…Says: “We can be kidnapped in this chamber”
Members of the House of Representatives have called on Nigerians to take personal measures aimed at defending themselves against terrorists, in reaction to the unabated terrorist attack in the country.
The lawmakers stated this yesterday, while debating a ‘Motion on Matters of Urgent Public Importance’, calling attention to the recent successive terrorist attacks on the Kaduna International Airport, an Abuja–Kaduna train, as well as the raiding of different communities within Kaduna State which resulted in the loss of many lives and kidnap of many others.
This is just as a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) House member, Nasiru Ahmed, called for the dismissal of the National Security Adviser, (NSA), Babagana Monguno.
Nasir made the demand during a plenary session while contributing to the Motion on the recent killings in Kaduna State.
According to him, since 2015 when President Muhammadu Buhari took over power, Service Chiefs have been changed but the National Security Adviser has not been replaced.
He said all the security agencies are accountable to the NSA, who, according to him, has failed in his duty. “Do we have a national security adviser?” he asked.
“Are we saying the Army, the Nigerian Navy, Air Force, Police and DSS, with all the training that they have had, with all the international training that they have gone to — i.e peacekeeping – that a rag-tag army of 16 to 17 year-old-boys (bandits) is more powerful than them?
“This madness has to stop. It simply has to stop. You travel by road you’re kidnapped; you go by train, you’re kidnapped. Last week, the airport was attacked by bandits; you sit at home, you’re kidnapped; you send your children to school, they are kidnapped.
“A few weeks ago, somebody was kidnapped in a hospital. Where are you going to stay? You can be kidnapped right here in this chamber.
“What do we tell our people that elected us? Do we just fold our arms? I want to use this opportunity again and am calling on the national security adviser — he must be removed”.
