Insecurity: Buhari and his officials have not helped matters - Falana

macfranc007 July 10, 2018 Nigeria News today & Breaking news ▷ Read Naija news 24/7 David Oladele

- The activist lawyer Femi Falana has again spoken about the insecurity in Nigeria

- He called for removal the of service chiefs due to their inability to arrest the situation

- Falana warned that the nation may be witnessing internal sabotage from the security forces

The activist lawyer Femi Falana on Monday, July 10, called for the removal of service chiefs because they have proved incapable of discharge their constitutional duties to arrest the ongoing killings in some parts of the country.

The Nation reports that Falana said unless the federal and state governments discarded impunity, the destruction of properties and killing of law abiding citizens, including children, by arsonists and others will not stop.

He made this known while addressing the Catholic community in Ekiti state at a public lecture delivered in honour of Bishop Felix Ajakaiye.

Falana warned that the nation may be witnessing internal sabotage from the security forces by young military and police personnel, who are protesting the incompetence of the service chiefs.

The Lagos lawyer identified official impunity on the part of the nation’s Attorneys-General as a major cause of the reckless killing and kidnap of citizens by armed gangs.

“It is on record that the hundreds of murder suspects indicted by several administrative and judicial tribunals of inquiry for killing innocent people in Plateau state in the past 10 years have been treated like sacred cows by the state government.

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He said: “President Buhari and his officials have not helped matters as their reactions have tended to give the impression that the federal government is conniving with armed herders and bandits.

“For instance, during his last visit to the United States last year, President Buhari blamed the killings by herders on Gaddafi’s men, who had infiltrated the country through our porous borders. The federal government has since turned round to blame disgruntled politicians for the killings.”

The senior advocate joined issues with the federal government for accusing the Benue state government of vicariously liability by enacting an anti-grazing law.

He wondered why the federal government has failed to adduce any reason “for the bloodletting in Plateau, Kaduna, Nasarawa and Zamfara states which have not enacted anti-grazing laws.”

Falana noted that the unimaginable incompetence displayed by the federal government in preventing the massacre of innocent people has endangered the country’s corporate existence.

Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had reported that Femi Falana said he would sue the federal government on Wednesday, November 15, over injuries he sustained after falling into a manhole.

The lawyer made his comments on Tuesday, November 14, at the National Stakeholders Summit on Whistle blowing in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

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