Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers
state, has blamed the high level of insecurity in the nation on the politics
the federal government allegedly played with the security situation in Rivers
state.
Nigeria is currently going
through difficult times as there is hardly any day that there are no reports of
killings across the country.
Speaking at government house,
Port Harcourt, when the governing council of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) paid him a courtesy visit on Tuesday, Wike asked
the federal government to live up to its responsibility.
He wondered why the government
plotted to “declare a state of emergency” in Rivers when the state had security
challenges.
“The federal government
politicised the issue of security in Rivers state at a time when her
intervention was required. That is why the whole country has been engulfed by
insecurity,” he said.
“Every day you hear that people
are being killed like chickens. In Taraba, Plateau, Kogi, Benue, Zamfara,
Kwara, Nasarawa, Kaduna, Yobe and Borno states.”
On last week robbery in Offa,
Kwara state, he said, “After 50 persons were murdered in cold blood, the very
next day, the authorities claimed that 7 persons have been arrested. If the
security agencies have the capacity to arrest almost immediately, why not stop
the killings?”
Earlier, Muhammadu Zakari,
president of ICAN, commended the governor for executing projects that have
“stimulated the economy of the state”.
He said ICAN is keen to partner
with the state government on issues that concern the organisation.
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