Human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome
Constitution and human rights lawyer Mike Ozekhome (SAN) has mentioned the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari shouldn't be worthy to be referred to as a authorities over its incapacity to safe the lives of Nigerians.
In a assertion made out there to newsmen, the Senior Advocate of Nigeria famous that the shortcoming of the federal government to cease the killings has sign the “total abdication of governance by the current government.”
He puzzled why the federal government was silent and never arresting perpetrators of killings.
Ozekhome mentioned: “The every day slaughter ritual in Nigeria that has turned the Nigerian geographical soil into a killing subject shouldn't be solely felony, but additionally smacks of whole abdication of governance by the present authorities.
“It is most merciless, horrific, inhuman, dastardly and barbaric.
“The newest theater of the absurd is Plateau state the place lots of of harmless and helpless Nigerians, particularly essentially the most susceptible (kids, girls and aged), have been mindlessly hacked down in chilly blood.
“The authorities that seems covertly overwhelmed (if it ever cared in any respect), wrings its palms in utter helplessness and blames everybody and anybody, however itself.
“Never earlier than or after the three years bloody fratricidal civil conflict has Nigeria witnessed such bare-faced butchery of harmless souls in a method that portends ethnic cleaning and genocidal tendencies.
“The Nigerian Constitution (part 14), makes the welfare and safety of lives and property the first function of presidency.
“Any authorities that can't shield its residents shouldn't be price being referred to as a authorities by any description or appellation.
“We have become a laughing stock before international circles, politicking about 2019, while our citizens are daily massacred in cold blood.”