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Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Tuesday, described as irresponsible, the statement by the Information Minister, Lai Mohammed, that Nigeria is safer under President Muhammadu Buhari.
However, clashes between crop farmers and nomadic herdsmen have assumed new and frightening dimensions since
Muhammadu Buhari assumed the reins of the Nigerian presidency in 2015.
In 2016, clashes between cattle herders and farmers in the Agatu local government area of Benue State sparked a communal crisis that claimed lives and led to the burning of property.
The herders said they had attacked the community after 10,000 of their cattle were killed by Agatu residents.
Afterwards, there were clashes between farmers and herders in most of the middle belt states and elsewhere across the federation.
Killings involving herdsmen and militants became prevalent in Benue, Plateau, Zamfara and Taraba through 2016, 2017 and 2018. Most of the killings were blamed on Fulani herdsmen.
A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank has countered claims by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed that Nigeria was more secured at the moment than it was in 2015.
Frank, in a statement on Monday in Abuja, insisted that Nigeria has never had it worse in terms of insecurity as it is having at the moment, describing the minister’s statement as irresponsible.
Ripples Nigeria reported that Mohammed had said at a news conference in Abuja that ‘despite the rising security challenges facing the nation, Nigeria is still safer under President Muhammadu Buhari than what he met on assumption of office in 2015.’
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Two of Yorubaland’s prized states’ helmsmen – Governors Oluwarotimi Akeredolu and Seyi Makinde – have made very strong but seemingly diametrically opposed positions on the security of their people, making it the most talked about issue in the nation today. In recent time, their Ondo and Oyo States have become hotbeds of the scalding hot security crises in Northeastern and Northwestern Nigeria. Many of the Okada riders are also said to be foreigners and spies for kidnappers and bandits who enter Yorubaland through Nigeria’s porous borders.
In January, 2018, I had written about the deadliness of Fulani herders. Fulani herdsmen have been declared one of the deadliest terrorist groups in the world by the Global Terrorism Index (GTI).