The Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) has called on the governments to wake up to their responsibilities and ensure lives and properties of citizens are protected.
Scores of travelers were burnt to death on Monday, when the bus they were travelling in was shot at by bandits.
Reacting to the incident in a statement issued on Thursday, Khalid Aliyu, secretary-general of the organisation, said: “Nigerians are desperately yearning for concrete actions against all forms of criminalities,”
According to Aliyu: “Silence is not golden given the most unfortunate spate of horrendous butchery of human lives in the Nigerian state.
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“The Federal Government should be seen to be proactive on security matters, as well as assure and assuage citizens’ fears at critical moments of grief.”
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He added: “Likewise all other acts of arson attacks, attempted jailbreaks, bomb blasts in Oyo, Kogi, Plateau, Yobe and Borno states and many of such reprehensible acts, stand condemned by the JNI,”
“Government needs to wake up as citizens are becoming more and more agitated.
“Government should take the bull by the horn by prosecuting promoters of hate speech and tame the rising cases of banditry in Nigeria, otherwise it will become a norm that cannot be challenged.
“While we continue to express our sincere condolences to all the victims of these unfortunate killings, we are calling on politicians and non-governmental organisations to strengthen their cooperation and synergy to find lasting solution to the spates of killings and destructions.
