Insecurity: Buhari must urgently rejig security strategy – Group

A group, Congress for Better Nigeria (CBN), has charged President, Muhammadu Buhari to urgently rejig his security strategies to check the worsening security situation across the country.

The group said the increasing wave of killings and kidnapping across the country pose a serious threat to the unity of the Nigeria.

In recent times, Nigeria has experienced renewed wave of banditry, killings, kidnappings, clashes between suspected Fulani herdsmen and farmers in the northern region. These have also spread Southern region.

But speaking in an interview with Businessday, Tuesday, Idowu Omolegan, national leader of the group, said the current administration adopted a wrong strategy to tackle the insecurity, which he said has failed.

According to him, “Let us be frank; the security situation is bad; the President must act; let him rejig the security apparatus; it has failed. Right now, we cannot distinguish between Boko Haram and herdsmen, and they are everywhere now, that is why Buhari is failing on security.

“The herdsmen are terrorising and he is talking of drones and CCTV; it would to the fail. Have they not tried it in the past?”

The group further said that President Buhari had no reason to fail in his second term in office, because of the cordial relationship between the executive and the current leadership of the National Assembly.

“We know there were those who worked against his government in the last administration; I mean some people sabotaging him; but now he has the support of the lawmakers, there is no reason for him to fail,” Omolegan added.

Speaking further, he condemned the recent call for revolution and protest by Omoyele Sowore over alleged bad governance and mass poverty in the country.