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•‘How El-Rufai left Kaduna more divided’ •Says Atiku, Obi saved ‘us a lot of headaches’ •Tinubu is not a magician’General Zamani Lekwot , a former Military Governor of Rivers State, is the Chairman of Southern Kaduna Elders Forum. Lekwot is also the Chairman of Middle Belt Elders Forum. In this interview, he speaks on the Southern Kaduna crisis and how the actions of former Governor Nasir El-Rufai appeared to have fuelled it.
In the end, he left the state more divided on tribal and religious lines. I said somewhere in a recent interview that in Southern Kaduna, many family compounds have both Muslims and Christians and, in some instances, traditional religion people. We have no problem at all.
This is what we should do. We borrowed the presidential system from there, but, unfortunately, we are not using the modalities. They have three types of police – Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, state and county. Here, we have only the federal police command and they are few on the ground and lack equipment and so on and so forth. The states should be allowed to rearrange their security setup. If we had state police in place today, the level of banditry would not have reached where it is.
You said security in Southern Kaduna has improved and killings reduced. Can you give us details of how this happened? One can guess that the situation cannot get worse if the current measures the President and his team have embarked upon are sustained. The appeal to citizens to also participate makes sense because most of the havoc is taking place in the rural areas and we know that because of the size of the country and that of equipment, security people cannot be everywhere.
You said something about the refineries. Past governments kept injecting money into the refurbishing of the refineries but nothing is yet to happen. Nigerians are afraid that by December petrol price may hit N1000/liter or more, and these are the same people earning the same salary and the palliatives are not making any sense in some cases. Many people think that subsidies should be reintroduced.
Only the learned people, lawyers can explain the merits and demerits of what had happened. But what commonsense tells me is that the good side of the Supreme Court judgment is that the game of waiting and uncertainties that we witnessed is gone. As a layman and a senior citizen, what we should focus on now is to support the government to retrieve Nigeria from the present quagmire.
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