Insecurity Was Worse Under Buhari Than Tinubu – Shehu Sani

Former Senator Shehu Sani has asserted that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu handled northern Nigeria’s insecurity issues better than former President Muhammadu Buhari.

At the 40th anniversary celebration and reunion of the Kagara Old Boys Association, which is made up of former students from Government Science College, Kagara, in the Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, Senator Sani made this declaration. The venue for the occasion was Minna’s Ahmadu Bahago Secondary School.

Sani stressed that if the administration showed sincere commitment, insecurity concerns could be overcome.

Since bandits stormed the school in 2021 and kidnapped multiple pupils, GSS Kagara has been closed.

Commenting on the insecurity situation in the country, he said; “The security challenges would be over in the whole country because what we have now is better than the one we had during the Buhari administration. There is every evidence that many of the top terrorists have been eliminated by our security forces. And if you compare what we are having today to what we had yesterday, it is still the best.

“Under Buhari administration, we had a series of attacks on schools including attacks on Green Field University, Kaduna, Bethel Baptist school, Kaduna, Government Science College, Kagara, Federal Government Girls’ College, Yauri, Federal School of Agricultural Mechanisation, Mando, Government Secondary school, Kankara, Government Secondary school, Jangibe, all under Buhari administration. So, we are hopeful that things will be better.”

Sani stated that, while he supported the temporary relocation of Government Science College, Kagara, as proposed by the Niger State Government, the institution should be returned to Kagara as soon as the security situation in the area improved.

He added; “It is unfortunate that the schools that produced some of the best hands in the history of this country are today the ruins of what they used to be. We must tell ourselves the fundamental truth that as long as we don’t provide education for our young ones, we will be creating a force that we will not be able to contain in future.

“Northern Nigeria must take education seriously; we lag behind in education; we have the highest number of out-of-school children today. The activities of bandits and terrorists have destroyed the educational fabric and basis of northern Nigeria.

“The school we used to call our own has been deserted because bandits have once attacked the school and took hostage students and some teachers.”

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