BBOG Is Unfair To PMB, Says Varsity Don

By Andy Asemota

— Aug 29, 2016 4:16 pm | Leave a comment

Al-Qalam University Katsina don, Professor Sani Abubakar Lugga, is angry with Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group over what he described as condemnable failure of the group to appreciate the successes recorded by the Nigerian military President Muhammadu Buhari’s watch.

Lugga, in a statement entitled: “Time to Appreciate the Nigerian Military,” said it is an irony that while the parents of abducted girls appreciate the government and the Nigerian Armed Forces but “some self styled crusaders for the release of the girls condemn them.”

The varsity don, who is also the Wazirin of Katsina, reasoned that since the parents of the abducted Chibok girls said they would not participate in any protect or public condemnation of the Federal Government or the Nigerian military in appreciation of the nation’s efforts so far, the protest of BBOG to Presidential Villa was unwarranted by the facts of the achievements of the present administration in defeating insurgency.

“They deliberately failed to see that the military has rescued over 3,000 young girls from the enclaves of the insurgents over the past one year. They only needed to visit Dalori Camp 2 in the outskirts of Maiduguri to see over 1,500 girls, of between the ages of 16 and 20 rescued by the military. There are other hundreds of such girls in Bama Town Camp and in several other camps in the North East and in Abuja,” Lugga stated.

He insisted that it was unfair for some people to fail to understand and appreciate the gains made in the security sector by the incumbent administration against all odd to save Nigeria and her citizens from the clutches of insurgency.

The Wazirin Katsina said the insurgency that held sway for about six years (2009-2015) and resulted in the deaths of over 50, 000 people and the destruction of public and private property worth trillion of Naira is today routed to almost zero level within just a year.

He admonished those leading the two year old BBOG campaign, to give due recognition where due recognition is due, saying “It is time Nigerians and the international community appreciated the Nigerian Army and other security forces for their wonderful performance.”