{"id":175700,"date":"2025-08-23T12:28:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T11:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/sowore-criticizes-buratai-on-nationwide-lockdown-call"},"modified":"2025-08-23T13:34:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T12:34:39","slug":"sowore-criticizes-buratai-on-nationwide-lockdown-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sowore-criticizes-buratai-on-nationwide-lockdown-call","title":{"rendered":"Sowore Criticizes Buratai on Nationwide Lockdown Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore has slammed Yusuf Tukur Buratai, former Chief of Army Staff, over his recent call for another lockdown in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Buratai had during an interview on Channels stressed the need for a nationwide lockdown as a strategy to decisively tackle banditry, terrorism, kidnapping, and other criminal activities in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Sowore, in a post on Facebook, countered the call, stating that Buratai\u2019s only achievement during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown was the \u201cbloody #EndSARS Massacre\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sowore also knocked Chief of Defence Staff, Christopher Musa over his recent comment on self-defense amid the ravaging security crisis.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote, \u201cToday, this same man is shamelessly calling for another COVID-style lockdown, while the current Chief of Defence Staff, Christopher Musa, absurdly proposes \u201cKung-fu self-defense\u201d as a solution to insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the calibre of airheads who have ruined Nigeria, men who respond to real crises with outright nonsense\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore has slammed Yusuf Tukur Buratai, former Chief of Army Staff, over his recent call for another lockdown in the country. 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