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5. Nelson Mandela. SouthAfrica’s anti-Apartheid icon was 75 years old when he became the country’s first black president in 1994. During his single-term tenure, Mandela spearheaded the reconciliation and healing of a rainbow nation broken by decades of the white minority rule and black segregation, and transformed it into a globally respected economic powerhouse.

Long live thepresident ofthe Federal RepublicofNigeria!

Long live theFederalRepublicof Nigeria!

Source: www.naij.com/480183-five-leaders-who-changed-the-world-despite-old-age.html

4. Ronald Reagan. The actor-turned-politician became the oldest president in the 239-year USA history (69 years old). Today, Reagan is regarded as one of the best presidents America has ever had. A 2011 Gallup poll asking 1015 Americans who they considered the greatestU S president placed him in first position with 19% above Abraham Lincoln (14%), Bill Clinton (13%), John F. Kennedy (11%) and George Washington (10%).

The major achievements recorded during Reagan’s two terms include ending the Cold War, reinvigorating the Republican Party rattled by Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal, and creating over 16 million jobs for the unemployed Americans.

3. Winston Churchill. He is, perhaps, the most popular British prime minister of all times. Britain’s war time head of government was reappointed prime minister in 1951 at the age of 76 following the Conservative Party’s victory in the poll. From 1951 till his resignation in 1955, Churchill helped to fix the devastated Europe, and shrewdly managed the steady decline of the once-powerful British Empire. Those three and a half years were enough to cement his place as one of the 20th century’s greatest leaders,and forever carve his name in the hearts of the British people.

2. King Salman. King Salman of Saudi Arabia was elected earlier this year following the death of his elder brother at the age of 79. But the age did not in any way affect his performance. Months into his reign, the septuagenarian monarch sacked the Kingdom’s head of royal protocol for slapping a photojournalist live on television.

Before that King Salman had already banned a senior member of the Saudi Royal Family from taking part in all sporting activitiesfor making racist remarks on a TV talkshow. Moreover, he dismissed the country’s ministerof health for engaging in a heated spat with a person who only came to complain of the poor condition of a hospital in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.
These actions signal that the old order of unruliness and highhandedness in the oil-rich Kingdom is gone to the satisfaction of the Saudi people.

1. Pope Francis. His Holiness Pope Francis was elected on March 13, 2013 to lead the world’s 1.3 billion Roman Catholics ‒almost eight times the population of Nigeria. At the time he was 76 years old.

A few days into his papacy, Francis swung into action by tackling some of the Catholic Church’s most nagging problems. He set up a committee to look into the activities ofthe Institutefor the Works of Religion popularly known as the Vatican Bank and widely regarded as corrupt. President Buhari promised to curb corruption in Nigeria, but one month on we are yet to be informed how he intends to achieve this.

The pope didn’t stop there though. He also set up a committee to investigate the embarrassing clerical child abuse scandal thathad recently rocked the Church. These and many other efforts aimed at making Vatican more transparent and bringing the Catholic Church into the 21st century has earned the pope unparalleled global goodwill.

A survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in February revealed that Pope Francis enjoyed approval of 70% Americans irrespective of their religious affiliations. It is remarkable that President Barack Obama’s current approval rating among Americans accounts for 47%, according to Gallup.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s unfortunate statement during his visitto South Africa:“There’s a limit to whatI can do at 72″ has generated a well-deserved negative heat.If the president knew there’s a limit to whathe could do at his age, why didn’t he inform us about it while he was still campaigning for presidency?


It was the spokesman of Buhari’s campaign organization and now the senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Garba Shehu, who in January this year boasted that Buhari was “as fit as a fiddle.” He also proclaimed that his boss was “in excellent condition to pilot the affairs of the country.” Why did then the limitations suddenly appear three weeks after he was sworn in as president?

Though I have nothing against President Muhammadu Buhari, I will not fail topoint out the drawbacks in his administration whenever I observe them. In fact, doing this can only make the government serve the country better. Afterall,a former British prime minister, Winston Churchill, said: “Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” Theologian Norman Vincent Peale stated: “The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”

I willpraise my president if he does something worthy of commendation, and I wil lalso constructively criticize him if he veers off. Declaring that there are restraints to what a leader can achieve beyond 72 is a theory that was proved wrong a lot of times. Here are 5 world leaders who were elected at an older age than President Buhari, but didn’t let that stop them from transforming their countries and the world at large.

If there's one area the nascent Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government is undeniably not living up to expectations, it is the area of information dissemination and communication. It's disheartening how we don't get to hear anything about anything from the Presidency, despite boasting of two seasoned special assistants on media and publicity in its ranks. Consequently, we are left to the mercy of speculative journalism and hearsay from our media houses.

As a case in point, last week, about 47 Boko Haram suspects were whisked into the Ekwulobia Prison in Anambra state in the dead of night from other correctional facilities located in the northern parts of the country following a directive from the Federal Government. Predictably, the decision has not gone down well with a lot of people and it has met with widespread anger and condemnation.

Bearing in mind the delicate nature of the issue and sentiments that are already at a tipping point in the region, one would have expected that the Presidency – which initiated the action in the first place – would come out to either deny or confirm the allegations. Rather, it has elected to remain silent and ignore the matter as if it is a non-issue or an "unnecessary distraction" that will resolve itself and eventually die down in the course of time.

The sanctioning and actual transfer of the said persons to the said penitentiary portends a clear and present danger to the peace and harmony that pervades the state in particular and the South East region at large, as rightly pointed out by the member representing the zone in the Federal House of Representatives, Hon. Eucharia Azodo.

Firstly, the Ekwulobia Prison is not a maximum security prison; it lacks the requisite facilities necessary to withstand a major breakdown of law and order within and outside its four walls. Thus, ab initio, it is not qualified to house such high-profile and dangerous prisoners.

Secondly, the said prison had already been operating well above its installed capacity of a mere 85 prisoners for quite some time now before a further 47 inmates were added to the register a week ago, significantly increasing the feasibility of a major breakdown of law and order.

Finally and most importantly, it is located at the heart of a busy town home to almost 500,000 people. Ideally, prisons of any size are not meant to be located in the center of towns and cities or anywhere near them for obvious reasons, not to talk about prisons housing people accused of terrorism.

Ekwulobia is located within a sprawling agglomeration of densely populated towns, including, but not limited to Oko (which plays host to a federal polytechnic), Nanka, Agulu and Igbo Ukwu. Jailbreaks have been known to occur in more secure prisons nationwide and terrorists have often laid siege on military cantonments and barracks across the country, what is the capacity of the Ekwulobia Prison to resist such and what will be its impact on the hundreds of thousands of people residing in the area?

This possibility cannot be solved by merely wishing it away or saying that it can never happen. A good security system is one that prepares for the worst so that when the worst comes it will know how to approach it. The reported militarization of the prison and its environs does not solve any problem, rather it creates another problem of its own. It leads to a rising sense of fear, apprehension and intimidation among the locals. It gives the impression that all is not well.

Indeed, all is not well. The best thing the Presidency or the Federal Government can do now is to promptly release an official statement addressing the issue and intimating us on how it intends the resolve the problem. Doing so will go a long way in proving that it is not becoming increasingly distant and disconnected from the masses who voted it into office or indifferent to their needs.


Chinedu George Nnawetanma writes in from Enugu via cnnawetanma@gmail.com

http://saharareporters.com/2015/07/05/relocation-prisoners-anambra-state-and-federal-governments-deafening-silence-chinedu

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