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Buhari’s Govt Is The Worst Since Independence — Intersociety

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8 years ago

May 30, 2017

It is very important to point out that the assessment of any tenured civilian government is properly done or started at its beginning or foundational stage; which is also why every democratic government is mandatorily made to pass a fundamental test of input (foundation) and output (outcome) legitimacy.

It is saddening and disastrous that the present central Government of Muhammadu Buhari cannot be correctly measured or rated in any way as it concerns international best practices in matters of public governance and its fundamentals.

As a matter of fact, its failure is a triple digit one. For instance, the Buhari Administration brought gangsterism and mafiocracy into public central governance in Nigeria and have them gravely institutionalized.

It parades the largest number of doyens of corruption, yet it claims to be “fighting corruption”.

Corruption under the Buhari Administration has also given birth to a twin in the persons of legitimized or codified and open source corruption.

It budgets and squanders N500M in each of the last two budget seasons on “Aso Rock Computers” and we have kept wondering what type and quantity of computers that are installed in Aso Rock every year that gulps N500M and made annually replaceable.

This is also owing to the fact that e-governance or e-public service; just like e-security and e-intelligence is the cheapest form of conducting governance or secularization affairs in the world.

The N1billion (N500M for each of the two years) “spent on Aso Rock computers” in two years can comfortably build 20 modern public secondary schools for the educationally denied Almajiris (Almajirai) of the north at N50M each.

The Buhari Administration is also the most indebted Federal Government in Nigeria and has borrowed and misapplied more than other any past federal government in Nigeria.

To its disastrous credit, it has borrowed over $20 billion since its inception in mid-2015 and another $20 billion is already penciled down for borrowing between now and end of the forthcoming 2018 fiscal or budget period.

The huge loans have no miniature or minutest positive impact on the generality of Nigerians in terms of power energy, economy, health, education, industrialization, direct foreign investments, income per capita, security, safety and welfare and provision and delivery of social services and other tangible and intangible democracy dividends including key infrastructures to Nigerians.

The human rights records of the Buhari Administration are nothing to write home about and worst in the history of non-civil war Nigeria since 1960.

This is in spite of the Government’s assemblage of most of the country’s leading human rights activists who have now become defenders of human rights abuses and abusers.

More innocent and unarmed Nigerians totaling over 11,200 have been killed extra judicially or murdered or tortured under the past two years of Buhari Administration. This is far more than those killed under any other government in Nigeria since 1960 and even 1999.

The Buhari Administration has also grossly bastardized Nigeria’s democratic civil space and militarized same in the form of diarchy style of government.

The Administration is the most misleading and lying government in the history of Nigeria. Its foreign direct investments profile and performance is at ground zero with allied industrialization policy, economic growth and development negatively immeasurable.

The joblessness and unemployment level under the Administration has soared irremediably.

The rates of brain drain, human and material capital flights, rural-urban drift or migration and urban refugees have reached an alarming stage and the number of Nigerians moving illegally and legally to overseas is roundly alarming and deafening.

The health, education, shelter and recreation and other social development sectors and policies under the Buhari Administration are in tatters; likewise security sector and policies which are confusing, misdirected, misleading, awkward and militantly frightening.

Counter Boko Haram insurgency operations have become a conduit pipe through which billions of dollars worth of secured loans are diverted and pocketed with their allied lies and falsehoods capable of competing triumphantly in the Olympic Games of falsehood and propaganda.

Leading government corruption practitioners and other regime criminal citizens in the Administration are protected and given corruption and criminal sanction waivers.

As matter of fact, the beginning of wisdom for any doyen of corruption in present Nigeria is his or her express identification with the Buhari Administration in the form of “defection to APC”.

Conclusively speaking, it will take a calendar of months to talk and discuss inexhaustibly about the Buhari’s Government basket-loads of failure in governance.

Which is why we said before that the best way to describe the present central government in the country is that it is “first of the firsts in failed public governance records or measurements in Nigeria since 1960”.

For: International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety)

Emeka Umeagbalasi (Criminologist & Graduate of Security Studies), Board Chairman

Mobile Line: +2348174090052; Email: info@intersociety-ng.org; Website: www.intersociety-ng.org

Obianuju Joy Igboeli, Esq., LLB, BL

Head, Civil Liberties & Rule of Law Program

Mobile Line: + 2348180771506

Chinwe Umeche, Esq., LLB, BL

Head, Democracy & Good Governance Program

Mobile Line: +2347013238673

Ndidiamaka C. Bernard, Esq., LLB, BL

Head, Int’l Justice & Human Rights Program

Mobile Line: +2348067557308

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