Anyone bearing illegal weapons and using it to kill law-abiding citizens deserves no mercy and must be dealt with, the South East, South-South Professionals of Nigeria (SESSPN) has said.
The spokesman of the group, Collins Steve Ugwu, in a statement, quoted the president of the group, Hannibal Uwaifo, to have said this in Lagos after a meeting about the state of the nation in Lagos.
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He urged President Muhammadu Buhari to foreclose his administration’s perceived romance of criminals and wield the big stick as a retired General and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces against the “monsters” in order to rescue Nigeria from disintegration.
“It’s a manifest containment weakness and proven poor strategy when criminal elements against the state are appeased for killing and maiming law-abiding Nigerians at their homes, churches, mosques, on the roads, and even in schools, then given a stinging clearance operation meant for outlaws.
“The way the sponsors of terrorism in this country and the promoters of banditry will be unmasked easily and exposed.
“The lack of effective deterrence is reason why corruption festers, insecurity growing and citizens’ lives plunges. Otherwise, who has taken a fall for our ungoverned borders where our foreign importers of mayhem migrate freely?
“The operating morale of our soldiers and policemen today are low because wild militias appear to possess superior fire power they acquire with hefty ransoms, while our national armoury is a leaking pipe where billions of monies appropriated and disappears.”
