Reasons are abound, for the non – justiciability of these provisions. Following the Report of the Constitution Drafting Committee (“CDC”), Vol. 1 (Lagos: Federal Ministry of information 1976) at XV –XVI, the CDC considered it unwise to enforce the provisions on the grounds of (i) bifurcation of obligation, (ii) the resource constraint argument, (iii) the institutional illegitimacy/ democracy deficit argument, etc.
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