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The title of this piece is a poser triggered by a blunt remark by Mr. Godwin Obaseki, the formidable political arch-rival of a former Edo State Governor and immediate past Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole. Obaseki, the incumbent Governor of Edo State, at a recent event blurted: “We are in trouble!”
Obaseki adduced a reason: that the country is enmeshed deeply in a financial quagmire. According to him, Nigeria’s oil marketers should not celebrate the increase in the price of crude oil, especially in the international market, for the expected benefits could be an illusion. He noted that major oil companies in Nigeria such as Shell and Chevron are no longer investing in oil exploration.
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Exactly when President Muhammadu Buhari jumped into his ever busy Presidential Jet (Air Force 1), the State department of the strongest nation in the world the United States of America, issued damning and extensively damaging assessment of Human Rights violations by President Buhari.
Well, as the information trickled in, the President jetted off to London where he said at one time, he has gone to see his doctor and at another, that he is taking short rest.
In fact of all the news coverage of the latest medical tour of London by Buhari, that version written by Bloomberg.com appeared better as it pointed out the coincidence of the trip with commencement of a Nationwide medical doctors strike in Nigeria over agitation for improved working conditions.
ENDSARS/LEKKI SHOOTING
A recent report by the US government faulting claims that the Nigerian Army killed protesters at Lekki Tollgate during the #EndSARS protests, is not a recipe for closure but could facilitate one, writes Louis Achi
In human affairs, closure means finality â a letting go of what once was. Finding closure implies a complete acceptance of what has happened and transitioning to something new. In other words, closure describes the ability to go beyond imposed limitations in order to find different possibilities.
Often, people grieve before they could achieve a sense of closure. But ultimately, justice is the best facilitator of closure. The EndSARS protests, last year, captured a sad human chapter in the troubling evolution of the Nigerian state. It now requires closure.
By Segun James
The Lekki Toll Gate incident of October 2020 involving the Nigerian Army and #EndSARS protesters has attracted the attention of the United States in its “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2020’’, released yesterday by the United States – Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour.
In the report titled ‘Nigeria 2020 Human Rights Report, Executive Summary,’ the United States declared that “accurate information on fatalities resulting from the shooting was not available,” as at the end of 2020.
The report alleged that the Nigeria police, army, and other security services sometimes used force to disperse protesters and apprehend criminals and suspects.
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US Department of States says it could not verify if #EndSARS protesters were killed on October 20, 2020 at the Lekki tollgate.
The US department made this known in a report tagged ‘2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Nigeria’.
A copy of the report was obtained by our correspondent on Tuesday.
The report said though soldiers fired ammunition into the air to disperse protesters, the number of fatalities could not be verified.
Part of the report read, “On October 20, members of the security forces enforced curfew by firing shots into the air to disperse protesters, who had gathered at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos to protest abusive practices by the Nigerian Police Force’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad.