Activist Aisha Yesufu, says the “body language” of the
President, Muhammadu Buhari, emboldens bandits and
terrorists in the country to continue their heinous acts.
Yesufu was reacting to the abduction of over 300 schoolgirls
from Jangebe in Zamfara State by gunmen suspected to be bandits.
The rate of mass abduction of students by bandits in the
northern part of Nigeria has become alarming in recent times. Just a week ago,
bandits kidnapped dozens of students and workers of Government Science College
in Kagara, Niger State. Bandits had also last year kidnapped over 300
schoolboys from Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Katsina State.
Aside from Kankara and Kagara, non-state actors had also abducted hundreds of
secondary school girls from Chibok, in Borno State; and Dapchi in Yobe State.
Yesufu, co-convener of the #BringBackOurGirls movement,
decried the spate of abductions in the country, adding that it was very sad
that a recurrence of large scale abduction could happen under the watch of
Buhari. She spoke on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme
“At the #BringBackOurGirls movement, this is for us a sad
moment especially because our government has not done anything in spite of the
advocacy of almost seven years of advocacy that we’ve been calling on
government to do the right thing to ensure citizens and students are protected.
“Students are being taken away. Is it because they are
Nigerians? Is it because they are poor? Why are they left on their own for
terrorists to take them at will?” the activist queried.
The President had on Thursday said his regime will deal
decisively with terrorists and bandits in the country but Yesufu said Buhari’s
words were mere rhetorics.
She said, “We are used to a president whose words mean
nothing. He says one thing and the opposite happens. Part of the things we
should be demanding as Nigerians is that the president should come out and tell
us what is going.
“He was voted to bring the way forward, the salaries are
paid, his bills are being taken care of. When the president first came in, they
talk about the body language. What is the body language of the president today?
“The body language of the Muhammadu Buhari enables the
terrorists, they know that we have an ineffective president as
commander-in-chief, we have an incompetent one, we have a clueless one who does
not even bother about what is happening in the country.”
The activist, who said localised policing was the way to go,
urged states to come up with their security outfits.
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