By Dave Uka
Ebonyi State Governor, Chief Francis Nwifuru , former Governor of the state, Sen. Sam Egwu, another former Governor of the state, Chief Martin Election and former Abia State Governor, Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu are among dignitaries that would attend the book launch of the former Special Adviser to Egwu and Elechi' on political matters, Dr John Onu Onwe, slated for 9th of this month.
The public presentation of the book titled "Anatomy of Crime of Corruption in Nigeria" (The Constitutional Framework as the Tap-root) vol 1 & 2 will take place at Pastoral Center, Mile 50, Abakaliki, the state capital.
The author, Dr Onwe who disclosed this to journalists during his pre- Book lunching press conference held in his office at Hope Bay Library in Abakaliki said the book was meant to understand the problem of corruption in Nigeria , the source and solution to the menace
Speaking on the two books, Onwe who is a constitutional Lawyer and Social Crusader exposed how corruption started in Nigeria and how it can end.
He said to rid the nation of the menace, its present feudal autocracy and the extant constitutional framework that was imposed right 1914 to date, must be abolished and a new restructured state and constitutional framework agreed to by the people of the country must be instituted.
He identified defectively formed feudal state and autocratic constitutional framework as the root-causes of corruption in Nigeria.
“Between 1066AD and 1688 Britain, our mother-state was a corrupt, poor and disastrously distracted as Nigeria is now until after the revolutionary struggles that hobbled it leading to the 1688 Glorious Revolution when eventually the British feudal state and its monarchical autocratic constitutional framework was abolished and its place the capitalist state and a democratic constitutional framework substituted them", he stated.
He noted that Nigerian rulers and their governments have counted corruption as the chief problem of the country without bothering to understand what corruption is and what to do with it.
"Every ruler and every government have burdened themselves with the problem of corruption that it is now a sing song. But that is where it stops and ends because once the ruler climbs unto the throne, the problem of corruption surrounds him and overwhelms him.
"It is this problem that I observed and decided to study it to know what it is with a view to solving the problem.
"To understand the problem of corruption, I undertook a doctoral program and the main objective was to know the source of corruption in Nigeria. And I discovered that the source of corruption in Nigeria is the malformed state structure and autocratic constitutional framework imposed on it. The State structure and constitutional framework in Nigeria are essentially feudal and constitutional framework is autocratic. These are the wellsprings of corruption in Nigeria", he submitted. ENDS
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