By Reno
Till date, the only person who has died in The
Gambia is President elect Barrow's son, Habibu Barrow, who was bitten by a dog.
But in Southern Kaduna , hundreds of people
have bitten the dust.
If in truth President Buhari really wants to
prevent a humanitarian crisis, the place he should be visiting and intervening
in is Southern Kaduna before The Gambia.
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And the penchant of the President to delegate
pressing domestic problems to his subordinates while personally addressing
foreign challenges of lower priority is on the increase.
I have chosen to empathize with the Buhari
administration over the deaths of Internally Displaced Persons and
international aid workers at the Rann IDP camp in Borno state by a bomb
mistakenly dropped on the camp by a Nigerian Air Force Jet, but for the life of
me I cannot understand why the President, who heavily criticized former
President Jonathan's handling of the Boko Haram crisis, elected to delegate his
Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, and some ministers to visit the victims and
survivors of the Rann disaster to offer condolences and supposed support.
And to the Borno state governor who cheekily said
there was progress because in his words there was no "blame game" as
would have happened in the previous administration of Jonathan, I would just say,
wake up and smell the coffee. I can see no excuse for this faux pas except the
Borno state Governor is sarcastically trying to call out the Buhari government
for its over indulgence in blaming previous administrations.
If it was possible, the Buhari administration would
have taken out a registered trade mark on the phrase 'blame game'. Never in the
history of Nigeria , and
perhaps contemporary Africa , has an
administration invested so much of its focus and time on blame gaming as the
Buhari government. So Governor Shettima would have to pull more fallacious
words out of his mischievous magical hat of illusions to be able to pin such a
false accusation on the Jonathan Government.
It may be necessary to remind Governor Shettima
that the Jonathan he so likes to blame visited Borno more than once as
President during the height of the Boko Haram insurgency. Has President Buhari
even bothered to drop by? That is how much the President thinks of him!
But in all this, we still must give God the glory
that the mistake by the air force did not occur while Oby Ezekwesili and Lai
Mohammed were combing Sambisa forest in search of the missing Chibok girls.
And let me speak directly to the President.
President Muhammadu Buhari, as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, don't
you think you owe it as a duty to be in Rann at this very moment to personally
comfort victims and survivors of the unfortunate mistaken bombing by our Armed
Forces?
