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Rep accuses Jonathan of poor handling of insurgency

By Abiodun Fagbemi
18 February 2015   |   4:39 am
HOUSE of Representatives Chairman of Committee on Information, Zakari Mohammed, has alleged that President Goodluck Jonathan was not giving the issue of insurgency the required attention and bite to reciprocate the “full cooperation of the National Assembly.”    Mohammed told The Guardian on Monday in Ilorin that the National Assembly has granted all but one…

HOUSE of Representatives Chairman of Committee on Information, Zakari Mohammed, has alleged that President Goodluck Jonathan was not giving the issue of insurgency the required attention and bite to reciprocate the “full cooperation of the National Assembly.”

   Mohammed told The Guardian on Monday in Ilorin that the National Assembly has granted all but one of the requests forwarded to it by the Presidency on insurgency, adding, “the only thing we didn’t do was to carry arms and put on military uniforms to fight the insurgents.

   “Everything the Executive requested for on the issue of insurgents was granted. We granted the first, second and third requests on emergency rule. We failed to grant the fourth because the previous ones granted did not work. We needed to ask some questions on it before conceding to the fourth request.

   “We are surprised that nothing has changed since we approved the release of funds for the fight against the insurgents. We even granted the approval to spend beyond the budgetary provisions, yet nothing has changed.”

   He cautioned against any further attempt to reschedule the forthcoming general elections, noting that the exercise already rescheduled by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was already generating internal and international suspicion, and that further rescheduling would lead to anarchy.

   According to him, “it is an unpatriotic endeavour to think of another shift in the dates of elections in Nigeria. What is difficult to achieve is getting 100 percent readiness for any election. INEC had first come out to say that over 60 percent of those who registered had collected their Permanent Voter Cards (PVC). 

   (Attahiru Jega (INEC chief) should not listen to the unpatriotic call to shift the dates for a second time. It is an invitation to civil unrest. No lover of true democracy will love it. It could be the voice of a master but the hand of the servant.”

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