Boko Haram – Rep asks Jonathan to appoint MILAD for Adamawa, Borno, Yobe

Lawmaker in the Nigerian House of Representatives, Rep Uzoma Abonta, (Abia, PDP) has called on President Jonathan to suspend all democratic structures in the three states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, and installed military administrators. Rep Abonta who spoke to reporters in Abuja over the weekend stated that the fight against the Boko Haram insurgency must not be handled with kid gloves any longer.
The lawmaker premised that it will amount to duplicity of role to have a military commander and a civilian administration in place in the affected states at this critical point in time.
According to him; “We should not fight insecurity with kid gloves. It should be a concern to everybody.
If you run into a stop and search patrol team, whether you are in a hurry or not, you must stop and be searched, we must see everybody as a suspect.
I do not feel happy, that we all drive into the National Assembly without been searched.“The Boko Haram are fighting with military tactics, guerrilla tactics, kill and run, they seem to have more sophisticated training and weapons than our security agencies, therefore we
should go full blast in fighting them.
“In the states under emergency rule, who is the chief security officer, the governor, but should there be two conflicting orders, what happens. To me, I will join those who are advocating for full state of emergency, so that we can restore normalcy on time”.
“That means most institutions may be dismantled or kept in the cooler. Such institutions will argue, are they going to lose their mandate; their mandate may be restrained, that is the meaning, however, there should be middle course to it, find a way to keep them, look at issues but not to function as an institution. Is the state assembly going to adjudicate for the military people; no”.
“We are in an era now when the military tactics should not be known to anybody in the course of their fight, only the military commander should know about military tactics”.
However against speculations that the last enlarged state security council which saw both the opposition and ruling party in attendance will endorse full scale state of emergency in the affected states, the council rose with the extension of the partial state of emergency already in place.