Aisha Yesufu, a human rights activist, says the words of President Muhammadu Buhari “mean nothing”.
Reacting to the abduction of the students of Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, Zamfara State, Yesufu said the primary responsibility of government is to protect lives.
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In a strongly worded statement on Friday night, Buhari had warned bandits that he would not succumb to threats and blackmail.
He had also said that his government had the capacity to deal with them but has not taken drastic action to avoid a situation where captives are used as shields.
But when she featured on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme, on Friday, Yesufu said Nigerians are used to a president “whose words are meaningless”.
“What I make of the statement is absolutely nothing. We are used to a president whose words mean nothing. He says one thing, and another thing happens.”
“The body language of President Muhammadu Buhari enables the terrorists. They know that we have an ineffective President and Commander-In-Chief, we have an incompetent one a clueless one, who does not even bother about what is happening in the country.
“Yesterday we buried seven military officers, the best that we have, the nation was in mourning and the President was a few minutes away from where they were and the president didn’t even turn up, what does that signify? It Is high time we began to make serious demands on the president.
“It is not in our place to give the way forward. His salaries are being paid for it, his needs are being taken care of. He was voted to give the way forward,” she said.
Yesufu was a strong member of the #Bring Back Our Girls Movement, which was on the frontline of the campaign for the release of students abducted from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, in 2014.
Up till dates, some of the students are still in captivity.
