NewsGen. Abdulsalami To Governors: Guard Your Utterances And Take Responsibility For Security

Gen. Abdulsalami To Governors: Guard Your Utterances And Take Responsibility For Security

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BEVERLY HILLS, February 18, (THEWILL) – Former Head of State and Chairman of the National Peace Committee, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (Rtd), wants state governors to tame their utterances and take responsibility for securing lives and properties in their immediate constituencies.

Speaking on Arise TV programme, “The Morning Show,” the former Head of State urged Nigerian governors to analyse the issues at hand and work harmoniously.

Some governors in the country, including Bauchi State’s Governor Bala Mohammed and his Ondo State counterpart, Rotimi Akeredolu, lately disagreed sharply over herdsmen bearing AK-47 rifles.

While Mohammed justified herders bearing arms to protect their cattle from being rustled by bandits, Akeredolu blasted the Bauchi Governor for making a statement capable of ushering Nigerians “into the next level on the path to anarchy.”

Abdulsalami expressed regrets that Nigerians failed to learn from past mistakes of inter-tribal wars and called on the governors to take full responsibility for securing lives and properties as well as embrace dialogue.

He said, “The governors have found themselves in a difficult situation. It is their responsibility to guard their states regardless of who and who is in their states. Ethnic disharmony is rearing itself all over the place.

“You could see where the herders are being chased from some parts of the Southern states and their cattle are being killed. Certainly, this heightened tension in the country.

“Some people are also migrating from one part of the country back to their states where they feel safer. God forbid this is taking us back to the 1960s where we had a problem that resulted in the Civil War. That is why myself and the peace committee are calling for caution so that we do not go back to that road.”

Asked what the governors must do to quell the tension in the country at the moment, Abdulsalami said, “They must make sure there is law and order in their states and they should watch their utterances because what they say, people will take it as an order.

“They as governors should be aware of what they say; they should not say anything that will be misread that they are fighting people who are not of their state origin.

“Having said that, there must be dialogue between the people who they feel are committing crimes in their areas.

“Certainly, if some people commit crimes, they should be arrested and prosecuted. It is their responsibility to save the lives and properties of all Nigerians living in their states.”

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