Train Attack: APC Chieftain Carpets Falana over Amaechi
The violent train attack witnessed on the Abuja-Kaduna axis of the nation on March 28, 2022 has continued to ignite reactions among key actors.
Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress and erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New People’s Democratic Party (nPDP), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has described as a serious blunder in etiquette, comments credited to a renowned Rights Lawyer, Femi Falana SAN, over the Kaduna-bound train attack.
In a statement made available to THECONSCIENCEng, Chief Eze said as expected, during his visit to the scene of the train attack, Transportation Minister, Chibuike Amaechi, lamenting over the huge human and material loss said the incident would have been averted had his proposal for the award of contract for installation of sophisticated security gadgets on the rail lines, presented before the federal executive council, was approved.
That statement attracted commendations from every responsible Nigerian especially those who understand the depth of the Minister’s sense of foresight.
However, in a swift turn of event, Falana in his very bitter quality of thought engaged himself into a careless fit of uncensored wrath against the Transportation Minister and attempted to cajole Nigerians into believing that the train attack was the brainchild of Chibuike Amaechi.
Falana had called for the prosecution of Chibuike Amaechi and the Director General of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, for criminal negligence manufactured and only existing in the figment of his own imagination.
Condemning Falana’s outburst, Eze said the Senior Advocate must aver his mind to the fact that there is risk of accident in virtually every human endeavor. A driver plying the highway knows that a car is a lethal weapon and there could be accident as he journeys through the road.
If eventually an accident occurs, is it reasonable to call for the arrest of the Works Minister whose duty it is to construct and put our roads in order? Eze queried.
He questioned the validity of a call for the arrest of an Aviation Minister in event of a terrorist attack leading to a plane crash where he has provided every necessary infrastructure in airports for a smooth taking-off and landing of airplanes or the arrest of the National Security Adviser (NSA) or the Army Chief of Staff after the killing of our ten soldiers in Kaduna recently?
As inconsequential and idiotic as the propositions above seem, Eze said so is Falana’s call for the prosecution of Amaechi for criminal negligence.
Describing the comment as vitriolic and cruel, Eze said such statement made in the heat of the tension mounted across the country in the wake of the attack amounts to nothing less than sedition.
He said Falana’s pointless opinion almost engulfed a cascade of dangerous vitriol and validates every feeling that the old wig may have taken an active job with wrongdoers spewing seditious vitriol in a deliberate attempt to incite a rebellion against the Buhari/APC government and thus should be arrested and investigated.
The fact remains that his utterance is clearly as illogical, unreasonable and flamboyantly idiotic as asking the Minister of Works and Housing to be held responsible and in fact, be arrested and prosecuted for accidents, armed robbery and bandit attacks on the Nigerian highways.
By the circumstances surrounding the rejection of the Minister’s proposal for installation of security gadgets to prevent crimes and criminality around the railways, Falana should know that should there be anyone to bear an iota of blame in the whole train incident, it should be the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbanjo who chaired the FEC Meeting where that all-important proposal was thrown overboard.
Emphasizing that the unwarranted attacks against Amaechi is not unconnected to the fact that Nigerians are relying on him to rescue the country and reposition her on the path of true progress come 2023, Eze said every effort to thwart that divine arrangement will come to naught as the awesome God who kept Amaechi this far is still on his throne.
Eze reiterated that Falana and hirelings mobilised in this regard that they can’t destroy Amaechi because Nigerians trust him.
The party Chief called on Falana to resist the urge to be inveigled into a situation in which he finds himself becoming partisan agents of wrongdoers in the pursuit of their selfish, private vendetta and focus on guarding and building on his achievements in the legal profession where he has made very remarkable imprints.
