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INTERVIEW

Q I am Hon. Aminu Suleiman is my name, I rep- could, it requires little intelligence to change the
Let’s meet you Honorable
driver and see if the movement of the vehicle will
Aresent Fegge Federal constituency of Kano rather be smooth and safe and it doesn’t take the
State and I am privileged to chair the House Com- President anything, he is the commander in chief, to
mittee on Education. make a pronouncement, thank the service chiefs for
One of the major all they’ve done and let them retire back to their
Q problems that the HON. (COMR) offices or their villages. Let us try young hands
so that new innovations, Virgo, zeal can be intro-
country is facing right duced in the fight against insurgency and other
now is insecurity and banditry and negative activities. But to maintain a
lots of money has been spent but lately, the level of class teacher who has continuously thought stu-
insecurity keeps increasing, what do you think the dents to failure and to say the teacher is intelligent,
Federal Government can do differently to address he’s a PhD holder, he’s doing the best he could yet
this issue. the students keeps failing exams is not acceptable, I
Well for a very long time, very many of us par- mean one of the easiest thing that could have been
Aticularly yours sincerely have come to the irre- done is to move the teacher concerned away away
versible belief that the federal government and the so that we know if the fault is the teacher’s or the
President in particular are doing the best they could students again, we have soldiers and other person-
as far as policy direction is concerned, I still hold the nel’s that have been there in the war
view that the front for more than 4 to 5 years, they
P r e s ide n t are responding to wears and tears,
meant well, AMINU they are human, they also need to
I still hold be relieved and others to come in
the view that so that they may want to make an
he remains impact that it was in their own time
commit ted that insurgency became history, so
to the fight against insecurity in all its ramifications, just as we have declared on the floor of the House
However as an incurable supporter and believer of I will add my voice as a very strong appeal that the
the president, am unable to exonerate him for still commander in chief should command quickly, and
keeping the service chiefs in place, until now I am swiftly, the service chiefs deserve to rest, let us get
not aware as a member of the house of representa- new guys to confront this monsters.
tives even as a member of the committee on Army, Recently there is this cry for regional policing
I am not aware ,we have no even briefed the whole Q which brought about the Amotekun, and some
house on why the service chiefs should continue to are equally calling for state policing, do you think
remain 4 years with very little progress being made, this can work.
I bear witness that at the initial stage substantial
progress have been made and maintained , and Well from two perspectives, those who formed
nobody can understand why in recent time there A what we call Amotekun are people who have
have being an increased reappearance of the activ- been clamouring for state police, so situation has
boxed Nigerians and Government to the corner
SULEIMAN state police, Amotekun
and in trying to achieve
was introduced, I do not
have problem with any

ter peace and unity but
ities of bandits in different forms, from Boko haram arithmetic that will fos-
to kidnapping to robbery, I mean it’s just incredibly with due respect to Nigerian Governors, there are
on the increase. We are not aware that the security some of them that are good, but some of them are
agencies have been compromised and I don’t want teachers in dictatorship to Idi Amin, dictators of the
to believe that, we are not aware that the security highest order, if every region and states are allowed
agencies are not doing their best and I don’t want in the guise of fighting insecurity to have control
to believe that, but I can easily believe that appears over the police, you will see the wonders of dicta-
to be a general ineptitude particularly from the torship. Even now that the police are under the fed-
leadership of the security agencies, this cannot be eral government, if you enter the wrong book of a
dismissed. The ineptitude might be direct, it might governor, only God will save you, because the police
be out of frustration that they are doing their best commissioner and the police are at the beck and call
and answers are not forthcoming, now if as a lead- of the Governors because he holds the carrot and
er you have done your best, you have done all you stick. We may be jubilating today, but hope these
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