Former Nigerian military Leader, General Ibrahim Gbadamosi Babangida (rtd) has condemned the attempt to link him with the spate of bomb blasts in parts of the country, describing it as cheap blackmail.
According to a statement signed by Babangida’s spokesman, Kassim Afegbua, the former leader was seriously concerned with the bombings that had claimed several lives and wanted the government to squarely address the problems through convocation of summit of stakeholders on security to identify new methods of tackling the problem.
While urging the government not to play politics with the dangerous trend, he noted that the development should be attributed to failure of governance rather than engaging in buck passing. The retired general, while commiserating with the families of those who lost their lives in the dastardly acts, prayed that God would grant the souls of the departed ones eternal rest.
The statement urged the government to take adequate measures to rally round all stakeholders with a view to finding a lasting solution to the festering crime, noting that it had given the nation a bad image and made her the attraction of the world for negative reasons. The statement reads in parts: “The loss of innocent souls and helpless citizens of this great country should worry all of us. It should bother all of us to see Nigerians being slaughtered in such wanton manner as if we were in a war situation.
It is barbaric, reprehensible, condemnable, brutish and callous by every standard. It is a disturbing trend that must be given all the needed attention both by government and the citizenry to arrest the trend. It does not call for name-calling, buck-passing and blackmail. It is not an issue to play politics with. It is a collective responsibility. It requires the attention and participation of all to assist in getting the relevant information at the right time and use such intelligence information to achieve the desirable result of checkmating this growing insensitivity.
I wishes to use this medium to remind Nigerians that i served and invested so much in the growth and development of the land and it would be unthinkable to link me to any act(s) that would tend to undermine constituted authority in Nigeria. Babangida added
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