Human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), says the
President, Muhammadu Buhari is missing in action amid the worsening security
situation in Nigeria.
Ozekhome lamented the multiple attacks on lives and
properties in the country this week which claimed at least 15 cops, five
soldiers, and 20 civilians. This was apart from the killing of five abducted
students of Greenfield University in Kaduna, amongst other callousness freely
exhibited by terrorists, bandits and men of dead conscience.
In a note sent on Wednesday, the senior advocate said Buhari
has been missing in action while Boko Haram and other criminals overrun the
Nigerian state to the extent of mounting their flags in parts of the country.
The lawyer said Nigeria was no longer working, adding that
fault lines were widening day after day.
He wrote, “Nigeria is not working. The fault lines are
widening and deepening on a daily basis. There is anger, anguish, blood,
sorrow, pains and pangs. Even those who initially ethnicised, parochialised,
nepotised and tribalised Nigerians’ cry for redemption have now backslided.
Because the chicken has finally come home to roost, the rich also now cry.
“There is a President
missing in action. His capacity has been tested. Buhari has woefully failed
Nigerians. Boko Haram has taken over large swaths of lands in Niger, Kaduna,
Borno, and other northern states, planting their flags of sovereignty on the
soil of a supposedly independent nation.
“Nigeria now possesses all the ingredient of a failed state.
There is no leadership, no governance, no one in charge. We are fast drifting
to the precipice. Inexorable.”
Many Nigerians including senators and governors have in the
last 48 hours urged the President, a former military head of state, to seek
foreign help to put a stop to the ceaseless bloodshed and kidnappings
nationwide.
Buhari finally caved in to pressure on Tuesday when he asked
the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, for the support of the Joe Biden
administration to tackle the security menace in Nigeria.
Buhari, who warned of a likely spill over of insecurity to
neighbouring West African states, also called on the US to consider relocating
US Africa Command from Stuttgart, Germany, to Africa, nearer the Theatre of
Operation.
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