The President, Christian Association of
Nigeria, Dr. Samson Ayokunle, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s
war against corruption as ineffective and one-sided.
Ayokunle, who said this in an interview
with journalists at the 12th convocation of Bowen University, Iwo in
Osun State on Saturday, however, commended the Buhari administration
for identifying corruption as a major problem that must be tackled.
The CAN president said it appeared that
Buhari was only focusing on fighting corrupt persons outside his
political camp while he had turned a blind eye to those perpetrating
corruption around him.
He stated that the President must beam
the searchlight on members of his cabinet and his party men if he wanted
to be taken seriously in his war against graft, saying this would send a
warning signal to those around him, who might want to continue to
plunder the nation.
Ayokunle said, “We need to caution the
President in particular that the fight against corruption may not be too
far away from around him. Those hands that are not right around him, he
should be courageous enough to deal with them.
“The signs that we are seeing, because
we are not babies, the hand writing that we are seeing is that he has
to, first of all, he should deal with the corrupt persons around him
before he will be able to deal with those in distant places. He is
doing a good job in that area but he must do more.”
The CAN president, who is also the
President of Nigerian Baptist Convention, frowned on the silence of
Buhari despite the massive killings being perpetrated by the Fulani
herdsmen.
He said the herdsmen people had thrown
many families into sorrow and hunger as a result of the killing of their
breadwinners and the destruction of their farms.
Ayokunle said, “On the issue of herdsmen
killing all over the country, the President has never done anything
tangible and convincing about them. The herdsmen have been ravaging and
sacking communities with reckless abandon. It appears that they are
above the law. This is quite unfortunate. This administration must
address that.
“These herdsmen have stopped the drums
in many homes. Many homes are in sorrow and agony because their
breadwinners have been massacred without anybody arresting their
killers. I just came from Ancha village in Plateau State, where we had
to do a mass burial for 19 people killed by these herdsmen.
“Up till now, no government official has
visited that place. No action has been taken against these marauding
herdsmen. Why? If the President is focusing on Boko Haram in the
North-East but has not done anything against the killer herdsmen, that
is unfortunate, especially when we know that these Fulani herdsmen are
from his ethnic clan. He needs to act fast on these herdsmen.”
Earlier in his address to the graduating
students, Ayokunle had urged them to strive to create opportunities for
themselves, saying there might not be anybody to offer them
white-collar jobs.
He said they must empower themselves with necessary skills to wage a serious war against unemployment.
Ayokunle said he needed to be trained to
work to support psychiatric patients in the United Kingdom despite
having two Masters degrees and a graduate diploma before travelling out
for another Masters degree and his PhD programme.
The Vice-Chancellor of Department of
Bowen University, Prof. Mathew Ojo, said 80 students of the university
graduated with first class degrees in various disciplines.
Giving the breakdown of the 1,020
graduates, the VC said apart from the 80 graduands, who bagged first
class degrees, 381 made second class upper degrees, 378 bagged second
class lower degrees while 130 made third class.
He added that the university produced 15
medical doctors while four graduated with postgraduate diploma
certificates and 25 bagged Masters degrees in various disciplines.
Miss Ezike Ekpereka in Accounting Department emerged the best overall graduating student with the CGPA of 4.91.
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