The former speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon Yakubu Dogara has urged President Bola Tinubu not to toe the ignoble path of his predecessors who only mourned victims of killings in press statements, thereby reducing themselves to mourners-in-chief instead of taking responsibility as commanders-in-chief.
Dogara, according to press release issued by his media aide, Turaki Hassan and made available to journalists in Bauchi gave the advice when he led some serving and former members of the House of Representatives on a condolence visit to Governor Caleb Mutfwang yesterday in Jos, Plateau State over the recent massacre of about 200 people in Bokkos and Barkin Ladi local government areas.
He urged the president to rise to the occasion and use every available coercive apparatus to locate the perpetrators and sponsors of violence across the country and bring them to justice.
“The perpetrators of these violence are not just crazy but are very dangerous, and the truth is that they won’t just stop until we stop them. We must stop them. Who has the responsibility to stop them? It is the commander-in-chief, but previously, they reduced themselves to mourners-in-chief instead,” he said.
Dogara maintained that those responsible for the genocide and orgy of violence are all out to end our ways of life and must be stopped.
“It means using whatever coercive security apparatus we have as a nation to locate these perpetrators are and their sponsors wherever they are littered in the ungoverned spaces that we have in Nigeria whether in Plateau, Nasarawa, Benue, Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto or in southern Kaduna or in the south.
“The failure to either take justice to them or bring them to justice has always been the bane of the fight against terrorism and violence in Nigeria because it emboldens them.
If they will kill on the Plateau and go scot-free, why won’t they kill in any other state in the North and in the South?
“Failure to act at that level is more or less an incentive for them to continue to deploy this unbridled violence on the people. So, my call, therefore, is for the president to rise up and for him to know that condolences at this moment, whether on the Plateau or elsewhere in the country, are better given in the form of decisive action against the perpetrators of these violence and not by mere words.”
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