Security is more important than getting re-elected in 2019 - Okogie tells Buhari

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- The Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Lagos Archdiocese, Anthony Cardinal Okogie has called on President Buhari to take national security more serious

- Okogie also called on the security agencies to do their duty very well so that the issues of killing in some parts of the country can stop

- He maintained that the matter of security must be rightly addressed without sweeping any item under the carpet

The Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Lagos Archdiocese, Anthony Cardinal Okogie has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to focus more on the security challenges facing the country than preparing for the 2019 elections, Vanguard reports.

According to him, security is more important than the election. Okogie also charged Nigerians to demand from the current government the whereabouts of those responsible for the killing of Nigerians in different parts of the country, insisting: “what is the federal government and its security agencies waiting for?”

Okogie said the matter of security “must be rightly addressed without sweeping any item under the carpet. It is by far more important than getting elected or re-elected in 2019.

He said: ''Some men and women are apprehended by the police, made to sit by dangerous weapons, and paraded as criminals. And the story ends there. We hear of no prosecution, no conviction, no sentencing.

''It is cruel and cynical to subject security matters to the manipulation of our religious and ethnic differences. It is utterly unbecoming of statesmen to prioritize political calculations over the value of life and property.

''At this point in time, the matter of security must be rightly addressed without sweeping any item under the carpet.

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''It is by far more important than getting elected or re-elected in 2019. Since the federal government controls the security agencies, we Nigerians must insist that this government furnish us with credible answers to these and related questions: who and where are the criminals? Where are the people who kill Nigerians? Why have they not appeared in court? What is the Federal Government and its security agencies waiting for?

Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had reported that Ita Enang, Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters said while the government is determined to address the issues of farmers-herdsmen clashes in Benue, it is constrained by the constitution.

He stated this on Thursday, February 1, in Abuja at a one-day interaction session organised by the Buhari Media Support Group in coalition with other Buhari and Osinbajo support groups from across the country.

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