Lawmaker Condemns Spate Of Bombings

Hakeem Abiodun Munir, a member of the House of Representatives representing Oshodi/Isolo federal constituency 02, has condemned the spate of bombings in the country, describing the act as inhuman.

The former protocol officer to the national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, said this while donating food items to the S.O.S Children Village, Isolo and Bab-Es-Salam Orphanage Home, GRA, Ikeja, as part of activities to mark his birthday.

“The Christmas day bombings in Madalla, Damaturu and Jos are outright inhuman and condemnable. It is inhuman for anybody to go to any gathering, a religious gathering when the people were in a joyous mood and throw bombs. Thereby killing innocent people, turning children into orphans and parents into widows and widowers.

“I want to believe that when we say Boko Haram, I think its just giving it a name to polarise or popularise the criminal act. It is unbecoming and condemnable for anybody in a normal society to throw bomb at people. About 40 people died on the spot in Madalla, Damaturu and Jos.

“The security chiefs are not doing there best. This cannot be done in a civilised society. Mr. President and the security chiefs are not doing anything to stem the tide of this bombing and it is becoming a culture. How can somebody threaten to bomb a place and still go ahead to do it and nobody is doing anything about it.

“It is as if we are in a failed state. The Federal Government appears not to be able to protect the lives and properties of the citizenry which it’s meant to protect. It is disheartening that the so called security chiefs are still there without throwing in the towel,” he averred.

He said,”It is just the time to reflect, the proper time for every reasonable and conscious leader to reflect on where he is coming from, where he is as an individual and where he is going. It is also the time to look back and say thank you God for protecting my life and thank you to the society that made one what one is.

A social worker with the S.O.S Children Village, Isolo, Mrs Bolanle Nassar, commended the lawmaker for identifying with the home, adding that there are many big men in the country who have not done a bit to assist the home.

“We have big men that hardly identified with this village and with what you have done, God will reward you immensely. You have sowed for three generations to come and the God almighty will not make you and your children to lack,” she prayed.