Some Information Regarding What The NINAS Transitioning Template Is About
The Editor, 12 September 2023
Editor’s comments:
Several people have been asking members of the NINAS Movement what the NINAS Transitioning Template looks like. This is therefore published to answer people asking a similar question. My own plea to those with a tendency and a desire to plagiarize and copy from NINAS material, is to resist that devious urge. Nigeria is facing man-made dangers from many fronts, and the NINAS Transitioning Proposition is the only POTENT non-violent way available to turn away the looming catastrophes, so let us at this perilous time, be Honest and tell our people about the NINAS Plan.
Transitioning in the political sense, is a well-documented process, and there are several countries currently going through that process.
NINAS has often stated that it uses as example South Africa’s Transitioning process, when that country rid itself of its Apartheid constitutional order. As an example – not as a copy. For Nigeria, which 1990 South Africa did not have, the United Nations’ UNDRIP 2007 is available and NINAS is applying that, as well as other International Law instruments.
The NINAS Transitioning is specified in the Constitutional Force Majeure Notice (link to it in the Notes section) of 16 December 2020. Points D and E ie 4 and 5 (copied below) apply directly to Transitioning but they are understood after having understood the previous 3 Points, and also having grasped the historical and socio-political background of the constitutional grievances described in the Notice.
For the sake of peace and to avoid anarchy, it is our demand that the following specific actions must be taken to firmly set in motion, an irreversible process by which the grave constitutional grievances would be addressed:
(A) A Formal Announcement acknowledging the Constitutional Grievances and Sovereignty Dispute now Declared by the Peoples of South and Middle-Belt of Nigeria.
(B) A Formal Commitment to the wholesale Decommissioning and Jettisoning of the 1999 Constitution as the Basis of the Federation of Nigeria as was done by the Government of Apartheid-Era South Africa in 1990, to commence the process by which the Apartheid Constitution of the then South Africa was eased out.
(C) A Formal Announcement suspending further General Elections under the Disputed 1999 Constitution since winners of such Elections will Swear to, and Govern by that Constitution.
(D) A Formal Initiation of a Time-Bound Transitioning Process to midwife the emergence of Fresh Constitutional Protocols by a Two-Stage Process in which the Constituent Regional Blocs will at the first stage, Distill and Ratify their various Constitutions by Referendums and Plebiscites and in the second stage, Negotiate the Terms of Federating afresh as may be dictated by the outcomes of Referendum and Plebiscites.
(E) A Formal Invitation to the Peoples of the South and Middle-Belt of Nigeria to work out and emplace a Transitional Authority, which shall specify the Modalities for the Transitioning Process including the Composition and Mandate of the Transitional Authority a well as the Time-frame for the Transitioning and other Ancillary Matters.
Summary of the NINAS 5-Point Proposition:
Therefore, just as South Africa’s Transitioning included a Transitional Authority/Transitional Government and alongside that a Sovereign Conference called CODESA, the NINAS Transitioning Template also has similar.
The NINAS Transitioning Template is TIME-BOUND. It has a Transitional Authority, thus a nominal government, ie a Transitional Government which would have limited mandate (limited powers) and would be the acceptable government produced by the fraudulent 1999 Constitution – as has been the case in Nigeria since the imposition of Military Decree 24 deceitfully renamed as “1999 Constitution”. If there is no President for this nominal government, that position would fall to the Senate President.
Just as South Africa had its CODESA, so ALONGSIDE this Transitional Authority would be a Sovereign Constitutional Convention (subject to name change) that would be tasked with Union Reconfiguration matters including joint Multi-Regional Referendums etc.
The Sovereign Constitutional Convention would be headed by a Chairperson, being a male or female who satisfies certain conditions including these:
Someone who has countrywide good will.
Someone who is known and respected by the international community.
Someone who has been at the pinnacle of power, so will not be vulnerable to deferring to any superior position.
Someone who does not have a consuming ambition of his/her own that may lead to him/her being compromised.
Someone who is physically and mentally fit to carry out the demands of this role.
NOTES:
1.
The Constitutional Force Majeure Notice link HERE:
2.
The Two-Stage Process mentioned above was fully described in “An Open Memorandum To President Muhammadu Buhari On Behalf Of The Lower Niger Congress And Its MNN Alliance Partners, In Response To The Restructuring Queries Raised In Paris, November 2018” Link HERE:
Thus, briefly,
Stage 1: Just as was done in the 1950s before Independence, Ethnic Nations in formations (Blocs) of their choice would FIRST make their Regional Constitutions.
Stage 2: Regional Referendums for ethnic nations to vote to either re-commit to the Union of Nigeria, or to go for something else. If they vote to re-commit to the Union, there would be negotiations on how that Union would be, then a Federating Constitution made.
3.
This is just one of several internet documents that provide general information on Transitioning:
The Features of Transitional Governance Today (PDF) by Emmanuel De Groof, 2019
Link HERE:
4.
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