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It’s Disgraceful – Ghanaian Journalist Blasts Buhari For Seeking US Help In Fighting Boko Haram
- “He should be leaving office; he has not fulfilled his promise to the Nigerian people”
Ghanaian journalist Kwesi Pratt Jr has berated President Muhammadu Buhari, a retired Major General, for approaching the United State to help address the security challenges ravaging Nigeria.
In a virtual meeting with the U.S. Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken last Tuesday Tuesday, Buhari said AFRICOM should be relocated to Africa to consolidate the ongoing efforts to check the security situation, with likely effect on other nations.
“The security challenges in Nigeria remain of great concern to us and impacted more negatively, by existing complex negative pressures in the Sahel, Central and West Africa, as well as the Lake Chad Region.
“Compounded as the situation remains, Nigeria and her security forces remain resolutely committed to containing them and addressing their root causes. The support of important and strategic partners like United States cannot be overstated as the consequences of insecurity will affect all nations hence the imperative for concerted cooperation and collaboration of all nations to overcome these challenges,” the president had said.
Speaking with Pan African Television, Mr Pratt expressed his displeasure at Buhari action, saying he found Buhari’s remarks irksome, disappointing and embarrassing.
He noted that Buhari has not fulfilled the promise he made to Nigerians when he was campaigning for presidency in 2015, during wwhich he promised to rid the country of all security threats.
“I was so embarrassed, I was so disgraced by the Nigerian head of state in the counts of things he said, I am embarrassed by Buhari,” the journalist said while recounting Mr Buhari’s campaign against former president, Goodluck Jonathan.
“When Buhari was campaigning to replace Goodluck Jonathan, what did he tell Nigerians? That he was a former general and still a general, that he would be able to stop the operations of Boko Haram, is that not the promise he made,” he queried.
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“Now the same Buhari is telling us ‘I raise my hand we can’t fight Boko Haram, come and fight Boko Haram for us’”, Mr Pratt said asking Mr Buhari to resign over failure to combat insecurity.
President Muhammadu Buhari
“He should be leaving office; he has not fulfilled his promise to the Nigerian people. In any case, if Nigeria, a giant in Africa cannot deal with Boko Haram and have to go and beg Antony Blinken to bring soldiers into Lagos, Abuja, and other places to fight Boko Haram, then what would other countries like the Gambia do?” he said.
According to the experienced journalist, Buhari’s action smacks of subservience, noting that Africa is gradually “walking back into the embrace of our slave masters, we’re walking back into the embrace of our colonial oppressors, that is what they’re doing and these African leaders are doing that without blinking an eye, without any shame. What an embarrassment!”
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