School Attack Turns Buhari’s Private Visit To Hell

By Chuks Ekpeneru

Reminiscent of terrorists’ attacks on Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State in 2014 and another attack on Government Girls’ Science and Technical College, Dapchi, in Yobe State, in 2018, criminals on Friday attacked Government Science Secondary School, Kankara in Katsina State taking some students along with them.

The attack came a few hours after President Muhammadu Buhari arrived the state for a week long private visit.

When the Chibok girls where abducted, Buhari, then in the opposition blamed the Goodluck Jonathan administration for poor response.

According to him “We believe that there is faulty intelligence and analysis. They ought to know [the location of] the Chibok girls, who have been abducted for more than 10 months now.”

Buhari further claimed that if he were elected in the closely contested presidential elections on 28 March, 2015 which he eventually won, that “the world will have no cause to worry about Nigeria. It will be able to help itself”.

Five years later, the world may have a lot to worry about as the security situation seems to have grown from bad to worse.

This led the Peace advocacy group, Coalition for Peace and National Security, CPNS, to described the Kankara school attack as unacceptable and cowardly.

CPNS said “This latest development is a yet another confirmation that the country is porous without security and given this bad situation, we wish to without any hesitation join the clarion call on our dear President Mohammadu Buhari, to immediately rejig the nation’s security architecture beginning with the sack of service chiefs who apart from overstaying in office, have become exhausted to face the increasingly worsening security situation of our country.”

“The president should at this moment be more concerned about the security of Nigerians who he swore an oath to protect  by listening to the the increasing calls by well meaning Nigerians including the National Assembly that he changes the service chiefs and completely overhaul the security architecture for efficiency.

“We call on him to be more concerned about this than regime protection as everyone has embraced democracy with no one reasoning along that line anymore.

“Many people have been mauled down unjustly with unquantifiable number of public and private assets destroyed in the past few months and this development should be a thing of great concern to a president that swore a sacred oath to protect his people and the country.”

As it is, if the President intended to relocate home to rest, he may well have not only been denied that, but faces a Herculean task of telling Nigerians that he is fit to defend not just his state but the entire country.

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