News Editor
By Olu Balogun
Former Abia State governor and senator representing Abia North Senatorial District, Orji Uzor Kalu has charged the government to urgently take steps that would put an end to the spare of escalating insecurity in the country.
In the light of prevailing situation, Kalu, who is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on South-East Development Commission advocated for the investment of additional resources to the security agencies.
He that for the nation to tackle its insecurity challenges, the issue must be addressed without politics but its current realities which he said is deteriorating.
In a video posted on his social media page on Monday in China, the Chief Whip of the 9th Senate, called for decisive measures to end the scourge.
Reacting to recent alarm raised by Borno State governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum over the deteriorating security situation in his state in which he said that some part of the state has been lost to insurgents, Kalu pointed out that if nothing is done urgently, the state including the South East region may be lost totally to terrorists.
The lawmaker specifically frowned at the politicisation of insecurity in the country which he credited to the political leaders in the country, warning that security is a very serious issue which should not politicised.
Kalu also urged the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris not to downplay the issues raised by the Borno State governor, but rather intimate the President about the true situation of security in the country.
He said: “The Minister of Information is doing his job, but Professor Zulum is right, I am almost from Borno State. If the Federal Government doesn’t take the right step in Borno State and South East, those areas might collapse.
“I want to believe Professor Zulum that the security situation is deteriorating every day, so we need to step up, especially in the South East.
“Our South East governors are doing their best to fight insurgency. I would like the Federal Government to step up security in the South East, because it’s a gateway for people transporting goods from the ports and refineries.”
Kalu also called for an end to the verbal squabble between the minister and the governor, saying that for the situation to be solved President Bola Tinubu needed to be told the truth.
“For me Professor Zulum and the minister don’t need to argue. These are fundamental issues if we don’t tell President Tinubu the truth, the place will be ungovernable.
“So, it is better we tell him the truth on the condition of the insecurity situation in Nigeria. Our Nigerian Army has been doing their best and I congratulate them especially the Chief of Army Staff, the Inspector General of Police and other security chiefs for all the efforts that they have been putting in.
“The Federal Government needs to invest more resources and equipment and attention to Borno State and the South East. We cannot play politics with insecurity, we should take the art of governance very seriously,” he stressed.
