Group Urges Buhari, Govs To Address ASUU Strike, Insecurity

BY OLADOSU OLUWAGBENGA 

As the country is being rocked by the Academic Staff Union of Universities’ strike, President Muhammadu Buhari and state governors of Igbo descent are being encouraged to sit up and take notice of the situation.

In an interview with newsmen on Sunday in his Olokoro Umuahia South rural house, Dr. Mishak Nnanta, President-General of the Igbo World Union, offered the advice and said that Nigeria was a nation blessed by God.

“In terms of what is occurring in Nigeria, Abia State appears to be the greatest offender. It looks like the state administrations in the Igbo regions are unwilling to band together, speak and act in unison, and develop policies that will advance the security of the populace.

“Today, the Yorubas and Amotekun are pulling weight and capturing those that go into their forests. But in the Igbo parts, where do you see Ebubeagu (a southeastern security outfit)? It seems we don’t see the lion we named. It is good we jointly acquire what will have to protect ourselves. It looks as if we are empty-handed in the bush.”

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On if the administration of Buhari at the federal level and Ikpeazu at the state level are doing enough in terms of security, Nnanta said, “Buhari is trying as a President but his effort is not enough as he has the power to use the military to fight insecurity. If any security agency is not doing well, he should make some changes to enable him to fight insecurity. When people are kidnapped, abductors use the phone to make contacts for ransom. We are being told that the security agencies can track people’s businesses, internet fraudsters and others. Why can’t they track the kidnappers?

“When the ransom is to be dropped, the police at the junction will allegedly collect their own. Where the ransom is being taken to is not the spirit world, but where human beings live. Why can’t we use the jets and kill these people? It looks somehow. The President should sit up in terms of security which is now out of hands to save Nigerian masses. We are all confined.”

Similarly, in Abia State, Nnanta noted, “Governor Ikpeazu should sit up to enable the state look into security issues before it is too late, especially with the formation of home security ministry and the existence of other security outfits in the state. Otherwise, with the prevalent insecurity like in Umunneochi/Isuikwuator areas, there might not be an election in Abia State.”

“You cannot tell me that this kind of stuff exists and the Federal Government would not look into it but went ahead and bought vehicles for other countries,” Nnanta remarked in reference to the ASUU strike. Instead of spending such money, the issue ought to have been addressed locally.

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“The strike affects our children and breeds cultism. These children have been pushed to the wall because they now use their phones to browse bad and cult sites. The government should remember that if they had schooled in this kind of situation, they wouldn’t have achieved anything. There is no way that anyone should use eight years to do a course of four years, it doesn’t make any sense.

“Parents are also weak. Any parent who has plans to train the child for four or five years, but the child ends up spending more than that before you know it, the child will go off-hand and become something else. The Federal Government should sit up and put its house in order and see how to end the ASUU issue and get back the children to school immediately. This can be settled within one week,” Nnanta concluded.