers. With Punch News
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