A federal lawmaker, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, has condemned his colleagues in the National Assembly over their handling of the security crisis rocking the nation.
Speaking on Wednesday during plenary, Abaribe claimed that his colleagues often dwell on the past instead of focusing on the present.
He asserted that lawmakers from the ruling party always find ways to draw comparisons between the insecurity in 2025 and in 2015, when the PDP was in power.
He argued that this is not necessary as the two scenarios of insecurity are different.
Abaribe also took a swipe at President Bola Tinubu for failing to use his office as the ‘’Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces” to investigate the claims made by Kebbi state governor that a higher authority ordered troops to leave Maga village before the 25 school girls were abducted by bandits.
In his words ‘’We are being told everyday to be patriotic . We are being told here that we shouldn’t say anything against…we are being told ‘ Oh you shouldn’t talk about the past and focus on the present’.
“Yet, on this floor, rather than focus on what we are supposed to talk about, we go back to say ‘Oh, during 2015, the Chibok girls happened, and oh, we are now rescuing people. People were not rescued at that time.’
“During Chibok, 17 local governments in Katsina were not having pallies with Bandits. People in Kebbi were not leaving all the rural areas and coming to only the urban areas to stay. People in Niger were not being kidnapped.
“So why do we at any time we need to talk about the present issues of today, go back to start to look for excuses for our failures of today.
“Let us do the right thing,. We are not blaming this government for what they are finding itself, but it is the government in power, and they should do the right thing.”
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