Buhari’s government and persisting security challenges

By Sunday Onyemaechi Eze

The unmitigated wave of insecurity in our country Nigeria has become a malignant sore begging for urgent national diagnosis and treatment.

The menace has reached its crescendo in recent weeks. Do we still have a government which swore to protect the lives and property of its citizens is the question on the lips of many.

Again and again, people have been and are slaughtered in their numbers with reckless abandon by Boko Haram insurgents, marauding kidnappers, cattle herders and armed bandits.

There is hardly no community and family in Nigeria which has not had its own fair share of this painful but recurring decimal of wanton bloodletting.

The situation has become embarrassingly terrible to the point that the security architecture of the country has woefully shown no desired strategy or tact in confronting the menace.

The call to relieve the service chiefs of their positions for the above reason has also fallen on deaf ears.

In the face of this reckless killings, looting and decimation of people and communities, government at both the federal and state levels have exhibited obvious lack of the strength, might and will power to deal with the disturbing situation decisively. This government has simply run out of ideas in terms of keeping citizens alive.

The selling point of this administration of President Buhari was security of lives and property. He promised in the course of his campaign to end the prevalence of insecurity in three months. The tone has completely changed today.

In fact, the current security challenges confronting the nation calls for urgent review of the security laws and architecture of the nation.

The review will enable states to take charge of their security arrangement in line with their peculiarities.

The formation of Amotekun as the regional security outfit by the southwest governors was a good security initiative greeted by unnecessary opposition from the federal government which has already failed in its constitutional duty of securing lives.

Nigerians are tired of presidential excuses on the deteriorating security situation in the country.

The citizens demand actionable steps and implementable roadmap to deal with this menace. We have had enough monotonous press releases from the presidency on this matter.

The president’s media team should direct its PR crisis management effort on something else.

State governments still waiting for the federal government to remedy the security situation in their domain should henceforth put on their thinking caps.

It is within their purview to enact state security laws and form organisations backed by laws to protect the lives of their people.

The security situation has offered governors the golden opportunity to leave marks in the sand of time as those who stood firmly in defence of humanity.  The earlier they do the needful the better for all of us.

Sunday Onyemaechi Eze, sunnyeze02 @yahoo.com

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Hon. CARL UMEGBORO is a legal practitioner (Barrister & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and human rights activist. As an advocate of conflict resolution through ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution), he has acquired intensive training and has been inducted into The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (United Kingdom) as an Associate. He is a prolific writer and public affairs analyst. Prior to his call to Bar as a lawyer, he has been a veteran journalist and columnist in all national newspapers, and has over 250 published articles in various newspapers to his credit. Barrister Umegboro is also a regular guest-analyst to many TV and radio programme on crucial national issues. He can be reached through: (+234) 08023184542, (+234) 08173184542 OR Email: umegborocarl@gmail.com

2 thoughts on “Buhari’s government and persisting security challenges

  1. Emylia says:

    The service chiefs have failed woefully in their responsibility. The rate of insecurity and crime increasing by day and government is doing nothing about it.
    God will continue to keep and preserve us.

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  2. Uche says:

    Considering the spate of killings and insecurity ravaging the country it is becoming obvious that the president cannot deny the fact that his programme is tailored towards creating confusion and crises . Otherwise therenis no justified reasons while Nigerians have called for the removal of service chiefs he remained adamant. Some of these service chiefs have over stayed their retirement age. A good and caring president listens to the voice of his children, just as a good father listens to his children

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