The Ndigbo Unity Forum (NUF) has urged the federal government to decisively tackle insecurity from all fronts, using all available and futuristic means possible.
Chairman of NUF, Chief Augustine Chukwudum, made the call on Saturday in Enugu, while examining the heightened level of insecurity all over the country.
Chukwudum lamented the worsening rate of insecurity, especially the kidnapping of school children and the huge ransoms demanded by the abductors.
According to him, insecurity has become a gold mine, as few people are feeding fat from it due to years of non-robust investment in the security sector.
“Insecurity has come to be breaking news each day,” he said.
The chairman noted that it is time to invest massively in conventional, emerging and futuristic military hardwares and latest technologies to tackle the country’s embarrassing insecurity issue head long.
“NUF calls on President Bola Tinubu to do the needful by matching his words with actions not only condemnation of insurgency and banditry.
“President Tinubu should direct security agency to deal harshly with those non state actors perpetrating insecurity across the country immediately.
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“We call on federal government to create enable environment for our youths to be engaged in productive ventures, this will help in eradicate crime to barest minimum as well,” he said.
The chairman called on state governors to obey the Supreme Court judgement that gives local government areas full autonomy.
He said: “This move will help in bringing democratic dividends to the people at the grassroot as the state governors are expected to do the needful.
“NUF also renew it demand that President Tinubu should remove any state governor who refuses to comply. Such governor must be charged for a treasonable offence for not obeying the Supreme Court.”
