Condemnation of the current insecurity in Nigeria continued on Wednesday with the House of Representatives attacking the President and calling for the sack of the minister for defence and the National Security Adviser.
The House, which held a high-level meeting last week with Nigeria’s military leaders, bemoaned the spiraling insecurity that has encircled Africa’s most populous nation now experiencing killings, abductions and other violent acts on a daily basis.
The members took a swipe on the inability of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to stem the tide of insecurity, and restated their call for a declaration of a state of emergency on security.
The call by the Reps came barely two weeks after bandits attacked a training moving from the capital Abuja to Kaduna, killing eight people, wounding about 26 and kidnapping close to 167 passengers, who are still in captivity now.
Since then, there have also been intensified attacks, with hundreds killed in Benue, Taraba and Plateau, and Kaduna States.
The members called for the sacking or resignation of the National Security Adviser, Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno (retd.) as well as the Minister of Defence, Maj. Gen. Bashir Magashi (retd.). Others, on their part, called for the suspension of the National Assembly, as they thought the lawmakers had not done enough in their dealing with the Presidency.
The call by the House members came a day after the Northern Elements Forum called on President Buhari to resign over his inability to end the insecurity in the country.
