Ali Ndume, a senator for Borno South Senatorial District and the Senate Committee on the Army’s chairman, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency on the security of the nation and the welfare of Nigerians.
Speaking during an interview with Channels TV on Sunday in the wake of recent terrorist attacks in the Federal Capital and other parts of the country, Ndume described the current security situation in the country as worrisome.
Tasking the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to declare a state of emergency Ndume said “We should declare a state of emergency on the security and welfare of Nigerians and begin to take care of other things when we are all safe.”
Further lamenting that the government had failed to make provision for the required resources needed to end insecurity, Ndume however lauded security agents for their efforts towards rescuing the country from terrorists despite working in a difficult circumstance.
“The security agents are doing what they can under the circumstances in which they find themselves. We’re not doing enough in terms of providing necessary equipment for security personnel,” he said.
This is not the first time that clamor for a state of emergency against the country’s deteriorating security situation will surface. Recall that the All Progressives Congress (APC) governors asked Buhari in August last year to declare a state of emergency on security in order to end the country’s killings, abductions, and other violent crimes.
Islamist sect Boko Haram and other armed groups have in recent months continued to threaten and launch assaults near and within Nigeria’s capital city of Abuja, leaving residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and other parts of the nation in panic.
However, the growing level of insecurity had forced the Nigerian lawmakers to serve President Buhari a six-week ultimatum to end the nation’s escalating security crisis or risk being impeached by senators from both his party and opposition PDP.
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