OGITECH Student writes Muhammadu Buhari

Emmanuel Oluwatomisin Afolabi (EOA), a Higher National Diploma student in the Department of Mass Communication, Ogun State Institute of Technology OGITECH, Igbesa, has written an open letter to The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari.

The correspondence was written to raise topical issues in the nation and was dispatched on Thursday, 7th of July, 2022.

Below is the content of the open letter to Muhammadu Buhari by Emmanuel Oluwatomisin Afolabi.

Your Excellency sir, I will like to commend your tremendous efforts toward the achievements so far in office. I cannot but thank you Sir.

I write with great mirth, embedded with consciousness and bearing in mind, the rear privilege it bestowed on me.

Your Excellency, I write to you with a deep sense of passion, pure patriotism, and good intent for Nigeria. As the days go by, we draw closer to the end of your administration. Nigerians will remember you for your strong will in governance, notable reforms across sectors, infrastructure, and human and resource development.

Sadly, Mr. President,  your actions and inactions have exacerbated the problems you inherited such that the Nigeria of today can hardly be recognized as the country you met as President in May 2015.

Your Excellency, I write to you with a deep sense of passion, pure patriotism, and good intent for Nigeria. As the days go by, we draw closer to the end of your administration. Nigerians will remember you for your strong will in governance, notable reforms across sectors, infrastructure, human and resource development.

Mr. President sir, your actions are so far commendable, but there are divers of areas that are so vital to human lives which I will like your government to improve on despite your tenure wrapping up soonest.

1. Insecurities

Insecurity has become a hydra-headed monster that security agents in Nigeria appear incapable of handling vis a vis its multifaceted manifestations like bombing, kidnapping/hostage taking, destruction of property, and creation of fear, to mention but a few.

There was pandemonium at Saint Francis Catholic Church, Owa-luwa Street, Owo, the headquarters of the Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State as gunmen attacked the church on Sunday 5th June 2022 and a lot of lives perished unexpectedly.

Insecurity and terrorism have been a major challenge to the Nigerian government in recent times. The activities of (Boko Haram) had led to the loss of lives and properties in the country, especially in the Northern part of Nigeria.

Some of these activities include bombing, suicide bomb attacks, sporadic shooting of unarmed and innocent citizens, burning of police stations, churches, kidnapping of school girls and women, etc.

Kidnapping, rape, armed robbery, and political crises, murder, destruction of oil facilities by Niger Delta militants alongside the attacks carried out by Fulani Herdsmen on some communities in the North and South have been another major insecurity challenge facing the country.

Nigeria has been included among the terrorist countries of the world. Many lives and properties have been lost and a large number of citizens rendered homeless.

Families have lost their loved ones. Many women are now widows. Children become orphans with no hope for the future. This has implications for national development.

Funnily enough,  on that same date but different month Owo attack happens,  Kuje Jailbreak incident happened.

The insecurity scourge took a tougher dimension on Tuesday night, the 5th of July, 2022, following another prison attack, this time on the Kuje Medium Security Custodial Centre of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS); a development that left no fewer than 879 inmates fleeing from custody. Although attacks on prison facilities recently on several occasions, have shown forth, the fact that the government was still caught unawares at its capital is lamentable.

Mr. President Sir, Insecurity is a threat to our Nation because our capital is unsafe!

2. Education:

Education is the best legacy”, as the adage says, but it seems to have lost its importance in Nigeria. Education is majorly the tool that allowed our forefathers to gain our Independence because, they were enlightened and aware of the importance of being free, so they came out of their ignorance and fight for our freedom because they were educated.

Unfortunately, this legacy has long lost its importance in the same country it saved from bondage. It is so saddening to see Nigerian governments neglecting education and viewing it as less important, the only way their eyes are drawn to the educational sector of the country is when there are strike actions. ASUU has been on a nationwide strike since the 14th of  February 2022.

Nigeria’s education is just stagnant, no going back or moving forward. The syllabus has been the same as the national anthem. No review, no addition, no subtraction, no adjustment, it just remains the same.

Strikes have been a stagnant syllabus that occurs regularly. Schools have no choice but to produce half-baked graduates who find some things strange or difficult to operate in the labor market. Nigeria’s education is just a big mess.

3. Economy

Mr. President sir, can you compare the previous administrations to yours?

Inflation in goods and services has ruined the economic system of this country.

The outcry of citizens is uncontrollable and that is why I am speaking on their behalf, to be the voice for the voiceless.

Finally, I humbly plead that you use your God-given position, backed by the votes of Nigerians to ensure that you make adequate security, good Education and the Economy of the country to be Restructured.

Thank you Sir!

God Bless Federal Republic Of Nigeria!!!

Signed

Emmanuel Oluwatomisin Afolabi (EOA)

Ogun State Institute Of Technology, Igbesa

Email: [email protected]

Phone Number: 08131194469