Insecurity: Okogie Blasts Buhari Over Failed Service Chiefs

With heightening insecurity in Nigeria which has attracted the attention of the National Assembly and has necessitated the United States President Donald Trump’s administration to clamp down on immigration visa seekers, the Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Lagos, Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, yesterday, joined an army of patriotic Nigerians to question the competence of the current service chiefs.
“They are yet to demonstrate that they have solutions to the menace of Boko Haram. Nigeria is at war. But can it be said that she is showing signs of winning the war? If indeed Nigeria is a democracy, then Nigerians have an inalienable right to ask government questions,” Okogie said, insisting that a democracy is not led by a monarch who is above and beyond questions.
The cardinal came down heavily on presidential spokespersons, who he accused of peddling the myth of an omnipotent and omniscient president, insisting that it was “disheartening that while the government they represent has failed in matters of security they tell lies and insult us. They are neither helping him nor helping Nigeria. A President who is really in control would have called them to order or fired them.”
In a letter titled; “Walls Have Ears”, the cardinal bemoaned the Federal Government and her officials who had often claimed that the government was winning the war on insecurity, insisting that Boko Haram has not been defeated but instead was waxing stronger by the day.