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One of the claims of a citizen upon a state is that the state must observe their rights, especially right to protection of life and property. In this respect, the state’s latest victim is Chief Sunday Igboho. The Nigerian State removed those conditions which are necessary for him to be fulfilled in life by invading his Ibarapa home recently. The first condition of adequate living is the security of life.
When the State cannot provide citizens those conditions that will guarantee their safety, that State has failed. The Nigerian State has consistently refused to take effective action that can remove the hindrances blocking citizens from functioning at optimal levels. Citizens’ aspirations remain largely unfulfilled when they cannot function at this level.
The public space is awash with reports of kidnappings, murders and rape. The State does not exist solely for the governing class. However, we read daily on the pages of newspapers the security woven around agents of government as if they do not share a common end with other citizens, that is, providing for citizens too, the condition to function optimally without the fear of being kidnapped, raped and killed.
The goods and services necessary to the life of citizens are never so distributed to produce a result which maximises citizens’ social utility. For example, the supply of electricity to power small, medium and large scale industries. We spend on aesthetics what is wanted to equip our hospitals and schools.
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