The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) says the administration of
President Muhammadu Buhari is the best since Nigeria got independence in 1960.
In a statement on Tuesday, Ishaq Akintola, MURIC’s director,
said corruption has been a major problem and it is only Buhari’s government
that has tackled it decisively.
Akintola said Buhari has been fighting corruption since 1983
when he had a stint as a military head of state.
“We adjudge the Buhari administration as the best in
post-independence Nigeria. Everyone agrees that corruption is the bane of
Nigeria’s development. All other factors are peripheral but corruption is
tangential. This implies that Nigeria will overcome all its challenges once
corruption has been reduced to its barest minimum,” the statement read.
“This explains why President Muhammadu Buhari has been
consistently consistent in tackling graft since his days as military head of
state (1983-85) till today. Apart from the War Against Indiscipline (WAI), the
period heralded transparency, probity and accountability in the public sphere.
“Unfortunately corrupt elements in society have also been
fighting tooth and nail to frustrate his efforts. These include, but are not
limited to, rapaciously greedy civil servants, a superfluously voracious
business class and avariciously glutinous politicians.
“They were behind the 1985 coup which ousted the no-nonsense
Buhari-Idiagbon regime. That coup was an anti-people action sponsored by
established kleptomaniacs and executed by greedy, corrupt and overambitious
elements in the military. That singular action also returned Nigeria to the
path of unbridled waste, reckless graft and undiluted consumerism.
“Unfortunately the second coming of President Buhari in 2015
as a civilian president was almost castrated as the National Assembly was
hijacked from the very beginning courtesy of ‘sarakitisation’ and
‘dogaratisation’ of parliamentary process. The president himself nearly lost
his life.”
The group said notwithstanding the setback, Nigeria is
currently witnessing the most massive infrastructural development ever
experienced since independence.
Roads, modern rail system which, according to the group have
been abandoned, are now getting attention.
The group also hailed the president for implementing the
treasury single account (TSA) which has “helped to block financial leakages”.
Adjudging Buhari’s government as being transparent, the
group said the government helped clear accumulated arrears of workers salaries
and pensions running into billions of naira, and also ensured that Biafran
veterans were paid off.
The group added that although Boko Haram insurgents scored
direct hits with heavy casualties in Kano and Abuja before 2015, it has been
most effectively confined to the north-east since that period.
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