Overwhelmed by the endless insecurity ravaging the country, Kogi State Senator representing the Western Senatorial district, Smart Adeyemi said on Tuesday that the country will melt, if the All Progressives Congress supporters continue to maintain silence.
Adeyemi’s outburst was at the backdrop of a motion revealing Boko Haram’s occupation of three Local Government Councils in Niger State which was sponsored Senator Sani Musa representing Niger East in the State.
Adeyemi insisted that Nigeria’s security system has collapsed in view of terrorists over running the nation with ease which portrayed the situation as activities of terrorists are government sponsored.
Adeyemi said: “Today Mr President, all of us are being threatened.
“A lot have been said this morning Mr. President and I want to thank you for giving us time to speak expressly on this issue. Like my sister was saying, there come a time when talk will talk itself. There come a time when truth become a torchlight.
Mr. President, we need not to run away from the fact that more than ever before in the history of our nation, this is worst instability so far. Because insecurity in our nation, today there are of lot misgivings; there are a lot lot of misinterpretation.
“Some persons believe it is government that is supporting; some people believe some persons sponsored those who are destabilising our nation.
“We are not pretending we are capable of confronting the situation in our hand.
America as powerful as they are, when pandemic came through China they woke up to their responsibility. We shouldn’t pretend that we needed foreign support.
He said despite being a Senator on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), he can’t keep quiet in the obvious devastated situation of the country.
Adeyemi who became emotional at a point wept, and wondered how lives are being lost due to attacks while those who are alive are daily threatened by Boko Haram insurgents.
He called for foreign intervention and asked government to stop living in pretense.
He said: “Let no body deceive us Mr. President. A lot of millions of naira has been put into security services nothing is coming out of it.
“We wouldn’t wait until our nation got burnt. Let us get up and call for foreign support. I am APC and I have been supporting our party, but let the President shiuld know that we who support could no longer keep quiet.
“The President must rise to the ocassion. The nation is on fire, the President must rise to the ocassion. It cost us nothing to get foreign support.
“We must rise to the ocassion of speaking he truth to save this country or else we will be consumed. Everyone of us have chapter of history. When the history of this period is told, whatever is our position will be a chapter.
“We cannot keep quiet any longer. It has gotten to a level that we can no longer sleep with our eyes closed.
“Our children are not free. The President must rise to the ocassion. The situation is our security system has collapsed; it has failed, because it has failed, we need foreign support, it cost Nigeria nothing. Forget the ego, forget Nigeria in African nation.
“From the North to the South nobody is safe and Boko Baram are to kilometers to the nation’s capital and today, I cannot travel to Kaduna and Niger State where I was born.
“The President know this is a bad time for our nation. They are killing people in the East. What are we doing in the National Assembly? Our country is bleeding…. (weeps).”
