Stop these killings now - Ezekwesili writes Buhari
- Former minister of education, Oby Ezekwesili, has written a letter to President Buhari over killings in Nigeria
- Ezekwesili had recently staged a solo protest in Abuja over the killings in Plateau
- She urged the president to stop killings by armed bandits in parts of the country
The former minister of education, Oby Ezekwesili, has written President Muhammadu Buhari calling on him to stop killings by armed bandits in parts of the country.
Daily Trust reports that Ezekwesili in the correspondence titled: ‘It is time to act-enough is totally and truly enough’, said though several Nigerians have been killed in the first half of this year, there was no ‘sense of urgency by government to end the abnormality.’
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Legit.ng gathered that she listed eighteen actions the President needed to take to stop the killings saying, “I have a simple question for you today. Are you by any strange possibility in need of the spilt blood of your citizens? I personally reckon that the answer to this outlandish question, which some of your citizens are now asking in utter frustration is no.
“If therefore your own response is no as I direly hope it is, I have a few demands to make on you to stop the killings now.”
The former minister asked the president to among other things, “Stop the daily killing of Nigerians by terrorist-herdsmen now! Nigeria must not be changed into a vast killing field under your watch, President.”
She also asked the president to ensure justice to all those killed and commission an urgent independent research and study into the root causes of the crisis.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng had previously reported that former minister of education, Oby Ezekwesili asked President Muhammadu Buhari to address the killings constantly reoccurring across the country.
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Ezekwesili, the convener of the Red Card Movement, in a series of messages posted on her Twitter account on Monday, June 25, asked President Muhammadu Buhari to account for the dead in Plateau state.
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Source: Legit.ng
