By Peter Duruw

The Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Monday said Nigeria is currently at the mercy of terrorists because the country is being denied access to acquire needed weapons to fight the insurgents despite efforts to do so. The Minister who lamented the killings of 43 farmers in Zabarmari, Jere Local Government Area of Borno State said the federal government would not relent in its efforts to protect the lives and property of all Nigerians.

Alhaji Mohammed who spoke in Makurdi when he paid a courtesy call on Governor Samuel Ortom said terrorists were enjoying global funding and would require an equally global collaboration to defeat. He said, “when people talk about terrorism, they don’t seem to appreciate the fact that terrorism is not a local issue but a global issue and there is no part of the world that is not experiencing pockets of terrorism. “I am glad that the Governor Ortom himself has said the federal government has assisted a lot in curbing the issue of insecurity in Benue State. “We will never stop protecting lives and livelihood of the people, but you must understand that we are also dealing with terrorists who are financed globally and we also need more support from global partners. “For instance, Nigeria has made attempts to acquire better and more effective platforms to deal with terrorists and for one reason or the other we have been denied these platforms, and without these weapons and adequate platforms, we will remain at the mercy of terrorists.

“But you see, fighting terrorists is not a joke because what actually happened in Borno State was quite unfortunate. “You must be also able to look at the strategy of the terrorists. You see, terrorists also use media and publicity as oxygen. So when they go on this kind of mindless killings of innocent people, it is just that a dying terrorist group will now suddenly again spring to life. “It does not mean that the government is not doing enough. Terrorism in Africa and any other place in the world has the same concept which is, you have a group of people who are extremists in their thoughts, who don’t believe that me and you should be alive.” Earlier, Governor Samuel Ortom had commended the efforts of the federal government to curb insecurity in the state. He said, “this is the reason Benue is relatively calm and the issue of herdsmen attacks have been reduced to the barest minimum.” The Governor warned that the state would not hesitate to apprehend and prosecute any herdsman caught violating the law prohibiting open grazing in the state. He appealed to the federal government to urgently release the N10billion promised victims of herdsmen attacks to enable Benue rebuild homes of farmers sacked from their ancestral homes.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/11/borno-killings-nigeria-at-the-mercy-of-terrorists-were-being-denied-weapons-lai-mohammed/

Hmmm

When you use those weapons on unarmed protesters why wont the international community deny you access to these weapons?? ... Nigerian government and its army will learn the hard way.. this is a case of a mad dog crying wolf..... wetyn concern me sef.. muslims killing muslims "alladin akbar"

#FAKENEWS

Lai na mmadu?


Yawns.

Why do I hate to hear his name so much.

Yeye man when the military was killing endsars protesters, they didn’t know they were Denied weapons ?

Foolish people ! Why them no go deny una weopon , where una dey use am killed innocent citizens.
Una dong killed unarmed ipob , even innocent oyigbo people

Una dong killed unarmed Shiites

Una dong killed #endsars peaceful protesters, una even killed them while holding our national flag and sang our National anthem, what a shame!

Una think sai international community no get eyes.

Mr Social Media regulator....

Goan regulate that your gibberish mouth.

Believe this lying machine at your own peril.

Lai should shut up if he has nothing useful to say. I remember how they deceptively gloat whenever soldiers are killed by Boko haram when GEJ was in charge. Some of them even wrote foreign governments to block Nigeria from getting weapons alleging "genocide" against Boko haram. Not all of us have short memory.

It is always other people's fault.

is it Lai that said this or Vanguard is lying?

I just hate this man

But this same "Lie" once told bewildered world that Boko Haram has been technically defeated. how come are we now at their mercy

When will this government stop this blame game

Use the weapons you deployed in obigbo and on unarmed ipob members to crush boko haram

One morning,one fresh lies.

Oga Lai,I hail thee

NoFucksToGive

If this actually came from d promoter of d technically defeated Boko Haram then it's as good as to say that Nigeria has already lost out

ethicallyright:
Everything that begins must end. Terrorism will end in the world and N republic one day. It could be 30 years from now or even 50 years.

The only way to end terrorism within one year is a genocide that will consume more than 70% of all K's in the world. This isn't a contemporary and human rights solution which we want, so we must be patient and fight gently.

I know many people do not understand the dynamics of North and believe BH is a tool created by the F's people to "islamize N Republic".
From the first BH leader till the current one, all of them are K's. BH is made up of 80% K's.

The Country that Colonized us would not support the F's to keep political power and at the same time support the F's to destroy the country where they still neo-colonize. Think of the railway systems , the military Universities, the refineries ,the capital , The wealthy people in Africa who refine Limestone. It would be like people from E funding their Younger generation to destroy what they built.

Someone took advantage of the years of neglect of the K's people and funded a people who were willing to overthrow the F's in the North but lacked support . It could be ISIS , the country with the best wine , it could be those who do not want to sell weapons, it could be anyone that is bankrolling this stuff to control the huge natural resource deposit in the Lake Chad basin.

This is why the President does not want to sack the C.O.S because he is a K. If it was because of loyalty, a F man would never make a K man his C.O.S when F's dominate the force. The president does not want a F man to lead the attack to avoid the retaliation from K's in top northern cities, he wants the K tribesman to lead an attack on his people since the highest retaliation would be to burn his family house like they already did. There is no other prominent K man in the army enough to be made the C.O.S, so the C.O.S won't be sacked.

I can see that you know a little about the nature of the so called "insurgency"
Like I said before, it is one of the unfinished businesses the colonialists interrupted

foolish excuse, can't Nigeria manufacture these weapons?

Time to manufacture home made weapons

But Terrorist git enough

Bb

Baba werey

Everytime I read his reactions i just dey boil with anger.

Why God come punish us with this kain leaders?

Today you talk go front tomorrow you talk go back which one are we going to believe ...that place was liberated na according to you ...

Lai is an idiot for spewing this nonsense.

why was he spared during #EndSars Protest.
4me, he would have been a better person to deal with that Tinubu

So glad with the reduction in the population (north). This conforms and agrees with the Malthusian theory of population growth. We really need a population decline in order for the resources to go round. It is welcome in whatever form.

This man always has something very ridiculous to say

Le124:
By Peter Duruw

The Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Monday said Nigeria is currently at the mercy of terrorists because the country is being denied access to acquire needed weapons to fight the insurgents despite efforts to do so. The Minister who lamented the killings of 43 farmers in Zabarmari, Jere Local Government Area of Borno State said the federal government would not relent in its efforts to protect the lives and property of all Nigerians.

Alhaji Mohammed who spoke in Makurdi when he paid a courtesy call on Governor Samuel Ortom said terrorists were enjoying global funding and would require an equally global collaboration to defeat. He said, “when people talk about terrorism, they don’t seem to appreciate the fact that terrorism is not a local issue but a global issue and there is no part of the world that is not experiencing pockets of terrorism. “I am glad that the Governor Ortom himself has said the federal government has assisted a lot in curbing the issue of insecurity in Benue State. “We will never stop protecting lives and livelihood of the people, but you must understand that we are also dealing with terrorists who are financed globally and we also need more support from global partners. “For instance, Nigeria has made attempts to acquire better and more effective platforms to deal with terrorists and for one reason or the other we have been denied these platforms, and without these weapons and adequate platforms, we will remain at the mercy of terrorists.

“But you see, fighting terrorists is not a joke because what actually happened in Borno State was quite unfortunate. “You must be also able to look at the strategy of the terrorists. You see, terrorists also use media and publicity as oxygen. So when they go on this kind of mindless killings of innocent people, it is just that a dying terrorist group will now suddenly again spring to life. “It does not mean that the government is not doing enough. Terrorism in Africa and any other place in the world has the same concept which is, you have a group of people who are extremists in their thoughts, who don’t believe that me and you should be alive.” Earlier, Governor Samuel Ortom had commended the efforts of the federal government to curb insecurity in the state. He said, “this is the reason Benue is relatively calm and the issue of herdsmen attacks have been reduced to the barest minimum.” The Governor warned that the state would not hesitate to apprehend and prosecute any herdsman caught violating the law prohibiting open grazing in the state. He appealed to the federal government to urgently release the N10billion promised victims of herdsmen attacks to enable Benue rebuild homes of farmers sacked from their ancestral homes.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/11/borno-killings-nigeria-at-the-mercy-of-terrorists-were-being-denied-weapons-lai-mohammed/

Lai Mohammed, your lies will follow you to the grave.


But Nigerian army and police only have weapons to kill armless law abiding citizens?

May the blood army and police spill under your watch be upon you and your entire family.