Onwuliri: Jonathan best suited to stop insurgency

Minister of State for Education, Prof. Viola Onwuliri, yesterday declared that President Goodluck Jonathan is best equipped to tackle insurgency in the country.

She said the president had undergone training in counter-terrorism. The minister made the disclosure at the inauguration of motorised borehole projects including 20,000 litres overhead tank at the Police Force Animal Branch, Canine section and Directorate of Security Service (DSS), Imo State. She said that a number of things had been put in place to fight terrorism in the country, adding that President Jonathan had gone through counter-terrorism training and had equally raised security agencies for such purpose. Continue...

“Anybody that comes now will take Nigeria backward which creates a dangerous gap for the perpetrators to operate,” she said. According to her, President Jonathan “is also enjoying international support from world leaders in the fight against insurgency. Heads of government are continually being trained to fight.

That is why the president is the best person to fight insurgency. Insurgency is not a military prowess; it is not anything that anybody would say he can fight in two months, except that person is behind the insurgency.”

She said the water project was part of President Jonathan’s transformation programme, adding that the administration had reduced the country’s food importation from N1.1 trillion in 2011 to N648 billion in 2012 and increased its local production of rice, cassava, sorghum, cotton and cocoa; built multibillion naira grains silo, and an agro storage facility at Ezinachi Okigwe.

Onwuliri said that Nigeria is now investors’ destination as the Federal Government has attracted over $20 billion worth of foreign investments in three years. Earlier, the state Commissioner for Police, Alhaji Abdulmajid Ali, thanked the minister for attracting the boreholes for the Nigeria Police and assured that the facility would be maintained.

The police commissioner, represented by the Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) in charge of administration, Adelesi Rotimi, appealed for more support, adding that security issue should not be left to the police alone. “If you want a perfect society, we must support the police to discharge their duties,” he said.