FuLfil Your Promise To Protect Nigerians, Group Tells Defence Minister

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has described the fresh attacks in Borno State as worrisome and called on the minister of Defence, Gen. Christopher Gwabin Musa, to make good his promise to protect Nigerians.

MURIC’s executive director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, in a statement yesterday, noted the different explosions rocked Maiduguri yesterday, killing 23 people and injuring more than 100.

According to the group, the coordinated explosions occurred almost simultaneously on Monday, in three different locations.

“One exploded at the entrance of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital. The other two exploded at local markets: Post Office Market and Monday Market.

“This is quite worrisome. The toll is too high, and the level of coordination is highly challenging. But what is most baffling is the roller-coaster stance of the Nigerian security agencies in Borno State, which at one time shows positive progress and at another, regression.

“Nigerians are dying in large numbers. We care about all Nigerians in general, but in particular, the Muslim Rights Concern is concerned that Muslims are the ones being killed in the North East and North West. The North is being decimated. Something must be done and quickly, too.

‎”The timing of these sophisticated attacks appears to have been calculated to embarrass President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

“The demonic terrorists seem to be calling the attention of Nigerians, nay the global community, to the case of the president of more than 220 million Nigerians going on a state visit to the United Kingdom when his people are being slaughtered in droves”, it said.

MURIC charged the Minister of Defence, General Christopher Gwabin Musa, to make good his promise to protect Nigerians, saying, “Life has become very cheap under his watch. Nigerians are not safe.

‎‎”The death toll is rising. Whole communities are being carted away into kidnappers’ dens in large numbers. Yet he promised to protect all Nigerians at his swearing-in a few months ago, no matter what it takes.

‎‎”The clock is ticking. Nigerians deserve to live and work without fear. They deserve to sleep with two eyes closed. The Defence Minister must walk the walk. Our hearts bleed. Enough is enough,” the group added.