Every Nigerian must wail intelligently if need be. Before the 2015 general election I was one of the many passionate Buharists. The chant of 'Sai Baba' excited me like someone who had just won a lottery. I preached the gospel of the soon to be born Nigeria's Messiah, Buhari. As a southerner, my Buhari styled cap gives me away as someone who identifies with the soon to be witnessed change. All I wanted was the best for my country. I can remember how elated I was when he was declared winner. However, my joy quickly turned sour when he started repeating the mistakes of past leaders. I was left with the consolation, 'at least he is better than Jonathan'. A belief which is debatable in some quarters.

The news of Buhari's medical trip in the guise of vacation to London only justifies Mr President's hypocrisy. After the budgetary allocation of 3.87 billion naira for the upgrade of the State House Clinic, yet an ear infection cannot be treated there. It is pertinent to note that the budgetary allocation for capital projects for the upgrade of the Aso Rock Clinic is more than that of the 16 Federal Government owned teaching hospitals combined. These teaching hospitals not only treat millions of Nigerians but also train medical doctors and specialist doctors, yet these hospitals combined got far less than just a clinic. Just one. In a swift defence of the President, Garba Shehu, the senior special assistant to the President on Media and Publicity said through his tweeter account @GarShehu "...plan to improve medical facilities at home as a way of discouraging overseas trip in search of treatment by citizens which eat away our foreign exchange". Despite this knowledge, Mr President must waste our constantly depleting forex and tax payers money to treat just an ear infection in the United Kingdom.

We should not overlook this. We must ask questions. Is this just an excuse to junket? Or could the bogus clinic budget be an excuse to embezzle funds? Could it be that the President does not have faith in Nigeria's doctors and healthcare? Or another Yar'adua's stunt in the making? Or could it just be for further evaluation according to the Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina. Maybe this is the truth after all, but the common sense would have been to invite the 'London' doctor down to Nigeria since there is a 3.87 billion naira recently upgraded clinic in Aso Rock. Maybe it could have been that the President's doctors who know his medical history are in London hence the mandatory travel? I had it been he didn't win the last election, where would he have gotten the money to fund such trip knowing fully well he had to take a loan to purchase his party's nomination form.

One thing Mr President must note is that he is setting a bad precedence. Why then stop Oliseh Metuh from travelling abroad to seek medical care after his 'staged' fall? If the President can travel to London to treat an ear infection today, a Minister will seek medical tourism with public funds in the near future to treat a running nose. These things are not right and our perception of it as norm has to stop. Imagine Obama leaving the US to treat an ear infection in the UK?

Hypocrisy is when a 3.87 billion naira upgraded clinic cannot treat an ear infection. Above all I wish the president a quick recovery, beautiful 'vacation' and a safe return.

http://kuducancer.com/2016/06/06/buharis-medical-trip-an-evidence-of-hypocrisy/

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Apt, very apt.

luvinhubby:
Apt, very apt.

Somebody must say the truth. It's better to be a wailing Zombie than a pure Zombie

he is runing from the militant's missile tests due to take place .

Well said.
Where is lalasticlala when you need him most. All Nigerians must see their President's hypocritical stance. Oya lalasticlala do the needful.

This is indeed a sad development. This nation is truly caused with bad leadership.

Budget is allocation, has the money been spent? A president can seek treatment elsewhere if need be. Canadian PM once had surgery in the USA.

Remii:
Budget is allocation, has the money been spent? A president can seek treatment elsewhere if need be. Canadian PM once had surgery in the USA.

Hello! Every successive government have had to spend so much on this same clinic then one wonders where the money must have gone to. Is it Nigerians fault that he is yet to implement the budget still in June? You said the Canadian PM went to do a surgery which I want to believe will be a major surgery. My own President went there to treat common ear infection. This is in fact an insult to all Nigerian doctors. I expect more from him.
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Buhari ought to be ashamed of himself. He makes rules to save forex, yet he is probably the biggest spender of forex in government.

I have never criticised this man, but nigeria's situation is getting worse and all he seems to be achieving is making GEJ look good.

What credible reason has he given for not releasing the names of looters? This is a man that promised to either shoot or jail looters and he is now telling us that he is trying to recover loot.

What amount of dollars has he even recovered? A mere 180 million dollars. How does this money help Nigeria out of its current predicament?

FG claims 3 trillion naira worth has been recovered, most of which constitutes as buildings. What do we need these buildings for now. Is the fg simply seizing these buildings to punish looters? Why not shoot them or jail them for 50+ year terms to serve as a deterant to others.

We voted in change but seem to be getting more of the same, but mixed up with excuses. If buhari cannot fight corruption, who can?

Sincerely.. The OP is right.. This act of the FG actually speaks of the highest form of hypocrisy....
I am really disappointed in this move..

before the election buhari made several promise and one of them is to banned government officials from using government fund to travel abroad for treatment. and promised to fixed all the hospital, many times different governor's claimed to have build a world class hospital and yet we keep seeing them traveled abroad for treatment.

below is the Buhari Promise List.


Writes THISDAY Politics Desk

1. Public declaration of assets and liabilities

2. State and community policing

3. Ban on all government officials from seeking medical
care abroad

4. Implementation of the National Gender Policy, including
35% of appointive positions for women

5. Revival of Ajaokuta steel company

6. Generation, transmission and distribution of at least
20,000 MW of electricity within four years and increasing
to 50,000 MW with a view to achieving 24/7 uninterrupted
power supply within 10 years.

7. Empowerment scheme to employ 740,000 graduates
across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.

8. Establishment of a free-tuition and scholarship scheme
for pupils who have shown exceptional aptitude in science
subjects at O/Levels to study ICT-related courses

9. 720,000 jobs by the 36 states in the federation per
annum (20,000 per state)

10. Three million Jobs per year

11. To embark on vocational training, entrepreneurial and
skills acquisition schemes for graduates along with the
creation of a Small Business Loan Guarantee Scheme to
create at least 5 million new jobs by 2019.

15. Creation of a Social Welfare Programme of at least
Five Thousand Naira (N5000) that will cater for the 25
million poorest and most vulnerable citizens upon the
demonstration of children’s enrollment in school and
evidence of immunisation to help promote family stability

16. Recruitment and training of at least 100,000 officers
into the Nigerian police force and establish a Federal Anti-
terrorism Agency.

17. One free meal (to include fruits) daily, for public
primary school pupils

18. Building an airport in Ekiti State

19. Eradication of state of origin, replacing that with state
of residence to ensure Nigerians are Nigerians first before
anything else.

25. Permanent peace in the Niger Delta and other conflict
prone areas such as Plateau, Taraba, Bauchi, Borno and
Abia.

26. No plans to Islamise Nigeria.

27. Nationwide sanitation plans to keep Nigeria clean

28. Preserving the independence of the Central Bank

29. Simplifying immigration process to foster faster visa
processing at points of entry.

30. Special incentives to facilitate the education of the girl
child

31. Full implementation of the National Identification
Scheme to generate the relevant data.

32. Making Information Technology, Manufacturing,
Agriculture and Entertainment key drivers of our economy

33. Balancing the economy across regions by the creation
of six new Regional Economic Development Agencies
(REDAs) to act as champions of sub-regional
competitiveness

34. Putting in place a N300bn regional growth fund
(average of N50bn in each geo-political region) to be
managed by the REDAs.

36. Reviving and reactivating the minimally performing
Refineries to optimum capacity

37. Creating additional middle-class of at least two million
new home owners in the first year in government and one
million annually thereafter.

38. Creating an additional middle class of at least four
million new home owners by 2019 by enacting national
mortgage single digit interest rates for purchase of owner
occupier houses as well as reviewing the collateral
qualification to make funding for home ownership easier,
with 15 to 30 year mortgage terms.

39. Enacting a national mortgage system that will lend at
single digit interest rates for purchase of owner occupier
houses.

40. Injecting extra N30bn into the Agricultural sector to
create more agro-allied jobs by way of loans at nominal
interest rates for capital

42. Creating a national infrastructural development bank to
provide loans at nominal interest rates exclusively for this
sector.

43. Construction of 3,000km of Superhighway including
service trunks

44. Building of up to 4,800km of modern railway lines –
one third to be completed by 2019

45. At least one functioning airport is available in each of
the 36 states.

46. Ending gas flaring and ensuring sales of at least half
of gas produce, within Nigeria

47. Speedily passing the much-delayed Petroleum Industry
Bill (PIB) and ensuring that local content issues are fully
addressed.

48. Establishing at least six new universities of science
and technology with satellite campuses in various states.

49. Establishing six centres of excellence to address the
needs of special education

50. Prioritising the reduction of the infant mortality rate by
2019 to 3%

51. Reducing maternal mortality by more than 70%

52. Reducing HIV/AIDs infection rate by 50% and other
infectious diseases by 75%

53. Improving life expectancy by additional 10 years on
average.

54. Increasing the number of physicians from 19 per 1000
population to 50 per 1000

55. Increasing national health expenditure per person per
annum to about N50,000 (from less than N10,000
currently)

56. Increasing the quality of all federal government-owned
hospitals to world class standard withijn five years

81. Free education at primary, secondary and tertiary
institutions for Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics (STEM) and Education.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/time-to-walk-the-
talk/210866/

Joel3:
before the election buhari made several promise and one of them is to banned government officials from using government fund to travel abroad for treatment. and promised to fixed all the hospital, many times different governor's claimed to have build a world class hospital and yet we keep seeing them traveled abroad for treatment.

below is the Buhari Promise List.

All those Promises have either been denied or Cancelled. He is falling hand big time.

this man is really sick he has traveled more than 4times now for medical trips.

DonLo:


Somebody must say the truth. It's better to be a wailing Zombie than a pure Zombie

Bruhahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Have said it b4 d presidential election dat bubuhari is a disaster an hypocrite a miser a wicked man

I agree, it is hypocrisy at its peak.

Lolz see this one.. so u seriously think he went their because of ear infection? I laff u op..

Ordinary ear infection 2 weeks?
We warned you....

Slowly the light dawns on all feckless zombies! Very good! Shebi u people voted ur avenging angel to tie all 'corrupt looters' to the stakes n burn them just to slake ur bloodlust? You were all baying for blood and the idea of his military pedigree being packaged democratically to come n 'pight kwarrapshin' gave y'all a perpetual hardon. Very good! Now, common names of supposed looters Mr Daftus Integritus cannot release after his promises to that effect.

Remind him that the issue of his possibly non existent qualifications that enabled him to enter d army in the first place and then become president is still pending in court and there's a date for the 16th of this month!

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DonLo:


Somebody must say the truth. It's better to be a wailing Zombie than a pure Zombie

Hhahahahahahahahaha!
Wailers form is finish