Following another bomb blast in Nyanya in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja which claimed lives of 10 people and wounded others, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) said on Friday that  posterity will not forgive members of the National Assembly and delegates in the ongoing national conference if they turn deaf ears to the agitation for the creation of state police.

MURIC's director, Professor Ishaq Akintola in a statement, while noting that every Nigerian should be blamed for the security challenges in the country, said the Federal Government takes the lion share of the blame for monopolizing the security agencies (police, army, etc) without allowing state governments to create complementary outfits contrary to international best practices. 

"The same FG details too many security agents around top government officials leaving too few to protect the jamaheer (poor masses). "But because security is a corporate responsibility, the citizenry must share the rest of the blame. The police and other security agencies alone cannot secure lives and properties. Security is a joint enterprise.

"The citizens must compliment the efforts of the security agencies with readiness to provide information. They must also be on the tip-toes of alertness," it added.

According to MURIC,  the fact that this second explosion occurred almost at the same spot with the first one accentuated the grave danger facing Nigerians in the hands of terrorists and the seeming helplessness of the security agencies.

While condemning the dastardly act, it said "We are also constrained to conclude that we are all to blame for the deteriorating security situation in the country."

MURIC therefore charged every Nigerian citizen to take up his or her own share of the responsibility, saying that terrorists are not ghosts.

Henceforth, it said unfamiliar faces who park vehicles in "our neighbourhoods must be challenged whether they try to leave the vehicle or remain seated therein.

"We must quickly inform the police if they cannot give satisfactory explanation. The same applies to strangers who attempt to abandon bags and baggages particularly in public places.

"The security agencies must build confidence in the citizens to ensure their cooperation. They must therefore roll out concrete and verifiable facts to the public instead of figment of imagination and fabricated security abracadabra.

"On its own part, FG must be more transparent, sensitive and accountable. FG must be willing to delegate some modicum of responsibility for the maintenance of security to the states. It must take pragmatic steps towards accepting states as partners in the crucial task of ensuring security," it added.