Katsina State Governor,
Aminu Masari, says security situation in Nigeria has improved since President
Muhammadu Buhari came to power in 2015.
Masari stated this while featuring on Channels Television’s
‘Politics Today’ programme. Slamming critics of the Buhari-led administration,
the Chairman of the North-West Governors’ Forum stressed that Nigeria is
economically attractive to kidnappers in the Sahel region of Africa.
“Look at 2015 for instance, you could not go to the church,
you cannot go to the mosque. If I travelled from Kaduna to Abuja, it would take
five hours and three of those hours were for checkpoints.
There were at least 30 checkpoints along the
highway.
Is the situation the same today? It is not. Yes, there are
kidnappers, there are bandits around but look at the whole world and look at
the position of Nigeria in the Sahelian region. Are we not the richest? So, the
attraction even for kidnappers to come to Nigeria is there. If you kidnap
somebody in Mali, where are you going to get thousands? If I kidnap you in
Nigeria, I get millions. So, all of us will have to rise to the occasion,” he
said.
