FG, states can’t resolve security challenges alone - Fashola

Lagos State Governor Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN),  has absolved the governments at different levels of the intractable security challenges undermining peace and development in Nigeria.

Also, the governor emphasised good parenting and upright family units as the most viable means  of achieving an orderly and peaceful society, which would be devoid of violence and other social ills.

Fashola, who disclosed this at the 5th Kafaru Oluwole Tinubu Memorial Ramadan Lecture,
at the Lagos Television Complex, lamented the sudden disappearance of an ace broadcaster, Alhaji Aremu Gawat, about a year ago.

He explained that the state government in conjunction with the law enforcement agents “are still gathering information that might be useful to uncover the mystery behind Alhaji Alhaji Gawat
disappearance.”

The governor further added that neither federal nor state government could solve the problems of insecurity facing the country alone, thereby asking every family that constitutes the country to join hands with government at all levels to put an end to threat to lives and properties.

He said the foremost broadcaster and one of the Lagos coordinators of the yearly Muslim Hajj to Mecca was declared missing on July 10, 2012, just few days before the commencement of the Ramadan Fast.

The governor stated that the state government would continue “to search our files. Our files are not closed, we would continue to review with the security agents especially the police. We remain
positive that until we find proof to the contrary, we are hopeful that he is alive and investigationstherefore continues.”

Meanwhile, Fashola has urged parents to look after their children and be conscious of the kind of values they were exposed to and trainings they are undergoing so that they would not constitute nuisance to the society.

According to him, it is wrong for anybody to blame the government in the high level of security confronting the nation, saying parents too, have a greater role to play in building the nation through the kind of trainings impacted on them.

He explained that those who are terrorising the country are product of a family and instead of blaming the government for security lapses, people should also critically look at their families and observe the training being given to their wards.

Fashola said the family unit “is the most important unit in any community and think that is where the first government starts. Father and mother; husband and wife, management of limited resources,
population; value development, moral training, restraints and contentment and what other knowledge they impact on the children.

Those are the children who become great men or difficult men and women as the case may be.

“At child birth, nobody knows what that child will become. So, as we agonise about security challenges which are the focus of the lecture, we must know that those who make us insecure were born like every child many years ago.”

The governor urged Nigerians to go back and discharge their responsibilities of managing the family units, assuring that good parenting breeds great citizens who will in turn build a great
country.

Among those present at the Ansar-Ud-Deen Society Lecture, were its National Missioner, Sheik Abdur Rahman Ahmad, Alhaji Rafiu Ademola Sanni, Senator Muniru Adekunle Muse who chaired the occasion, Chairman Lagos State Council of the Society, Alhaji Nurudeen Olalekan Okuleye,
among other Muslim clerics and top government functionaries.

Present at the lecture were the Governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, who chaired the occasion, Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, First Lady of Lagos State, Mrs. Abimbola Fashola, members of the Tinubu family including its matriarch, Alhaji Bintu- Fatima Tinubu, Muslim clerics and scholars as well as faithful and top government functionaries.