A former President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Dr Sunday Mbang, has scored the President Muhammadu Buhari administration low in its tackling of insecurity in the country, which is one of its key campaign promises in 2015.
Mbang, who is Prelate Emeritus of the Methodist Church of Nigeria, made his views known in an interview published by Sunday Sun.
The cleric said that despite claims made by Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, that the Boko Haram terror group had been “decimated”, more people were dying by the group’s hands under Buhari than under the administration of Dr Goodluck Jonathan.
Asked to assess the situation of security under Buhari, Mbang said:
You know when Buhari came into power, one of the promises he made was that Boko Haram would be defeated, and then, his minister of information and others have used the word decimated. I don’t know whether that means defeated. But the experience is that up till now Boko Haram is still killing people. In fact, they are killing people far more than when Jonathan was here. That’s number one. And to add salt to injury, we have this cattle people also; and I have not seen any government being able to cope with any of these. So, as far as I’m concerned they are very unsuccessful in security issue. But here in Akwa Ibom, because we have a lot of cultists, these cultists are now handing over their arms and one of the thing that I like in what they are doing is that they are not sending them to prison; because if they are sent them to prison, they will go and learn more of how to be worst cultists. They are rehabilitating them and trying to make them better human beings for the country. So, they are doing more about security here in Akwa Ibom than they are doing in the APC Federal Government. So, as far as I’m concerned they are yet to cattle security issues. And the cattle people! I call them cattle people.
They talked about that; they are from somewhere or anywhere, but they are killing Nigerians. So, that is for their interest and they are not able to stop them from killing Nigerians. People have now gone into killing army generals in the country. I mean when generals are being killed that means we little ones, they can kill us any day. So, as far as I’m concerned, the APC government is yet to tackle the issue of insecurity.
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