Insecurity: Nigeria Drifting Towards Precipice – Falae

Posted by Nwa Diokpa Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State Monday, September 6th, 2021

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation and former presidential aspirant, Chief Olu Falae, says that the country is already drifting towards precipice because of the rise in insecurity and the state of the economy.

The elder statesman disclosed this while speaking in Akure saying that if the activities of bandits who were already shooting down military jets were not checked on time, they would soon get the boldness to negotiate over territory control.

According to him, the indices prepared by international bodies that Nigeria had become the corruption capital of the world, unemployment capital of the world and underdevelopment capital of the world were signs that things are getting worse.

He said: “We are already at the edge of the cliff. The question is, are they going to topple into the abyss below? Or are we going to find a way of pulling back from the precipice? That is the question.

“For us to pull back, there must be a political initiative that will signal that tomorrow will be better than today. If there is no such signal, I don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow, I don’t know.

“We are almost at the verge of a civil war and yet the government is talking about the routes that cattle will take from somewhere to another place, how to set up colonies for cattle as if cattle is the only business of Nigeria.”