To lawyers and others, take a decisive action today!!!

Hello Everyone,

How has your week been ? Still on the last topic of discussion NIGERIA: MY DEAREST COUNTRY and our attitude/ what we are doing to make the situation better.

One of the reasons why America is one of the sanest places to live is because of the high rate of legal actions against government, corporations, private persons and the correlating damages been awarded by the courts.

As a people, we need to hold the Nigerian government (State and Federal) more accountable through the law :  the next time someone dies in an accident caused by a parked/broken down truck on the highway lets sue the government...when someone trips on the road for a pot-hole which the government ought to fix and has a broken leg or whatever just sue the government. When the government pays out large chunks of money in legal actions, then they will take decisive actions about some of these issues and regulate them. We can even sue the government over failure to protect its citizens with the ever increasing bombings of Boko Haram. the law provides for different avenues of holding the Nigerian government accountable and we just need to explore them.

This goes out to the lawyers and others who have the wherewithal to sustain my proposition, take up a case that you can hold the government accountable for some of its failures as a Pro-Bono case and to those who have the wherewithal, pay a lawyer to sue the government today for some of the failures.

I know my idea seems a little bit far-fetched, but we need to do something and while we fold our arms in silence because danger is not near you, remember the more people it gets to, the closer it gets to you. Remember that judges have children and relatives that have been killed by some government inefficiency and they are counting on citizens to do something.


p.s. I drafted this post a week ago and i just heard Fashola sacked 778* doctors *(figures not confirmed by me) for embarking on an industrial action. This is appalling and I wish we all can assert our rights and make this power drunk officials accountable.


Cheers everyone,

Tola Elesho