THE IMPLEMENTATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE FEDERAL CHARACTER PRINCIPLE IN NIGERIA.

SUMMARY

This research also reviewed the works of other authors. In view of the above, the implementation of Federal Character Policy which was enacted to ensure equal employment distribution in Nigerian civil service can be best ensured through when their an all-inclusive implementation mechanism. This study, from the view of other authors, stresses the need for inclusion of civil society organization to checkmate and serve as a watchdog to those actions and inaction of policy implementers in both the Federal Character Commission and the Federal Civil Service Commission who are not carrying to objectives to the policy.

The Nigerian Federation is fundamentally governed according to the basic law of the land, that is, the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, as amended. The provisions in Chapter Two of the said Constitution are intended by it to be non-justiceable. However, instead of an express and direct provision making the Chapter justiciable, it provides for an indirect mode of making any of the sections of the Chapter justiciable. It permits the legislature to enact a law making any of the sections justiciable. This indeed adds a multiplier effect to the function of the legislative arm of government in Nigeria because it has gone a long way to multiply the law making function of the legislature and inadvertently makes legislative supremacy over the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, as amended a present reality.