Nigeria Not Winning War Against Terrorism Because Jonathan Lacks Good Policies – NBA

The Ikeja branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has
criticised the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan,
saying he has not been running the country well with good
policies and measures.
Speaking to journalists on the state of the nation at the Bar
Centre on Wednesday, the NBA Chairman, Mr. Monday Ubani,
said in spite of the state of emergency declared by the
president in some parts of the country, insecurity, among
other crimes like killings, violence, robbery, bombing and mass
murder have remained the order of the day, adding that the
persistence of such problems showed something is not being
done rightly.
“We said it from the beginning when this emergency was
declared that the government was only grandstanding. Today,
we are not happy that the government is not winning the war.
“If anything, our collective wealth is being squandered on the
so-called fight against terrorism,” ubani said.
Ubani absolved no level of government of blame as he pointed
out that governments at all levels were guilty, as the people
were not feeling the impact of governance despite huge
allocations collected by three tiers of government every
month.
“We demand a reversal for the sake of this country and for
our generations unborn. The people have a role to play by
understanding what is going on in the first place and
demanding a change like other countries are presently doing,”
he said.
Ubani also spoke on the lingering strike by the university
lecturers, calling on the federal government to save Nigerians
from undue embarrassment by honouring its agreement with
the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) immediately
and end the strike.
He said the fact that the strike in the universities had kept
students at home for many weeks is a blow to the education
system “which has deteriorated so much that no Nigerian
university is currently listed in the top 100 universities in the
world.”
Ubani also took a swipe at the Coordinating Minister for the
Economy and Minister of Fianace, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, for
saying that government cannot afford the money demanded
by ASUU for the revitalisation of the universities.
“While they said they have no money to rescue our educational
sector, they are busy buying another two jets to add to the
fleets of jets already owned by the presidency, organising
jamboree of high class women in Abuja where millions were
squandered by the wife of the president, Mrs. Patience
Jonathan, spent N1 trillion on legislators in the past eight
years and N3 trillion on non-existent fuel subsidies and N10
billion annually to maintain the jets in the presidential fleet.”
“We are confused with the priorities of this government” he
said, advising the government to see education as the bedrock
of national development.