Insecurity: National Assembly Should Have Focused on Funding Police, Not Military, Ogunlewe Says

APC Chieftain, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe and Managing Partner of Alliance Law Firm, Kunle Adegoke SAN both spoke in an interview on The Morning Show on Thursday about the senators advocating to impeach Buhari.

Adegoke said if bandits and terrorists can go knocking on the door of the President and threaten to abduct him, then it shows that the government in power is not performing well.

Adegoke added that at this point, his main concern is protecting himself and his family, and that as a Nigerian citizen, he should not be afraid to visit or see a friend in any state; that when the issue of insecurity is discussed he is grossly dissatisfied.

“I should not be afraid to go to any part of Nigeria if security has been properly guaranteed,” he posited.

Meanwhile, APC Chieftain, Senator Ogunlewe said that the National Assembly is to blame when looking at insecurity in the country, that when they were allocating funds, it was given to the military instead of the police. He said that this is wrong because the military doesn’t have the structure to deal with internal conflict but external; however, the police does.

“Concentration of the national assembly on the military instead of the police has enabled insecurity,” he said.

“National Assembly when composing funds allocated money to the military for internal protection instead of the police.”

Ogunlewe continued that if he were to advice the next president, he would say that the police should be more involved in internal security. The current President, Muhammadu Buhari, gave more attention to the military and that’s why the rate of insecurity increased, he asserted.

He was asked about the answers given by presidential spokesman Femi Adesina (“those trying to impeach the president are anarchists”) and the Minister of information Lai Mohammmed (“the attempt to remove the president from office is laughable and nothing but propaganda”) on the Senate’s threat to impeach President Buhari.

He replied saying that they are just doing their jobs and that they cannot openly criticize the government they are serving. They may have reservations but it is not objectivity that matters, instead it is wisdom and for that he credits them.

On the matter of if it is possible for the president to be impeached, Senator Ogunlewe says that the role and conviction of the Senate President is very important as well as getting a one-third majority agreeing in a notice that the President has committed an impeachable offence.

Mr. Adegoke adds that proper reasoning ought to be used when determining how they are going to attend to the issue of the President being removed from office. Ethnicity should be put aside and shouldn’t be used as a criteria in addressing the issue.

Faith Ituen

Follow us on: