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  • Why Obama can’t visit Nigeria – US Deputy NSA

    Why Obama can’t visit Nigeria – US Deputy NSA

    Fresh facts emerged on Tuesday that security challenges facing the nation might have accounted for Nigeria’s exclusion from President Barack Obama’s three-nation shuttle to Africa.

    But the exclusion will not affect bilateral relations between the United States and Nigeria.

    The U.S government said the trip will focus on trade and investment, democratic institution-building, young people, and unleashing economic growth.

    The clarifications were made at a briefing by American Deputy National Security Advisor, Ben Rhodes.

    The joint briefing was addressed jointly with the Senior Director for African Affairs Grant Harris and Senior Director for Development and Democracy Gayle Smith, on President Obama’s upcoming visit to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania.

    The text of the briefing was made available to journalists in Abuja on Tuesday by the Information Office of the Public Affairs Section of the U.S Embassy.

    Rhodes said: “With respect to Nigeria, we certainly believe that Nigeria is a fundamentally important country to the future of Africa. We’ve put a lot of investment in the relationship with Nigeria through their leadership of ECOWAS, through the significant U.S. business investment in Nigeria and through our security cooperation.

    “Obviously, Nigeria is working through some very challenging security issues right now. And in that process, they’re going to be a partner of the United States. We certainly believe we’ll have an opportunity to further engage the Nigerian government through bilateral meetings going forward. But at this point, we just were not able to make it to Nigeria on this particular itinerary.

    “I will say that we purposefully designed the itineraries to be able to reach West Africa, South Africa and East Africa, and in West Africa, to visit Senegal, a French-speaking, Muslim-majority democracy that is an important partner of the United States and also provides a platform for the President to speak to the broader region.

    “We are also looking at ways, at the President’s town hall in South Africa with young African leaders, to draw in through technology young people in Nigeria and in Kenya, among other places, so that the President is using this trip to speak to the broader African audience. We recognize we’d like to go to as many countries as possible.

    “Time only permits us to go to these three. But we want to make sure that in each country we’re speaking to the broader region. And we’re going to make use of technology and other means to do so.

    “And to the middle question, the Africans who have been frustrated — look, I think it points back to Andrea’s first question. This is a region that, frankly, has been underrepresented in our travel. And for all these questions of why the President is going to Africa, I think the question that we’ve been getting is why hasn’t the President been in Africa more?”

  • Quote of the day

    Quote of the day

    We will encourage them to come together more. We want a situation where it is PDP versus one. In that case, the polity will be more stable. Even our members will be more loyal to the party because you will have nowhere to go.

    President Jonathan on possible two-party system in Nigeria

  • State of the Nation Address

    State of the Nation Address

    Rather than foot-drag on the bill, the President should see it as God-sent to showcase his achievements 

    The altercation between the Presidency and the National Assembly over the bill on the State of the Nation Address 2013 that proposes to compel the president to present, annually, his scorecard before a joint session of the federal lawmakers is gratuitous. The Senate has threatened to over-ride the president’s veto if President Goodluck Jonathan refuses to sign the bill into law before the July date that he is expected to make the maiden edition of the address.

    The Senate and the House of Representatives in May passed the State of the Nation Address Bill 2013 into law and immediately transmitted it to the Presidency for the required assent to meet their projected first week of July date for this year’s maiden edition. Ita Enang, Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Business expressed the frustration of the upper legislative house regarding the perceived foot-dragging in presidential assent despite the fact that the president is still within the 30 days required to study the bill and append his signature or send it back to them. He said: “…. by the time we shall be resuming from the two-week recess, the 30 days must have elapsed and if by that time the bill has not been assented to, we are most likely to override him by way of veto, since the bill emanated from us in the first place, in the interest of the nation.”

    President Jonathan should endeavour not to unnecessarily delay this bill. He does not have to wait for the expiration of constitutional timeframe before signing it. If he has any objection (since he is allowed to have reasoned objections to aspects of any bill), he should do that in concert with his retinue of aides in diverse areas of specialisation in good time; and not necessarily wait for the cessation of the constitutional 30 days. The president can alter the bill’s modalities since there is nothing sacrosanct about the July date set by the National Assembly, but he cannot reject such an important bill. This Bill on State of the Nation Address is one that should have been in existence a long time ago.

    In our view, there is nothing wrong if the president is legally compelled every year to come before our law makers, foremost government functionaries in the executive and the judiciary and, more importantly, a big crowd of other credible Nigerians, to give account of his stewardship. To foster true democracy, the need to provide a platform to engender accountability, probity and transparency in governance is non-negotiable. Such a forum, to a large extent, will dissuade dangerous speculations within the polity because the needed light would have been shed on cloudy aspects of governance that Nigerians have misgivings about.

    At any point, the public should be certain of what is officially being done to fight corruption, minimise unemployment or ensure that elusive electricity is made constant, and whether the right steps are being taken to provide Infrastructure. At such crucial moments, the president can be challenged for not leading by example. More fundamental is the need for Nigerians to be more apprised of steps taken to nip insecurity in the bud.

    What the National Assembly is urging the president to do through this annual address of the entire country, using the instrumentality of the law, is good. It is a tradition that has endured in well established democracies. It should not be politicised or turned into an instrument of ego tripping by the executive and the federal legislature. We want the president to see the bill as one that is capable of goading the government to see social justice and preservation of fundamental rights of citizens as one salient ingredient of democracy. Former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, deployed the State of the Union Address to convince the Congress and the American public. President Barack Obama is using it to rally the American people round his presidency while Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom is doing same before the House of Commons.

    President Jonathan should sign the bill and grab the opportunity presented by it to enlighten Nigerians on his plans and programmes for them and to boost his approval ratings through his well touted but invisible transformation agenda. Otherwise, the National Assembly should go ahead to over-ride the President on this bill if he does not assent to it within the 30 days that he is expected to do that.

  • Declare June 12 Nigeria’s unity day, Fasehun urges FG

    Declare June 12 Nigeria’s unity day, Fasehun urges FG

    Dr Fredrick Fasehun, Founder of the Odu’a People’s Congress, on Tuesday in Lagos urged the Federal Government to proclaim June 12 Nigeria’s unity day.

    Fasehun told a news conference that June 12 was the truest mark of Nigerian unity.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the historic June 12, 1993 presidential elections, which most observers adjudged fair and free, was believed to have been won by the late business mogul, Chief M.K.O Abiola.

    However, on June 23, the Gen. Ibrahim Babangida-led administration annulled the election and subsequently handed over power to an interim government headed by Chief Ernest Shonekan, a businessman.

    Fasehun said: “Just as the Federal Government has declared May 29 Democracy Day, it should consider proclaiming June 12 unity day.

    “June 12 should be our unity day because on that day, all the constituent units of Nigeria spoke with near-unanimity and elected Abiola their president.’’

    Fasehun, the interim National Chairman of the yet-to-be registered Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), said that Nigerians could not forget June 12 as it had become part of the country’s political history.

    “We remember the rape of June 12. We remember the pains of June 12. We remember the dislocation caused by its cancellation.

    “We remember the lives lost, the limbs lost and the livelihoods lost because of June 12,” he said.

    The politician urged President Goodluck Jonathan to work out a compensation plan for the families of Nigerians, who died in the struggle for democracy.

    “As part of events marking the last Democracy Day, President Goodluck Jonathan announced a N5.7 billion compensation for victims of the 2011 post-election violence.

    “Some governors had made similar gestures in the past. We demand that government should immediately expand the scope of the current compensation plan to include victims of June 12,’’ he said.

    Fasehun also criticised a comment credited to the 2011 Presidential Candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, retired Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, faulting emergency rule in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States.

    He called for a national conference as a way out of the nation’s myriad of problems.

    “National Assembly members should concentrate on their core business of law-making and leave making a new constitution to a sovereign national conference of the federating units.

    “The lawmakers should no longer stand in the way of the conference,” he said.

  • Kwara CAN commends FG for proscribing Boko Haram

    Rev. Cornelius Fawenu, the Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Kwara, has commended the Federal Government for proscribing the Boko Haram sect.

    Fawenu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Ilorin that the proscription was long overdue.

    The clergyman said the Boko Haram insurgency was giving the country and its citizens a bad image outside the country.

    The CAN scribe described the proscription of the militant sect as a welcome development that would bring lasting peace to the northern part of the country.

    Fawenu, who urged the Federal Government to also ban other militant groups in the country, appealed to religious leaders to work for peace.

    “We should all support the Federal Government’s efforts in its quest to wipe out terrorism in the country,” he added.

    He advised adherents of Christianity and Islam not to hide under religious cover to commit crime, adding that both religions preach peace.

  • A divisive president

    A divisive president

    When the history of this political dispensation comes to be written, the name of the late President UmaruYar’Adua will most certainly be emblazoned in gold. Despite his severe ill health and his attendant short tenure in office, the humble, unassuming but highly intelligent man from Katsina State contributed more to the deepening of our democratic advancement than has been appreciated. Yar’Adua succeeded General Obasanjo, who ran what I have often referred to in this column as an imperial presidency. More accurately, the Ota farmer presided over a primitive presidency. It was a presidency that had scant regard for the rule of law or due process. A presidency that paid lip and hypocritical service to the anti-corruption war; one that removed governors with a minority of legislators and in 2003 and 2007 conducted elections that were difficult to distinguish from armed banditry. It was a presidency that routinely disobeyed court orders, the most notorious being the seizure of Lagos State local government funds for over three years despite the express ruling of the Supreme Court that it had no such powers.

    President UmaruYar’Adua could easily have chosen to follow such a precedent by toeing the path of lawlessness, impunity and power drunkenness. But the man simply had too much decency, integrity, honour, dignity and nobility to descend, literally, into the gutter. For one, Yar’Adua admitted that the elections which brought him to power were flawed and promised far reaching electoral reforms. This was at a time that OBJ and the comical Professor Maurice Iwu were proclaiming the freeness and fairness of the election from the roof tops. Even if the cabal around him exploited his fragile health to prevent the full implementation of the recommendations of the justice Mohammed Uwais panel on electoral reforms which he set up, Yar’Adua put the issue of electoral reforms firmly at the forefront of national discourse. Again, he promised at his inauguration to be a servant leader and to abide by the rule of law. He demonstrated his sincerity in this regard by immediately releasing the illegally seized Lagos State government funds. Furthermore, just as he did as Governor of Katsina State, he publicly declared his assets signalling a commitment to transparency and accountability. Had he been of sound health and lived long, Yar’Adua would have been a great and outstanding president since morning is often an indication of what the day will look like.

    When he assumed office on the demise of Yar’Adua, many Nigerians invested so much hope in President Goodluck Jonathan. They confirmed their confidence in him when he emphatically won the 2011 election to commence his own substantive tenure as president. Many voters claimed that they voted for Jonathan and not necessarily for his party. Of course, there were good reasons for the great faith reposed in Jonathan. In the first place was his high scholastic attainment as the first doctorate degree holder to be at the apex of Nigeria’s political leadership. Second, was his infectious simplicity and humility best exemplified by his famous reference to his shoeless childhood. Thirdly, was his frequent affectation of deep religious faith exhibited by a fascinating willingness to kneel down publicly in humility before revered men of God for prayers. Fourthly, was his manner of accession to office during Yar’Adua’s protracted incapacitation. It took vehement demonstrations and protests by civil society organizations led by the Save Nigeria Group (SNG) for the National Assembly to facilitate his assumption of office through what it described as the ‘doctrine of necessity’. It was rightly assumed that such a beneficiary of democratic social action would be most appreciative and protective of democratic values.

    Alas, Nigerians have been proved sorely wrong. The Jonathan presidency has descended to abysmal depths of arbitrariness, impunity and lawlessness reminiscent of the Obasanjo years. President Jonathan has completely deviated from the path of rectitude and cultured restraint trod by Yar’Adua. The first indication of this negative transformation of the Jonathan presidency was his refusal to reinstate the illegally and immorally suspended President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami, despite the decision of the National Judicial Council that the jurist is blameless of any wrong doing. The moral degeneration of the Jonathan presidency was again exhibited when Jonathan ordered out troops to stop peaceful demonstrations in Lagos against the insensitive removal of a phantom oil subsidy and an almost 100% hike in the pump price of fuel. But undoubtedly the greatest manifestation so far of the transformation of Jonathan into a Nebuchadnezzar, Goliath and Pharaoh all rolled into one is the sordid and utterly dishonourable role of the presidency in the current crisis engulfing the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF).

    Of course, no one believes the hog wash of the President’s minders that he has no interest in the leadership of the NGF. That blatant lie itself reveals the grave moral crisis in which the Jonathan presidency is mired. It is no secret that Jonathan is obsessed with discrediting, humiliating and hounding the Chairman of the forum, RotimiAmaechi, Governor of Rivers state out of office. The PDP in Rivers state has been destabilized at the behest of the presidency. The House of Assembly has been practically immobilized with members reportedly being induced to impeach the Governor. Amaechi was under severe pressure not to run for re-election as Chairman of the NGF. Governors were coerced and threatened not to return him as their Chairman. The Presidency blatantly told governors that Jonathan could not work with Amaechi as Chairman of the NGF. But the more Amaechi was victimised, the more sympathy he enjoyed both from the general public and the majority of Governors. Thus, despite all odds, Amaechi won re-election as the NGF Chairman by 19 votes to 16. Rather than take the outcome of the election with grace and good faith, President Jonathan has publicly cast his lot with the minority faction of the NGF, declaring Jonah Jang as Chairman of the NGF against all common sense, reason, logic and visual evidence. Jonathan has thus dragged the presidency to the lowest depths of moral depravity yet since 1999. I remember that when formerNassarawa state Governor, AbdullahiAdamu, was removed as Chairman of the NGF and replaced with Obong Victor Attah of AkwaIbom, during the Obasanjo regime, the presidency did not interfere to split the NGF. This was despite the fact that Adamu was Obasanjo’s close confidante and favourite.

    It is most unfortunate that Jonathan, who was given a pan-Nigerian mandate in the 2011 election, is turning out to be the most divisive leader in the country’s political history. At the rate at which he is going, it will be a miracle if he does not become Nigeria’s Mikael Gorbachev. Here is a President who has not uttered a word to caution his irresponsible and lawless kinsmen who have publicly declared that the country will disintegrate if he is not given a second term in 2015. Why hold any elections if the outcome can be determined before the votes are cast? In 2011, Jonathan opportunisticallydefied the zoning policy of his party to run for election. He rightly claimed that he had the constitutional right to run. He failed to realize that he had a greater moral obligation to respect a gentleman’s agreement and intra-party convention. The outcome was a badly divided country and the descent to violence in the North – a challenge we are still trying to cope with. During the campaign for the 2011 election, Jonathan visited Lagos at least four times. On all occasions, he tried to incite the non-indigenes in the state against the Yoruba. It did not matter to him if he set the cosmopolitan Megacity on fire. All that mattered was winning at all cost. This is surely the President as Machiavellian.

    Now so obsessed and distracted is Jonathan with his 2015 ambition that he is prepared to victimise anyone on his path as well as divide his party and even the country. As Jonathan mutates into a full- fledged dictator, I urge him to reflect soberly on Nigerian history. If the people triumphed over Babangida, Abacha and Obasanjo, they will surely triumph again. The outcome of the NGF election is a pointer to this truism.

  • Reps okay emergency rule

    Reps okay emergency rule

    The House of Representatives on Tuesday declared its support for President Goodluck Jonathan’s proclamation of emergency rule in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States.

    The lawmakers, however, barred the president from utilizing funds of the affected states the way he deemed necessary.

    At the end of lengthy closed-door session where the emergency powers bill sent to the National Assembly was discussed, the House approved the state of emergency declared by the president, but with extensive modification which was designed to focus the president’s mind on security.

     

     

  • Jonathan tasks churches on sanitising the society

    President Goodluck Jonathan has appealed to the church in Nigeria to play a leading role in the attempt to sanitise the country.
    The president who has being campaigning for attitudinal change for effective transformation of the country said if the Church moulds the people especially  the children, Nigeria will be a better place.
    The Church, according to the president has the same responsibilities as the government and political actors.
    The President spoke yesterday at the thirtieth anniversary thanksgiving service of John Cardinal Onaiyekan’s episcopal ordination as a Bishop and appointment to the College of Cardinal held at Our Lady Queen of Nigeria, Catholic Church, Abuja.
    Onaiyekan who is the fourth Nigerian Catholic priest was the immediate past President of the Christian Association of Nigeria and former President of English Speaking Bishops in Africa.
    The  President also appreciated the efforts of the Church at promoting inter-religious dialogue in the country.
    Jonathan noted that the appointment of Onaiyekan to the position of Cardinal was a clear recognition by the Vatican of the immense contributions of the Church in Nigeria to the worldwide catholic movement.
    Earlier, in his sermon titled “the infant king of Bethlehem”, Onaiyekan spoke about the Epiphany and circumstances of the birth of Jesus Christ.

    He said the circumstances of the birth of Jesus Christ a ruler of justice and peace should be a great lesson for the country, particularly in the area of religion.

    The cardinal noted that a true religion must be opened to all, embrace peace and devoid of blood shedding.

    “That Nigeria is deeply religious is a precious asset.

    “It is however sad that our image abroad is tainted with fanatism, religious intolerance, killing and shedding of blood.

    “We must not allow this to continue. We have to strive to live in peace in our nation with our differences of tribe, culture, tradition, language and religion.

    “We must see the image of God in everybody around us and apply the golden rule that we should do to others only what we can do to ourselves.

  • President Jonathan’s implacable enemies

    It will be recalled that President Jonathan had during his election campaign in 2011 claimed that he had no enemies to fight. I had then on this page cautioned that the many challenges of the country constitute his intractable enemies. Unfortunately, despite the President’s best efforts so far, the problems of the country seem to have increased and without fear for his high office, daringly strike with careless abandon. Now if these enemies can challenge the President at his doorsteps, you can better imagine the dire consequences for the ordinary Nigerians.

    One dangerous enemy that Mr. President has been unable to placate is poor health facilities. But for this monster plaguing our dear country, President Jonathan’s beloved junior brother, Chief Meni Jonathan may still be alive today. While mourning his death, at a relatively young age of 55 years, we must remember that he is most probably a victim of the inefficient health facilities in the country. While sympathizing with the immediate family of the dead, his passage is a confirmation that the average life expectancy in Nigeria is merely 50 years plus. And this is applicable even to the newly rich.

    As the stream of important dignitaries join those of us ordinary Nigerians to console Mr. President and his family, we must remind him that the recent report that Nigeria is among the worst place to be born in the world in 2011, is likely not a fluke. In the words of Mr. President, his late junior brother hid his health condition from him, and when he was told that he was sick, he confronted the young man, and was planning to fly him out of the country before he suddenly died. While I sincerely wished that Mr. President had the chance to fly his brother abroad for proper medical care, may I also remind him that if basic health facilities where available in the country, our dear brother would not need a presidential intervention to get proper medical attention.

    Before Mr. President could get back to his duty post in Abuja penultimate Monday, after the burial of his brother, another of his arch enemies struck at the very engine room of his transformation agenda. A gang of criminals choose to advertise Mr. President’s implacable nemesis, national insecurity. The bandits choose to abduct 82 year old mother of our revered minister for finance, in broad day light, in front of her palace. Of course while the kidnappers’ motive remains a matter of speculation, one clear message is that the national security is on tenterhooks. Thankfully, the massive intervention of our entire national security apparatus saw to the release of the Professor of Sociology, and Queen Mother of ancient Ogwashiuku kingdom, in Delta state.

    Few weeks back, a distinguished Professor of law and former Vice- Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Professor Ilochi Okafor was abducted by armed bandits, in Enugu. After weeks in the hands of the criminals and incredible demands as ransom, the erudite former teacher of Law of Evidence, at the University of Nigeria, was released to his family. Before that incident, the criminal trade in kidnapping has assumed epidemic proportions in Anambra, Imo and Delta state, and many other surrounding states, with the nation completely helpless. The result is that many distinguished Nigerians have completely abandoned their native lands, since the Nigerian state has shown incapacity to deal with this alarming criminal trade.

    As we rejoice with our dear Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, her father and the Monarch of Ogwashiuku, Professor Okonjo over the release of the Queen, there is the greater urgency for Mr. President and his security apparatchik to reevaluate his strategies against these implacable enemies. It is a matter for concern that more than two-thirds of the country has become unlivable, because of insecurity. Of course I am talking of the entire North East, substantial part of North- West, South-East and South-South. Those who claim that insecurity in Nigeria is assuming an epidemic proportion may not be exaggerating after all. Despite these menacing signals, the President professes that Nigeria is safe, forcing many to wonder if Mr. President has not become part of the problem.

     

    Governors Sullivan and Yakowa

    As I was about concluding this piece, there was speculation on the state of health of the Governor of my state, Barrister Sullivan Chime. Many blogs had reported that he died in India, of undisclosed ailment. Governor Chime has been out of the state for about two months, unfortunately with little information in the public domain, as to the cause of his long absence. Chime as Governor has made giant strides, and I believe the cause of his absence should be fully disclosed. The report that the SSG, the Chief of Staff and wife of the Governor were contending for power with the Deputy Governor, if true, is regrettable.

    The tragic end of Governor Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State and Gen.

    Oweyi Azazi, the former national security adviser is heart rendering. The duo was reported to have gone to mourn with President Jonathan’s special adviser, Oronto Douglas, who lost his father. No doubt Yakowa’s death will bring more distress to Kaduna in the throes of religious acrimony and incendiary extremism. While we mourn their death, it is necessary to find out what caused the crash; and why they were being ferried in a Navy helicopter, while on a private visit.

    My prayer is for God Nigerians, particularly Mr. President the courage to confront these manmade and natural monsters. And here is wishing my readers a happy Christmas and New Year. See you next year.

  • Healthcare: Letter to President Jonathan

    Healthcare: Letter to President Jonathan

    Your Excellency, you will recall I wrote you sometime in September of this year expressing my dismay over the sorry state of Nigeria’s education system. I did promise to write you shortly to express the disenchantment of Nigerians on a variety of issues and this time I have elected to start with health care.

    Time and again we have witnessed unnecessary deaths as a result of insufficient and very poor medical services offered all over Nigeria. The most painful scenarios are when the victims of these poor healthcare systems in place and their families know they could have pulled through with better services

    It beats my imagination that 21st century Nigeria, a country that is one of the largest producers of crude oil in the world cannot offer free medical care to her citizens or even when not free, a quality and well subsidized medical care. There is nothing more shameful than this situation and one would have thought that it should be your first priority to increase the live span of the average Nigerian through quality healthcare. Every year we lose thousands of people from the increasing occurrences of kidney, heart and cancer ailments and yet we think it is normal. Nigerians raise monies to take their own to India but a responsible government should have taken a bold step to intervene in these sufferings by inviting the Indians health professionals to perform the surgical operations in Nigeria at the expense of the government.

    Just recently, the governor of Taraba State Mr. Suntai was involved in a plane crash and I learned he has been flown to Germany for “better medical attention” and my question remains why do we not have a solid system in place to take care of such emergencies? After all these years, it is a crying shame that we still have to rely on the West for medical emergencies such as Mr. Suntai’s crash. I do not know of Mr. Suntai’s personal finances and I am not sure who would pick up the bill for his treatment in Germany but I strongly doubt whether this government would assist any “less important” Nigerian that finds himself in Mr. Suntai’s shoes. This is another glaring example of placing a premium on the life of a few Nigerians over the rest of the people even when in fact these people (the former) have not paid any amount of money for health insurance coverage to this government to warrant any special treatment. My own points of view are simple and they are as follows;

    1) Comprehensive healthcare for all irrespective of status- Nigeria must adopt a system that resembles the NHS trust in the United Kingdom but without placing undue burden on the salaries of the working class people. We must take care of our own by investing heavily in the health sector through providing up to date medical training and upgrading available facilities, using those hospitals which “you” people visit in Europe and America as models.

    2) It is time to truly perform turnaround maintenance of our health institutions. We need specialist doctors all over Nigeria. We need quality training of medical staff and we need a stable system that does not close because of strikes. I was reliably informed in 2009, that the teaching hospital at Enugu did not have functional indoor plumbing. Patients and their families had to rely on buying water in order to meet their needs. Imagine a teaching hospital of that nature without water, what kind of medicine were people practicing there in the first place? There should be a special task force on revamping these comatose institutions for better efficiency. Re-training of our healthcare workers to respond to emergencies is so imperative.

    Ugoo Anieto

    United States