It is already a fact that the Senate and the House of Representatives have united one more rare time to jointly decry, in a united voice with the Nigerian masses about the state of insecurity in the Northern part of the country.
While meeting with eminent citizens from Niger State at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Monday, President Muhammadu Buhari feigned surprise that there was still insecurity in the nation.
The president’s statement at the occasion caught so many Nigerians unprepared as they expected that the president is at least being intimated of the number of security lapses in the nation.
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This was what must have pushed the National Assembly during its plenary in Abuja on Wednesday to jointly call for the sack of the security chiefs while some called for the president to resign.
The service chiefs comprising the Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin; Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai; Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar; and the Chief of Naval Staff, Ibok Ekwe Ibas, seem not to be either bothered or effective enough for the security challenges facing the nation.
The Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), was joined on the floor by Senators Musa Sani, Betty Apiafi, and Solomon Adeola to ask the President to sack the service chiefs.
Abaribe who said that retaining the service chiefs after displaying their incompetence at handling the security situation would be detrimental to the country, added boldly that the president himself should resign too.
Same Wednesday, it was reported in the media that another set of villages in Plateau state have been attacked by Fulani herdsmen.
The Governor of Plateau state, Solomon Lalong, who reportedly remarked that enough is enough ordered the state commissioner of Police to arrest the leaders of the mastermind of the attack.
As of Friday morning, the leaders of the attack in Plateau have been reported arrested and taken to the Police Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in Abuja for interrogation.
Ostensibly, and perhaps so as to appear like they were up to the task, a security council meeting comprising the National Security Adviser (NSA) and the embattled service chiefs met with the President on Thursday to discuss the country’s security situation for the umpteenth time.
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And so far, no word has come from the presidency to address the National Assembly’s resolution for the sack of the incompetent service chiefs. If anything, all we heard from the presidency was the senior special assistant to the president on media, delivering a counter-attack on the Senator Abaribe’s call for the president to resign – not even addressing any of the concerns raised by the eminent Nigerians who have lent their voice to the insecurity matter.
It was because of the lack of positive results in tackling security challenges that the South-West geo-political group came up with their own security architecture called Operation Amotekun. If other regions are serious, they may have to emulate this same strategy for a lasting resolution.
The most imminent implication of the whole fiasco during the week boils down to one fact: the president has been insulated quite much from the exact reality of Nigerians and so he could not see things for himself.
Perhaps, the President is now filled up to the brim with myriads of lies and propaganda which has been fed to him daily since 2015 to the reality of Nigerians and the country at large. The people may finally have to get their president one way or another – else it may return to ground zero.
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