Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, has said President Bola Tinubu’s counter-terrorism measures are inadequate.
According to him, the government’s inadequate
counter-terrorism framework is the reason for persistent attacks across the
country.
He disclosed this in a statement by his spokesperson, Prank
Shaibu on Thursday.
Recall that in the last months, insecurity attacks have
persisted nationwide.
Several pupils and teachers in Oyo and Borno states were
abducted by suspected bandits in May.
While the Nigerian government and security agencies had
assured citizens of efforts to tackle insecurity, the menace had continued.
Reacting, Atiku stressed that Nigeria’s current
counterterrorism framework is failing to evolve as rapidly as the threats it
was designed to defeat.
“The terrorists are learning from every attack. They study
their successes and failures. They refine their tactics. They identify
vulnerabilities. They adapt and strike again.
“The question Nigerians must ask is simple: Why isn’t the
government doing the same?
“From Chibok to Oyo, from countless villages in the
North-West to communities across the Middle Belt and beyond, the pattern has
become tragically familiar. An attack occurs. The nation mourns. Promises are
made. Committees are announced. Then another attack follows.
“A nation that refuses to learn from its tragedies is
condemned to relive them.
“The disturbing expansion of banditry, terrorism, and
kidnapping across different parts of the country clearly demonstrates that our
current counterterrorism framework is no longer adequate for the scale and
complexity of the challenge before us,” Atiku said.
He argued that one of the greatest failures of the current
approach by the Nigerian government is the inability of government institutions
to systematically harvest lessons from previous attacks and deploy them as
preventive tools against future occurrences.
“It is now imperative that the federal government
immediately initiates a comprehensive review of Nigeria’s national
counterterrorism policy.
“Such a review must be rooted in Nigeria’s own experiences,
drawing lessons from communities that have suffered attacks and developing
context-specific, adaptive, and community-driven solutions rather than
depending largely on foreign templates,” he stated.
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