Nigeria civil society scores president low

  1. Posted on Thursday 8 September 2011 - 12:24
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    Victor Emerura, AfricaNews reporter in Lagos, Nigeria
    A civil society organization in Nigeria has described the performance of the government under President Goodluck Jonathan as ineptitude. The Coalition against Corrupt leaders, a civil society monitoring the performances of government officials says the first 100 days of Jonathan's administration falls short of average expectation.
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    “He has lacked sufficient courage to address such issues that drive real development, reduce corruption and guarantee the needed security.” The group said.

    “His body language shows that he his party has a hidden agenda. They decried that the justice system under Jonathan is beginning to fail.” Debo Adeniran, the executive chairman of the civil society group said.

    It insists that two agencies of government (The Central Bank of Nigeria and The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation) have been allowed to be acting above board. They have not been transparent and accessible.

    On corruption, the scorecard is even more worrisome. The Coalition against Corrupt Leaders said the anti corruption struggle has been grossly selective and politicized. “There is no state that has the apparatus to fight corruption”.

    The human rights watch report for 2011 substantiated this claim when it indicted the corrupt commissions as inefficient because of political interference, institutional weakness and inefficiency in the judiciary.

    The government of Nigeria has not been accountable. The Ministers should not shield information from the public. Despite the availability of the Freedom of Information Act, it still appears that access to information is still compromised.

    The popular rating of the Jonathan’s administrations’ performance especially in the last 100 days in office is lacking control on issues of security and corruption; it will take more than mere rhetoric to convince Nigerians that Jonathan is truly headed towards the direction of his acclaimed transformational agenda.

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