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Insecurity: PRONACO, PNM, others meet in Lagos, proffer solutions

David Adenekan
David Adenekan
Insecurity: PRONACO, PNM, others meet in Lagos, proffer solutions
PRONACO

Notable national leaders and political activists rose from an emergency meeting in Lagos on Friday proffering solutions to the state of insecurity threatening the country with imminent danger.

This is as the leaders called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently take actions in order to save the country.

The leaders came together under the aegis of Project Nigeria Movement; the Patriots; Pro National Conference Organisations, PRONACO, and other civil society groups.

The groups are led by Prof Ben Nwabueze; Chief Emeka Anyaoku;  Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu; General Alani Akinriade; Solomon Asemota; Obong Victor Attah; Prof Kimse Okoko among others.

The communiqué, containing suggested solutions, issued at the end of the meeting was signed by Professor Pat Utomi; Mr Donald Duke; Dr. Kunle Olajide, Professor Anthony Kila and Olawale Okunniyi who is the joint spokesperson of the different groups.

The concerned leaders said their meeting was informed by the need to urgently find solutions to the tide of current heightened criminal and murderous activities of bandits and terrorists which had once again pushed Nigeria to the brink of anarchy.

As a way of solving the problems at hand, the meeting resolved:

“1. That, we, in unequivocal terms, condemn all the dastardly and cruel murder of innocent Nigerians across the country by invading and local bandits and terrorists operating in the country.

“2.  That we sympathize and commiserate with all Nigerians, who have lost their relations and loved ones to armed kidnappings and murderous banditry inflicted by heartless ransom taking and blood thirsty invaders and marauders within Nigeria’s highways and Forest.

“3. We, strongly call on President Muhammadu Buhari, as the Chief Security Officer of the country to take visible and active measures to secure the country and to urgently put in place a serious security machinery to fish out these criminal invaders and murderers, whoever they are, and to make them pay for their ungodly acts in the interest of justice and peace.

“4. That the Federal Government, in neutralising the heightened political tension foisted by dangerous altercations among ethnic and religious interests in the country, should immediately set up a National Consultative and Reconciliatory Commission of Eminent Leaders and Jurists to urgently engage the country towards unraveling the truth about the current murderous banditry and terrorism in the country and to facilitate profound National understanding and reconciliation among the various nationality and religious groups in the country in preventing a total breakdown of law and order and unwanted civil strife among Nigerians.

“5. That Governments at all levels should immediately commence an in-depth and robust public conversation on State, Local  and Community policing towards curbing and neutralizing the present state of insecurity and killings by menacing and invading armed bandits and terrorists marauding in the Forests and Highways of Nigeria

“6. That it is imperative for appropriate actions to be taken with great speed and urgency by all concerned to avoid the complete erosion of the legitimacy of the Nigerian State and a journey down the road to Somalia

“7. That, we as concerned Leaders, pray, at this trying period, for divine fortitude for all Nigerians, who have lost their relations and loved ones to ravaging terrorist criminality in our country and shall take decisive steps to engage the Federal Government and all other Nigerian Stakeholders on the way forward in the succeeding days.”

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