Talking Drums

The West African News Magazine

NIGERIA: ANOTHER HOPE BETRAYED

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NIGERIA ANOTHER HOPE BETRAYED

"The Buhari regime is a fraud because during the civilian regime of Shagari, corruption kept pace with inflation. But now corruption escalates faster than inflation. Too many regulations have given rise to strangulation of the economy and blatant corruption of officials who now seek shelter under Decree 4.

The Buhari Regime is anti-unity and anti- progress-because the Buhari Regime pursues a deliberate policy that creates a socially and tribally divisive atmosphere, generates dangerous resentment in the country at large and in the Christian South in particular. Poverty, hunger and social inequality; all the apparent causes of violence are present and will soon explode, if not militarily, then in the form of a civil revolt - the sort we have seen in the Republic of Sudan." Quote from Chapter on State of the Nation

CHIEF FRANCIS ARTHUR NZERIBE

"It is on record that in 1984 I formed the Nigerian Solidarity Committee whose express purpose was to drum up support and solidarity among Nigerians abroad for the military government of Major-General Muhammadu Buhari. It was an effort conducted at considerable personal expense. I did this not because I loved military rule, but because I shared the military's avowed sense of revulsion at the excesses of the political ruling class, at the continued abuse of both the Nigerian people and our public offices and institutions.

Today, as a patriot I am compelled to speak out again by the same considerations and concern for both our nation and our people."
Quote from the Author's Preface

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