Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has kicked against negotiations with bandits, rather the Federal Government must be decisive and and seek international assistance in dealing with insecurity.
Obasanjo, stated this at the Plateau State Unity Christmas Carol and Praise Festival held in Jos, the state capital, on Friday, where he told the Federal Government not to be apologising to and negotiating with terrorists.
The former president lamented over the rising insecurity, saying the country have the right to ask for foreign intervention to cover for what he described as the government’s failure to protect its citizens.
“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.
According to him unlike during his time in office, modern technology has made it easier to flush out terrorists from their hideouts.
He said “before I left the government, I knew we had the capacity to pick up anybody in Nigeria who commits crime anywhere. The capacity we didn’t have then was after identifying and locating such a criminal, we couldn’t apprehend him without moving on land or by air.
“Now we have capacity. With drones, we can sleeve them up. You can take them out. Why are we not doing that? Why are we apologising? Why are we negotiating?”
