There was a heavy criticism of government policy on national
security occasioned by the motion sponsored by Nigeria’s Senate leader, Yahaya
Abdullahi on Wednesday.
The motion tagged: ”Nigerian Security Challenges: Urgent
need to restructure, review and reorganize the current security Architecture”,
brought to the floor by the lawmaker representing Kebbi North Senatorial
district was one motion with multi-dimensional reactions.
Wednesday’s debate by Senators which lasted six hours had
Parliamentarians condemning the high level of insecurity in Nigeria under the
present administration.
The debate dovetailed into the Senate Minority Leader,
Enyinnaya Abaribe calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign immediately,
having failed to protect the lives and property of Nigerians.
Senate leader who is an ally of the Senate President, Dr
Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan and a staunch member of the ruling All Progressives
Congress (APC) further maintained that there was a need to redefine approaches to
the security challenges in Nigeria.
His words: “It is our view that implementation strategy must
be operationalised in a manner that takes a critical and intrusive review of
the nature, structure and disposition of the security institutions.”
According to him, the failure of government in tackling
insecurity has manifestly made citizens to resort to self help, a situation he
posited, was dangerous to the nation.
“Senate further notes that various local, state and regions
have responded to these security challenges by way of self-help initiative,
such as civilian JTF, Hisbah, Yausakal Yanbanga and more recently, Amotekun in
South-West Nigeria.
“These was mainly an expression of peoples desperation and
disappointment with the failure of the state security architecture to protect
them”, Senator Yahaya Abdullahi insisted.
In his submission, Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege
maintained that the security architecture was not working effectively while
calling for a functional approach to how security could work.
Senator Thompson George Sekibo explained that the orgy of
insecurity was a creation of Nigeria politicians and the elite.
He said Nigerians have planted evil which was responsible
for the high level of criminality in the country, adding that whatever a man
sows, he reaps.
“Mr. President, distinguished colleagues, Nigerians have
sinned against God that they need to confess for forgiveness”, he said.
Sekibo’s counterpart, Senator Betty Apiafi called on
President Muhammadu Buhari to sack heads of security Chiefs, saying that they
have outlived their tenures in office.
While Senators were unanimous in condemnation of FG’s
handling of security challenges which suggested that there was no party divides
in their debates, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha posited that the failure of the
executive in the handling of security issues was the failure of the entire arms
of government.
“Mr. President, the failure, we are seeing today in Nigeria
is the failure of all the three arms of government, that is the Executive,
judiciary and the legislature.
Meanwhile, Senator Adetunmbi Ayodeji Olubunmi warned that
the war-torn Somalia, Iraq, South Sudan and Syria started like this until those
countries went into meltdown.
He called on the amendment to the Police Act in order to
unbundle the security monopoly, adding that there was a gradual
delegitimisation of the Nigeria state by armed bandits.
“Nigeria has a monopoly of its security and that is what led
to armed banditry and ethnoreligious militias. Syria started like this before
it finally reached a meltdown situation.
“Nigeria is in war. Nigeria is in crisis and let’s face the
fact. Nigeria is the only country that doesn’t tolerate State policing”, the
lawmaker said.
Apart from Senator Samuel Ominyi Egwu who pointed out that
the insecurity in Nigeria started before President Buhari administration, they
all took turns to condemn the present administration, saying that the FG has
failed Nigerians.
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