Nigeria’s ambassador to Germany Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, has said that ‘negative media reports’ are to be blamed for rising insecurity in the West African country.
Tuggar made the claim in an interview with Germany’s Deutsche Welle (DW) where he spoke on the state of Nigeria and the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Over 300 school children have been abducted in Nigeria between February and May 2021, mostly in the northeast region due to activities of Boko Haram, bandits and other insurgency groups.
Although the Nigerian government claimed that it is winning the war against insurgency but thousands have been rendered homeless with hundreds killed.
The Nigerian ambassador said Nigeria’s population of over 200 million people makes the country a likely environment for matters of insecurity to happen frequently due to underdevelopment.
He said the Buhari-led government is working to take Nigeria to the path of development and deal with “the root causes of insecurity and violence happen to be poverty, lack of effective governance.”
