President
Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday morning, 17th September 2016, left the
Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport to attend the 71st session of
the United Nations General Assembly, UNGA.
While in New York,
the President would make Nigeria’s position known at the opening general debate
session. He would also read a speech titled: “The sustainable Development
Goals” a universal push to transform our world”. He would also deliver a
keynote address titled “Taking climate Action Towards sustainable Development
in Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin”.. The president is also expected to attend
other side events considered very important to Nigeria as well sign the Paris
Agreement on climate change at the U.N General Assembly.
However, an
Abuja-based right advocacy group, Opinion Nigeria has written the global body,
accusing President Muhammadu Buhari of inaction in the face of series of human
rights violation in the country. The group cited the 6th September
2016 Police blockade on campaigners of the #bring back our girls”. They wrote “if
nothing is done soon, the spate of human rights violation by President Buhari, will
soon turn into anarchy.
But the major
worry now is the lull noticeable in the Ministries, Departments and Agencies.
For example an anonymous ministry official has this to say on Buhari’s trip to
the U.N. “Buhari is attending important event
without those to do the leg work, to implement outcome of decisions there, “the
official disclosed. He queried: “Can Buhari write memos?” Can he alone form the
think tank”?
The official told
the Expose News that Desk officers, Chief Executives of relevant ministries,
departments and agencies have been left behind as a result of Buhari’s harsh
economic policies. “So how will his presence there impact on Nigeria without
these people? So bad is the situation now in MDA’s that officials are simply
doing ‘sidon and look”, because Buhari
has dried up virtually all their sources of funding
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