Former Minister of Education, Oby Exekwesili, has knocked the Speaker of the House of Representatives over a bill he sponsored to criminalize refusal to sing the re-introduced National Anthem, protest and other acts he considers as subversive. 

The Bill tagged Counter Subversion Bill 2024, aims to impose stringent penalties on Nigerians who fail to recite the national anthem with 10-year jail term or N5m fine or both. 

Ezekwesili in a post on her X handle said the lawmakers planning the law are the ones who ought to be in jail for their subversive acts against the Nigerian people. 

She said: “I am certain that the Speaker of the @HouseNGR @Speaker_Abbas @nassnigeria knows this for a fact. 

“Surely, he must know that the so-called #CounterSubversionBill which he introduced- and alleged to be in its second reading – is a silly flight of fancy that further reveals how unserious and irrelevant the lawmakers are to the Nigerian condition. 

“I for example have kept my public statement and only stand and sing the REAL Nigerian National Anthem (Arise O Compatriots), never the Colonial and “tribal” one that he and his colleagues conspired with @NGRPresident and kangarooed into “law” in violation of Constitutional processes. Get ready to “prosecute” me when you pass your noxious #CounterSubversionBill into an Act. But before then, please note that if there is any group of Nigerians that deserve a Subversion Act, it is you and your colleagues at the @nassnigeria who consistently subvert the progress of Nigeria and her people through your legendary public misdemeanors that accumulate into Bad Governance. 

“Your citizens have spoken up in unison asking you and your colleagues in the Executive and Judicial Arms to #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria . You obviously have still not heard the ticking chimes of time. Continue with your irrelevancies while the country totters….. continue if it pays you.”

Ibrahim Ibrahim

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