Kalu right on need to watch security agencies – Njiko Igbo

A group solely dedicated to the propagation of an Igbo president for Nigeria in 2015, Njiko Igbo, has backed its Protem Chairman, Dr. Orji Kalu, on his statement that security agencies need to look inward for the source of the spate of bombings rocking the country of recent.
Njiko Igbo, in a statement by its Director of Publicity, Senator Emmanuel Onwe, said rather than read undue meanings into the statement by Kalu, Nigerians should reflect deeper on it.
Onwe said Kalu was only helping to reshape the thinking of Nigerians about the possibility of the involvement of security agents in the bombings, based on the sophistication involved in recent attacks.
The statement reads: “The statement credited to Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, former governor of Abia State, in respect of the complicity of security agencies in the spate of bombings that have particularly targeted Igbo people in the Northern part of Nigeria has been misinterpreted and taken entirely out of context. For the avoidance of doubt, Governor kalu’s position is that the security agencies should take a hard look at themselves and their modus operandi. They should be vigilant in order to ensure that the purported bad eggs that have infiltrated the ranks of various branches of national security agencies are not the ones responsible for the unending atrocities. It is quite right that the searchlight must be beamed in every single direction, including the security outfit, without fear or favour, as we grapple with the nightmare of terrorism and bloody carnage in this country.
“The sophistication that has characterised the planning, execution and the general top class logistical operations of the terrorists have left many questioning whether some rag-tag illiterate and untrained religious fundamentalists are truly capable of, and singularly responsible for, all the slaughter and destruction that has been associated with Boko Haram. In a democracy, it is not only permissible for citizens to question everything; it is our civic duty to do so.
“Dr Kalu maintains that it is not really important to waste too much energy on who is or who is not responsible for bringing mass murder into the shops, buses, homes and churches of Ndigbo. No one or group of people should gain the capacity to murder Nigerians in their dozens on a weekly basis. If such capacity is attained, then the security agencies must be held accountable for failing to rise to the challenge, especially as far as intelligence gathering is concerned. That is the crux of the matter.
“The failure of the security agencies up to this point to gain the confidence of Igbos in terms of demonstrating true capacity and commitment to protect their lives and property is what lies at the heart of the matter. The practical results that we have seen do not match up to the considerable resources that the Federal Government has poured into the security departments. It is totally disheartening that the budgetary requirements for security is increasing in the same proportion as the Igbos are losing their lives and property. Nigerians cannot be expected to keep mute in the face of the infuriating illogicality whereby the more we spend the less security we get from the responsible agencies. This is the position that Dr Orji Uzor Kalu took and he stands by it.”