The group campaigning for the safe rescue of the kidnapped Chibok girls, BringBackOurGirls group, yesterday, utterly condemned the attack and prevention of the speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal from entering the House chambers to deliberate on the issues of insecurity in the Northeast.
Wondering how the nation’s number four citizen would be subjected to such an embarrassment and denial in the hands of security operatives, the group noted that if this could happen to the Speaker, then no one is safe.
“What happened at the National Assembly is, indeed, shocking to all of us and a shame to Nigeria as a country. If they can do this to the number four citizen of the country, then they can do it to anyone else. There is a problem in this country. This is terrible. It shows that no one is safe in this country,” the group lamented.
The BBOG group maintained that it was rather unfortunate for members of the National Assembly and security operatives to engage in a show of shame when they should be seeking ways of ending insurgency and rescuing the Chibok girls abducted since April this year.
They called on Nigerians to stand up against the impunity in the country as there would always be people that would determine to protect any good course just like the members of the House of Representatives protected their leaders irrespective of party affiliations.
“The incident at the National Assembly also showed that Tambuwal is a good leader because many of his members were there for him. The members were there challenging the police, they were ready to protect him. If Tambuwal was not a good leader, he would have been on his own when the attack happened,” the group added.
They further lashed at National Assembly members who refused to stand against the rising cases of impunity in Nigeria and posited that if they had joined forces with the BBOG group to demand the rescue of the Chibok girls, the presidency and the security operatives may have succeeded in bringing back the girls.
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