By Dare Akogun
Prominent civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Monday, said President Muhammadu Buhari insulted over 600 dead victims of ravaging floods across Nigeria with his current trip to Seoul, South Korea for the first World Bio Summit.
HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement, said it is deeply disturbing that at a time when devastating floods have submerged major parts of more than 20 states in Nigeria, the President finds it appropriate to travel to South Korea where he is at the moment.
The group lamented that in saner climes, Buhari’s colleagues will sit at home and coordinate emergency response to over 32.5 million persons displaced by floods resulting from torrential rainfalls, failure to construct proper drainage systems and dams in the country.
According to the statement “This year’s devastating floods in Nigeria have attracted international sympathies from King Charles III of the United Kingdom and the United Nations.
“But rather than sit at home and act as a leader needed by his people in moments of dire emergencies, Buhari goes another junketing spree in faraway South Korea” Onwubiko said.
HURIWA also castigated the National Emergency Management Agency for drastically editing the actual number of victims by just affirming that just 2.5 million persons are affected.
The Rights group said that the areas affected by floods are densely populated making it inevitable that over 32.5Million citizens would have been rendered internally displaced persons.
The statement further stated that
“Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State, Cameroon will soon open the dam in the next one or two years again but Buhari’s government is bereft of a national plan to deal with the next one.
“Buhari’s government has equally failed in the building of the Dasin Dam to mitigate flooding from Cameroon’s Lagdo Dam. The President has not built any embankments or any national emergency plan.
“According to reports, by the end of 2021, the President had spent over 200 days on medical leave in the United Kingdom alone since coming to power.
