The Pastor of Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare, has
asked the Federal Government not to kill Nigerians.
Speaking on The Platform, a special programme to commemorate
Nigeria’s Independence Day anniversary, the cleric asked the
government to murder corruption instead.
“Don’t kill Nigerians, kill corruption because we knew that the
subsidy being paid is going into private pockets,” he said.
Bakare recalled that when he joined the likes of Nobel laureate,
Professor Wole Soyinka, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana
among others to protest during Jonathan’s government in 2012, the
protest was not against subsidy.
“I campaigned against the oppression of the poor,” Bakare said,
adding that the subsidy by the Federal Government was not used to
advance the cause of the poor.
Reacting to calls for Nigeria to disintegrate, the cleric argued
that the country should be united.
Meanwhile, the former Chairman of the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega has asked
President Muhammadu Buhari’s 60th Independence speech to go beyond
talk to implementation.
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Jega, who spoke during Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily wants
the Federal Government to implement policies that will make
Nigerians have pride in their country.
“What is clear is that the speech carries quite a lot of the
right things to be said on a day like this. But for me, the
critical thing is not what is said but how it is followed up,”
Professor Jega noted.
“I think it is important to reflect on the issue of what
government needs to do to ensure that when you call upon Nigerians
to take pride in Nigeria, there are certain things that encourage
and help them to be able to do that,” he said.
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