The sacked Imam of Apo Legislative Quarters Juma’at Mosque, Sheikh Nuru Khalid, popularly known as Digital Imam, has identified insufficient “political will” as the reason for persistent insecurity in Nigeria.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the Mosque Steering Committee of Apo Legislative Quarters Mosque, Abuja, last week, sacked Sheikh Khalid, accusing him of preaching an inciting sermon. The Imam in the sermon accused the Federal Government of playing with the lives of the people through their actions, hence the need to reawaken the consciousness of the government to their constitutional responsibilities.
“The political will is not enough. There must be political will before you can deal with insecurity and it must be a very strong one, so that you can deal with anybody who fails to discharge his duties amongst [sic] the security personnel,” he said in an interview with Punch published on Saturday.
“You need strong political will to demand accountability on the allocations voted for security and where people are found wanting, they should be held to account and asked to explain why we voted this amount for security and yet there is no security.”
He added: “Another point is lack patriotism. When you have patriotic individuals, security operatives, leaders, politicians and clerics, Nigeria will be a good place for all.”