LabourNewsSecurity Breaches Not a Yardstick for Government Performance – Keyamo

The minister of state for labour and employment, Festus Keyamo, has said the security situation is not enough reason to tag the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government as having failed.

According to him, the “security breaches” in parts of the country cannot be used as a “yardstick” for the performance of the federal government.

Keyamo said this on Friday in an interview with Channels Television.

The minister said the Buhari-led government did not promise that the country will not witness violent attacks, adding that the government only promised to respond well.

“Last week, those who were gathering around the bushes of Abuja were raided, flushed out, and killed,” he said.

“That is what we promised. We promised a response. We did not promise that it wouldn’t happen. We promised a response. We responded last week and killed them.

“Abuja is safe now. There is no incident like that around the bushes of Abuja again. We promised a response and we have delivered a response.

“People should not engage in scaremongering. Let me tell you something about the psychology of the bandits. They want to scare people. Their oxygen is fear. They want to create panic. It is the oxygen of the terrorists.

“It is only heaven, when we arrive in heaven, that there will be no security breach at all. We have not arrived in heaven. We are on earth, there must be security breaches. We have responded well.

“There are security breaches, regrettably, but that is not a yardstick to say the government has failed. There are jailbreaks in America. In the most secure place in the world, there are jailbreaks.

“In the western world, there are jailbreaks. Unfortunately, I’m not proud of it. The optics are not good. I’m not justifying it. It is the spin people put around it in Nigeria that I want to correct.”

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