Buhari’s govt now runs like witches’, wizards’ nocturnal activities – Ozekhome SAN

…Insists regime worst since 1914

Human right activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mike
Ozekhome (SAN) has scored President Muhammadu Buhari’s
administration low in the area of security, economy and fundamental
rights abuses.

Ozekhome in his statement titled “Assessment of President
Muhammadu Buhari’s 4 years of governance,” ranked his
administration as worst since the “amalgamation of Southern and
Northern Nigeria by Lord Laggard on 1st January 1914.”

The statement reads: “I most honestly and patriotically describe
the last four years of the President Muhammadu Buhari government as
quite uneventful, below average, colourless, clueless,vindictive,
selective, exclusionary, non nationalistic, non pan-Nigerian,
haemorraging economically and highly sectional, cronystic and
pre-bendaslistic.

“In terms of security, its performance is below par, since
whatever gain he would have made in the much-trumpeted degradation
of Boko Haram (you and I know this is merely theoretical as the
sect is more deadly today than ever before) has been replaced with
a more potent escalation of herdsmen insurgency and unrestrained
banditry.

“Nigeria has been turned into a gruesome killing field by
rampaging gun-wielding bandits of different genre. The economy is
in tatters and at the lowest ebb. Hunger, squalor, ignorance,
despondency, abject penury, corruption, hopelessness and
haplessness have been enthroned as fundamental objectives and
directive principles of state policy.

Never before since the forcible and unnegotiated amalgamation of
Southern and Northern Nigeria by Lord Luggard on 1st January 1914,
has Nigeria witnessed such nightmare of poor governance.

“The people have been reduced to the ‘living dead’ or ‘walking
corpses’ (courtesy, Ayo Kwei Armah, in his epic.’ The Beautiful
Ones are not yet born)”

“Rule of Law has been replaced with rule of might and of the
thumb. Fundamental rights of citizens are wantonly breached.
Disobedience to valid court orders has become a norm. Corruption is
on the ascendancy, rising geometrically where it used to be
antithetical. Only a tiny cabalistic few have unrestrained access
to the national treasury. Yet, when traumatised citizens complain,
they are dismissed with a wave of the hand as ‘wailing wailers.’
Budgets are padded, even disappear. There is hardly any form of
accountability and transparency in governance as the government is
run in a most opaque manner, like the nocturnal activities of
witches and wizards in a coven.”

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