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.... ....   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates  Towards a better life for the people Search The Archives   Cover Stories National News South West Niger Delta South East North Politics Business Sports World Viewpoints Features   Autonomous communities law: Ex-PDP chief faults Anambra govt By Vincent Ujumadu Thursday, July 01, 2004 Former Vice-Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State, Chief Ben Ezeibe has described the repealing and signing into Law the Autonomous Recognition (2002) Law by Governor Chris Ngige as bad news, insisting that the State Government lacked the constitutional disposition to levy execution.  Ezeibe argued that the communities had been in existence for a long time and wondered what purpose the law would serve the government.  Ezeibe who is the Chairman of the Political Committee of the 68 Communities whose autonomous status were recognized by Mbadinuju’s administration was of the view that the repealed law was done in bad faith and dismissed the notion that the communities were not created by any government. He said that it was a misnormer for anyone to think that Government creates Communities. Communities according to Chief Ezeibe, are made of human beings adding that “communities have been existing  for well over 100 years. What Government did was to give recognition to our existence because we applied for it, so without government recognition we are still existing and will continue to exist as an entity with or without government recognition.  The only way to ensure the growth of our hard earned democracy is for us to exercise our right for self determination and existence, peaceful assembly and association, as guaranteed by Section 40 of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria and Articles 2,3,10,11,19 and 20 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Right (Ratification Enforcement) Act Laws of the Federation 1990. “We have gone to courts because we felt that the due process of making good laws were not followed, and the observed discrepancies are what we are challenging in courts. Some of us are close friends of the Governor and our loyalties are never in doubt, but we headed to courts because of our conviction that court is an essential ingredient for democracy to triumph," Ezeibe said.   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates © 1998- 2004. Vanguard Media Ltd.

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