Popular Nigerian rapper and activist, Folarin Falana, widely known as Falz, has urged the Federal Government to convene an emergency public hearing to address the worsening insecurity and the alleged failure to adequately equip the nation’s armed forces despite massive annual budgets for ammunition.
Falz made this appeal on Monday while reacting to the escalating security challenges across the country, describing the current state of affairs as “a national security emergency.”
He encouraged citizens to take action by reaching out to their lawmakers, saying Nigerians should contact their representatives “with coordinated emails, phone calls and WhatsApp messages.”
In a widely circulated video, the singer questioned why the military remains poorly equipped despite the billions reportedly allocated for security.
He insisted that a transparent and televised public session was necessary.
According to him, “We need to call for public a hearing, broadcast on live TV, livestream for anybody anywhere in the world to watch. So many billions and billions being budgeted and being released for acquisition of arms and ammunition but what happening? Why is the military still ill-equipped, why are military convoys still being ambushed by this criminals? Why was an army general murdered on video?”
Falz further encouraged Nigerians to push for an urgent “public hearing to address the strategy to defeat terrorism, rumours of an ill-equipped military and how Nigerians will be kept safe.”
