INSECURITY: SHETTIMA & THE GOVT HE SERVES SHOULD RESIGN
February 6, 2024 | News
-By Zik Gbemre
INSECURITY: SHETTIMA & THE GOVT HE SERVES SHOULD RESIGN
It is shameful that political officeholders come into power in Nigeria to tell us problems we already know as though they were giving exclusive information, whereas they were elected to give us solutions and not to beautify the problems.
Imagine the puerile remarks from Vice President Shettima, telling Nigerians the overflowed common knowledge that corruption is what is fueling the growing insecurity involving heinous crimes in the country.
Are we talking about same Shettima who said during campaigns that he will be tackling the insecurity to bring it to the barest minimum while his principal, President Bola Tinubu, deals with restoring a stable, productive economy?
So, my first response on what the government can do to tackle corruption would be for Shettima and the entire government he serves as VP to resign from office and let others take over to try new ideas.
Shettima, Tinubu, or anyone serving the current administration were not elected to tell us problems we already know. They were elected to proffer solutions they boasted they would bring before the elections.
Is there any Nigerian who doesn't know worsening corruption is at the heart of the drivers of insecurity in Nigeria? Is there anyone who doesn't know that corruption is why a large Nigerian Military cannot fight armed gangs terrorising the entire nation even with the effrontery to invade security formations including the NDA to abduct military officers unhindered?
Corruption is why large security votes are filtered into private votes, weapons of warfare are purchased abroad and Nigerians never get to see them, the Chief of Defense Staff would be so defeatist in comments to say "Only God can save Nigeria from the security situation.
Shettima should stop telling Nigerians what they already know. To tackle corruption is simple. Intensify genuine consequence action against corrupt public office holders. Tinubu's government is playing politics with the trial of Godwin Emefiele today because they know they can't hold Emefiele accountable without holding his then Principal, Gen Mohammadu Buhari liable for whatever perceived crime the immediate past CBN Governor committed.
They shy away from putting Emefiele in the box to spill the beans in defending the allegations against him because he will rope in Buhari and several others. So rather than try him properly, EFCC is gagging him with technicalities on the right to detain him longer than the law permits. Why not just try him?
Genuine consequence actions, corrupt public office holders, and nonstate actor collaborators honestly tried and punished is the solution. Shettima and the government he serves have no will to fight corruption. So they should resign. Nobody placed a gun on their heads to contest to rule Nigeria. If they have no solution, they have the right to resign.
Zik Gbemre
February 6th, 2024
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