A Government’s Aversion to Criticisms
Last week’s attack on Prof. Ango Abdullahi by presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina and the arrest of Nastura Sharif over a protest in Katsina have further exposed the presidency’s aversion to criticisms, writes Davidson Iriekpen
He said five member of the group, including himself and Sharif, had honoured a police invitation after which the group’s leader was detained. This has been the pattern since 2017. There’s death every week. Nigeria has become a jungle. It is hard to convince many Nigerians that there is government in place in the country anymore.
The association, which frowned at the mass killings and the increasing insecurity in the north, especially in Kaduna, Katsina, Sokoto and Borno States, explained that in the last few weeks, hundreds of people had been killed by the Boko Haram sect and bandits. “Our government must therefore live up to this responsibility by tackling the present state of insecurity across the country. There is need for our leaders to do an honest stocktaking of the situation in our country.
“I am a very unhappy person, because we have never had any moment of respite in the last five years that the leadership of this state can describe as comfortable. I never expected the behaviour and the attitude of the people living in the forests, the bandits, whose behaviour is worse than that of animals.
For a government that touted security, tackling corruption and enhancing the economy as three of its cardinal objectives at inception, many cannot understand why President Buhari would allow the masses to continue to suffer. The sultan, who is the spiritual leader of Nigerian Muslims, also blamed the spate of killings, kidnappings and banditry on governments’ inability to stop the carnage.
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