Nigeria’s Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has assured Nigerians that the insecurity ravaging the country will come to an end by December.
The minister who gave the assurance in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja said that President Muhammadu Buhari has promised that before his tenure will be over in 2023, he will curtail and effectively address the security challenges in the country.
According to Aregbesola, Buhari has given security forces a December deadline to restore order and stability in all parts of the country.
“He gave the deadline for the total elimination of such threats to the security of lives and property by December.
“I believe that nobody is resting in all the arms of government with the mandate of maintaining law and order, guaranteeing security and eliminating threats.
“We are at it, and in the first instance, we must ask ourselves, governance is about ensuring the security of lives and properties.
“We will eliminate all insecurity issues by December.
“If you look at the state of affairs in Nigeria, I’ll tell you that a whole lot of progress had been made over the years,” he said.
Aregbesola claimed that before 2015, there were bomb explosions everywhere, but that Buhari’s administration has brought such to an end.
He said, “There was a time when the northeastern part of the country was a daily record of one dastardly act or the other and the entire region was under siege by the insurgents.
“To God be the glory, that today it is no longer there and lives had since returned to the region, that people even want to forget that there was a theatre of blood-chilling insurgency.”
The minister blamed the spread of banditry and kidnapping on the dislodgement of terrorists in the North-East region.
“Militancy in the southeastern part of the country, and South-South, cultism, in the South West; but by and large, we have tamed considerably the level, the incidences and the threats to lives and property in Nigeria.
“However, we could do better, no doubt, and that is why the President has given us all in the security arm of the government the deadline.
“We are all now up on our heels and toes addressing such threats vigorously and I can assure us all that we will get there.
“Nigerians will definitely heave a sigh of relief at the end of the day,” he said.
sahara reporters
