A former Minister of Education and human rights activist,
Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, has condemned President Muhammadu Buhari for what she
referred to as a “callous joke about insecurity.”
Ezekwesili was reacting to a video in which the President
had equated the dwindling weight of the Acting Inspector General of Police,
Muhammad Adamu, to his working hard at securing the nation.
After he arrived in the country from his 10-day private visit
on Sunday, a reporter had asked the President: “Are we likely to see a
different approach in the fight against insecurity, especially kidnapping,
which is a big issue now, Sir?”
And the President had responded: “You know, I have just seen
the IG, he is… I think he is losing weight; so, I think he is working very
hard.”
Ezekwesili took exception to the President’s response,
noting that it was a “callous joke about insecurity after ten days of Buhari leaving
his country for some opaque private visit.”
In a series of tweets on Monday, Ezekwesili said, “Citizens
of every country have the power to determine how their political class can
treat them;” noting that, “Until we are collectively ready to end the joke that
our political class have turned Nigeria into, they’ll continue.”
She said she had frankly decided to never again waste her
voice on a political class that has no redeeming prospect of caring about their
citizens, “But I could not hold back at this callous joke about insecurity
after ten days of Muhammadu Buhari leaving his country for some opaque private
visit.”
“And this is supposed to be funny? A President Buhari making
a joke of the daily drenching of the country in the blood of his citizens who
are killed daily without any consequence while he bears the title
Commander-in-Chief?”
She then warned, “Carry on. Someday the citizens will be
ready.”
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