Banditry/killings: You’re politicising ‘isolated incidents,’ Buhari tells OBJ, Jonathan, Soyinka

The ex-President stated this on Tuesday when he paid a condolence visit to the leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, whose daughter, Mrs Funke Olakunri, was killed by suspected herdsmen along the Ore-Sagamu Expressway on Friday.

Soyinka, on Sunday, during his 85th birthday, pointedly stated that the Buhari government had “failed” in addressing insecurity in the country. “The first major kidnapping was described as commercial kidnapping because some money exchanged hands which happened in 2006 when I was also a governor of Bayelsa State. From commercial kidnapping, it moved to terrorism in the North and now some kind of terrorist attacks all over the country, when people will just come out of the road and spray bullets on innocent people; that is a terrorist attack. You have no reason to attack somebody you don’t even know; that is terrorism.

“There is nothing wrong holding a specific meeting to look at the issue of security. I believe in the federal and state governments having a new approach, deploying technology and having more money to protect our people.”But the President in response to his critics said those faulting his administration’s handling of the worsening insecurity in the country were not “patriotic Nigerians.”

Buhari stated, “Every country has security challenges; while we have made significant progress in fighting against terrorism, we acknowledge that there are new and emerging challenges of kidnapping and banditry. I assure you that we will not relent in our efforts to secure the country from criminal activities.

“This is because other countries have seen our dedication to the fight against corruption and they are keying in to emulate our approach.” “The states also have the elite who are educated enough to remind their governments about their responsibility to almajiris”, the President stated.

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