The former State Lead representative of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has criticized the manner in which prevailing security challenges have attacked Zamfara communities and hamper agricultural production, subsequently aggravating hunger and poverty in the agrarian state.
Peter Obi expressed this when he paid a condolence visit to the Emir of Gusau and the people Of Zamfara State in Gusau on Monday.
His trip to the North-Western state followed the military strikes in the Tungar Kara community in the Maradun Local Government Area which claimed around 16 lives.
Obi who was represented by spokesperson for the Labour Party, Tanko Yunusa, expressed worries that people who should be safeguarded were the ones who lost their lives.
His sympathy message was conveyed to the Emir of Gusau by Yunusa, who said whatever happens to the people of Zamfara happens to Peter Obi, which was the reason he sent him to come and sympathize with them before Peter Obi would come in person.
Obi attributed hunger and unemployment as variables responsible for the prevailing insecurity tormenting Zamfara and the country at large, pointing out that if there is prosperity in the land, security becomes simpler.
He underscored that if the country must be secured, there is a need to go back to the country’s root, which is production, not utilization, contending that production is one of the definite ways Nigeria can overcome its ongoing challenges of insecurity, hunger and unemployment subsequently there is need for the government to focus on it.
The District Head of Tudun Wada Gusau Bashir Danbaba, who received Obi’s sympathy message on behalf of the Emir of Gusau, thanked him for identifying with the people of Zamfara during this difficult period.
