The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, yesterday, said the attack on the advance Presidential team to Daura, the hometown of President Muhammadu Buhari and the explosive attack on Kuje Prison in Abuja, 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.
The National Publicity Secretary of the organization, Comrade Jare Ajayi, in a release issued in Ibadan, yesterday, regretted that the two attacks were not isolated as reports of terrorism attacks occasioning loss of lives, kidnapping, raping and bodily harm occur on a daily basis.
He stated that what set the attacks of Tuesday apart was its derring-do nature, noting it is another indication that the country is under siege.
Recall that on Tuesday, a terrorist group at Dutsinma, Katsina State, attacked the advance team of security guards, protocol and media officers ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to Daura for Sallah, as the president is billed to be in Daura this week Friday for this year’s Ed-el-Kabir festival, coming up on Saturday.
On the Kuje Correctional Centre attack, Afenifere argued that like some other attacks that occurred in such areas, it thus appeared to be a statement by those enemies of Nigeria that they could strike anywhere and at any time. It said this particular attack, taken together with the fatal attack on a military team in Niger State last month, kept reminding one of the build-ups of the Afghanistan saga that led to the forceful take-over of government in that country last year, warning that everything needed to be done to ensure that such does not occur here in Nigeria.
Afenifere contended that the situation would not have degenerated into this sorry past were the Federal Government been sincere in the way it had been handling security breaches in the past.
The group asserted that the nature of the on-going terrorism attacks had shown that the objectives of those behind it went beyond religion or even economic, declaring that it without any iota of doubt territorial and hegemonic in nature.
Ajayi maintained that it was the government’s responsibility to ensure that no external entity comes around to impose its force over the people of any area within its sovereignty, but quickly lamented that terrorists unfortunately were having the field day while those Nigerians looked up to appeared to be watching in helplessness.
