Former President Olusegun
Obasanjo has asked the Federal and State governments to identity the root cause
of insecurity in Nigeria.
Obasanjo admitted there were
problems during his time in government but “not in this magnitude” and believed
solutions could be found to address the challenges.
The former President, who visited
Jos to commiserate with the Governor and people of the State over the recent
killings in the State extended his condolences to the bereaved families.
He said, “I’m here to express my
condolences, what happened is very sad, that in this day and age this type of
barbaric act is taking place in our country. I have suggested and I will say it
again that we should find out the root cause of this problem and deal with it
“There must be remote and
immediate cause, if we deal with it, we are not going to be multiplying
condolence visits.
“I believe that any human problem
has human solution, I do hope and plead with government at the Federal level,
those of you in States and even local government level to join hands even at
the community level to find the causes and deal with them permanently.
“We offer our condolences to the
bereaved families, all we can say is that God knows the best.
“Even in my time, we had problems
but not in this magnitude, we thought we were dealing with them as at that time
but the earlier we deal with it, the better. I believe we can find solution, we
must find solution”, he maintained.
Responding, Governor Lalong
appreciated his coming, but noted that a phone call would have sufficed.
He said, “Insecurity is not new
to me, we thought we could handle it. When we came in, we quickly put up a team
including Berom and Fulani. They came out with a roadmap to proffer solutions,
we adopted the recommendations and have implemented some and was in the process
of implementing the remaining ones.”
“We have done our best, we have
learnt our lessons, we will be very firm”, he stressed.
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