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| Medical Vacation: Buhari Exposing Nigeria To Ridicule – Falana by nairavsdollars(op): 1:50pm On May 10, 2018 |
Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos Femi Falana, human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) on Thursday President Muhammadu Buhari is exposing Nigeria to ridicule in the international community by his frequent trip overseas for medical treatment. Speaking on Channels Television’s programme, Sunrise Daily, Falana who also said the president’s medical treatment abroad is discriminatory and illegal also said it is surprising why a nation like Nigeria with enormous resources cannot fix few hospitals where everybody be it rich or poor can be treated. According to him, it is illegal for the president to use public funds to treat himself abroad while millions of Nigerians are dying due to strikes by doctors and ill-equipped hospitals. “While I wish the president well and a quick recovery, as a nation these medical trips by the president and the rich expose our country to ridicule which we cannot justify that a nation of enormous resources cannot fix a few hospitals to the extent that everybody can be treated in Nigeria” . “A few years ago, I was compelled to go to court with a view to restraining public officials from being allowed to go abroad for treatment at our collective expense. Even though court said I had no locus standi, the case is on appeal” . “We must get to that level whereby if you occupy a public office in Nigeria, you cannot go abroad for medical treatment, you cannot educate your children abroad. Unless we get to that state, we are not going to fix our hospitals and we won’t fix our schools”. It is not allowed”. “I can even go further to say it is discriminatory and illegal for anybody to use public funds to treat himself while majority of people are dying in public hospitals that are not maintained. There is equality before the law. So, you can’t take the rich out of town while the poor in their millions are dying in ill-equipped hospitals” he said. Read more https://independent.ng/medical-vacation-buhari-exposing-nigeria-to-ridicule-falana/
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| Re: Medical Vacation: Buhari Exposing Nigeria To Ridicule – Falana by DaBillionnaire: 1:51pm On May 10, 2018 |
if truly he is treating himself with public funds, then it's outrightly wrong. let's do the right things @ d right time.
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| Re: Medical Vacation: Buhari Exposing Nigeria To Ridicule – Falana by debaj10: 2:06pm On May 10, 2018 |
femi, sshhh! bababubu is wokin. |
| Re: Medical Vacation: Buhari Exposing Nigeria To Ridicule – Falana by Kdon2: 2:09pm On May 10, 2018 |
nairavsdollars:He seems to have forgotten that he was a co-traveller in the buhari project! Why is he wailing now. He joined to institute this incompetence! |
| Re: Medical Vacation: Buhari Exposing Nigeria To Ridicule – Falana by Paperwhite(m): 2:30pm On May 10, 2018 |
Enjoy change Mr.Falana. |
| Re: Medical Vacation: Buhari Exposing Nigeria To Ridicule – Falana by nairavsdollars(op): 7:52pm On May 10, 2018 |
National Hospital zero National Stadium zero National Airline zero What a country! |
| Re: Medical Vacation: Buhari Exposing Nigeria To Ridicule – Falana by Omeokachie: 8:32pm On May 10, 2018 |
Reason why he wants to perpetuate himself in power even when he knows he lacks the capacity to govern due to age as he claims. One of his fears is what becomes of him and how to foot his hospital bills should he leave power. |
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