…decries killings says Yari vindicates me on $1bn withdrawal
Ekiti State Governor, Chief Ayodele Fayose, has said the claim by
Zamfara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, that security
agencies failed to respond to the alert given them to prevent the
massacre of people in Zamfara has vindicated his stance that no
extra $1billion needed to be deducted from the Excess Crude Oil
Account to fund the fight against insurgency.
Zamfara killings
Fayose, who addressed newsmen in Ado-Ekiti on Saturday, said
funds being spent on security seemed not well used, as instead of
insecurity being curtailed, the nation was unfortunately witnessing
more killings on a daily basis.
In a statement by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu
Adelusi, he quoted Fayose as saying that if security agencies were
not properly utilising the funds given them, “why giving them more.”
According to Fayose, “Governor Yari is the Chairman of the Nigerian
Governors’ Forum, he is the one saying we should give $1 billion from
ECA to these security people and he said despite alerting security
agencies over 24 hours before the needless killings in his state, they
failed to rise to the occasion.
That was not the first time such a thing would happen. Recall that
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State said the same thing. Also,
Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba State said a similar thing.
” On all the occasions, the security agencies failed to act. More than
73 people were killed in Benue, scores killed in Taraba and we now
have the Zamfara issue. Regrettably, the killings have not stopped.
If as a country we spend so much money on security, with practically
no result, where is the justification for another round of funding.
Fund an inept security apparatus?
“The Zamfara issue is not only inhuman, but unfortunate. This must
not continue and we must tell the Federal Government to do
something. The killings we have witnessed in this country from 2015
till date is unprecedented and perhaps never seen in the history of
our country since Independence. Are we in a war situation?
“We must stop wasting people’s lives and use the $1 billion for the
welfare of our people in other sectors that will bring result. The All
Progressives Congress-led Federal Government has lost it,” the
governor said.
Fayose, who also had a poser for President Muhammadu Buhari,
noted that despite the president’s usual directive of security people
assessing the situation, he challenged the president to tell Nigerians
how many culprits have been arrested or prosecuted.
“It is like President Buhari is living on another planet not to say
country. He is disconnected from the people and the reality on
ground. He does not seem to be in tune with reality. People are tired
of lies and cheap propaganda. His government has failed the nation
and he should just throw in the towel,” he stated.
Fayose also faulted the APC government of claiming glory for
projects and policies put in place by the previous adminstration of
President Goodluck Jonathan.
“The drone that President Jonathan launched some years ago, they
now woke up now to say their government has achieved a feat in that
regards. May be they think the people are fools and have no sense of
history. Nigerians will show them during the election,” he added.