Ex-beauty & Nollywood actress turned Nurse, Regina Askia-Williams has written an open letter to President Buhari.Askia-Williams took to Instagram to express her disappointment in Buhari’s government despite all the campaign promises.
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 loose 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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