by Rachel Ogbu

Former President and leader of Congress for Progressive Change, Muhammadu Buhari has blamed President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration for the poor handling of the insecurity in the country.

Buhari reportedly said that security problems were not only in the North but that Boko Haram sect in the North and the militants in the South-South were about the same thing.

According to reports, Buhari who was speaking on the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, in London on Monday said: “The problem of terrorism is not confined to the North alone. Insecurity generally should be blamed on the Federal Government.

“The world is very much concerned about two things — the issue of security and economic wellbeing of a nation. Security is number one. A nation can only be economically viable if there is security. But how did all these crises start? How did the crises begin and assume this dimension?”

“Up until now, every day, they abduct people and receive ransoms. How was the problem reduced? How did it start? What method was employed to convince them to mellow down?”

“Similarly what we should look at is, how did the Boko Haram start? We know all these. Security is the responsibility of the government.

“It is the responsibility of the Federal Government to know how this thing started and how to go about it. First and foremost, security is the responsibility of the government; they should know how this thing came about.”