Defence Minister, Gen. Christopher Musa (rtd.), has rated the security performance of President Bola Tinubu’s administration between 65 and 70 per cent as the government marks its third year in office.
Musa spoke during an interview on ARISE News on Friday while assessing the administration’s performance on security.
The minister said terrorism had reduced significantly across the country, adding that many of the current security concerns were now linked to isolated kidnapping incidents despite recent school abductions recorded in some states.
“I’ll give ourselves 65 to 70,” he said when asked to rate the government’s performance, adding that no nation was entirely free from crime.
“Yes. 65 to 70%. No nation is totally free from crime and criminality. I’m sure you are aware that the level of terrorism across the country has actually drastically reduced. Now we have acts of terrorism, and terrorism, like I said, is a social vice, a failure of family values,” he said.
The minister also described kidnapping as a wider societal problem, saying the breakdown of family values had contributed greatly to the crisis.
“We have fathers kidnapping children, children kidnapping each other, brothers kidnapping sisters. It tells you that something is wrong with the family, and we need to look inward to see how we can develop those aspects,” he said.
This comes amid recent cases of school abductions in Borno and Oyo states, where at least 82 pupils were abducted between May 13 and 15 during separate attacks carried out by gunmen in both states.