Insecurity: Address Nigerians in your own voice, PDP dares Buhari
Insecurity: Address Nigerians in your own voice, PDP dares
Buhari
By Dirisu Yakubu – Abuja Against the backdrop
of worsening insecurity in the country, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has
called on President Muhammadu Buhari to personally address Nigerians on steps
being taken by the federal government to restore normalcy in the land.
This is as the party said the statement
credited to Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, that the federal government
is not duty-bound to prosecute bandits, is a confirmation that the Buhari-led
Presidency has surrendered to terrorists. In a statement signed by its spokesman,
Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP stressed that the minister’s remark is another clear
evidence “that President Muhammadu Buhari is indeed absent, has completely
abdicated the responsibilities of his office and capitulated to bandits.” The
statement read: “Lai Mohammed’s statement further reveals that the Buhari
Presidency has not been committed to combating banditry but had, all along,
been feeding Nigerians with lies, propaganda, and falsehood, while bandits are
pillaging our nation. “It is incredulous that the Buhari Presidency, in its
failures, is abdicating a responsibility exclusively vested on it by the 1999
Constitution (as amended) to operate all apparatus of national security; the
police, military, paramilitary and all other armed services; to secure lives
and property in all parts of our country. “Perhaps, President Buhari and his
minister of information need to be tutored that the Second Schedule (exclusive
legislative list) clearly vested the control of all apparatus of national
security on the Federal Government and not the states.
“Items 2, 28, 38, 45, 57 of the exclusive
list are clear in vesting the operation of the police, the military and other
armed services; the control of arms and ammunitions as well as criminal records
among other statutory paraphernalia of national security on the federal
government and not the state. “The APC and the Buhari Presidency needs to be
tutored that bandits and kidnappers are terrorists and that in line with the
provisions of our constitution, the agencies vested with the statutory
responsibility of protecting Nigerians from such outlaws are under the control
of the Federal Government.
“It is
unthinkable that President Buhari, who promised to lead from the front, is now
running away from duty while seeking to heap the burden of his office on the
states, who do not have control of security agencies. “Moreover, the fact that
a cabinet minister in the shade of Lai Mohammed is left to address this
critical aspect of our national security that is vested on the President, shows
that our nation is plagued by Presidential absenteeism and a dysfunctional
command structure. “Such situation never occurred under the PDP administration.
“Now that President Buhari and the APC-led federal government can no longer
guarantee the safety of lives and property, the only way out is for the
National Assembly to immediately amend the constitution and establish state
police to guarantee the security of Nigerians as already recommended by the
PDP. “The PDP calls on President Buhari to come out of hiding and address the
nation, in his own voice, on the worsening insecurity in our country,
occasioned by his misrule.”
Nigeria News Paper
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