Officeholders Should Be Stopped From Seeking Medical Treatment Abroad

A human rights lawyer by the name of Femi Falana is urging Nigerians to ensure that officeholders stop seeking medical care abroad so as to make them develop health facilities in Nigeria.

Mr. Falana stated this at the First Mohammed Fawehinmi Memorial Lecture and Book Presentation and insisted that if officeholders were required to have their medical care performed in Nigeria, they would be compelled to provide adequate health facilities for the masses.

As he spoke on the theme ‘Nigerian Masses and The Election’, Mr. Falana said that Nigerians should take the 2023 general elections seriously.

According to him, the medical tourism performed by public officeholders is responsible for their disdain regarding the medical facilities that they provide for the people, “Enough of health tourism. Anybody who holds public office must be treated in Nigeria for any health challenge. Public office holders must die here.”

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He explained that since Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s knee surgery took place in the country a few weeks ago, officeholders should be compelled to do the same.

Speaking about citizens’ preparedness for the 2023 polls, Falana said, “The business of next year is not a joke. The people must challenge their parties to address the various issues the country is facing. Questions should be asked on health issues, the ASUU strike, insecurity, and the economy. Their position on all these issues and how they plan to end them for good.”

The human rights lawyer also urged the Chief of Defence Staff to live up to his promise that the 2023 general election must hold. He lamented that this promise has become necessary given that so many Nigerian communities are under the control of bandits and that the security agencies seemed helpless.

He said it was tragic that bandits were controlling parts of the country and threatening to abduct the president, “Now people are praying that the threat to capture the president should be carried out. That shows the level of frustration of the people.”