Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, has given reasons for
initiating #HarassBuhariOutOfLondon protest.
Some Nigerians staged a protest
on Friday at the Nigeria House in London against the President, Major General
Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), medical trip.
The President is currently in London where he is expected to
spend two weekks to enable him to undergo a medical check-up.
The former presidential wondered why Buhari failed to build
a standard hospital in Nigeria.
Among other reasons, according to Omokri, that led to the
protest were the shooting of #EndSARS protesters by soldiers and Nigeria’s
unemployment rate.
He said other Nigerians in London joined the protest because
they were also uncomfortable with the situation of things in their country.
Omokri said, “I flew into London on April 2, 2021 to lead
the #HarassBuhariOutOfLondon protest, and I went there straight from the
airport.
“I did not eat, sleep, shower or rest. The President’s
people called the City of London Police on me, and I was questioned. At the end
of the questioning, which was streamed live to my followers, they announced
with their mouths that I had committed no crime and that my protest was
peaceful, orderly and within my rights.
“In fact, after General Buhari’s people called the police on
me that afternoon, I calmly asked the officer questioning me this question:
‘’Officer, has Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, ever come to
Nigeria to access healthcare? So, why should you be called on me when I am
asking my President to return to Nigeria to use our hospitals?
“The police officer was touched. He told me I was within my
rights and flashed the thumbs up sign, and allowed the #HarassBuhariOutOfLondon
to continue. Buhari’s people failed big time!
“So, why did I decide
to initiate this protest at great personal expense and risk? It is because I
believe that General Buhari is not running a government. He is running a
criminal enterprise.
“This man has been in office for five years. In that time,
has budgeted over N10 billion for the Aso Rock State House Clinic. This is the
equivalent of $27 million. Is that not enough money to build a hospital and
train doctors to treat him and other Nigerians? Yet, his wife, Aisha Buhari,
admitted that that clinic cannot even provide ordinary paracetamol. Google it.
“However, that was not my main reason for initiating the
protest. I did it really as a way of seeking closure for the victims of the
EndSARS protests, because General Buhari’s spin doctors are going around town
misrepresenting the US State Department’s human rights report as a vindication
that the Lekki Massacre did not happen.
“That is not what the report states. Please read it
yourself. The report states that the US was unable to independently verify what
happened because the Nigerian authorities prevented anyone from obtaining the
facts of the matter.
“The report also said that while Amnesty International
revealed that ten people died, the Federal Government said no one died, with
the Lagos State Government saying only two people died and that that controversy
makes it impossible to establish what really happened.
“Finally, the report said that at least one corpse was found
riddled with bullets and that they could confirm. They also said that another
corpse was found with “blunt force trauma”. Nowhere in that report did the US
State Department say that the massacre did not happen.
“How did Buhari reward us? He sent soldiers to Lekki to kill
peaceful, unarmed #EndSARS protesters. These are the children of the men and
women who prayed for his son.
“Now, after killing peaceful, unarmed EndSARS protesters
asking for good governance, he is in London to secure his life and enjoy the
benefits of good British governance. My conscience could not stomach it. I had
to play my part in the effort to send the coward back home to fix the mess he
created.
“Only five per cent of Nigerians are covered by a doctor.
This man forced himself on Nigeria. He promised he would do better than his
predecessors, but he has turned Nigeria into the world headquarters for extreme
poverty. He has bequeathed us the highest unemployment in the world at 33 per
cent.
“We have the highest number of out of school children at
13.5 million. And having destroyed our economy, he has run to a London that is
on COVID19 lockdown to restore his health.”
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