Who Wants Governor Dauda Lawal To Resign — A Rejoinder

I cognize Dauda Lawal, the Governor of Zamfara State, though I person not spoken to him since helium assumed office. This clarification is important due to the fact that successful Nigeria we person perfected the enactment of diverting attraction from the connection and unleashing onslaught connected the messenger. This has go the unfortunate norm. It’s besides important to accent that Governor Lawal has not asked nor paid maine to constitute this rejoinder. This rejoinder is simply the absorption of a acrophobic Nigerian nonmigratory successful the North, whose friends person been kidnapped and who is profoundly incensed by the tragic world that our beloved state ne'er solves immoderate occupation large oregon minor. The different crushed is the achy information that nary one, not adjacent those who contiguous determination astir with dense security, is genuinely immune from the consequences of the nonaccomplishment of tackling a occupation that has made america a laughing stock. If nary 1 is safe, past adding my dependable to those calling for the decision and not “technical degradation” of these terrorists is not conscionable a duty, but an enlightened self-interest.

It is noteworthy that the nonfiction published by Saturday Independent paper has nary byline, which confirms the write-up arsenic a hatchet job, with the evident volition of lying the instauration for the truthful called declaration of a authorities of emergency. This nary uncertainty is the motive of those down the jaundiced article. In a substance arsenic captious arsenic telephone for the resignation of a politician determination is nary country for anonymity and liable journalism demands attribution and verifiable sources and not shadowy insinuations cloaked successful unnamed “top authorities officials.”

For those who bash not cognize Governor Dauda Lawal, it is important to accent that Governor Dauda Lawal is not a frivolous person. So helium didn’t marque his connection lightly.

Governor Lawal deserves our commendation for speaking up and, successful doing so, forcing Nigerians to face the uncomfortable truths astir our breached information architecture that is not moving and the plight of the radical of Zamfara,Benue,Plateau,Sokoto,Niger, Katsina states who proceed to carnivore the brunt of the inexplicable information challenges.

Governor Lawal has committed nary transgression for admitting to the limits of his powers successful tackling the information challenges successful the look of the unrelenting terrorists attacks. Despite his governmental opponents weaponizing his factual connection President Bola Tinubu surely agrees with the politician that determination is the request for change. While receiving a delegation from Katsina State which similar Zamfara State has a superior information challenges, the president admitted that determination is an urgent request for the National Assembly to amend the constitution to let for the constitution of authorities police. Those calling for Governor Lawal’s caput indispensable halt deflecting attraction from the existent contented and absorption connected addressing Nigeria’s breached national information architecture.

Has Governor Dauda Lawal fixed the warfare against panic his all? Clearly, contempt inheriting a authorities already overrun by banditry since assuming office, helium has taken bold steps to fundamentally code the occupation wrong the limits of his office. His vexation is that helium can’t bash more. So it goes to accidental that helium cannot beryllium held wholly liable for a warfare helium does not command.

For the payment of the absorption and the media houses that are evidently ignorant of the Constitutional provisions arsenic regards the powers of the Federal and State governments successful the power of the equipped forces and police; it’s important to punctual them that the Nigerian Constitution vests the full power of the military, police, and different information agencies exclusively successful the Federal Government. And that the governors of the 36 states person nary ineligible authorization to deploy the information forces oregon procure arms. They are truthful powerless that they cannot adjacent nonstop a Commissioner of Police, fto unsocial a subject serviceman of immoderate of the services. Yet, they are often held liable whenever determination are attacks.

Like Governor Lawal plainly said, wherefore indispensable the information agencies hold everlastingly for Abuja to springiness orders earlier the subject tin spell aft the terrorists that often ne'er come? Is this not a confirmation that governors are glorified Chief Security Officers?

If Governor Lawal is being asked to resign for stating this fact, past what astir those who really power the guns and person woefully failed to support Nigerians? Why are Nigerians not holding the Federal Government nether President Bola Ahmed Tinubu accountable, particularly due to the fact that the president campaigned connected a committedness to enlistee much unit to alteration the subject decisively wage the warfare against terrorism? What has happened to those run pledges? Where are the caller recruits, the expanded firepower, and the governmental volition to act? We can’t spend to proceed playing the ostrich due to the fact that the terrorists are becoming much emboldened.

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