By Adeleye Kunle
Some civil society organizations, or CSOs, have said that the Buhari administration has set itself up for failure by failing to respond quickly to bandit attacks terrorizing the country.
Terrorism, insurgency, and banditry, they claim, did not begin under Buhari’s watch, but it is to his eternal shame that they have escalated almost beyond control on his watch.
According to civil society organizations, the main and consistent posture of Presidency officials has been to live in denial and blame their predecessors.
They accuse him of avoiding accountability and failing to provide strong leadership to his team, security agencies, or Nigerians.
President Buhari appoints a series of unimpressive defense ministers and security chiefs for them, emphasizing that if some fail, he refuses to replace them promptly in accordance with global standards.
They also accuse him of rarely empathizing physically with bereaved communities, as every other head of government does; his visits to bereaved communities are few, with aides issuing unemotional statements on his behalf.
“Unfortunately, in all of this, President Buhari has continued to appear calm and aloof from the reality of the dangerous storms that have made landfall on our shores,” Ariyo Dare Atoye, Executive Director, Adopt A Goal Initiative, said in an interview with Saturday Tracknews.
“The security situation in the nation’s capital territory has deteriorated to an embarrassing level, but this is not beyond the knowledge of the ruling government, which has refused to use the full extent of our law enforcement powers.”
“It is becoming clear to Nigerians that terrorists and their supporters have infiltrated our security architecture, rendering intelligence gathering a shambles.”
“The threat of terror attacks in the FCT sends the wrong signal to the entire country and the international community, creating a climate of fear among the people.”
“It is now difficult to dismiss suggestions that there is an underlying plot to allow insecurity to fester in order to sabotage the 2023 elections by declaring a state of emergency.”
The FCT Administration appears to be aware of the people’s fear that Abuja is under siege, as it quickly ordered the immediate closure of all schools in the nation’s capital this week, citing increased security threats from bandits in Abuja and its environs.
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