Dr Oby Ezekwesili, has condemned the muteness of President Muhammadu Buhari over the 26 Nigerian girls and women who were sexually abused and murdered while trying to cross the Mediterranean into Europe.
The bodies of the victims were recovered from two separate shipwrecks, 23 from one and three from the other, with most of them reported to be teenagers aged between 14 to 18.
She posted, “Shocking that you (President Buhari) personally have not acknowledged that 26 of the citizens that you are their president drowned in the Mediterranean Sea and the whole world is talking about it. This is not leadership, sir.
“It is callous for any leadership to never feel the pains that tragedies bring the way of a people. Can your Federal Government signal to the Nigerian Public that Nigerian citizens’ lives matter? Can you?
“I recall our public outrage when during the previous administration, then President rather than acknowledge deaths in a bomb blast tragedy was busy at a campaign ground. This Federal Government of President Buhari now repeats same with our 26 girls that drowned in Mediterranean Sea. What changed?”
One of the survivors, 23-year-old Dora Omoruyi from Edo State, said she embarked on the journey because she saw no future for herself in Nigeria.
“I wanted to reach Italy. I don’t know what to do now. I see no future in Nigeria, there are no jobs.”
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