Yar'Adua's Govt still groping in the dark—AC - Vanguard

Written by Emmanuel Aziken
Tuesday, 04 December 2007
THE Action Congress (AC) yesterday put the Yar’Adua administration on the scale and said its first six months was nothing short of an exercise in tentative governance and inconsistent, incoherent policies.

It said the administration’s performance was the exact opposite of what was expected from a government presiding over a nation that is in a hurry to develop.

But PDP senators reacting denounced the AC for its action.

The AC in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said a critical assessment of the administration’s first six months in office, in some key areas, led to an inevitable conclusion:

This government has been groping in the dark while the citizens suffer.

“Six months in the life of this administration offer enough opportunities to assess its performance, or at worst its sense of direction.

This is because it is midway to the administration’s first year, or one-eighth of its total life span of four years, all things being equal.

“But when we consider key areas in which the President committed himself to certain benchmarksduring his electioneering campaign, we can conveniently say that the administration has only beengroping in the dark.

“Having assessed some of the key areas in which a little progress in the past six months would haveimpacted positively on the nation’s long-suffering citizens, we arrive at the following thumbnail sketchof the unfortunate situation:

Security

“Perhaps this is one area in which this administration has failed woefully in the past six months. The mainreason for the existence of any government is the welfare and security of its people. You have to be alive to enjoy economic prosperity, if at all there is any.

But what do we have now? Life has become so short and brutish. Armed robbers are on the rampage, violent crimes are on the increase and the police seem to be overwhelmed.
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