Chinonso Obasi, president of National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, in Minna, Niger State on Saturday, February 3, 2018 asked President Muhammadu Buhari to stop thinking about re-election in 2019 but to deal decisively with the security issues at hand.
Obasi also called on President Buhari to step up on security in order to stop the incessant killings by herdsmen in some parts of the country.
“For the cattle colony proposed by the Federal Government, they (government) do not have any business imposing colony on the people.
“All the government needs to do is to create an enabling business environment and leave how to run the business to individuals because a farmer is a farmer. Cattle rearing is farming and there should not be any priority placed on any group of farmers. Imposing cattle herdsmen on the people is not the way forward.
“Every geopolitical zone have its own way of farming. If any farmer finds a place habitable, he should negotiate with the owners of the land and if they are satisfied, he can do his business there. Cattle colony will not work.”
“A government that cannot provide security to the people cannot be proud to call itself a government. NANS is charging the President to step up in security, he should stop being presidential; he should listen to the yearning of the people.
“There are issues and alot of questions that are being unanswered; instead of discussing them, they are busy discussing about 2019 elections. It is only those who are alive that will vote in 2019.”
Obasi also declared that the people are tired of the strategies being talked about by the military and the police stressing on the need to move beyond strategies to action.
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