Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has backed the call for international intervention in Nigeria to halt the spate of killings and insecurity. He said the government is unable to protect the citizens.
Obasanjo spoke on Friday at the Plateau Unity Christmas and Praise Festival, which held at the 10 Commandments Prayer Altar in Dwei-Du, Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State.
According to him, with the high level of technology and satellite, those perpetrating the killings can be spotted, located, and taken out.
“In this country, one problem we have is the problem of insecurity, and it has been with us. It didn’t begin with this administration and not even the administration before it. The first responsibility of any government is the protection our security of its citizens.
“We are part of the world community, and if our government cannot protect us, we have right to call on the international community to do for us what our government cannot do for us. And for anybody to say because those who are being killed belong to this region, religion or tribe, and others too are being killed cannot be an acceptable excuse. Is that an explanation? I believe that is nonsensical.
“We Nigerians are being killed, no matter the religion you belong to, no matter where you come from and no matter the profession. We Nigerians are being killed, and our government seem to be incapable of protecting us.
“If we are being killed, it is the responsibility of the government to do something about it. Government should stop the killings of Nigerians no matter the religion they belong to, no matter the part of the world they belong to or tribe they belong to. We are being killed and the killing of Nigerians should be stopped.
“So we have the right as Nigerians to appeal to the international community to help us be a government cannot help us, and we should have no apologies for that. Those apologists who are saying they are killing this type of people and that type of people, that is not acceptable and nobody should accept that. We will be irresponsible to be saying that. For me, every Nigerian life that is lost to those criminals, no matter the reasons they give for it, it is a shame for Nigeria. And we should make sure that Nigeria gets out of that,” he said.
