The International World Is ‘Supporting’ Nigeria’s Insecurity – Lai Mohammed

The Federal Government has appealed to the world powers to ignore various allegations in the media and not deny the country of weapons to fight insecurity.

The appeal was made by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed today, while fielding questions from reporters at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja.

He said “I want to use this opportunity to say that the international community can help us better than they are doing right now.

“To fight terrorists we need platforms and weapons.

“When the international community is weighed by unsubstantiated arguments to deny the country of vital platforms and weapons to fight insucurity, you cannot turn round to accuse the  country of not fighting terrorism,’ he said.

Mohammed said the situation is so bad that world powers have refused to even sell certain vital weapons to Nigeria.

He further noted that some of the vital weapons have been paid for two or three years ago, but they haven’t been released.

“I think our appeal to them is that they should please help Nigeria to provide us with these sensitive platforms so that we can fight insecurity more effectively“.

The minister further called on Nigerians to do a comparison of the insecurity situation back in 2015, with the progress that has been made now.

He said to better appreciate what the Prseident Muhammadu Buhari’s government is doing in the area of security, they should take a global survey to understand that unrest, terrorism and mindless violence cut accross the globe.

“People should recognise the fact that today, people have weaponised the issues of religion and ethnicity.

“We are dealing with extremely unreasonable people, whether in the northwest or in the northeast.

“They should not forget that we are fighting non conventional war and at the same time, these people have contacts everywhere,” he said.