The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has accused the Federal Government of serial defecation and disrespect of the constitution of Nigeria and for willfully demolishing the national economy of the country.

HURIWA has therefore advocated emergency actions by citizens to compel the Nigerian government to halt the systematic destruction of the country.

Besides, HURIWA has also decried the existence of the National Assembly’s leadership that is plant, inept, cash-driven, unpatriotic and hedonistic just as it asked Nigerians to play their civic oversight role of demanding accountability and transparency in governance or to use civil resistance strategy to protest the rot.

“The damage unleashed on the domestic economy of Nigeria since 2015 by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is horrendous. It may take a life time for the nation to recover.

“But the drive to rebuild the devastated economy must start immediately by the collective decision of the citizenry to halt the deterioration. Speak out and demand that President Buhari and his cabinet stop depleting the resources of Nigeria and to open up the books for forensic auditing because as it is the Nigerian economy has collapsed.

“The speedy collapse of the economy will adversely affect the social peace of Nigeria because of the fact that the wider implication of the massive scale of poverty that has already been unleashed on the nation could instigate social discontent. This is the right time for all patriots to rally round and rescue Nigeria from the MISMANAGERS at the central governmental positions,” HURIWA said on Wednesday.

The group in a statement to the media by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, said the President Buhari-led Federal Government has also serially violated the constitution and has looked the other way whilst some Governors such as Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State “defecates on the Nigerian Constitution” by expelling a citizen of Nigeria in the person of the deposed Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, an action that smacks of primitivism and a throwback to the dark days of military dictatorship and regime of impunity.:

According to the group, “There is currently a double-barreled attacks on the constitution of Nigeria and the deliberate demolition of the domestic economy of Nigeria resulting in the large-scale impoverishment of millions of Nigerians in addition to the systematic enslavement of Nigerians to the apron strings of shylock creditors with the recent debt overhang of $27 billion to be borrowed by this regime.

“The persistent demolition of the excess crude account to a now pathetic $71 million outstanding deposits is a monumental economic sabotage and brigandage by officials of the Federal government which will in a very huge way, affect the future of Nigerians.

“How on earth can we ever explain the level of mismanagement and financial rascality in the federal government that saw the depletion of the excess crude account which was established as a buffer but was vandalized and reduced from $324.96 million in January 2020 to a paltry $71 million only in March?

“How come the Accountant-General is reportedly unwilling to render transparent account of this scandalous mismanagement which includes the payment of $4 million fee to an unknown lawyer? Nigeria has been made broke by the incompetent and reckless politicians that are put in place to administer our commonwealth.

“Nigeria now parades the most incompetent economic managers whose stock in trade is going a borrowings from all nooks and crannies at unacceptable repayment conditionalities including the decision to borrow $27.9 billion for building of infrastructures to the exclusion of the South East of Nigeria.

“A respected media institution has only just told us historically that the Excess Crude Account was established by the Olusegun Obasanjo administration with a visionary aim: when prices of crude oil are above the national budget benchmark, the marginal revenue would be placed in the ECA.”

HURIWA noted that an account would then come in handy to be drawn down to support the finances of the federal, state and local governments when oil prices fall below the benchmark for three consecutive months, adding that “16 years after its establishment, the ECA has never achieved its noble objective of providing a cushion for the three tiers of government. It is no longer relevant.”