The pan Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, has
expressed worries over Nigeria’s insecurity level.
Condemning the kidnappings, and killings in Ogbomosho, Ondo
State, Southeast, and the Northern part of the country, Afeneifere wondered if
President Muhammadu Buhari was aware of the situation.
A statement by the organization’s National Publicity
Secretary, Jare Ajayi, on Monday said the rate at which insecurity was festering;
it was as though no authority could reign in the monster.
He noted that going by the country’s constitution, President
Muhammadu Buhari, who is the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, is the
person on whose shoulder the security and welfare of Nigerians squarely lies.
According to Ajayi: “Unfortunately, we have not seen
veritable indications that the C-in-C is aware of the enormity of the situation
or is putting up any strategy to arrest it.”
Recalling President Buhari’s speech during this year’s
Democracy Day celebration where he confessed that “I am living daily with the
grief and worry for all those victims and prisoners of terrorism and
kidnapping,” Afenifere spokesman submitted that the business of the Nigerian
president is not to ‘grieve’ for victims of terrorism but to ensure that
terrorism, kidnapping and allied crimes do not occur at all in the country.
Recall that within two weeks; there have been about three
kidnappings in Ogbomoso in Oyo State, leading to the death of some victims, the
beheading of five people in the South East, abduction of people in Katsina,
Kaduna, Nassarawa and Niger, killing and abduction of about 15 people including
Indian expatriates in Kogi State and abductions of some chiefs in Akoko area of
Ondo State etc all within days.
However, Ajayi noted that “These are in addition to several
of such dastardly acts that have been happening in different parts of the
country with increasing ferocity.”
He also alluded to the report from Ondo State where the
Amotekun corps intercepted two trucks carrying 151 young men and women.
“Ordinarily, there is nothing wrong with people moving from
one part of the country to the other. But if those people were not on a satanic
mission, why would they hide under bags of rice and beans? Why would they not
be able to state their mission and actual destinations? They claim to have been
raked from Kano, Katsina and Jigawa States to come to the South West for a
mission or missions that they were not told about. Afenifere commends the
efforts of the Ondo State government and Amotekun officers for the gallant work
they are doing.
“Equally important, President Muhammadu Buhari needs to come
out and let perpetrators of terrorism and kidnapping know that he has had
enough. He should let them realize that the pact he signed with Nigerians was
not to come and see to the serial termination of their lives but to ensure
their security, improve their welfare and move the nation to a desirable next
level. Unfortunately, the president has not been able to deliver on any of the
desirables. He only brought to the nation, the negatives which were far from
the expectation of anybody.”
Ajayi lamented that due to the kid-glove manner with which
the government is dealing with them, “terrorists and kidnappers have been so
emboldened that they now attack security institutions at will and malevolently
go into houses of their victims to deal with fellow Nigerians – all under the
watch of government and security agencies.”
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