President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Samson Ayokunle, has accused the President Buhari-led government of prosecuting a one-sided war against corruption in Nigeria.
Ayokunle in an interview with newsmen at the 12th convocation of Bowen University, Iwo in Osun State over the weekend, said the war against corruption appears to be only against those who are not in APC.
Ayokunle added that recent actions by the presidency point to the fact that President Buhari turns the blind eye when corrupt acts are carried out by members of his own political party or people that are close to him.
“We need to caution the President in particular that the fight against corruption may not be too far away from around him. Those hands that are not right around him, he should be courageous enough to deal with them. The signs that we are seeing, because we are not babies, the handwriting that we are seeing is that he has to, first of all, he should deal with the corrupt persons around him before he will be able to deal with those in distant places. He is doing a good job in that area but he must do more” he said
The Christian leader also accused the Buhari-led government of not taking any action to stop the activities of herdsmen in some parts of the country.
“On the issue of herdsmen killing all over the country, the President has never done anything tangible and convincing about them. The herdsmen have been ravaging and sacking communities with reckless abandon. It appears that they are above the law. This is quite unfortunate. This administration must address that. These herdsmen have stopped the drums in many homes. Many homes are in sorrow and agony because their breadwinners have been massacred without anybody arresting their killers. I just came from Ancha village in Plateau State, where we had to do a mass burial for 19 people killed by these herdsmen. Up till now, no government official has visited that place. No action has been taken against these marauding herdsmen. Why? If the President is focusing on Boko Haram in the North-East but has not done anything against the killer herdsmen, that is unfortunate, especially when we know that these Fulani herdsmen are from his ethnic clan. He needs to act fast on these herdsmen.” he said. (LIB)
“Hook, line, and…swallow (sinker).”
All of you fell for it…that the former army general and now the President is a changed man and that he’d be a better president fighting corruption than the previous presidents. Though some people who were into him, knew better and warned us not to trust him. But trust in him or trust in his rhetorics, we blindly and sheepishly did; and now, those people were right all along.
Buhari is not a changed man and could never fight corruption than any other person. He may articulate fighting corruption more than others, but fighting…?
What Buhari is, is simply an angry, deceitful, and tribalistic (ethnocentric) demagogue who knows that his anger towards the southerners (Igbos especially) and his penchant to revisit and perhaps, finish the civil war, would make him the president. He would use the presidential platform to give a couple of federal positions to his supporters, who would use the positions to enrich themselves. That is how Buhari’s war on corruption has shaped up. Buhari knows absolutely nothing about fighting corruption and does not care to know. The current debacle regarding Maina is a perfect example.
So, let’s not continue to waste our time thinking that Buhari would listen and therefore change. Let us rather keep praying to God that from 2019, we’d have only 4 more years of Buhari and he would be out of office for someone different.
Cash Ezimako