What does the word ‘impeachment’ mean? Does it mean different things in Nigeria and the US? If so, why so? Which usage is correct? These questions formed the nucleus of the argument between Sylvester Udemezue , a law teacher at the Nigerian Law School and Farook Kperogi, a professor of journalism and emerging media at the Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA. Enjoy.

"The people who wrote the 1999 Nigerian constitution are clearly not sufficiently educated about the meanings of the terminologies they deployed in the constitution. And they passed on their ignorance to the Nigerian news media and to the Nigerian populace." ----Kperogi.

"...The Nigerian media (who had adopted the meaning of “impeach” as used in the Nigerian Constitution for measuring the meaning and import of “impeach” as used in the US Constitution) and (2). Mr. Professor Farooq Kperogi (who also ignorantly adopted the meaning of “impeach” as used in the US Constitution in measuring the meaning and import of “impeach” as used in the Nigerian Constitution). In other words, Prof Kperogi, while accusing the Nigerian media and lawmakers of “ignorance,” himself fell far deeper into the same shit by himself displaying the same level of “ignorance” as displayed by Nigeria’s media practitioners." --- Udemezue.

"Forget the dreadfully poor grammar and ungainly structural monstrosities of the article, especially for a law professor: this is astonishingly infantile logic. My argument is that the drafters of Nigeria’s 1999 constitution misused the word “impeachment” throughout the document. The misusage can’t be vitiated by the fact of its being in the constitution. It’s like saying a factual error in a newspaper ceases to be an error if the newspaper sanctifies the error as fact." ---Kperogi.

Read full texts below:

https://judicialsketch.com/2019/12/22/meaning-of-impeachment-between-a-professor-of-journalism-and-a-law-teacher/

Kperogi just like Reno are illiterates masquerading them selves as intellectuals. Please don't take them serious.

Please OP correct ur selve Kperogi is not nd will never be a professor.

Professor was used in the US context of a teacher.

There may be slightly changes in the meaning of words used in Legislations from countries to countries.


For instance, the second in command to a Governor in the Nigerian Constitution is termed 'Deputy Governor's but in most American States' Constitutions, the same officer is referred to as Lietenant Governor.