By Abubakar S Baba
The question most Nigerians are asking Nowadays is why insecurity is persisting in many parts of Nigeria, with the country having a President and Chief Security Officer that has experience as a civil war hero and a commander-in-chief for three times in the history of the nation.
Everybody knows very well how the country is drifting to chaos for the past eleven years since the Boko Haram Insurgency continues to horrify our citizens.
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Apart from the Boko Haram Insurgency that have been disturbing Nigerians, is the activities of bandits in the North-Western part of the country, Bandits have been having free movements in the North-West and a Part of the North –Central killing innocent Nigerians at will.
North-East where Borno State is located has not been finding it easy to contain the dreaded insurgency.
All may have been wrong with the way security issues are being handled by Nigeria’s leader and those he shouldered responsibility on them to help him secure Nigerians wherever they are.
Conflicting reports continue to emanate day and Night since President Muhammadu Buhari assumes office on the 29 of May 2015, by that time Boko Haram Insurgency has taken another dimension in which the President and his party blamed the Jonathan Administration for the continued escalation of insurgent activities.
When Buhari Assumes office there has been considerable progress recorded to decimate the monster, but after being in power for almost six years, the President and his trusted aides seem not to be telling Nigerians the real truth about the country’s security situation.
The Government always came out to tell the people that voted for it of technically defeating the insurgents, where attacks on soft targets have been reduced, but the crux of the matter why it’s not yet Uhuru for the insurgents.
Remember, when President Muhammad Buhari decorated the Nigerian Service chiefs in July 2015, he gave them three months to defeat Boko Haram, but why the problem is still persisting?.
The 28th November Zabarmari Massacre in Borno state has also reawakened the consciousness of Nigerians and the international community of the worsening security situation in Nigeria.
Since that day, social media has been awash with condemnation and call on the government to act, but indications have shown that the government is not responding positively to the electorate’s demand that put it there for two terms.
As a true and patriotic Nigerian, one may ask why did the Nigerian government under President Muhammadu Buhari gives adequate attention to security issues that are not as important to the electorate.
Take, for example, governorship elections that took place in Nigeria and how the government use to deploy large security personnel as if the nation is in war or the states where elections are to be conducted announced plans to break away from the rest of Nigeria.
During the recent Kogi Governorship election, 35 thousand policemen were deployed to ensure a peaceful election, when Edo state governorship elections were held,31 thousand policemen were deployed and lastly, that of Ondo Governorship election thirty-three thousand seven hundred and eighty-three policemen were deployed as if its not an election but a war.
One will vividly remember when the government decided to renovate Abuja Airport in 2016, and the flights were shifted to Kaduna, parts of the Kaduna Abuja Road were dilapidated, and immediate rehabilitation commenced.
At every one kilometer , Army and police personnel were deployed to the site to protect VIPS from been kidnapped, no story of kidnapping was heard or reported till the completion of the project.
Two helicopters were hovering over the sky to ensure that adequate security was in place as VIP’s head from Kaduna Airport to Abuja in order to fly.
But when the project was completed, what you only heard on the Abuja –Kaduna highway is kidnapping and payment for ransom.
The Zabarmari Massacre has again exposed the federal government’s non-challant attitude towards arresting the most security challenge facing the nation, Nigerians are angry as they continue to mourn the Zabarmari Massacre, a heartless killing that left many people weeping.
Mr President, the time to do the needful and accept responsibility is now, the constitution says the primary responsibility of government is the welfare and securing the people and now people are asking what went wrong.
Abubakar . S Baba, wrote from Kano.
