Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has charged the Federal Government to stop apologizing and negotiating with terrorists.
Obasanjo gave this charge on Friday at the Plateau State Unity Christmas Carol and Praise Festival held in Jos, the state capita
His comment is coming against the backdrop of the escalating killings, abductions, and other attacks on several communities in the North in recent weeks.
Recall that on November 21, a total of 315 students and 13 teachers were abducted from St Mary’s Catholic School in Papiri, Niger State.
The incident came after the terrorists kidnapped 24 schoolgirls at the Government Girls Secondary School, Maga, in Danko-Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State, on November 17.
In the latest assault, bandits struck the Palaita community, Erena Ward, Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State, abducting 24 people, including pregnant women, from a rice farm.
About 20 persons were also abducted by bandits in Kano and Kwara between Monday night and Tuesday morning.
The development comes barely 24 hours after 38 worshippers abducted from the Christ Apostolic Church, Oke-Isegun, Eruku, Ikere, Kwara State, on November 18, were released after the Federal Government negotiated with their abductors.
In the Tuesday attack, 10 persons, including a pregnant woman, nursing mothers, and children were reportedly seized in Isapa community, a few kilometres from Eruku, Kwara State.
Obasanjo, while speaking at the event, expressed displeasure over the escalated insecurity.
“Our government must stop apologizing and negotiating with terrorists. No matter what religion you belong to. No matter where you come from. No matter your profession, we Nigerians are being killed, and our government seems to be incapable of protecting us.
“We are part of the world community. If our government cannot do it, we have the right to call on the international community to do for us what our government cannot do for us,” he said.
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