Security: Buhari, APC Have Failed Nigerians - Reps

Date: 2018-04-16

An All Progressives Congress (APC) House of Representatives member, Mr. Ahman Pategi, has lamented that his party and President Muhammadu Buhari have failed to achieve security of lives and properties of Nigerians which was one of their cardinal promises while seeking for power in 2015.

Pategi, from Kwara State, stated this at the plenary of the House presided over by Speaker Yakubu Dogara on Thursday, while contributing to a motion raised by another member from Kwara, Mr. Oluyonu Tokpe.

Tokpe had raised the robbery attacks on commercial banks, police station and people in Offa, Kwara State as a matter of urgent public importance, calling on the Federal Government to beef up security in the entire Southern senatorial district in Kwara State.

Tokpe had expressed worries over how about 30 armed robbers invaded Offa in broad daylight, shot at anything on sight, raided at least four commercial banks and killed several policemen and other persons.

"Mr. Speaker, they attacked police stations, killed the policemen; they shot at our people and proceeded to attack banks freely without response from any quarters. As we speak, all the banks in Kwara-South are shut down. You can imagine the implication on the economy and business of the state.

"If armed robbers can enter a town, drive in a convoy of about 10 vehicles, sack a police station and raid banks, it calls for an urgent enquiry," he said.

In his contribution to the motion, Pategi told the House that from the eyewitnesses' accounts, the robbers operated for more than one and a half hours.

He then said, "We need to check the entire security apparatus of our country. These people killed eight policemen and anyone they saw, they shot and killed the person. This is quite disturbing, to say the least.

"Yes, I am a member of the All Progressives Congress. One of the three things the party and Mr. President promised Nigerians in 2015 was security. Today, we are not achieving it and we must confront this reality and tackle the security issues all over the country."

Also in support of the motion, Deputy Speaker Yussuff Lasun, noted that the pattern of the attacks indicated that there might be something more to it.

He added, "This was exactly the same way Boko Haram started and became a problem the country is battling till today."

Another member, the chairman, House Committee on Works, Mr. Toby Okechukwu, said that it was due to sick security system which is currently evident in Nigeria that warranted the increasing calls for Nigerians to defend themselves.

"Gen. T.Y. Danjuma has made this call; just days ago, the Governor of Benue State (Samuel Ortom) called for self-help; in Birnin Gwari, the emir has asked people to defend themselves; it is happening everywhere.

"In a country where people are calling for self-help, what it means is that the conventional or official security system is dysfunctional. When a state is unable to provide security, something must give way. The role of government is to find solutions to crises and insecurity. The role of government is not to find faults or resort to blame-game. If a government wants to continue to pass blame, then it must give way."

The motion was thereafter passed in a unanimous voice vote.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Haliru Dantoro     Lanwa     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Tunji Moronfoye     Bamidele Aluko     Suleiman Ajadi     Musbau A. Akanji     Shonga Farm Project     Tope Daramola     Kwara Pdp     Biliaminu Aliu     Ademola Kiyesola     Lukman Adeloyin     Salman Suleiman     Yusuf A. Usman     Falokun-Oja     KWACOBPA     Salmon Babatunde Salmon     Abdul-Rahoof Bello     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     NAWOJ     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Ibrahim Jawondo     Monthly Sanitation Exercise     Saad Belgore     Alapado     KwaraLearn     Abdullateef Abdussalam     Hamza Usman     Florence Saraki     Sunday Fagbemi     Durosinlohun Atiku     Association Of Kwara State Online Media Practitioners     2023 Elections     Samuel Elizabeth Keatswa     2017 Budget     Sabi     Shehu Alimi Foundation     Kwara North     08001000100     IF-K     Isau     CT Ayeni     Mutawali Of Ilorin     Muhammed Aliyu     Modibo Kawu     Igbaja     Kwara NIPR     Isiaka Danmeromu     Lawal Jimoh     Taofeek Sanusi     Yunus Oniboki     Makama Of Ilorin     NFAI     Segun Ogunsola     Moronfoye     Ahmed Bolaji Nagode     Bluenile Associates     Jelili Yusuf     Towobola Abdulrahman Toyin     Agboola Abdulraheem     Azeez Salawu     Nigerian Medical Association     Olayinka Jelili Yusuf     Cassava Growers\' Association     Adewuyi Funmilayo     Mohammed Lawal     Khairat Gwadabe     Jimoh Bashir     Fareedah Dankaka     Esinrogunjo     Ayodele Olaosebikan     KWSIEC     Face Masks     Muftau Akanbi Oke     Ali Ahmad     Valsolar Consortium    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

N-Power     Obayomi Azeez     Suleiman Yahya Alapansapa     Doyin Group     Kwara North     Lola Olabayo     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Abubakar Ndakene     Omu-aran     Egbewole     Ariyo     08001000100     Anilelerin     Tinubu     Basic Education Certificate Examination     Is\'haq Modibbo Kawu     Mohammed Halidu     Eruku     Akeem Olatunji     Omoniyi     Irepodun     JAMB     Daud Adeshola     Obasanjo     GRA     Okin Biscuit     Harrison Osauwagboe     A.E. Afolabi     Sabo-Oke     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     TESCOM     Omu Aran     Senior Staff Union Of Colleges Of Education     Sardauna Of Ilorin     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants Ltd     Kwara State Health Insurance Agency     Okin High School     Monthly Sanitation Exercise     Yekeen Alabi     Samuel Adedoyin     Balogun Gambari     Wasiu Odewale     Atiku Abubakar     Fatima Abolore Jimoh     Kunle Suleiman     Balogun Fulani     Yoonus Lawal     AbdulHamid Adi     Allocation     Abdulquawiy Olododo     Lukman Adeloyin     Dan Iya Of Ilorin     3MTT     Share-Tsaragi     Iyabo Adisa Ibiyeye     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     Gbenga Olawepo     Ishola Moses Abiodun     John Olajide Adedipe     Victor Gbenga Yusuf     Gamji Members Association     Tsaragi     Ghali Muhammed     Okin Malt     Oloye     Adama Isa     Ayotunde Emmanuel Alao     Oyelere Oyinloye     Kazeem Oladepo     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     Mamatu Abdullahi     Senate Presidency     Mary Arinde     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Abdulkadir Orire     Sanitation Exercise