‘Buhari Has Been Sleeping On Duty’ – Yola Bishop

According to Punch, The Catholic Bishop of Yola Diocese, Reverend Stephen Mamza, has said the unabated killings, violent crimes and conflict across the country indicate that President Muhammadu Buhari has been sleeping on duty as the nation’s Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.

The Catholic bishop, who spoke on the occasion of Easter,
regretted the recent attacks on Adamawa, Benue, Zamfara, Nasarawa
states and Southern Kaduna.

He described as unfortunate the
inability of security agencies to stop these attacks despite available
information to them before the attacks.

Mamza said, “We are
really in a dilemma. We (Nigerians) are feeling that we don’t have
protection. From all indications, there’s nothing being done. There have
been calls from all over the country. Look at what is happening in
Zamfara State; look at what is happening in Benue periodically, in
Nasarawa State and now in Adamawa (Southern Adamawa).

“If there
is a government in place then the government should listen to the people
and address the security challenges. We have mass burials from time to
time and there’s no sign the government cares about what is happening.”

The
cleric noted that it “is the constitutional duty of the government to
provide security for its citizens but that is if such government really
cares.”

He charged the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal
Government to wake up to its responsibilities of protecting lives,
noting that the impression out there was that government did not seem to
be in control of the insecurity situation in country.

“Why are we living in a country where it seems there’s no government in place?” the Catholic Bishop lamented.

He
said his worry was the legacy that Buhari was going to leave behind if
he failed to heed the calls by Nigerians “to overhaul the security
architecture which has failed to address the security challenge.”

He
said, “Since the history of this country, apart from the civil war we
have never had the kind of killings under a President like we have in
the last four years. So, it is clear, the killings are too many. And if
the strategies they have in place do not work why can’t he (Buhari)
change and overhaul the entire security architecture? People have been
asking him to overhaul his security chiefs but he doesn’t listen. He
doesn’t care.”