“The security chiefs should be changed, so that other people can do it better, irrespective of whether they are Christians or Muslims.” BokoHaram Nigeria
of the country and called on President Muhammadu Buhari to overhaul the national security architecture and bring on board, new people that can do the job better.
Speaking with The Guardian yesterday in Abuja, Onaiyekan noted that Boko Haram would continue to thrive and jump around as long as they are not properly tackled, insisting that the federal government has a duty to ensure Nigeria is safe, and there is no excuse for failure. According the cleric: “Boko Haram has never really stopped; they have been active, committing atrocities in the Northeast, but because people involved are not well known, we don’t read such things.
Onaiyekan observed that Christians have complained that the body language of the President has repeatedly given impressions that he has a strong bias for Islam against Christianity, especially in terms of appointments into the sensitive positions in the area of state security. “The question is: Who is doing the deradicalisation? Are they trained psychiatrics, psychologists or Imams? How many people are involved? The Boko Haram is killing in the open and anything that the government is doing with them should be made open because this thing concerns all of us. And one thing is that some people are smiling to the bank every month because of these operations.”
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