Nigerians should get ready for what is coming, Because no one will be able to survive it - Shettima

National President of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Alhaji Yerima Shettima, has said the recen

 t statement by the Nigerian senate, saying the survival of the country is in danger due to rise in crimes and proliferation of illegal arms and ammunition in the country, clearly shows that leaders in the country are taking the people for granted. 

Shettima said Nigerians have been suffering for many years, but the Senate is just realizing that the country is in danger.

“It is an insult and abuse on the sensibility of Nigerians for the Senate to sit down and just say that Nigeria is under siege when we have been suffering all these while in the hands of bandits,” the AYCF president said in reaction to moves by the Senate to curtail arms proliferation.

Shettima described the security situation in the country as frightening, even as he charged the senators to realise that the issue is degenerating by the day.

“And I am afraid if anybody will escape it at the end of the day. All of us will be victims if they don’t take measures immediately. They have to wake up to the realities of the day that we are in big trouble,” he added.

The Senate had yesterday, raised the alarm that the existence of the country is under threat as millions of illegal weapons are reportedly in circulation in the country.

In a submissions during a public hearing, organised by the Senate Joint Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, Navy and Marine Tran