04/01/2025
THE CONCEPT OF PRINCIPLE OF NATIONAL NECESSITY IN LAW MAKING:
Introduction:
Every society and government have an established bureacratically sanctioned pattern where laws and order are made for the development and serenity of the society.
What is national necessity?
National necessity is a conflict resolution mechanism aims at stabilizing national tensions created as a result of conundrum existed in our extant laws.
In the business of law making globally, no law existed without flaws or corresponding conundrum but it takes the pragmatism of those who manage the legislative echelons to stabilize the supposed national tensions created as a result of the vacuum in the legal process, hence national necessity.
The principle of national necessity is to serve as legislative shock absolver to stabilize impending national calamities.
American government quickly recognized the importance of it and in 1920 Thomas Jefferson used it to quell the mivinit business war that their constitution was silence about the legality of it at that material time. This was the unilateral decision of Jefferson as concurred by the Congress without much polititcal philibusting it settled the impending calamities in USA.
Why in Nigeria we don't have polititcal will and patriotic zeal to implement such gentleman agreement; some of the bills introduced in our parliament that have people's bearings and the government is looking at them with levity would have sailed through the instrumentality of principle of national necessity.
It is practically awkward at this time owing to the unwanted debilitating characters such as cronyism, nepotism, favoritism, despotism, ethnic cocoonism, polititcal jumpology and above all, the miasma of 'where you come from?' have been albatrosses against our collective progress!.
According to Prof. A. Kattam " the government who fails to deliberates her national challenges with the electorates at the negotiation table is doomed for Anomie". Let's use another paradox of making our laws rather than maintaining the old one that is highly anarchronistic and hinders our supposed development!
Comrade Ochede, the National President, National Good Governvance And Accountability movement (NGGAAM).
