He Wants To Have All Facts Right – Youth And Sports Minister, Sunday Dare Explains Why Buhari Did Not Mention Lekki Shooting In Speech
Minister of Youth and Sports, Sunday Dare has explained why President Muhammadu Buhari did not address the Lekki toll gate shooting in his nationwide speech on Thursday, October 22.
It would be recalled that following President Buhari’s address, many Nigerians slammed him for not showing empathy by failing to acknowledge or pay respect to the lives lost and those injured in the gory incident.
Reacting to the nationwide outrage, the Minister in an interview on Arise TV said the President has ordered an investigation into the incident, therefore he wants to have all the facts right before making it public.
He said;
For sure, the president has ordered an investigation. He had a national security meeting yesterday. I can tell you that this is already ongoing because the president wants to have all the facts which will absolutely be made public.
It is important to get all the facts right before we go forward, in this case. It’s going to be difficult to hide these facts because we live in a multimedia world and we have pieces of evidence and corroboration and I think it is important to get the facts right.
He stressed;
I think that’s the part the president has towed and I am sure that when the facts are made available, this president – because he has integrity – will level with the Nigerian people about what happened on Tuesday in Lekki.
Previously, we just had lip service that SARS scrapped. For the first time, you have a presidential pronouncement that SARS has been dissolved followed by the inspector-general and then we saw quick steps thereafter.
He added;
And I think when you look at what has happened in the past and the level of responsiveness and concrete steps, the whole five demands of the youth were wholeheartedly accepted by the president and he set up a process.
