Says Nigerians shouldn’t expect miracles from Buhari
Amid sliding value of the Naira, mounting complaints by private sector players on the tottering state of the economy, all appears not to be well with the state of affairs of Nigeria. But, it is not time to despair, says former Abia State Governor, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, as President Muhammadu Buhari is making efforts to rework the economy. In an interview with journalists in Lagos, at the weekend, on arrival from the United Kingdom, Kalu said Buhari should be given enough time to deliver on his promises as he grapples with the burden of surmountinmg Nigeria’s multi faceted challenges.
By Kenneth Ehijiator
On the pro-Biafra Republic protests
Those boys are right, they have a right to demonstrate, but not violent demonstration, not killing soldiers because if I am a Commander- in -Chief, and you kill one of my soldiers, I will kill everybody. You cannot kill soldiers. You cannot kill police. You have a right to say no, we want our own Republic. The United Nations charter gives them the right to ask for self-determination. It is not a right to go and destroy people’s properties or to go and destroy Nigerian Armed Forces, whether it is Nigerian Army, Nigerian Navy or Nigerian Police.
If I am president, I will set up either traditional rulers and some political leaders to go and ask the boys what they really want, what is really their problem, what can be done to stop them from asking for this? This was how Boko Haram started killing members of Catholic Church, and as a....
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