Fight corruption around you before those outside, CAN advises Buhari

The president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Dr. Samson Ayokunle, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to first and foremost tackle corrupt persons around him in order to be able to deal with those in distant places.

Ayokunle, who commended the president for identifying corruption as one of the major problems of the country and has the intention of fighting it, however said that Buhari needs to be cautioned that the fight against corruption may not be too far away from around him.

He 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 stated this in a interview with newsmen at the 12th convocation of Bowen University, Iwo in Osun State.

On the menaces of Fulani herdsmen around the country, Ayokunle expressed sadness that Buhari has continued to maintain silence despite the massive killings by the herdsmen.

“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.

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“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,” he said.

 

 

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