All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has challenged
President Muhammadu Buhari to account for the $1 billion he illegally
withdrew from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) to purportedly fight
insecurity in view of the increasing spate of killings, banditry and
kidnapping across the country.
Frank, in a statement in Abuja on Sunday in reaction to the increasing
incidence of kidnapping, banditry, killings and other forms of crimes
across the country, insisted that the mindless looting of public funds
that has so far characterised the current administration is directly
responsible for persistent insecurity in the country.
He lamented that the President has woefully failed to protect Nigerians
and demanded that the current “tired and incompetent heads of security
agencies and Service Chiefs be sacked.”
The Bayelsa-born political activist said he believes that “No serious
government will keep incompetent Service Chiefs if the President himself
is not personally benefiting from their cluelessness.”
He added that if Buhari’s government is to be judged by the level of
insecurity in the country, failure would be an under statement in
describing the current administration.
According to Frank, no government has approved such humongous amount of
fund to tackle insecurity in the history of Nigeria without noticeable
improvement in the security of the country as is presently the case.
Frank said: “We are talking of $1billion (or N360billion) unilaterally
withdrawn in a single tranche from the ECA by the current administration
without any positive effect on the security of country. Rather insecurity
continues to bedevil the country without let. Haba!
“The only achievement we have seen through the current military
administration is propaganda and fake news to defend their looting.
“Dear Gen. Buhari, please tell the world what you did with $1billion (N360
billion) taken from the Excess Crude Account supposedly to fight
insecurity!
“The number of lives lost and that of people in displaced on a daily basis
across the country is your responsibility which you must account for, but
it is obvious that you only care about your ambition.
The increasing level of insecurity in the country has pushed the citizens
to the wall and this will no doubt set this country on fire if you don’t
do the needful and urgently too.
“Nigerians should bear in mind that the more money the President approves
to fight insecurity, the more the country becomes insecure.”
While responding to a statement credited to the President where he said
‘he is one of the unhappiest leaders in the world’ Frank said that if the
President is not happy he would have sacked “the incompetent and tired
Service Chiefs and his Minister of Defence -who cannot secure even his
family in Zamfara, his home state.”
He, however, called on the international community to urgently come to the
aid of Nigerians security-wise to prevent the growing humanitarian
situation in the country from getting out of hand under Buhari, as “the
present administration has lost the capacity and will to protect the
people.”