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10 Beijing L. Rev. 1 (2019)

handle is hein.journals/beijlar10 and id is 1 raw text is: Scientific Research Publishing Beijing Law Review, 2019, 10, 1-9 http:/wwwscirNorg/iournan/e-b ISSN Online: 2159-4635 ISSN Print: 2159-4627 Enforcement of Fundamental Rights in Nigeria and the Unsolved Issue of Poverty among the Citizens: An Appraisal Igwe Onyebuchi Igwe, Matthew Enya Nwocha, Amaramiro A. Steve Faculty of Law, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria Email: nwochaenyaeni@gmail.com How to cite this paper: Igwe, I. 0., Nwo- cha, M. E., & Steve, A. A. (2019). Enforce- ment of Fundamental Rights in Nigeria and the Unsolved Issue of Poverty among the Citizens: An Appraisal. BeiiingLawReview, 10, 1-9. httlps://doi.org/ 10.4236/blr.20 19.101001 Received: November 21, 2018 Accepted: January 14,2019 Published: January 17, 2019 Copyright 0 2019 by author(s) and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.orsg/icens/b/40/ Abstract For long time now, there have been intense debates among scholars and legal practitioners on the value of fundamental rights provisions in Nigerian laws to citizens who are impoverished on one hand by wide margin of classes in Nigeria and on the other hand because of the Nigeria's economy. In search for answer to above debates, this paper sets to carry out a surgical diagnosis on the place of poverty in the enforcement of fundamental rights in Nigeria. The research method is doctrinally and conceptually utilized the provisions of national and international legal instruments, decisions of courts as well as contributions of scholars in books and journals to evaluate and analyze the subject matter. The paper discovered that poverty among most Nigerians has posed anti-clock movement on the enforcement of fundamental rights in Ni- geria. It was based on this that we made our recommendations which include the making of socio-economic rights justiciable in Nigerian courts. Keywords Rights, Poverty, Citizen, Justiciable, Legal Aid 1. Introduction Over the years, successive democratic governments in Nigeria have continued to include in their political manifestoes the burning issues of respect for human rights and improve standard of living among Nigerians. Despite regimes of campaign promises, poverty among Nigerians keeps widening while enforce- ment of fundamental rights appears to be on graphical retrogression. One fun- damental issue that needs to straighten is that the provisions of fundamental rights under Nigerian laws which have remained mythical in the face of the ina- DOI: 10.4236/blr.2019.101001 Jan. 17, 2019 1I Beijing Law Review

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