GYB fumes, Calls for immediate Resignation of Homeland Security Commissioner
A Gbagyi Socio-cultural Group, Gbegnu Boknu Yakwo Association (GYB) has called for the immediate resignation of the Commissioner of Homeland Security, Brigadier General Bello Abdullahi Mohammed (rtd) over the increasing killings and kidnapping in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State.
This was contained in a strong worded statement signed by the President, Niger State Chapter of the Association, Comrade Bako Wakili Bosso Tuesday, 22nd August in Minna.
The Association expressed disappointment over a recent claims by the Commissioner that normalcy had returned in Allawa and adjourning Communities which according to the Group, are still being terrorised by bandits and kidnappers.
Part of the statement reads “the Commissioner’s claim in the BBC Hausa service interview that normal life has returned to Allawa Area under Shiroro Local Government area is not only an act that can be described as a mockery of the dead but a clear demonstration of his total detachment from the plight of residents of the affected communities who are currently dispersed and chased out of their ancestral land by bandits and terrorists.
“Nigerlites are aware that our brethren and hundreds of residents of Allawa and adjourning Communities fled on April 25, 2024 after the soldiers stationed in the community were withdrawn.
“It is five months after the residents of Allawa Community under Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State fled their homes as a result of increasing and unabated attacks from bandits following the withdrawal of soldiers from the community. Instead of the Commissioner to explain to the world why the soldiers are yet to return, he is busy chasing shadow resorting to cheap media blackmail of our helpless farmers. It is no longer news that a recent report by DailyTrust among other credible and verifiable media outlets had indicated that the bandits and terrorists are presently having a field day as they have moved into the communities where they engage in farming.
“We vehemently condemn the Commissioner’s attempt of playing with the public sensibilities and obviously trivialising the plight of our people who are forced into being Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and who are largely traumatised for losing their loved ones to brutal and bloody banditry and insurgency. He has exposed his desperate desire to misleading the public on the true security situation of Allawa Community among other adjourning villages suffering from the endless killings and we condemn this gross inefficiency and incompetence of the retired Brigadier General.
“This elaborate media blitz, over the matter, GBY observes, is a clear proof that the Commissioner has failed in his responsibility of purging Allawa of banditry and terrorism and Niger State by extention of crimes and criminalities.
“Without mincing words, the security situation under the nose of the Commssioner of Homeland Security has deteriorated and worsen not only in the rural communities but even in the State capital as more and increasing cases of thuggery, armed robbery and youth restiveness among other violent crimes are increasingly being recorded”
The Association however, call on the state and federal governments to as matter of urgency take decisive action to dislodge the terrorists from the affected communities to enable them return home and continue with farming.
