The State Security Service on Monday said there was no evidence linking the Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, General Muhammad Buhari, and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar to the spate of bombings and other terrorist attacks in the country.

The Bayelsa State Director of SSS, Mr. Andrew Iorkyar, said this in Yenagoa, the state capital while delivering a lecture to mark the 2011 Press Week organised by the state chapter of the Nigerian Union of Journalists.

He said pressure was mounted on security agencies in the country to arrest Atiku and Buhari following comments credited to them during and after the April general elections.

But he said security agencies failed to bow to such public outcries because there evidence to prove they were involving in the attacks.

He said, “For anybody to be considered a suspect, evidence of such person’s involvement in the alleged criminal matter must be proved beyond every reasonable doubt.

“The security agencies cannot touch Buhari because he has not done anything. I am not defending anyone but these are legal issues. We should ask ourselves what the law says. Security must act in line with the law.”

He added that tackling terrorism and ensuring a secured nation was not beyond the nation’s security system.

Iorkyar said, “The security personnel are up and doing. It is not beyond us. There has not been a plane crash in years and no one is talking about that. It happens almost on a weekly basis in developed world. We are doing rather better than the developed world. It depends on how you rate us vis-à-vis developed world.”

He also blamed the political class for the insecurity in the country, saying politicians had refused to adequately fund security agencies.

He explained that the motive behind most terrorist attacks was to create panic among citizens, cause weakness in government and destabilise national security.

He submitted that for Nigeria to effectively tackle insecurity caused by terrorist attacks, it must elevate its economic, energy and environmental security.

He also called on the media to exercise caution in their reportage of incidents of bombings and related terrorist attacks, pointing out that some reports tended to mystify the terrorists and their dastardly acts.


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You don't always evidence to arrest suspects; you can 'invite' them for interview. That should tell them they are not above the law!

PointB:

You don't always evidence to arrest suspects; you can 'invite' them for interview. That should tell them they are not above the law!

Ha ha yes, an invitation one dare not think of declining would be in order, serving notice to post-election genocide instigator Ayatollah Buhari-Bin-Laden that he is a person of interest to security agencies, particularly if the International Court of Justice in The Hague also expresses a desire to host the Ayatollah as a trial subject and then as a long-term guest, on account of Buhari's PUBLIC pre-election threats to call for violence if his ordained destiny of assured electoral defeat continued, which it did.

^^^ its obvious you are an ID-IOT OF THE HIGHEST ORDER!