A Senior Fellow, Centre for Democracy and Development, Prof Jibrin Ibrahim, says President Bola Tinubu, who criticized ex-President Goodluck Jonathan over schoolchildren abduction in 2014, is now doing worse than Jonathan.
Prof Ibrahim stated this on Friday when he featured in an interview on ‘Prime Time’, a programme on Arise Television monitored by DAILY POST.
He also said that many thought that insecurity would end when late Muhammadu Buhari became president since he was a top Army General.
“Buhari came and proved totally incapable of ending insecurity. Tinubu criticised Jonathan for school abductions and has found himself at the helm of affairs and performing worse than Jonathan did.
“I think it’s been a very difficult year for Nigerians, but the fact of the matter is that many of the preceding years have been equally difficult on Nigerians, but I think what marks this year is the glaring inability, or some would say the unwillingness of the Nigerian state to carry out its constitutional responsibility of providing for the security and welfare of Nigerians.
“Since 2009, how do we explain the fact that each year, insecurity continues to grow, and the number of people, civilians with arms, using these arms against communities, against road users, against even the military and the police themselves, clearly indicates a sustained lack of effort on the part of the Nigerian state to carry out its constitutional responsibility.
“The fact of the matter is that once you have people who have no rights to arms, procuring arms and then finding out they could use those arms with impunity, that problem is bound to increase.
“We have had many moments of hope that the tide will turn. When Buhari came, many of us felt the tide would turn. This is a tough Army General. He will deal with them. He did nothing of that. He proved totally incapable of doing that.
“So it’s a very sad tale. The narrative is extremely disturbing, and the problem we all face as Nigerians is that we are yet to see a government that has both the will, the determination and the know-how to attack this problem of rising insecurity,” he said.