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On President Buhari’s Nuclear Security Summit attendance

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It would be recalled that on Wednesday March 30th, President Buhari and his team left for a Nuclear Security Summit in the United States. This travel, just as the previous ones remain absolutely insignificant and can simply be termed a misplacement of priorities.

Nigeria without doubt, remains a country where stinking garbage litter the city centers with open sewers in its biggest cities. A country where more than half of its population sleep and wake in darkness under heavy heat because the government is incapable of generating or guaranteeing efficient electricity.
A country that cannot successfully stem or cap its gas flaring that’s ravaging the Niger Delta, or stop the dripping barrels of crude oil seeping and leaking into its environment.
What business does a country where the majority of its citizens cook with kerosene, have in attending a “Nuclear Security Summit”? Considering our current standings, is the thought of ‘Nuclear’ not beyond our capability at the moment?

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Even if Buhari wants Nigeria’s presence to be noticed in the Summit, shouldn’t he have sent a small team of intellectual delegation probably led by either the Minister of Science and Technology or Defence Minister, as observers rather than jumping on the jet and swinging himself right to the venue?

With all due respect, President Muhammadu Buhari should stop thinking like Mugabe, allow the people he has chosen to work with him function in the capacity they are meant to and open up a progressive mindset for a holistic national development.

God bless Nigeria!

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Jeff Okoroafor is a leading member of a new generation of civic advocates for government accountability and democratic change in Nigeria. The Citizen Affairs Initiative is a citizen-driven governance initiative that enhances public awareness on critical issues of service quality in Nigeria. It encourages citizens to proactively seek higher standards from governments and service providers and further establishes new discussions in communities about the standards that citizens should expect and deserve from those they have given their mandates. Jeff is the Managing Director of SetFron Limited, a multimedia development company that is focused on creative and results-driven web, mobile app, and ERP software solutions. He is the co-founder of the African Youths Advancement and Support Initiative (AfriYasi), a non-governmental not-for-profit organisation that provides tertiary education scholarship for young people from low-income homes in Nigeria. He is a Fellow of the Young African Leaders Initiative and the United Nations World Summit Awards. A Strategic Team member of the Bring Back Our Girls movement, and a member of the National Technical Committee on the Establishment and Management of Missing Persons Database in Nigeria. Jeff holds a Bachelor and Postgraduate diploma degrees in Computer Science, and a Certificate in Public Administration from Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, GIMPA.

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