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The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has faulted the claim by Senior Special Assistant on Media to President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, that the Presidential jet was parked in London to await the president’s discharge from hospital, as that was the global standard.

The Rights group said there was no global best practice that prescribes that a president can ruin the domestic health sector to necessitate a seemingly endless medical tour by its political class on public expenses.
It lamented that the case of President Buhari, who has spent cumulatively over 100 working days in a British medical facility at serious financial and logistics costs to the public treasury of Nigeria, was particularly disheartening.

A statement by the National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Affairs Director, Zainab Yusuf, said in over a century, there hasn’t been any antecedent whereby a leader of a sovereign state would be flown to a far-away sovereign nation in another continent.
“That such an ailing President spends incredible amount of time receiving medical help whilst the presidential jet maintained at public costs would be parked at a foreign aviation facility to accumulate huge bills, which the national fund would be deployed to offset, makes it even more abhorrent,” the statement said.
HURIWA, therefore, challenged Shehu to show Nigerians any evidence of this kind of prolonged medical sojourn abroad by any political leader of a country to justify his claims that the practice was a global standard.
“HURIWA thinks we should be ashamed of ourselves that we can’t get the best of medical facilities in the country due to prolonged period of mismanagement and organised robbery of public assets by successive and current politicians, instead of attempting to tie a wool of confusion and half-baked media propaganda on gullible citizens by rationalising over a practice that has no global best practice or historical antecedents,” it said.
HURIWA noted that the Presidential jet, if parked in Abuja, will cost nothing and that it will take few hours to be flown to the United Kingdom any moment the president recuperates well enough and wishes to be flown back home.
“The other time, did Acting President Yemi Osinbajo not fly into Italy for the G7 Global Summit on migration of Africans and jetted back home the same day? “Why waste scarce public funds to park the jet belonging to Nigeria in London to await the president, as if public property has now become a family property?
“This is corruption of the severest type when public property is used recklessly just like a privately owned asset by the occupant of the President jet.
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ndi ara

Let's just all agree that Buhari was a Mistake but thing now is how do we replace him with someone visionary

SaulRazor:
Let's just all agree that Buhari was a Mistake but thing now is how do we replace him with someone visionary

Lol.
5 million almajiris that are specifically bred for election purposes are waiting in d wings to vote him in again,even if he is on life support.

dokiOloye:
Lol.
5 million almajiris that are specifically bred for election purposes are waiting in d wings to vote him in again,even if he is on life support.

This is his last tenure for sure

dokiOloye:
Lol.
5 million almajiris that are specifically bred for election purposes are waiting in d wings to vote him in again,even if he is on life support.

That is why Nigeria as it is cannot continue. ...

DieBuhari:
That is why Nigeria as it is cannot continue. ...

exactly.
Cos every rational Nigerian knew Buhari is a disaster but d illiterate almajiris and d religious fanatics who see him as one of them persisted and voted him in.
Now,if Nigeria divides,his ppl can vote him to rule THEM from d grave if they like.

SaulRazor:
This is his last tenure for sure

U will be surprised that by 2019, sheikh Buhari will still be incommunicado in London and d same ppl who packaged him and brought him out will do so again and raise d same religious and tribal sentiments again,and viola,Buhari is president again,especially if he contests against a non-muslim.
All it takes is for a senior sheikh in Saudi Arabia to call prominent muslims in d north and southwest for a meeting and lecture them on how they will be doing d work of Allah by re-electing him.
They will then come back and find a suitable narrative to use and deceive d deceivable Christians,and viola,d job is done.

dokiOloye:
Lol.
5 million almajiris that are specifically bred for election purposes are waiting in d wings to vote him in again,even if he is on life support.

and the number is ever increasing while the likes of emir sanusi who are against the trend are quickly shut...by 2040 nigeria population would outstrip that of the US, crude oil would be worthless, our gdp at an all time low (we had a glimpse in 2016), and we stuck with an army of uneducated almajiris...who blames ipob?