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Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council (OYC), the youth wing of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, yesterday, advised President Bola Tinubu to address the country’s insecurity issue decisively to avoid suffering the same fate as former President Goodluck Jonathan.
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National President of the Igbo group, Okwu Nnabuike, in a statement, said that the series of abductions in the country within the last two weeks showed a clearly designed plan to make the government lose the confidence of the people.
He said: “When the Chibok incident occurred, then President Goodluck Jonathan did not realise quickly that it was a gang-up against his government. Even the security agencies were not telling him the truth.
“By the time the government realised what was happening, it was late, and it became an international issue, such that even the wife of the American President joined the ‘bring back our girls’ campaign.
“The same forces are at it again; this idea of kidnapping school children in droves is not just to get ransom. The major idea is to discredit the government; make it look incompetent and demarket it before the international community.”
He, therefore, urged Tinubu to bark and bite by issuing a clear ultimatum to security heads, and should they fail to get the desired result within the expected time frame, should be fired.
Nnabuike added: “This is the only way to end this nationwide embarrassment. We cannot understand how over 200 human beings would be moved from one place to another unchallenged.
“It means that something is wrong somewhere, and the President should march words with action before Jonthan’s fate would befall him.
“He should act swiftly before the school children are moved to neighbouring countries. Any form of delay is dangerous.”
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