Buhari's
Support Organization, a group which contributed immensely to his
emergence as President in 2015, is set to wage war against the National
Assembly.
The Senate
Members of Buhari Support Organisation (BSO), Enugu State chapter
has said that unless Nigerian citizens come together to check the
excesses of the country’s Senate as presently constituted, it would end
up shutting down President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-graft war, and
ultimately the nation’s fledgling democracy.
The group explained that it was in effort to mobilize citizens for
active participation that it opened an online platform where compatriots
should send their names and contact details, including phone numbers to
ensure mass action against the Senate.
In a statement signed by its publicity secretary, Mr. Eze Chibueze,
Enugu BSO said it was also challenged to act by the paradoxical remarks
of the deputy president of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, at the 28th
Enugu International Trade Fair at the weekend.
The group said it has resolved to resist any attempt to truncate
Buhari’s anti-corruption war, which has been raised to a higher scale to
the commendation of international transparency agencies, the United
States of America, United Kingdom and prominent Africans, including
former Ghanaian President, Flt. Lt. Jerry Rawlings.
They said they was saddened by Ekweremadu’s lamentation that Small
and Medium Enterprises potentials are grossly underutilized and
underdeveloped, stifled by lack of access to market and multiple
taxation, stressing that the statement contradicts the position of the
Senate during the confirmation hearing on the acting chairman of EFCC,
Ibrahim Magu.
“We are therefore outraged at the Senate in one breadth
admitting that official corruption is the bane of our economic
prosperity and collective development and on the other breadth is
viciously waging unpatriotic offensive against President Buhari’s war
against pervasive corruption in our land. Who kills his war commander,” the group declared.
The Buhari supporters wondered why the “Senate could not trust
the sound judgment of the nation’s Commander-in-Chief, who after
perusing the Department of State Security (DSS)’s report referred to him
in December 2016, dismissed it and sent back Ibrahim Magu’s name for
the second time for confirmation? To us, it is corruption fighting
back.”
BSO added: “We are in league with majority of patriotic
Nigerians and foreign friends of our dear country who believe that
Ibrahim Magu is doing a fantastic job; which in the first place made Mr.
President to nominate him. Accordingly we call on Mr. President not to
succumb to arrant blackmail and propaganda being mounted by looters.
“It’s our considered view that Magu’s recent exposure of the
Paris Fund scam, in which the Senate President and some governors were
allegedly fingered, the petition against the deputy Senate president on
his table and sundry corruption charges against high number of senators
that incensed the Senators against Magu.”
The group said it is the height of cruelty for any sane Nigerian to
tamper with the Paris Club refund funds, which was recovered since 2005
and no president thought it wise to return the funds to the people
since, and up till 2017 when our President Buhari directed that the
funds be returned to the states for salary and pension arrears.
“We are therefore appalled that the name of prominent Senators
have featured again in their custom to circumvent the funds meant for
masses,” the organization remarked, stressing that in the sordid
cross-road Nigerians have found themselves, BSO has no other option than
“to mobilise patriotic Nigerians for a two million march to the
National Assembly to shut down the Senate and drum support for the
anti-corruption of war of President Buhari.”
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