Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has charged the Federal Authorities to cease apologizing and negotiating with terrorists.
Obasanjo gave this cost on Friday on the Plateau State Unity Christmas Carol and Reward Pageant held in Jos, the state capital.
His remark is coming towards the backdrop of the escalating killings, abductions, and different assaults on a number of communities within the North in latest weeks.
DAILY POST recollects that on November 21, a complete of 315 college students and 13 academics had been kidnapped from St Mary’s Catholic Faculty in Papiri, Niger State.
The incident got here after the terrorists kidnapped 24 schoolgirls on the Authorities Women Secondary Faculty, Maga, in Danko-Wasagu Native Authorities Space of Kebbi State, on November 17.
Within the newest assault, bandits struck the Palaita neighborhood, Erena Ward, Shiroro Native Authorities Space of Niger State, abducting 24 folks, together with pregnant ladies, from a rice farm.
About 20 individuals had been additionally kidnapped by bandits in Kano and Kwara between Monday evening and Tuesday morning.
The event comes barely 24 hours after 38 worshippers kidnapped from the Christ Apostolic Church, Oke-Isegun, Eruku, Ikere, Kwara State, on November 18, had been launched after the Federal Authorities negotiated with their abductors.
Within the Tuesday assault, 10 individuals, together with a pregnant lady, nursing moms, and kids had been reportedly seized in Isapa neighborhood, a number of kilometres from Eruku, Kwara State.
Obasanjo, whereas talking on the occasion, expressed displeasure over the escalated insecurity.
“Our authorities should cease apologizing and negotiating with terrorists. It doesn’t matter what faith you belong to. Irrespective of the place you come from. Irrespective of your career, we Nigerians are being killed, and our authorities appears to be incapable of defending us.
“We’re a part of the world neighborhood. If our authorities can’t do it, we now have the proper to name on the worldwide neighborhood to do for us what our authorities can’t do for us,” he mentioned.
