Shehu Sani, a former Kaduna Central Senator, has lamented that members of the Birnin Gwari Emirate Council in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of the State, were allowed to go to their farms by bandits after paying N40 million as levies.
He said Nigerians now live in fear over the activities of terrorists; a situation that has gone from “bad to worse” in recent times.
Sani, who featured on Quest Times Twitter Spaces on Wednesday, July 27, also blamed President Muhammadu Buhari for the heightened insecurity in the country.
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“Why are the security challenges in Nigeria this bad? This is the question we need to ask ourselves. Secondly, why was it that after pumping all these trillions of Naira into our defence and security apparatus, we are still unable to curtail these problems? And the buck stops on the table of the Commander-in-Chief (Buhari).
“The Nigeria Defence Academy was at a time attacked and nobody resigned or was even sacked. So, who do you want to blame?
“A country is being run in such a way that the president does not take an action as and when the time demands him to take an action.
“All his (Buhari) ministers are spending their 8 years in service; never has this happened in the history of Nigeria. What kind of country is this? How can you keep ministers in office for 8 years? That’s an issue.
“For instance, Mozambique in the face of its crisis, did not call the President of America to come help them, they reached out to Paul Kagame of Uganda and over 2,000 troops were deployed to northern Mozambique with clear instruction — End this insurgency! And they did it!
“It is so bad that farmers in parts of Kaduna now pay levies to bandits to go to farms. Recently, in Birnin Gwari (Local Government Area in Kaduna), about N40 million was given to terrorists for them to go and farm and raise their crops.
“When you talk now, they will tell you security agencies are monitoring the camps of the terrorists. Why can’t you storm the place?” He lamented.