By BASHIR ADEFAKA
The Muslim Media Watch Group of Nigeria (MMWG) has tasked Nigerian leaders executive, legislature and judiciary arms of government to move from mere rhetorics to practical solutions to Nigeria’s development and prosperity, saying it was the only way to earn the blessing of God.
The Group outlined some of the problems facing Nigeria, and suggested best ways of tackling them for future prosperity.
In a goodwill message distributed to the pressmen on the occasion of Nigeria’s 63rd Independence Anniversary, the Muslim Media Watch Group of Nigeria stated that, “Nigeria does not lack economic, human and material resources to develop and prosper, but regretted that the political class and their sycophants have always brandished fashionable ideas and ideals to do what is needed but failed woefully to do them after stepping into the positions of authority; pointing-out that leadership must shift from rhetorics to meaningful actualisation of promises – as good governance is the only antidote that could sustain the confidence of the people in any Administration.”
In the statement by its National Coordinator, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdullahi, the Group stated that time is ripe to re-examine the American model of presidential democracy and determine to remove aspects of it that are impediments to good governance, including the law reforms that could deal severely with the challenges being faced
These according to the Group include political intolerance, insecurity, extreme corruption, tribalism, religious bigotry, drug-addition and peddling, ritual killings, abduction and kidnapping, murder, arson as well as serious economic crimes to mention a few.
