Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has blamed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) past administrations for the menace of Boko-Haram and herdsmen, stating the president Buhari administration has reduced the activities of the terrorist gangs.
Goldennewsng reports that Keyamo, the spokesman for the APC presidential campaign organization ahead of the 2023 general election said Boko-haram and herdsmen attacks are existential problems.
Festus Keyamo stated this on Monday while speaking on Trust TV interview, the broadcast arm of media Trust limited.
Keyamo specifically pointed out that the Boko-Haram terrorist group occupied fourteen local governments under Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.
He also stated that the herdsmen’s attacks on farmers were existing since the administration of former president Olusegun Obasanjo.
He said, “What did we inherit? We inherited the Boko Haram problem. At that time, they had taken over more than fourteen local governments in the northeast and hoisted their flags. We inherited the farmers-herders crisis that had been going on even before [Olusegun] Obasanjo’s time. These are existential problems.
“What have we done about those two problems? A club like El-Kanemi Football Club of Borno that were playing their football matches in Bauchi because of insecurity— nobody could gather in one place in Maiduguri to watch a football match – now El-Kanemi is back to Maiduguri, that is success.
“Boko Haram hasn’t been totally wiped out, but it has reduced significantly because we constructively engaged our neighbours. We reduced them to almost nothing. I’m not saying these things have totally wiped out, but on the scale of what we met and on the scale of what we have, it has reduced significantly.”
