Gambari’s counsel to governors

Prof. Ibrahim Gambari

Rachael Olusanya, 9 Egbeyemi Street, Abule Egba, Lagos State: The statement credited to Ambassador Ibrahim Gambari in The PUNCH on Tuesday that state “governors should take the mandate given to them seriously” is apt.

Now Prof. Gambari is talking sense into all governors not only the incoming ones. Should the President alone be held responsible for all the flaws in the country? What are the governors, the police, security chiefs, state commissioners even local government chairmen doing? What are the chiefs, emirs, baales or mogajis in the communities doing as regards security?

It’s embarrassing to read in the papers that the bandits attack towns if the Federal Government fails to rescue them in Zamfara. This is very embarrassing; what are the governors doing with the security votes they receive? If the streets in Lagos State engage in community policing by engaging night guards to monitor movements, why not in Zamfara or any of those states challenged by security threats?

Let us stop pretending as if we don’t know what to do. God save Nigeria from pretenders.

   Copyright PUNCH.


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