PRESIDENT JONATHAN SAYS NOT TO PANIC, TALK IS CHEAP!

 "This terrorist act should not be viewed as an attack on the police, but on the entire nation. I don't think the IG was the target of the explosion. Terrorism is a global phenomenon not peculiar to Nigeria. All over the world nobody is free as everyone is a target for them, but Nigerians should not panic; the security agencies will contain the situation. Let us be calm, we will get to the root of the matter" - President Goodluck Ebelesimi Jonathan. 

Icheoku says the president once again fumbled, in a manner reminiscent to when he prematurely absolved those Niger Delta MEND from the first Abuja bombing, on who the target of the latest second Abuja bombing was; as Boko Haram expressly stated that the IGP was their primary target. Secondly the president appears to want to excuse the ineptitude of his security team in failing to nip this terrorist incident in the bud by stating that terrorism is a global phenomenon not peculiar to Nigeria? Icheoku says if this president does not understand that his primary responsibility as the chief executive of Nigeria Plc is to protect and safeguard Nigerians; then he has a wrong job and no amount of passing the buck or trying to explain the inexplicable shall suffice as Nigerians demand a solution to the now intractable Boko Haram menacing terror in Northern Nigeria! 

instead of the usual pontification and photo-up visits to the hospital to see the wounded, President Jonathan should have done what any reasonable man in charge of affairs ought to do faced with similar circumstances - FIRE THE DAMN IGP HAFIZ RINGIM for incompetence, period! But no, instead, the president is being conducted around the bomb blast site by the same IGP Ringim, whose failure in this incident is so glaring that every Nigerian should demand his exit and NOW! How can the IGP explain that a terrorist found his way into his police headquarters and detonated his deadly cargo without being stopped or arrested earlier on his approach? If it is "wetin you carry egunje" harassment of innocent Nigerians going about their business by the Nigerian police, his police would have perfected their game; but stop a terrorist before he blew the police headquarters up in smoke, the police could not do anything to stop it. Icheoku wonders what else the Nigerian police is capable of doing if they cannot protect their own personal turf - their headquarters? 

Icheoku reaffirms that Nigerians have heard such a hollow assurances to get to the root of the matter and punish the culprits from the president in the past. Over two years has since past when the same president empaneled an investigative committee on Jos Plateau State security disturbances and several years has equally passed since the committee delivered their findings; yet President Jonathan is to make good his promise to bring the culprits to book no matter how highly placed they may be. Now he is assuring Nigerians as has become his stock in trade and should Icheoku say that those who killed the NYSC people have not been apprehended nor prosecuted yet? So a man who could not deliver on his promises and who could not constitute his cabinet, one month after his inauguration, might as well be incapable of doing anything holistic to arrest the insecurity situation in the country. The president appears to be full on promises but short on delivering or fulfilling them

May be President Goodluck Ebelesimi Jonathan should himself even consider resigning his office since he does not seem to be equal to the task of governing Nigeria and providing security for its citizens. Icheoku calls on Nigerians to stop passing the buck elsewhere but to leave it squarely on the president's desk as the chief executive officer of Nigeria Plc. If Mr. President cannot select a competent and well qualified officer to head and provide leadership for the police to do their job of providing security, then let the president take the blame for these security lapses. A man who failed as AIG in charge of Zone 6 when Abia State became inhabitable because of hoodlums was elevated to the IGP by President Jonathan and Icheoku wonders whether the president rewards mediocrity instead? Anyway, the choice is the president to make - either he fires the Inspector General of Police Hafiz Ringim for a colossal failure of security or he himself throws in the towel and vacate Aso Rock for men with balls to run things the way it should be. Mr President, whatever you decide to do, please do it fast as Nigeria must not be allowed to metamorphose into the Pakistan of Africa with bombs going off at every nook and cranny of the country. Please not under your watch, President Jonathan;  - hopefully IGP Ringim was pointing at his exit in the picture?