BUHARI’S UN TRIP: SOUR TASTE FOR MDA’S

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday morning, 17^th September 2016, left the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport to attend the 71^st 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 6^th 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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