You have not lived up to expectations of Nigerians – CEDRA tells President Buhari

 

      

The Centrum Initiative for Development and Fundamental Rights Advocacy (CEDRA) has noted that President Muhammadu Buhari has not live up to the expectations of Nigerians in his one year old leadership of the country.Addressing newsmen in Kaduna on Friday, the Chairman, CEDRA board, Dr John Danfulani said, “His constant blame game of past regimes is exposing his limited understanding on how to run a Nigeria of 2015/16. The political setting and consciousness seems to be too complex for his understanding.
“We counsel that his cabinet members and aide should create a way of simplifying competing options for him to ease his job. His human rights record is not too good and it’s a sad thing to notice.”

Danfulani noted that the President Buhari-led administration has done much in the area of combating Boko Haram but regretted that new forms of insecurity are on the rise, namely the herdsmen and Niger Delta Avengers, thereby posing serious threats to the physical and economic security of the country.
“President Muhammadu Buhari came out and condemned the activities of the herdsmen but it was too little too late unlike how strongly and swiftly he reacted to the avengers. We insist that the treatment intended for avengers be meted for the rampaging Fulanis that are killing the people all over the country as well,” he explained.
On the Kaduna governor, Nasir El-Rufai’s one year in office, the CEDRA chief opined that the Governor has taken far reaching decisions and made statements like; banning streets hawking and begging, scripting a religious bill, staging a musical jamboree, embarked on school feeding programme.

He added that Governor El-Rufai made claim that one local government area in Kaduna State has more gold than South Africa, demolished structures in public schools’ land, arrested and jailed activists and penman, and told opponents to go climb Kufena Mountain and die.

“Most of the programmes are not in touch with the reality on ground. The school feeding programme that billions were sank became a laughing stock. His attempt to build more classrooms for primary schools in the state ended producing more toilets than learning rooms in many schools.
“His religious censorship bill before the state house of assembly created more questions than answers. His claims of running a slimmer and effective government is a huge mantra. For a complete one year, there is no single peoples oriented project in Kaduna State.
“His one year reign in Kaduna state was a complete disaster and full of unnecessary controversies. He needs to expand his understanding of the situation on ground and realities of happenings around him. Citizens of Kaduna state must get up and begin to challenge his style of leadership head-on and his know all attitude which is doing more harm than good.
“Opposition parties and advocates of good governance and liberty must not lower their guard. PMB and El-rufa’i are leaders not willing to lead by the constitution but by their whims and caprices. Gains of our sixteen years democracy are shrinking. Nigerians and the people of Kaduna state must keep them in check,” he observed.