Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, Garba Shehu has correct the lies contained in the article: “What is Nigeria’s Government For,” by David Piling in the Financial Times of UK on January 31, 2022.
In a Letter to the editor of the newspaper, the Presidential spokesman said that the caricature of a government sleepwalking into disaster What is Nigeria’s government for, was predictable “from a correspondent who jets briefly in and out of Nigeria on the same British Airways flight he so criticises.
He recalled how the reporter highlighted rising banditry in Nigeria as proof of such slumber.
He said that what the reporter left out are the security gains made over two Presidential terms.
According to Garba Shehu, the terror organisation, Boko Haram, used to administer an area the size of Belgium at inauguration but that now, they control no territory.
“The first comprehensive plan to deal with decades-old clashes between nomadic herders and sedentary farmers–experienced across the width of the Sahel–has been introduced: pilot ranches are reducing the competition for water and land that drove past tensions.
“Banditry grew out of such clashes. Criminal gangs took advantage of the instability, flush with guns that flooded the region following the Western-triggered implosion of Libya.
“The situation is grave.
“Yet as with other challenges, it is one that the government will face down.”
