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“I’m Not Sleeping On Duty, Insecurity Was Worse Under PDP” – Buhari Replies Catholic Bishop

Tobias Sylvester
By Tobias Sylvester
Published: April 23, 2019
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President Muhammadu Buhari has responded to claims by the Catholic Bishop of Yola Diocese, Reverend Stephen Mamza, that he was “sleeping on duty as the Commander-in-Chief.”

Bishop Mamza had on Sunday during Easter homily criticised Buhari for failing to halt insecurity in the country, especially escalating kidnappings, banditry and other violent crimes.

The cleric said that Buhari’s administration does not listen or care about the killings in Zamfara, Benue, Adamawa, Taraba and Southern Kaduna. He said:

“We are really in a dilemma. We (Nigerians) are feeling that we don’t have protection. From all indications, there is nothing being done. There have been calls from all over the country. Look at what is happening in Zamfara State; look at what is happening in Benue periodically, in Nasarawa state and now in Adamawa (Southern Adamawa).

“If there is a government in place then the government should listen to the people and address the security challenges. We have mass burials from time to time and there is no sign the government cares about what is happening.”

But, the Presidency in a statement issued on Monday by Garba Shehu the Senior Special Assistant to the President, disagreed with the bishop, denying that Buhari had been sleeping on duty.

It accused Mamza of not “staying above politics” and also not making “a fair comment” about Buhari.

The Presidency went on to recount what Buhari had done to restore security since assumed duty in 2015, especially in the war against insurgency.

It argued that but for Buhari’s efforts, Yola and other towns in Adamawa and the rest of the North-East would still be under the control of Boko Haram. The statement partly reads:

“There is so much that has changed in the past three to four years in and around Yola, and the Catholic Church in particular that a true assessment would show that, but for the change administration of President Buhari, things would have continued the way they were, or even get worse. These could not have happened if a Commander-in-Chief was asleep.

“Bishop Mamza was and is still a strong member of the Adamawa Peace Initiative, API, composed of religious and community leaders, which did the lovely work housing and feeding 400,000 displaced people from Northern Adamawa and Borno States in 2015. The API also did the extraordinary work of easing tensions between Muslims and Christians during that period and ensured that both groups did not turn on one another based on suspicion.

“As widely reported by the local and international press, in the premises of St. Theresa’s Cathedral where Rev Mamza ministered, there were more than 1,500 IDPs, mostly women and children on whom the church administered food rations and issued bags of maize, cooking oil and seasoning. We are truly touched and very grateful for the work that the Bishop and the others had done in that difficult period.

“Now that Boko Haram has been degraded, the more than 400,000 displaced people absorbed by the Adamawa community have all gone back to Borno state and to those council areas in northern Adamawa.

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