The criticism President Goodluck Jonathan has faced in some quarters for signing the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill 2011 into law is in my opinion clearly misplaced. For one, these critics have to understand that the way and manner democracy works, at least in Nigeria, is that the Legislature makes the laws, the Executive implements it and the Judiciary interprets it.
As Head of
State, President Jonathan is duty bound to epitomize the culture of
Nigeria. As the late Afrobeat Maestro, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, sang in his
hit song, 'Teacher Don't Teach me Nonsense', the government's teachers
are culture and tradition. In fact, to quote Fela, he said 'who be
government teacher, culture and tradition'.
