Jonathan’s administration lacks solution to Nigeria’s security problems – Anglican church

Diocese of the Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion, Enugu, had on Thursday chided President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, saying the government seemed incapable of tackling the security challenges in the country.

Bishop of the Diocese, and South East Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria,CAN, Rt. Rev. Emmanuel Olisa Chukwuma made this assertion while delivering his Presidential Address/ Charge to the Second Session of the Fifteen Synod of the Diocese of Enugu held at St. Bartholomew,s Church Asata, Enugu.

According to him, there was nothing indicative of an effort towards” combating the growing national tragedy of an escalating insecurity”.

Bishop Chukwu who expressed regrets over the murder of the Kwara State Police Commissioner of Police, Mr. Chinwike Asadu sometime ago in his home town, Enugu said it was a confirmation of the worsening security situation in Nigeria.

He observed that if a high profile law-enforcement officer like the late Commissioner could be so callously and easily gunned down, it meant that nobody was safe anymore.

He said: “No day passes now without fatalistic and blood-chilling accounts of how people’s lives are cut short in various parts of the country through terrorism, assassination, and kidnapping that occasionally culminate into death, armed robbery, mishaps, issuing from dilapidated public infrastructure and corruption that lead to pensioners and other victims’ deplorable death.

“Yet, we have a government that is obviously overwhelmed. The way it stands , this administration seems not to have any solution or even a clue to the parlous insecurity in the land. Instead of addressing this and other challenges bedeviling the country, its leadership is busy strategizing for the next elections in 2015. There is nothing indicative of any effort at combating the growing national tragedy of escalating insecurity.

“This is no time for politicking, but a sober period for the confrontation of the myriad of problems facing us, particularly insecurity. Asadu’s death in the hands of gunmen should make those in the corridors of power to wake up from their slumber.

“This kind of atrocity is unheard of in sane and well-governed societies. It is usually rare for a top-echelon officer to be reprehensibly murdered. What it means is that the life of the ordinary citizens could be blown off anytime, anywhere like a strand of hair’ This is sad commentary on our nationhood.

“There must be a distinction between a functional entity and a failed one. Those horrendous elements that characterised the latter should not play any role in our territory. The interconnection binding government and the governed is the guarantee of cardinal expectations from both parties. We call on President Goodluck Jonathan to ensure that this kind of national embarrassment does not keep recurring. Its regularity in the past should belong to history”.