{"id":117782,"date":"2019-05-16T09:54:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T08:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=117782"},"modified":"2019-05-16T09:55:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T08:55:25","slug":"insecurity-in-nigeria-we-are-losing-the-country-afenifere-raises-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=117782","title":{"rendered":"Insecurity in Nigeria: We are losing the country – Afenifere raises alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, on Wednesday, rated the President Muhammadu Buhari administration low in addressing the nation\u2019s security challenges.<\/p>\n

On Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today, Yinka Odumakin, its spokesman, decried the state of insecurity, stressing that the citizens may lose the country to bandits.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will rate them (the Buhari administration) three over 10 based on the state of insecurity, the whole country is ungovernable.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must face the brick; we must have a country. We are losing the country at the moment,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

Odumakin, a former spokesman to President Buhari, also noted that the fight against corruption hasn\u2019t yielded the desired result.<\/p>\n

He, however, lamented that the nation is currently 144 on Transparency International (TI) list.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn corruption, in 2014, we were 136 in TI rating. In 2018, we are 144, we have dropped points. So what corruption are we fighting?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe President used to say that we must secure Nigeria and manage it. So we have to secure the country at the state we are now,\u201d he said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, on Wednesday, rated the President Muhammadu Buhari administration low in addressing the nation\u2019s security challenges. On Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today, Yinka Odumakin, its spokesman, decried the state of insecurity, stressing that the citizens may lose the country to bandits. \u201cI will rate them (the Buhari administration) three over 10 based on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,1,3],"tags":[868,4866,3761,243],"class_list":["post-117782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news","tag-afenifere","tag-crime","tag-insecurity","tag-nigeria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}