Former President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki
has rolled out a comprehensive list of recommendations on how President
Muhammadu Buhari can tackle the issue of insecurity in the country.
Saraki called on Buhari to tap into Nigeria’s brightest and
most experienced minds in order to curb the rising cases of insecurity,
especially in the area of banditry and kidnappings.
The former Senate President made the recommendations in
response to the kidnapping of 12 police officers.
He also urged the president to engage former presidents,
retired officers in curbing the issue of kidnapping in the country.
In a series of tweets, Saraki urged Buhari to urgently call
for help for the menace of kidnapping in Nigeria.
According to Saraki: “After posting a tweet on the kidnap of
the 12 policemen yesterday, the thought of the damning implication that sad
incident has for our country continues to disturb me.
“The kidnapping issue is not a problem for President Buhari
alone. It is a problem confronting and threatening all Nigerians.
“I am convinced that this is a problem for all of us, and as
such, I advise Mr. President to urgently call for help from all and sundry. All
hands must be on deck. If we don’t address the problem of kidnapping urgently
it will engulf the entire nation.
“In this country, we have brilliant, serving and retired
intelligence officers. We have experienced serving and retired military and
other security officers who have had some of the best training available in the
world in dealing with this type of problem.
“We also have former Presidents and heads of state who have
great ideas on security. And, we have traditional rulers who, by their
background, have strong insights they can contribute on this issue.
“What is more, in our
Nigeria there are some of the best IT brains who can help deploy technology
towards solving the kidnap cases and eliminating this security threat.
“Then there are many countries whom we have a good
relationship with and who have confronted similar problems in the past and used
technology and modern techniques to overcome them.
“These countries, I am sure, will be more than willing to
assist. They know this is a problem threatening our existence as a country. In
my humble opinion, Mr. President, should tap into these abundant resources
because what we have on our hands is a national emergency.
“From my own perspective, wherever the idea is coming from –
be it from a retired security officer, an opposition leader or even a foreign
country – what is important at this juncture is to put an end to this national
menace.
“I am sure that if all these people are ‘locked’ up in one
room together and with the abundant talents and resources that will be
available to tap into, they will most certainly produce a workable, action plan
that can immediately be implemented to solve the kidnapping problem.”
Those who patronised Boko Haram to achieve political goals are now in trouble. With different streams of terrorist finding their way into Nigeria porous border and with failed ISIS in Syria, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, ISIS in West Africa, Al kaida, Maghreb Nigeria is now saturated with terrorist. Let me make it clear these terrorist learnt that the Nigerian security apparatus is weak and kidnapping in Nigeria is a gold mine. The government which early patronised Boko Haram is not in control of all these other streams of terrorists. The government cannot afford to pay these terrorist as it used to. Already the money that should have been used to settle ASUU strike has been used to settle terrorist Boko Haram. The others are on the loose kidnapping and mailing and raping women. If care is not taken before the new year they will move from Kaduna Abuja highway and overrun Abuja.
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