The Restructuring Model That Would've Helped Nigeria

This model would've halted the country's course to collapse and disintegration. Without much ado let me go straight to the point. Restructuring the country should be based on Ethnic, religion and fiscal self determination. It simply means that all ethnic and ethno religious groups should live within a framework that fairly permits to develop in their own pace and capacity economically and culturally. With this, a group of related states should form a region while the regions themselves will become the federating units. The country should empower diversity as much as possible. Each state must be monoethnic or composed very related ethnic groups to minimize the concept of minority as much as possible. A group of homogeneous states will form a region and the regions will become the federating units. Each federating region should reflect ethnic or religious homogeneity. Thus, we can have federating units of about six regions of average of 6 to 7 states each. The states should 50% of its mineral and tax resources and still have governors in charge with immunity. Constituency allowance for legislators should be scrapped. The house of representatives should be scrapped and replaced with regional commissions. Civil defence, peace corp etc should be scrapped and replaced with regional police. Judiciary should be reorganized to make room for regional supreme courts to where cultural litigations should end. Defence, foreign affairs, central bank and monetary policy, immigration and customs should remain exclusive to the FG. States should not be scrapped State should not be scrapped because collapsing states into regions will lead to so much socio-economic disruptions. Rather states will be empowered to control 50 percent of their resources, provide power, security and basic amenities. Regions should be created Regions should be made up of similar states and will serve as federating units. Each region should have a regional capital within it that will host the regional commission and some decentralised functions of the FCT which are not able to be decentralised to state levels. The essence of the regions is economic cooperation and integration. When states in the region cooperate and by making common laws, they can easily harness their comparative advantage for the greater good of the region. For instance, a region can enact common law on wage, low tax on investment, ease of business, harmonize health system or education standards, build rail lines etc this will be easy because of shared interest and value.Again, cultural development such as language promotion can be done faster at the regional level by enacting a common law. This includes local government need.Additionally, since much of insecurity is regional and policing has cultural and religious dimensions, there should be regional police. Such a police force should be coordinated at the regional level in terms of standard but commanded at the state level. There should be a central body such as the NJC for the police that will liaise with each regional police to enforce their respective standards. To break this down the more, the regions can do similar to what European Union does for European states and the regional commissions will do similar to what European commission do by proposing common legislative bills for the state HOA and initiate common development programmes and standards for the states in the region. New states should be created. Since states should generate most of their resources and presidency should rotate among federating regions, there will be less state creation demands except in situations to carter for specific ethnic and religious interests, in the spirit of self determination. In this case, we should have new state like Apa, southern Kaduna state, Anioma state, Okun/ southern Kwara state, Igweocha/ Orashi state etc Rotational Presidency Presidency should be rotated among the federating regions with a single term of six years. Where a president fails to complete another from the region should complete his term.