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The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State, Ben Nwoye has said President Muhammadu Buhari did create Boko Haram and armed bandits causing mayhem across the country.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Nwoye stated this on Wednesday following lamentations of some Buhari’s supporters who said they can no longer keep quiet over the security situation of the country.
Recall that during plenary on Tuesday while debating a motion on the floor of the Nigerian Senate, the Senator Representing Kogi West Senatorial District on the platform of the APC in the National Assembly (NASS), Senator Smart Adeyemi lamented the many ills confronting the nation.
He described the present situation of the country as worse than the civil war, and that President Buhari must rise to the occasion and bring in people to save the country or else, Adeyemi said, everyone would be consumed.
However, speaking on Sunrise Daily, Channels TV’s news and current affairs programme, and monitored by TNG, the Chairman of the APC in Enugu averred that President Buhari is not responsible for the security situation of the country.
He stated that insecurity in the country started long ago and that the Buhari government inherited it.
“These things started for long. Buhari’s government inherited these things. We saw it. Buhari did not create Boko Haram. It was in existence. APC government did not create that. It was in existence. APC did not create kidnapping. It was in existence,” Nwoye said.
He further said: “When you look at what is happening in the country, we must come together. It should not be a partisan approach. It is not a time we make provocative statements.
“As leaders, we understand that things like these are bound to happen. We are running a country of over 200 million. For many years ago, the leadership of this country has not matched up the security apparatus of this country in terms of personnel with the growth of the nation.
“So what you have is people coming up and pumping up with their own arms. But I agree with the Reps. We should recruit more people. We should have more personnel. We should get more arms to match up with the policing unit.
“I looked at the numbers of police in this country, when I looked at it, it is showing somewhere in the neighbourhood of 300 or 370 thousand. For a population of over 200 million people, that is abysmal.
“So when you have over the years developmental planners, the politicians, and that includes the holistically whether the executive, the legislature and even the judiciary, they watched the population grow, and we did little or nothing about the security apparatus.
“You cannot wake up one day and you say declare a state of emergency, and then we do all the recruiting today and then we buy more weapons”.