The Yoruba socio-cultural organization, Afenifere, has
described the announcement by the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar
Malami, that the federal government may declare a state of emergency in Anambra
State as a self-indictment.
Afenifere said Malami’s remark was more of a verdict of
failure on the part of the federal government to provide security rather than
the failure of the Anambra State government.
Jare Ajayi, National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, said:
“To shift the failure-blame to the state government is therefore shocking and
unfortunate.”
In a statement he signed, Ajayi said: “It was in order for
the federal government to warn that the incessant violence in the state was
unacceptable and may lead to undesirable consequence, but it is a height of
blame game and hypocrisy to put all the blame on the state government when it
is clear that the main security apparatuses in the country are controlled
exclusively by the federal government.
“The highest any state government in Nigeria is allowed to
do in terms of security is to set up local vigilante groups who cannot carry
equipment necessary to combat insecurity in this 21st security. The kind of
weapon they could carry under the present Nigerian law is the type a person
going to hunt for game in the bush can carry while those they are supposed to
confront are armed with almost the most sophisticated weapons available.”
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