Convene National Emergency Meeting on Hoarding Palliatives - Chief Eholor Urges President Buhari

By The9jaTrend

A Human Right Activist and President,  One Love Foundation, also known as Observer General of Nigerian politics, Chief Patrick Eholor has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to convene a national emergency meeting on hoarding Palliatives to question why food items were hidden by state governors without letting them get to the masses.

Chief Patrick Eholor made the call while fielding questions from newsmen in Benin City. He noted that there was hunger in the land and wondered what could be the reasons for the governors to store the palliatives without sharing them to the masses.

He said though he was not out to incite anybody or encourage the youths to go on looting spree as it was very wrong; and condemned in totality the storing of the palliatives at the detriment of the people.

The human right activist emphasized that it was more wrong for the government to have kept such huge amount of food items, pointing out that the incident happened not just in Edo State but almost across the 36 states of the federation including Federal Capital Territory.

"You have over 11 Million Almajaris in the northern part of Nigeria, begging for food and shelter and state governors dared to hide tones  and tones of food items, with some even rotting. Even Skill empowerment tools such as sewing machines, motor cycles, medications, when common malaria is ravaging the ordinary people. What about condoms? so there will be emergency for infections before governors  give out population explosion preventive kits to the People especially the urban poor?".

He equally took a swipe at the tagging of protesters in the recent #EndSARS crisis, with negative names such as "Hoodlums, Hooligans, Thugs, Looters" stressing that such act will not drive the process for change especially the much needed positive image for Nigerians abroad.

"You can not call your citizens hoodlums. You can not  call your Citizens hooligans. If we arrive at the shores of other countries, they will look at us as hooligans and thugs! Who can be more hooligans than members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, who can more hooligan than those who collect all sorts of illegal revenue from commercial drivers, wear agbada in the day and campaign for votes, for politicians. We must have to rephrase these words because they have been trending, going viral, with the Public chanting hoodlums!", he stated.  

The activist observed  that  "#EndSARS" theme for the Protest was a preamble to drive the process for change; attitudinal change for all Nigerians".

He maintained that "if you are a custom Officer who have been taking money to shortchange the system, you are SARS, be reformed. If you are an immigration officer and you are issuing passports without due process, you are SARS. If you are a top ranking police officer, including the Inspector General of Police, Deputy Inspector General, Assistant Inspector General, etc and you don't care about the welfare of the men and officers of the Police Force, you are worse than the worst SARS.

Chief Eholor also noted that "prison officers who abuse inmates, embezzle funds for upkeep of prisoners, take the money home to feed their families are all members of the dreaded defunct SARS.

"What is SARS? SARS has so many meanings, ...If you are an Official of the Federal Road Safety Corps and you extort money from motorists under the guise of ensuring that carnages are eradicated from the highways, you are worse than SARS.

"What about the People?  If you are a Citizen of this Country and you are not behaving yourself. You aren't making us proud as a citizen, you are a SARS. If you are a legislator and you are supposed to make laws and carry out oversight functions to strengthen good governance and you receive monthly 29 million naira and emoluments, while the ordinary police man who secures all of us, holds gun 24 hours, earn peanut,  and you are not working for the Constituents, you are worse than SARS."

The human right activist further stated, "This is just the beginning of the Change process. If you are INEC Officials and you connive to rig elections, you are SARS. And if you are a Pastor and you are not practicing what you preach at the altar, you are SARS.

"So Nigeria has lots of SARS. Now, we are going to gradually approach all the SARS which surround us as a Nation and make the country a better place", he opined.