Hon. Aliyu Garbi, a member of the Federal House of Representatives representing Bauchi constituency has called on Nigerians to hold Northern Governors accountable for the insecurity in the Northern part of the country.
Garbi, whilst addressing Chibok girls protesters at Unity Fountain in Abuja said it was “complacency, wickedness and evil characters of Northern Governors” that led to the abduction of the missing girls.
‘‘The complacency, wickedness and evil characters of Northern Governors are what brought us here. They are ineffective, if we must have change, it is not at the centre but from the state level. We can keep blaming the centre because we are also being distracted and misdirected by certain people. Change must come from state level, if we want to fight Boko Haram.
‘‘Our governors must be held accountable as chief security officers of our states. When it is election time, they know how to harass those of us in the opposition, they know how to get people to rig elections for them, but when it comes to security, they know how to blame President Goodluck Jonathan. He is not the only person that is culpable but all of us are responsible and accountable.’’
‘‘Nobody is talking about the boys that were slaughtered, it was swept under the carpet, this is not the first set of girls Boko Haram took, they are substantially more and there were others killed just like that.
‘‘I assure you that government is doing the best it can and government is in the process of recalibrating itself, in line with the international best practices, so that this crisis is brought to end. Federal government is trying to get these girls back, it is also trying to see that this kind of circumstances is never repeated, because nothing will be too much to be done to bring this girls back,’’ he stated.
Garbi called for the biometric registration of every student in the North so it would be easy to trace any missing child in the future.
‘‘That has to be done and it has to be done immediately, if you rely on government, nothing is going to be done, I think it looks distracted at the moment. I personally, do not feel that there is any price that is too high to be paid for the safety of these girls. The failure is not only at the top, it started from the grassroots, as a representative of my people, if I don’t know the feeling of my people, how do I expect the president to know the plight of my people,’’ he advised.