A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, final week stated Nigeria’s safety challenges didn’t start with the administration of President Bola Tinubu, noting that terrorism, insurgency, banditry and kidnapping had endured for years earlier than 2023.
Dogara, who’s the Chancellor of Achievers University, Owo, Ondo State, spoke on the establishment’s sixteenth convocation ceremony, the place 836 graduands obtained varied educational {qualifications}. He attributed the nation’s safety challenges to years of porous borders, unlawful arms proliferation, youth unemployment and the unfold of extremist ideologies.
The former Speaker stated the issues had developed over a number of years, with their roots predating Tinubu’s assumption of workplace in May 2023. He, nevertheless, acknowledged that nationwide safety remained a serious accountability of the current administration.
Dogara’s remark has outraged some Nigerians, with many feeling that he was being insensitive to the plight of Nigerians particularly at a time when 1000’s have been killed, houses burnt down, folks have misplaced their farmlands and others.
Every Nigerian is aware of that the nation’s insecurity predates Tinubu.
However, many imagine that insecurity worsened below Tinubu’s watch and unfold to areas that had been unaffected earlier than 2023. Dogara needs to be reminded that the truth that insecurity predates Tinubu doesn’t imply he shouldn’t be held accountable.
Tinubu knew the extent of insecurity in Nigeria earlier than vying for presidency. He promised throughout his campaigns to finish insecurity and that was why Nigerians voted for him.
During the campaigns for the 2023 elections, the president promised to maintain the nation secure. Unfortunately, nearly 4 years later, Nigerians and Nigeria are nonetheless not secure.
In all of this, Dogara ought to inform Nigerians who to be held accountable for insecurity. Is implying that insecurity needs to be accepted as a brand new regular as a result of it began earlier than 2023?
Nigeria is quick degenerating and what’s much more saddening about it’s the absence of accountability in governance. The voice of reality has been silenced and lip service has substituted logical reasoning. The approach out of this state of chaos is a human-centred technique born out of robust political will to make a change. And that takes braveness.
