{"id":78609,"date":"2022-12-24T17:17:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T16:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/your-christmas-message-is-meaningless-blackmail-huriwa-to-buhari"},"modified":"2022-12-24T18:32:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T17:32:06","slug":"your-christmas-message-is-meaningless-blackmail-huriwa-to-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/your-christmas-message-is-meaningless-blackmail-huriwa-to-buhari","title":{"rendered":"Your Christmas message is meaningless, blackmail \u2013 HURIWA to Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, on Saturday, faulted the 2022 Christmas message of President Muhammadu Buhari wherein he commended himself for making \u201cadvances\u201d on the \u201ceconomic front\u201d and on \u201cfood security\u201d.<\/p>\n

HURIWA\u2019s National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement, slammed the President over his self-commendation whereas high costs of living and economic policies of his administration had pushed 130 million Nigerians into multidimensional poverty.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe advances we have made so far on the economic front, especially in infrastructure; food security, anti-corruption, security, energy sufficiency, among others, will need to be built on,\u201d Buhari said in his Christmas message on Saturday.<\/p>\n

However, HURIWA\u2019s Onwubiko fired back at the President, saying he has set Nigerians backwards than he met them in May 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe statistics clearly show that Buhari has impoverished Nigerians with his ineptitude in all ramifications. According to the data by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigeria\u2019s inflation rate in May 2015 when Buhari took over leadership was 9.0%.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the country\u2019s inflation rate rose to 21.47% in November from 21.09% recorded in October, representing the 10th consecutively monthly increase since the start of the year, according to data by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).<\/p>\n

\u201cFood inflation also rose to 24.13% in November 2022 from 23.72% recorded in the previous month. Exchange rate of the Nigeria to the dollar is now N446.63 at the official rate while at over N700 at the black market rate. Whereas it was at about N150\/$1 when Buhari came into office seven and a half years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, NBS data showed that over 23 million agile and active adult Nigerians are jobless just the Federal Government has used multiple taxation to murder businesses who now relocate to neighbouring nations.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf note, Buhari has plunged the nation into unprecedented loans. He has approved many external loans for the Niger Republic project. Reports by the Debt Management Office showed that Nigeria\u2019s total external debt rose from $10.32bn on June 30, 2015, to $40.06bn as at June 30, 2022, over 288.18 per cent increase in seven years.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuhari has no moral right to tell Nigerians that he has advanced the citizens\u2019 fortunes on the economic fronts because HE HAS FAILED WOEFULLY. Therefore, his Christmas message to the same people his government pushed into poverty makes no meaning and is simply a mere propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, on Saturday, faulted the 2022 Christmas message of President Muhammadu Buhari wherein he commended himself for making \u201cadvances\u201d on the \u201ceconomic front\u201d and on \u201cfood security\u201d. HURIWA\u2019s National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement, slammed the President over his self-commendation whereas high costs of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":78608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14],"tags":[1570,2140,97,145,640,254],"class_list":["post-78609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-buhari","tag-christmas","tag-huriwa","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"\nYour Christmas message is meaningless, blackmail \u2013 HURIWA to Buhari - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, on Saturday, faulted the 2022 Christmas message of President Muhamm ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/your-christmas-message-is-meaningless-blackmail-huriwa-to-buhari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Your Christmas message is meaningless, blackmail \u2013 HURIWA to Buhari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, on Saturday, faulted the 2022 Christmas message of President Muhamm ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/your-christmas-message-is-meaningless-blackmail-huriwa-to-buhari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-12-24T16:17:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-24T17:32:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671889647.57.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/your-christmas-message-is-meaningless-blackmail-huriwa-to-buhari#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/your-christmas-message-is-meaningless-blackmail-huriwa-to-buhari\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Your Christmas message is meaningless, blackmail \u2013 HURIWA to Buhari\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-24T16:17:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-24T17:32:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/your-christmas-message-is-meaningless-blackmail-huriwa-to-buhari\"},\"wordCount\":400,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/your-christmas-message-is-meaningless-blackmail-huriwa-to-buhari#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671889647.57.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Buhari\",\"Christmas\",\"HURIWA\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/your-christmas-message-is-meaningless-blackmail-huriwa-to-buhari#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/your-christmas-message-is-meaningless-blackmail-huriwa-to-buhari\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/your-christmas-message-is-meaningless-blackmail-huriwa-to-buhari\",\"name\":\"Your Christmas message is meaningless, blackmail \u2013 HURIWA to Buhari - 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