Abia Speaker advocates renewed measures to end nation’s security challenges
Security
By Leonard Okachie
Umuahia, Dec. 25, 2018 (NAN) Mr Chikwendu Kalu, the Speaker, Abia House of Assembly, has called on the Federal Government to evolve more pragmatic measures in dealing with the nation’s security challenges.
Kalu made the call in a statement signed by Mr Henry Madubuike, the Chief Information Officer to the house, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Umuahia.
The speaker expressed regrets that the nation’s security situation had continued to degenerate. He therefore advocated more drastic measures to guarantee the safety of lives and property of Nigerians.
He cited the activities of the Boko Haram insurgents in the Northeast and recent murder of the Chief of Defense Staff, retired Lt.-Gen. Alex Badeh, as some instances of major security breaches in the country.
He therefore called for an overhaul of the country’s security apparatus to forestall further wanton destruction of lives and property of Nigerians.
Meanwhile, the Speaker has expressed doubts about the prospect of President Muhammadu Buhari handing over power to the Southeast in 2023.
He said that contradictions in the recent pronouncements by two top Federal Government’s functionaries on the issue informed his doubts.
Kalu said that the contradictions “were enough to show Ndigbo that they are not in the political calculation of the All Progressives Congress.”
He therefore called on the people to continue to support the Peoples Democratic Party and vote massively for its candidates at all levels in the 2019 polls.
He further urged Nigerians to vote according to their consciences and resist financial or material inducements by any political party. (NAN)
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Edited by Sam Oditah