There will not be peace when there is hunger, unemployment, insecurity, injustice in the land – Melaye fire Buhari, APC

There will not be peace
when there is hunger,
unemployment,
insecurity, injustice in
the land – Melaye fires
Buhari, APC
February 28, 2018 Jare
Tiamiyu Politics 7
Says
The Senator representing Kogi West
Senatorial District, Senator Dino
Melaye has bitterly criticize his
party, the ruling All Progressives
Congress saying it has become
“Public Complaint Commission”.
Melaye revealed this after receiving
Legislator of the award at the Daily
Asset Newspaper annual award and
lecture held in Abuja.
Starting his remarks with his usual
coinage; “If you speak the truth, you
die. If you lie, you die. I, Dino
Melaye has decided to speak the
truth and die,” the fiery Senator
wowed the audience with his
vitriolic against his own party,
which he likened to the Public
Complaint Commission, apparently
due to its penchants for blaming
past administrations for its inability
to deliver on some of its
electioneering campaign promises.
“The APC government has become
Public Complaint Commission. I say
this without fear or favour. We have
more complains in the APC and even
in the Presidency than service
rendered. We cannot as a people
continue like this.
“The President said two days ago we
should all embrace peace but I want
to say without fear or favour that
there can be no peace without
justice. There is hunger in the land,
there is poverty in the land, and
there is unemployment in the land.
A lot of decision has not been taken;
yet we say we want peace. The
primary objective of government is
the security and welfare of the
people. There is no security, there is
no welfare,” he said.
According to the federal lawmaker,
“Nigeria is not only sick presently
but equally suffers from regretful
congenital abnormality. There is
therefore a serious need for
amelioration, palliation and
correction. The question is: are you
going to be part of that correction? I
want to say that in an unjust society,
silence is a crime, and every one of
us here today, is the reason why
(sic) Nigeria is sick.
“It is not about the leadership, it is
the inability of the followership to
check the leadership. Today
Nigerians have become indolent, we
are suffering and smiling. We are
not reactionary. We are not asking
questions and that is why we are
where we are.
“Democracy will continue to be
government of the people by the
people for the people but what we
have today is greedocracy which is
government of the greedy by the
greedy and for the greedy, “he
added.
While berating the the low standard
of living of people, Melaye warned
those in positions of authority not to
forget that their failure to make the
most of their offices in the interest
of the people could turn out to hurt
them, arguing that not even the rich
would be immune from the disaster
that looms in the horizon.
“2019 is around the corner again.
Many of us are lackadaisical about
the future. I delivered a lecture
recently at the University of Lagos
and some students from very
wealthy homes, two of them said
they didn’t care who the president of
the country is and that it was none
of their business because their
parents were very successful. I said
to them that when the poor have
nothing to eat, they will start eating
the rich.
“A time will come when it will be
difficult to drive your expensive
jeeps and cars on the streets. A time
will come when it would be difficult
to switch on your generator because
everywhere around you is dark. Will
you be the only one having light?
There was no kidnapping before,
and kidnapping is seen as the
redistribution of both ill-gotten and
legitimate wealth. People now take
from the rich and they now
appropriate to themselves,” he noted
even as he urged the masses to be
wary of the elites whom he accused
of polarizing the rest of the
populace.
“The elites have divided us using
tribal sentiments. When you go to
the hospital, there is a column for
religion on your call card, a column
for tribe and local government as if
this will in any way facilitate your
recovery. We have become too
ethnic conscious. I sponsored a bill
that is about to go for a second
reading. The bill is saying that we
should abolish state of origin and in
its place; we should have state of
residence. This is when we will have
a true Nigeria when you will not
need a Senator’s note to get job with
the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN or
the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation, NNPC,” he added.





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