The most important legal document that was used to establish the colonial Nigeria by the British Colonial Empire on January 1, 1914 at Zungeru in the present day Niger State of NIgeria does not exist anywhere in all truth, honesty and reality today in 2013 almost 100 years later. The official whereabout of this amalgamation document is not known to any Nigerian today either dead or alive. Researchers and historians from both Britain and Nigeria who attempted and searched for this document either in the archives of the government of Britain (the Nigeria's former colonial master) and in the archives of the Nigerian government came up with nothing.
Who has the custody or the official possession of the legal document that was signed into law that amalgamated the Northern protectorate and the Southern protectorate together in 1914 to form a new British colony that was named Nigeria by the then British colonial authority and led by the then Governor General Lord Lugard? What was responsible for the disappearance of this foundational document that was used to set up the Nigerian nation from the public eye or from the surface of the human universe? Did this document contain things that no Nigerian should be allowed to see? What is so secretive or highly classified about this legal document that has made it never to see the light of the day almost 100 years later?
Why is this legal document completely hidden from the ordinary Nigerians since 1914 that all have 100% stake in Nigerian project? What exactly were the key legal terms in this political amalgamation document? Why is this document which is the most important legal framework that binds over 386 ethnic nationalities, many religious and cultural groups together as one nation and ended the era of caliphates, kingdoms as well as the empires for almost 100 years and gave the residents of this new nation, a new national identity as Nigerians not publicly accessible to anyone or made public since 1914?
Is it true that this important amalgamation document will officially expire on the January 1, 2014 when Nigeria will be exactly 100 years old as a nation? Is this legal document that was signed into law in 1914 finally set on stone forever and can never or must never be amended or revisited again in our lifetime as Nigerians no matter what Nigeria is facing in this 21st century human universe? Why are we still using this unseen and unknown legal document to run Nigeria for almost 100 years without any single political contribution or input from the 386 different nationalities, the many religious and cultural groups at the official formation of Nigeria?
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