*Expresses Worry About Preparations For 2023 Elections With Insecurity
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The Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association Welfare Committee and Presidential Candidate, Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau SAN has decried the rising spate of insecurity in Nigeria and urged that urgent steps be taken to address the situation even as the nation prepares for the 2023 elections.
He made this remarks as he participated in the Law Week programme of the NBA Benin Branch (Lion Bar) which is holding from 13th – 17th June, 2022.
The theme of the Week is SECURITY: PANACEA FOR NATIONAL GROWTH.
Maikyau chaired the first session on Tuesday, 14th of June with the topic: “Credible Elections as a Tool for National Development”. The session had Chief Ighodalo Imadogbelo, SAN as the paper presenter and Hon. Justice D. Ayomire (Chairman EDSIEC), Mrs Nkiru (representing INEC DG), Oluwole Osazee Uzzi and Ken E. Mozia, SAN as discussants.
In his opening remarks at the commencement of the session, Y. C. Maikyau commented: “I had to go to Kaduna 2 weeks ago, and even when someone offered me a private arrangement to fly into Kaduna, I had to land in the air force base because non-state actors have taken over the airport in that state.”
Maikyau lamented that criminal groups are no longer hideous in their operations as they no longer stay in hidden areas, but are now audacious enough to take over critical national infrastructure.
“These non-state actors are not on the fringes of the country, but are in the heart of the nation. The place where they hoisted their flag from Kaduna to Niger State is less than 2 hours away from the Presidential Villa.”
He continued, “In my hometown in Kebbi State, I run a tuition-free private school, which we unfortunately had to temporarily shut down for the past two years because we cannot afford to leave it open in that village because of security concerns. The school is at the border of Zamfara and Kebbi States.”
Maikyau further raised questions about security even as the nation plans and prepares for another election.
He said: “This is the country that we live in and it is within this situation that I have highlighted that we are talking about 2023 general election.
Let us agitate our minds as we deliberate in this meeting, in the course of the Law Week, and begin to ask ourselves, what is it that we can do? Are we really going to have an election and if we don’t, is it by design; the type of things that we are experiencing – the non-chalance of government in addressing the issues of security in this Nation. Is it condonation or lack of capacity, and how did we get to this stage?”
The session was interesting and insightful, with very robust contributions to the conversation.
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