Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has lamented over the growing security challenges in northern Nigeria, saying President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to address his.most primary responsibility of providing security.
The spokesman for the coalition, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, while reacting on Tuesday, said communities in northern Nigeria must mobilise to protect themselves.
The ACF had on Monday expressed the anger and frustration of northerners to President.Buhari on the growing security challenges in the region.
The ACF National Publicity Secretary,
Emmanuel Yawe, said northerners had
expected much more from the present
administration.
“The government is not proactive and should rely on intelligence reports. Most of the time, they will tell us, we have liberated Kaduna- Abuja route and then we will hear that there is.a serious attack there, they are not gathering enough intelligence, which is why the bandits and Boko Haram is always far ahead of them.
Yawe said: “We know that the previous
administration messed up the security situation and we knew it was because the then president did not have a security background, he was just a university teacher who dabbled into politics
and somehow became the president of the
country.
But this one, President Buhari is the.one who fought in the civil war and who when Chadians invaded Nigeria chased them out during Shagari’s regime, so he appeared to have the proper credentials for handling the security of this country,” he said.
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