The Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere has
reacted to the attack on President Muhammadu Buhari’s presidential advance team
to Daura, Katsina State and the explosive attack on Kuje Prison by gunmen.
Afenifere said the attack on Buhari’s advance team was a
signal to the government and security agencies.
Jare Ajayi, the spokesman of Afenifere, said the enemies are
informing Nigerians and security agencies that they are not afraid of anyone
with the attack on Buhari’s convoy.
Ajayi said the attacks are affirmations that the insecurity
situation in Nigeria is getting out of hand at a rate faster than is
acknowledged by the authorities who should deal with it.
A terrorist group had on Tuesday, at Dutsinma, Katsina
State, attacked the advance team of security guards, protocol and media
officers ahead of Buhari’s trip to Daura for Sallah.
The President is billed to be in Daura this week Friday for
this year’s Ed-il-Kabir festival.
Evening of same day, suspected Boko Haram members stormed
Kuje Prison in the Federal Capital Territory with explosives.
Reacting, Ajayi regretted that the two attacks were not
isolated as reports of terrorism attacks occasioning loss of lives, kidnapping,
raping, bodily harms etc occur on a daily basis.
He stated that what set the ones of this week apart was “its
derring-do nature. Another indication that the country is under siege.”
A statement by Ajayi reads: “The nature of these attacks
should send serious signals to the governments, to the security agencies and
indeed to all Nigerians. The one on the Presidential Team seems to be a coded
language by enemies of the nation that they are not afraid of anyone
notwithstanding the status of such a person. For, it goes without saying that a
Presidential Team would normally be fortified. So, for a group to attack such a
team must be out of sheer bravado – which unfortunately further exposed how
vulnerable our security situation is”.
Ajayi went further to state that the attack on Kuje
Correctional Centre, like some other attacks that occurred in such areas,
“appears to be a statement by those enemies of Nigeria that they can strike
anywhere and at any time. For, this Kuje attack, taken together with the fatal
attack on a military team in Niger State last month, keeps reminding one of the
build-up of the Afghanistan saga that led to the forceful take-over of
government in that country last year. Everything needs to be done to ensure that
such does not occur here”.
He added that were federal government to be sincere in the
way it has been handling security breaches in the past,
“The situation would not have degenerated to this sorry
pass. By this we are referring to the kid-glove manner by which the government
and its security arms have been dealing with those caught in banditry and
terrorism.
“Normally, anyone around the President or Governor ought to
have a sense of safety just as the presence of government ought to be an
assurance for the citizens regarding their security.
“The attacks on the Presidential Team and on Kuje Prison,
like the ones that had taken place in different parts of the country before,
make Nigerians to feel more and more insecure. On a number of times, armed
bandits have attacked governors, particularly those of Borno and Benue. They
have attacked transport centres like airport and rail lines as well as military
and police formations. These are places one should have a sense of highest
safety and security. Their attacks on religious places and on clerics too seem
to have become a routine. In that kind of situation, people’s sense of
helplessness became heightened.”
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