SECURITY ALERT WITH JIDE

Blame past leaders for terrorism

 

 

The federal govern-ment, has de-clared that the spate of terrorism in the country should be blamed on past leaders.
Minister of Interior, Com-rade Abba Patrick Moro, made this declaration dur-ing an interactive session with journalists and some members of the public.
According to him, incit-ing statements being made by some past leaders in the country had fuelled violence and terrorism. Describing such leaders as ‘Nigeria’s men of yester-years’,
Moro said Nigeria as a country was a victim of terrorism brought upon her by past leaders trying to cultivate destructive mea-sures of abusing President Goodluck Jonathan and as well undermining his gov-ernment.
Although he did not men-tion former Head of State, General Muhammadu Bu-hari , who had warned that to rig election in 2015 was to call for disaster,
Moro said ungodly utterances were already dividing Nigeria along ethnic and political lines thereby causing dis-unity.
Urging Nigerians to rise up against  “evil act”, the minister said: “We have no other country but Nigeria to call our own, so we cannot sit on the fence and expect some other persons to pro-tect us.
We must fight to se-cure Nigeria for Nigerians and defeat this evil called terrorism.
It is obvious that government alone cannot fight this fight, we cannot continue to watch our na-tional assets and infrastruc-ture that have been put in place over the years being wantonly destroyed by these evil-misguided people in our midst.
“It is time to hold these past leaders who have served the country in various capacities such as ministers, heads of states among other sensitive posi-tions accountable for terror-ism and other dastardly acts that had claimed innocent lives in the country”.
Meanwhile, the govern-ment also dis-closed that it has repatriated about 4, 214 foreigners from the country within the last three months. He also disclosed that government has refused about 16, 998 foreigners’ en-try into Nigeria.
The action followed a February 26 directive by the federal government in which it ordered the immediate eas-ing out of all illegal immi-grants from the country.
Mr.  Moro disclosed that while there were 34 stow-aways within the period, 335 foreigners were also deport-ed from Nigeria.
According to him, the Ni-geria Immigration Service watch-listed 1, 247 persons even as the service restrict-ed about 3, 298 Nigerians from travelling abroad for allegedly possessing doubt-ful travel documents.
The minister also added that although the ministry did not have the mandate to generate revenue for the government, it had been able to rake billions into fed-eral government coffers.