The Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of being too slow in tackling insecurity in the nation.
Spokesman of the NEF, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, lamented that Nigeria is currently falling apart due to insecurity challenges.
He pointed out that banditry and kidnapping, which didn’t exist two, three years ago, has now become a menace.
Appearing on Arise Television, the NEF spokesman averred that Nigerians have gotten extra insecure every day.
Baba-Ahmed stressed that the spate of insecurity within the nation was responsible for the continued secession moves.
He stated: “If I have an opportunity to talk with the president, I will say: ‘Sir, please wake up and smell the coffee, this nation is falling apart.
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“It is in very serious danger, it’s going down under your watch. You swore in 2015 and again in 2019 that you will defend the citizens and Nigeria’s territorial integrity. Sorry, sir, you aren’t doing that, doing it well, or you are not doing it at all.
“Why are we being so insecure? Why is it not possible for Nigerians to deal with banditry, kidnappings
“You are too sluggish, and people are smelling a vacuum around your authorities and that is why you see people saying we don’t want to be part of Nigeria.”
Nigerians are at present battling with the problem of Kidnapping and banditry.
Several students and residents in some parts of the North have been kidnapped and later released in some Northern states.
Amid these insecurity challenges, the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore had blamed state governors for banditry within the North.
The group had claimed that pressures from governors turned some herdsmen into bandits.
It said that the strain had made some herders lose their cattle and businesses, hence resorting to banditry
