The Fear in Our Streets Is Real: Federal Government and South-West Governors Must Rise to the Occasion
1. How Many Must Die?
2. The fear in our streets is real.
Parents are afraid, students are terrified, communities now sleep with one eye open and we citizens have lost confidence in the safety of our environment.
3. The recent kidnapping incident in Oyo
State is not just an attack on victims alone, it is a direct attack on the peace, stability and psychological security of the entire South-West as a region in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
4. I strongly call on all South-West Governors to immediately convene a Regional Security Summit involving security agencies, traditional rulers, student bodies, community leaders and relevant stakeholders to address the growing insecurity and panic within our society.
5. I also urge the Inspector General of Police and other Security Chiefs to urgently review certain methods of operations capable of increasing fear among innocent citizens. Security agencies are meant to give hope, confidence and reassurance to the people, not create more tension in an already frightened society.
6. At a time when the society is already battling fear from kidnappings and insecurity, security agencies must avoid actions that make citizens feel unsafe, harassed or psychologically threatened. The people should see security personnel and feel protected, not panic or confusion.
7. The Federal Government must urgently come to the aid of the South-West before this growing fear develops into a more deeper security crisis.
8. To those who believe “this cannot happen in the South-West,” recent realities have proven otherwise. No region is immune when proactive measures are ignored.
9. The people are expecting more. The students are expecting more. Nigeria deserves more.
10. Enough of the fear. Enough of the panic. The government should act now.
11. Thanks.
