It’s Way Out of Insecurity —Attah
The former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah, urged the federal government to scale up efforts at tackling the menace of insecurity.
Attah, who spoke in an interview, said: “If there is any black mark that this government will have, it won’t be in the area of the economy but security. If the economy is bad, you will recover from it. The educational standard will be good. “They have actually handled this COVID-19 issue very well. Let nobody deny that one. Health facilities would improve.
Another Administration can also come and improve on them but when it comes to this type of prolonged killings, it can be difficult to tackle. What was the Mafia thing in Italy all about? Families retaliating for killings of their members many years ago. When it comes to killings, especially by an unidentifiable group, it is very serious.
“All of these things, if we can just allow this country to go back to how we were before, some of these issues would be tackled. Why didn’t we have these killings before? You have the Fulani colony in Jos. Why were they not fighting before?
“It is all because of this unitary system. But I thank God, Gowon has said it, Babangida has said it, Obasanjo who almost ‘killed’ me for holding this view has now joined them to say that the one thing or problem that the military created for this country was to have given it a unitary system.
“Let me not blaspheme, but even if you bring an angel to preside over this system, he would fail because it is not really about the individuals. I gave an example before when there is a coup, everybody jubilates and they believe that the new government would be their savior.
“Then when that government is sent out and another one comes, people jubilate again, thinking the new government would be better than the former. So, you can see it is the system and not the people”.
Ayooluwa Joshua