- Dr Samson Ayokunle, President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s war against corruption as ineffective and one-sided
- The cleric stated that there were signs to prove his point, and called on the president to deal with corrupt individuals around him
- Ayokunle further lamented over the fact that till date, President Buhari had not taken any decisive action to deal with the issue of killer herdsmen
President Muhammadu Buhari’s war against corruption has been described as ineffective and one-sided, by Dr Samson Ayokunle, President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Punch reports.
Ayokunle made his comments in an interview with journalists on Saturday, November 4, at the 12th convocation of Bowen University.
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NAIJ.com gathers that the cleric urged President Buhari to be courageous enough to fight corrupt individuals around him.
He stated: “We need to caution the president in particular that the fight against corruption may not be too far away from around him.
“Those hands that are not right around him, he should be courageous enough to deal with them.
“The signs that we are seeing, because we are not babies, the hand writing that we are seeing is that he has to, first of all, he should deal with the corrupt persons around him before he will be able to deal with those in distant places.
“He is doing a good job in that area but he must do more.”
Ayokunle also touched upon the issue of killer herdsmen, and lamented over the fact that the president had not taken any decisive action so far, to deal with the issue.
In his words: “On the issue of herdsmen killing all over the country, the president has never done anything tangible and convincing about them.
“The herdsmen have been ravaging and sacking communities with reckless abandon. It appears that they are above the law. This is quite unfortunate. This administration must address that.
“These herdsmen have stopped the drums in many homes. Many homes are in sorrow and agony because their breadwinners have been massacred without anybody arresting their killers.
“I just came from Ancha village in Plateau state, where we had to do a mass burial for 19 people killed by these herdsmen.
“Up till now, no government official has visited that place. No action has been taken against these marauding herdsmen. Why?
“If the President is focusing on Boko Haram in the North-east but has not done anything against the killer herdsmen, that is unfortunate, especially when we know that these Fulani herdsmen are from his ethnic clan.
“He needs to act fast on these herdsmen.”
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In a related development, NAIJ.com previously reported that Jonathan Silas Zwingina, a former Senate leader, stated that President Muhammadu Buhari was all by himself in the war against corruption.
Zwingina stated that the president is surrounded by many doubtful assistants whom he cannot sack; and further claimed that there were corrupt individuals, even within the anti-corruption agencies.
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Source: Naija.ng