--I do not know details of Israeli Constitution. But if Netanyahu has immunity in office then the indictment is a coup as he claimed and ought not to be celebrated by Nigerians.
As for Buhari disobeying court orders recently EFCC said the detained have not formally complied with protocols for their release as of their own volition. Do you have information to the contrary? I do not I confess..
Nigeria has an opposition leader. Why has he not capitalised on this lapse (if he was convinced it was true) during the last elections.
Why has opposition senators not done the same on the floor of the assembly? Is Nigeria a military dictatorship?
OAA
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-------- Original message --------From: Victor Okafor <vokafor@emich.edu>Date: 22/11/2019 14:54 (GMT+00:00)Cc: asrfmail <asrfmail@googlegroups.com>Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - "The Rule of Law" in Israel. Pleaseread! It's from ABC Breaking News
In our own Nigeria, President Buhari is practically the law, for he picks and chooses which court decision to obey or ignore. And, he does that with impunity. There is little or no angst from the ruling political class about it. The media talking heads are almost nowhere to be found on this vexatious subject. In fact, a recent news report reported him as saying that he tries his humanly best to abide by the Constitution of the Republic. Thus, when his humanly best does not permit, Buhari apparently also ignores the Constitution--again with impunity. A prominent example is his government's continued detention of a high profile protest figure despite a bail granted him by a federal high court. This is in line with a pattern of behavior on the part of Buhari-the-law. Not surprisingly and in line with Buhari-the-Law, a state governor just yesterday announced openly that he was not going to comply with a state high court ruling abrogating his appointment of new emirates for the city of Kano.
All this, ladies and gentlemen, succinctly captures the current status of the rule of law in Nigeria. Nigeria's political system is good on paper but demonstrably dysfunctional in practice. For his pattern of disobedience of court orders, President Buhari-the-law would have long been impeached and removed from office if Nigeria was a serious country governed by a serious political class, but one even hardly hears any motion or voice of disapproval of his open lawlessness from Nigeria's esteemed national legislature--another dysfunctional organ among the plethora of political dysfunctionalities of the polity known as Nigeria.
On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 9:02 PM Emmanuel Udogu <udoguei@appstate.edu> wrote:
https://abcnews.go.com/International/israels-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-indicted-bribery-fraud/story?id=67199981&cid=clicksource_4380645_null_twopack_hed--
To the students of democracy,
I hope our courts in Africa (and the developing world) will emulate Israely judiciary.
Ike Udogu
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