A former Interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Bisi Akande, says the current economic recession ravaging the country was due to military incursion into politics and governance.
Speaking in Otan Ayegbaju, Osun State during the inauguration of a block of 10 classrooms which the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, named after him, the former governor of the state said the military entrenched a culture of laziness, corruption and lawlessness into Nigerians.
Akande noted that the forceful military take-over of missionary schools from its original owners, laid the foundation for the collapse of morals in schools and eventual emergence of leaders of questionable characters in the society.
According to the APC Chieftain, “Therefore to take over schools from the missionaries is equivalent to an attempt to expunge morality from the lives of the Nigerian children.
“Military intervention in governance itself is immoral and ungodly. Those Nigerian military adventurists, who forcefully seized power in Nigeria deliberately, came to violently loot our resources.
“In order to lay the foundation for their stupendous immorality and corruption, the military had to snatch schools’ from the missionaries and retired men and women with some moral credentials who were old products of the missionary schools.
“Consequently, today, fraudsters, drug barons, thugs and vagabonds compete effectively and successfully to displace gentlemen and women of moral integrity from the leadership space.
“The overall result of the military interventions in governance in our polity is the pain Nigeria suffers today from lawless and lackadaisical attitude of everybody to work. The resultant effect of the populace’s criminal attitude to work is a major plank providing the bedrock for the ongoing economic recession in our country.”
Akande’s remark is coming at a time when a former Head of State, Gen Yakubu Gowon, who appealed to Nigerians to pray for the President Muhammadu Buhari instead of condemning the leader, described prayer as a formidable weapon that can solve the nation’s many challenges better and faster .
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