Monday 2 June 2014
Ndume: Boko Haram, Not Just the Failure of the Political Class
The senator representing Borno South senatorial
district in the National Assembly, Mohammed Ali
Ndume, yesterday said the Boko Haram crisis persisted
not because of the failure of politicians to deliver
dividends of democracy but because everyone was
shying away from their responsibility to the nation.
Ndume said the crisis should be seen by Nigerians from
the perspective of what should they contribute
personally to solve it.
Speaking with journalists in Maiduguri, Ndume said it
was wrong to trade blame on what had sustained the
crisis this long, insisting that since security was the
responsibility of all, the large scale insecurity as with
Boko Haram is the irresponsibility of all.
He said Nigerians are always quick to throw blame for
the system failure at politicians as if they were not the
making of the society or system.
“We should all take responsibility and stop trading
blame, we should desist from concluding that
politicians have failed the nation.
“Are politicians from Mars, did they go to special
school to learn politics? They are just like any other
Nigerian, because I contested for an election and won
does not making me better than you,” Ndume said.
He told journalists that “if you are saying the senate
has failed the nation, who make up the senate? In the
senate today, we have a former National President of
the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the person of
Senator Smart Adeyemi, who it would be right to say
you donated to us, does that mean journalists could be
singled out as failures? The fact is that the senate is the
make up of the Nigerian society as well as other arms of
government.
“So we need not be so quick to see politicians as
failures instead look at what we can do as individuals
to preserve the country.”
Ndume said he was optimistic that this will be the last
session of emergency rule in the three North-eastern
states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa as the military are
presently working tirelessly to put an end to the Boko
Haram menace.
“The problem before now was the misconception of the
crisis as religious, ethnic and regional, but with the
realisation of the federal government that it is a
national calamity and non-religious, non-tribal and
non-regional, the first step has been won as discovery is
the key to solving a problem.
“I believe we are almost there, we are about to win the
war, the whole world is interested in solving this
problem, the only thing that is needed is sincerity and
the will of government,” the senator said.
He added that the federal government has the capacity
to bring peace back to the North-east, the world is
unified against Boko Haram therefore, the federal
government should tap into this to bring peace back to
the North-east.”
Ndume said it was good news that the federal
government had assured Nigerians that elections
would hold next year in the three troubled states where
emergency rule presently reigns.
He said: “We are still optimistic that election will hold.
Elections have held in worse situation worldwide, even
during wars why not here.”
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