Naj’atu Muhammad, a former
senator from Kano state, says the administration of ex-President Goodluck
Jonathan spent a total of N2 billion daily on security.
Muhammad, who was in the first
female senator from Kano, said despite the expenses, the insurgents continued
their attacks unabated.
She said this on Saturday at the
2nd annual Chibok girls lecture organised by the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG)
movement, held in Abuja.
Muhammad blamed the
“irresponsibility of the political and military elite” in Nigeria as the root
cause for the continued Boko Haram insurgency.
She alleged that one of the “root
causes” of Boko Haram is Ali Modu Sheriff, a former governor of Borno state.
“We all know what started Boko
Haram. It was started in Borno by the then governor, Ali Sherrif. He armed them
as his political thugs,” she said.
“He even made one of them a
commissioner but they become too powerful. The military came in and turned the
north-east into cash cow; military jumbo budgets unaccounted for. I remember
Jonathan was spending N2 billion every day on security but there was no
security.”
She said the army “more than
anything else has contributed to this terrorism.”
According to her, “terrorism has
become a multi-billion dollar industry.”
“I have been part of a committee
that investigated the atrocities of Boko Haram and the committee more than
anything has indicted the military,” she said.
“There is no house in Borno that
the military has not either killed or raped anyone in it.
The former senator also said
Nigeria currently “has no government” because “the primary responsibility of
any government is to secure the territorial integrity of the country and the
lives of the citizens — something the government has failed to do.”
“As for our military, we are
demanding a thorough overhaul of it. Anything short of this is to say our
government are beneficiaries of the failure,” she added.
Muhammad had rejected her
appointment as chairperson of the Federal University, Dutse by the government
of President Muhammadu Buhari.
“I, Najatu Muhammad, wish to
thank you so much for considering me worthy of being appointed the chairperson
of Dutse Federal University. It’s however, unfortunate that I was not consulted
before the announcement in the media. I also regret that I have to use the same
medium to announce that I can’t accept the appointment for some personal
reasons,” she had said in a newspaper advert.
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