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By Madu Obi
The President of Voters Rights Association of Nigeria, VRAN, Dr. Jezie Ekejiuba had described President Bola Tinubu's speech on the ongoing protests against bad governance in the country as evasive.
In a statement in Onitsha, Ekejiuba argued that the speech merely rehashed the arm-chair anti-poor people's policies that never works.
Ekejiuba, who is a human rights lawyer, said the speech was provocative, adding that it only listed self-claimed achievements that exist on the news pages of newspapers and electronic media without addressing the problems of high cost of bad-governance, prohibitive fuel and electricity prices and devaluation of naira that have made the lives of about 99% of Nigerians unbearable.
The statement read: "Your government has as a state policy enthroned starvation and famine as a way to punish Nigerians. This is man's inhumanity to man! It is however not too late to reverse your anti-poor policies.
Former President Muhammadu Buhari laid the trap for the next government and even though you saw the trap in advance but you still fell for the trap.
Petroleum product is a mineral resource found in the ancestral lands of Nigeria and it remains an inheritance of all Nigerians, hence the age long petrol subsidy administered by succeeding governments of Nigeria from independence to military era before your emergence as President.
Your current national budget is in trillions of naira. Are you saying that the children or youths of Nigeria that is a trillionaire will be hungry and starved to death when the fatherland is so rich? This is unbelievable.
As President everything is free for you at government expenses, including petrol or fuel for your travels, free food,free housing, free cars,free medicare and because of this free everything in your life, you fail to feel the sufferings of the youths and poor masses.
What will it profit you and your government if you gain the whole world and chastise the poor masses with scorpions?
Do not feign ignorant of how to address the teething problems raised by the protesting youths of Nigeria in the interest of peace and harmony in our dear nation."
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