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By Omeiza Ajayi
A Chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC in Kwara South, Comrade Abdul-Rahoof Bello-Labelabe, has berated federal lawmakers representing the zone over what he described as their “failure to rise to the event” in partnering with the state authorities to deal with the worsening insecurity in Igbomina land.
Labelabe, a retired Political Science lecturer and advocate of Igbomina liberty and Northern Yoruba nationality, spoke on a Channels Tv breakfast present monitored on Friday in Abuja.
He dismissed as “too little, too late” the current decision of the Senate on the safety disaster in Kwara South, accusing elected representatives of abandoning their folks of their time of want.
“For the previous three months, bandits have been terrorizing communities. Folks had been killed, houses abandoned and farmers chased from their lands, but we didn’t see our Senators or Members of the Home of Representatives. They didn’t even go to the affected areas. Now they’re passing a decision. It’s like shutting the door when the horse has already bolted,” he fumed.
The APC chieftain, nonetheless, recommended the Kwara State Authorities for partaking the Nationwide Safety Adviser NSA and mobilizing troops from the Second Mechanized Brigade in Ibadan to flashpoints in Oke-Ode, Babanla, Oreke and different elements of Igbomina.
On the way in which ahead, Labelabe known as for a elementary restructuring of Nigeria’s safety structure. He accused the navy of disregarding the Nationwide Safety Adviser “as a result of he’s a police officer,” urging President Bola Tinubu to take decisive steps to finish the unhealthy rivalry.
“The president as commander-in-chief should look critically at this drawback. The state governments should even be empowered to determine their very own police or group policing, whereas native governments ought to take pleasure in full autonomy to handle grassroots safety,” he mentioned.
He additionally demanded that conventional rulers be held accountable for safety breaches of their domains, warning that some had develop into collaborators with bandits. As well as, he urged state governments to deploy CCTV surveillance throughout susceptible areas, strengthen vigilance teams and equip safety personnel with superior weapons to match the firepower of bandits.
Labelabe additional advocated collaboration between Kwara and the Southwest Safety Community (Amotekun). “The Southwest appears to be the one protected zone now. Why can’t we collaborate with them? If Sunday Igboho and Gani Adams of OPC may help us combat insecurity, why not?” he requested.
When pressed on whether or not politicians had been partly guilty for the disaster, he replied bluntly: “I feel it’s sure.”
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