A security expert and former minister for education, Olorogun Barrister Kenneth Gbagi, has called on President Muhammedu Buhari to wake up to his responsibilities as the chief security of lives and properties of Nigerians.
Gbagi, a foremost 2023 governorship aspirant in Delta state, told Emerald News that he is disappointed at the lackadaisical attitude with which President Buhari is handling the security system in the country.
Gbagi, who expressed unhappiness at the constant killings especially in Northern Nigeria where people are recklessly murdered and terrorists taking over communities, said he had earlier made the call to Buhari to wake up but the president has remained in his lukewarm state.
He said: “I’m disappointed at the president. Six years ago I told the president that he needed to wake up that his conduct was going to bring Nigeria to nothingness.
“At the time of my interview, I had called the president to deploy all service chiefs, all security agencies and relocate them to troubled areas within the country. But he never heeded my call
“There is no county if the people are not safe and happy. There is no country where you have a president who uses tax payers money to protect himself and neglect the people.
“There is no county where heads of security agencies use the tax payers money to protect themselves as opposed them waiting and protecting the citizenry.”
Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, who is running for Delta governorship and has strategised plans to ensure safety of Deltans if given the opportunity, expressed grief and unhappiness over the death of the Katsina state commissioner for science, Nasir Rabe who was murdered in his home.
He said Dr. Rabe had paid his dues should not have died should Buhari carried out his responsibility to all Nigerians. He said the commissioner, whom he described as a gentleman was murdered in cold blood.
He insisted: “The president and the security agencies of the country need to wake up and do what they ought to do. Nigeria has become a country where policemen are promoted irrespective of the fact that they man areas, local governments and states where crime has taken over.
“Tax payers are paying for all of these and we are being killed like chicken. This is a genocide. The president must wake up because he is the chief security officer of the country and the entire security apparatus are under his control.
“Why suddenly, after we have lost a great gentleman, a great legislator Dr. Nasir Rabe that the president would deploy all security chiefs to Sokoto and Katsina states?
“His soul is hunting the president and the security agencies of this country for not doing their job having paid his dues.
“If the president has anything left to offer Nigerians, he should wake up and carry out his duties and what he promised Nigeria for which he was voted.
“The life and property of Nigerians should take center stage in his life. He should not neglect security of Nigerians because he has the apparatus and guns to protect himself while in office.
“He would have himself to blame when he is no longer in office. The death of this young man is painful. I saw all of these when I made my broadcast years ago that the president should sit up.
“A country where the security apparatus is lopsided has shown to everybody that it’s a failure strategy and it will not work. We must all demand security from the president, he owes it a duty and responsibility to every Nigerian.”
