Human rights activist, Femi Falana has accused the
government of President Muhammadu Buhari of defending killer-herdsmen which was
why the issues continued.
He said it has come to a point where the people needed to
defend themselves as the Buhari-led government had failed the people.
According to Falana, that was why he had accused the Buhari
administration of portraying itself as defending herders and not other
Nigerians because Almajiris have been deported, beggars and the destitute
deported, but that the President never defended them.
“The government never raised any constitutional issues. My position is that the government can stop the citizens from taking the law into their own hands to assure the people in concrete terms of the security of their lives and property. It is a simple and straight forward matter,” he said in an interview on The Punch Online programme.
He said Nigerians elected people into offices and that it
was the duty of the government to defend them.
“And I expect Nigerians to mobilise and compel the
government to guarantee the security of lives of everybody. So, it is not about
citizens attacking one another; it is about not allowing the government to
dodge their responsibilities to the people,” he said.
Falana stated that Section 14, sub-section 2b provided that
the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of
government.
He said that section did not say, the security of the people
shall be the responsibility of any citizen and that the government must perform
the duty “and there are solutions to these problems that have not been
addressed.”
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