Kano State Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has called on the federal government to come up with a more sustainable and reliable way of dealing with insurgency in the country.
Kwankwaso, who spoke to journalists in his office on Saturday, insisted that the approach to solving the problem must be sustainable and reliable.
He said: “Yesterday, we watched an event where they were collecting billions for the victims. Yes, it is good to collect every naira and dollar for the victims. But what we are saying here is, we have to come up with a more sustainable way of handling the issue of North-East and other parts of this country.
“This issue of begging people to give money, especially with our situation now, I don’t think that would help in the long run. What is going to help is for government to tackle it and accept the reality that there is correlation between illiteracy, poverty and unemployment on one hand, and of course, violence, and insurgency and so on.
“That is what they don’t want to accept, and that is the reality. Anywhere in the world, everybody knows it, everybody told them, but unfortunately, they don’t want to accept for reasons best known to them. I personally believe that unless the issue of North East and far North is tackled, unless you do something about North East, you will continue to, unfortunately and regrettably, have some of these crises”.
Kwankwaso also challenged the newly appointed Inspector General of Police to promote an organisation that is out to serve all.
“The police should be friends with all of us; the police should protect us; the police should be neutral during election, because as long as the police are divided along lines of political parties, regions or religions, there would be crisis”, he added.
Reacting to the last week attack on the convoys of Gen. Mohammadu Buhari (Rtd) and Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi, by suspected members the Boko Haram, the governor said the development offered a huge lesson for President Goodluck Jonathan.
According to him, Nigeria was very lucky that the General and the Islamic cleric survived the attack.
He said, “Only God knows what would have happened in this country if any one of them, worst, two of them, lost their lives on that day this incident happened”.
Continuing, the governor said nobody can run any country with luck. “You can win election by luck, but you cannot run any serious administration with luck. Luck has its limitations, you cannot be lucky all the time”.
Kwankwaso also lamented the recent bombings in Kano, which were believed to have been carried out by female attackers.
“As long as we are into this issue of insurgency and other criminal activities, we would continue to see all sorts of styles, all sorts of surprises.
“It is sad that we have to go through these. These are things that could have been handled better over the years. Unfortunately, the graph is rising and I think this is not good for any leadership”, he stated.
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