Insecurity: Ex- EcoPar Speaker Tunis urges Nigerians to support Tinubu

By Joshua Olomu

Dr. Sidie Mohamed Tunis, immediate past Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament (EcoPar), has called on Nigerians to support President Bola Tinubu as his administration tackles the rising security challenges facing the country.

He made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sideline of the just concluded commemoration of the regional parliament’s silver jubilee on Saturday in Abuja.

Tunis, a member of the Sierra Leone Parliament, lauded various security reforms by the Tinubu administration, urging that the fight against violent crimes required both governmental action and collective support and understanding of citizens.

According to him, there is a need for Nigerians to stand with the administration in tackling the escalating activities of the bandits and other security threats instead of criticising the efforts of the government.

“Nigerians should rally behind their president, there is no leader in the world that will want to fail, and no leader that will not recognise security as a serious factor.

“Support will give courage to the leaders to do more, but if you continue to criticise them, even when they are putting in all their efforts, they will be discouraged.

“Security is not a matter of politics or religion, because when the bandits come, they are not going to say who is APC or PDP.

“We have experienced civil war in my country Sierra Leone, just like the Biafra war, and I can tell you that peace is better, so Nigerians must work with the leadership, and support them,” he said.

The former EcoPar speaker also called for cooperation between national governments across ECOWAS to effectively tackle the security challenges facing the sub-region.