By Paul Onomuakpokpo
Although there is a
myriad of indicators of the failure of the President Muhammadu Buhari
administration, there is one that sticks out like a sore thumb. It is the
inability of the government to effectively grapple with the challenge of making
right choices in a manner that negates the social imagination that it is
incapable of listening and ever doing what is appropriate. This incapacity has
found expression in a brazen defiance of good proposals from the citizens to
set governance on an even keel.
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| *President Buhari with the Service Chiefs |
Or how do we explain the fact that despite the
warnings from prominent citizens, the Federal Government has made good its
threat to crush agitators in the south-east? But the government must not
fantasize about its triumph over an already oppressed people. It should rather
stop its troops in their tracks since the outcome of their misguided expedition
in that part of the country would not only conflict with genuine efforts to
bring peace to the region, it would aggravate the mutual distrust among people
of different parts of the country.
