A former Governor of Sokoto state, Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa, has expressed his disappointment over President Muhammadu Buhari’s failure to visit and condole with the people of the state following the burning of travellers by bandits.
In an interview with BBC Hausa service on Saturday, Bafarawa said Buhari had failed to address the growing insecurity and killings in Sokoto, Zamfara and Katsina states.
“The way the lives of our people are being treated as worthless is the most disturbing thing. See the lives lost just within the last four to five days. People were burnt in a vehicle after they were shot, but President Muhammadu Buhari went to Lagos for a Book launch. A book that is neither the Qur’an or the Bible. It is just a Biography,” Bafarawa said.
“We only depend on God for protection. It is only on God that we depend for his protection, not anybody. We are sad and disappointed with the way Buhari’s administration is treating our region.
“I was a governor for eight years and I know the responsibilities placed on me. Whenever a governor or a president is sworn in, he swears with the Qur’an or the Bible that he will protect the lives and properties of the people. Nobody says that the people will be responsible for the protection of their lives and properties.
“The leader who swore that, he can do it, by going to the people in their villages and houses and asked them to vote for him, must fulfil that promise. The saying that, security is everybody’s business is true, but the onus rests with the leader, like President Muhammadu Buhari who swore with the Qur’an to protect their lives.”
The carnage is most unfortunate in its fury and frequency. But we have an insensitive government, so ineffectual, so clueless shifting the responsibility for protection of the people on the people themselves. Only God can help this country. the bandits, terrorists enjoyed a p[prolonged season of impunity because they were Fulani from foreign countries. Of course, even a Nigerian Fulani federal MP did revealed that to the Fulani, the herders, regard cattle lives as being more precious and worthier of protection than human lives. Where are we heading to.