.Asks security operatives to deploy relevant technology
.Fears low election turnout
By Daniel KanuAssistant Politics Editor
The National Chairman, Unity Progressives Party (UPP), Chief Chekwas Okorie, has raised the alarm that serious danger looms following unchecked senseless killings of innocent citizens of the country.
Okorie told The Niche that he was at a loss on why the security operatives were not using available relevant technology to track down perpetrators of the dastardly act.
Besides, he warned: “If the killings remain unchecked there will be massive low turn-out in the 2019 elections contrary to the prediction of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).”
Okorie also predicted that unprecedented violence was imminent in Nigeria if the relevant authorities continue with the nonchalant attitude they had exhibited on security.
He specifically condemned the latest attack on villages in Plateau State where over 120 people were reported killed by herders, saying, “it is a killing too many to be condoled as if people killed are not human beings.”
The UPP leader urged President Muhammadu Buhari to rise to the challenge and responsibility of his office to secure the lives and property of Nigerians, just as he warned that anarchy could takeover the land if government continued to treat emerging security matter of herdsmen killings with kid gloves.
He lamented that “Some sections of Nigeria have become killing fields of defenseless citizens by marauding herdsmen and Boko Haram insurgents with no thorough investigation made to arrest the situation.
“What is happening is very unfortunate. It is a big clog on the wheel of democracy. I wonder how politicians are going to campaign by road to canvass for the votes of the people.
“The result of the election if this madness is not halted will not be a true representative of the votes of the Nigerian people. It is sad to narrow the killings to the Fulani herdsmen without apprehending and prosecuting the culprits. No thorough investigation is being done, no week that passed without records of killings and this has gradually degenerated to genocide.
“I think the International Criminal Court (ICC) should intervene because this has become an international issue. Why is the security operatives not deploying the same technology used to capture some kidnappers? These people still use phones, at least, you can still track some down, so why are we not having arrests? What all these portend is that government seem to be paying lip service on our security challenge.
“As I said before this is no longer a time for muscle flexing or boring rhetoric. This ominous time calls for high-wired diplomacy, pacification and proactive action by government. The cooperation, collaboration and understanding of all well-meaning Nigerians and opinion leaders must be aggressively mobilized and deployed for their intervention at their various levels of influence without delay”.