Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, says Nigerians should be thankful for \u201csmall mercies\u201d granted by the Buhari administration in its fight against insecurity.<\/p>\n
Speaking during a Channels TV programme on Sunday, Adesina said the security situation has improved compared to \u201cwhen bombs went off like firecrackers every day\u201d before President Muhammadu Buhari came to power.<\/p>\n
While Buhari promised to bring an end to Nigeria\u2019s security challenges when he was contesting for president, there is still much to be desired in the fight against insecurity.<\/p>\n
Boko Haram insurgents appear to have regained their power with frequent attacks and abductions while a number of villages across the north-west and north-central have been at the mercy of bandits.<\/p>\n
The attackers have gone as far as kidnapping students \u2014 abducting 344 and 80 of them in the last two weeks \u2014 while traditional rulers and politicians have also not been spared.<\/p>\n
Adesina, however, insisted that the security situation has improved under Buhari, asking Nigerians to be patient with the president.<\/p>\n
\u201cPatience must be a continuous thing. There are certain things in which you don\u2019t have control of all the variables. If you don\u2019t have all the variables, you don\u2019t then begin to give timelines,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd security is not one of those things that you will give a timeline to say by this time to this time, we will achieve this. \u201cAll over the world, security is a continuous thing and even the most advanced countries are still working at it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The presidential spokesman said the spate of attacks by Boko Haram insurgents has reduced from about five bombings daily to none in almost two months.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are times, a week, two weeks even a month that you don\u2019t have all these things happening. There was a time in the immediate past when they happened daily several times,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou talked of one bombing within three or four days. There was a time in this country when bombs went off like firecrackers every day.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere could be five, six bombings in one day. Now, you can have two, three months with no single case of bombing. Let\u2019s be thankful for small mercies. Any mercies we receive, let\u2019s be thankful for it, and let\u2019s not dwell on negatives alone.<\/p>\n
\u201cLife is taking the rough and smooth together. So, sometimes we see when things go on for days, for weeks with no negative developments, let us emphasise those ones. We have challenges but these are not the constants in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, says Nigerians should be thankful for \u201csmall mercies\u201d granted by the Buhari administration in its fight against insecurity. Speaking during a Channels TV programme on Sunday, Adesina said the security situation has improved compared to \u201cwhen bombs went off like firecrackers every day\u201d before President Muhammadu Buhari came to power. While […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":122233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,15,2,4],"tags":[22,1672,20554],"yoast_head":"\n