Members of Lagos State House of Assembly have condemned the inability of President Goodluck Jonathan to take action on the Boko Haram sect, which is responsible for Friday’s bombing of the United Nations (UN) office in Abuja.
Deputy Whip of the House, Rotimi Abiru, while speaking with our reporter on phone from Saudi Arabia where he has gone for lesser hajj, said the Friday’s incident “was another big blow for Nigeria considering the fact that the UN house is the target this time around.
“The other day, it was the Police Force headquarters and since then we have only been watching, hoping that the perpetrators will be fished out and here we are today; another act has been committed. I am still at a loss on why the president has not taken a drastic action to stop this act.
“The way this issue of Boko Haram is going, if care is not taken, I am afraid the country is already heading towards the path of destruction. If an action had been taken after the police headquarters’ incident, probably this one would not have occurred.
“The irony of the whole thing was that the president did not even issue any statement immediately the thing happened, and we saw the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki Moon, addressing the press on the matter. This is condemnable and I think Mr. President owes Nigerians some explanations,” Abiru stated.
Also, the lawmaker representing Epe Constituency 2, Segun Olulade lamented the lackadaisical attitude of Jonathan to the issue. He said, “If Jonathan had attended to Boko Haram issue the way he attended to Justice Salami’s issue, we would have forgotten about the sect.
“After all, the suspension of Salami was recommended to him by the National Judicial Coucil (NJC) on a Friday, and by Sunday that very week he approved it. Jonathan is not showing commitment to the issue of security and this is very dangerous.
“There is the need to tighten the country’s security. Also, the security agencies can curb this act, because if they can fish out the kidnappers of Mikel Obi’s father, why can’t they fish out these people? Jonathan must act now; if he must appeal to the sect, let him do it now, because it must stop,” Olulade added.