NBA Maiduguri Branch Calls On FG To Review Security Architecture To End Insurgency In The North East

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Maiduguri Branch has appealed to the Federal Government and the military, in particular, to review its security architecture with a view to ending counter-insurgency war in the Northeast.

Briefing journalists at the NBA House, Maiduguri on Friday, the NBA chairman Maiduguri branch., Barrister Mohammed Umar said ” we call on the Federal Government to review its security architecture with a view to ending the insurgency in the Northeast and the ouuntry at large.

While recognizing the sacrifices of the men who ultimately pay the supreme price in order to defend thier father land, the NBA chairman said ” the NBA is also calling on.the leadership of the Military to review its strategy of shorting off the Maiduguri Damaturu High way in the name of security cover, because it is doing more harm than good to our people”

He argued that the closure of the road is contrary to the provision of chapter IV of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) particularly section 41 which guarantees freedom of movement.

” This Auno attacked would have been abetted but the fact that the military strategy of closing the road by 5;00 pm, thereby denying access to our people In contravention of the provision of chapter (IV) of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. 1999 (as amended), particularly section 41 which guarantees freedom of movement has always resulted to causing of greater hardship than good ”

He said the road should have been allow from 6:00am to 10 ;00 pm, as obtainable in Yobe state,, so that people should not be trapped and expose to danger:, because commuters will only leave Damaturu when they know that they will enter Maiduguri before the curfew time or go back to Damaturu, stressing that the military should device a means of separating good citizens from.Boko Haram.

The NBA while condoling those that lost their lives in the attack, prayed that God in His infinate mercy grant their souls a peaceful rest and the families they left behind the fortitude to bear the irreparable lost., saying that ” we are devastated and shocked on how this innocent lives were brutally and fatally murdered in such a way that , they were burned down along with their property. ”

The NBA therefore condemned in strong terms, the barbaric, heinous and gruesome act on drivers, commuters and passerby in.Auno that led to the lost of lives and burning down of property worth millions of Naira by the dreaded members of Boko. Haram

He called on the general public to report to the security agencies nearest to them. Whenever that saw any suspicious movements or objects and the military to take with urgent seriousness any information given to them.