Fatuhu Muhammed (representing Daura/Sandamu/Mai’Adua constituency in Katsina State), alleged that those in charge of the security outfits in the country were benefitting from the crises. He also stated that while Buhari, as the President of Nigeria, should be held responsible, “we have to look at our structural problem.”
Mohammed, while calling for better oversight by the National Assembly, stated, “When it is appropriation period, we don’t take things very seriously.” He added, “These people will come and present their budgets and move on and we give money to them. There is no oversight. How do you expect us to checkmate them?”
The lawmaker alleged, “It is business. They know there is no military coup. The only way they can make money is through this. How will they want the security issues to end? I don’t understand what is happening in this country.”
Commenting, Chairman of the House Committee on Police Affairs, Usman Kumo, on his part called for the removal of the NSA and the defense minister.
He stated, “If the President means well for this country, and if we are really trying to look for a solution, he has to immediately sack the National Security Adviser. Two, he has to remove his Minister of Defence.”
The Presidency on Wednesday in Abuja said calls for the resignation of the President would not solve the security problems facing the country.
The Northern Elders’ Forum had on Tuesday called for Buhari’s resignation.
But in the statement signed late Tuesday by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the Presidency said “It is enough to say from our part, that resignation call on of the President is not a solution to the security problems facing the country, something that has built up to a worrisome level following decades of neglect.”
In the statement titled ‘Reforms in internal security to take hold sooner than later,’ the Presidency argued that the security challenges which predated the Buhari regime had built up to a worrisome level following decades of neglect.
It read in part “It is enough to say from our part, that resignation call on of the President is not a solution to the security problems facing the country, something that has built up to a worrisome level following decades of neglect.”
Meanwhile, the Christian Association of Nigeria (Youth Wing) said on Wednesday that the Federal Government should work with those who claimed to know the terrorists, bandits and their hideouts to identify and arrest the criminals breaching the peace and security of the country
YOWICAN made the submissions in a communiqué signed by its chairman, Belusochukwu Enwere and Secretary, Bako Elijah, at the end of its National Executive Council meeting which held in Abuja.
Also, the Christian Elders Forum of Northern States, Kaduna State chapter, decried the incessant killings and destruction of property going on in different parts of the country.
A statement by the state Chairman of the forum, Garba Asandu, stated, “Current happenings in our great country, Nigeria, have forced us to come out with words of sympathy, empathy, encouragement, advice, and caution as elders and leaders in our communities. The high rate of insecurity in our country, and particularly Kaduna state, is very condemnable by all right-thinking people.”
Also, the Kaduna State chapter of the Christian Elders Forum of Northern decried the incessant killings and destruction of property across the country.
In a statement by NOSCEF’s state chairman, Elder Garba Asandu…
