President Buhari’s two-term Transportation Minister Rotimi Amaechi has blamed the unfortunate fatal attack on the KADUNA-BOUND TRAIN on Monday 28 March 2022, to the absence of the integrated security surveillance and monitoring gadgets which acquisition was delayed through administrative bureaucracy!

What the Minister said was a mere cover up for his miscalculation. He should not be talking about official bureaucracy in the year 2022 when in actual fact the Chinese contractors of the railway tracks offered in 2018 to build a free Transportation University at a cost of USD$50 million US dollars or NGN18 billion naira in appreciation of winning the railway contracts!

If Amaechi was a true patriot he would have requested the contractors to secure all completed rail tracks with the integrated security surveillance and monitoring gadgets to prevent any form of attack by bandits or terrorist in view of the insecurity state of the country with that kind of money!

Instead of him to support the building of strong institutions and not strong personalities in the country, Amaechi opted for the building of a Transportation University in Daura, Katsina – the home town and State of his principal, Major General Muhammadu Buhari which had been under construction since 2019-2021!

ROTIMI AMAECHI MUST BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS AND COLOSSAL INFRASTRUCTURAL DAMAGES INCURRED BY THE RAILWAY CORPORATION!

The dastard attack which was carried out with military precision was definitely masterminded by trained operatives who knew their onions.
Professional surveillance on all the stretches of the railway tracks had ascertained non-telecom coverage areas for ample advantage to strike and exit without confrontation!

Terrorists were privy to the absence of integrated security surveillance and monitoring solution on the tracks and were able to lay Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), effortlessly just as they had seamlessly vandalized rail lines at random across the country without hindrance!

In October 2021 suspected bandits blew up rail tracks with explosives while other relatively and similar incidents occurred on the rail lines giving signals that it would only be a matter of time before a major attack would occur!

Luckily the fully-loaded train of October 2021, heading to Abuja did not derail but was able to maneuver and to reach destination! Amaechi promised the nation that urgent steps would be taken to avert future occurrence!


AMAECHI NOW SHEDS CROCODILE TEARS!

The devastated minister lamented at the scene of the attack that it could have been AVERTED IF PROCESSES OF ACQUISITION OF THOSE GADGETS AND DRONES WERE SHORTENED and those lost lives could have been saved!

Eight precious lives were lost, hundreds were inflicted with gunshot injuries, 46 hospitalized and unspecified numbers were abducted within a period of almost THREE HOURS as 362 validated passengers were at the mercy of the terrorists without counter external intervention!

He bemoaned that his Ministry had taken proactive steps to forestall such an attack through the purchase of drones and helicopters to monitor the tracks though the process had been tedious.

He also said if technology was deployed, drones would have detected armed people walking around the tracks while cameras would have complemented the drones by identifying illegitimate activities several kilometres ahead of the moving train adding that the railway corporation would also need helicopters to complement the drones when provided.

NIGERIANS KNOW THAT SOCIO-ECONOMIC FUNDS WERE ALWAYS DIVERTED INTO PRIVATE POCKETS!

Nigerians can no longer be deceived by the antics of politicians who would rather resort to blame game in the face of national calamity rather than own up for their shortcomings!
They aggrandize themselves in office with the succinct support of Mr.Predident who perhaps pretends to be unaware of the depth of misappropriation and large-scale corruption within his cabinet!

For SEVEN YEARS, under Rotimi Amaechi’s Watch, he had failed to give priority attention to the Railways and had been unable to secure the tracks! HE SHOULD BE SACKED AND CHARGED FOR MURDER AND OTHER ANCILLARY OFFENCES!

BELATED LAMENTATIONS ARE THE HALLMARK OF BUHARI’S ADMINISTRATION!

It has become customary for President Buhari’s Cabinet and All Progressives Congress (APC) Legislators to “lock the stable gates after the horses have bolted” and lament profusely in a cacophony of voices without meaningful or positive actions!
Whom does Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Transportation think he could deceive through his tantrums of transferring blame to either the National Security Adviser (NSA), to the President or some officials at the Ministry of Finance and National Planning whom he claimed did not process an approved NGN3 billion Naira to purchase digital gadgets that could easily monitor the railway tracks to detect any anomaly ahead of the engines!
Amaechi is one of General Buhari’s favorites who dismissed public outcry against the sitting of a Transportation University in the Katsina State of the number one man and even boasted that his next major project would be sited in his Ikwerre Village in Rivers State!

SIMULTANEOUS DARING ATTACKS IN KADUNA AXIS WHERE AT LEAST 15 MILITARY INSTALLATIONS ARE SITUATED!

On Saturday 26th March 2022, bandits attacked the airport when they breached the perimeter fences in broad daylight at about 1 p.m. shot dead a security guard who was patrolling the area at the unfortunate time.
Military installations were also not spared in Kaduna State during the same period but security operatives from the Air Force Base heard gunshot and moved in to repel the bandits from gaining access into the major airport complex.
AND THE MOANING CYCLE CONTINUES!
THE PRESIDENT COMMISERATES WITH BEREAVED FAMILIES.
SECURITY CHIEFS ARE SUMMONED TO EXPLAIN REASONS FOR LAPSES.
CASUALTIES OF DELIBERATE OFFICIAL INEPTITUDE BURIED WITHOUT FANFARE!
OVER-STRETCHED SECURITY OPERATIVES ARE GIVEN MARCHING ORDERS!!
WEEKLY WEDNESDAY UNCONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL (FEC), CONTINUES WITH IMPUNITY!

LEADERSHIP DEFICIT REMAINS RECURRENT DECIMAL IN NIGERIA!
GOING ROUND IN CYCLE!
***CANCELATION OF NIGERIA’S WASTEFUL PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM AND THE ADOPTION OF A UNICAMERAL LEGISLATURE THROUGH THE CONVOCATION OF REFERENDUM IS THE SUREST SOLUTION TO THE CURRENT IMBROGLIO!***

Nigerians are aware that the train attack was an inside job with collusion from disgruntled retired or sacked military personnel and security operative who are determined to have their pound of flesh from the Federal Government at the expense of Innocent citizens

Let us imagine that from 1960 to 2022 the treasury of Nigeria had not been looted by both military and civilian robbers, all the pains, sorrows and woes that citizens are going through would have been avoided.
From one administration to another these enemies of Nigerian downtrodden had always flaunted illicit stupendous riches and wealth before poverty-stricken citizens who can hardly make one meal per day and have given wrong signals to the international communities which believed that Nigeria’s insecurity situation might prevent the 2023 election from holding.

In July 2021 director Commonwealth and development office in the United Kingdom said that the 2023 general election might not hold due to mounting insurgency, rising cases of insecurity, incessant gun attacks and atrocities perpetrated by Boko Haram and other bandits across all states of Nigeria!
The diplomat however believed that if injustice and impunity, proliferation of small arms and weapons and weak Justice institutions could be eliminated from the Nigerian political system, all contentious agitations and complex conflicts in respect of restructuring of the country will be amicably resolved.

BRITAIN SHOULD SUPPORT A PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT IN NIGERIA,

The Westminster Parliamentary System of the British Government had produced stable effective and very diligent administrations for centuries in the UK and one would have expected that the former colonial Masters would suggest or recommend to Muhammadu Buhari to adopt the system in view of several agitations for the restructuring of Nigeria instead of crying Wolf where none existed!

Britain should support a popular referendum or plebiscite through the drafting of a Parliamentary Constitution in Nigeria now as we have always advocated to douse all political tensions for stakeholders of the Nigerian project to broker peace for the establishment of unicameral government that will resolve contentious issues and produce a PRIME MINISTER from the 2023 General Elections!

VOX POPULI VOX DEI! “The voice of the people is the voice of God.”

[WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]


I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

I totally agree with this submission! It is so sad that Amaechi and this government choose sentiment, bigotry over reason and overall national interest!