By Afolayan Adebiyi
Nigeria’s democracy is seriously flawed at gubernatorial levels. Why? Because groups with an agenda to upset the demographics of a state can encourage their kinsmen to move to that state in biblically exodus dimensions. Burden free social services, paid for by taxes, including education, health care, and public utilities. Not pay taxes. Register to vote. And do a hostile takeover of the state, after acquiring a critical mass, and then declare it no man’s land.
It is an age old challenge. Egypt was nearly overwhelmed by the ancient Israelites 4000 years ago, and again, by Syrians after the Syrian civil war began in 2011. The Lebanese lost their country through uncontrolled demographic change and are now near slaves to those they once hosted. And in America, even the Democrats are now waking up to the reality of mass invasion from their Southern borders.
Democracy, ideology and loyalty By
We keep bringing up Europe and America. I schooled in England and have been resident in California from the age of 9. You can’t just move from Florida to California, and register to vote. You must fulfil residency requirements, pay taxes, and in some states, but not all, have no criminal records.
And you cannot just move from Birmingham to London and vote in municipal elections. You must fulfil residency requirements, and pay the poll tax, as well as have proof of address at a place where you pay utilities.
If Nigeria’s democracy is not reformed to reflect no representation without taxation, then sedentary Nigerians would soon be at the mercy of more itinerant Nigerians who consider other people’s domains their own, while studiously protecting their own domains from any form of demographic change.
Some people who want equal rights with others in places where they have not made equal contributions with those they desire to be equal to, would literally kpai you if you try what they are doing to you in their ancestral homesteads.
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