The Buhari Support Organisation
(BSO), Enugu State chapter, Thursday, faulted the anti-Buhari protests led by
Charly Boy and other celebrities under the aegis of ‘OurMumuDonDo.’
Speaking with journalists in
Enugu, the Chairman of Buhari Support Organization (BSO) in Enugu State, Chief
Anike Nwoga, described the protests as needless.
He said, “We are of the candid
view that whereas our brother CharlieBoy and his group have the inalienable
rights to assemble and protest as provided by the 1999 Constitution of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria, however they should redirect their energy in
appealing to the National Assembly that sat for over one year on $29.9 billion
procured by President Muhammadu Buhari for the development of our deficit
critical infrastructure.
“BSO Enugu State Chapter believe
sincerely that the hunger, gross unemployment and abject poverty ravaging our
dear country, will be half addressed if the loans are approved by the National
Assembly,” he said.
Nwoga, who is also the Vice
Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu East senatorial district,
explained that the President fulfilled all the constitutional requirements
before embarking on his medical trip to the United Kingdom.
According to the Enugu BSO
chairman, there is no vacuum in leadership and the Acting President, Yemi
Osinbajo has discharged his duties creditably and diligently.
“There is no need to protest,
since Buhari fulfilled all the constitutional requirements before he left. He
wrote the National Assembly and intimated them of his medical vacation. By so
doing, he transferred power to his Vice as Acting President. So, there is no
vacuum in leadership. The acting President is doing very well.
“I can also confidently say that Buhari has
commenced his plan to fulfill the promises to Ndigbo and Nigerians in general.
Work has progressed in our expressways such as Enugu-Onitsha and Enugu-Port
Harcourt expressways while 14 billion naira has been released for Second Niger
Bridge and N7billion is 2017 for the bridge.
“The problem in Nigeria is the
economic recession, which is responsible for hunger in the country and lack of
jobs. To address these problems, Buhari before he left for medical vacation,
proposed a 30 billion dollars loan, which is before the National Assembly to
fund critical infrastructure that will get us out of recession.
“In this docket now gathering
dust before the National Assembly is 500 million dollars for East-West road,
linking the entire South-South, 50 million dollars for Enugu-Nsukka and other
states water scheme, Abakiliki and Aba township roads, $11 million dollars for
coastal railway line, 4.8 billion dollars for Mambilla hydro-power plant which
will generate about 3000 megawatts of electricity and over 5 billion dollars
for agriculture. The revamping of Enugu Coal project will take early next year.
“The loan will be accessed
through multiple sources, including Eurobond, Africa Development Bank, JICA of
Japan, Chinaexim Bank, World Bank, Islamic Development bank (AFDB)”, Nwoga
said.
The APC chieftain, therefore,
urged Charlie boy and his group to stop dissipating energy on the needless
protest against a recuperating President Buhari, but rather redirect their
attention to the National Assembly and tell them to give attention to the 30
billion dollar loan.
He said if the National Assembly
could in one day give attention to 33 items in the constitution amendment, they
should the same way give attention to the 30 billion dollar loan, to bring us
out of recession and put food on people’s tables and create jobs.
He warned that sickness was not
anybody’s monopoly as it could happen to anyone and should therefore not be a
subject for protest or activism in any form.
Nwoga enjoined Charlie boy and
his group to join other well meaning Nigerians in praying for our President’s
speedy recovery.
He, however, pointed out that
Charlyboy and the other protesters were entitled to their fundamental human
right of lawful assembly and that the police had no business to throw teargas
at them.
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This does not sound like Igbo.
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