By Olasunkanmi Akoni

Following the terror attacks claimed by suspected Boko Haram insurgents on Friday night, the Action Congress of Nigeria ACN has said it is time for security chiefs to toe the path of honour by resigning or be kicked out.

The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in a statement Sunday, said it was apparent that those saddled with ensuring the security of lives and property in the country were grossly incapable of doing so, hence the need to shake up the security agencies and put more capable men and women in charge.

According to ACN; ”The shake-up must not spare any of the security chiefs. This is about taking responsibility. After all, they have consistently assured the nation they are capable of stopping these deadly attacks, which have now grown in number and ferocity.”

ACN said for a country not at war, the death of 53 people-as claimed by the police- was enough reason for any President to be concerned enough to take an urgent action to rectify the situation.

The party blamed the President’s spin doctors for saying he cancelled his trip to Bayelsa for a family wedding in view of the attacks, saying that indeed is not what Nigerians want to hear at this point.

”The President’s spin doctors are so unimaginative. Why do they think Nigerians are more interested in whether or not he cancelled his social trip than in what the President is doing to stop this carnage?

”In other climes, the President would have gone ahead to address his compatriots to reassure them that the government is still capable of protecting them, instead of merely telling them his cannot make a social trip,” it said.

ACN again warned the government not to think it could use force to defeat those behind the heinous acts, adding that a more imaginative solution must be fashioned out to save the lives of innocent Nigerians and the security agents who are daily being mowed down by Boko Haram.

”The government must also consider the possibility that the whole crisis may have been hijacked by other groups. ”And since it seems the government has now run out of ideas on how to tackle this crisis, we hereby repeat our earlier suggestion that the President should call a stakeholders’ meeting to help find a way out of the quagmire the country has been thrown into,” it said.