The Legislative Process in Nigeria

CONCLUSION
On paper, the legislative process in Nigeria is similar to what obtains in the United States of America. Understanding the legislative process in America enables one to understand how it is supposed to work in Nigeria hence I spent some time offering a summary of how this phenomenon works in America.
The legislative process is not working in Nigeria. One hopes that in time that Nigerians will gather and write their own constitution and make it work for them. I personally prefer the British parliamentary system. I wish that Nigeria has that system. But should Nigerians prefer to have a presidential system, as long as it is their choice, made freely by their delegates, so be it.
If Nigerians choose the American system of government, then let them make it work as it should. Let them make laws as they should.
No one in his right mind expects human beings to be perfect. We are not angels; there will always be corruption in the human polity. There is corruption every where in the world. There is corruption in America.
What realistic men expect is for corruption to be reduced to the absolute minimum. If, say, five percent of public officials in Nigeria are corrupt, we can manage to get things done despite them. But for the entirety of officials to be corrupt, well, nothing can be accomplished.
Nigeria is a pathetic country. It only seems to be doing okay because it obtains oil money. But when that source of revenue runs dirty, Nigeria will become another failed African state.
Imagine what would happen if 130 million Nigerians are starving. The world has never seen such suffering before. But Nigerians seem to insist on producing this catastrophe.
Nigerians destroy their country and run to the well ordered polities of America and Western Europe. Here, too, they embark on their nefarious criminal actives. Left alone, these lawless, wild men will destroy the honor system that makes America work.
In America, for example, you go to a newspaper stand, put in your money, fifty cents, and take one paper and nobody is watching you so you could take more than one. If it were in Nigeria, one person would take all the papers and go resale them. He would think that what he did is smart. It never occurs to him that if every person does what he did that chaos and anarchy would reign in the land.
In effect, Nigerians seem very unintelligent. May be they are less intelligent than other races, as white racists speculate? If these people were minimally intelligent, they would recognize the utility of making their house as orderly as it could be. If ones house is disordered, one is not likely to have peace of mind. But, like thoughtless children, Nigerians think that they can create disorder and have an orderly country, impossible.
Be that as it, we shall never give up on our mother hand. We will keep talking about the problems of Nigeria, though they seem intractable, until we fix them. We must fix them. We must eventually make our legislative body a real law making arm of government. Until then we do not have real legislatures in Nigeria.