Dino Melaye,
Senator representing Kogi West has condemned the recent killings across the
country.
Melaye said
President Muhamnadu Buhari should urgently “relieve” security chiefs of their
position since they had failed to live up to their responsibility.
The lawmaker
made the call in a statement entitled ‘Regime Protection not Primary Function
of Security Agencies – PMB, Nigerians are Dying’.
Melaye said
in spite of the billions of naira being invested in security annually,
Nigerians were still being killed on daily basis without the culprits being
arrested.
The
statement reads, “How does one explain this ceaseless and wanton destruction of
human lives without the culprits being apprehended and punished.
“With all
the apparatuses available for surveillance and crime detection in today’s
civilisation?
“How long is
this mindless butchering of our compatriots to be tolerated with the only
reprieve we get being excuses and palliative?
“How can we
expect the global community to take us seriously when we complain about our
citizens not being treated fairly outside the shores of Nigeria, when we
ourselves give proof daily that we value our citizens’ lives less than that of
animals.
“Human life
is amongst the greatest of God’s gift and the essence of civilization is to
ensure its security and preservation to enable it attain to its full
potentials.
“Consequently,
any taking of human life, without the due process of law, is repugnant and
abhorrent to society and should not be tolerated.
“As a matter
of fact, the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria makes it
abundantly clear that the sole reason for the existence of government is the
security and welfare of citizens.
“It,
however, seems our Security Chiefs, in spite of several calls and admonitions to
them to prevent further loss of Nigerian lives, are indifferent to our citizens
well-being, but are rather engrossed with and seem to derive satisfaction from
the bullying and harassment of any dissenting voice to citizens unfriendly
policies of the Executive.
“It has
become imperative to draw the attention of our security chiefs to the fact that
the continued unabated butchering of Nigerians without the apprehension and
trial of the culprits, despite the availability of modern devices for
information gathering, reconnaissance and detection, leaves one with just one
of two inferences: that our security chiefs are incompetent or that they are
complicit in this gruesome killings of innocent Nigerians, whom paradoxically,
are under a duty to protect.
“Whichever
of these positions might be the case, it is high time every person of reason
demanded that these ‘insecurity chiefs’ either become alive to their duties or
be relieved from their posts forthwith.
“Definitely,
such sensitive offices should not continue to be occupied as a favour or as a
largesse, it must be merited!
“Their
continued occupation of such exalted office without fulfilling the attending
obligation of securing the lives and properties of each and every Nigerian is
like smoke in the eye, an aberration.”
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