June 18, 2011

INCESSANT BOMB BLASTS: PRESIDENT JONATHAN’s EXPLAINATION IS NOT ASSURING ABOUT SECURITY

We condemn the recent bomb explosions at the police headquarters in Abuja on Thursday June 16, 2011 and in part of Maiduguri where four children reportedly lost their lives. The ugly incidences have added to the rising profile of bomb explosions in the country with attendant massive destruction of lives estimated at close to 200 and properties.

The working poor men and women of this country are the major victims of these bomb blasts. To add incessant bomb blasts to the existing problems of unemployment, poverty, starvation and hunger, facing the working men and women means the country is no longer safe to live.

President Jonathan’s remark that there is no need for panic is simply unconvincing. What panic do we need when scores are dying due to violence and bombings? There is already a national and international panic about Nigeria and the earlier the President is on duty to halt the drift to anarchy. The President should urgently take the necessary measures to put the rising cases of bomb explosion in the country to an end rather than the unacceptable excuses that the country is having its own share of the global phenomenon. Terrorism like HIV might be global but governments do take local actions to contain and prevent it. Nigeria is never known for this level of unprecedented bomb blasts and carnage at the door steps of security agencies like army barracks and police head quarters. President Jonathan has the urgent task of reassuring Nigerians about safety of their lives and properties which he swore oath as President to protect. Above all he must improve on the deteriorating fundamental economic and social indicators which are now making some Nigerians willing suicide bombers.

Issa Aremu mni.
GENERAL SECRETARY/VICE PRESIDENT NLC