Presidency Blames Europe For Worsening Insecurity

By Ayodele Oluwafemi

The Presidency has attributed the worsening state of insecurity to the dumping of arms in Libya by European nations, noting that the Armed Forces are working hard to salvage the situation.

The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, made this known, on Monday, on  NTA’s ‘Good Morning Nigeria’ programme while reacting to calls for the removal of the security service chiefs.

Shehu noted that the breakthrough achieved against the Boko Haram insurgency was undermined by the Libyan crisis.

In his words, “Our Armed Forces are doing an enormously good job, they are not sitting on their laurels but the challenges have mounted because of factors extraneous to the region and Nigerians should have an appreciation and be sympathetic and see that all of the things about the collapse of Libya is no fairytale.

“Europeans for their competing interests in Libya were dropping weapons into villages in Libya. A lot of these elements have found their way into ungoverned spaces in the Sahel.

“Could it be better with the sacking of the service chiefs? My sense is that the President as the commander-in-chief is not a novice in the first instance.

“He was a military commander, a military head of state and the latitude of opinions intellectual, security, military available to him is not available to most of the critics.

“So, it is wrong of them to interlope in a way and begin to speak on matters of which they do not have the competence to pass judgment. I hope I don’t seem arrogant but I am stating facts as they are.”

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