The Archbishop of Enugu Ecclesiastical Province
(Anglican Communion), Most Revd Emmanuel
Chukwuma on Friday accused President
Muhammadu Buhari of being insensitive to
sufferings of the mases.
Chukwuma, who was delivering his address at the
sixteenth Synod of Enugu Diocese held at the
Church of Resurrection Power, New haven,
Enugu, equally declared that Buhari was running
a “corrupt administration.”
While condemning the President’s leadership
style, he said it was sad that Buhari, who brags
about anti corruption, had taken delight in
plunging the people he was elected to serve into
hardship and suffering through his policies and
programmes.
“It is corruption on your part if you increased
prices of almost every thing without palliatives to
the people.
“There is hunger in the land, the people are
complaining and crying and the one elected to
serve us is enjoying his life at Aso Rock. That
means he is corrupt. He did not increase salary,
he did not promote workers.
“The other day, he addressed workers at Aso
rock, he did not talk about their welfare but only
asked them to shun corruption. How can
somebody who is hungry shun corruption? I think
there is a limit to what people can take. I advise
him to be careful so as to avoid people taking
laws into their hands”, he stated.
He maintained that the federal government
should reduce interest in the fight against
corruption and introduce policies and
programmes that would impact on the well being
of the people.
Speaking on the increased militancy, terrorism
and civil unrests, Chukwuma warned that the
situation was bound to increase with the alleged
government’s silence to the plight of Nigerians.
He said, “Today, there is no electricity anywhere,
shops and businesses are closing by the day due
to high prices of goods and services. Petrol is not
affordable, like wise kerosene and cooking gas.
“It will appear that there is no leadership. All the
promises made by the APC upon which the
people voted them in have fallen apart. We
cannot continue like this. We need to give the
people some measure of hope and show them
that government is concerned by the situation of
things”.
Calling for restraint in the bombing of oil facilities
by the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), he stated that
time had come for justice to prevail in the entire
thing by paying adequate attention to the plight
of the people of the area.
He said: “Only a leadership that is totally
committed to justice and a properly structured
Nigeria can solve the identity, resource ownership
and other crisis of development in Nigeria.
“While the provision of the infrastructure and
sustainable development is important, there can
be no enduring peace in the area or any part of
Nigeria, for that matter, if injustice to the people
of the Niger Delta is not comprehensively
addressed. Specifically, a truthful commitment to
the principle and practice of federalism is what
can bring peace and prosperity to Nigeria.
“It is high time government took a total look at
the plight of the people, feel their pains and
redress the situation of the long suffering majority
who has not been the real beneficiaries of the
token tagged Amnesty programme.
“While the programme has made some militant
rich, it has not addressed the huge infrastructure
challenges and poverty in the area”.
Continuing, Chukwuma said that the renewed
militancy and terrorism had further crippled the
economy, stressing that immediate, medium and
long term solutions should be found to the
problems.