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Onaiyekan, who rejected the idea of negotiating with bandits, asked those in government to “stop pretending” that they are in charge, saying non-state actors are making attempts to take over the country.
“The fact remains that we are not where we should be. We should not be living in a country where we are always with our hearts in our mouth when we are moving from one place to another. We should not be living in a country where the children cannot study in schools and where bandits can come and cart away students and their teachers into the bush and sit there and boast for dialogue.
The former President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria and the Archbishop of Abuja, John Onayekan has asked the current administration to quit the stage if it can no longer protect and secure the lives of citizens.
The cleric made the call while condemning the latest trend of dialoguing with the bandits in the country.
He told the government to stop pretending to be in charge when it was obvious that non-state actors have taken over the country.
Onayekan stated this during an interview with newsmen after the ordination of the Auxillary Bishop of Minna Diocese
“If the government cannot secure the lives of the people, they should call for a kind of national cohesion. They should stop pretending that they are the ones ruling. In some countries when these incidents happen, it gets to a stage where the government will call for national unity where everyone comes on board to proffer solutions.”
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Archbishop John Onaiyekan, former Catholic Archbishop of Abuja Diocese, has asked the current administration to vacate power if it can no longer protect lives and property.
Speaking with journalists in Minna, Niger State capital, after the ordination of the Auxiliary Bishop of Minna Diocese, the Cleric lamented the high rate of crime in the country.
Onaiyekan, who rejected the idea of negotiating with bandits, asked those in government to “stop pretending” that they are in charge, saying non-state actors are making attempts to take over the country.
“The fact remains that we are not where we should be. We should not be living in a country where we are always with our hearts in our mouth when we are moving from one place to another. We should not be living in a country where the children cannot study in schools and where bandits can come and cart away students and their teachers into the bush and sit there and boast for dialogue.
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The meeting was held in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Saturday.
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State and Chairman of the Southwest Governors Forum spoke at the end of the meeting.
He said though the parley was at the instance of the presidency, the Chief of Staff to the President, Ibrahim Gambari, the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu and the Director-General of the Department of State Services could not fly out of Abuja due to bad weather.
Akeredolu said governors and the traditional rulers, however, decided to continue the meeting to appraise the security situation in the zone.