The Nigerian Senate was Wednesday engulfed in a volatile session when her Minolrity Leader, Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe from Abia South told the Red Chambers that there is a mobilization to stone President Mohammadu Buhari and other top leaders of the All Peoples Congress (APC) because of their failure to manage insecurity surge in the country.
As a result ,he called on the President to resign for failure to manage the nations security.
Immediately the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan gave the floor to the Senate Leader, Yahaya Adamu to go through the order of the day which was a motion on “NIGERIAN SECURITY CHALLENGES: URGENT NEED TO RESTRUCTURE, REVIEW AND REORGANIZE THE CURRENT SECURITY ARCHITECTURE” that Senator Abaribe started fuming fire. The Senate leader said all the Senators are in support of the bill.
Initiating the debate, Senate President, Ahmed Lawan had called on the Senators to see the insecurity breach in the nation “as not an issue of a political party but all Nigerians because the criminals does not want to know your political party, religion or ethnic group, we are all unsafe. Please show nationality and maturity in your contributions”.
According to Senator Abaribe, the call that Service Chiefs should go is non-consequential because Nigerians did note vote those people or the National Security Adviser or the Chief of Staff but President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling APC government that told us to stone them in 2015 if they fail. Now they have woefully failed and showed incompetence.
Senator Abaribe said after the senate debate, “we shall march to where they are and stone them” because they are (APC Government) insensitive to our dear lives and properties. All the government is doing is to mount propaganda stating that “those who operate by propaganda shall die by propaganda”.
Former Governor of Nasarawa State, Senator Abdullahi Adamu insisted that Senator Abaribe should as a political elder withdraw his call for violence as such a submission is not expected of an elder. He said the senate should be preoccupied with proffering a lasting solution to the security lapses and not offering inflammable statements.
Senator Abaribe you will recall guaranteed the bail of the IPOB leader, Nnamidi Kanu who jumped bail and has been threatening the nation as well as attacking his kinsmen from foreign lands for allegedly supporting the present government.
Former Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun punctured a submission that states cannot fund the suggested State Police stating that as a former Governor, he provided many infrastructure and ammunitions to the Police to operate hence the peace witnessed in his state.
Many of the senators expressed worry about the state of terrorism progress stating that first it was Boko Haram, now we see Kidnapping, banditry and a people that kill with impunity. They wonder why President Buhari is still keeping unproductive service chiefs in office after five years as they lack ideas to secure the nation.
One of the senators said the federal government should shut her boarders to human influx like they did to economic products explaining that killings are perpetrated by people who have no feeling because they have no relationship with Nigerians. “No Nigerian will kill a fellow Nigerian with a possessed spirit as we see in viral videos”.
President Muhamadu Buhari it will be recalled said while receiving a delegation of the people of Niger State of Nigeria led by their state Governor at the Presidential Villa on Tuesday said the current upsurge in insecurity across the country baffles him.
President Buhari admitted that the activities of the bandits among the various terrorist groups had forced many to abandon their farms and homes stressing that “henceforth the bandits will face hard times”.
– ENIOLA OLATUNJI.
