The Eastern Bar Forum (EBF) has expressed concern over the security situation of the country and helplessness of federal government to find solution to the issue.
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This is contained in a Communique’ issued at the end of 3rd quarterly General Meeting of the Forum which held on Saturday, 5th of December, 2020 at Aba, Abia State signed by Governor of the Forum, S. Long Williams, Esq. and made available to TheNigeriaLawyer, TNL.
The Forum lambasted the president for treating Bokoharam with “kids gloves, while clamping down citizens” for ventilating their grievances
They called on President Buhari to resign for lacking competence and failing to protect the citizens
Read the full Communique’ below:
“The Eastern Bar Forum (EBF), which is the umbrella body of all the branches of the Nigerian Bar Association in the states of the old Eastern region of Nigeria have noted with shock the grave state of insecurity in the country and the seeming helplessness by the federal government in confronting the problem and proffering a lasting solution to this challenge that threatens the very foundation of our existence as a country.
“The Forum notes with grief the ugly and unacceptable trend that in Nigeria today, citizens are wantonly murdered and butchered almost every other day, rape is becoming a norm while poverty has taken over the land. That the government seems to have unleashed a reign of terror and plague on helpless and hapless citizens, as poverty, want, disease and death has taken over the land.
The Forum condemns, in the strongest of terms, the federal government attitude of treating known terrorist groups like Boko Haram , Islamic State for West Africa Province (ISWAP), Janjaweed terrorist groups, blood thirsty land grabbers, kidnappers, rapists, arsonists whose sole objective is to cause sorrow, pain, tears and blood with kids gloves, while clamping down on citizens who seek legal means to ventilate their grievances against the government that have failed in their primary and sole responsibility to protect lives, properties and improve on the wellbeing of the people.
The Forum after a robust deliberation on the state of the nation took the following resolutions;
1. That the federal government has failed woefully in frontally confronting and putting a lasting and sustainable solution to the grave security situation facing the country.
2. The Forum denounced government failure in its enterprise of delivering good governance, which has plunged Nigerians into abject poverty, pain, sorrow, tears and want. It further stated that any group including government who cannot guarantee the protection of lives and property, including promoting the economic and social wellbeing of it’s citizenry has no business being in government.
3. The situation is made much worse by a government of lies and half-truth and by an inept, disorientated, confused, shameless and expired military leadership and therefore called for the resignation of all the service chiefs and or their immediate sack from office.
4. That President Muhammadu Buhari lacks the needed capacity and capability to govern the country as he has not only failed in protecting the lives, properties of Nigerians but has plunged Nigerians into abject poverty, want , disease and death, therefore he should do the honourable thing and preserve whatever honour that may be left in him by tendering his resignation as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
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