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Nigeria’s former Chief of Defence Staff, Lucky Irabor, has accused some politicians of funding terrorism in the country.
Irabor made the allegation on Monday while responding to questions in an interview on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television, as monitored by The Eastern Updates.
He was reacting to the recent wave of insecurity ravaging the nation, where bandits are bent on kidnapping innocent Nigerians, including children.
“Some Christians are being targeted in this country, and some politicians are funding terrorism in this country.
“There are a lot of individuals who are being called to question, and while I was the Chief of Defence Staff, some trials were made for the financiers,” he said.
In other news, Former Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai (rtd.), said the fight against insurgency in Nigeria will remain incomplete unless citizens recognise that the war is as much theirs as it is the military’s.
Buratai stated this on Saturday at the 18th Annual International Security Conference and Induction Ceremony of the Institute of Security, Nigeria, held at the Faculty of Social Sciences Auditorium Complex, University of Lagos.
Speaking with journalists on the sidelines of the event, the former Army chief stressed that the public often misunderstands the true nature of insurgency, insisting that the threat is embedded within communities and cannot be resolved by military action alone.
“But what most people fail to understand is that insurgency is the people’s war. It’s not only the military in the people’s war,” he said. “You’d be surprised that amongst us here, there may be one or two bandits or Boko Haram members.
