Despite much pleading of President Goodluck Jonathan to other Common Wealth Leaders so as to allow Nigeria to host 2010 COMMON WEALTH GAME proof abortive based on the facts that the lives of the visitors are not secure due to the rampant kidnapping and social vices in the country.
Investors have flown back to their respective countries when there lives are at stake. Nigeria economic is going down everyday because investors were scared to come to Nigeria. To say the least, the Professionals were not left out of the game as kidnappers also stem on them.
A couples of days ago, four pen professional (journalists) including there drivers were kidnapped on there way back to Lagos after National Executive Meeting. The perpetrators has turn this to their legalized business when there is nobody to checkmate them, Abia indigene that resides outside the state are scared of going home, the inhabitant are migrating to a secure place in other to save their lives, yet government fold their arms and allow these perpetrators to go scot-free, to worsen the situation is the recklessness statement by Rugbere.
Millions of mouth were left agape with verbal recklessness displayed by the Akwa Ibom State Commissioner of Police on Monday 12th July 2010 while reacting to the kidnapping on Sunday of four Nigerian Journalists including the Lagos Council Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Journalist Wahab Oba and others on Uyo-Aba Road.
Mr. Walter Rugbere said the victims had no one to blame but themselves, he was not only surprised that the journalist had the effrontery to ply the road he described as dangerous. His assertion, no doubt, postulate a sad commentary on the intellect of many of the police officers in whose hands we entrust our safety.
How, for goodness sake, are we going to continue with this plight, yet minister of defence find nothing to do to savage this issue, special adviser on security fold his arms since he can pay any amount of ransome to the bandits if any of his family were kidnapped.
Nigeria government has failed in the area of security, one stand to question, what is the major duty of government, a political philosopher A.C. Graylings points out “the security of the public is certainly a high duty of government, but it is not the highest one, its highest duty is the protection of individual liberties”. This assertion doesnot work in Nigeria, if one of the highest security officer could offer such verbal recklessness, his comment has potray that the police have been avoiding the gangs of kidnappers in the region instead of tackling them.
Several issues has spring up and yet government seems content with it, July 2009 genocide perpetrated in Bauchi and Borno in the name of quelling Boko Haram uprising, Jos crises are still hot in the pot yet nothing is done to quench the fire.
It is not lost o Nigerians that recently banks in Aba had to shutdown for weeks because they could no longer endure the free reign of bandits in the town.
Whether we know it or not, the spate of kidnapping and other social vices in the country constitutes a veritable threat not only to the 2011 general election but also to our survival as a nation. We have the choice of recognising this fact and dealing decisively with it or ignoring it and living in bondage to it.
Logical advice to Mr President, he should be a critical evaluation of the leadership of the Nigeria Police Force and other security agencies responsible for our collective security. Security adviser and minister of defence should come and defend their duty to Nigeria. Can we rely on them? Over to you Mr. President.