Arrest perpetrators of Benue, Kaduna, Rivers killings, ASUU tells Buhari

Agboola Bayo

 

Ibadan
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday said President Muhammadu Buhari should go beyond condemning the killings by Fulani herdsmen in the country.
ASUU in a release signed by its University of Ibadan Chairman, Dr Deji Omole called on Buhari to immediately arrest and prosecute the killer herdsmen.
“The new year killings in some part of the country while the President was telling Nigerians that it has beaten Boko Haram should be rejected by all Nigerians.
Time has come for all to rise and call on the government to fulfil her duties of protection of lives and properties or quit if it cannot do this,” he said.
ASUU also demanded payment of compensation for victims that lost their properties and relations in Rivers, Benue and Kwara states, adding that “the rising insecurity profile under the present administration shows a faulty security architecture and policy.
“All victims must be compensated and all governors must visit the victims the way they all stormed Abuja to greet the son of the president who is hospitalised.
If the son of the president is fortified with security meant for over 1,000 people even in hospital, it shows that the ruling class does not value the lives of ordinary Nigerians.
” The union described the faulty security architecture and policy as a sign of irresponsibility on the part of the Buhari-led federal government not to have tamed the ravaging killer-herdsmen, adding that the Buhari government who claimed to have special interest in agriculture has failed security competency test to protect vulnerable farmers in indigenous areas of Nigeria.
Emphasising that Nigeria will suffer when farmers are killed at will, lamented that the consequences of killing farmers is food insecurity, ASUU said “the president is building a dangerous trend where citizens will rise to defend themselves by taking up arms since they are not protected by the state.
“The government that wants people to go into agriculture but fold its arms when farmers are killed is not only irresponsive but also irresponsible.
We have now added to the internally displaced profile of people in Nigeria.
The problem is that the survivors are embittered that their government cannot protect them but prefers to set up campaign team for 2019 general elections.

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