Lasun Alagbe
A senator from Katsina State, Ahmed Baba Kaita, has joined many other people in criticising President Muhammadu Buhari over the spreading insecurity in the country.
Many have become more agitated following renewed insurgency, banditry and kidnapping, especially after scores of rice farmers were slaughtered by Boko Haram in Borno State over the weekend.
Speaking on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday, he said:
“It (insecurity) is now facing us eyeball to eyeball, we have to sit down with this military and reassess their performance in the north-east.
“Day in day out, same scenarios keep repeating themselves, then something is fundamentally wrong. If we allow this go, let’s be ready for another mourning.
“Despite the efforts of the federal government on the security issues of Nigeria – I totally believe the president is doing his own best but then doing your best is not enough when we cannot see the result on ground and this is what is happening.”
Kaita further carpeted Buhari’s spokesperson, Garba Shehu, over his comment that the victims of the Zabarmari massacre were not cleared by the military before they went to the farm.
“Let me say if the statement credited to the spokesperson of Mr President, Garba Shehu, is true then let me say that it is highly irresponsible.
“You might be exposed to information that we and other Nigerians do not have but at that point in time when everybody was mourning the loss of citizens who are innocently killed and who have gone into their farms despite the challenging economic situation in this country and there by losing their lives and somebody say is because they did not take clearance. We don’t harvest crops in one day, we harvest them overtime,” Kaita noted.
There is public outcry over the development, with many demanding security restructuring and removal of service chiefs.
