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Co-convener of Bring Back Our Girls campaign, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, has emphasised the need for Nigerians to be constitutionally enlightened in order to demand for their rights and deepen Nigeria’s democracy.
The former Minister of Education made the call at the Second New Media, Citizens And Governance Conference on Wednesday in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.
She noted that Nigeria’s governance had been monopolised due to the constitutional illiteracy of most citizens who were ignorant of their rights.
“Our governance’s landscape is a landscape of monopolised authority, power, responsibility and zero accountability.
“That’s what our democracy has been since 1959.
“What we need on the basis of the power that information technology gives to us is to now liberalise the market of governance,” she recommended.
Dr. Ezekwesili further stressed the need for Nigerians to break the monopoly of the nation’s governance structure by holding government accountable at all levels.
She highlighted the effects of poor governance in a country, citing the Nigeria’s unstable power supply as an example.
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