Says can’t confirm casualties at Lekki tollgate shootings
By Iyobosa Uwugiaren and Micheal Olugbode
Britain has expressed grave concern about what it described as the deteriorating security situation in Nigeria and pledged to help the country tackle insecurity.
The UK’s Minister of Armed Forces, James Heappey, and the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, expressed worry at the deteriorating security situation in the country, adding that London was keen on helping Nigeria win its fight against insecurity.
They spoke at different fora during engagements in Abuja between Monday and yesterday.
Britain’s pledge to help Nigeria combat insecurity came just as the United States, in a report released yesterday excoriated Nigeria over its human rights records but said it could not confirm the accurate figures of causalities during the shootings at Lekki Tollgate last year.
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JESUSEGUN ALAGBE his views on calls for either the resignation or impeachment of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), due to the lingering security challenges across the country
To
say that Nigeria is battling with widespread insecurity is to state the obvious. In your years of military experience, has it ever been this bad?
You see, I do not believe that Nigeria is in a state of insecurity because nobody is invading Nigeria. There is no foreign country or enemy or other forces that are invading the country. What we have is a problem of safety. What do I mean by this? When you read notices from embassies, they say Nigeria is not safe; they don’t say Nigeria is not secure. This is because our boundaries are safe. The people terrorising Nigeria like Boko Haram and bandits are not from outside, they are from within. So we are not suffering insecurity but lack of safety. In the North, for instance