Chairman Senate Committee on Interior, Kashim Shettima has said the Indegenous People of Biafra (IPOB), through its campaign was undermining the economic and communal existence of the people.
Shettima, who chairs the morning session of the one-day round table on state of insecurity in nigeria organised by the 21st Century Chronicle, disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja.
The Senator who was Governor of Borno State from 2007 to 2019, said IPOB was targeting other ethnic groups deliberately ‘in order to extract revenge killings in other parts of the country.
“The highly respected elders and infleuntialpeople seemingly acquiesces in what is going on by their silence or inability to forthrightly call out those imposing a generalised violence disorder in the region.
The senator also expressed worry over insecurity in other parts of Nigeria, saying “the consequences of this broad sweep of insecurity in the country, has led to the overstretching of our security forces, as they endeavour to deal with or cope with these generalised forms of security challenges,
“By 2016, members of the Nigerian Armed Forces were deployed in 30 of the 36 states in internal security operations.
Senator Shettima called for a concerted efforts to tackle the security challenges facing Nigeria, saying there is need “to rethink all the issues in the economy, politics and security, to be able to find the right answers to the problems that confront the lives of the people.
Shettima, however, said the most urgent and more pressing and more long lasting are issues associated with insecurity in our country today which should be dealt with.
