A Former CEO of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Professor Usman Yusuf has expressed concern about the security situation, highlighting the contrast between current leaders and those in the past....CONTINUE READING THE FULL ARTICLE>>>
He emphasized the inability of former military Chief of Army Staff and political figures to return to their ancestral homes without extensive security measures.
He drew a parallel with the late President Shehu Shagari, who could freely access his Sokoto home without such security arrangements. He raised alarm about the prevailing insecurity, attributing the situation to the negligence of addressing issues at the grassroots level and poverty.
He said in an interview with Daily Trust TV, ”You finish as Chief of Army Staff and you can’t go back to your ancestral home to spend the weekend without those big guns security.
This is not how leaders in the past lived. Late President Shehu Shagari went back to Sokoto and you could access his home from the main road. You could go in and see him. Even former President Muhammadu Buhari cannot stay in Daura without those big guns.
You finish all your Abuja trip and you cannot go back home. And that is why everybody is in Abuja as an IDP. All of us carried the pregnancy and gave birth to these monsters we call insecurity.
Now Abuja is not safe, everybody is sweating under the collar because it’s closing in on the seat of power. If you ignore the grassroots and leave the poverty, do you think it’s going to remain there? No, it will get to you. And this is not surprising for me, it’s going to get worse if we don’t take care of this…CONTINUE READING>>
