Ndubuisi Ugah 
Former Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to be more proactive on the issue of insecurity. Speaking during an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Hausa Service in Kaduna, Bafarawa said: “This is a situation that affects me, it affects the President and he is the one that will be answerable to Allah. “This insecurity is a catastrophe that has befallen us. The situation in Sokoto and Zamfara states can only be described by those who have been there.”
The former governor, who expressed sadness over the state “The sad thing is that we all know that the security of the nation is in the hands of the Federal Government. Those people telling President Muhammadu Buhari that everything is ok, or are they telling him things are not ok? “If they are telling him things are going on fine, they have cheated him and have cheated us too. Allah knows that we are in a serious calamity in our zone.” Bafarawa further revealed how farmers across the region were in dire straits due to the activities of bandits in the region.
He said: “Today, I travelled home and came back, I am an eyewitness, not that somebody told me. Our people are harvesting millet in abundance, we’ve gotten millet and rice, but people cannot convey the farm produce home. Whoever went to the farm to convey the crops home, will not come back alive.”
