Nigeria: Rule of Law vs Rule of Lawlessness

27 October 2016
opinion

The rule of law provision in the constitution is supposed to be the most potent defender of the democratic principles of equality of all citizens before the law. Sprinkle this with all the rights guaranteed the human being in the constitution and what you have is a near perfect society which is the other side of the Hobesian state of nature where life is brutish, short and nasty.

A society that is governed by laws, where the rule of law rules supreme, does not subscribe to arbitrariness nor permit the autocratic use of force to clobber the citizen to abide by decent societal ethos and ethics. Though some people say the law is an ass, but this ass is supposed to protect the poor and the pauper as it protects the kings and other potentates of the land. But this is only as far as the theories go.

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