The co-convener of the #BringBackOurGirls Movement, Aisha Yesufu, has called on the National Assembly to summon President Bola Tinubu to a joint session to explain what his administration is doing to protect Nigerians amid escalating insecurity.
Yesufu made the appeal on Monday through an open letter to federal lawmakers, urging urgent legislative action to strengthen security agencies and tackle the root causes of insecurity.
She criticised the legislature for what she described as a passive response to the worsening security situation, insisting that lawmakers must “wake up to their responsibilities” and act in the interest of citizens.
Reacting to the recent spate of attacks across the country, the activist said, “We will not be silenced or intimidated.
We will continue to demand accountability and good governance.”
She lamented that Nigerians are being “hunted like animals, abducted or killed in places of worship, schools, on roads, farms, markets, and even in their homes, where they ought to be safest,” stressing that “nowhere and no one is safe in the country.”
Yesufu expressed disappointment with the National Assembly, saying that lawmakers have failed to stand with their constituents.
“With all of this happening, National Assembly members have not deemed it fit to raise their collective voices for the people who sent them.
Instead, they have raised their voices in defending the executive they should be holding accountable.”
She added that the legislature, as the highest arm of government, should act as the voice of the people, but has instead become a “rubber-stamp Assembly, complicit in the country’s descent into chaos.”
Yesufu’s call comes amid growing frustration from citizens over widespread banditry, kidnappings, and attacks targeting schools, places of worship, and local communities across Nigeria.