Insecurity claimed 47,000 lives in the north – Ribadu

Ribadu

The National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, has revealed that over 47,000 lives were lost to insecurity in northern Nigeria before President Bola Tinubu took office in May 2023.

He stated that the country was on the brink of collapse at the time, grappling with multiple crises that threatened its cohesion and survival.

Ribadu stated this on Friday night while speaking at the 50th anniversary dinner of the Nigerian Defence Academy’s 18th Regular Course in Abuja. He described the inherited security situation as a “sobering reality.”

He listed the five major security threats the administration met as the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East, banditry in the North-West and North-Central, separatist agitations in the South-East, economic sabotage in the Niger Delta, and communal conflicts in states like Benue and Plateau. Punch