Senator Ali Ndume has lambasted the President Muhammadu
Buhari administration over its handling of insecurity in the country, accusing
it of complacency.
The lawmaker insisted that there is a lot of kleptocracy in
the current administration and that except the government did something about
it, things will not change.
The Borno South lawmaker made the comment during an
interview on Channels Television’s current affairs programme, Politics Today,
on Wednesday.
He was speaking in reaction to a remark by the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi that the attack on the Kaduna-Abuja rail line could have been avoided if digital security equipment had been procured.
The minister said his colleagues declined approval for the
purchase.
Ndume faulted the failure to approve the purchase.
“If you look at it deeply, there is a lot of complacency in
it. You have the MTN services. These people are using phones so you can track
them. With today’s technology, people are taken away and you say you don’t know
where they are. No, I mean let’s be serious,” the lawmaker noted.
“Coming back to what the minister (Amaechi) said, I got
angry too. I mean how can you put all these people — every day, an average of
1,000 are moving around — and then the ministry will ask for money to buy
gadgets and drones. These are mostly off-the-shelf items.
“You can order them or import them, install them immediately
in two to three days. But you know what will happen in Nigeria next? They will
go on TV and say we have purchased so and so and the bandits will watch it and
they know where it is going to be installed.
“This system is terrible. People will frustrate this kind of
process and you can see the minister was angry. That means there was a lot of
frustration in the process of procurement.”
Ndume maintained “that there is a bunch and a lot of
kleptocracy in this system and the government needs to do something about it”.
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