President Buhari Should Get To Work Now – Prince Michael Abuo

A renowned social crusader for youths and the special adviser to the Cross-river state government on youths and students matters, Prince Michael Nku Abuo has called on President Buhari to get to work quickly as the state of the nation is in need of prompt and adequate attention.

He made this call in an open letter he wrote to the president where he charged President Buhari to begin real work as the current state of the economy requires a lot of work in order for meaningful gain to be achieved by his administration.

In his letter, Prince Micheal Abuo spoke on different issues ranging from the hardship faced by the masses, to Biafra protests amongst others.

Read Excerpts below:

Chronicles the hardship faced since buhari became the president

Our economy too is facing serious challenges as evident in the downward movement of our naira against the upward movement of dollar. Several factors have played out to put our country and economy in very challenging circumstances. For example, the state of our infrastructure, our “single” based export and multiple import economy, underutilized human capacity, corruption as seen across our nation…..and so on.

Aside the above, all of a sudden power output has dropped, we are queuing to buy petroleum products at an average of about 25 times the approved price. The prices of products in the market have increased as a result of increase in transportation and the dollar price. Even government agencies involved in service provision like hospitals have increased the price of their services.

This has caused untold hardship to many. In the midst of all this all we hear is there’s no money and salaries across boards remain constant. How can the masses survive under this dire circumstance?

Biafra protests

Irrespective of the fact that I voted for Goodluck Jonathan in the just concluded presidential elections doesn’t mean that I should watch you fail or our country sink further in comatose.

The question of Biafra: Excellency sire, it may be embarrassing and more so annoying for you to face agitations for the realization of a sovereign state of Biafra after the lives and property lost during the civil war and the mass protests it has spurred in certain parts of the country. But we cannot wish certain problems away neither can we force them away.

We must be truthful to ourselves as a nation and truth comes from deep soul searching and answering questions that arise without biases. Did we really bury the Biafra biases with the end of the war? Now the question of Biafra biases include the settlement and treatment given to the south eastern and south southern part of Nigeria after the war. Is there really government face across the states in these zones? Are the scars of the war truly dead and buried or it’s a smile out but hate inside predicament?

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Will the Nigerian state be willing to call for a referendum if need be to foreclose the possible re-emergence of these agitations? The current deaths caused by security operatives during peaceful protests from Biafra agitators is it worth it and can it not be avoided?

If Nnamdi Kanu broke the law, should law be broken to prove that he broke the law? (The question of innocence until proven guilty must be taken into consideration). My take Excellency sire on this Biafra matter is that a detribalized commission be set up to look into the remote cause of these agitations and its recommendations be fully implemented.

Secondly, the trial of Mr Nnamdi Kanu should be made open and done within the law to avoid a perception of bias. Thirdly, security operatives should be properly guided in ensuring that peaceful protests are not turned into blood baths by their actions. Let us not forget how Boko Haram metamorphosed into what it is today. Pictures and video of peaceful protesters gunned down across the country paints your administration in bad light.

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Pro-masses projects and initiatives should be continued

Excellency, if I say that all was well with and in the last administration then I will be a barefaced liar and hypocrite. Just like we had the bad, we also had the good. It is a well-known and proven fact that government is a continuum. We will like to see you continue with policies and programs of the past administration that was pro-masses such as the YOUWIN project, the SUREP program, the full implementation of the report of the National conference as well as ensuring the passage of the petroleum bill into law.

New areas we will love to see reform in are in the areas of social welfare/developmental initiatives for the physically and financially challenged as well as our teeming unemployed youths. If the United State government can provide social services to the vulnerable of their society despite their capitalist nature we can. Only one recovered loot is enough to handle this.

Look beyond your nose

Deepening regional ties by maximizing trade and business opportunities within the African Union (AU) and ECOWAS. For example in a recent survey by Green Peace, China is illegally exploiting our water resources and as a big brother in the region we can sway these exploited opportunities to our favour and provide more than enough animal (Sea products) for the region.

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Anti-corruption war

It is not ministries, agencies or parastatals that steal monies, it is people that do and their pattern is known. What we need is not just an effective mechanism of recovering stolen funds of which these recoveries should not be restricted to political rivals or opponents but mechanisms should be evolved to prevent stealing and diversion of funds by ensuring that the ICPC,EFCC, Servicom are equipped with individuals with impeccable characters.

When and how will ‘change’ be felt?

Dear president, your quest for true change will be felt not from your promises or the usual heavy budgetary pronouncement or the reduction of ministries or agencies but that change will be seen by how many youths get jobs to build the Nigerian dream, when our mortality age changes to 80/90, when our hospitals are fully equipped with personnel and needed tools, when power improves, when we refine our petroleum  products and these products are ready and sold at pocket friendly rates, when our schools get the needed boost both infrastructure and quality educational output from qualified teachers, when pay is equivalent to prevailing market happenings, when death rates from poor road network is addressed and families can at least provide  meals and basic requirement to live securely in any part of our federation and so on only then will we be experiencing that true change..

To prove the possibility of this assertion a critical compilation of stolen funds since the founding of this nation and the figure it will give you will provide a clear guide to the practical scope of my postulation.

Meanwhile, some Nigerians have also called on the president to start work as soon as possible. Recently a political scientist and social commentator, Adekoya Boladale in an article also admonished the president to focus on his attention on the country instead of jetting out every now and then.

Adekoya Boladale in his piece titled ‘Buhari’s Junketeering Blues And The Returned Loots’ said:

‘President Buhari has tons of unfulfilled campaign promises and it is only wise that he sits down to address the fundamental and local issues on whose back he rode to power. Rather than trying to woo investors and partners, I believe the government should concentrate more on providing antidotes to our local problems.’

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