The National Security Adviser (NSA), Babagana Monguno has failed and should resign, Senator Sani Musa (Niger East, APC) has said.
The lawmaker disclosed this on Monday during Politics Toda programme of the Channels TV.
Niger State is one of the hubs of banditry in Northern Nigeria.
The lawmaker said that NSA Monguno had failed for his apparent failure act on active intelligence reports in tackling insecurity.
Sani said, “What proactive action has the NSA done? We have to call a spade a spade. If I am the NSA, the National Security Adviser, in this country I will tender my resignation because I have failed.
“You do not wait until when you are attacked, then you act. This intelligence being shared is an information, free information given to you at a stage where the culprits had not concluded their plans and you neutralize them. Is this what is happening? So for me we need to strategized. We need to look at our demographics.”
The senator said Emir of Kagara Ahmad Garba-Gunna told him recently that the people of the state were in a dire situation and needed to be rescued.
Mr Musa said, “If you go to Niger State today, you will see that a lot of IDPs are there. People have left their villages because these people have taken over these villages. They are real. The Emir of Kagara came to me on Thursday here in Abuja and said we need to be rescued.
“We had information over 500 of these bandits have been seen travelling from toward our area. What do we do about it? And I asked him: have you shared this information to all those that are concerned to hear? They did. My own assignment as a senator is to make the noise; to make things work and I believe we are doing it. So what I think we need to do is to go back to the drawing board. It is not too late.”
