A presidential aspirant on the platform of the Grassroots Development Party of Nigeria, Mr. Davidson Isibor Akhimien, has said that the cause of insecurity in the country is the pervasive injustice in the land.
Akhimien, while speaking with our correspondent in Abuja, said much of the insecurity being experienced across the country today today would not have occurred if not for the pervasiveness of injustice.
He argued that wherever there was injustice even the best of security measures would not be effective.
The presidential aspirant said the President Muhammadu Buhari administration was not applying the right approach to the fight against insecurity saying, “One of the problems we have as a nation is that we are not able to look at the fundamentals of
problems.
“You see, our approach to the security threat has always been a wrong approach. As a government, we need to be proactive. When GDPN comes to power in 2019, our approach to security issues will always be proactive.
“We have been doing reacting after the fact approach to insecurity. Some of the foundation of insecurity problem in Nigeria stems from what we call pervasive injustice in the land.”
Akhimien, who is a security expert, added, “When I get to power in 2019, I am going to have a double pronged approach to insecurity. The first is to ensure justice and equity in the land. We are going to look at the fundamental problems. There is what we call structural conflict; we are going to look at causes of structural conflicts from the foundational stage. By the time we are able to close those rifts, we would have done fifty per cent of the job. Then, we will now be doing the direct approach, which would probably be deploying of forces. When we do this, the security problem will die a natural
death.”
He said the fight against corruption should be sustained, adding that it should go beyond what obtained now by adopting the holistic approach to combat the scourge.
”Our society needs complete reorientation. The highest common factor in Nigeria is corruption. Primitive accumulation on the part of our politicians is on the high side. You can’t even begin to fathom how a human being can go away with public funds of such magnitude. It is crazy,” he said.
Akhimien also said, “it is a misnomer of sort that a country like ours, which is so highly endowed in natural resources, even in human resources, a country that has been the sixth largest producer of oil since 1958 and almost still so; a country that had earned more money in terms of revenue than most of the African countries put together, will be referred to as World’s Poverty Capital.
