Nigeria’s insecurity started during the administration of former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, former minister of justice and attorney-general of the federation, Michael Aondoakaa has said.
Aondoaka was Yar’Adua’s AGF from 2007 to 2010.
According to him, small and light weapons were smuggled into Nigeria from Libya after the death of Muammar Gaddafi, the former Libyan leader.
He said, “The insecurity started during our time when I was in the office because of the collapse of the government in Libya. People moved with small weapons down to south Sahara down to our region. And most of them, who were in the Libya army were blacks.”
“After Gaddafi was overthrown, there was no strong government in Libya and there was a kind of persecution and most of the soldiers ran away with light weapons and came in.
“We also had the great Wild West in America that was so frightening that we thought America will break. But what happened? It evolved.
“You don’t talk security on the pages of newspapers and you also don’t shout security. It is something that governors should join hands with the federal government to find a solution to. It is a delicate issue.
“It is something that started during our time and we were not loud about it. We had cooperation from the governors at that time. I was the attorney-general, we had issues and we were resolving them. I don’t know why others make news out of it.”
Aondoaka, who is contesting the Benue state governorship race on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), however, believe the nation’s challenges will be resolved in the near future.
“The insecurity is an external aggression that is spreading within the country but it is something that will go after some years,” he explained.
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