Gov’t That Fails to Protect Lives Has No Right to Stay in Power – Another Borno Senator Hits FG

Borno North Senator Mohammed Monguno has berated the federal government, insisting that a nation incapable of safeguarding its citizens forfeits its mandate to rule.

The senator’s comment followed Senator Ali Ndume’s recent rebuke of the same government. The senator representing Borno South called on President Bola Tinubu to urgently declare a state of emergency in Nigeria’s security and economic sectors.

Ndume warned during a Friday interview on Channels Television that failure to implement decisive measures could see Nigeria plunging into further crisis.

Towing the same direction, Monguno, said that the primary role of government is to ensure the safety of its people.

Monguno is also a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Senate chief whip

He was speaking to News Central in Maiduguri after a security meeting addressing the upsurge in Boko Haram attacks in his region.

“We decided to meet the security chiefs against the background of the resurgence of the Boko Haram insurgency in the nooks and crannies of the state,” Monguno said.

“We decided to see them with a view to alerting them about the resurgence of the Boko Haram insurgency and also the need to deploy more men and resources back to the theatre that has been hitherto redeployed to the north-western part of the country. To be redeployed back to the theatre in the north-east and in particular in Borno state in order to combat the Boko Haram insurgency.”

“Security is the primacy of governance. The whole essence of government is to guarantee the peace, order, and good governance of its citizens, as well as protecting the lives and property of the people. That is the primary purpose of government. Any government that fails and or neglects to perform that primary duty of guaranteeing peace, order, and good governance, that government is not supposed to last a minute longer than absolutely necessary,” he added.

Monguno explained that all stakeholders in the security sector had convened to devise strategies for restoring peace in the region:

“So, it was against this background that we decided to bring together all actors in the security architecture under one roof with a view to bonding, cross-fertilising ideas. For the purpose of ameliorating the security challenges that we have in our senatorial district, especially against the background of the fact that our senatorial district has been ravaged by the Boko Haram insurgency.”

The heightened security concerns in Borno were initially echoed by Governor Babagana Zulum, who recently raised alarm over the resurgence of Boko Haram attacks and kidnappings across the state.