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As a result of substandard education, an average Nigerian thinks that a person is automatically guilty of whatever he is accused of and that there is no need for courts.
As a result, a Nigerian trained lawyer argues that the President has power to overrule the decision of the court regarding bail for a suspect standing trial.
As a result of poor education, a Nigerian lawyer looks at a situation where the government continues to detain people ordered released by the court, and says that the President was merely expressing his opinion when the President justified the government action.
As a result of lack of education, many Nigerian graduates do not know that there is a difference between the Executive and the Judiciary and that appeals do not move from the courts to the President.
As a result of substandard education, an average Nigerian thinks that a person is automatically guilty of whatever he is accused of and that there is no need for courts.
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As a result of lack of education, some Nigerians believe that the President could choose which part of the constitution to obey and which part to ignore.
On top of all that, it is the same poorly educated Nigerian graduate that would be the first to question your knowledge in any decent debate.
The nasty thing that those long years of military rule did to Nigeria was not really in the lack of infrastructures, but in the denial of education to the population.
As a result Nigeria has ended up with graduates that are dangerous to themselves in the way they think.
Emeka Ugwuonye
