Insecurity: NUJ president asks Buhari to overhaul security architecture

The national president of the Nigeria Union Journalists (NUJ), Chris Isiguzo, on Thursday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to overhaul the security architecture of the country.

He said the rate of insecurity in the country had shown that there was the need to bring in new hands to handle the security of Nigeria.

The NUJ president said this in Lokoja, the Kogi state capital at the Grand finale of the 2019 Press Week of the Kogi state council of the union.

He said, “We have a plethora of security issues across the country, if you go to the northwest you see armed bandit terrorising people, go to the Southwest, kidnappers are terrorising people, if you go to central Nigeria the activities of herdsmen are there disturbing and terrorising the people, in the southeast and south-south, we have ethnic militias causing problem and this is a big problem on our hands.

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“I want to, therefore, use this opportunity to call on the president and commander in chief of the armed forces to quickly overhaul the nation’s security architecture. It should be done immediately because if we continue the way we are we will be moving towards anarchy and it will not do anyone any good.

“Most important duty of a serious government is the security of lives and property and I, therefore, ask the president to rise to the occasion and ensure that lives are protected in Nigeria, that will be a good dividends for Nigerians who have reposed their confidence in him to be their leader for the next couple of years”.

Isiguzo also charged newsmen to always be professional in their approach to issues and avoid sensationalism in their reporting.

The chairman of the Kogi state council of NUJ, Alhaji Adeiza Momoh-Jimoh, lamented the condition of service that journalists in the state were being exposed to.

He also expressed the readiness of the members of the union to cooperate with the state government in its bid to ensure speedy development in the state.

The state governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, who spoke through his Chief of Staff (COS), Chief Edward Onoja, said the government had broken many barriers that had weighed down the state in the past.

He said a governor is a detribalised man that had embraced people of other ethnic groups and religion.

Onoja stated that the present administration in the state was poised to make living more meaningful for the people of the state