INSECURITY: Senators want National Assembly shut

As insecurity rage across the land, and many Nigerians are at the mercies of terrorists, bandits, IPOB militia, and others, the nation’s federal lawmakers are getting agitated.

Some of them are already calling for the federal lawmaking body to be shut down.

Former Dep. Sen President Ike Ekweremadu and APC Sen. Smart Adeyemi made the call during a deliberation on the matter early in the week.

According to Ekweremadu, a government that cannot protect its citizens has lost legitimacy and Nigeria should not be ashamed to seek international support.

“Time has come for us to, if possible, shut down this Senate and find a lasting solution to this,” he said.

The APC senator, on his own, was worried billions have been spent on insecurity and nothing has been achieved.

“We wouldn’t wait until our nation get burned. Let us shout and call for foreign support, he said.

“I am a full APC man and I have been supporting my party but the president should get to know that it has gotten to a point that we who are supporters and members of the APC, we can no longer keep quiet.

He urged President Muhammadu Buhari to rise to the occasion. It costs us nothing to get foreign support to save this country.

“Let’s shut down the National Assembly; if we cannot save this country, we stay in our homes. Our country is bleeding. People are in poverty; there’s no food. People are hungry. Insecurity is threatening us.”