Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to take decisive actions on some contentious socio-economic and political issues. CISLAC expressed the worry yesterday in a statement by its executive director, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani over what it described as recurring, but unhealthy and divisive agitations by diff erent groups fromrespective geo-political zones in the country.
Th e group said if steps were not taken immediately, the threats, verbal hostility and hateful speeches, could pose grievous challenges to peaceful-coexistence, unity and diversity of Nigeria. CISLAC’s list of worries extended to social vices such as “kidnapping, violent attacks and resurgent of insurgency in the country over which it is demanding proactive strategies and actions by the President to secure lives and property of Nigerians”.
While joining the rest of the country to share in the jubilation over the President’s safe return, the NGO, however, drew attention to emerging threats and physical attacks on the anti-graft facilities and operatives. Alleging that the attacks were sponsored bandits, it claims that the motive was to subdue existing achievements and progress in the anti-corruption fi ght. CISLAC described tertiary institutions as underdeveloped and poorly funded and invited the President to intervene by respecting and honouring Federal GovernmentASUU agreements for well-funded, productive and uninterrupted educational activities in the country. While we congratulate members of the executive, legislative and judiciary arms on the President’s return, we urge all well-meaning Nigerians and the media on active participation in, continuous support and encouragement for the political stability, democratic and governance process in the country.
