By Akinwale Kasali
A former Minister of Sports and Youth Development, under the President Muhammadu Buhari Government, Solomon Dalung, has made a damning allegation as to why insecurity thrives in Nigeria.
Dalung revealed that those in the corridors of power, close allies and members of President Buhari’s Cabinet are gaining from the unrest and insecurity In the country.
Dalungs allegation comes on the heels of the revelation that Buhari’s Minister for Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, was an Al Queda supporter, and had said that the killings of unbelievers made him happy. He had also, among other things, described the late Osama Bin Laden, as a better Muslim than he, Pantami.
Embattled and under pressure from calls that he be sacked by President Buhari, he renounced his earlier rhetoric, blaming it on youthful exuberance and immaturity.
Dalung who made this allegation in a chat with newsmen, stressed that people within the corridors of power are making gains out of the current security situation in the country.
The Plateau State born former Minister identified as the greatest challenge the emergence of those he called “conflict entrepreneurs” who are benefitting from the terrible situation and are unwilling to let it end.
He said some of the conflict entrepreneurs are within the corridors of power, making “heavy businesses out of the pathetic security situation”.
He also condemned the attacks by unknown gunmen earlier this month on Government facilities in Imo State.
“What happened in Imo was horrific and grave, talking along the line of national security, because it was an attack on the national security. It was carried out, successfully because impunity has taken the centre stage of our national values, meaning that people now get away with evil, with crimes and with anything. Some of them even brag about it and are also seen within the corridors of power,” he added
