Groups that fought Jonathan have lost their voice under Buhari – Abba Moro

Former Minister of Interior, Patrick Abba Moro, has expressed disappointment that the several CSOs and NGOs that cropped up to agitate for good governance during the Jonathan administration have all lost their voices since the President Buhari-led APC government came on board.

He noted that it was unfortunate that even though things appear to have become worse than they were in the past, only a few groups and individuals had been vocal since 2015.

Moro said: "In the twilight of the life of the administration of former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, and even within the period of his administration, various save Nigeria organizations sprang up, various civil society organizations sprang up agitating for good governance.

"We had the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG). We had social activists all over the country agitating for good governance and in the extreme the removal of Goodluck Jonathan's government.

"In the course of trying to rectify basic anomalies in the petroleum sector, ex-President Jonathan attempted to remove oil subsidy because it was discovered that the whole concept was becoming some kind of scam, was becoming some kind of conduit through which a very large chunk of the commonwealth was being frittered away.

"Social activists, save Nigeria organizations, occupy Nigeria organizations sprang up to say no to removal of oil subsidy! When former President Goodluck Jonathan attempted to raise the pump price of petroleum product, same organizations promised to make Nigeria ungovernable for the government.

"Today, the Nigerian people are virtually pauperized, the Nigerian people are hungry.

"Yet, apart from isolated instances, all of a sudden the various civil society organizations, the various save Nigeria organisations, the various occupy Nigeria organizations, the various agitators have gone cold and no longer talking when nothing seems to have changed and things appear to have even become worst.

"I said with a few exceptions because recently the Bring Back Our Girls stood up to say that not much has been done in the drive towards solving the problem of the Chibokgirls. And they have been in the forefront campaigning as it were, as it was in the beginning against the plight of the so-called Chibokgirls."

Moro also faulted the approach adopted by Buhari to execute the anti-corruption war, emphasising that the fight against corruption in the current dispensation is more on punishment than change.