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Nigerians Must Speak Against Corrupt Government Officials – Opadokun

A foremost NADECO activist and Civil Rights Lawyer, Ayo Opadokun, says Nigerians must rise up to speak against corrupt government officials who want to hoodwink the nation into their whims.

The convener of the Coalition of Democrats for Electoral Reforms (CODER), in a press conference on Wednesday, suggested ways to go for the Buhari-led government in dealing with the issues posing a nightmare for millions of Nigerians.

The lawyer said that the ethnic nationalities in Nigeria need to sit down and dialogue to agree on ways to permanently resolve the nation’s common national problems.

“There are too many iniquities, injustice and unfairness in the land. We must restructure Nigeria.

“If there is anything that is common to the entire nationalists who were seated at that conference, it is that they possess common and acceptable ideology which could make Nigeria better than what it is today.

“For example, they were talking about devolution of powers and fiscal federalism. I don’t know any federal constitution where a region or state government is supposedly called a government and can make laws, yet have no law enforcement to enforce the rule it makes as we have here in Nigeria. Those things are still glaring.

“Nigerians have not settled their matter. It is sheer arrogance if anyone imagines that Nigeria’s matter had been settled during the Biafra war where two million people were killed, it is much more than that,” Mr Opadokun added.

Adeyiga Abisoye

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