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| Dr Tunji Braithwaite an exceptional Yoruba man dies. Read about his most recent comment on Biafra |
Dr. Tunji Braithwaite, one of the few Yoruba statesmen that mostly stands on the path of truth is dead. Vanguard reports that Braithwaite died on Monday morning at St. Nicholas Hospital, Lagos, .
Braithwaite, the founder of the Nigerian Advance Party (NAP) was a prominent and fearless voice from Yorubaland. He was a delegate at the 2014 National Conference, canvassed for a Confederal Constitution to replace the 1999 Constitution. He described the 1999 Constitution as Decree 24, which was presently destroying Nigeria and Nigerians, stressing that it should be thrown out and be replaced with either a Confederal constitution, with Nigeria operating con-federalism or a very loose federation.
Also, Braithwaite disagreed with former President Goodluck Jonathan on 100 years celebration, saying that the President got it wrong as Nigeria was only 54 years old, adding that Nigeria was still work in progress. He said: “Let the word go forth that there are a number of brave, honest nationalistic persons in this Conference that, hopefully would be able to reconstruct Nigeria in a way that the blessings, peace and prosperity rightly deserved by the peoples of this country would be guaranteed by a New Confederal Constitution. Development conference
"The existing six geopolitical zones are uniquely different developmental problems for which a single ‘’one-size-fits-all ‘solution can never work in the reality of Nigeria’s diversity. The present 1999 Constitution or Decree 24 is enforcing a country that is destroying its own people, and should be rejected outright. ”This Conference must therefore be as much a development conference as a constitutional one. It is our firm conviction that only a Confederal Constitution or a very loose federation is best suited for Nigeria. I say this because I know that no part of Nigeria is desert.”
Tunji Braithwaite has criticized the anti-corruption war tactic used by General Muhammadu Buhari which permits looters to quietly return their loot without being prosecuted.
“It is a crime against the state for anybody to steal public funds. Returning stolen funds quietly without being sanctioned is even worse than the crime of stealing the money. This is morally reprehensible and it can never serve as a deterrent to other corrupt politicians who might want to steal public resources.
“Buhari is pampering those corrupt leaders by just obtaining looted funds and not jailing them. With all the bragging and the promises he made during the campaign, we expected that his war against corruption will be ruthless. These public thieves carted away our national assets and in the process, impoverished many Nigerians. Corruption is also responsible for the infrastructural decay we are experiencing. The roads are bad and many Nigerian youths cannot find jobs.”
Braithwaite also commented on the ongoing Biafra restoration project. He opined Biafra restoration is imminent. "Agitation for secession in the present dynamics of international and national politics is different from what we experienced in 1967 during the civil war. Now, the agitation for independence will not necessarily lead to war these days like in 1967.
You cannot use force over a people if they do not want to continue under a system that denies them basic things and their fundamental human rights. Look at what is happening in the United Kingdom and other parts of the world. People have a right to demand self-expression. This advice is not for Buhari alone; we should find ways to reinvent Nigeria in a way that every geopolitical zone will have a sense of belonging. You don’t have a sense of belonging if you are being discriminated against"
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