Dino Melaye, Senator representing
Kogi West has condemned the recent killings across the country.
Melaye said President Muhamnadu
Buhari should urgently “relieve” security chiefs of their position since they
had failed to live up to their responsibility.
The lawmaker made the call in a
statement entitled ‘Regime Protection not Primary Function of Security Agencies
– PMB, Nigerians are Dying’.
Melaye said in spite of the
billions of naira being invested in security annually, Nigerians were still
being killed on daily basis without the culprits being arrested.
The statement reads, “How does
one explain this ceaseless and wanton destruction of human lives without the
culprits being apprehended and punished.
“With all the apparatuses
available for surveillance and crime detection in today’s civilisation?
“How long is this mindless
butchering of our compatriots to be tolerated with the only reprieve we get
being excuses and palliative?
“How can we expect the global
community to take us seriously when we complain about our citizens not being
treated fairly outside the shores of Nigeria, when we ourselves give proof
daily that we value our citizens’ lives less than that of animals.
“Human life is amongst the
greatest of God’s gift and the essence of civilization is to ensure its
security and preservation to enable it attain to its full potentials.
“Consequently, any taking of
human life, without the due process of law, is repugnant and abhorrent to
society and should not be tolerated.
“As a matter of fact, the
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria makes it abundantly clear that
the sole reason for the existence of government is the security and welfare of
citizens.
“It, however, seems our Security
Chiefs, in spite of several calls and admonitions to them to prevent further
loss of Nigerian lives, are indifferent to our citizens well-being, but are
rather engrossed with and seem to derive satisfaction from the bullying and
harassment of any dissenting voice to citizens unfriendly policies of the
Executive.
“It has become imperative to draw
the attention of our security chiefs to the fact that the continued unabated
butchering of Nigerians without the apprehension and trial of the culprits,
despite the availability of modern devices for information gathering,
reconnaissance and detection, leaves one with just one of two inferences: that
our security chiefs are incompetent or that they are complicit in this gruesome
killings of innocent Nigerians, whom paradoxically, are under a duty to
protect.
“Whichever of these positions
might be the case, it is high time every person of reason demanded that these
‘insecurity chiefs’ either become alive to their duties or be relieved from
their posts forthwith.
“Definitely, such sensitive
offices should not continue to be occupied as a favour or as a largesse, it
must be merited!
“Their continued occupation of
such exalted office without fulfilling the attending obligation of securing the
lives and properties of each and every Nigerian is like smoke in the eye, an
aberration.”
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