A talented star Nollywood actress in the 1990s, now known and identify as a Nurse, lives with
her husband and Children in New York Regina Askia Williams, decides to
penned down in written to President
Muhammadu Buhari, in an open letter. Asking him pertinent
questions about underage marriage, internal terrorism and more.***********
Dear Mr President…
Thank you for all your effort at
containing the corruption in Nigeria however unpopular. Nigerians
elected you through serious acrimony , loosing several lives and facing
deadly unrest but they chose you.
Though you are from the North of OUR
country you are president of all. How is it that violence and deaths
still hold sway? My hope and prayer was that on your ascension you would
deploy our military with fiat and alacrity armed to the teeth and
silence or at least contain Boko Haram.
My prayer was that as a seasoned General
you would not only flush out king pins and barons but retrieve the loot
as you napped them one after the other but we see them working for you.
Is this the change you promised us Mr President?
Maybe I don’t fully understand how these
things work but I know one truth “Women with babies on their back
should not be slaughtered in their farms while out there striving to
make ends meet”.
They say you did not send a condolence
message to comfort the families but rather you are requesting for cattle
routes for the herds men? There is fighting in Lagos and vicinities?
Kidnappers are even negotiating exchange
rates, hiking ransoms and collecting change over the victims, little
girls are being kidnapped from southern states and sold off in marriage
to old men off north? Is it okay to encourage pedophilia in the name of
tradition?
My president, I am not only sorely
pained, disappointed and ashamed, I am almost regretful of ever
encouraging Nigerians to embrace you. Reason says do not jump to quick
conclusions but be rational in thought. We, concerned citizens of the
diaspora are watching and praying for a swift arrest of this drift.
When the citizenry lose trust and
believe that their government has their interest at heart, anarchy is
unleashed and we mark the beginning of a sorry end.
Mr President, where is the change you promised?
Regina Askia Williams
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