Tinubu’s Armed Forest Guards Is A Bold Initiative To Fight Terrorism – Group

The Gravitas Group for Good Governance has given kudos to President Bola Tinubu for his radical and bold initiative to end banditry, kidnapping and all acts of domestic terrorism in the country.

The group’s convener, High Chief Tola Adeniyi, and its general secretary, Professor Anthony Kila, in a statement at the weekend in Ibadan, described the creation of armed forest guards as a bold initiative to end acts of terrorism.

While noting that this development had received tremendous applause from across the country, the group said for several years, especially in the last one and a half decades, Nigerian forests had provided hiding fortresses for all shades and categories of criminal elements who had been terrorising Nigerian citizens.

“Paradoxically, most of these terrorists were imported into the country by the so-called leaders who swore to defend the populace.

“The Group believes that Nigerians will now begin to trust and believe their leaders for living up to their basic responsibilities.

“This initiative of armed Forest Guards is perhaps the most critical policy the Tinubu administration has taken since its inception, especially on matters very close to the people’s heart.

“Nigerians in all regions of the country, from the North, South, East and West, have always believed that Insecurity is the greatest challenge confronting the nation.

“It is insecurity which drove our farmers off their farms, investors, and foreign companies out of the country.

“Insecurity singularly strangled the country’s food security and gave Nigeria its triple-digit inflation in foodstuffs prices.’’

“Bandits and barefaced terrorists have sent many people early to their graves, many to Internally Displaced Camps, while the tribes of widows and orphans have grown into frightening proportions.”