A federal lawmaker representing Remo constituency of Ogun State in the House of Representatives, Oladipupo Adebutu, on Saturday, charged President Muhammadu Buhari’s government to wave the magic wand it claimed to possess and rescue the abducted Dapchi school girls.
This is even as he slammed the Buhari administration for not doing enough in providing security for lives and property across the federation.
Adebutu said the abduction of 110 school girls in Dapchi, Yobe State, has further exposed the Service Chiefs and the ruling APC’s inability to secure the country, especially the North East.
He stated this while fielding questions from journalists, shortly after a PDP stakeholders’ meeting at Odogbolu in Odogbolu local government area of Ogun State.
The lawmaker, who is the chairman House Committee on Local Government, wondered how the Boko Haram terrorist group which government claimed it had defeated “technically” could still have a field day in a zone where there was concentration of military formations.
Adebutu recalled how APC politicised the abduction of Chibok school girls in 2014, to discredit the then PDP led government.
“Well, what goes round comes round. We had Chibok girls before and instead of addressing the problem Nigeria had, we turned it into partisan issue. Now we have a repeat episode and we are calling on the APC to now wave the magic wand they promised they had to rescue those girls.
“With that experience we have had, I’m very well disappointed that this government into this again. The military withdrew because they supposed the area was safe; incompetence. “Maybe the president should have even resigned because one of the things he promised is security in the North East. He has failed! He told us we would have security in the North East, he told us Boko Haram will be gone overnight. But it has now showed that all these promises are just empty promises,” Adebutu stated.
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