By Ismail Auwal
President Muhammadu Buhari came to power promising to defeat the Boko Haram insurgency and end the insecurity in Nigeria’s restless northeastern region.
Six years after Nigerians elected in Buhari as the president of the country; armed banditry, massive abductions, ethnic unrest have all added to the bedeviling Boko Haram insurgency.
Multiple school abductions have occurred in the past few months across Katsina, Zamfara, Niger and most recently, tertiary students were abducted from Greenfield University in Kaduna.
This and many other threats across the country have questioned the president’s national security credentials who, in May 2012, blamed the past administration for being “Boko Haram itself.”
President Muhammed Buhari, a retired military general, said the biggest Boko Haram, which was killing the Nigerian masses, was the Federal Government due to its bad policies.
“The biggest Boko Haram is the government itself because it has all the power to stop anarchy, political and otherwise in the country.
Now the substantial part of the country is becoming paralyzed, economic activities have stopped, people are no longer thinking of employment, there are thinking of what to eat, and how to survive the following day,” he once said.
Buhari, then flayed jonathan’s administration for failing to do “the basics that all government supposed to do” despite having the military and all the resources available at the government’s disposal.
