5th January, 2011
In the face of disturbing incidents of bombing, the Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress has said that the security agencies have no choice but to apprehend the perpetrators if it does not want Nigerians to believe it is complicit in this serious security breach.
The party says that watching helplessly as Nigerians are killed in gruesome circumstances speak so low of the capacity of the present government and the security agencies to secure the lives and properties of Nigerians.
In a release in Lagos, signed by the Lagos State Publicity Secretary of the ACN, Joe Igbokwe, the party says that all hands must be on deck to stop this dangerous predilection to a state of total anarchy and that the federal government and all the nation’s security agencies must lead this drive to stop this increasing spate of violence. It says that the federal government and the security agencies must moblise the will and expertise to deal with these ceaseless bombing incidents or quit for more competent Nigerians to rescue this country from the throes of anarchy.
“While we see the descent into a state of nature as a hallmark of the woeful failure of PDP governance in the last twelve years, we do not believe the problem is beyond redemption. We believe that a government that knows its onions will aim at getting to the fundamental root of the present unending bomb blasts. While we acknowledge that the present government is not doing just that, we are appalled that the nation’s security agencies trail poorly behind the bombers who have defiantly carried on as if the country has no security agency in place.  With each newer bomb incident and with the oft-repeated vow of the nation’s security agencies to apprehend the perpetrators, Nigerians have lost hope of a lasting solution to this disturbing phenomenon.
“It is the opinion of Lagos ACN that the recent bombing incidences were an expression of disgust with the manner the PDP has crashed the country in twelve years of unmitigated failed leadership, we still cannot fathom why the security agencies have proved so inept in arresting this ugly drift. We abhor this level of incompetence and ask that all the security agencies sit up and save Nigerians from the continued atrophy of ceaseless killings and maiming. We abhor the present confused posture of the federal government and demand for a firmer and more detailed plan to apprehend these bombers and bring them to justice.
“Lagos ACN feels that a government and its security agency that cannot protect the lives and properties of their citizens are not fit to continue so we demand that this government and the security agencies act decisively now or leave the stage for more competent hands that can guarantee the security of lives and properties of Nigerians. We all know that the PDP has profoundly failed Nigerians in the last twelve years but running Nigeria into one huge state of nature still remains beyond our imagination on how well to mismanage and ruin a richly endowed and resource-rich country.
“We see the present continued bomb blasts and the utter helplessness of both the federal government and its security agencies as strong indications that Nigerians need change at all levels of government. The PDP is finished and is finishing Nigeria so all Nigerians must work to send the PDP to the dustbin of history from where it sprung up to hunt all of us for a whole twelve years. Nigerians know that the PDP, which created these spates of insecurity, is very helpless and clueless on how to deal with the problems and it must be eased off for Nigeria to make its right impact in the lives of Nigerians and in the comity of nations.â€