A federal lawmaker from Zamfara Shape, Sulaiman Gumi, has praised the Director Normal of the Nationwide Knowledge Company, Ahmed Abubakar, following his escape, pronouncing he did the ‘honourable’ factor.
The member representing Gummi/Bukkuyum Federal Constituency admitted that the situation of lack of confidence within the nation is overwhelming
He spoke in an interview with PUNCH On-line on the 2024 Humanitarian Award Evening in Abuja on Saturday.
Abubakar, who was once appointed by means of former President Muhammadu Buhari as NIA DG in 2018, resigned on Saturday over what he referred to as ‘personal and family issues.’
Reacting to his escape, Gumi mentioned he suspected Abubakar should had been crushed by means of the lingering lack of confidence demanding situations bedevilling the rustic.
The son of the famend Islamic pupil, Sheikh Abubakar Gumi, additionally reiterated that, not like many population officeholders who hold to energy within the face of a failing gadget, the outgoing NIA boss took the honourable trail.
He mentioned, “I believe the problem of lack of confidence will have to be overwhelming for someone. If the NIA DG resigned as a result of the overpowering status or his disability to maintain the status, I believe he did the precise factor. It’s the honourable factor to do if that’s the untouched explanation why he resigned. He will have to step apart for alternative succesful individuals to do it. This is something Nigerians hardly ever do.
“There is not any explanation why to hold directly to the location if he can’t carry out. Some alternative individuals will have to be allowed to come back and salvage the status. So, I believe he did the honourable factor by means of resigning, which is what Nigerians will have to emulate.
“I also believe our government and security agents can quell it if the will to end it is there. It should be a thing of the past if they are ready to do it. However, I think there is a lack of commitment from both the government and law enforcement agencies. How many of these bandits are we talking about? We also know where they are staying. So why can’t we eliminate them?”
Gumi additionally raised issues over the emerging humanitarian extremity that has displaced some community around the nation.
Consistent with him, it’s top year that Nigerians joined the government to grant extra brief camps and palliatives to affected individuals.
“There’s a want to toughen on our insurance policies as a result of Nigeria is witnessing a humanitarian extremity on the month. We can not say the federal government isn’t doing plethora. No matter you do may not be plethora for the community. Some community could also be displaced as of late. It can be the flip of a few alternative community the following day.
“So it has change into a countrywide factor and an excessively weighty humanitarian extremity that we face in Nigeria. It’s because community are repeatedly being displaced from their properties because of one violence or the alternative. I believe, to an extent, the federal government is crushed with the status. The industrial status within the nation has additional change into extra intense.
“This is where I believe individuals too can contribute instead of leaving it to government alone. I think it is beyond just the government alone. Everyone needs to contribute to alleviating the suffering of the people. I also would like to see the FG put in place temporary humanitarian camps where people can stay within the timeframe of their displacement instead of them being left to stay in schools, shanties and other places that are inhabitable.”
The convener of the once a year Humanitarian Award Evening, Emmanuel Anabueze, additionally shared his sentiment.
Anabueze mentioned that till governments in any respect ranges oppose politicising their insurance policies, tasks, and palliatives, the grassroots community will proceed to endure.