– Where lies the rule of law, equality before the law, fundamental human right and true democracy? – The Sage
– it’s distasteful discouraging, disenchanting, disgusting, drowsily demoralising and downright disillusioning, being told to prepare to welcome your district head soon, only to wait days, week, months and year without end for the executive approval of appointment – Women
The Periscope Reporter
We’ve prayed and In Sha Allah, our prayers are answered, it could take up to 2023, the executive approval of the appointment of our district head is surely… – The Youths
The Periscope Reporter
The palace of the district head of Jalingo-Maiha, Maiha local government, northern senatorial district of Adamawa state, northeast Nigeria remains vacant over one year after the determination of the appeal court, which affirmed the high court judgement passed over three years ago.
A sage, who some years ago, projected the undue executive delays in approving the appointment of the legitimate district head of Jalingo-Maiha after the courts judgement, due mainly to uncontrolled unconscious bias, would simply ask where lies the rule of law, equality before the law, fundamental human right and true democracy?
Literary critic has given the scenario a metaphoric view, where she considered whether or not would be akin to the degeneration from “Manor Farm” to “Animal Farm” as captured by George Orwell in his satirical allegorical novella “ANIMAL FARM.”
The subjects were told to remain patient when the executive approval of the appointment of their district head, was without legal reason suspended after the high court judgement over three years ago.
The suspension, the subjects conceived, would be terminated with the determination of the appeal court over a year ago.
When asked, having confidence in the final judgment, the chairman of Maiha local government was reported to have told the teaming population, siding with the victory, to continue with their preparations for receiving their district head who would soon have his appointment approved.
How soon, as days passed into weeks, into months and now over a year?
For the teaming anxious society women, the experience “is distasteful discouraging, disenchanting, disgusting, drowsily demoralising and downright disillusioning, being told to prepare to welcome your district head soon, only to wait days, weeks, months and over a year without end for the executive approval of appointment”.
On their part, the youths in Jalingo-Maiha said they were asked not to go beyond the law, even when they conceived what they were grieving was akin to action above the law, intolerable to, and in an informed society devoid of any parochial sentiment, said they have collectively resorted to prayers in congregation for divine intervention, “we’ve prayed and In Sha Allah, our prayers are answered, it could take up to 2023, the executive approval of the appointment of our district head is surely as much as the palace can be occupied only by the heir apparent; the courts declared distinct head”.