Insecurity: Nigerians Should In Unison Demand End To Terrorism, Banditry – USOSA Insists
…Calls for review of national security architecture
BY TEMI OHAKWE, ABUJA – Unity Schools Old Students Association (USOSA), has tasked Nigerians to rise and demand in unison that culprits of banditry and faceless sponsors of terrorism be immediately fished out and subjected to the full wrath of the law.
This is as the Association called for a critical review of Nigeria’s national security architecture, specifically in urban and rural centers to address the challenges of insecurity.
It particularly lamented what it described as the lukewarm attitude of the general populace describing it as unhealthy disinclination to hold the leaders and public officers accountable.
The Association which stated these while reacting to insecurity challenges facing the country and the bandits attack on Abuja-kaduna Road, expressed distraught in what it described as too many attacks.
The Association in a statement signed by its President General, Lawrence Wilbert, noted that the recent security breaches were assaults on the national psyche, peace, tranquility, socio-political and economic development and prosperity of Nigerians.
USOSA also demanded for the enthronement of enduring national security, good governance and utmost accountability from the government and its agencies.
It further states; “We decry the fact that the police, armed forces and other security agencies are evidently transfixed and confounded by the macabre antics of the evil merchants of death who, to all intents and purposes, have seized the nation by the jugular, making nonsense of our sovereignty and laying waste the lives of our people and our immemorial commonwealth.
“Equally appalling is the actuality that even the intelligence gathering components of our security apparatus appear non-existent.
“All Nigerians, males and females, old and young, rich and poor, must now rise and say a decisive no to the myriad of mostly contrived or indulged evils that have befallen us in unprecedented magnitudes.
“Let us now, as a people, review our actions and contributions to our collective security,” it said.
