About forty-four civil society organizations have slammed the Muhammadu Buhari-led Nigerian government over growing insecurity in the country.
The groups’ criticism of the President comes a few days after bandits stormed the Government Science College (GSC) in Kagara, Niger State, abducting many students and staff members.
Muhammadu Buhari
While one student who tried to escape was gunned down, a staff member escaped from their captivity.
In a joint statement on Saturday, the groups said the President had failed as far as tackling insecurity in Nigeria is concerned.
They said, “Where the President fails to fulfil his constitutional duties, we demand the President to step aside or the National Assembly initiates impeachment proceedings against him on the grounds of gross misconduct as provided for in Section 143 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
About 44 Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to step down over the growing insecurity in the country. The groups |
Buhari Has Failed, He Should Step Down If He Can t Secure Nigerians CSOs
The groups criticism of the President comes a few days after bandits stormed the Government Science College (GSC) in Kagara, Niger State, abducting many students and staff members.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Feb 21, 2021
About forty-four civil society organizations have slammed the Muhammadu Buhari-led Nigerian government over growing insecurity in the country.
The groups criticism of the President comes a few days after bandits stormed the Government Science College (GSC) in Kagara, Niger State, abducting many students and staff members.
Muhammadu Buhari
While one student who tried to escape was gunned down, a staff member escaped from their captivity.
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Introduction
Nigeria is in dire straits. All over the country, Nigerian citizens, including children, are killed daily by terrorists and criminals as well as in extra-judicial killings by state actors with the government doing little or nothing about it. The government, through the Minister of Defence, has instead callously abdicated its responsibility and called Nigerian citizens ‘cowards’ and urged Nigerians to ‘defend themselves’.
Kidnapping for ransom has assumed an industrial and deadly scale never witnessed on the African continent. Our children are no longer safe in schools and Nigerian citizens and communities are now pauperised by terrorists who extort huge ransoms while murdering their hostages. We condemn, in the strongest possible terms, what has now become the government’s standard state policy of using taxpayers’ money to pay terrorists thereby funding and encouraging terrorism and criminality.