The Federal government has been criticized over recent terrorists’ attacks on railway and airport in Kaduna State, especially its alleged failure to address worsening insecurity in the country.
The National Publicity Secretary of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),
Debo Ologunagba, on Wednesday alleged that the Federal government has conceded the country to terrorists.
The party made the allegation in the wake of the ambush on a train along the Abuja-Kaduna route by terrorists, who killed and maimed some passengers, abducted several others, in an operation it claimed lasted over an hour, on Monday.
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“In 2021, over 10,366 Nigerians were killed by terrorists, with over 2,900 abductions in countless terrorism related attacks in which no fewer than 964 security agents were killed, as revealed by SB Morgen (SBM) Intelligence Report published in The Guardian Newspaper of Thursday, January 3, 2022.
“Those killed in 2021 represents a scary 47% increase in the 7063 massacred by terrorists in 2020.
“More alarming is that the killing spree has continued in 2022 unabated. More than 536 Nigerians have been killed by terrorists since the beginning of this year. In the first three weeks of January 2022, about 486 Nigerians were killed by terrorists as reported in Premium Times of Sunday, January 23, 2022.
“Again, only last week, 50 innocent Nigerians were reportedly hacked to death by terrorists in the same Kaduna State!
“This is beside the hundreds of Nigerians, including students who were abducted by terrorists with many of them still languishing in their abductors’ den.
“How many more Nigerians can our nation afford to lose because of the recklessness and arrogance in failure of the APC? Nigeria bleeds, families are hurting, parents mourn and agonize, yet the APC government is on vacation,” the statement said.