BOKO HARAM:WE ARE IN DANGER IN ADAMAWA---GOV.NGARI

Boko Haram: We’re in danger in Adamawa –Ngilari

Adamawa State Governor, James Ngilari, ‎has expressed concern over the present security situation in the state, saying he has been praying for the situation to improve.
He stated that as at the time of talking to journalists the entire Mubi Senatorial District and five local government areas have been overrun by the Boko Haram insurgents.

Ngilari, who spoke to State House correspondents at the flag-off of the National Power Sector Apprenticeship Scheme at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, ‎said the people were looking forward to an urgent intervention by troops to arrest the situation.
He said: The security situation in Adamawa is very dicey right now and we are only trying to do our best to manage the situation. We are praying that it will improve, but it is really something to worry about.”

Asked how many towns the insurgents have overrun, the governor, who was obviously worried, said: “I can talk of my entire senatorial district, Mubi senatorial district. Five local governments have been overrun and I just got a report perhaps the outskirts of Shani. There is a semblance of movement in that area. Really, we need a lot of intervention. We need to move more troops to secure the state. Really, it is a big challenge”.
On the take-over of the Chief of Defence Staff’s hometown, Ngilari said: “We should not reduce this issue of the insurgency to simply the taking over of the house of the defence chief. What about the problem of unemployment? You know it is a whole long story. We don’t just reduce it to the take-over of the house of the defence chief. I think it is more than that.

“Absolutely, it is a challenge. We look up to God. There is nothing impossible for Him. We will do our best, but it is not something that we should leave in the hands of government. Everybody has a role to play in terms of giving out information timely, in terms of convincing people who are involved; they live with us, they are not from planet Mars, they are part and parcel of the society.”
Asked how soon he thinks the insurgency will be over in the North-East, the Governor, said: “I believe that Nigeria will really overcome, but I don’t know the time frame. Any thing that affects any part of Nigeria affects the rest. We must all see how we can tame this monster.”