By Ehi Ekhator, Naija Center News
A former Vice President, a presidential aspirant on the All Progressives Congress, Atiku Abubakar has lambasted the Federal Government on information handling regarding the Boko Haram insurgency in the North of Nigeria.
While addressing crowd on the humanitarian crisis caused by the areas recently over run by the insurgents on Monday in Abuja, Atiku noted that unless Federal Government meet up to their responsibilities in securing the lives of the citizens, Boko Haram can over run Nigeria.
The Presidential candidate lamented that Nigeria military fought and ended a civil war, reconciled and reconsructed within 30 months now found it hard to end insurgency in 5 years.
He said that the inability of the government to end insurgency in five years is as a result of the nation leadership deficit since the present administration could not re-equp the military within this period to tackle the menace
He said, “Ever since these terrorists have been taking over territories, there was never a time the Nigerian military has recovered one inch of any lost territory in these five years.
He revealed that two local government areas in Yobe, five in Adamawa and about nine in Borno states which have been over taken by the members of the Boko Haram has not been recovered.
“Can you imagine a whole country like Nigeria with its armed forces? Not one inch of territory recovered from the terrorists? How can you now convince me that this government has the capacity to recover an inch if in the last five years they have not recovered one inch? Government must rise up to its responsibility of protecting its citizens otherwise the whole of this country can be overrun.”
The former vice President accused the goernment of withholding the information behind the reason the international community refused to assist in rescuing the Chibok girls which were abudcted in April, 2014, adding that the federal government has failed to rise up to the occasion.
He argued that unless government deal with the security challenges the country is presently facing, other things would suffer.
“For me, I don’t believe really that the government has exerted itself in trying to contain this situation because even if it means the government should move in 10,000 troops to a location to deal decisively with this situation, it should not be shy to do so,” he added.
“This is a government which has allowed a small bunch of small terrorists group for close to five years in this country to operate freely.
“We fought a full blown civil war in 30 months in Nigeria and we achieved total reconciliation and reconstruction in 30 months.
“I also recall when we were in office, such an insurgency arose in Yobe State and the former governor of Yobe State is here, when he was in office, it took us just a few weeks to flush out those insurgents, we dealt with them.”
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