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President Buhari failed in
scurity, corruption, economy – N’Delta group
A Niger Delta
group, the Centre for Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Crusade, CHURAC, has
taken an appriasal of the first term of the current federal government, stating
that President Muhammadu Buhari has failed in his three focal areas of
security, fighting corruption and the economy.
The group stressed
that the president failed in his terms of his performances in office, warning
that “the country should not continue in this miserable path in his second
term”.
It claimed that
Buhari’s first tenure has been characterised by economic repression,
ethnocentrism, nepotism, lack of parity in the composition of government, gross
abuse of human rights, persecution of old-time enemies as well as political
rivals in the name of anti-corruption war as well as unbridled abuse of all
known democratic ethos.
This was contained
in a statement signed and made available to newsmen in Warri by the CHURAC’s
national president, Cleric E. Alaowei, Esq, ahead of President Buhari’s inauguration
for second term in office on Wednesday.
CHURAC said
further, “The vain-glory and ego-boasting achievements in the four years of
office by President Muhammadu Buhari is rather a mishmash of economic disaster,
which has been ennobled as achievements by the sugar-coated propaganda of image
laundering being anchored in the present Government.
“However, in the
real sense, the Government’s celebrated achievements are democratic attrition
to the nation.”
“This APC
led-Government after mesmerizing Nigerians with its edited but failed to be
executed 2015 campaign promises to entrust the Party with their votes, has
shown that it’s four years was far worst than the PDP’s sixteen years rule.
“One eventful but
excuses-coated four years have gone down the drain, yet this APC Government of
propaganda has not formulated and or implemented any policy to recoup Nigerians
of the mass feelings of distrust and gross incompetence displayed by the
Government to pilot the affairs of the nation.
“High point of the
Government’s shenanigan is its decision to go back to the APC’s vomit when the
later was in opposition.
“The then
opposition party, (APC), now groping around for help at the alter of
governance, spared no minute in rebuking and reproving the PDP led-Government
over the removal of fuel subsidy.
“We are surprised
why this APC led-Government find the fuel subsidy removal parody as its best
democracy gift to the economically pauperised and beleaguered Nigerians in his
first term?
“Despite the social
pariahs former President Jonathon’s Government was being subjected to, the
Buhari’s Government is virtually doing everything left on the table of
governance by the immediate past PDP led-Government.
“Prominent among
those areas are the railway and road constructions which the present Government
is celebrating as its achievements.
“The few
self-serving, jingoistic and esoteric policies of this Government have not only
polarised the Country along ethnic/religious lines but it has also plunged the
Country into economic recess thereby elicited an unprecedented double digits
inflationary rates.
“There is hardship
everywhere in the Country although the Presidency said the Government has
delivered in its first term. The question is: what are the achievements in
Buhari’s first term?
“Insecurity is
worst compared to the PDP’s era. The Government’s lackadaisical attitude in
confronting the identified causes of the various ethno-religious crisis
headlong has escalated the scourge of insecurity.
“While Fulani
herdsmen are being tagged as the world’s fourth dangerous terrorist group by
the International Terrorism Index, the same people who are waging a genocidal
war against other Nigerians are being pampered by the Government of Mohammadu
Buhari.
“Also, a good
number of Boko Haram members who arrested and tried by the previous government
of Goodluck Jonathan were released by the Government of the day who were
alleged to have been granted amnesty. However, the same acclaimed repented
terrorists have gone back to the trenches to embolden the Boko Haram jihads.
“Similarly, another
factor that seemed to be escalating insecurity in the land under this
Government was the Buhari’s ill-conceived decision to appoint top security
positions from only one ethnic group/religion together with his resolve to keep
them in office despite the fact they have overstayed their statutory years in
office.
“On corruption,
though it is fighting the menace with a determined vigor, the Government’s
lukewarm attitude to the official corruption involving his appointees and
political associates has proven to be a major setback to his avowal.
“Nigeria under
Buhari is more corrupt than the Jonathan’s government. This position has been
testified by the Transparency International through its yearly analysis of
official corruption among countries in the world. Its Global Corruption
Perception Index on Nigeria being released in 2018 and 2019 has shown that the
Country has moved from its earlier position in 2014 when Buhari took over the Government.
“Transparency
International rating of the Country’s Global Corruption Perception Index of
2017 but was released in 2018 which placed Nigeria at 148th position. However,
in the 2018 report which was released in 2019, Nigeria moved to 144th from 148th
in Transparency International latest corruption perception index worldwide.
“The Country made
the four notch jump without improving its score of 27 out of a possible 100 as
recorded in 2017. This is ironically an upward movement from its earlier position
of 136th in 2014 under the PDP government.
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