I've been away from media(conventional and new) for a while due to faulty devices, so I couldn't engage appropriately and promptly to the silliness of Mr. Dauda Lawal, the governor of Zamfara State, hopefully, in matter of days, I shall come up with a robust response.
Some days ago, in furtherance of his obsession with his predecessor, he (Dauda Lawal) yet again made unsubstantiated allegations against the person of Dr Bello Matawalle, the Honourable Minister of State for Defence, accusing him of being involved in the menace of banditry ravaging Zamfara and by extension North West.
The simple response to shoot down this foolery is that for as long as he is in office, it is beyond his pay grade and beyond the audacious stretch of his imagination to be in possession of hard facts, evidence and intel to make such bold claims. All he has done and has been doing for a while is indulging in reckless and silly talks because of his awareness of the fact that anything he says is considered newsworthy because of the office he presently occupies.
Dauda Lawal is not the the Command, Control and Communications structure or the DSS or the National Security Agency, so if there is such intel, which for emphasis there is none indicting his predecessor, he can never have access to it and can not be briefed about such.
Again, when out of chronic knowledge gap he claimed the state has witnessed no benefits from having a minister of defence from the state, one should query his mischief on the need to make such baseless allegations when Security agencies are closing in on many bandits leaders? What is he scared of? Why the need for what could be best described as "victim mentality"?
Lastly, his conduct, more like his misconduct and utterance has a large import on national security as it could trigger anarchy in the country and mutiny in the armed forces. There should be a limit to how we engage in political opposition and criticism. There should always be a limit and when to always draw the line to know when it is patriotism or imbecility.
Deyemi Saka
(Public Affairs Analyst and PR Consultant)
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