- Urges President Tinubu to Listen to Cries of the Protesters Nation Wide.
Ogunenwa Audu Jos
Prophet Isa El-Buba the Global Convener Initiative for Better and Brighter Nigeria ( IBBN) has Commended all resilient Nigerians, who have taken responsibility for their country for coming out to join #JosEndBadGovernanceProtest and indeed across Nigeria.
Prophet El-Buba who gave this commendation while addressing newsmen at his Jos residence on Monday, called on all of Nigerians to continue with demanding and the pursuit for a better Nigeria in unity and solidarity- just like” we have exemplified in the past four days here on the Plateau- with an unwavering commitment to non-violent resistance to injustice, corruption and lack of accountability”
He commended peaceful Prosters in Jos for the past for four days of united and peaceful protests in Jos and across Nigeria.
,”as we voiced our collective grievances and demanded for better governance. Its more than gratifying that our assembly across the country, especially the #JosEndBadGovernanceProtest has remained largely peaceful.Unfortunately, over 40 Nigerian people were massacred and several others injured in other parts of the country largely by security operatives and state-sponsored thugs in other states”
“. Our IBBN Youth Coordinator in Lagos state Comrade P-money Pascal was also a victim of these brutal attacks by the sponsored thugs who infiltrated our protests. We stand with them and our thoughts are with all of them for standing and fighting for a better Nigeria and a free Nation- where the President wouldn’t be greater than the rest of the country”
According to him,. Obviously “we have all succeeded in demonstrating that Nigerians are not and can never be slaves who will surrender their fundamental and democratic rights to anti-poor policies of self-serving, near tyrant regimes”
He urged Nigerians to. remain abundantly known that “we are against any form of violence and the vandalization of government and private individuals-owned properties as we go about demanding for Change- we must guide this”
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El-Buba said their hallmark remains non-violent resistance any time, any day and everywhere.
” Apparently, a lot of people have expressed fears about the protest. But like we may all be aware, Nigeria has been sitting on a time bomb for long concerning bad leadership, bad economy, insecurity etc. It was only a matter of time before the people would revolt and push back insensitive, selfish and tyrannical leadership.”
He added that if the national and subnational governments don’t change their ways to become responsive and responsible to the citizenry, what we have seen might just be the tip of an iceberg- He warned
“the revolution will simply not be televised! Because when you push a dog to the wall, it will bite you. Nigerians have been pushed to the wall for too long!Unfortunately, We’ve had this discussions severally that it’s dangerous for government not to address underlying trigger issues, we have given several advisories and media advocacies- they all fell on the deaf ears of self-serving despots”
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“we call government. Listen everybody, we have a lot of hopeless people who have given up in this country and they have purposed in their hearts that there’s no more way to survive”
.”They’ve concluded that the government cannot and will not solve any problem in Nigeria. There’s nothing to live for again for them because of the total neglect of citizens and disconnect between citizens and government.Have we thought about the internally displaced people (IDP’s) where they are, how they’re surviving, what’s happening to them. They’ve largely been sacked by Boko Haram, bandits and kidnappers from their ancestral lands. We go about our normal businesses in the cities pretending that all is well”
He asked if . ” we ever thought of all this people and wonder how they’re surviving?Like I said before, what will trigger trouble will shock and surprise everybody in Nigeria. The President, National Assembly members and other Nigerians and their cronies, cannot be living lavishly at the expense of majority of Nigerians and preaching that the people should sacrifice for tomorrow. It doesn’t happen like that.Things are really bad in the country, no justice, no security, no food. It’s a very dangerous time we’re living in presently.” Prophet El-Buba warned
“My Foundation, the Dr. Isa El-Buba Foundation carried out a medical outreach in a Community in Bassa Local Government- where they provided free consultation, diagnosis and medications for the community. The most prevalent ailment diagnosed and drugs administered for was Ulcer!Though a lot of holier than thou are saying Christians and churches should not be on the streets protesting. Well, who bears church members bills, and have we thought how our church members” he asked
” Shall we continue to lead them to pray that God will make a way for them, when we sincerely know that the system and structure of this country is what needs to be fixed, if not overhauled for there to come about a way? Someone said and I quote” An average Nigerian may not remember God if he has the opportunity to travel abroad where things are working and he suddenly finds out that most of his basic needs he use to pray for are not prayer points in his new location”.
He said some of the prayer points “we make in Nigeria are simply routine governance supplies in other climes.We can only pray that the good LORD will take charge of this country and avert any evil as a result of bad governance over the years”
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“We have heard President Tinubu’s Sunday 4th August 2024 self-praising speech about the protests by the Nigerian Youths and people over the condition of hunger and hardship in the country which greatly failed to speak to the specific demands of protesters”
Prophet El-Buba said President.Tinubu did not speak on reversing his horrible and devastating economic policies, he made no attempt to cut down government excessive spending on frivolities and over bloated cabinet of non-performing Ministers.
..”Tinubu made no concessions but was quick to call for dialogue without outlining any meaningful machinery or system in place for this and ordering for the suspension of our protests. Instead of getting frightened about our ever peaceful and united End Bad Governance protests and in the case of Plateau State, shamefully using the Governor of Plateau State in an attempt to truncate legitimate voices through curfew imposement in a peaceful Jos metropolis;”
” we call on President Tinubu to simply rise to the occasion and speak to the issues and demands of protesters”
.He urged President Tinubu to come to terms with their protests which have nothing to do with political partisanship; but remains borne by Nigeria’s current hardship which is not survivable, and fueled by Bad governance.
He advised President Tinubu to know that there remains no alternative to restoring petrol and electricity subsidies as Energy security for the Nigerian people now will enhance national security since it was these subsidies whose removal created the conditions that powers the protests in the first scenario.
” We therefore call on President Tinubu to be weary of the sycophancy and flattery by subordinates who are shielding him from the brutal harsh truths of the Nigerian state and making him lose touch with reality.”
.” Our demands simply remain:Mr. President should show sensitivity and leadership to the plight of ordinary Nigerians by leading in making sacrifices through cutting down on excessive government spending as well as cutting the cost of governance in Nigeria- especially on abolishing spending plans like expending N150 Billion for an Airbus A330 Presidential Jet, the allocation of N13.5 billion renovation of presidential villa, and or N7.3 billion for the purchase of state house cars and similar vexatious spending unbecoming of a President who wants poor Nigerians to show understanding and make sacrifices for harrowing hardship and penury brought about by same government’s policies,
Prophet Isa El-Buba Commends Peaceful Prosters In Jos in the Last Four Days,
He also urged President to relieve from his cabinet, non performing Ministers and bring on board a crack team of technocrats that would deliver on every sector so as to move Nigeria forward
.President Bola Ahmed he demands Tinubu should reinstate a corruption-free fuel subsidy regime to address hunger, starvation and poverty or empower Nigerian indigenous private/government oil refineries to locally access and refine crude oil in Nigeria to crash down the cost of exporting crude oil and importing petrol.
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