President of the Christian Association
of Nigeria (CAN), Samson Ayokunle, has accused the President Buhari-led
government of prosecuting a one-sided war against corruption in Nigeria.
Ayokunle in an interview with newsmen at the 12th convocation of
Bowen University,
Iwo in Osun State over the weekend, said the war against corruption appears to
be only against those who are not in APC.
Ayokunle added that recent actions by the presidency point to the
fact that President Buhari turns the blind eye when corrupt acts are carried
out by members of his own political party
or people that are close to him.
“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 handwriting 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” he said.
The Christian leader also accused the Buhari-led
government of not taking any action to stop the activities of herdsmen in some parts of the country. “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.” he said.
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