Enyinnaya Abaribe, a Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) senator from Abia state, has taunted President Muhammadu
Buhari by asking him to take responsibility for just “one thing”.
He said this on Thursday while
contributing to a debate on a motion sponsored by Attai Aidoko, senator
representing Kogi east.
While moving the motion, Aidoko
said suspected herdsmen invaded some villages in his constituency and killed 30
people on Wednesday.
Abaribe lamented that killings in
the country had become an everyday occurrence.
The Abia senator wondered if the
executive has taken responsibility for the attacks across the country.
“The commander-in-chief of
Nigeria is in charge of security and when the commander-in-chief says I don’t
know what happened, then we have to worry if our security is actually in the
right hands,” he said.
“But let us go from there and
also bring to the fore another aspect which the senate leader mentioned. He
said the security forces are overstretched. We agree but distinguished Senator
Marafa told us here that information was given to the same security people, the
governor was dancing ‘arambakoso’ somewhere else and left state’s security. Is
that not what you said?
“It is not a question of having
enough people, it is a question of not acting on the intelligence that you
have. I can’t blame them for actions because the president says I don’t know.
So, Mr President, let us beg this president to take responsibility for one
thing; it’s not everything that you don’t know. We need to be safe in Nigeria.”
On his part, Dino Melaye, senator
representing Kogi west, said the issue of insecurity in the country is still
being treated with kid gloves.
“We have not shown the needed
efforts to combat this problem. We are still treating the issue of security
with kid gloves. If you see the gory pictures of people that are maimed – if we
cannot show capacity, do we want to continue complaining?” he asked.
“It is the poor that is dying.
Let us for once call on Mr President, call on governors of these respective
states who are the chief security officers of those states.”
Thereafter, the senate urged
Ibrahim Idris, inspector-general of police (IGP), to arrest those behind the
killings.
The upper legislative chamber
also asked Buhari to direct the army to move into troubled spots.
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