‘For Nigerians to Carry Weapons Around, is Anarchy’- Lawal Batagarawa

Ahead of the 2023 general elections in Nigeria, terrorism seems to be on a rise in Nigeria.

The recent terrorist attacks along Abuja-Kaduna rail services which resulted into the killing of passengers on board – including a director with the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Abdu Isa Kofa Mata, and the Secretary-General of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) of Nigeria, Barrister Musa-Lawal Ozigi, has once again opened up the discourse on Nigeria’s insecurity challenges.

Despite the order of Nigeria’s president and commander-in-chief, Muhammadu Buhari, to service chiefs to deal with the terrorists ruthlessly – the terrorists’ responded to the president’s order by ambushing another passenger train along the beleaguered Abuja-Kaduna track, as the train was returning to Abuja from Kaduna.

According to Rotimi Amaechi, the minister of transportation in Nigeria, the attack would have been foiled if government had procured N3 billion high-capacity rail track cameras and sensors. He said the equipment would eliminate all blind spots on the train corridors across the country.
To discuss the rising terror attacks in Nigeria, especially the northern part of Nigeria, is Lawal Batagarawa, Former Minister of Defence in Olusegun Obasanjo’s Administration.

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