Attention President Muhammadu Buhari - Sulaiman Tukur

I find it compelling to write and call your attention upon strong conviction that your top functionaries are not briefing you well on the true situation in the country.

The fallout of ENDSARS protest and subsequent looting of various warehouses to get access to COVID-19 palliatives hoarded by various state governors, which are meant to cushion the effects of coronavirus lockdown has further exposed to you what is happening in the country.

But, we're surprised how your Media aide Malam Garba Shehu issued a statement from Presidency defending the act of the state Governors and condemning the hungry Nigerians.

At this point, let me commend your efforts in transforming the nation's economy from mono economy model to diversified economic model. A lot of policies, programmes and interventions has been introduced all aims towards promoting Micro,Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), which are the backbones for economic growth and development. The programmes are numerous to mention here and it is true that no government in the past has fight poverty the way your Government is doing, You also change the facet of governance by having political will in implementing many policies which your predecessors failed to implemented, amongst them were TSA, Fuel subsidy removal etc. These is quite commendable.

However, it is disheartening to mention here that under your watch ,whom we have much hope and confidence that things will change to better, but this administration exposes us to more hardship occasioned by fuel subsidy removal, border closure, banning of importation of some goods without making concrete alternative arrangement to cushion the effect of these decisions. I am not saying that the decisions are not good or ill timed, but of course, their benefits are for long term.

Employment becomes prerogative right of children of political class at the expense of children of poor class. There's absolute abuse and disregard to federal character principles, fair selection and placement. The children of the masses remain jobless as some of us graduated for more than fifteen years without securing a job, while jobs awaits children of powerful and rich people as they graduate, instead of political class including National Assembly Members to create jobs for their children through entrepreneurship to become employer of the labour to complement government efforts in addressing the problem of unemployment, since they have control over means of production (i.e. Land, Labour, Capital and entrepreneurship), rather they are unfairly chasing the few opportunities available for the children of the masses who have no control over the means of production for their children.

I want to appeal to you to give matching order to Heads of MDAs to ensure that every Nigerian who is able and willing to work will be given equal opportunity for employment in strict compliance with the Federal character principles. This order should be adhered to accordingly.

It is painful that all the white-collar jobs are reserved for children of few influential individuals including the National Assembly members not for all eligible Nigerians. I could recall how we (including your humble self) condemned 2013 Immigration recruitment exercise that cost many lives and others sustained various degrees of injuries.

Furthermore, security situation in Nigeria from 2015 to date only changes dimension, from Boko Haram to armed banditry and kidnapping. It is disturbing that kidnappers could not be tracked and traced using same mobile phones they used to collect ransom, while stolen phones are tracked and traced easily.

I want to inform you that in Zamfara State where I came from ,many people are sleeping in the bush hiding for fear of being attack, people are being killed and kidnapped on daily basis, women are being raped and molested on daily basis, many villages were deserted and the inhabitants are taking shelter from neighboring village with relative peace. These people cannot go to their farms and can't claim their animals and other belonging, bandits, kidnappers and cattle rustlers are moving freely in our villages, and the situation is same in Katsina your home state.

Your dreams for leaving a prosperous Nigeria and food sufficient nation cannot be achieved without security.

Security personnel engages themselves in all sort of crimes, including taking all sorts of illicit drugs, Nicotine and others. Instead of enforcing laws and preventing crimes, they engage themselves in committing crimes by aiding and abetting wrongdoings, people have no confidence in them anymore. Believe me sincerely if our security personnel especially police are to be subjected to drugs test, many of them will be found positive.

How do you expect to have crimes free society while we are recruiting criminals as law enforcement personnel? Some of them see their identity cards and uniforms as an opportunity to engage in unlawful act.

Most of them that were deployed to highways to provide security for motorist, instead of providing the security they are busy extorting, abusing, brutalizing and sometimes killing drivers for refusing to give them tips (money) there was several cases to mention. You will see them begging openly like beggars.

Even if we are to have ten million Policemen in Nigeria, we won't achieve crime free Nigeria , if we continue to recruit criminals and people with questionable character into the service. Government have to flush out bag eggs in our Security Agencies first, if we want succeed in tackling insecurity in the country.

I heard you on many occasions prior to your assumption of office saying that how will Nigeria overcome its internal security problems while government is recruiting security personnel from motor parks, no enough training and welfare packages. Also a policeman who is an indigene of Benue will be posted to Ibadan Oyo State without given accommodation, he has to in addition to paying rent, feed his family, pay school fees, hospital and other utility bills, and when posted to fight crimes if he eventually died his family will not be given his entitlements in time or not given at all, and in a situation where his family are residing in police quarters they will be evicted without any consideration. How do you expect the living one in the service to give out their best, while they have seen what happened to those who die in service?

I once heard you saying what is Boko Haram? But five years now ,they're still operating in the Northeast.

The question here is that what have you done differently to change the situation more than five years now?

You have to immediately address these challenges which you been mentioning and direct the securities to go after criminals and stop harassing innocent people and motorist who are on legal business on the roads.

The Service chiefs are out of ideas, they are just adding weight while people are being killed on daily basis and you are advised on several occasions to let them go and re-strategise, but you continues to retains them for reason best known to you. Whatever is your reasons you should know that you can't continue doing same thing and achieve different result.

Mr. President ,I am advising you to try to adopt the hire and fire approach and see how things will change quickly. The security architecture of the country needs to be overhauled.

Sir, you have not declare state of emergency on the major sector of the economy (i.e. Security, Power, Education, Health etc.) more than five years of your reign. We are still paying for darkness, no security, no good roads, no quality education, no efficient health services delivery, Unemployment remains unchecked over the years, insecurity and uncertainty, high level of poverty and hunger are on the rise, people are force to pay exorbitant and indiscriminate estimated power bills by the Discos because nobody is checkmating them. The cost of education and health services are rising. In fact, nothing serious has change except hopes!

A deliberate initiatives in addition to the existing ones must be put in place by the federal government to reduce the suffering of the masses, this administration has to come up with policies and programmes aimed at cushioning the adverse impact of some of the policies in the short and long runs. This should be done through: -

(1) Re-introduction of Federal Mass Transit program to reduce the burden of transport fares to the masses which contributed to the hike of price of everything.

(2) Provision of drugs and other hospital consumables at subsidized rates at the various public hospitals.

(3) Free medical care for women and children in Federal Government owned hospitals.

(4) Free Education up to Secondary level.

(5) In addition to school feeding program government should also provide textbooks and other reading, teaching and learning materials to schools.

(6) Government must ensure that Discos provide their customers with prepaid meters or they stop charging us based on estimated bills.

(7) The federal government has to ensure that it supervise and monitor any interventions given to states for implementation/distribution to eligible people.

( You must ensure that people are sleeping with their two eyes closed and traveling by roads without fear of being attack. It will be a great failure on your Government to leave power without tackling the security challenges of the country.

(9) You must connect yourself with the masses to know the true situation they're facing, stop believing all what your aids are telling you, do meet traditional leaders, religious leaders and civil society organisations (CSO).

(10) last but not least, the federal government should ensure that the Executive Order that gives Local Governments, State Assemblies and the judiciary autonomy come into force immediately to promote Good Governance.

As Nigerians we endure many discomforts due to the changes in government policies as such, we need a better life ahead.

Your Excellency, you must take immediate steps to contain the growing level of insecurity, unemployment and poverty in the country as the nation is sitting on a time bomb.

Sulaiman Tukur.
+2348069662894
sulaimantukur45@gmail.com

Na today

Baba is Deaf he can't Hear you at All

People that insult OBj

Buhari won't be able to read all this.


after this has nothing to do with cows so don't bother

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.”

― Ayn Rand.

This person no go school at all and if him go school, dem no teach am how to write properly.

The message is understood but lacks substance, e just sound like who dem push mic for him face for Newsline say make e talk about the country's situation, like who dey argue with Ben for beer parlor.