Invasion Of Kaduna Airport By Bandits, Serious Slap On Security In Nigeria – Afenifere

By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
Pan Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, on Sunday, alerted that the invasion of Kaduna International Airport by suspected terrorists on Saturday was a serious indication of how bad the security situation in Nigeria has gotten.
The body raised the alarm in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi made available to journalists in Ibadan
According to Afenifere, what happened in Kaduna on the very day the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was having its national congress in Abuja was a warning that some people seem to be bent on re-enacting the Afghanistan situation in Nigeria.
Afenifere stated that ” with terrorists having the audacity to attack a national airport despite all the available security apparatus, it means that hardly is anywhere safe any longer in the country”. 
The Pan Yoruba Socio political organisation asked the federal government to ” immediately allow states to set up their own police forces, empower the existing security agencies and stop treating terrorists with kid gloves.” 
Afenifere pointed out that ” these must be done immediately so that Nigeria does not go the Afghanistan way”, adding, ” it is a matter of serious concern that these security infractions happened at a time that government kept assuring us that it was on top of the situation”.
The Pan Yoruba group then charged all those who believe in freedom, peaceful co-existence, personal liberty, true knowledge and progress in the country to rise up with a view to ensuring that those who should act do so immediately.
Stressing that some of these attacks by terrorists even occurred in broad daylight, that of Kaduna airport and that of Enugu for instance”, Afenifere said , ” it  is common knowledge that the root cause of the recorded crises of nationhood we experience in Nigeria is as a result of ignorance which can only be through the provision of education”.
While lauding President Muhammadu Buharu for acknowledging that challenges of nationhood that the country is facing can be traced to lack of proper education, Afenifere tasked the government headed by him what it is doing about said problem.
“It is on record that the education sector suffers the most under this administration. At no time in the history of the country had education been battered as much as it is under this government. In February, the Ministers of Education and Labour, Adamu Adamu and Chris Ngige, visited President Buhari in a London hospital to wish him quick recovery. The visit occurred at a time that University lecturers were on strike. There was no report that the education crisis that was hot then and now was discussed – let alone resolved during the visit.