Rep. Ibrahim Almustapha-Rabah (APC-Sokoto) said on Monday in Abuja that the  National Assembly is fully committed to securing Nigeria.

”All of us at the National Assembly are working hard on one issue or the other either individually or collectively; the objective is the same, a better and secure Sokoto State and Nigeria,” the lawmaker said in an interview.

He expressed optimism that the lawmakers’ efforts would yield positive results, noting that insecurity perpetrated by a few criminally-minded elements had eaten deep into the country.

Mr Almustapha-Rabah, representing the Rabah/Wurno Federal Constituency, said miscreants freely move with sophisticated weapons, killing, maiming, seizing livestock and kidnapping for ransom.

”Unfortunately, those criminal elements were nurtured by our collective action or inaction in addressing the identified gaps, particularly in education and employment generation.

”The street boys, the out-of-school children, the Almajiris of the last 20 years are the grown-up unemployed population we are managing today,” he stated.

He asserted that education, infrastructure, and agriculture remain the major drivers of development and must be taken seriously for the state to succeed.

”At our level, there was virtually nothing we had not raised and discussed at the chambers on the way and means and how to go about it,” the legislator said.

According to him, it would be a mere repetition and a duplication of effort to continually bring up the issue for publicity’s sake.

“More often, the resolutions passed by the National Assembly require time and funding to implement.

”We believe the present administration at both the federal, under President Bola Tinubu and  Sokoto State, under Governor Ahmed Aliyu, are committed to redressing the ugly trend,” Mr Almustapha-Rabah said.

He said the governor recently bought operational vehicles to further support the security agencies.

”We, on the other hand, as your representatives, having identified some of the gaps and the root cause of the problem, are working hard, though silently, to restore our infrastructure,” the lawmaker added.

(NAN)